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Breaking Bread with President Xi · 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: Early risers, come on down.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the host of your Wake Up Call, Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. This is your wake-up call for Thursday, September 24th.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Thanks for starting your day with us. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a gorgeous one. Did you see the
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  Speaker 1: full moon out? Okay, you probably haven't ventured outside yet,
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  Speaker 1: but if you get a chance, peek out the window.
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  Speaker 4: Gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to actually be full on Saturday night. It's
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  Speaker 1: a harvest moon. One day left. Until we go over
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  Speaker 1: the edge, Neil Savader and I are rappelling 26 stories
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  Speaker 1: off the Universal City Hilton. It's down about, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's 231 feet. We're doing it to raise money for
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  Speaker 1: our friends at the Union Rescue Mission who actually do
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  Speaker 1: something to help get homeless people off the streets and
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  Speaker 1: find their way home. We're going to tell you a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about that coming up on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead. A bomb threat has prompted a lockdown
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  Speaker 1: of South High in Torrance. Some people who lived near
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  Speaker 1: the school were evacuated from their homes yesterday. Torrance police
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  Speaker 1: say they got a call of multiple bombs on campus
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  Speaker 1: before noon. No bombs were found, but a bomb squad
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  Speaker 1: continued to search the campus through the afternoon. Students were
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  Speaker 1: finally released when the all-clear was given around 4.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's ban of
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  Speaker 1: three news outlets from the White House. Following a hearing yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the judge said CNN, MSNOW and Politico must immediately have
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  Speaker 1: their access restored. The three media outlets sued after Trump
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  Speaker 1: banned them last week, accusing them of reporting lies and
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  Speaker 1: fake news. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been welcomed to
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. at Joint Base Andrews by President Trump. It's
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  Speaker 1: she's first visit to Washington, D.C. in 10 years. And today,
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  Speaker 1: two of the most powerful men in the world will
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  Speaker 1: be meeting at the White House. KFI's White House correspondent
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  Speaker 1: John Decker says the men will also break bread together.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing a state dinner. But will they accomplish anything?
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out in a couple of minutes. A town
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  Speaker 1: in Texas was one of the first in the country
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  Speaker 1: to test drone delivery, and it was really cool. But
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  Speaker 1: now it's a year later, and ABC's Jim Ryan says
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  Speaker 1: they've They've had about enough. We're going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: why and what's up there a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. Also, we've been telling you about going
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  Speaker 1: over the edge to raise money for Union Rescue Mission.
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  Speaker 1: But who does this organization actually help? And why should
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  Speaker 1: you donate some of your hard-earned money? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: introduce you to someone who's got her life back on
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  Speaker 1: track thanks to the Union Rescue Mission. And she's just
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  Speaker 1: one of many. We'll be talking to her coming up
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  Speaker 1: in about 15 minutes. Let's get started with some of
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  Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Work
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  Speaker 1: continues in La Verne to try to cool a couple
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  Speaker 1: lithium battery storage units at a Metropolitan Water District treatment plant.
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  Speaker 1: One caught fire Tuesday, and the temperature in the other
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  Speaker 1: has been going up. Fire Battalion Chief Mark Savage tells
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  Speaker 1: KTLA the second unit was over 100 degrees yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we're cooling it, but that won't necessarily prevent these
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  Speaker 5: batteries for doing what's called a thermal runaway to where
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  Speaker 5: it can promulgate temperatures, get increased temperatures, maybe even develop
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  Speaker 5: fire activity.
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  Speaker 1: Evacuation orders remain in place for hundreds of homes near
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  Speaker 1: the site, and Grace Elementary School is closed again today.
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  Speaker 1: Experts from the company that developed the batteries are expected
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  Speaker 1: in La Verne today. A hearing is scheduled for today
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  Speaker 1: on the proposed settlement that would end the lawsuit challenging
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  Speaker 1: the merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery.
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  Speaker 6: California and 11 other states have agreed to a consent
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  Speaker 6: decree to resolve their legal action. That's clearing the way
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  Speaker 6: for the two studios to merge. The hearing will take
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  Speaker 6: place in Oakland Federal Court via Zoom. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge in L.A. is set to hear arguments
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  Speaker 1: in a case to block alleged racial profiling and what
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  Speaker 1: they call suspicionless stops by immigration agents. The ACLU of
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  Speaker 1: Southern California claims that federal agents have been carrying out
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  Speaker 1: warrantless and discriminatory immigration enforcement stops since last year. The
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security insists that federal agents in the
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  Speaker 1: field are operating within the law to protect American citizens.
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  Speaker 1: And a humpback whale that's been swimming around in the
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento River Delta appears to be headed back toward the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Experts say the whale, named Rio, has begun heading toward
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Bay. The adult humpback was first spotted in
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  Speaker 1: the bay September 15th before making its way to the delta.
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  Speaker 1: This same whale has been spotted 15 times over the
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  Speaker 1: last 24 years along the coasts of California and Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Rio is not the first whale to explore the delta.
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  Speaker 1: In 1985, a whale named Humphrey spent several weeks near
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  Speaker 1: Rio Vista, before making its way back out into the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: And in 2007, a mama humpback whale and her calf
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  Speaker 1: also visited the area. They stayed for about 20 days
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  Speaker 1: before heading back to sea. Let's say good morning to
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  Speaker 1: Will Kohlschreiber. And as you're headed out, let's see what's
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  Speaker 1: slowing you down on the roadways.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we've got a little problem on the 91. 91
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  Speaker 7: westbound before Green River. A couple vehicles tangled up there
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  Speaker 7: in the left lanes. Also, we've got a solo vehicle
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  Speaker 7: crash southbound side of the 2 freeway. Don't see that
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  Speaker 7: very often at San Fernando Road. Solo vehicle crash there
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  Speaker 7: in the left lane. Other than that, just a few
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  Speaker 7: slow spots. A little slowing on the 15 approaching Highway 138.
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  Speaker 7: We had Caltrans earlier on the southbound side of the
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  Speaker 7: 15 through Ontario. So you still might find a brake
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  Speaker 7: light or two there. And of course, the westbound side
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  Speaker 7: of the 91 starting to get slow there from about
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  Speaker 7: McKinley over to the 71. With Southern California's most accurate
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  Speaker 7: traffic reports, I'm Will Kohlschreiber.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Will. Will, we'll keep you updated. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you can get where you're going this morning, bright and
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  Speaker 1: early as we head toward the weekend. Let's say good
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  Speaker 1: morning now to KFI's White House correspondent, John Decker. So, John,
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  Speaker 1: two of the most powerful men in the world are
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  Speaker 1: going to meet today and break bread together.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's right. President Trump is welcoming Chinese President Xi
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  Speaker 4: Jinping to the White House this morning. And anytime you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about the leaders of the two largest economies in
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  Speaker 4: the world, you know what the top item is on
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  Speaker 4: their agenda. It's trade, its tariffs. So that will certainly
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  Speaker 4: be discussed this morning and throughout the afternoon, not only
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  Speaker 4: with these two men, but also their teams in an
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  Speaker 4: expanded bilateral. And then there are other items on the
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  Speaker 4: agenda as well. Certainly security, the future of Taiwan, technology,
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  Speaker 4: the future of AI. And the president, Amy, is certain
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  Speaker 4: to bring up With President Xi, China's continued support for Iran.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure that is certainly one of those items
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  Speaker 4: that the president is looking forward to discussing with President Xi.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned trade and tariffs, and they already announced
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that they were going to continue the pause. in
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  Speaker 1: the tariff so they can try to work out a deal.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. So that pause or truce, whatever you want
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  Speaker 4: to call it, extends all the way through early January.
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  Speaker 4: So that gets the president, it gets Republicans through the
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  Speaker 4: midterm elections, and we'll see what happens in early January.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of it really depends upon how
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  Speaker 4: these talks go today at the White House.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how big of a deal, because you've been covering
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  Speaker 1: These kinds of state visits for several years. How big
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  Speaker 1: a deal is it that she is here in.
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  Speaker 4: D.C.? Well, it's a big deal. He hasn't been in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 4: for over a decade. I was covering the White House
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  Speaker 4: the last time he came to the White House. That's
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  Speaker 4: when President Obama was in office. So it doesn't happen
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  Speaker 4: that often. And the fact that it's happening now with
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  Speaker 4: President Trump, I'm sure he's pretty pleased by that. There
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  Speaker 4: will be a state dinner this evening that will culminate
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  Speaker 4: the day's events. A number of tech leaders will be
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  Speaker 4: there for that, some of whom have warned about the
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  Speaker 4: dangers of AI and are asking for federal regulation. So
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  Speaker 4: they're at odds with President Trump on that. But those
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  Speaker 4: tech leaders, they also do a lot of business with China.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one of the reasons why they've been invited
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  Speaker 4: to this state dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, John, do reporters get into the state dinners or
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  Speaker 1: is that completely closed off to the media?
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  Speaker 4: Well, right now it's listed as closed press. But what
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  Speaker 4: typically happens is the White House brings us in for
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  Speaker 4: the toasts that are given by each of the leaders.
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  Speaker 4: So I would imagine that will happen this evening. I'm
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  Speaker 4: in the pool throughout the day. So if those opportunities
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  Speaker 4: open up, I'll be right there, Amy. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: OK, and then I just wanted to ask you real
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  Speaker 1: quick before we let you go, because the judge ruled
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that White House access must be granted again immediately
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  Speaker 1: to CNN, MSNOW and Politico. Are you have you talked
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  Speaker 1: to anybody yet to get kind of the reaction to that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, not a surprise, I think, to anybody that's following this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm a lawyer. I teach politics. First Amendment
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  Speaker 4: law at a law school here in Washington, D.C. So
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  Speaker 4: not a surprise to me at all. The president has
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  Speaker 4: already put out a post on social media that he
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  Speaker 4: intends to appeal that federal judges ruling on that temporary
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  Speaker 4: restraining order that prevents the president from blocking the journalists
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  Speaker 4: from CNN, MSNOW and Politico from entering the White House.
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  Speaker 4: But I must tell you, Amy, I think that even
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  Speaker 4: at the appellate level, even if it gets possibly up
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  Speaker 4: to the U.S. Supreme Court, the president's going to lose
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  Speaker 4: on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. KFI's national White House correspondent, John Decker, thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for your time today.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Amy. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck. I hope you get some dessert at the
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  Speaker 1: state dinner. Wouldn't that be nice? I hear the menus
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  Speaker 1: are spectacular. A federal judge has ruled access to the
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  Speaker 1: White House must be restored immediately to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico,
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  Speaker 1: as we were just talking about with John Decker. The
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  Speaker 1: news outlets sued after President Trump banned them last week,
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  Speaker 1: accusing them of reporting lies and fake news. ABC's Hannah
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  Speaker 1: Batta says the administration argued the ban was to protect
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  Speaker 1: national security.
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  Speaker 9: In a ruling issued overnight, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee,
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  Speaker 9: ruled the press passes were pulled without constitutionally adequate due process.
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  Speaker 9: And he wrote the court is skeptical that defendants interest
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  Speaker 9: in safeguarding national security is the actual motivation.
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  Speaker 1: The order will be in place for 14 days while
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  Speaker 1: the case moves forward. President Trump has pretty much said
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  Speaker 1: he's going to appeal it. Protesters are expected outside the U.N.
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  Speaker 1: and other spots in New York City ahead of and
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  Speaker 1: during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the U.N.
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  Speaker 1: General Assembly. The demonstrations today include an expat Israelis against
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  Speaker 1: the prime minister's domestic policies, leftist Jewish groups against Israel's
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  Speaker 1: actions in Gaza and the West Bank, and a coalition
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  Speaker 1: of anti-Zionist groups. They're planning to march from Bryant Park
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  Speaker 1: to the UN, demanding Netanyahu be brought to justice for genocide.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Mamdani has made similar claims. The safety CEO for Flock,
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  Speaker 1: was a no-show at a Senate hearing yesterday on automated
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  Speaker 1: license plate recognition cameras. Neighborhoods have been raising privacy concerns
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  Speaker 1: about them. And chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime
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  Speaker 1: and Counterterrorism, Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley, says Flock's presence
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  Speaker 1: is pervasive.
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  Speaker 4: Flock, by its.
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  Speaker 10: Own admission and its own statistics, maintains a network of
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  Speaker 10: 120,000 individual cameras in 49 states.
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  Speaker 1: Automated license plate recognition cameras have been vandalized in some places,
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  Speaker 1: and some are at the center of lawsuits. The Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court says it will not hear a custody dispute between
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  Speaker 1: a couple from L.A. and a surrogate mom.
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  Speaker 3: McKenna West moved from Alaska to Texas to give birth
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  Speaker 3: after biological parents Omar Ahmed and Nashin Gilkar tried to
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  Speaker 3: have the pregnancy terminated because of a usually fatal heart
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  Speaker 3: defect in the fetus. She gave birth, named the boy Gabriel,
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  Speaker 3: and has since failed to gain custody in three states
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  Speaker 3: and now the Supreme Court. Justice Helena Kagan handles emergency
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  Speaker 3: cases from California and denied the request with no explanation.
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  Speaker 3: The Texas Supreme Court ruled last week the child could
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  Speaker 3: be moved to California. The couple named the boy Rumi
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  Speaker 3: and say they're grateful he'll continue to get the treatment
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  Speaker 3: he needs to survive. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: There's a move on in the legislature to make daylight
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  Speaker 1: saving time permanent. Experts say schools and students would suffer
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  Speaker 1: if that happens.
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  Speaker 11: Despite pushes from the White House, House lawmakers in nearly
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  Speaker 11: 20 states to stop switching the clocks back in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: the.
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  Speaker 11: Senate still appears to be weighing the pros and cons.
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  Speaker 11: Sleep experts say a sunrise after 8 a.m. could be
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  Speaker 11: an issue for many, especially for students and educators since
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  Speaker 11: most schools begin earlier than that. One professor in Rutgers
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  Speaker 11: University's psychology department, Jessica Hamilton, argues standard time should be
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  Speaker 11: permanent instead of daylight saving, saying, quote, we really need
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  Speaker 11: to be aligning our clocks and our bodies to the sun.
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  Speaker 11: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A new travel trend is emerging as people start to
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  Speaker 1: book plans for the holiday season and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Trips that focus on well-being, nature, and culture gaining popularity.
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  Speaker 2: Sergio Serra, Vice President of Operations for the Americas at
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  Speaker 2: Banyan Group, says he's definitely noticed the shift.
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  Speaker 3: More about having the space to slow down, enjoy the present, reconnect.
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  Speaker 4: And be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah says in California, sub-Saharan Africa and China are high
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  Speaker 2: on the list of popular destinations. Despite the economy, he
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  Speaker 2: says people are still spending money on trips, but are
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  Speaker 2: being more selective about the types of trips they book.
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  Speaker 2: Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I'll take a trip to Vegas any day. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: The Home Depot Pro. It's about time. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to meet Irene. She was a guest at
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission. Now she's off the streets. And it's
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  Speaker 1: getting her life back on track for her and her
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  Speaker 1: two children. She's a reason that we're going over the
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  Speaker 1: edge and the reason we're raising money for the Union
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  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission. You'll meet her next.
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  Speaker 1: Millions of Californians are going to be getting credits averaging
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  Speaker 1: a new home, has been adopted after Pasadena Humane reached
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  Speaker 1: out to the public for help. Honey's owner wasn't able
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  Speaker 1: to care for her any longer and surrendered her to
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  Speaker 1: the shelter. Pasadena Humane says Honey is as sweet as
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  Speaker 1: her name. And in case you're wondering, yes, several cities
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  Speaker 1: allow people to keep pets. Pigs. Pet pigs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pasadena Humane says pigs are smart and social and can
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  Speaker 1: be good pets as long as people are able to
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  Speaker 1: provide proper care for them. At 6.05, it's handle on
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  Speaker 1: the news. A judge has ordered the White House to
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  Speaker 1: open its doors again to CNN, MSNOW and Politico immediately.
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  Speaker 1: We've been asking you for the last few weeks to
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  Speaker 1: donate to Union Rescue Mission to help us go over
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  Speaker 1: the edge, which we're doing tomorrow afternoon at the Universal
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  Speaker 1: City Hilton. repelling 26 stories down to raise money for
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  Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. But how does your donation actually
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  Speaker 1: help homeless people find their way home? Well, let's say
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  Speaker 1: good morning now to a former guest at the Union
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  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission and now a staff member who's living in
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  Speaker 1: Hope Gardens, which is a safe haven and a home
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  Speaker 1: for women and children. Good morning, Irene.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us today. So, Irene, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have you on because I wanted to share
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  Speaker 1: with our Wake Up Call listeners a success story to
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  Speaker 1: let them know what their donations are being used for.
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  Speaker 1: And you are one of those success stories. So please
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  Speaker 1: tell us what first brought you to the Union Rescue Mission,
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  Speaker 1: because at first you were a guest.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: So back in 2022, I was running from domestic violence
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  Speaker 8: and battling a severe alcohol and drug addiction issue. I
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  Speaker 8: was running from hotel to hotel, shelter to shelter with
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  Speaker 8: two of my three children. I have Raiden, and he's six,
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  Speaker 8: and Christy, she's 12. I was running out of options
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  Speaker 8: and eventually found myself, like, literally on the street. So
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  Speaker 8: I remember at that time, like, I had nowhere else
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  Speaker 8: to go and went to a county library out in
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  Speaker 8: Los Angeles, and the librarian called the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 8: and it was because of them that I found myself
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  Speaker 8: at Union Rescue Mission. I basically I'd hit my rock bottom.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: And so that's where my journey began.
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  Speaker 1: So, Irene, you said so you were at the library
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and you were just like you said, you were out
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: of options. And so the library said, we can find
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a place to help you, but we need to call
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the police and they'll take you there. Or how did
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that play out?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I thought I was in trouble. I really,
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: because I was in the library, I would go there
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: and bathe my kids there. And so one of the librarians,
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: she knew. She just waited for me to let her
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: know that I needed help. So it wasn't that she
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: was trying to get me in trouble. She just, she
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: knew that was the option was to call them and
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: they would get me where I needed to go.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And then were you in the relationship and you escaped
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: from the domestic violence situation? Is that what got you
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: out of a house in the first place?
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah. So that started, I mean, running from domestic violence
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: started back in 2018. So since 2018, I've been to
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: several different shelters from Long Beach to Antelope Valley, just
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: trying to get out of the area, my unsafe area.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: So I just spent the rest of my, that entire
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: time just running around to escape that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You know, I think it's interesting because when you hear
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: about domestic violence situations, and I mean, I've always been
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of the opinion, well, then just leave. But, you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: it's a lot more complicated than that. You've got children,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you've got bills, you've got to take care of them.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And where do you go? And is there a safe
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: place for you? And I'm sure Did that all weigh
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: into your decision?
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess I would try from time to time
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: to stay at families, but I started to not feel comfortable.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: I couldn't trust anybody. So I was never feeling safe.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Even though people would say, oh, no, you're safe here.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: The fear was still there. I'm still overcoming that right now.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Thank God I am in a safe place, but I
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: still hold on to the trauma of thinking, oh, will
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: they find me? Yeah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: Or, you know, am I okay here?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So tell me about what it's like at the Union
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission because you've been there now. You've become a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: staff member now, but what's the feeling when you finally
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: get into a place that is safe?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: That was my main thing here. Well, I went to
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: Union Rescue Mission, and from there, one of the staff
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: members told me about an opportunity to go up to
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: Hope Gardens, which is where I do currently reside. And honestly,
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: I didn't know anything about this place. At that point,
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I was just looking for a bed. I didn't need
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: anything fancy, just a bed. I needed somewhere safe, most importantly,
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: for me and my children. So I came up here
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: to Hope Gardens in November of 2022. And I didn't
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: realize at the time, but God was bringing me somewhere
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: that would change my life and my well-being and future.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Was starting here.
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: How did it change your life? What did it do
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: So I didn't know that I needed classes. I knew
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: that I had a problem. I just didn't know how
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: I was going to get out of it. So I
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: got the opportunity here to start programming. And that was
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: a requirement here. Like you had to program, go through classes,
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: trauma-informed therapy. I had to commit to counseling for myself,
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: for my children. And honestly, at that time, either I
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: was going to do it or I was going to
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: lose my kids. I had DCSS involved and I was
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: fighting to keep them.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So whatever it took, I was just down to do it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: But this definitely is what ultimately changed my life.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So they do more than just give you a meal
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and a place to stay. They actually help you figure
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: things out, get off the street, get the help that
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you need to get back into your life.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, definitely. They help me understand myself, the relationships
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: I was forming, the choices I was making and the
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: kind of person like I was becoming. So I didn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: know any of those things. In fact, you couldn't tell
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: me that before, but they helped me to see that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So you were resistant to hearing that?
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah, because to.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Me, it wasn't a problem, you know, but I ultimately
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: stopped the blame game where I was blaming my abuser.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: I was blaming everybody but myself and I started realizing
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: it was me choosing these people. So I was changing
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: those things within me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: That's so cool. And then you mentioned you're living at
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Hope Gardens. For people who don't know, it's part of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, but what is Hope Gardens?
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Hope Gardens is a safe haven for women with children.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: We also have singles and seniors who are here where
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: we have the opportunity to pause and rebuild and reflect
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: and reflect. We're supplied, like I mentioned earlier, with the
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: resources to help us to move on out to stability
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: and permanent housing later so that we can we don't
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: have to revisit this situation again.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: That's so great. OK, so for people, Irene, who are
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: thinking about donating because we're going over the edge on Friday.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But they're still on the fence about it. What can
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you say about Union Rescue Mission that's going to help
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: them turn thinking about it into doing it and making
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a donation?
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, you know what?
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: People like me, I mean, we rely on people like
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: you and your generous donations do not go unused in.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: A great way.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Like you're changing lives. You're making a difference for children,
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: for women, for men. You're changing lives entirely.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And that's why we're doing it. We're going over the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: edge tomorrow afternoon for Union Rescue Mission, and we're asking
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: for your support. And you can do that with a donation.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Any size donation is great. We just got one for $ 6.
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: 40.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I like $ 6.
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: 40.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tricia. Thanks, Michael. Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Charlene and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: everybody who's donated. And please keep them coming. Easy to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: do it. Just go to URM.org. slash O-T-E for Over
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the Edge. There's even a Team KFI button right there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Click on that. You can donate to me. You can
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: donate to Neil, but donate to me because I want
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to beat Neil. And we would appreciate any donation that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you can give. Such a good cause, such a good
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: group of people, and truly changing lives. I love to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: hear that story. Still to come on Wake Up Call,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a town in Texas was one of the first in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the country to test drone delivery. And it was really
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: cool and everybody loved it and they got their packages.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But now it's a year later. ABC's Jim Ryan says
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: they've had about enough. We'll tell you why.
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Two more work days till the weekend. One more day until...
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Neil Savader and I jump off a 26-story building.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: I'm going to get on video, too.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: You're going to come out?
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: Of course.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Fabulous.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: We would love to see you there. Doing it for
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission. If you can donate, we would certainly
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. URM.org slash O-T-E. Super easy to donate. Whatever
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you can afford, we'll take it. Here's what we're following
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Hurricane Polo may be bringing
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: coastal flooding, big waves, rip currents, and coastal erosion to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Southern California by Monday and Tuesday. Forecasters say Polo is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: now expected to turn north and east with new models
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: showing the hurricane not reaching Southern California, but we may
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: feel some of its side effects. California Supreme Court has
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: declined to review the sexual assault conviction of disgraced media
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: mogul Harvey Weinstein for an attack on an actress at
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a hotel in L.A. in 2013. The court's decision came
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: just hours after Weinstein was sentenced yesterday to 15 years
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in prison for a felony sex crime in New York.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: A six-year-old girl in China has set a new women's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: world record. Six years old for solving the Rubik's Cube. Speedcuber. Apparently,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. Speedcuber Lian Yunji broke the women's 3x3
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: average world record twice in three days at competitions in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Wuhan and Guangzhou. She solved the puzzles in 4.52 and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: 4.27 seconds, breaking her own record. I've never solved it once.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: It took me days, but I, yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 13: L.A.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass is playing down the latest poll that has
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: her trailing rival Nithya Raman in the race for mayor.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: The poll by UC Berkeley and the L.A. Times has
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Raman leading 39 percent to Bass's 28 percent. But Bass
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: tells KFI's monks in Merrill the number one issue is affordability.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm born and raised here, so I remember when this
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: city was affordable.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: And it isn't anymore.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: But the number one driver on affordability that I can
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: impact as mayor, that the city can impact, is housing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Bass's campaign has questioned the accuracy of the poll. The
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Jewish Federation Los Angeles is going to be hosting a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: debate between L.A. Mayor Bass and Council Member Nithya Raman
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: at the Skirball Cultural Center. says about 1,000 members of
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the Jewish community will be there on Tuesday night. Organizers
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: say both candidates are expected to address issues that matter
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: most to Jewish people in L.A. and respond to a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: shared set of questions in the same format. It'll be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: moderated by Emmy Award-winning journalist Alex Cohen. The L.A. City
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Council has unanimously approved spending more than $ 466 million for developers, nonprofits,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: land trusts, and other organizations to build and renovate affordable housing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Last year, the city awarded nearly $ 361 million for the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: construction of 1,288 new affordable units and the preservation of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: more than 3,700 units. About $ 30 million of that wasn't allocated.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It's being rolled over.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: The L.A.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Continuum of Care Board has advanced a proposal to designate
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the county as the region's collaborative applicant as a deadline
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: looms to apply for millions of dollars in federal funding
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: for homelessness. LASA, which has been the main agency for decades,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: has announced it will no longer be the lead for
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: homeless efforts. This summer, the Trump administration suspended more than
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: $ 200 million in federal funding for LASA. Longtime Lakers public
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: address announcer Lawrence Tantor has died.
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: For 43 seasons, Lakers fans in the arena heard his
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: voice every game, announcing scores, rebounds, assists, fouls, substitutions, basically
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: being the voice of the Lakers. He retired in June,
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: but stayed on with the team as a special advisor
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: for game presentation. The team won 10 NBA championships with
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: Tantor behind the microphone, along with 16 Western Conference titles.
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: Tantor was also a DJ at KJLH, The Wave, and KJazz.
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: weekday morning. Say good morning to Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz. Erica
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: McDonald is spending a whole lot of money to Try
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to get people to come into their restaurants.
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Amy, the fast food giant committing roughly $ 8. 5 billion
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: to help franchisees improve food, service, and restaurant operations. The
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: investment is going to go to redesign restaurants, more efficient kitchens,
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: and a new generative AI system. It's also focusing on
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: training staff on how to provide better service. McDonald's is
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: looking for a turnaround after a slower sales in the U.S.
• 29:00
  Speaker 14: Customers also complained about long waits and too many product launches.
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: Hmm.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: You know what would improve service? Get rid of those kiosks.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I hate them. I hate them. Starbucks is shutting down.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: They're probably adding more. Yeah. Starbucks is shutting down some stores.
• 29:15
  Speaker 14: 250 underperforming locations are going to shut down across North
• 29:19
  Speaker 14: America this week. And the company is going to focus
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: on stores with higher potential. The closures, again, happening this
• 29:26
  Speaker 14: week represent about 1% of the company's footprint across the U.S.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And Canada.
• 29:30
  Speaker 14: Starbucks has been pruning its portfolio as part of a
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: push to boost sales and profit. Last year, the company
• 29:35
  Speaker 14: closed hundreds of shops as it looked to right-size itself,
• 29:39
  Speaker 14: Starbucks says. it will offer transfers to workers at stores
• 29:42
  Speaker 14: that are closing where possible.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Better not be the one in my neighborhood. So I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: just drove by a gas station this morning, and for
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: premium unleaded, which I have to use in my car,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: $ 6. 49 a gallon, and apparently we're not done yet.
• 29:59
  Speaker 14: No, drivers should brace for more expensive gas prices if
• 30:02
  Speaker 14: the Trump administration bans diesel exports. That's according to Morgan Stanley.
• 30:06
  Speaker 14: Analysts there say barring overseas sales would fill up local
• 30:09
  Speaker 14: storage tanks within weeks, forcing processors to slow activity. Energy
• 30:14
  Speaker 14: Secretary Chris Wright said to have told the oil industry
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: leaders to brace for possible curbs on diesel exports.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That's great news, Erica. Getting in your business each weekday morning.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz. We'll talk to you again soon.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: When we come back, a town in Texas, one of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the first in the country to test drone delivery, you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: getting stuff delivered by Amazon almost immediately. The drone drops
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it off. Isn't that cool? Well, it's a year later
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and that town in Texas has had enough. ABC's Jim
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Ryan is going to join us next to tell us
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 30:52
  Speaker 12: AM 640.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the donations that are coming in.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: For Union Rescue Mission, you can donate at urm.org slash O-T-E,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: which is for Over the Edge. Click on the Team
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: KFI button, and we certainly appreciate anything you can donate.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Because we're actually trying to help homeless people get off
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the streets and get back into their lives. Thanks, Robin
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Bells and Dennis McAfee and Tricia St. George and Michael Morgan.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Appreciate your donations. Here's what we're following. Oh, and before that,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we were talking about gas prices with Erica from Bloomberg.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And I just saw $ 6. 49 a gallon in my neighborhood.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And apparently that's nothing. The crank will hit us up
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: on the talkback.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Amy, the price of diesel in the Cajon Pass on
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: the 138 and the 15 is and has been $ 8.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: 99 a.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Gallon.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. And no relief in sight. Isn't that fun?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: hearing is scheduled for today on the proposed settlement that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: would end a lawsuit that challenges the merger of Paramount
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and Warner Brothers Discovery. California and 11 other states have
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: agreed to a consent decree to resolve their legal action.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: That would clear the way for the two studios to merge.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: The hearing is happening in Oakland Federal Court and will
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: be held via Zoom. One of the strongest Pacific storms
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: on record could bring high surf and coastal flooding to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Southern California by Monday and Tuesday. Hurricane Polo is churning
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: off the coast of Mexico. It could still bring a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: repeat of flooding seen earlier this month in some beachside communities.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: An emergency hearing related to President Trump banning certain media
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: outlets from the White House. has ended with the judge
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: ordering the White House to let CNN, Politico, and MS
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Now back into the White House. A lawsuit was filed.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It seeks to restore access. This is a temporary restraining order,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: so the order will last for 14 days while the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: lawsuit plays out. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Jim Ryan. So, Jim... Delivery by drone. Sounds like a
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: great idea. And at first, the people of Richardson, Texas thought, hey,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: this is cool. We can get our packages delivered. But
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that was last year.
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the novelty has worn off a bit. Yeah, so
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: it used to be that people would take video and
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: post it to YouTube of the first package they had
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: delivered by Amazon or by Walmart into their yard. And, yeah,
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: it was great. But now, I mean, you're talking about
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: people who are complaining about the noise. They're complaining about
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: privacy issues. Here's what a drone, an Amazon delivery drone,
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: sounds like, Amy. Now, that's pretty up close.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Sounds like a hive of bees, right?
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: And that's one of the complaints that the people in
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: Richardson have had is they're supposed to be flying between
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: 250 and 400 feet. But if you live near the
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: distribution center there in Richardson, that's more like what you're
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: going to hear because they're still fairly close, making their
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: way up to their altitude.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Do we know how many drones are buzzing around each day?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it depends on how much people order.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Well, true.
• 34:12
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: And the number goes up during the weekend because more
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: people are sitting at home on their computers ordering from
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: Amazon and saying, Hey, maybe I can get this in
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: the next half hour. And sure enough, you have an increase.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: But yeah, so about 100. That's one of the big
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: complaints of people who live in Richardson. I used to
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: live in Richardson myself. I went to high school there.
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: Pretty quiet community there on the edge, northern edge of Dallas.
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: It's always been a tech center because Texas Instruments was
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: founded and built its facility there in the late 1950s.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Was this the first city to really do this much
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: drone deliveries as a test market?
• 34:49
  Speaker 15: Well, it was.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was one of 11 cities, one of 11
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: right now that have these Amazon deliveries. And Walmart is
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: working in different areas as well. Dallas-Fort Worth is is
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: home to both Amazon deliveries and Walmart drone deliveries. And
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: they work in slightly different ways. They're both admittedly very
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  Speaker 10: cool to watch, you know, at least at first. But,
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  Speaker 10: you know, they're still, I think, trying to refine the technology.
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  Speaker 10: For example, last year in Richardson, Woman sitting there in
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  Speaker 10: her apartment building heard this.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 9: That does not sound good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Did not know that was about to happen.
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  Speaker 10: The thing hit the building and crashed down onto the
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  Speaker 10: ground outside.
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  Speaker 12: Nobody was hurt.
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  Speaker 10: Building had some damage, and Amazon came, collected the drone,
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  Speaker 10: and promised to pay for the damage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there was another video I saw, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was in Richardson, but an
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  Speaker 1: Amazon drone, or maybe it was a Walmart drone. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. But the drone came and dropped the package.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the backyard pool.
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  Speaker 10: Right in their pool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: That was Amazon. Here's how you can tell the difference.
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  Speaker 10: So the Amazon drone, they're both pretty good sized, 80
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  Speaker 10: pounds or more. The Amazon drone, they load the package
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  Speaker 10: into the belly of this thing at the Amazon distribution center.
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  Speaker 10: It comes out and it's hovering about 12 or 13
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  Speaker 10: feet off the ground. A door opens up and the
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  Speaker 10: package falls down onto the ground. Presumably it doesn't get
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  Speaker 10: broken if it's something fragile. The Walmart drones hover over
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  Speaker 10: the area, over the backyard or whatever, whichever place you designate.
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  Speaker 10: And this line, this zip line comes down out of
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  Speaker 10: the belly of the thing with a package at the end,
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  Speaker 10: drops the package off. The line retracts and the drone
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  Speaker 10: flies away.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so different methods, but yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know if more cities, if it's going to
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: roll out? Because I was thinking that like Richards in
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Texas is probably very flat. So it's very easy. Like
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that L.A. would be difficult because it's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: very hilly.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there are other communities around the country. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 10: going to roll out. Amazon plans to roll out to
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  Speaker 10: about 500 communities by the end of the year. I
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  Speaker 10: hadn't really thought of that. But yeah, I mean, flat
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  Speaker 10: places in Florida, here in Texas, in the Midwest, that's
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: where they're using these things. Hadn't thought much about the terrain,
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: but that may be one factor.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we'll be watching for it. I just
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  Speaker 1: I am not looking forward to the buzzing because every
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: once in a while you do hear a drone buzzing
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  Speaker 1: around and you just go, that's sort of annoying. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I just can't imagine having it happen 100 times a day.
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  Speaker 10: Out there in your backyard by the pool. Maybe you're
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: not wearing so many clothes, right? And here comes this
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: drone delivery over the top. And it's essentially a flying camera.
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: The cameras are used for navigation. People are concerned about
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: their own privacy with these cameras flying around.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: All right. We got to find a way to live
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: with technology because it's not going away. ABC's Jim Ryan.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 15: See you, Amy.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Spying, getting spied on by an Amazon drone. Let's get
• 37:50
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  Speaker 1: Bonta to settle the state's antitrust case over Paramount's proposed
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  Speaker 1: merger with Warner Brothers Discovery.
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  Speaker 13: Me, many folks, including the mayor, soon-to-be governor-elect Becerra and others, preferred,
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  Speaker 13: in the words of Rob Bonta himself, that he focus
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  Speaker 15: At the boardroom, not the courtroom.
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• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Hilton says California schools are failing students.
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  Speaker 9: Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton says the state needs
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  Speaker 9: to refocus education on academic performance and hold teachers accountable.
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  Speaker 15: We have to be on the side of parents and students,
• 39:32
  Speaker 15: not these, you know, employment protection organizations that have done
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  Speaker 15: such immense harm to a whole generation of kids.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: He tells EdSource he blames unions for poor student performance
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  Speaker 1: and he wants to eliminate teacher tenure and use student
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  Speaker 15: I'm not anti-union in any way. I am pro-student achievement.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Heather Brooker, KFI News. Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani got his
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  Speaker 1: first hit in a couple weeks after he was activated
• 39:59
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• 40:02
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• 40:05
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• 40:07
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• 40:11
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• 40:13
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• 40:18
  Speaker 1: He will hit but will not pitch for the rest
• 40:20
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• 40:23
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