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Amy's Out and About + Block Those Ads! · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: I woke up at 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: And thought I heard a scream.
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  Speaker 4: Imagined all the spookiness of sights unseen. Turned into KFI
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  Speaker 4: and there was Amy Keene. Reminding me that it was
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  Speaker 4: only Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 5: KFI's Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 6: With Amy Keene.
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  Speaker 5: She is the belle of the ball. She does the news.
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  Speaker 3: She has the news.
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  Speaker 7: For us all.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 4: KFI's Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 8: It's Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's five o'clock straight up. This is your
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  Speaker 1: wake up call for Thursday, October 29th. This is KFI
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  Speaker 1: and KOST HD2, Los Angeles, Orange County. I'm Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Two days to Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like it could be a wet one.
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  Speaker 9: Kind of a bummer.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm from Oregon and it rains every Halloween
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  Speaker 1: and like you get these really great costumes and you'd
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  Speaker 1: be all dolled up and then your mom would make
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  Speaker 1: you take an umbrella and put a jacket on covering
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  Speaker 1: up your adorable costume. So it's nothing new, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of an anomaly here.
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  Speaker 10: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. Also, congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers. I watched
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  Speaker 1: the game last night. I had lost interest after the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: of course. But the Brewers, they just did such a
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  Speaker 1: great job and had a great series and take home
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  Speaker 1: their first World Championship ever. So congratulations to the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: beating the Tampa Bay Rays last night. I believe the
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  Speaker 1: final score was 4-0. Maybe it was 4-1.
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  Speaker 7: 4-1.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, congrats, Brewers. Well earned. Here's what's ahead on Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up Call. A judge in L.A. has denied the DOJ's
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  Speaker 1: request to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots in California that
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  Speaker 1: it says may have been cast by non-citizens. The judge
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  Speaker 1: warned it would wreak havoc, as he put it, on
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. The rule came late yesterday by U.S. District
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  Speaker 1: Judge David O. Carter as more than 3.7 million people
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  Speaker 1: have already voted in the state. Orange County's Sunset Beach
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  Speaker 1: is the latest beach community. To experience flood damage from
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  Speaker 1: the king tides this week, flood water spilled into the
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  Speaker 1: area near Park Street and PCH yesterday morning, prompting officials
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  Speaker 1: to shut down a stretch of the highway. A coastal
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  Speaker 1: flood advisory for all of L.A. and Orange County beaches
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  Speaker 1: has been extended until 2 p.m. Friday. Smoke from the
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  Speaker 1: Eaton Fire had a much different chemical makeup from typical
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  Speaker 1: wildfire smoke. with toxic metal levels spiking while homes and
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  Speaker 1: vehicles burned. Researchers in a Caltech study estimate nearly 7
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  Speaker 1: million people in the L.A. metropolitan area were exposed to
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour lead concentrations 80 times higher than typical values at
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  Speaker 1: the peak of the fire in January of 2025. On
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  Speaker 1: the Alaska ballot, Mary Peltola is running for Senate against
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  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan. And in spite of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people claiming it was just a coincidence, ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Portnoy says there now appears to be something much
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  Speaker 1: more underhanded happening. We'll tell you more about that coming
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  Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes. Just a few
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  Speaker 1: days until Election Day and we're being bombarded with TV
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  Speaker 1: ads about candidates and propositions and with mailers. And Heather
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  Speaker 1: Brooker says if your phone has been blowing up with
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  Speaker 1: calls and texts too, you're not alone. That's coming up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later. And I'm going out and about
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  Speaker 1: for one of the coolest things you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to see. And one of the biggest too. A space
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  Speaker 1: shuttle that stands 20 stories tall. We'll be talking to
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  Speaker 1: the chairman of the board of the Samuel Ocean Foundation
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  Speaker 1: about the grand opening of the Samuel Ocean Air and
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  Speaker 1: Space Center that features... A ship that's been out of
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  Speaker 1: this world more than 20 times. That's coming up in
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  Speaker 1: just a few minutes. Let's get started with some of
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  Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The
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  Speaker 1: worst of the king tides appears to be over for now.
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  Speaker 1: After water levels peaked yesterday along the Southern California coast.
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  Speaker 1: But Huntington Beach is already looking ahead to the next round.
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  Speaker 11: Huntington Beach Mayor Casey McKeon says the flooding could return
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  Speaker 11: during the holidays.
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  Speaker 12: Prepare for this to happen again, unfortunately, over Thanksgiving. And
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  Speaker 12: it's potentially even worse over Christmas.
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  Speaker 11: The city is working to connect residents with private contractors
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  Speaker 11: to help protect their homes.
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  Speaker 12: We saw some residents that were building actually concrete retaining
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  Speaker 12: walls in kind of the most low-lying areas to help
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  Speaker 12: prevent the water from coming into their home.
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  Speaker 11: City staff and public safety crews are also working to
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  Speaker 11: improve the city's flood response. Brigida D'Agostino, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Teamsters representing Orange County Waste and Public Works employees are
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  Speaker 1: going back on strike since the county declined to change
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  Speaker 1: its latest contract offer. The union and the county are
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  Speaker 1: planning to meet for bargaining today. Supervisor Don Wagner said
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  Speaker 1: last week he believes the county's last, best, and final
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  Speaker 1: offer was a reasonable one under the circumstances. Wagner says
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  Speaker 1: the county's finances are tight, especially because it had to
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  Speaker 1: pay out millions of dollars in settlements for the airport fire.
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  Speaker 1: State and L.A. County flags have been lowered to half-staff
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  Speaker 1: to honor civil rights leader and immigrant and workers' rights
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  Speaker 1: advocate Dolores Huerta. Governor Newsom says the civil rights icon
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  Speaker 1: will be remembered for her lifelong advocacy.
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  Speaker 3: The cause is large and small and people.
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  Speaker 13: And organizations, but she was a legend and we'll miss her.
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  Speaker 14: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass hailed Huerta for securing basic human rights for
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  Speaker 1: some of the hardest working people among us. Huerta died
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at her home in Bakersfield at the age of 96.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a first look at your morning commute. Check
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  Speaker 1: in with Will Kohlschreiber. We've got a cone zone in
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  Speaker 1: Ontario on the 15th.
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  Speaker 13: It's starting to become a daily habit here.
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  Speaker 2: Southbound side of the 15, basically right around the 10.
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  Speaker 2: Some lanes closed there for the next about.
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  Speaker 10: 50 minutes or so.
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  Speaker 2: They should have this wrapped up by 6 o'clock. But
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing delays approaching the 10 on that southbound side
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  Speaker 2: of the 15, also the westbound side of the 10 itself.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of slow as well because of that road work.
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  Speaker 2: We've got something similar going on in on the 105
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  Speaker 2: as you head westbound from Long Beach Boulevard out to Wilmington.
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  Speaker 2: Caltrans is taking away two lanes for another few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be picked up at six o'clock and
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  Speaker 2: traffic is slow as you approach. Also, the 110 northbound
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  Speaker 2: at the 101 right in downtown L.A. We had a crash.
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  Speaker 3: It just cleared.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not seeing any brake lights. In fact, most of
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  Speaker 2: the roads are moving at full speed. The usual slowing
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  Speaker 2: there in the Cajon Pass just a little bit before
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  Speaker 2: Highway 138. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Will Kohlschreiber.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Will.
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  Speaker 10: It's 5.07.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: on the Alaska ballot is Mary Peltola running against Dan Sullivan,
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  Speaker 1: who is the incumbent senator, and Dan Sullivan. And in
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  Speaker 1: spite of a lot of people claiming it was a coincidence,
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  Speaker 1: there appears to be more to this one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. The New York Times reported yesterday it's not a
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  Speaker 6: coincidence at all that it was a concerted effort on
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  Speaker 6: the part of Democrats last year to Look for a
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  Speaker 6: Dan Sullivan to appear on the ballot. The Times cites interviews,
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  Speaker 6: text messages, documents, it's reviewed. It was apparently, according to
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  Speaker 6: the paper, called the Ballot Composition Project, and it involved
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  Speaker 6: not just Mary Peltola's campaign, but also aides here in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 6: at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DSCC, the Nationwide
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  Speaker 6: Effort to Elect Democrats to the Senate. The overall impression
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  Speaker 6: that the reader gets from the story is that Dan Sullivan...
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  Speaker 6: The retired teacher, middle name Jay, or middle initial Jay,
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  Speaker 6: was recruited by the Democrats to appear on the ballot
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  Speaker 6: in an effort to confuse voters in Alaska's ranked choice
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  Speaker 6: voting system. And what I have to say is that
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  Speaker 6: while you have the U.S. Department of Justice already filing
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  Speaker 6: a civil lawsuit against You've got the Attorney General last
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  Speaker 6: night saying it's cheating and there may be more to
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  Speaker 6: hear from the Justice Department about it. You have the
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  Speaker 6: Alaska Republican governor saying that maybe there ought to be
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  Speaker 6: a probe into whether laws in the state were broken.
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  Speaker 6: You have Lisa Murkowski, the Republican senator, who endorses Democrats
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  Speaker 6: from time to time and has done that in the
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  Speaker 6: Alaska governor's race, saying this is wrong, that Mary Patola
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  Speaker 6: owes the state an explanation. All of that aside... There
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  Speaker 6: is a question about whether this is legal or illegal,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm not positioned right now to say definitively one
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  Speaker 6: way or the other. I think that the new information
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  Speaker 6: we learned yesterday in the New York Times report raises eyebrows.
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  Speaker 6: It certainly looks a bit unseemly. It's dirty tricks. And
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  Speaker 6: the Peltola campaign is saying, well, there is no connection
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  Speaker 6: with the Dan J. Sullivan candidacy. And the same kind
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  Speaker 6: of phrasing from the DSCC here, which is that they
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  Speaker 6: have no involvement, which is not to say that they didn't.
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  Speaker 6: but they currently don't. And all of which is to say,
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  Speaker 6: it's certainly very interesting. One of the things that Democrats
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  Speaker 6: are saying is, well, Republicans do this all the time, see?
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  Speaker 6: And here's a list of examples, see? Which is to say,
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  Speaker 6: we're only doing what they've done, if you read into it.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know that Americans are particularly happy to
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  Speaker 6: hear that.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I was watching, I'm just kind of flabbergasted
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  Speaker 1: by this whole thing. I mean, I know everybody plays
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  Speaker 1: dirty tricks, but come on. And then there was a
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  Speaker 1: guy on CNN, this morning and he said that it's
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  Speaker 1: a time honored American tradition to do this. I'm like, what?
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  Speaker 6: Well, look, I mean, if you if you that's part
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  Speaker 6: of the. reason why americans really don't like politics or
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  Speaker 6: politicians yeah uh and yet you know the game is
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  Speaker 6: played to win and you do what you have to
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  Speaker 6: do and you look at you know john f kennedy's
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  Speaker 6: first run for office in 1946 in massachusetts apparently his
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  Speaker 6: father joe uh recruited a janitor in town to run
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  Speaker 6: against the incumbent or or there was a part of
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  Speaker 6: a challenger with the same name and Anyway, fine. But
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  Speaker 6: doesn't make it right, right?
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that what we teach kids?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Stephen Portnoy, thanks for the update and information. I, again,
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  Speaker 1: always have more questions for you, but we don't have time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: You bet.
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  Speaker 6: 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. Vote counting continues in Israel
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  Speaker 1: following national elections on Tuesday. ABC's Matt Rivers in Jerusalem says...
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  Speaker 1: Neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his challenger in the opposition party
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  Speaker 1: has gotten enough votes to be named the clear winner.
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  Speaker 3: For now, Netanyahu remains in power.
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  Speaker 2: And as President Trump weighs restarting the war in Iran,
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  Speaker 2: he will still be working with Netanyahu for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 1: Officials are bracing for potentially weeks of negotiations to see
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  Speaker 1: who will be the next prime minister. A conservative activist
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  Speaker 1: and online influencer... has been charged with felony voter fraud
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  Speaker 1: and identity theft in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 17: We dressed in full traditional Muslim attire.
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  Speaker 1: James O'Keefe and Cam Higby posted videos online at polling
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  Speaker 1: places using the names of registered voters during the state's
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  Speaker 1: primary in August. They were pointing out rules that let
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  Speaker 1: voters vouch for others without ID.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 1: We can go pick up Mohammed and Ranuzu in the
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  Speaker 1: car outside. They didn't end up voting, but officials say
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  Speaker 1: the law clearly states that no one shall intentionally misrepresent
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  Speaker 1: their identity in applying for a ballot. The NBA says
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  Speaker 1: the way to control sports betting is to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the process.
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  Speaker 18: The league says it's partnering up with prediction markets Kalshi
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  Speaker 18: and Polymarket to protect the integrity of the game. Recent
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  Speaker 18: sports betting scandals have included a lifetime ban for a
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  Speaker 18: player and federal investigations involving the mafia. The NBA says
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  Speaker 18: it will have final say on what fans can bet,
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  Speaker 18: including no wagering on single plays like who gets the
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  Speaker 18: first basket or wins the opening tip-off. Access to data
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  Speaker 18: also helps them locate suspicious action. The agreement adds to
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  Speaker 18: the NBA partnerships with actual sports betting companies like DraftKings.
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  Speaker 18: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom stopped by the Science Center in L.A. to
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  Speaker 1: highlight the state's reputation for innovation.
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  Speaker 8: The governor discussed California's longstanding contributions to aerospace and its
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  Speaker 8: leadership in shaping the economy of the future.
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  Speaker 12: $ 4.
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  Speaker 3: 53 trillion economy.
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  Speaker 7: New numbers just came out.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth largest in the world. GDP has grown 40%. since 2019.
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  Speaker 8: He described the state's innovation economy as one supported by
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  Speaker 8: strong investment in research, world-class universities, welcoming policies for talented
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  Speaker 8: people from around the world, and a thriving venture capital scene.
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  Speaker 8: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: So the governor was at the California Science Center for
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  Speaker 1: the big unveiling of the Samuel Ocean Air and Space
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  Speaker 1: Center and apparently turned a little political. Like everybody, all
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  Speaker 1: the reporters wanted to know about politics and not this big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful 20-story tall space shuttle that's sitting in front of
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  Speaker 1: their faces. But we loved seeing it. And we went
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  Speaker 1: out and about to one of the coolest things that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get to see in a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking with the chairman of the
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  Speaker 1: board of the Samuel Ocean Foundation about the grand opening
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  Speaker 1: of the Samuel Ocean Air and Space Center that features...
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  Speaker 1: The space shuttle Endeavour that has been not to the moon,
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  Speaker 1: but has been to space more than 20 times. And
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  Speaker 1: it is a sight to see. We're going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you all about it coming up next.
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  Speaker 13: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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  Speaker 13: AM 640.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. Thanks for joining us today. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: I was out at the California Science Center yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: the VP of events said her mom is a huge
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  Speaker 1: fan of Wake Up Call. Wanted to shout out Alexandria.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for starting your day with us. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
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  Speaker 1: storm system moving towards Southern California will set the stage
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  Speaker 1: for a wet Halloween weekend. The National Weather Service says
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  Speaker 1: given the storm's current trajectory, the highest chance for rain
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  Speaker 1: will be Saturday and Saturday evening with a half. to
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  Speaker 1: one and a half inches of rain in most areas.
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  Speaker 1: It would be the first rainy Halloween since 2014. Two
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  Speaker 1: LAPD officers have been heard attempting to take three people
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  Speaker 1: into custody in the Gardena area. The LAPD says officers
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  Speaker 1: responded to a location near Ainsworth and 16th Place yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: The officers got hurt in the process of making the arrest.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what the three were being arrested for,
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  Speaker 1: but they were taken into custody. Both officers were taken
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital. Waymo and its driverless taxis are hitting
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  Speaker 1: the streets of the South Bay. Waymo says nearly 250
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  Speaker 1: square miles will be added to the new service area
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  Speaker 1: next week. That includes Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and Torrance.
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  Speaker 1: Waymo's current L.A. service area runs from Santa Monica to
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  Speaker 1: Echo Park and south to Englewood. At 6.05, it's handle
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  Speaker 1: on the news. A judge has denied the Fed's request
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  Speaker 1: to block those 20,000 mail-in ballots of suspected non-citizens. Wonder
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  Speaker 1: if there might be an appeal on that one. We
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  Speaker 1: shall see.
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  Speaker 12: Space, a final frontier.
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  Speaker 1: This week, Wake Up Call is going out and about
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  Speaker 1: to the Samuel Ocean, Air and Space Center at the
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  Speaker 1: California Science Center. This is something that has been years
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  Speaker 1: in the making, and it's just about ready to open
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  Speaker 1: to the public. We went straight to the top, not
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  Speaker 1: only to the top of the exhibit that's 20 stories tall,
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  Speaker 1: but to one of the top people who helped make
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  Speaker 1: this dream exhibit into a reality. We caught up with
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  Speaker 1: the chairman of the board, Linda Ocean in front of
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  Speaker 1: the majestic shuttle Endeavour. I am so thrilled to get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you because her name's on
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  Speaker 1: the building, so you must have had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, right? So tell us, Linda, what can people
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  Speaker 1: expect to see when they come to see this whole exhibit?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the shuttle obviously is the centerpiece, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot going on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 16: I don't think there's any place in the world where
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  Speaker 16: they will see what they're going to see here. And
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  Speaker 16: of course, the space shuttle is the star of the show.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, this is for kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is for for our.
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  Speaker 3: Future and.
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  Speaker 16: The inspiration and the motivation for the children. to fulfill
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  Speaker 16: their dreams, to want to... Some of them, they want
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  Speaker 16: to be astronauts. They see this, they get excited.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I want to be an astronaut.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Girls and boys.
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  Speaker 1: Girls and boys.
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  Speaker 3: I love when girls tell me that. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be an astronaut. Okay.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And how long in the making has this been?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. So we started 2011.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are, 2006.
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  Speaker 16: I can hardly believe it, but incredibly excited. I'm nervous
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  Speaker 16: and excited and very happy and very proud.
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  Speaker 1: And this building, as I said, is named after you guys,
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  Speaker 1: after the oceans. So why did you guys get involved
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in this?
• 17:32
  Speaker 16: Originally, I didn't have any interest when Jeff told me
• 17:38
  Speaker 16: about a space shuttle.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You're like, eh, space shuttle. What's a space shuttle?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about a space shuttle.
• 17:44
  Speaker 16: Then I watched kids when they saw astronauts and their
• 17:52
  Speaker 16: reaction and their excitement and their questions, which were amazing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 16: Ten-year-old kids asking questions. I didn't even know what they
• 18:01
  Speaker 16: were talking about. So I got very excited about it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: And then I said to Jeff, we need to talk.
• 18:08
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Because I changed my mind. And so.
• 18:13
  Speaker 16: For me, the shuttle represents everything my husband loved. He
• 18:18
  Speaker 16: studied astronomy, relativity, math, science, everything he loved.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: And the shuttle represents all of that. Innovation, exploration.
• 18:35
  Speaker 16: And the other part is about medicine. They're doing stem
• 18:41
  Speaker 16: cell research at the International Space Station. We're not finding
• 18:47
  Speaker 16: cures here. Cancer, heart, diabetes. And somehow I feel that
• 18:54
  Speaker 16: it's going to happen up there.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Just beyond our reach. Maybe we can get to it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And maybe that's where.
• 19:01
  Speaker 16: where the cures might come from that's what i'm hoping
• 19:03
  Speaker 16: and praying for so there were many reasons that i
• 19:06
  Speaker 16: really wanted to get involved in and do this and
• 19:10
  Speaker 16: of course the two most important things are one my
• 19:15
  Speaker 16: husband yeah it's named for him and um we even
• 19:19
  Speaker 16: have a picture of him yes always.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Nice and um.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: It's all about Sam.
• 19:28
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: And I just wanted this for him. His picture is
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: in the cockpit.
• 19:33
  Speaker 15: Oh, it is?
• 19:34
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: That's great. And we can look into the cockpit now, right?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, we can.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So can you tell us what this is? Because last
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: time we saw it, that was not there. But there's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: an elevator now. that you can start at the ground level,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: go underneath the shuttle, and then jump in the elevator,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and what's the first stop?
• 19:52
  Speaker 16: So you have three places to stop and to get
• 19:56
  Speaker 16: out and walk around and see everything from different levels.
• 20:03
  Speaker 16: And then you go back in the elevator, and then
• 20:04
  Speaker 16: you go to the second stop. And by the way,
• 20:07
  Speaker 16: while you're in the elevator, it's all glass, including the floor.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
• 20:16
  Speaker 16: And so you can see everything as you go up
• 20:21
  Speaker 16: and down.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: You see the whole shuttle.
• 20:22
  Speaker 16: When you get to the top, when you get off
• 20:24
  Speaker 16: the elevator, there's a very large glass floor.
• 20:28
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 16: That you can step out on, you can bounce up
• 20:31
  Speaker 16: and down on it. Women should not be wearing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: A skirt or a dress.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, good to know when you come to the science center,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: don't do that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Good to know, yeah.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: And also, when you go down the.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: Slide, you kind of want to be in pants.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, which we're going to do soon. Well, you want
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: to be in pants. Yes, okay. Obviously.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: Good choice.
• 20:49
  Speaker 16: And once you're in here and you see it, you've
• 20:52
  Speaker 16: seen it. But you're going to come back.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Because you want to see more. There's so much hands-on.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: There's so much to read. There's so many artifacts.
• 21:03
  Speaker 16: I mean, this is many days of walking around and
• 21:09
  Speaker 16: seeing different things.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: And for kids, it's very inspiring.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: What do you hope people take away from this?
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Hope.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: A lot of hope. And being happy that you're an American.
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: Yep.
• 21:25
  Speaker 16: And for the kids, to inspire them, to motivate them.
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Linda Ocean, thank you so much.
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today. I know it's a big day.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And again, November 13th is the first day that you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: can come and see it with the public. But do
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: make a reservation today.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: You don't have to, but you probably won't.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Get in without one because the demand is so high.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: You probably won't get in without a reservation.
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We are at the Samuel Ocean Air and Space Museum
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Center at the California Science Center out and about this week.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: This is something you don't want to miss. And the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: exhibit is free, as is the whole Science Center. But
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, you do need to make reservations if
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you want to guarantee that you're going to get in
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to see the Samuel Ocean Air and Science Center. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, it is absolutely just jaw-dropping when
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you see that shuttle. It is so amazing. And you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: can get a little sneak peek on my Instagram at amykking.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to be posting... The whole interview, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: we've got some great shots. They've got this cool slide
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that is supposed to simulate a slingshot around the moon.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And I landed a shuttle yesterday. Without crashing. Without crashing.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And I got a space suit made for me. There's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: like a hundred different exhibits. I mean, you really, Linda said,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you'll want to come back because there's so much to see.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And it's just like, like I said, it's just jaw dropping.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's so cool. I'm so excited about this. So excited. Again,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it's the California Science Center, and you can make your
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: reservation at CaliforniaScienceCenter.org. The exhibit officially opens to the public
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: on November 13th. And again, check it out on my
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Instagram at AmyKKing. Would love it if you'd follow me, too.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: The latest polls show the proposed billionaire's tax in California
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: probably won't pass.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Prop 40 has been one of the most talked about
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: ballot measures in the state this election cycle, but the
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California shows
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: that support is slipping. Poll shows support fell from 52%
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: in September to 46% this month. Tech bros are spending
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: big to make sure that the wealth tax doesn't pass,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: spending over $ 100 million on ads. Critics call the billionaire's
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: tax a pathway for the state to eventually be able
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: to tax everybody a percentage of their total wealth. I'm
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Jason Campadonia.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Voters in Culver City are going to decide whether to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: let the kids make decisions about the city.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: If the measure is passed, 16 and 17-year-olds would be
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: able to vote in city and school board elections. They'd
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: still have to wait until they're 18 to vote in county, state,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: and federal elections. Only a few municipalities in the nation
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: and in California have expended voting rights to residents under
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the age of 18. Measure YV, as it's called, will
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: be decided on Tuesday. A similar measure in Culver City
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: in 2022 failed by just 16 votes. It still received
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: more yes votes than any single candidate for city council
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: that year. Daniel Martindale, KFI News.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: A woman with a history of reckless driving has been
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: arrested for allegedly running a stop sign going 80 miles
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: per hour and killing a 16-year-old boy in Hyde Park.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: The boy's younger sister was also hit last month and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was critically hurt. Rayjean Evans was arrested yesterday. She's being
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: held on more than $ 3 million bail. Witnesses say the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: boy's body was lodged in the windshield of Evans' car
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: until she hit a parked car. She and a passenger
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: then got out and ran. A man in Encino has
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: been hit by a stray bullet. Police say he was
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: walking near the river wash last night between Woodley Avenue
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and Burbank Boulevard. When he heard a gunshot, he didn't
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: even realize he'd been hit. Video shows paramedics pulling the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: guy out of some bushes and lifting him onto a gurney.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He was in stable condition at the hospital.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: L.A.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Is trying to make it less expensive to film in
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the city.
• 25:14
  Speaker 15: So we're going to roll out the red carpet. We're
• 25:16
  Speaker 15: going to make it easy to film in Los Angeles.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: The city council has approved a free permit for shoots
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: with fewer than 10 crew members and is looking at
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: slashing fees to use certain city facilities. Council member Adrian
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Nazarian says costs can pile up fast.
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: When you add all of this up, it's very easy
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: to see the permitting costs rise up to 50, 60,
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: 70 thousand dollars.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: He says the broader goal is changing how Hollywood is treated.
• 25:40
  Speaker 15: For so long, the industry was taken for granted. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: I want to make sure that the industry knows that L.A.
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: is fighting to keep it here.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Heather Brooker, KFI News.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to get in your
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: business with Denise Pellegrini and also still to come on
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. This election cycle. You're not only being
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: bombarded on TV and by the mail, our very own
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Heather Brooker says they're hitting you on something that you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: most likely always have with you.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: AM 640.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for starting your day with us. Here's
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. LA City
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Council has approved an ordinance to reinstate its 2022 ban
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: on oil drilling. Once finalized and approved by the mayor,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it would phase out all oil wells and gas activities
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: for 20 years. unless the city authorizes an exception. Officials
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: acknowledge the city is likely to get sued over its
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: proposed ordinance, just as it did last time it was passed.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: ICE has ramped up its arrests across California in the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: lead-up to the midterms. A local group that tracks ICE
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: enforcement says 200 arrests have been made in Ventura, Santa Barbara,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and San Luis Obispo County, since October 5th, ICE arrested
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: fewer than 100 during that same period last year.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: State and L.A.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: County flags have been lowered to half-staff to honor civil
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: rights leader and immigrant and workers' rights advocate Dolores Huerta.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: L.A.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass hailed her for securing basic human rights for
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: some of the hardest-working people among us. Huerta died yesterday
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: at her home in Bakersfield at the age of 96.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: federal judge in L.A. has rejected the Trump administration's attempt
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to block thousands of California ballots from being counted.
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: The Justice Department wanted election officials to set aside more
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: than 20,000 ballots from voters suspected of being non-citizens until
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: their citizenship could be verified. Judge David Carter rejected the request,
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: saying it would disrupt next week's election and prevent eligible
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: voters from having their ballots counted. Carter also warned that
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: separating the ballots would cause lasting damage to public trust
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: in elections. Rashida D'Agostino, KFI News.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Orange
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: County for allegedly lying on their naturalization applications. The Mexican, Canadian,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and Cambodian citizens live in Long Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say they're charged with falsely declaring to have never
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: claimed U.S.
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: Citizenship.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And with registering to vote in U.S.
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: Elections.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: The family of a man who crawled into the back
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of an out-of-service Azusa police patrol vehicle and died on
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a hot day has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Eric Valencia was arrested for suspicion of DUI and child
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: endangerment back in March. He was released from jail early
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the next morning. Security video shows him getting into the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: patrol car where he became trapped. The lawsuit claims failure
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to protect Valencia after his release led to his death.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Energy officials in California are phasing out three natural gas plants,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and that has some people a little worried.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: It comes as state contracts with three plants in Long Beach,
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: Huntington Beach, and Ormond Beach in Oxnard that have served
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: as backups during peak energy demand in the state are
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: set to end in December. The New York Post reports
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: there's no immediate backup plan, and that has some worried
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: about power grid reliability. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom is reportedly being urged to sign up for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: President Trump's new school choice tax credit. More than 100
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: California faith and school leaders are making the push for
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Newsom to apply for the school choice tax credit before
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: time runs out. The Coalition of Catholic Schools, Orthodox Jewish groups,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and school choice advocates have warned in an October 23rd
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: letter that was obtained by the California Post that billions
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of dollars in California tax dollars... could end up funding
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: students in other states if Newsom opts out of the program.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: As Halloween approaches, just two days away now, parents are
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: finding themselves struggling with having to become the candy police.
• 29:40
  Speaker 14: Psychology Today says putting rules on candy consumption backfires with
• 29:44
  Speaker 14: kids and adults because sugar is tied to fun, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 14: we all want that. So when Halloween rolls around and
• 29:50
  Speaker 14: the kiddos have a bucket of sugary treats, professionals say
• 29:53
  Speaker 14: don't make candy the enemy and let them have at it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 14: They say a proven strategy is to fill up on
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: a well-balanced meal before hitting the candy. And don't forget
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: a good toothbrushing after. Bree Tennis, KFI News.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got to tell you. So my parents were
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the candy police because we go out and do the trick-or-treating.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And then we have to dump our candy on the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: floor when we got home so they could go through it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And they could pick out anything that looks suspicious. My
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: dad was a Butterfinger lover.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, suspicious. Things they like.
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I never got Butterfingers because he'd go, oh, that one
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: looks a little iffy. And he would steal all of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: my Butterfingers. Time to get in your business now with
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Good morning, Denise.
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: Good morning, your own dad skimming off the top there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Taking his percentage, right? DoorDash has announced a big deal
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: this morning.
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's agreed to buy rival Instacart. Amy, this is
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: a huge deal valued at about $ 17 billion. The deal
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: is expected to close toward the end of 2027 or
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: maybe the first half of 2028. DoorDash does say it
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: expects to keep Instacart's brand enterprise technology products and app.
• 31:05
  Speaker 10: And I love that Beetlejuice music Mario just played for
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: you there with the spooky Halloween thing. Wall Street's a
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: little spooked today. Tech stocks under pressure. Worries about Google Parent, Alphabet,
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: and AI, and those stocks are plunging.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's not good. Chipotle is doing well.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, sales beat as new chicken, chips, and revamped loyalty
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: offers brought diners back. Same-store sales jumped more than 2%.
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: The company is anticipating even more sales growth ahead, but
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: rising ingredients costs putting a little bit of a profit
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: squeeze on the company. Oh, hey, we just got the number.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: U.S.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Economy grew at a faster 3.4% pace from July through September.
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: Right, and that'll trigger new concerns in that perverse Wall
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: Street way about growth and inflation, and you'll probably see
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: stock futures tank even more.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, good to know. Computer science schools are losing students.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Why is that? I'm guessing AI.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: There are.
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: Enrollment is declining. There's so much negative news today.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: But enrollment is declining more than 12% for undergrad programs,
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: more than 10% for grad programs. AI's rise, making it
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: difficult for these grads to find jobs. But there is
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: interest in other tech. You were talking about space travel
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: and the places and things you were looking at.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: That is still a very hot field right now.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I love that. Next time you come out here, Denise,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: you've got to go to the California Science Center and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: see our shuttle. It's spectacular.
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: I'll be there tomorrow.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, perfect. Getting in your business as we do each
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Have a great one.
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: We'll talk to you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: coastal flood warning is in effect until 1 p.m. for
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Orange County, and a coastal flood advisory has been extended
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: through tomorrow afternoon for L.A. and Orange Counties. The National
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Weather Service says the highest tides are expected at 11
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: this morning and noon on Friday, with low-lying homes, businesses, roads,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and other infrastructure still at risk of flooding. Democratic candidate
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: for governor Javier Becerra is still holding a big lead
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: over Republican Steve Hilton in the latest Public Policy Institute
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of California poll. Becerra is up 61 to 37 percent.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Eighty two percent of those surveyed say the U.S. is
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: headed in the wrong direction. The 2028 Summer Games have
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: their official slogan.
• 33:42
  Speaker 12: L.A.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: 28th Organizing Committee announced Stars Align will be used for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the Olympics and the Paralympics. As well, the announcement made
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: with the help of L.A. 's red hot chili peppers
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: on video yesterday, each Olympic committee. gets to pick its
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: own slogan that reflects its host city.
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, star is flying.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Makes sense. Just minutes away from handle on the news
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: this morning. Of course, something's up in Alaska with the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: election against Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan. We'll give you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the latest on that. Just a few days until election day.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And we are all being bombarded with TV ads about
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: candidates and propositions and with mailers. Oh, my gosh, my
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: mailbox has been so full. And KFI's Heather Brooker says
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: if your phone has been blowing up with calls and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: texts recently, you're not alone.
• 34:36
  Speaker 19: It starts first thing in the morning, I mean, as
• 34:39
  Speaker 19: early as 7.30 or 8 a.m. in the morning and
• 34:41
  Speaker 19: goes until 9 o'clock at night.
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: For Amy Massey, some days it feels like the phone
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: never stops.
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  Speaker 19: I'd say on average about 15.
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: 15 unwanted calls a day. Political pitches, insurance and health
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  Speaker 9: care offers, sales calls, you name it.
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  Speaker 19: With elections next week, it's insane the amount of political calls,
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  Speaker 19: pollsters wanting to know kind of where you stand on issues.
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  Speaker 19: Closer to the end of the year, I get tons.
• 35:04
  Speaker 19: I'm starting to get lots of health care calls.
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  Speaker 9: But here's the surprising part. Despite what it may feel like,
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: robocalls overall have actually been going down.
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  Speaker 7: Believe it or not, it's actually been going down through September.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: So we've been on a multi-year low, like since COVID.
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  Speaker 9: Alex Quilici is CEO of YouMail, which has tracked robocalls
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  Speaker 9: for nearly a decade. He says the overall numbers don't
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: tell the whole story. Certain types of calls remain high,
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: including pre-approved loan offers, while political calls and texts ramp
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: up around elections.
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  Speaker 7: It is very typical in an election year that the
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: calls and texts ramp up in the last September, October, November,
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  Speaker 7: right up to election time.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: So why are you getting them? Quilici says sometimes you've
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: given permission without even realizing it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: There are data brokers. People can go to data brokers
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  Speaker 7: and say, I'm looking for everybody who lives in this
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: zip code between the ages of 18 and whatever. So
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: I'm looking for my most likely voter might be a
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: female age 40 to 60.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: Let me go get all of those people.
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: And if you're on the Do Not Call registry and
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: wondering why your phone still rings?
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: The Do Not Call list works for most legitimate companies.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: It's a lot like a no trespassing sign. The burglars
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: are just going to blow right by it.
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  Speaker 9: The FCC says federal law restricts many robocalls and robotechs
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  Speaker 9: without prior consent or an exemption. And if you've previously
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: given consent, FCC rules allow you to revoke it using
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: reasonable methods, including replying stop, quit, and cancel or unsubscribe,
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: callers covered by those rules must honor a valid request
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: within 10 business days. But Massey says what worries her
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: most isn't the annoyance, it's how convincing some messages have become.
• 36:42
  Speaker 19: I am a smart, savvy businesswoman, but a couple of
• 36:44
  Speaker 19: these things really have thrown me off, how legit they look.
• 36:49
  Speaker 19: And that's the scary part, is that these scammers are
• 36:52
  Speaker 19: getting clinical in how they... attack people.
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: And she's especially concerned about older family members who may
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: have a harder time spotting a scam.
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  Speaker 19: People like my mother who are in their 70s, because
• 37:03
  Speaker 19: it's a constant call to me that, hey, I got
• 37:07
  Speaker 19: this call or they said I have this. And I'm
• 37:09
  Speaker 19: constantly reminding her. Please tell me you didn't answer it,
• 37:12
  Speaker 19: you didn't give them any information.
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: Guilici says one of the safest moves is also the simplest.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: He says let unknown calls go to voicemail. And if
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: someone claims to be from your bank or another company,
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: don't call the number they give you. Contact the organization
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: independently using a number you know is legitimate. The FCC
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: also allows consumers to report unwanted calls, texts, and caller
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: ID spoofing through its Consumer Complaint Center. Those complaints don't
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: resolve individual robocall cases, but the agency says they can
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: help identify trends and potentially lead to enforcement actions. And
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: if you're hoping Election Day will bring some relief, Colicci
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: says political traffic usually drops afterwards. But then comes holiday shopping.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Package delivery tech scams tend to ramp up. Fake purchase
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: scams ramp up.
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  Speaker 9: So the reason for the call may change, but the
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: advice doesn't. If you don't recognize the number, you don't
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  Speaker 9: have to answer it. Heather Brooker, KFI News.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, the pressure to answer the phone, right?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I barely answer it when I recognize the number.
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  Speaker 13: I'm like, nope, not.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: Going to do it.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: She's so right, though. It is so annoying. I'm getting
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the political ones now and they're just driving me crazy.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: And then I got one the other day that said, Amy,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you don't care about this issue. I'm like, what?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: That's when I blocked him. Let's get back to some
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: The governor of Alaska has ordered a criminal investigation into
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: alleged plot to dilute the vote in the state's Senate race.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: The New York Times says staffers for Democrat Mary Peltola's
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: campaign combed through voter records to find an Alaska resident
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: named Dan Sullivan to put on the ballot against Trump.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the incumbent Republican senator who is named Dan Sullivan. Attorney
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: General Todd Blanch says that's cheating.
• 38:54
  Speaker 14: They are trying to take votes away from the incumbent,
• 38:57
  Speaker 14: not by running an election and not by running on issues,
• 38:59
  Speaker 14: but by putting up a person with the same name.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Earlier this month, Blanch defended the administration's lawsuit to block
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: certification of Alaska's Senate results if the Democrat wins. A
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: judge in L.A. has denied the DOJ's request to set
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: aside 20,000 mail-in ballots in California that it says... may
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: have been cast by non-citizens, warning it would wreak havoc,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: as he put it, on the midterm elections. The ruling,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: late yesterday by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, comes
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: as more than 3.7 million people have already voted in
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the state. Heavy rains expected across California this Halloween weekend.
• 39:34
  Speaker 20: The storm will be fueled by tropical moisture left over
• 39:37
  Speaker 20: from a storm near Hawaii and pushed by a strong
• 39:39
  Speaker 20: El Nino weather pattern. The storm is now expected to
• 39:42
  Speaker 20: arrive late Saturday, carried by strong Pacific winds. Most of
• 39:45
  Speaker 20: California could see downpours and some mountain areas might get snow.
• 39:49
  Speaker 20: This comes after recent flash floods in Southern California and
• 39:52
  Speaker 20: deadly flooding in the Four Corners region last week. Experts
• 39:55
  Speaker 20: say this might be just the beginning of a very
• 39:58
  Speaker 20: wet winter, as a strong El Nino is expected later
• 40:00
  Speaker 20: this year.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Dina Kodiak, KFI News. A new UC Davis report unveils
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: a plan to avoid catastrophic flooding issues.
• 40:09
  Speaker 17: The Securing California's Flood Future report outlines actions to prepare
• 40:13
  Speaker 17: for flooding and the related political turbulence. It includes flood
• 40:17
  Speaker 17: risk mapping, land use planning, insurance, hazard mitigation, and emergency management.
• 40:22
  Speaker 17: UC Davis geology professor Nicholas Pinter says it needs to
• 40:25
  Speaker 17: be taken seriously as a record-breaking El Nino winter is
• 40:28
  Speaker 17: on the way.
• 40:29
  Speaker 14: We're now entering the rainy season and anything and everything
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: could be done at the individual and government levels to
• 40:35
  Speaker 14: prepare for what might happen this winter.
• 40:37
  Speaker 17: Pinter says flood risks are even greater than wildfire risks.
• 40:40
  Speaker 17: The report's been submitted to the California Department of Water Resources.
• 40:44
  Speaker 17: Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Caltrans getting ready to shut down the Vincent Thomas Bridge
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: in San Pedro for a $ 750 million deck replacement project.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Workers will also replace the median railings, fencing and signage
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: and upgrade seismic sensors. The bridge is expected to be
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: closed for 16 months starting November 7th. Drivers who usually
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: take the bridge to Long Beach and the ports will
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: have to take a detour. You're not dreaming. Aerospace really
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: is returning to the stage. They're going to be at
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl tonight and Sunday for the two concerts.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: More than two years after the band ended touring because
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of lead singer Steven Tyler's vocal injury. The California Dream
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: On Aerosmith and Friends shows. We'll have Aerospace performing tonight
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: and Sunday alongside friends. Aerospace? Did I say Aerospace?
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I still have space on my brain from the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: California Science Center. Aerospace performing with friends including Black Crows,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Run DMC, Heart, Billy Idol, Sammy Hagar, Slash and Rage
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Against the Machines, Tom Morello. That would be a heck
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of a show. And just like that, our show is done,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: but we're going to do it again tomorrow morning on
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the Halloween Eve show. It might be a little bit spooky,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: but it's also going to be fun. So please make
• 42:11
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• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Orange County. You've been listening to Wake Up
• 42:18
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• 42:21
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