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Midterm Candidates Dumping Debates · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640 Wake Up Call with me,
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Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: It is 5 o'clock straight up. This is your wake
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Speaker 1: up call for Tuesday, September 29th. We're live everywhere on
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. My name's Amy King. Happy to have
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Speaker 1: you starting your day with us. And it wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: starting your day if you didn't have your cup of coffee.
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Speaker 1: Today's National Coffee Day. Isn't every day National Coffee Day?
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, let's be real. It is in
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Speaker 1: my life. It's like my favorite thing. I have my
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Speaker 1: little automatic coffee pot. So as soon as my alarm
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Speaker 1: goes off, it kicks on the coffee pot and I
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Speaker 1: smell that. Helps me get out of bed every day.
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Speaker 1: I hope they don't make me stop coffee.
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Speaker 2: Why would they make you stop coffee?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: At some point, somebody's going to tell me, that caffeine's
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Speaker 1: not good for you. And you almost dropped your coffee.
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Speaker 4: I didn't spill it.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't hit the board. And that's the important part.
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Speaker 5: Phew.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Michael Monks.
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Speaker 1: Michael Monks spilled and got everything all sticky on the board.
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Speaker 1: The engineers hate when that happens.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, it does kind of wreck things. I think we're good.
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Speaker 1: I got the mouse a little bit.
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Speaker 7: I'm wiping it off.
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Speaker 1: Thank goodness.
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Speaker 6: Phew.
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Speaker 1: Thank goodness there's paper towels.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Let's get started, shall we? As my editor, Carla, just said,
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Speaker 1: we got a long list of stuff going on today.
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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it, shall we? Here's what's ahead
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Speaker 1: on Wake Up Call. Hurricane Polo has churned up big
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Speaker 1: waves and continues to pound the Southern California coast. Flood
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Speaker 1: and high surf advisories are in effect until this evening
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Speaker 1: in L.A. County until tomorrow afternoon in Orange County. South-facing
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Speaker 1: beaches could see 4 to 7-foot waves, which raises the
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Speaker 1: risk of flooding and coastal erosion. The FBI has offered
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Speaker 1: a $ 1 million reward for a 10 most wanted fugitive
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Speaker 1: linked to killings and drug trafficking. Satyajit Singh, also known
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Speaker 1: as Goldie Brar, is accused of leading a criminal group
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Speaker 1: in Southern California, in other areas of the U.S. and
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Speaker 1: in Canada. He's facing federal racketeering, extortion, and drug charges
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Speaker 1: in L.A. The FBI says Singh should be considered armed
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Speaker 1: and dangerous. President Trump hosting an AI summit in D.C. today,
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Speaker 1: along with Speaker Mike Johnson. The event at the White
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Speaker 1: House will have metas Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA,
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Speaker 1: and others. Johnson says the meeting's an effort to strike
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Speaker 1: a balance between innovation and oversight and insists that over-regulation
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Speaker 1: would would lead to China winning the AI race. The
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Speaker 1: five terror suspects arrested for allegedly plotting an attack on
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Speaker 1: an airbase in the UK that the U.S. uses to strike,
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Speaker 1: to stage strikes on Iran has been released. All five
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Speaker 1: of them are out on bail. Former special agent in
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Speaker 1: charge at the FBI, ABC's Rich Frankel, is going to
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Speaker 1: tell us what they're believed to have been doing and
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Speaker 1: why they're already out of jail and whether they're actually
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Speaker 1: facing any charges. The midterm elections are just five weeks away,
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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of candidates who aren't giving
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Speaker 1: voters a chance to get to know them and their opponents.
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Speaker 1: ABC's Diana Paulson is going to tell us why they're
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Speaker 1: shying away from the spotlight. And a lot of kids
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Speaker 1: are having a lot of trouble dealing with life and
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Speaker 1: looking for the worst way out. We're going to be
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Speaker 1: joined by the president of the Children's Hospital Association a
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Speaker 1: little bit later to find out why so many kids
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Speaker 1: are attempting suicide and what we can do about it.
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Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
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Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The National Weather Service says
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Speaker 1: summer-like heat will persist through the Inland Empire this week
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Speaker 1: with temperatures pushing into the triple digits. The agency says
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Speaker 1: the Riverside metropolitan area and neighboring places will enjoy a
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Speaker 1: seasonal respite until Thursday. But after that, there's going to
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Speaker 1: be another round of sizzling heat that lasts through the weekend.
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Speaker 1: The weather service's high temperatures for next weekend will range
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Speaker 1: from a few degrees above average for the lower deserts
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Speaker 1: to as much as 12 to 18 degrees above average
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Speaker 1: for the valleys. The Pacific Ocean is pretty active right
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Speaker 1: now as a coastal flood advisory remains in effect from L.A.
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Speaker 1: to San Diego.
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Speaker 8: The advisory is because of.
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Speaker 5: By astronomical tides, we have this arrival of this Kelvin
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Speaker 5: wave in addition to the storm activity out over the Pacific.
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Speaker 8: That's Hurricane Polo and Tropical Storm O'Dallas. But meteorologist Rick
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Speaker 8: Dickert says, along with Hurricane Marie a couple of weeks ago... The.
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Speaker 7: Moisture stream is moving just to our south and to
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Speaker 7: our east, so we're not going to see any significant rain.
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Speaker 8: And there's another tropical storm coming up from Mexico that
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Speaker 8: could affect us by the weekend.
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Speaker 7: That will be named Hurricane Simon.
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Speaker 8: All of this part of that strong El Nino, which
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Speaker 8: could ravage the region for months. Jason Athenson, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove has announced plans to resume operations,
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Speaker 1: but some local activists are saying not so fast. An
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Speaker 1: overheating tank at the plant in May forced thousands of
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Speaker 1: people out of their homes for days. Former Cypress City
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Speaker 1: Councilwoman Dr. Frances Marquez says GKN needs to be held accountable.
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Speaker 9: We want to see any health reports.
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Speaker 6: We want all elected officials.
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Speaker 9: At the local, state, and federal level to come in
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Speaker 9: and reassure us.
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Speaker 1: GKN says it's planning a phased-in resumption in the weeks
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Speaker 1: ahead and is working with experts to make sure safety
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Speaker 1: is a top priority. Governor Newsom has signed a bill
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Speaker 1: that bans people from reselling tee times at public golf courses. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we need to have a law for this. The bill
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Speaker 1: makes it illegal for third-party brokers to advertise, sell, or
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Speaker 1: transfer tee time reservations at publicly owned golf courses without
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Speaker 1: the written consent of the course operator. For several years,
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Speaker 1: brokers have been snapping up tee times and selling them
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Speaker 1: for a big profit. The state has more than 200
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Speaker 1: city-owned golf courses. Thank you, Will. Let's say good morning
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Speaker 1: now to a former special agent in charge at the FBI,
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Speaker 1: ABC's Rich Frankel. Rich, we had five men arrested for
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Speaker 1: a possible terrorist attack, and they've already been released.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they've been released, but they are on very strict
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Speaker 6: bail provisions. restrictions. And it's different in the UK than
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Speaker 6: it is here. You know, they actually haven't been charged
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Speaker 6: yet over there, but they have been released on bail. And,
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Speaker 6: you know, they're not allowed to use their phones. I
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Speaker 6: think their phones are being monitored. They can't go to
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Speaker 6: certain locations, et cetera. So they're keeping a close tab
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Speaker 6: on them. But that UK investigation continues to see if
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Speaker 6: there are connections between these five individuals and any terrorist
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Speaker 6: organization or nation state that is targeting the Air Force Base.
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Speaker 1: OK, so, Rich, let's back up a little bit, because
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Speaker 1: this happened over the weekend. What exactly happened that they
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Speaker 1: what led up to their arrests?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so there are two separate prongs to this that
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Speaker 6: were happening, I think, at the same time. One is
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Speaker 6: that in the middle of the night, a farmer near
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Speaker 6: a RAF, which is Royal Air Force Base in the U.K.,
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Speaker 6: observed several vehicles, five individuals in those vehicles. get out.
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Speaker 6: They had hoodies on. They may have had masks. They
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Speaker 6: seemed to be just acting suspicious, according to the witness,
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Speaker 6: and the witness called local law enforcement. Local law enforcement came,
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Speaker 6: and based upon what they saw or observed, they actually
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Speaker 6: cordoned off the area and for about 400 meters, evacuated homes,
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Speaker 6: brought in the bomb techs, the explosives techs, and an
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Speaker 6: investigation ensued. That investigation actually is still going on, and
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Speaker 6: that area is still cordoned off the West, I saw.
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Speaker 6: While that happened, they took five individuals back to London
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Speaker 6: and started the questioning of them. And again, in the UK,
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Speaker 6: you can hold these people for up to 14 days
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Speaker 6: on terrorism charges. Based upon what they've found so far,
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Speaker 6: they decided not to hold them, but to let them
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Speaker 6: out on bail. And then while that's all going on,
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Speaker 6: we had heard from President Trump that these five individuals
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Speaker 6: were potentially being observed, surveilled by both U.S. and U.K.
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Speaker 5: Agents.
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Speaker 6: You know, assets. And if that's the case, then that
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Speaker 6: means they were part of an ongoing investigation. So you
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Speaker 6: had two different things happening on these five individuals. It
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Speaker 6: appears one very active individual. investigation, and then one proactive
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Speaker 6: long-term investigation. And somehow they collided at the same time.
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Speaker 6: And that's why we're seeing this happening, that we know
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Speaker 6: that these people are under investigation, but they have been released. Okay.
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Speaker 1: And so then my question for you, Rich, is, and
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Speaker 1: this is asking you to speculate, of course, but if
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Speaker 1: they are arrested on suspected crimes, Terrorism charges like they
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Speaker 1: were going to, according to investigators, they were going to
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Speaker 1: attack an air base and they could be held for
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Speaker 1: 14 days. Why would they let him out?
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Speaker 6: They may not have enough to hold them at this
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Speaker 6: point in. And what I'm suspecting, and again, I have
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Speaker 6: no definitive information on this, but they may not have
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Speaker 6: found explosives in those vehicles or even traces of explosives
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Speaker 6: to this point. And so because it's not– there was
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Speaker 6: not anything active, they couldn't hold them. Maybe these five
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Speaker 6: individuals were out on a dry run, testing to see
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Speaker 6: if they could do what they wanted to do. You know,
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Speaker 6: we used to have these cases back when I was
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Speaker 6: in the FBI where you get called out on potential
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Speaker 6: threats after 9-11. And this could be something similar where
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Speaker 6: they were called out to it. They don't have enough information.
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Speaker 6: And to be honest, this could be a criminal activity.
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Speaker 6: Maybe they were human traffickers. Maybe they're drug dealers. Maybe
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Speaker 6: they're just five guys who were out looking for something
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Speaker 6: to buy, and it's completely innocent. I doubt that last one,
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Speaker 6: but it could be any of the others. And so therefore,
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Speaker 6: they don't know what they have, but they kind of
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Speaker 6: know they have something. So they're going to continue on
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Speaker 6: that investigative phase. And the other thing that has happened
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Speaker 6: in these cases, sometimes there's a balancing act. You have
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Speaker 6: a long-term investigation case. of terrorists. And then you find
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Speaker 6: out that they're doing something that could lead to immediate harm.
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Speaker 6: So you have to balance, should we take it down
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Speaker 6: or should we continue a covert investigation? That could have
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Speaker 6: happened here where they had the covert investigation, which is
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Speaker 6: what President Trump was talking about. But because they were
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Speaker 6: close to the Air Force base, they were in the vehicles,
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Speaker 6: they were acting suspicious. Law enforcement said, you know what,
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Speaker 6: we can't take a chance and we're going to have
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Speaker 6: to take it down right now.
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Speaker 1: All right. Okay. Former special agent in charge of the
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Speaker 1: FBI in New York, Rich Frankel. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for the information and your insights into this. We'll keep
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Speaker 1: watching this one.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
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Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Iran's currency has fallen to
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Speaker 1: a new record low as the war continues. Traders in
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Speaker 1: Tehran are exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S.
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Speaker 3: Dollar.
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Speaker 1: The decline comes less than a month after the rial
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Speaker 1: hit its previous record of $ 2. 2 million. The currency has
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Speaker 1: been falling since the war started in February. Iran's top
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Speaker 1: diplomat says indirect negotiations with the U.S. have become more serious.
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Speaker 1: Iran's Revolutionary Guard spokesman has called on Americans to take
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Speaker 1: to the streets to protest the war. President Trump has
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Speaker 1: denied a report claiming the U.S. is weighing sanctions relief
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Speaker 1: in return for an Iran nuclear deal. On True Social,
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Speaker 1: Trump called the Axios report untrue. He also said he's
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Speaker 1: offering nothing and went on to say that Axios should
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Speaker 1: withdraw the fake story immediately. The woman in Massachusetts charged
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Speaker 1: with killing her three young children is due back in
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Speaker 1: court today. The case against Lindsay Clancy ended in a
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Speaker 1: mistrial earlier this month. The big question is whether prosecutors
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Speaker 1: are going to retry the case. Plymouth County D.A. Tim
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Speaker 1: Cruz so far hasn't said.
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Speaker 10: The noise in this case may be louder than it
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Speaker 10: is for other prosecutions in our county, but we have
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Speaker 10: treated it the same as any other case. Children were murdered,
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Speaker 10: and it's our job to seek justice.
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Speaker 1: Clancy doesn't deny killing her children in 2023, but her
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Speaker 1: lawyers say she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. The defense
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Speaker 1: wants the charges dismissed, arguing another trial would violate her
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Speaker 1: double jeopardy rights.
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Speaker 5: The U.S.
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Speaker 1: Has now banned nearly a billion dollars worth of Canadian imports,
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Speaker 1: including alcohol, dairy products, motorcycles. ABC's Jim Ryan says the
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Speaker 1: ban went into effect this morning.
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Speaker 2: At the heart of the dispute with Canada, says President Trump,
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Speaker 2: is that... They have been one of the worst countries
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Speaker 2: in the entire world. And so, at 12.01 this morning,
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Speaker 2: the U.S. imposed a ban on the importation of Canadian
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Speaker 2: whey protein, molasses, non-alcoholic beer, and some alcohol.
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Speaker 1: It amounts to barely a ripple in the $ 880 billion
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Speaker 1: worth of two-way annual trade between the two countries, but
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Speaker 1: it marks another escalation in the trade war between the U.S.
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Speaker 1: and Canada. NVIDIA has unveiled a new security platform designed
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Speaker 1: to prevent AI agents from going rogue.
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Speaker 11: The chipmaker unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform amid an
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Speaker 11: intensifying debate about AI safety. NVIDIA's platform has two elements.
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Speaker 11: The main part is Open Shell, which is a sealed
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Speaker 11: workspace or sandbox where AI agents can operate, with a
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Speaker 11: rulebook for them to follow. There's an additional security layer
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Speaker 11: called Sentry that operates at the hardware level. Debra Mark,
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Speaker 11: KFI News.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that song. The actor known for playing
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Speaker 1: Principal Belding on the show Saved by the Bell has died.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Haskins first played the character in the 1988-89 Disney
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Speaker 1: Channel comedy Good Morning Miss Bliss. He was the only
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Speaker 1: adult actor to stay with the show when it was
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Speaker 1: reworked by NBC and called Saved by the Bell. It
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Speaker 1: ran from 89 through 93. Haskins also had roles on
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Speaker 1: Archie Bunker's Place, Simon and Simon, The Dukes of Hazzard,
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Speaker 1: and more recently, The West Wing, Mad Men, and How
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Speaker 1: I Met Your Mother. Dennis Haskins was 75. The L.A.
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department investigating a pair of deadly shootings by
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Speaker 1: deputies in the past couple of days. A woman was
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Speaker 1: fatally shot during a domestic violence call at a home
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Speaker 1: in Cudahy early yesterday. And on Sunday afternoon, a man
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Speaker 1: was fatally shot by deputies who entered a home in
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Speaker 1: Bellflower where a woman in her 80s was found dead.
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Speaker 1: Police are looking for your help in finding the driver
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Speaker 1: of a black sedan with tinted windows and chrome trim
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Speaker 1: who hit and killed a pedestrian in Long Beach. Long
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Speaker 1: Beach police say the man was struck around 7.25 p.m.
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Speaker 1: September 13th while walking eastbound across Pacific Avenue outside a
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Speaker 1: marked sidewalk just north of PCH.
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Speaker 12: L.A.
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Speaker 1: County has confirmed 69 rabid bats this year, prompting health
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Speaker 1: officials to urge residents to take precautions. As peak bat
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Speaker 1: season continues, the majority of the bats have been found
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Speaker 1: in the Santa Clarita Valley. Let's take a good morning
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Speaker 1: now to ABC's midterm election reporter, Diana Paulson. So, Diana,
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Speaker 1: Election Day just five weeks away. And we got a
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Speaker 1: lot of candidates out there who aren't really being vetted
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Speaker 1: publicly because they're not debating. What's going on?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've been looking, poring over the numbers of
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Speaker 9: the last three election cycles and have noticed a disturbing trend,
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Speaker 9: which is candidates not.
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Speaker 6: Wanting to participate in debates.
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Speaker 9: This year, of the 36 governor's races, 21 will have
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Speaker 9: zero debates between the two major party candidates. For Senate races,
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Speaker 9: 21 out of 35, zero debate. So the majority of
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Speaker 9: candidates for governor and senator will never have to get
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Speaker 9: on stage and actually debate their opponent. They'll never have
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Speaker 9: to answer those tough questions. They'll never have to go
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Speaker 9: face to face with this person that they're trying to
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Speaker 9: beat in the election. And it's something that we've seen
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Speaker 9: increase year over year for the last three election cycles.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so Diana, do we have any reasons why they're
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Speaker 1: doing it? I mean, they obviously think they don't need to,
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Speaker 1: or they're scared to do it, or they don't think
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Speaker 1: it's a good look, or why?
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Speaker 9: So there's a couple of different reasons that we've identified.
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Speaker 9: The first is, I think people are still a little
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Speaker 9: scared after 2024. Obviously, we saw the most influential political
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Speaker 9: debate in American history that knocked out a sitting president
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Speaker 9: out of his election. So I think I think that
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Speaker 9: there's a lot of sense of fear of just how
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Speaker 9: bad a bad debate performance can go. We also saw
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Speaker 9: from the other side of that election in 2024, President
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Speaker 9: Trump declined to do any of his primary debates against
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Speaker 9: Republican challengers, saying he was just so far ahead that
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Speaker 9: there was no point in debating these other guys. So
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Speaker 9: I think that that gave them a little bit more
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Speaker 9: permission to, especially if they're the big lead, choose not
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Speaker 9: to debate. We've also seen candidates say that they don't
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Speaker 9: like the moderators, blame media bias. And we've also heard
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Speaker 9: them say, like, there's no point in having a debate.
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Speaker 9: You know, people know the difference in policy. They know
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Speaker 9: who I am as a candidate. They don't need to
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Speaker 9: see me get on stage. So what we end up
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Speaker 9: losing is those sort of impromptu moments where we see
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Speaker 9: how people react under pressure. We see how candidates react
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Speaker 9: in situations they can't fully control.
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Speaker 6: And we lose that ability.
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Speaker 9: To have that head-to-head comparison of our two candidates.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that the reality of it is
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Speaker 1: you're saying that the candidates say, oh, they know who
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Speaker 1: I am. But the reality is we don't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think voters don't know because, well, one, they don't
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Speaker 1: pay that close of attention a lot of times. And
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Speaker 1: then if you take these opportunities away, it just kind
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Speaker 1: of exacerbates that. It's happening here in the city of L.A.
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Speaker 1: where Mayor Bass has agreed to one debate that's happening
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Speaker 1: next month, but her challenger, Nithya Raman, wants six. Or
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Speaker 1: has agreed to them. But Mayor Bass is like, no,
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Speaker 1: I just want to do the one.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're seeing that trend in a lot of places.
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Speaker 9: And the number I have is just how many will
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Speaker 9: have zero debates. But if I included the number where,
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Speaker 9: you know, candidates have proposed way more and they only
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Speaker 9: had one, that would be nearly every race, right? We're
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Speaker 9: seeing the number, total number of debates decline as well.
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Speaker 9: You guys in California will be the outlier. You will
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Speaker 9: get to have a governor's debate. It'll be tomorrow. But
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Speaker 9: a lot of states across the country will have zero.
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Speaker 9: And there's several states where once this sort of tradition
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Speaker 9: gets started, It just keeps going right in in Arizona.
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Speaker 9: Katie Hobbs didn't debate in her first race. She's not
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Speaker 9: going to do it this one in Tennessee. Marsha Blackburn,
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Speaker 9: I don't think, has ever debated her opponent for for her.
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Speaker 6: Senate race there.
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Speaker 9: And I think it sort of entrenches once you don't
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Speaker 9: do it, you can kind of keep not doing it.
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Speaker 9: And it also, you know, like, for instance, in Texas,
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Speaker 9: Attorney General Ken Paxton never debated for being Attorney General
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Speaker 9: any of the three times he ran. So now, you know,
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Speaker 9: do you choose to debate for the first time in
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Speaker 9: your political career in the toughest race of your life,
20:02
Speaker 9: When you have like no public debate experience, probably not.
20:06
Speaker 9: And so as bad as it is maybe for voters
20:08
Speaker 9: in Texas, maybe that is a decision that makes sense
20:10
Speaker 9: for Ken Paxton not to throw himself into this entirely
20:13
Speaker 9: unknown thing, you know, a month out from the toughest
20:16
Speaker 9: election he'll.
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Speaker 6: Ever be in. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, on a personal note, I think that they should
20:20
Speaker 1: be required. I'm surprised that they're not. So we got
20:23
Speaker 1: the governor of California debate tomorrow. That's Becerra and Hilton.
20:28
Speaker 1: And then the other one that I think is going
20:29
Speaker 1: to make a big splash is the one in Michigan
20:33
Speaker 1: between the Senate debate between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so for all the politics nerds out there, next Thursday,
20:43
Speaker 9: it's going to be crazy. We're going to have the
20:45
Speaker 9: Michigan debate. We're going to have the Georgia debate, you know,
20:48
Speaker 9: matchup of all time. Yeah, so the Michigan debate, this
20:51
Speaker 9: is another scenario where they maybe wanted a couple more
20:54
Speaker 9: than they got. There was supposed to be a third
20:56
Speaker 9: debate a.
20:56
Speaker 6: Couple weeks ago. Abdul Al-Sayed showed up.
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Speaker 9: He did this whole empty podium thing where he referenced
21:03
Speaker 9: the empty podium that Mike Rogers was supposed to be at.
21:05
Speaker 6: It was a whole thing.
21:06
Speaker 9: But this will be the first time we get these
21:10
Speaker 9: two candidates on the same stage. There were several primary
21:14
Speaker 9: debates for Democrats, but Mike Rogers didn't do one for
21:17
Speaker 9: for his Republican primary. He did participate in the debate
21:21
Speaker 9: two years ago with Senator Slotkin, which was.
21:23
Speaker 6: A really big moment for.
21:24
Speaker 9: And it'll be a chance for them to really define
21:28
Speaker 9: themselves because so much of this race has been defined
21:32
Speaker 9: by this spending, like the amount of advertising spending in
21:35
Speaker 9: this race has been crazy. And so getting to see
21:37
Speaker 9: candidates actually define themselves in their own terms instead of
21:40
Speaker 9: having these narratives written for them is, I think, going
21:42
Speaker 9: to be really powerful. It also comes really late in
21:45
Speaker 9: the season. Early votes or mail-in ballots have already been
21:48
Speaker 9: sent out in Michigan and early voting starts really soon.
21:51
Speaker 9: So that's another downside of having debates this close to
21:54
Speaker 9: the election day. I get that a lot of voters
21:57
Speaker 9: make up their mind in October. But with our early
21:59
Speaker 9: voting in Malin, you know, people are voting a lot
22:02
Speaker 9: earlier than they ever have before. So there will be
22:04
Speaker 9: people who cast their ballots before these guys take the
22:07
Speaker 9: debate stage.
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Speaker 6: All right.
22:08
Speaker 1: Diana Paulson, ABC News midterm reporter. Hopefully we'll get to
22:11
Speaker 1: talk to you again as we get closer to the election.
22:14
Speaker 1: Fascinating stuff, because I am one of those candidate nerds.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Diana. All right. Bye.
22:21
Speaker 1: Gas prices continue to rise as they close in on
22:23
Speaker 1: all-time highs. The average price for a gallon of regular
22:26
Speaker 1: unleaded is up another penny to $ 6. 42 in L.A.
22:29
Speaker 6: County.
22:29
Speaker 1: That's just seven cents shy of the record high set
22:32
Speaker 1: October 5th, 2022. Orange County gas prices are up to
22:36
Speaker 1: $ 6. 40 and at $ 6. 32 in the IE. Speed cameras still
22:39
Speaker 1: headed to PCH in Malibu, but they're going to be delayed.
22:43
Speaker 1: The cams were supposed to be up this week, but
22:44
Speaker 1: Malibu's public safety manager tells KFI there was a technical issue.
22:48
Speaker 1: Luis Flores says when they do go up, the aim is.
22:51
Speaker 7: To reduce the amount of fatalities on PCH, reduce the
22:55
Speaker 7: amount of speed-related vehicle collisions on PCH, and ultimately that
23:00
Speaker 7: leads to improved public safety.
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Speaker 1: For the first 60 days, the cameras are up. Speeders
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Speaker 1: will just get a warning. Fines will follow. Flores says
23:08
Speaker 1: he thinks they should be fully functional by January 1st,
23:10
Speaker 1: around the same time Long Beach gets its first speed cameras.
23:14
Speaker 1: And Major League Baseball playoff season has arrived. Wild card
23:18
Speaker 1: series get underway today with the Braves taking on the
23:20
Speaker 1: Phillies in a best of three. The other National League
23:23
Speaker 1: series has the Cubs at San Diego to face the Padres.
23:26
Speaker 1: In the American League, it's Houston versus the White Sox
23:29
Speaker 1: and the Yankees take on the Red Sox. The Dodgers
23:31
Speaker 1: kick off their best of five National League division series
23:35
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. Who they play will depend
23:40
Speaker 1: on the outcome of the wild cards. It is time
23:42
Speaker 1: for Dodger playoff baseball. The first game is this Saturday
23:46
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium, brought to you by the Home Depot,
23:48
Speaker 1: delivery that works on your schedule. The Home Depot Pro,
23:51
Speaker 1: it's about time. Long Beach is soon going to be
23:54
Speaker 1: allowed to install two speed cameras along PCH. The cameras
23:58
Speaker 1: can be activated when drivers go at least 11 miles
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Speaker 1: per hour over the speed limit. Warnings will be issued
24:04
Speaker 1: for a first violation, and then fines will start after
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Speaker 1: that at $ 50 each. The law takes effect January 1st.
24:11
Speaker 1: A woman from Lake Hughes who operated an animal rescue
24:14
Speaker 1: group has pleaded not guilty to nearly three dozen criminal charges,
24:18
Speaker 1: alleging she kept more than 300 animals in filthy, inhumane conditions.
24:23
Speaker 1: Some of the animals were apparently starving and dehydrated. Christine
24:26
Speaker 1: DeAnda is due back in court November 2nd. She is
24:29
Speaker 1: free on her own recognizance. The seven members of the
24:32
Speaker 1: 2027 Rose Court have been announced. The young women are
24:35
Speaker 1: Evita Bridge, Tessa Choi, Daniela Guzman. Irene Maddox, Marie Teresa McDonald,
24:42
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Roy Mamou, and Lucy Wendling. I'm sure I pronounced
24:49
Speaker 1: Elizabeth's last name wrong.
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Speaker 7: I apologize.
24:51
Speaker 1: One of the seven will be named Rose Queen next month.
24:55
Speaker 1: Each receives a $ 7, 500 scholarship. They'll be ambassadors for the
24:59
Speaker 1: big day leading up to the 138th Rose Parade and
25:04
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Here's what's coming out
25:08
Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The body of a six-month-old
25:11
Speaker 1: baby girl has been found in a dumpster in South L.A.
25:14
Speaker 1: Police say it was discovered late last night on Alba
25:17
Speaker 1: Street between 52nd and 53rd Streets. The baby's death is
25:20
Speaker 1: being investigated as a homicide. Police say it was not
25:25
Speaker 1: gang-related and the child was not homeless. Governor Newsom has
25:29
Speaker 1: vetoed a couple of bills having to do with fire
25:31
Speaker 1: survivors and insurance reforms, and this Eaton fire survivor is
25:35
Speaker 1: not happy about it.
25:36
Speaker 8: Joy Chen says she doesn't get why Governor Newsom said
25:38
Speaker 8: no to SB 877 and 878.
25:39
Speaker 7: These are very simple moves toward transparency.
25:43
Speaker 8: The Every Fire Survivors Network founder says the bills were
25:46
Speaker 8: about making sure survivors got documentation and answers in regards
25:49
Speaker 8: to claims. One passed unanimously, and the other was supported
25:52
Speaker 8: by most Republicans and Democrats.
25:53
Speaker 7: Even the insurance industry removed its opposition to both bills.
25:57
Speaker 8: Newsom called the bills unnecessary in his veto statement.
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Speaker 6: Then tell us.
26:00
Speaker 9: Why 70% of us are having delays, denials, and underpayments.
26:04
Speaker 8: Jason Nathanson, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is offering $ 50 mammograms in October.
26:11
Speaker 1: The 3D screenings will be available at four locations. Women
26:14
Speaker 1: do not need a doctor's order or proof of insurance.
26:18
Speaker 1: It's part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You do need
26:20
Speaker 1: to call ahead to schedule an appointment or sign up
26:22
Speaker 1: on their website. And nature isn't just.
26:24
Speaker 3: For the birds.
26:25
Speaker 1: According to a study released from North Carolina State University,
26:28
Speaker 1: students who live in wooded areas have lower heart rates,
26:32
Speaker 1: even when they spend time in the city and have
26:34
Speaker 1: to hear all that traffic. Recorded bird song also improved
26:38
Speaker 1: a separate measure of stress recovery while students were in
26:41
Speaker 1: a campus or an urban setting. Researchers say the sights
26:45
Speaker 1: and sounds of nature can produce physical benefits. They can
26:47
Speaker 1: improve mood, reduce negative feelings, and increase a sense of
26:51
Speaker 1: being refreshed or restored.
26:54
Speaker 6: I agree.
26:55
Speaker 1: I love a good bird song. Time to get in
26:57
Speaker 1: your business as we do each weekday morning. Say good
27:00
Speaker 1: morning to Bloomberg's Matt Piper. Good morning, Matt.
27:04
Speaker 3: Good morning. Not much nature here in New York, but
27:06
Speaker 3: that's okay.
27:07
Speaker 1: Well, it's good for your heart rate, Matt. You should
27:10
Speaker 1: get out into the woods sometimes.
27:12
Speaker 6: I do.
27:13
Speaker 3: I have to. I will.
27:14
Speaker 11: Okay.
27:16
Speaker 1: These guys are not going into the woods. They're going
27:18
Speaker 1: to the White House today. Some heavyweights in the AI world.
27:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
27:24
Speaker 12: So the CEOs of Meta, NVIDIA, Anthropic, and Palantir are
27:28
Speaker 12: slated to attend a lunch today with President Trump to
27:31
Speaker 12: discuss AI risks. Now, this gathering follows a surge in
27:35
Speaker 12: concern about AI potentially posing a threat to humans, with
27:38
Speaker 12: some leaders proposing a slowdown in development of the technology. Now,
27:42
Speaker 12: a separate event for the new AI powered America dot
27:45
Speaker 12: gov website will also be held, which Elon Musk will
27:49
Speaker 12: also attend. So a lot of big names there today.
27:51
Speaker 6: Yeah. U.S.
27:52
Speaker 1: Import ban takes effect on some Canadian products today.
27:58
Speaker 12: Yeah, this never-ending seesaw continues. So it's blocking imports of motorcycles, alcohol,
28:05
Speaker 12: and weight products from Canada. Now, this ban, of course,
28:08
Speaker 12: is in response to retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada on
28:11
Speaker 12: some U.S.
28:12
Speaker 3: Goods. The U.S.
28:13
Speaker 12: And Canada exchanged about $ 900 billion with a B dollars
28:17
Speaker 12: of goods and services last year, with the trade affected
28:20
Speaker 12: by the new import bans being relatively small, about $ 1 billion,
28:25
Speaker 12: but still will be a hit for people.
28:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it
28:29
Speaker 1: seems like a pretty small piece of the pie. Today
28:32
Speaker 1: is National Coffee Day. I think every day.
28:35
Speaker 3: Should be National Coffee Day.
28:36
Speaker 6: It is.
28:37
Speaker 1: Wake them up. But how are they marking this?
28:41
Speaker 12: So do dentists, by the way. I think dentists like
28:44
Speaker 12: customers who drink coffee. So Krispy Kreme is transforming its
28:48
Speaker 12: original glazed donut into the original glazed coffee-flavored donut with
28:52
Speaker 12: a creamy coffee glaze, it says. And there are a
28:54
Speaker 12: lot of giveaways, by the way, besides those donuts. We're talking,
28:57
Speaker 12: of course, coffee. Dunkin' Rewards members can get a free
29:00
Speaker 12: medium hot or iced coffee with a purchase through the Dunkin' app.
29:05
Speaker 12: And Pete's Coffee is celebrating its 60th anniversary by turning
29:08
Speaker 12: the clock back to 1966 and offering people medium coffees
29:13
Speaker 12: for their original price.
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Speaker 3: Any idea what that price may have been, Amy?
29:16
Speaker 1: In 1966, 25 cents.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. Did you Google this? Yes, you're right.
29:22
Speaker 3: It's a quarter.
29:24
Speaker 6: Nice.
29:24
Speaker 3: You're right.
29:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:24
Speaker 3: So get to Pete's, a medium coffee today for just
29:27
Speaker 3: a quarter.
29:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:28
Speaker 3: All right. Good guess.
29:30
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Get in your business as we
29:32
Speaker 1: do each weekday morning. Thank you, Bloomberg's Matt Piper. We'll
29:35
Speaker 1: talk to you again soon.
29:37
Speaker 6: All right.
29:38
Speaker 11: See ya.
29:38
Speaker 1: The number of infected dead birds in West Nile carrying
29:42
Speaker 1: mosquitoes are running ahead of last year's numbers.
29:44
Speaker 6: L.A.
29:44
Speaker 1: County health officials say virus activity is also trending above
29:49
Speaker 1: the five-year average. More than 100 human cases of West
29:52
Speaker 1: Nile have been confirmed and five deaths have been reported
29:56
Speaker 1: so far this year. Republican candidate for governor, Steve Hilton,
30:00
Speaker 1: has called for English-only schools in California. He says, in
30:04
Speaker 1: his words, this is our country. We speak English here.
30:08
Speaker 1: Hilton says that used to be law in California, but
30:11
Speaker 1: voters overturned it. Hilton warned legal immigrants like himself won't
30:16
Speaker 1: have a shot at the California dream if they can't
30:19
Speaker 1: speak English properly. The price of Doritos, Ruffles, Sun Chips
30:23
Speaker 1: and other popular PepsiCo snacks and drinks are going up.
30:25
Speaker 1: The company says prices on certain products will rise by
30:28
Speaker 1: a low to mid single digit percentage with increases expected
30:32
Speaker 1: by the end of this year or early next year.
30:35
Speaker 1: The increases come just months after the company cut prices
30:38
Speaker 1: on some of its larger snack bags by as much
30:41
Speaker 1: as 15 percent. At 6.05, it's handle on the news
30:46
Speaker 1: just minutes away. But Handel's not here, so we've got
30:50
Speaker 1: Neil Savader sitting in the hot seat. Pentagon breach exposed
30:55
Speaker 1: sensitive data on nearly 3 million people. Are you one
30:59
Speaker 1: of them? We'll find out. Let's say good morning now
31:03
Speaker 1: to the president of the Children's Hospital Association, Dr. Paul Hout.
31:09
Speaker 1: Good morning, Dr.
31:09
Speaker 6: Hout.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Amy. Thanks so much for having us on
31:14
Speaker 5: to discuss this really crucial issue.
31:16
Speaker 9: It really is.
31:17
Speaker 1: I was reading this and the numbers are a little bit,
31:20
Speaker 1: not a little bit, they're really shocking. Today's children are
31:24
Speaker 1: having a tough time and that can be proven, displayed, showed.
31:31
Speaker 1: Nearly one in 10 have tried to commit suicide. 10%
31:35
Speaker 1: of kids. What's going on?
31:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks so much for highlighting it. It really does
31:44
Speaker 5: bring importance to this issue. The Children's Hospital Association is
31:48
Speaker 5: the leading advocate for child health, representing over 200 children's
31:52
Speaker 5: hospitals worldwide. across the country. And five years ago, we
31:56
Speaker 5: came together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the
32:00
Speaker 5: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to declare a
32:05
Speaker 5: national emergency around this issue. And here we are five
32:08
Speaker 5: years later and still struggling to make sure that our
32:13
Speaker 5: kids have the right access to care to help deal
32:17
Speaker 5: with this issue.
32:18
Speaker 1: Well, so you say that you came together five years
32:21
Speaker 1: ago and declared a national emergency. Is the problem getting worse, better,
32:24
Speaker 1: staying the same?
32:25
Speaker 5: You know, it has stabilized, but that's not good enough, right?
32:32
Speaker 5: Because every one of those children who could be just
32:35
Speaker 5: a statistic represent a child in a family where there
32:40
Speaker 5: was real loss. So we're working in a variety of
32:43
Speaker 5: ways to help support children's hospitals and communities to better
32:48
Speaker 5: deal with this issue.
32:50
Speaker 1: And how could they better deal with this issue?
32:53
Speaker 5: Well, one thing is to ensure that we have evidence-based
32:58
Speaker 5: screening and tools available in all care settings. You know,
33:03
Speaker 5: when you look at children who die by suicide, about
33:08
Speaker 5: 40 percent of those have some sort of visit with
33:11
Speaker 5: a health care provider in the month before their death.
33:15
Speaker 5: And so potentially that's a missed opportunity to understand that
33:19
Speaker 5: there was an issue and get them access to care.
33:22
Speaker 1: So we need to teach the doctors what to look for.
33:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, in part, but it's much more than that. When
33:29
Speaker 5: you think about where children spend the bulk of their time,
33:33
Speaker 5: it's certainly not in doctors' offices, and pediatricians and other
33:37
Speaker 5: pediatric care providers play an important part, but it's also
33:40
Speaker 5: understanding how we can support the community, schools, school-based clinics,
33:45
Speaker 5: et cetera, to also have the tools they need to
33:49
Speaker 5: do a better job. And then even if you're identified
33:52
Speaker 5: as having an issue, we need to make sure that
33:55
Speaker 5: children have access to actual care.
33:59
Speaker 1: And that's a problem, too, because there's a shortage of psychologists,
34:02
Speaker 1: especially within the school.
34:03
Speaker 3: System, right?
34:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, overall, yeah. You know, the highest level of care
34:10
Speaker 5: is coming from child and adolescent psychiatrists, and there are
34:14
Speaker 5: only 15 per 100,000 children. So think about the fact
34:19
Speaker 5: that 72% of the counties in America don't even have
34:23
Speaker 5: a child or adolescent psychiatrist, let alone the psychologists and
34:28
Speaker 5: other trained mental health workers in that are needed. So
34:32
Speaker 5: we're working at the national level to ensure that we
34:35
Speaker 5: can build the workforce that we need in order to
34:38
Speaker 5: provide this important part of the care for children.
34:41
Speaker 9: Yeah.
34:42
Speaker 1: And then are you doing public education too for the parents?
34:44
Speaker 1: Because I think, you know, parents aren't trained to look
34:47
Speaker 1: for these signs.
34:49
Speaker 6: Yeah.
34:49
Speaker 5: You know, we really partner with a variety of organizations
34:53
Speaker 5: to help raise the awareness and ensure that Parents understand
34:59
Speaker 5: how they can access the resources they need, but we
35:02
Speaker 5: know the most important relationship is with their primary doctor,
35:07
Speaker 5: their pediatrician, or their family doctor. And so we always
35:10
Speaker 5: encourage parents, if they have a concern or a question,
35:14
Speaker 5: to turn to those trusted experts.
35:17
Speaker 1: Okay. And where can people go to get more information
35:21
Speaker 1: about this if they're interested in finding out.
35:23
Speaker 6: More, Dr. Houghton?
35:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, we encourage them to go to childrenshospitals.org slash mental health.
35:33
Speaker 5: And there they can learn more about what we're doing
35:35
Speaker 5: and other children's hospitals across the country are focused on
35:39
Speaker 5: and be pointed to other resources.
35:41
Speaker 1: Okay.
35:42
Speaker 6: Dr.
35:42
Speaker 1: Howe, again, sobering statistic, one in 10 have tried to
35:46
Speaker 1: commit suicide. And then on top of that, nearly one
35:49
Speaker 1: in five children today have thought about it. Again, thank you, Dr. Hout,
35:54
Speaker 1: President of Children's Hospital Association, for coming on and raising
35:58
Speaker 1: awareness of this very, very important issue.
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Speaker 5: And thank you for your partnership, Amy, in bringing this
36:05
Speaker 5: to the community.
36:06
Speaker 6: All right. Thanks.
36:07
Speaker 1: Have a good day. Let's get back to some of
36:09
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-Hour Newsroom. A
36:12
Speaker 1: 550-pound bear has returned to a neighborhood in Altadena. It
36:16
Speaker 1: was spotted in the crawlspace of a home on Minoro
36:19
Speaker 1: Drive yesterday. The owners say it had settled in, showing
36:24
Speaker 1: no sign of leaving. They tell NBC4 they tried to
36:26
Speaker 1: scare it away by playing loud music and banging on
36:28
Speaker 1: the floor above the crawlspace.
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Speaker 8: All that did was really agitate him, it turns out,
36:32
Speaker 8: so I don't highly recommend that.
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Speaker 1: The bear eventually left on its own and the homeowner
36:36
Speaker 1: quickly sealed off the crawlspace. The tagged bear is believed
36:39
Speaker 1: to still be in the area. News brought to you
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Speaker 1: by Creative Repipe. Governor Newsom has signed Tristan's bill into law.
36:48
Speaker 1: It amends how Caltrans handles traffic safety requests involving state
36:52
Speaker 1: highways and was inspired by Tristan Bourgeois from La Quinta.
36:56
Speaker 1: He was killed in October of 2024 when an overweight
36:59
Speaker 1: big rig lost control on Highway 74 near Vista Point,
37:02
Speaker 1: Palm Desert, overturned and hit his pickup. He was driving
37:06
Speaker 1: to work at the time. Governor Newsom has until the
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Speaker 1: end of the month to sign or veto bills passed
37:11
Speaker 1: by the legislature this session. The FBI is offering a
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Speaker 1: $ 1 million reward for a 10 most wanted fugitive linked
37:19
Speaker 1: to killings and drug trafficking. Satinder Jeet Singh is accused
37:24
Speaker 1: of leading a criminal group tied to violence in the U.S.
37:27
Speaker 1: and Canada. Assistant U.S. Attorney Declan Conroy says people in
37:32
Speaker 1: Southern California have also been targeted.
37:35
Speaker 5: Multiple extortion victims were located within California.
37:38
Speaker 13: The greater L.A.
37:39
Speaker 12: Area.
37:40
Speaker 10: Also, multiple drug shipments have been seized by the organization
37:45
Speaker 10: in the greater Los Angeles area.
37:46
Speaker 1: The FBI says Singh should be considered armed and dangerous.
37:50
Speaker 1: California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla has gotten emotional talking about
37:55
Speaker 1: when he was detained during a federal press conference.
37:58
Speaker 4: Padilla had to be forcibly removed during a press conference
38:01
Speaker 4: held by the Department of Homeland Security by then-Secretary Kristi
38:04
Speaker 4: Noem about a year ago.
38:05
Speaker 6: Hands up! Hands up!
38:07
Speaker 2: I'm Senator Alex Padilla.
38:10
Speaker 6: Hands up!
38:12
Speaker 4: Recently, he recounted what happened and choked back tears. He
38:15
Speaker 4: says he's proud of what happened.
38:16
Speaker 9: I am not mad.
38:18
Speaker 4: Padilla was never charged after being briefly detained. Jason Campadonia,
38:22
Speaker 4: KFI News.
38:24
Speaker 1: Investigators in Arizona are looking into the possibility of a
38:26
Speaker 1: new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
38:31
Speaker 1: The news yesterday came nearly eight months after Guthrie was
38:34
Speaker 1: taken from her home outside Tucson. The Pima County Sheriff's
38:37
Speaker 1: Department says investigators are working to determine whether the note
38:41
Speaker 1: is credible. Officials didn't say how they found the note
38:45
Speaker 1: or what was in it. It may be the early
38:48
Speaker 1: days of fall, but a lot of retailers are already
38:51
Speaker 1: turning their attention towards the holidays. The shopping season, of course.
38:57
Speaker 1: ABC's Mike Dubosky says, Despite mixed economic pictures, spending is
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Speaker 1: expected to increase in the coming months.
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Speaker 13: Adobe predicts Cyber Monday will set a new record with
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Speaker 13: $ 15. 1 billion of spending. But Black Friday will grow more quickly,
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Speaker 13: with online spending on that day predicted to be up 9%
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Speaker 13: from last year.
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Speaker 1: Adobe Analytics predicts more people will shop online this holiday
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Speaker 1: season because it's easy. I'm ready for it.
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Speaker 6: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Have you done this? Do you budget for the holidays?
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Speaker 6: No. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So this year i tried something new and i like
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Speaker 1: have been trying to set aside just like a hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars a month like just on one of my paychecks
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Speaker 1: i take it and put it into a separate account
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Speaker 1: so then i'll have a little bit of a cushion
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Speaker 1: sure of course right now with Cats and all kinds
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Speaker 1: of things. I'm like, I could raid that. I've got
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Speaker 1: like $ 900 now. So I'm trying to keep my hands
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Speaker 1: off it. So I have Christmas money actually set aside.
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Speaker 4: You could send everybody cards.
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Speaker 1: You know, with postage stamp prices, that's going to cost
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Speaker 1: me $ 900. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me,
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