Latest / Wake Up Call with Amy King / The Day Before Election Day

Transcript

The Day Before Election Day · Wake Up Call with Amy King

0:00
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640. Wake Up Call with me,
0:04
Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's 5
0:11
Speaker 1: o'clock straight up. This is your Wake Up Call for Monday,
0:15
Speaker 1: November 2nd. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
0:19
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Just one more day till Election Day. Have
0:24
Speaker 1: you cast your ballots? We'll make the appeal again. Be
0:28
Speaker 1: sure to vote, but be sure that you are educated
0:31
Speaker 1: about what you are voting for. Read those propositions. Understand
0:36
Speaker 1: them before making a quick decision. Can't just throw darts
0:40
Speaker 1: at the board. Can't just throw darts at the board.
0:42
Speaker 1: Your future's at stake here. We had a successful fallback.
0:46
Speaker 1: Hope you're nice and well-rested that extra hour. It doesn't
0:49
Speaker 1: feel like it. Well, that's your fault. Are you all
0:54
Speaker 1: recovered from the Halloween weekend?
0:56
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
0:56
Speaker 1: I had zero trick-or-treaters again. Ann's house, producer Ann's house,
1:01
Speaker 1: looked awesome. I was like, send me pictures. Send me pictures.
1:05
Speaker 1: She was worried it was going to get rained out.
1:07
Speaker 1: It didn't. And looked so cool. I bet you had
1:10
Speaker 1: very happy trick-or-treaters. She gave out a ton of candy.
1:13
Speaker 1: So a friend of mine, Heidi, said, oh, we went
1:16
Speaker 1: to Costco and got five big bags of candy. And
1:19
Speaker 1: I'm like, my God, you're going to be eating leftover
1:21
Speaker 1: candy for months. Nope. I was dead wrong.
1:25
Speaker 2: Give it all away.
1:26
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and twenty two.
1:28
Speaker 3: Holy moly.
1:29
Speaker 1: So I think she's in one of those neighborhoods, you know,
1:32
Speaker 1: that they bust the kids into.
1:34
Speaker 4: They don't come to my neighborhood.
1:35
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so fun. And Gilded Age is back. So
1:39
Speaker 1: I spent a little time over the weekend binging season
1:42
Speaker 1: three to get ready for season four. It's a good show.
1:46
Speaker 1: Good show. It's on HBO Max. Here's what's ahead on
1:50
Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. All beaches remain closed in Long Beach
1:53
Speaker 1: after a massive sewage spill from a ruptured pipe sent
1:56
Speaker 1: almost 30,000 gallons of wastewater toward the ocean. The break
2:00
Speaker 1: happened Friday evening near Livingston Drive and 2nd Street. City
2:04
Speaker 1: officials say they were able to capture about half the
2:07
Speaker 1: wastewater before it got to the ocean, and testing and
2:10
Speaker 1: repair work are ongoing. A second trial for the man
2:14
Speaker 1: accused of setting a fire that grew into the deadly
2:16
Speaker 1: Palisades Fire, the most destructive fire in L.A. 's history,
2:20
Speaker 1: is expected to begin today. Hundreds of prospective jurors have
2:24
Speaker 1: been summoned to the downtown federal courthouse for questioning. Michigan
2:28
Speaker 1: Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens has endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.
2:36
Speaker 1: Stevens spoke alongside Rogers in Detroit yesterday, calling her decision
2:40
Speaker 1: personal and private. The endorsement comes after Stevens clashed with
2:44
Speaker 1: Democratic Socialist candidate Abdul Al-Sayed over Israel and anti-Semitism claims. Now,
2:51
Speaker 1: Alaska's election has been in the spotlight because of the
2:54
Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan versus Dan Sullivan scandal in which one of
2:57
Speaker 1: the candidates is being called a decoy Dan. ABC's Peter
3:01
Speaker 1: Harlambus has the latest on the DOJ's attempts to stop
3:04
Speaker 1: the election from being certified if the real Dan Sullivan
3:08
Speaker 1: doesn't win. That's coming up at 5.20 p.m. And, of course,
3:10
Speaker 1: Election Day tomorrow, there's a lot at stake, and there's
3:13
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk about a blue wave. ABC
3:16
Speaker 1: political analyst Steve Roberts says there are a couple of
3:19
Speaker 1: factors at play that could be kind of a lifeline
3:21
Speaker 1: for Republicans. That's coming up in just a couple of minutes. Hey, Shadow,
3:26
Speaker 1: the big bear bald eagle, he's got his new gal pal, Katie.
3:30
Speaker 1: It's early, but there may be signs that a new
3:32
Speaker 1: family is starting in the nest above Big Bear Lake.
3:35
Speaker 1: And it is early, but there may be a sign that...
3:38
Speaker 1: That my Finch family is coming back. Remember I had
3:42
Speaker 1: the Finches, made a nest on my balcony? You had
3:45
Speaker 1: a Finch cam. I had my Finch cam. Might have
3:48
Speaker 1: to go hook it up again. And one more note
3:50
Speaker 1: on candy corn. Before you dig into what's left of
3:53
Speaker 1: your Halloween candy, I've got something to share about candy
3:56
Speaker 1: corn that may literally bug you.
4:00
Speaker 2: Oh, no. Oh, no.
4:02
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
4:04
Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The candidates for governor of
4:07
Speaker 1: California getting in their final messages to voters before Election
4:11
Speaker 1: Day tomorrow.
4:11
Speaker 4: Democratic candidate for Governor Javier Becerra was in Oceanside Sunday
4:16
Speaker 4: speaking to voters about the issue of affordability. Becerra blames
4:19
Speaker 4: the Trump administration for the high prices that California residents
4:22
Speaker 4: are seeing in the grocery stores and at the gas pump.
4:25
Speaker 4: He says if elected, he'll fight back against federal policies
4:28
Speaker 4: that increase prices for Californians. Republican candidate Steve Hilton was
4:32
Speaker 4: in Pacific Palisades Sunday. discussing his plans to drop taxes
4:36
Speaker 4: if he's elected governor. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
4:40
Speaker 1: News brought to you by American Vision Windows. An LAPD
4:43
Speaker 1: cruiser responding to an emergency call in the San Fernando
4:46
Speaker 1: Valley has hit and killed a woman. The woman was
4:49
Speaker 1: hit on Halloween night on Woodman Avenue between Oxnard and
4:52
Speaker 1: Victory Boulevard. The police cruiser was on its way to
4:55
Speaker 1: a rowdy Halloween party in Sherman Oaks when the crash happened.
4:59
Speaker 1: The second trial for the man accused of causing the
5:01
Speaker 1: deadly Palisades fire is set to begin this morning.
5:04
Speaker 5: It was the most destructive fire in L.A.
5:06
Speaker 2: History.
5:07
Speaker 5: Hundreds of prospective jurors have been summoned to the downtown
5:10
Speaker 5: federal courthouse for questioning. Earlier this year, a jury deadlocked
5:14
Speaker 5: 10-2 in favor of acquitting 30-year-old Jonathan Rindernacht on three
5:17
Speaker 5: arson-related charges. In light of the deadlock, a judge declared
5:21
Speaker 5: a mistrial and prosecutors vowed to retry the case. Tammy Trujillo,
5:25
Speaker 5: KFI News.
5:26
Speaker 1: And overnight, lane, ramp, and connector closures are set to
5:30
Speaker 1: begin tonight along the 405 through the Sepulveda Pass. Closures
5:34
Speaker 1: are scheduled from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. overnight through
5:38
Speaker 1: Friday for work on K-rail installation and paving between Van
5:42
Speaker 1: Nuys and Westwood. Caltrans says people who live or work
5:45
Speaker 1: near the construction area may experience noise, vibrations, and dust.
5:50
Speaker 2: Great.
5:51
Speaker 1: It's 5.08 on your wake-up call. Let's say good morning
5:54
Speaker 1: now to ABC's political analyst, Steve Roberts. So, Steve, before
5:58
Speaker 1: we dive into this, I wanted to ask you a
6:00
Speaker 1: quick question, and that was that you've been covering elections
6:03
Speaker 1: for quite some time, right? And all elections are big elections.
6:08
Speaker 1: But is this one bigger, or are we just acting
6:12
Speaker 1: like it is?
6:14
Speaker 2: Well, as you say, all elections are big elections, but
6:17
Speaker 2: I think this election has an extra resonance because of
6:22
Speaker 2: the nature of the Trump presidency. Trump has, in his
6:27
Speaker 2: second term, exercised such extraordinary powers using executive authority to
6:37
Speaker 2: overturn decisions by Congress, spending decisions, regulatory decisions. And Republicans
6:43
Speaker 2: in the Congress have basically fallen in line and provided
6:48
Speaker 2: no real check and balance. So the real question here
6:52
Speaker 2: is what happens during the final two years of Trump's presidency?
6:56
Speaker 2: And do voters give Democrats the majority, at least one
7:01
Speaker 2: House of Congress? Because if the Democrats win by one vote,
7:06
Speaker 2: all I have to do is win by one vote.
7:08
Speaker 2: That means they control every committee. That means they have
7:11
Speaker 2: subpoena power. That means they can hold investigations, summon witnesses,
7:15
Speaker 2: ask questions, and hold the president accountable in ways he
7:19
Speaker 2: has simply not been during the first two years. So
7:23
Speaker 2: as midterm elections go, this is particularly important because of
7:28
Speaker 2: the nature of the Trump presidency and the way he
7:31
Speaker 2: has used his powers. Up till now, the only real
7:34
Speaker 2: check on Trump's powers has been federal judges. And of course,
7:37
Speaker 2: there have been dozens of cases. in which federal judges
7:40
Speaker 2: have blocked Trump's initiatives. But judges don't, you know, have
7:49
Speaker 2: difficulty enforcing the decision sometimes. And Trump's Justice Department doesn't
7:55
Speaker 2: always listen to federal judges. So as midterm elections go,
7:59
Speaker 2: this is a reasonably important one. Okay.
8:02
Speaker 1: So let's dig into a couple of the ones that
8:03
Speaker 1: we're hearing a lot about. And, of course, the one
8:05
Speaker 1: in Michigan is the big one because yesterday is one
8:08
Speaker 1: of the big ones. In Michigan yesterday, a Democratic congresswoman
8:13
Speaker 1: went up to the podium standing next to Republican candidate
8:16
Speaker 1: Mike Rogers and said, I'm endorsing him and not Democratic
8:21
Speaker 1: nominee Abdul El-Sayed. And that's a big thing.
8:26
Speaker 2: It is a big thing because this is a seat
8:29
Speaker 2: that Democrats hold. The incumbent Democrat, Peters, is retiring. And
8:36
Speaker 2: so it's almost impossible for the Democrats. to actually take
8:40
Speaker 2: control of the Senate if they lose Michigan. That makes
8:43
Speaker 2: their road much, much tougher. And as you describe what happened,
8:48
Speaker 2: and this woman who, a member of Congress who lost
8:53
Speaker 2: the primary, has been a real sore loser and has
8:57
Speaker 2: been very angry at the man who won. But he's
9:00
Speaker 2: been a sore winner. He's been sort of nasty to her, too.
9:04
Speaker 2: And the feud is personal, but it's also deeper than that.
9:08
Speaker 2: Looking ahead to the next Congress, there are going to
9:10
Speaker 2: be a number of new members of Congress who are
9:13
Speaker 2: definitely on the far left. Some are socialists. Some are
9:17
Speaker 2: friendly with socialists. And this split that you saw in
9:21
Speaker 2: Michigan between El-Sayed, who's an avowed leftist, and Stevens, who's
9:27
Speaker 2: much more centrist, that split is there in many states.
9:31
Speaker 2: It's there in California. It's been papered over. by the
9:35
Speaker 2: fact that every Democrat has been able to say, we
9:39
Speaker 2: hate Donald Trump, and they don't have to deal with
9:41
Speaker 2: their own internal tensions and splits. But I can tell you,
9:48
Speaker 2: not only could that feud in Michigan threaten not only
9:52
Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate in Michigan, it could threaten the whole
9:57
Speaker 2: possibility of Democrats winning the Senate, but it also reaffirms
10:01
Speaker 2: a split that is going to be a significant part
10:04
Speaker 2: of life in Washington when the next Congress convenes in January.
10:09
Speaker 2: All right.
10:09
Speaker 1: And we will be watching it. And then the other
10:11
Speaker 1: big one that actually we're going to be talking to
10:13
Speaker 1: your colleague, Peter Haralambous. about the race in Alaska and
10:17
Speaker 1: what's going on with Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan and
10:20
Speaker 1: how that's all going to play out. So, Steve Roberts,
10:23
Speaker 1: thanks so much for your time and your insight. And
10:27
Speaker 1: buckle up. We're not done yet.
10:29
Speaker 2: Right.
10:30
Speaker 4: OK.
10:30
Speaker 2: All right. Take care.
10:32
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
10:33
Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A violent Halloween has left
10:37
Speaker 1: at least 24 people dead and nearly 100 wounded in
10:41
Speaker 1: shootings from coast to coast. pregnant woman was killed and
10:44
Speaker 1: six others were hurt in a mass shooting at a
10:47
Speaker 1: Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield in Northern California. Three shootings
10:52
Speaker 1: in Dallas early yesterday left four people dead. Two more
10:55
Speaker 1: were killed in a shooting in Jackson, Mississippi. A five-year-old
10:58
Speaker 1: girl in Detroit was still in her Halloween costume after
11:01
Speaker 1: a night of trick-or-treating when she was shot in the
11:03
Speaker 1: back room of her house. Shootings were reported from Delaware
11:07
Speaker 1: to California. They happened at nightclubs, costume stores, outside stadiums,
11:12
Speaker 1: around school campuses and retail centers. At least nine people
11:16
Speaker 1: have been killed in the crash of a Learjet in Florida.
11:19
Speaker 1: All were aboard the plane when it slammed into the
11:21
Speaker 1: ground yesterday near a mobile home park. The pilot had
11:24
Speaker 1: reported icing and turbulence just moments earlier. Mayday, mayday, we're
11:28
Speaker 1: descending 10,000 feet per minute. The crash caused a huge
11:32
Speaker 1: fireball and left a crater in the ground. Witnesses say
11:34
Speaker 1: they thought it was a meteor or a missile.
11:36
Speaker 6: It literally just looked like a hole in the ground
11:38
Speaker 6: and like the street was just coming up out of it.
11:41
Speaker 1: The FAA and NTSB are investigating. We're expecting an update
11:45
Speaker 1: from the NTSB a little bit later this morning. Connecticut
11:49
Speaker 1: Center Chris Murphy is in the hospital. He had a stroke.
11:52
Speaker 1: His office said yesterday he's awake and alert and receiving treatment.
11:57
Speaker 1: Murphy's staff says doctors are encouraged by his progress and
12:01
Speaker 1: are optimistic he'll make a full recovery. Murphy was elected
12:04
Speaker 1: to the House in 2006 and to the Senate in 2012.
12:08
Speaker 1: He's not on the ballot tomorrow. Director Michael Mann is
12:12
Speaker 1: recovering after he apparently shot himself in the leg.
12:15
Speaker 4: A spokesperson for the director told several outlets that a
12:18
Speaker 4: gun he was using at a gun range accidentally discharged
12:21
Speaker 4: while holstered. The spokesperson said the accidental discharge caused a
12:25
Speaker 4: superficial injury. Mann was released after receiving treatment. Deadline says
12:29
Speaker 4: the incident will not impact Mann's ability to direct HEAT-2
12:33
Speaker 4: in January. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
12:36
Speaker 1: Well, thank goodness for that, right? NASA's Swift telescope is
12:41
Speaker 1: expected to come crashing back to Earth in the coming
12:43
Speaker 1: days after a failed rescue mission. The U.S. Space Force
12:48
Speaker 1: says it's predicting the Swift observatory is going to come
12:50
Speaker 1: down on or around Friday. The telescope's expected to burn
12:54
Speaker 1: up in the atmosphere, but a few pieces could survive reentry.
12:58
Speaker 1: Officials are saying that any surviving wreckage would most likely
13:02
Speaker 1: plunge into the ocean, but large areas of Africa, Australia, India,
13:06
Speaker 1: Southeast Asia, and Central and South America are within the
13:11
Speaker 1: reentry zone. I was just looking at weather on Channel
13:18
Speaker 1: 5 a minute ago. You think it's been hot here?
13:20
Speaker 1: Everybody's been complaining about all the heat. Yeah, it was
13:23
Speaker 1: 100 degrees on this day in 1966.
13:24
Speaker 2: Ah.
13:25
Speaker 1: So, today's going to be much nicer than that. When
13:31
Speaker 1: we come back, of course, the election is tomorrow. And
13:36
Speaker 1: in Alaska, a setback for the Dan versus Dan gang.
13:41
Speaker 1: Of course, Dan Sullivan is on the ballot against Dan Sullivan.
13:47
Speaker 1: And one of the Dan Sullivans is actually a sitting senator. So,
13:50
Speaker 1: We're going to check in and see what happened over
13:53
Speaker 1: the weekend and what could still happen. Hope you're nice
13:56
Speaker 1: and rested. Got that extra hour of sleep. Doesn't feel
14:00
Speaker 1: like it already. I was all excited. I'm like, you
14:02
Speaker 1: get a whole extra hour. And by five o'clock yesterday,
14:04
Speaker 1: I was like, eh, lost it. Here's what we're following
14:08
Speaker 1: in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Parking in a bus lane
14:12
Speaker 1: or at a bus stop in the city of LA
14:14
Speaker 1: will now earn car owners a warning. Cameras on Dash
14:19
Speaker 1: buses will start tracking violators starting today. Warnings will be
14:22
Speaker 1: issued for 60 days, and then the warnings will become
14:25
Speaker 1: citations starting on January 2nd. Dash joins Metro, Santa Monica's
14:30
Speaker 1: Big Blue Bus, and Culver City Bus in using bus-mounted
14:34
Speaker 1: cameras to enforce parking restrictions in bus lanes and at
14:37
Speaker 1: bus stops. The FBI has confirmed hackers from North Korea
14:41
Speaker 1: were responsible for stealing over $ 6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance.
14:46
Speaker 1: The FBI identified the North Korean cyber activity as traitor-traitor.
14:53
Speaker 1: Federal officials now urging cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchain analytics firms, and
14:57
Speaker 1: other digital asset service providers to block transactions involving wallet
15:02
Speaker 1: addresses tied to the stolen funds. President Trump planning to
15:07
Speaker 1: give his closing argument for the midterms during an event
15:10
Speaker 1: at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The event wraps up
15:14
Speaker 1: a month-long marathon of more than two dozen campaign rallies
15:17
Speaker 1: for President Trump in states that have traditionally been red
15:20
Speaker 1: states but are in danger of flipping. Let's say good
15:25
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's political analyst, Peter Haralumbus. Peter, we
15:29
Speaker 1: have some doings going on in Alaska. Tell us the latest, please.
15:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, we saw a flurry of legal action over the weekend,
15:40
Speaker 6: concluding with the judge in this lawsuit, the DOJ's lawsuit,
15:44
Speaker 6: seeking to block certification of the election in Alaska if
15:47
Speaker 6: the Democrat wins, throwing out the case. The judge in
15:50
Speaker 6: the matter ultimately saying the DOJ failed to provide some
15:54
Speaker 6: kind of way to resolve the problem they identified. They
15:57
Speaker 6: pointed out this issue where you have Dan S. Sullivan,
16:00
Speaker 6: the senator, and Dan J. Sullivan, a teacher who shares
16:02
Speaker 6: his the same name being on the same ballot. Ultimately,
16:06
Speaker 6: this judge said that DOJ provided no real way to
16:09
Speaker 6: investigate this matter without violating voter secrecy. And throughout the case,
16:13
Speaker 6: the DOJ at this point is vowing to appeal the matter. Meanwhile,
16:16
Speaker 6: we're seeing state and federal investigations proceed, though it's unlikely
16:20
Speaker 6: we see some kind of resolution in those investigations in
16:23
Speaker 6: time for Tuesday's election.
16:25
Speaker 1: So, Peter, I know that the DOJ wanted to block
16:29
Speaker 1: any certification if incumbent dan sullivan didn't win and that
16:34
Speaker 1: and the judge said no so when are the elections
16:39
Speaker 1: certified in alaska do we know i know like in
16:41
Speaker 1: california the certification takes forever but do we know when
16:46
Speaker 1: it is yes it.
16:48
Speaker 6: It's a lengthy process. It begins around December, and that's
16:52
Speaker 6: when we could see this legal battle continue. Another thing
16:55
Speaker 6: that's worth flagging is right now the Alaska governor has
16:59
Speaker 6: basically ordered this investigation into the two Sullivans matter. The
17:04
Speaker 6: thing is they certify the governor's race and actually swear
17:07
Speaker 6: in the governor by December 7th. And at this point,
17:10
Speaker 6: it appears the Democrat is the frontrunner, and it doesn't
17:12
Speaker 6: seem likely that a Democratic governor would kind of proceed
17:15
Speaker 6: with this same investigation, though the governor himself, the gubernatorial candidate,
17:19
Speaker 6: excuse me, has not officially weighed in yet in terms
17:22
Speaker 6: of where he stands on this new investigation.
17:25
Speaker 5: Okay.
17:26
Speaker 1: And has there been, or is it too, did it
17:29
Speaker 1: happen too late to show whether there's actually any fallout
17:32
Speaker 1: after that New York Times investigation that showed that Mary Paltola,
17:37
Speaker 1: the Democratic candidate was aware of what was going on,
17:41
Speaker 1: that they were really trying to go find a Dan
17:43
Speaker 1: Sullivan to run against the incumbent to sort of create
17:47
Speaker 1: some confusion in the electorate?
17:49
Speaker 6: It's a good question. If you ask the folks we
17:52
Speaker 6: have on the ground in Alaska ahead of election night,
17:55
Speaker 6: voters are responding. They're totally unsurprised by this. And if anything,
17:59
Speaker 6: they've been told over the last three months repeatedly, do
18:03
Speaker 6: not vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan. They've been told
18:06
Speaker 6: how to rank their ballots. Alaska uses ranked choice voting
18:08
Speaker 6: to the point in which it seems like a lot
18:10
Speaker 6: of voters are unfazed by this news, though. The fact
18:13
Speaker 6: that this is kind of form of this report is
18:14
Speaker 6: formally linking the Paltola campaign to this political trick. It's
18:19
Speaker 6: certainly not a good look in the final days ahead
18:22
Speaker 6: of the election. Yes, this is a common dirty political
18:25
Speaker 6: trick we've seen before. This is arguably the most high
18:28
Speaker 6: profile example where you have two people with the same name.
18:31
Speaker 6: But again, it has happened before. Courts generally conclude that
18:34
Speaker 6: it is legal, but unsavory. For example, when JFK ran
18:38
Speaker 6: for his first congressional seat in 1946. He ran against
18:41
Speaker 6: two guys who shared the same name, Joseph Russo, one
18:44
Speaker 6: of them a politician, the other one a janitor who
18:46
Speaker 6: was recruited to run in that race. JFK went on
18:48
Speaker 6: to win that race handily.
18:50
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that they say there's nothing illegal.
18:53
Speaker 1: It's just unsavory. I'm like, then make it illegal. I
18:55
Speaker 1: just think it's so basic that this is just, I
18:59
Speaker 1: don't care what side you're on. This is wrong. It
19:02
Speaker 1: is an effort to confuse the electorate.
19:06
Speaker 6: And in this case, the Alaska Supreme Court has already
19:09
Speaker 6: weighed in on this matter. And what they said is, yes,
19:11
Speaker 6: this is probably a bad faith effort by Dan J.
19:15
Speaker 6: Sullivan to get involved in this election. But there's nothing
19:18
Speaker 6: in our books that makes it illegal to run for
19:20
Speaker 6: a race. even if you're doing it in bad faith.
19:23
Speaker 6: So that's why they weighed in and said, you know,
19:25
Speaker 6: there's no legal authority for election officials to take Dan
19:28
Speaker 6: Jay Sullivan off the ballot. That being said, who knows,
19:31
Speaker 6: we might see some kind of change in the future
19:33
Speaker 6: now that we've seen arguably the most high profile example
19:36
Speaker 6: of this trick playing out on the national stage.
19:38
Speaker 2: All right.
19:38
Speaker 1: ABC's investigative reporter, Peter Haralambous. Thanks so much for the information.
19:44
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're going to be talking to you more
19:45
Speaker 1: about this in the near future.
19:48
Speaker 6: I look forward to it. All right.
19:49
Speaker 1: Take care. Ballots in California may be counted faster in
19:53
Speaker 1: some counties, but in others, not so much.
19:56
Speaker 7: The state legislature gave counties across the state $ 34 million
19:59
Speaker 7: to help ballot processing on election night. KCRA-TV asked the
20:03
Speaker 7: 58 counties in the state to see if throwing money
20:06
Speaker 7: at the problem would help, but some counties, including L.A.
20:09
Speaker 7: and San Francisco, didn't respond. Neither did 32 other counties.
20:13
Speaker 7: Out of the 24 counties that did respond, 15 of
20:15
Speaker 7: those counties said yes. The money would help, and nine
20:18
Speaker 7: counties said no. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
20:22
Speaker 1: A former Garden Grove police sergeant who retired while under
20:26
Speaker 1: investigation for sexual harassment has been charged with kidnapping and
20:31
Speaker 1: sexual assault. Charles Starnes III, who goes by Chuck, is
20:35
Speaker 1: accused of assaulting a fellow officer and another department employee.
20:39
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the female officer was dragged out of a
20:42
Speaker 1: bar in 2007 during a promotion celebration and into the
20:47
Speaker 1: parking lot where the assault was stopped by two other officers.
20:50
Speaker 1: The other woman was assaulted in 2020 on a car
20:53
Speaker 1: ride back from an off-probation party at a bar in
20:56
Speaker 1: Long Beach. A woman from Anaheim accused of intentionally running
21:01
Speaker 1: over a puppy is now facing a federal charge. Animal
21:04
Speaker 1: crushing is a felony. It carries a maximum sentence of
21:07
Speaker 1: seven years in federal prison. The 75-year-old woman was arrested
21:11
Speaker 1: in September after video showed her letting the puppy out
21:14
Speaker 1: of her minivan and then dropping what looked like food
21:17
Speaker 1: in the street to lure the puppy. The puppy was
21:20
Speaker 1: then run over. Prosecutors say the driver kept the minivan
21:23
Speaker 1: on top of the puppy for about 15 seconds before
21:26
Speaker 1: driving away. Wow. Health insurance could be getting more expensive
21:33
Speaker 1: for a big chunk of Californians.
21:35
Speaker 8: Open enrollment for Affordable Care Act coverage has begun, with
21:38
Speaker 8: people shopping for 2027 plans facing higher premiums and fewer choices.
21:42
Speaker 8: Average premiums are expected to rise about 13%, while expiring
21:46
Speaker 8: financial assistance... could leave some people paying significantly more. Officials
21:50
Speaker 8: say new rules also tighten eligibility for tax credits and
21:54
Speaker 8: enrollment checks. The Trump administration says it plans to remove
21:57
Speaker 8: about 760,000 enrollees over fraud concerns, rejecting more than $ 2
22:03
Speaker 8: billion in savings.
22:04
Speaker 1: Heather Brooker, KFI News. A 12-year-old cheetah at the Living
22:09
Speaker 1: Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert has died. The
22:12
Speaker 1: zoo posted a statement on social media saying, with great sadness,
22:15
Speaker 1: we share the news that Kali, one of our beloved cheetahs,
22:18
Speaker 1: was compassionately euthanized last week after being diagnosed with several
22:22
Speaker 1: serious irreversible health conditions. Vets found she was suffering from
22:27
Speaker 1: kidney failure and a large mass in her skull was
22:31
Speaker 1: likely affecting her neurologically. Cheetahs are like the most incredible.
22:37
Speaker 1: Bill Handel just posted.
22:38
Speaker 3: I saw that.
22:39
Speaker 1: He posted some cheetah pictures.
22:41
Speaker 5: Beautiful.
22:41
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
22:42
Speaker 1: And they're very hard to see. They're not out and about. Like,
22:45
Speaker 1: the leopards are the hardest because they're the sneakiest. But
22:49
Speaker 1: the cheetahs, just, they're not prevalent. Like, zebras and giraffes.
22:53
Speaker 6: And they blend in.
22:55
Speaker 1: And they blend in. And they're absolutely stunning. Still to
22:58
Speaker 1: come on Wake Up Call. One more note on candy corn.
23:02
Speaker 1: Before you dig into what's left on your Halloween candy,
23:05
Speaker 1: I got something to share about candy corn that literally
23:08
Speaker 1: will bug you.
23:09
Speaker 2: Oh.
23:10
Speaker 1: Southland weather from KFI. Mostly sunny with highs in the
23:14
Speaker 1: low 70s at the coast. Low to mid 70s for
23:16
Speaker 1: Metro LA and inland OC. Low to upper 70s for
23:19
Speaker 1: the valleys and IE 60s in the Antelope Valley. About
23:23
Speaker 1: the same for tomorrow and Wednesday. And then mostly sunny.
23:26
Speaker 1: A few degrees warmer as we head toward the weekend.
23:28
Speaker 1: Could see highs in the 80s again. It's 537 on
23:30
Speaker 1: your wake-up call. Good morning. I'm Amy King. Thanks for
23:33
Speaker 1: starting your day with us. Just one more day till
23:35
Speaker 1: Election Day. And we do have you covered here on
23:38
Speaker 1: KFI as we do And have for every election for
23:41
Speaker 1: years and years and years. We've got Gary and Shannon
23:45
Speaker 1: and Monks and Merrill. They're going to be covering all
23:48
Speaker 1: the election returns. The KFI news team is going to
23:51
Speaker 1: be on it, bringing winners and losers as they come in.
23:53
Speaker 1: And all that coverage is tomorrow evening right here on KFI.
23:57
Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Amazon
24:00
Speaker 1: planning to hire more than 34,000 workers in California ahead
24:03
Speaker 1: of the holidays. Amazon is looking for seasonal, part-time, and
24:07
Speaker 1: full-time workers. About 2,900 of those jobs will be in L.A.
24:12
Speaker 1: It pays an average of $ 20 an hour. Workers get
24:14
Speaker 1: health care on day one. Interested? You can apply at
24:18
Speaker 1: Amazon.com slash localjobs. Nine people have been killed when a
24:23
Speaker 1: Learjet crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida. The plane was
24:27
Speaker 1: on its way from Austin, Texas to the Bahamas when
24:30
Speaker 1: it went down in a residential area near Cresthaven. It's
24:33
Speaker 1: not clear if anyone on the ground was hurt. Filmmaker
24:37
Speaker 1: Michael Mann's recovering after he apparently shot himself in the
24:39
Speaker 1: leg at a gun range in L.A. The 83-year-old director
24:42
Speaker 1: of movies including Heat and The Insider was at the
24:45
Speaker 1: range on Missouri Avenue Saturday afternoon when he accidentally shot himself.
24:49
Speaker 1: He was briefly treated at a hospital for what was
24:52
Speaker 1: described as a superficial wound. Here's what's coming out of
24:56
Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Governor Newsom has finally appeared in
24:59
Speaker 1: public with the Democrat running for his job.
25:02
Speaker 7: Javier Becerra and Governor Newsom shared a stage for the
25:05
Speaker 7: first time on the campaign trail, and Becerra took the
25:08
Speaker 7: opportunity to joke about Newsom possibly running for president.
25:11
Speaker 6: If we're lucky, we will have someone who will stand
25:15
Speaker 6: up for us the way Gavin Newsom stood.
25:18
Speaker 3: Up for California over and over and over again.
25:22
Speaker 7: After the event, Newsom spoke about the alleged voter fraud
25:25
Speaker 7: in the state, saying Keystone cops are bringing lawsuits, then
25:28
Speaker 7: suggested that the attorneys that are bringing those lawsuits be disbarred.
25:32
Speaker 7: Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
25:36
Speaker 1: A man and a woman in Palmdale have been arrested
25:38
Speaker 1: on suspicion of child endangerment after a crash into a
25:41
Speaker 1: wall that sent five kids to the hospital. The LA
25:44
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department says a disheveled woman had been seen
25:47
Speaker 1: before the crash yesterday. dragging two children toward a car
25:51
Speaker 1: with no license plates. A videographer said two of the
25:54
Speaker 1: children didn't have clothes on when the car crashed and
25:57
Speaker 1: were covered with blankets. All of the kids have been
25:59
Speaker 1: taken into protective custody. A doctor in Glendale has been
26:03
Speaker 1: sentenced to 15 years in prison for using her medical
26:05
Speaker 1: practice to fraudulently bill Medicare for more than $ 45 million
26:11
Speaker 1: for Botox injections that were not medically necessary or never done.
26:16
Speaker 1: The feds say Violetta Maylene owned and operated Healthy Way
26:20
Speaker 1: Medical Center. She allegedly billed Medicare for thousands of injections,
26:24
Speaker 1: including for times when the clinic was closed or May
26:27
Speaker 1: Lynn was on vacation in Mexico, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Pennsylvania,
26:31
Speaker 1: and New York. She allegedly used the money to buy
26:33
Speaker 1: luxury items, including a $ 12, 000 17th century crossbow and a
26:35
Speaker 1: $ 3, 000 painting. Time to get in your business as we
26:44
Speaker 1: do each weekday morning at this time with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Morning, Denise.
26:48
Speaker 1: Got a lot of suspense in the data center industry
26:52
Speaker 1: ahead of Election Day. How come?
26:54
Speaker 9: Yeah, voters all over the place in dozens of counties
26:58
Speaker 9: and cities really across country are voting to potentially enact
27:02
Speaker 9: policies that could slow down the development of data centers.
27:05
Speaker 9: A Bloomberg analysis of Ballotpedia shows there are more than
27:09
Speaker 9: 40 data center-related measures to vote on in these midterms.
27:13
Speaker 9: Some threaten to ban data centers outright, as you know.
27:16
Speaker 9: Others are just looking at regulating or taxing AI infrastructure.
27:21
Speaker 9: This could all put hundreds of billions of dollars on
27:23
Speaker 9: investment really at stake. A lot of questions among investors
27:27
Speaker 9: about it all.
27:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Here's some questions. If I'm going to look
27:33
Speaker 1: for a job, am I going to find a job?
27:36
Speaker 9: Yeah, possibly because data firms in the U.S. Well, those
27:41
Speaker 9: who are talented will. Yes. And so the answer is yes.
27:45
Speaker 9: Staffing firms in the U.S. are seeing an uptick in
27:48
Speaker 9: demand for hiring. The staffing market, and this is kind
27:51
Speaker 9: of strange, but they're experiencing what they're calling a reluctant
27:54
Speaker 9: improvement with companies wanting to restart projects all of a
27:58
Speaker 9: sudden that they deferred for years. So that's really being
28:01
Speaker 9: seen as a very positive sign. They're trying to hire directly. Though,
28:06
Speaker 9: in some cases, bypassing the staffing firms, their own business
28:10
Speaker 9: may be in jeopardy.
28:12
Speaker 1: Gotcha. That's interesting because, you know, that would be a
28:15
Speaker 1: good sign for the economy, right?
28:16
Speaker 9: Very good sign.
28:17
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
28:18
Speaker 1: Speaking of growth, women's sports growth is leading to an
28:22
Speaker 1: increase in women's restrooms.
28:27
Speaker 9: Well, that's the hope. Stadiums are being forced to rethink
28:30
Speaker 9: their bathroom policy. Venues are looking to shorten the notoriously
28:34
Speaker 9: long restroom line, we'll call it. They're putting in flexible facilities,
28:38
Speaker 9: better layouts. After research found, I can't believe they need
28:42
Speaker 9: research to figure this out. Women spend like, you know,
28:46
Speaker 9: four times more time waiting in line in the bathroom
28:48
Speaker 9: than men do.
28:49
Speaker 1: Why do they have to do research on that? This
28:51
Speaker 1: is something that we all know. The line goes out
28:53
Speaker 1: the door.
28:53
Speaker 9: It's not like you have to even go in the
28:55
Speaker 9: bathroom to figure this out, right? But many places, and
28:59
Speaker 9: this includes a lot of sports stadiums, are looking at
29:02
Speaker 9: putting in more stalls for women.
29:04
Speaker 6: Yay.
29:04
Speaker 2: Finally.
29:05
Speaker 1: I think that's a great thing. Although I don't think
29:07
Speaker 1: it should have to do with women's sports only. I mean,
29:11
Speaker 1: if you've ever been to Dodger Stadium, you know there's,
29:13
Speaker 1: Almost always a line out the door for the girls. Yeah,
29:16
Speaker 1: there are.
29:16
Speaker 9: Clearly a lot of female Dodgers fans. But I guess
29:21
Speaker 9: it's particularly, you know, sort of points out that it's
29:25
Speaker 9: about time.
29:25
Speaker 1: Yeah. And speaking of time, now could be a great
29:29
Speaker 1: time to get a really good rate on an Airbnb
29:33
Speaker 1: in a certain location.
29:35
Speaker 9: Yes, Paris Bookings on Airbnb and other accommodation services. have
29:40
Speaker 9: slumped following last month's riots and looting booking on platforms
29:45
Speaker 9: like Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo as well. They're plunging with Jamie Lane,
29:50
Speaker 9: chief economist at the short-term rental analytics firm AirDNA, says
29:55
Speaker 9: that prices are have plunged after bookings plummeted 18%. Rental
30:00
Speaker 9: rates have come down by as much as 50%. So
30:03
Speaker 9: if you know you want to go to Paris any
30:05
Speaker 9: time in the next year or so, now is really
30:07
Speaker 9: the time to look for an Airbnb.
30:09
Speaker 1: Okay, and does that, Denise, did you say that, I know, right,
30:13
Speaker 1: did that have to do with all the rioting and
30:14
Speaker 1: stuff or it's just in general?
30:17
Speaker 9: People don't want to go there because of last month's
30:19
Speaker 9: riots and lootings. And so they've canceled their bookings.
30:22
Speaker 2: Oh, gotcha.
30:23
Speaker 9: And so now the places renting are worried about their
30:27
Speaker 9: short-term and long-term business. They're cutting prices not only for now,
30:32
Speaker 9: but even into next year.
30:33
Speaker 1: All right. Denise Pellegrini, getting in your business. No kidding, right?
30:37
Speaker 1: Getting in your business as we do each weekday morning.
30:39
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
30:41
Speaker 9: Talk to you then.
30:42
Speaker 5: All right.
30:43
Speaker 1: When we come back, Shadow the Bald Eagle, he's got
30:46
Speaker 1: his new gal pal, Katie.
30:47
Speaker 5: Stop it.
30:50
Speaker 1: It's early, but there are signs that a new family
30:52
Speaker 1: may be starting in the nest in Big Bear Lake. But,
30:54
Speaker 1: you know, they don't really start mating until, like, January, usually. Well, anyway,
31:02
Speaker 1: it's early, but there are signs. And it's early at
31:06
Speaker 1: my little nest as well. But there may be a
31:09
Speaker 1: sign that my finch family is coming back.
31:11
Speaker 2: Return of the finches.
31:13
Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The
31:16
Speaker 1: candidates for governor of California spent their last Sunday before
31:19
Speaker 1: the election. In Southern California, Republican Steve Hilton spent time
31:24
Speaker 1: at Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates on PCH. Democrat Javier
31:29
Speaker 1: Becerra was joined by former Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Newsom,
31:33
Speaker 1: and Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff at a rally
31:37
Speaker 1: in Hollywood last night. A tentative settlement has been reached
31:41
Speaker 1: in a lawsuit filed against the city of L.A. on
31:44
Speaker 1: behalf of two children whose father was shot and killed
31:46
Speaker 1: by police. who said that he ran at them with
31:50
Speaker 1: a knife in the Pico Union District. In their previous
31:53
Speaker 1: court papers, the city attorney's office had stated the city
31:56
Speaker 1: and the two officers have immunity from both compensatory and
32:02
Speaker 1: punitive damages and that the officers acted in self-defense. Terms
32:06
Speaker 1: of the settlement were not disclosed. People apparently still want
32:10
Speaker 1: to see if you can see everything. Nathan Fielder's documentary
32:15
Speaker 1: about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is in first place at
32:18
Speaker 1: the box office for a second straight week. It earned
32:21
Speaker 1: another $ 10. 6 million to finish ahead of last weekend's second
32:25
Speaker 1: place film, Clayface, which finished in second again, earning $ 10. 4
32:29
Speaker 1: million in its second weekend in theaters. I'm still amazed
32:32
Speaker 1: by everybody who sees You Can See Everything. They're like,
32:35
Speaker 1: it was so, so, like, it's hard to explain it.
32:40
Speaker 1: It's such a bizarre movie. it's not a movie, it's
32:45
Speaker 1: a documentary, but it's just, if you haven't seen it yet,
32:48
Speaker 1: it's really worth a watch. It really is. And I
32:50
Speaker 1: don't go to the movie theaters for a lot of
32:52
Speaker 1: movies anymore. So anyway, we're just minutes away from a
32:54
Speaker 1: handle on the news this morning. A judge says no
32:58
Speaker 1: to an effort to stop the Alaska governor's election results
33:01
Speaker 1: from being certified if the Republican doesn't win. Bill's going
33:05
Speaker 1: to have more on that. This Sunday, the Chargers take
33:11
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium. Kickoff at 105,
33:16
Speaker 1: and you can listen to all the action right here
33:18
Speaker 1: on KFI AM640, brought to you by your local Kia dealers.
33:22
Speaker 1: Discover what happens when rugged capability meets true performance. Kia,
33:26
Speaker 1: movement that inspires. Maybe it'll inspire the Chargers to get
33:31
Speaker 1: a win. And they lost again yesterday. They're 0-7. 0-7.
33:34
Speaker 1: How does that happen?
33:38
Speaker 3: Yes, this is true. It's awful.
33:40
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Okay, last week we talked about candy corns.
33:44
Speaker 1: because it's sort of a love it or hate it thing,
33:46
Speaker 1: like some people absolutely love it, others hate it, doesn't
33:48
Speaker 1: seem to be a whole lot of middle ground. I
33:50
Speaker 1: don't particularly like it, but I eat it anyway. But
33:54
Speaker 1: here's something, whether you love it or you hate it,
33:56
Speaker 1: this is going to bug you. Your candy corn is
33:59
Speaker 1: made of bug secretions. If you're eating candy corn, you
34:06
Speaker 1: are apparently eating a bug byproduct that is in many
34:09
Speaker 1: cases listed on the package as confectioner's glazed. So if
34:13
Speaker 1: you want to read the ingredients, it sounds innocent enough
34:16
Speaker 1: until you understand that the glaze is sort of a shellac.
34:20
Speaker 1: It's a shiny, moisture-blocking resin that is the product of
34:26
Speaker 1: the lac bug's lifelong work. As the female lac bug
34:30
Speaker 1: pierces a tree with her needle-like mouthparts and sucks the
34:34
Speaker 1: sap out, she secretes this goo, it's also called lac,
34:38
Speaker 1: from a gland in her abdomen. And that sort of
34:42
Speaker 1: forms a cocoon. Well, inside her lack coating, which hardens
34:45
Speaker 1: on contact with the air, much like a candy shell would,
34:48
Speaker 1: she spends her life feeding and laying eggs safe from
34:52
Speaker 1: predators because she's got a little hard shell.
34:55
Speaker 5: Okay.
34:55
Speaker 1: So the amount of resin produced by each insect is microscopic.
35:00
Speaker 1: But over enough time, you get enough of the bugs
35:03
Speaker 1: clustering on a branch. And that makes an amount worth
35:06
Speaker 1: pouring over a batch of like, you know, raisinets and
35:09
Speaker 1: give them the shiny coating. The process has been the
35:12
Speaker 1: same for thousands of years. Strip the resin from the bark,
35:16
Speaker 1: melt it down, remove the impurities. You know, because the
35:22
Speaker 1: goo isn't impurities. Let it harden, break it into shards.
35:25
Speaker 1: And then one pound of finished shellac requires the secretions
35:30
Speaker 1: of 100,000 insects.
35:32
Speaker 2: Wow.
35:33
Speaker 1: So for every shiny candy you eat, roughly a quarter
35:36
Speaker 1: of a percent is the bug byproduct. Confectioner's glaze.
35:43
Speaker 7: I had no idea.
35:44
Speaker 1: I know. It's natural.
35:46
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
35:47
Speaker 1: Here's one other update. If you will recall, I had
35:50
Speaker 1: some very persistent finches who really wanted to start their
35:54
Speaker 1: family on my balcony last spring. And in spite of
35:57
Speaker 1: my best efforts to take their nest down as they
36:01
Speaker 1: would start building it, that kept coming back and kept
36:03
Speaker 1: coming back. So I found a spot that was a
36:05
Speaker 1: little more secure than on top of my curtains outside.
36:08
Speaker 7: And we.
36:10
Speaker 1: they came back, they built a little nest and they
36:12
Speaker 1: laid eggs and hatched them. And I was like, I gotta,
36:14
Speaker 1: I gotta watch this. I mean, if Jackie and shadow
36:17
Speaker 1: can have the big bear bald Eagle cam, I can
36:20
Speaker 1: have Amy's Finch family cam. And so I got a
36:23
Speaker 1: little camera and I trained it on that nest and
36:26
Speaker 1: we watched them and she, they had four. One of
36:30
Speaker 1: them didn't make it, but three of the little babies
36:32
Speaker 1: fledged and off they went. So I'm sitting there yesterday and,
36:37
Speaker 1: binge watching the Gilded Age because the new season started
36:39
Speaker 1: last night. And I start hearing this chirp, chirp, chirp
36:42
Speaker 1: that I haven't heard for months. And I looked outside
36:46
Speaker 1: and there he was, a finch.
36:48
Speaker 2: In the nest?
36:50
Speaker 1: Very close to the nest. There's like a wire that
36:52
Speaker 1: holds the curtains up and he was perched on that
36:55
Speaker 1: wire and hung out there for a couple of minutes
36:57
Speaker 1: just singing away and looking over at the nest. And
37:00
Speaker 1: I'm like, when do they start scoping out their locations
37:03
Speaker 1: for the next year? So I may have The Finch
37:06
Speaker 1: family camera back in action this year. I'm kind of
37:08
Speaker 1: excited about it. Maybe you can monetize it and retire.
37:13
Speaker 1: Here's an idea. It could catch on. It could catch on. Clay,
37:19
Speaker 1: what are you laughing about?
37:19
Speaker 5: You don't think it'd work?
37:21
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
37:21
Speaker 3: I'm just testing out things with Bill.
37:24
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Nothing to do with my Finch family. Oh, anyway,
37:27
Speaker 1: we'll keep you posted. I'll let you know. And yeah,
37:30
Speaker 1: you know what? This year, if I do it again,
37:31
Speaker 1: I probably would live stream it. It's not going to
37:33
Speaker 1: make any money, but because I just put up some
37:36
Speaker 1: videos of it last year. But it's it's fascinating and
37:39
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch. Fun to watch. Let's get
37:42
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
37:43
Speaker 1: KFI 24 hour newsroom. Early voters in L.A. spent part
37:47
Speaker 1: of their Halloween at the polls.
37:49
Speaker 3: This voter wanted to make sure she got her vote
37:51
Speaker 3: in early.
37:52
Speaker 1: I've been meaning to drop it off all week.
37:54
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles mayoral candidates were also out on the
37:56
Speaker 3: holiday sharing their last-minute message. Mayor Karen Bass said the
38:00
Speaker 3: excitement was encouraging as she attended a rally for union
38:02
Speaker 3: workers and visited businesses in Boyle Heights.
38:05
Speaker 5: This is about affordability, it is about safety, and it
38:08
Speaker 5: is about opportunity.
38:09
Speaker 3: Opponent Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman spoke with hospitality workers
38:13
Speaker 3: and judged a Halloween costume contest.
38:15
Speaker 10: By every metric that matters for Angelenos, Things have gotten
38:20
Speaker 10: worse in L.A.
38:21
Speaker 3: Election Day is Tuesday. Rich Cassone, KFI News.
38:24
Speaker 5: What?
38:25
Speaker 1: Election Day is Tuesday? No. I almost forgot. Hey, two L.A.
38:30
Speaker 1: City Council seats are up for grabs tomorrow.
38:32
Speaker 8: In the West Valley's District 3, businessman Tim Gaspar faces
38:35
Speaker 8: former county official Barry Gervon to replace termed-out councilmember Bob Blumenfeld.
38:40
Speaker 8: Public safety, homelessness, and neighborhood services are among the top issues,
38:44
Speaker 8: and South L.A. 's District 9 is set to make history.
38:47
Speaker 8: Estuardo Mazariegos and Jose Ugarte are competing to replace Curran Price,
38:53
Speaker 8: and either would become the district's first Latino council member
38:56
Speaker 8: since 1963. The district is now about 80 percent Latino.
39:01
Speaker 8: Heather Brooker, KFI News.
39:02
Speaker 1: Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens has taken a lot of flack
39:05
Speaker 1: from her own party for endorsing the Republican candidate for
39:10
Speaker 1: Senate in Michigan.
39:11
Speaker 10: 90% of the votes I'm going to cast are going
39:13
Speaker 10: to be for Democrats. My vote for Senate, I am
39:17
Speaker 10: just one vote, as is every Michigander. My vote for
39:21
Speaker 10: Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers.
39:23
Speaker 1: Stevens says she's endorsing Rogers after Abdul Al-Sayed said she
39:28
Speaker 1: is not welcome and should stay. out of his campaign.
39:31
Speaker 1: She says she's still a proud Democrat and that she
39:34
Speaker 1: loves her state. Dash buses in L.A. have joined enforcement
39:38
Speaker 1: efforts for parking in a bus lane.
39:40
Speaker 5: Starting today, cameras mounted on dash buses will be taking
39:43
Speaker 5: pictures of vehicles illegally parked in bus lanes. Warnings will
39:46
Speaker 5: go out for the first 60 days of the automated
39:49
Speaker 5: enforcement program. Tickets requiring payment will start going out on
39:52
Speaker 5: January 2nd. Metro, Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus and Culver
39:56
Speaker 5: City buses have been using bus-mounted cameras to enforce parking
39:59
Speaker 5: restrictions in bus lanes and at bus stops for some
40:02
Speaker 5: time now. Santa Monica reports violations have gone down by
40:05
Speaker 5: nearly 50 percent. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
40:10
Speaker 1: And it may have felt like we gained an hour
40:12
Speaker 1: with the end of daylight saving time, but we apparently
40:15
Speaker 1: used it wrong.
40:15
Speaker 11: With a fallback to standard time, most of us use
40:18
Speaker 11: that extra hour to stay up late and sleep in.
40:20
Speaker 11: But the Sleep Foundation says doing that disrupts our natural
40:23
Speaker 11: circadian rhythm, and that just makes us more tired. That
40:27
Speaker 11: news doesn't help, as we've likely already done it wrong.
40:30
Speaker 11: They say the issue now is adjusting to late afternoon
40:33
Speaker 11: darkness and less daytime exposure, which they say is a
40:36
Speaker 11: bigger disruption to sleep than that hour gained. Bree Tennis,
40:41
Speaker 11: KFI News.
40:42
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good this Monday morning. I hope you are too.
40:46
Speaker 1: I did stay up a little bit late, but then
40:47
Speaker 1: it wasn't 8.30, it was 7.30. So it was fine.
40:52
Speaker 1: It was great. No big deal. And just like that,
40:57
Speaker 1: our time is through. Thanks so much for starting your
40:59
Speaker 1: Monday morning with us here on Wake Up Call. We'll
41:01
Speaker 1: do it again tomorrow starting at 5 o'clock. Handle on
41:04
Speaker 1: the News is coming up next. This is KFI and
41:07
Speaker 1: KOST HD2 Los Angeles. Orange County. You've been listening to
41:11
Speaker 1: Wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always
41:14
Speaker 1: hear Wake Up Call 5 to 6 a.m. Monday through
41:17
Speaker 1: Friday on KFI AM 640 and anytime on demand on
41:21
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.