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Santa Ana Winds and The Great CA Shakeout Are Back · 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: KFI and KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: Now batting for Wake Up Call, your host.
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  Speaker 4: Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It is five o'clock straight up. This is
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  Speaker 1: your wake up call for Thursday, October 15th. I'm Amy King. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got to keep the faith. And we're still keeping
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  Speaker 1: the faith except Will has dropped off because he is
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  Speaker 1: no longer wearing Dodger blue. Did you give up already? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you do have blue on. New technical director Mario has
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  Speaker 1: his Dodger hat on.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I sure do.
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  Speaker 1: I've got my Dodger blue on.
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  Speaker 3: It's my.
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  Speaker 1: I love two Ds. I'm a D & D girl.
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  Speaker 1: Disney and Dodgers. And so it's my Disney Dodger colored jersey.
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  Speaker 5: Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tough game last night. I jumped off the couch
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  Speaker 1: and jumped up and down when Will Smith knocked that
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  Speaker 1: one into.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: But that was kind of the only... Real bright spot.
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  Speaker 1: Nice that Shohei got a hit. But at least he
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  Speaker 1: got one. I'm sad, though, because I see Shohei and
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  Speaker 1: you don't see the joy in Shohei right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there was a lot of joy anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. I heard from Dave Weiss, our promotions guy,
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  Speaker 1: and he said the stadium is very quiet right now.
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  Speaker 6: And I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, do or die. We got another chance. We
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  Speaker 1: can do it. It's been done before. I think once,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's been done before, but that they've
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  Speaker 1: come back from being down three, but we'll see. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't at the game, obviously, but I was sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the couch getting ready for the game and I
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  Speaker 1: heard the jets fly by. I ran out and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see them, but I heard them.
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  Speaker 5: Looked very cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Heard it was very spectacular.
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  Speaker 5: You have FS1?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: I listened to it on KLIC. It was quite lovely.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Listening to the game on AM 570
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  Speaker 1: is fabulous. They do such a great job. Such a
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  Speaker 1: great job.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. Power shutoffs and
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  Speaker 1: outages could be on the way for thousands of residents
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  Speaker 1: as a Santa Ana wind event blows into Southern California.
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  Speaker 1: Red flag parking restrictions in the hills begin at 6
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  Speaker 1: this morning with parking prohibited in high fire hazard zones
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that emergency vehicles can get through if
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  Speaker 1: there is a fire. A sinkhole has opened up in
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  Speaker 1: Los Feliz because of yet another water main break. The
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  Speaker 1: eight-inch main broke in Los Feliz late yesterday morning. The
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  Speaker 1: hole swallowed up the front end of a Spectrum cable
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  Speaker 1: van at Franklin in Normandy. The van's been removed and
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  Speaker 1: crews worked through the night to fix the hole and
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  Speaker 1: restore service to customers in the area. Trump administration has
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  Speaker 1: called for California election officials to provide proof of citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: for voters flagged as possible non-citizens before they're permitted to
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  Speaker 1: cast ballots in the election.
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  Speaker 8: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County Registrar Dean Logan says he's consulting with the California
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State and State Attorney General's Office to determine
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  Speaker 1: next steps. ABC's Stephen Portner is going to join us
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  Speaker 1: to tell us more about what all this means, what
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  Speaker 1: officials need to do, and the clock is ticking for
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  Speaker 1: our response. Today's the Great California Shakeout. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking with the Global Shakeout Coordinator, who knew there
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  Speaker 1: was one, at USC's Statewide Earthquake Center at about 520
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  Speaker 1: about what we all should be doing at 1015 this
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  Speaker 1: morning during the Gary and Shannon show and why we
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  Speaker 1: need to do this. Okay, do you remember your high
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  Speaker 1: school mascot? Ours was the Black Tornado and it was, well,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of sketchy. It's, you know, looked like
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  Speaker 1: a tornado with a smiley face on it, but How
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  Speaker 1: can you help pick the best mascot in the U.S.?
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  Speaker 1: Five of the mascots that are in the running for
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  Speaker 1: best of the best are right here in California, including
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  Speaker 1: modern day's monarchs. The mascots are Molly and shoot. What
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  Speaker 1: did I say? Their names were Molly and Megan. Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the modern day mascots. Is it modern day or mater day? Mater. OK,
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  Speaker 1: it is mater. Anyway, we're going to be talking to
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  Speaker 1: the guy who has this tournament going on between all
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  Speaker 1: these mascots around the country. It's kind of a fun
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  Speaker 1: little thing to distract you with all the seriousness going on. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and I think our bathrooms might be haunted. That's all
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Wake Up Call. Let's get started with
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  Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 9: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County warning residents to prepare for the high winds, the
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  Speaker 1: heat and fire danger. It'll go from today until Saturday.
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  Speaker 10: Strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity could trigger rapid
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  Speaker 10: wildfires and possible planned and unplanned power outages. Gusts of
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  Speaker 10: 50 to 70 miles per hour are forecast in many
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  Speaker 10: mountain areas with gusty winds in the valleys and along
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  Speaker 10: the coast. Lisa Phillips with the National Weather Service says
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  Speaker 10: red flag warnings will be in effect.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the highest level red flag that we have,
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  Speaker 1: but it does look like a significant event.
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  Speaker 7: The L.A.
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  Speaker 10: County Fire Department has crews pre-positioned just in case. Hot
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  Speaker 10: weather will add to the risks with a heat advisory
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  Speaker 10: in effect for parts of L.A.
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  Speaker 2: County.
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  Speaker 10: Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: An appeals court has ruled federal immigration law trumps state law.
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  Speaker 6: A federal appeals court has slapped down a California law
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  Speaker 6: that would have required ICE agents to wear identification while
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  Speaker 6: carrying out enforcement operations in the state. The Ninth U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Circuit Court of Appeals says that California violated the supremacy
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  Speaker 6: clause by trying to regulate what federal officials can and
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  Speaker 6: can't do in the state.
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  Speaker 4: A U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Attorney called the ruling a huge win and that California
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  Speaker 6: continues to violate the U.S. Constitution. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie the bald eagle died of the flu.
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  Speaker 11: The famous eagle lived in a nest near California's Big
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  Speaker 11: Bear Lake and had millions of fans worldwide who viewed
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  Speaker 11: her activity through a nest camera set up by conservationists.
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  Speaker 11: The bird died in August after battling a mysterious illness.
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  Speaker 11: Now a new necropsy report from veterinary pathologists at the
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  Speaker 11: San Diego Zoo says Jackie died of complications resulting from
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  Speaker 11: avian influenza. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says
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  Speaker 11: the avian influenza is a highly infectious disease that's been
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  Speaker 11: circulating in wild bird populations throughout the U.S. Mark Mayfield,
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  Speaker 11: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie, I can't believe it's been two months. Time to
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  Speaker 1: take a first look at your morning commute. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a crash in El Monte on the 605.
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  Speaker 5: 605 freeway.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be the southbound side right there at
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  Speaker 2: the 60 solo vehicle crash on the right shoulder.
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  Speaker 5: CHP working on that as we speak.
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  Speaker 2: Northbound side of the 15 before 4th Street in the
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  Speaker 2: Ontario area. We've got a stall in the right lane,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really the southbound side that's kind of really
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  Speaker 2: slow through that area southbound side.
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  Speaker 5: Of the 15 freeway.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty slow from about the Foothill off ramp all the
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  Speaker 2: way down.
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  Speaker 5: To the 60. So yeah, expect that to be slow.
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  Speaker 2: Some big problems in the Meade Valley north of Paris
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  Speaker 2: there on the 215. Looks like we've got a fatal
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  Speaker 2: crash working southbound side of the 215 right before Placentia.
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  Speaker 5: All lanes are.
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  Speaker 2: Closed on the southbound side of the 215 through that stretch. Technically,
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  Speaker 2: it's the low volume side, but if you use that
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  Speaker 2: to head south, can't do it right now, no word
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  Speaker 2: as to when those lanes will be reopened. With Southern
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  Speaker 2: California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm Will Kohlschreiber.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Will. It's 5.08. Time to say good morning
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  Speaker 1: to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, the Justice Department looking
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  Speaker 1: for answers about people registered to vote in California who
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  Speaker 1: may not be citizens and is threatening legal action. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Amy, and I'm looking at letters that come from
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  Speaker 12: the Justice Department here in Washington to your officials in
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  Speaker 12: California that have set a noon Eastern time deadline today,
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  Speaker 12: so 9 o'clock your time. that they better respond, this
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  Speaker 12: letter says, and if they process to review the citizenship
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  Speaker 12: status of the particular individuals that have been apparently named
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  Speaker 12: on a thumb drive, if that's not done or initiated
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  Speaker 12: by 9 a.m. your time today, then, quote, the United
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  Speaker 12: States will have no choice but to seek emergency relief
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  Speaker 12: given the ongoing federal election, which indicates that the Justice
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  Speaker 12: Department here is prepared to go into federal court. to
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  Speaker 12: kind of sort of take some action. But the response
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  Speaker 12: from the Secretary of State of California and from the
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  Speaker 12: Attorney General is to say, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know about that.
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  Speaker 12: The thumb drive, which contains a list of an unknown
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  Speaker 12: number of individuals, is apparently delivered to the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 12: County Registrar yesterday. And we don't know how many people
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  Speaker 12: are on this list. But the allegation is that these
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  Speaker 12: are people who are likely non-citizens. The federal government earlier
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  Speaker 12: this year over the summer made the allegation that 190,000
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  Speaker 12: people may be registered to vote in California without being citizens.
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  Speaker 12: But I say maybe because one of the strangest things
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  Speaker 12: about all this is that no one at the federal
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  Speaker 12: government apparently is able to say one way or another.
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  Speaker 12: whether these individuals are citizens and the onus is now
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  Speaker 12: being put on the state officials to try to confirm
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  Speaker 12: it and uh... there's a whole lot of finger pointing
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  Speaker 12: we're just what less than three weeks to go before
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  Speaker 12: the midterm elections ballots have already of course gone out
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  Speaker 12: and these letters are calling on state officials to segregate
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  Speaker 12: or set aside ballots for the named individuals or else
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  Speaker 12: this is extraordinary i mean this kind of federal intervention
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  Speaker 12: in a state-run election at this late stage with the
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  Speaker 12: allegation that non-citizens are registered we've never seen this before
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  Speaker 12: and they're a federal law that basically says that 90
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  Speaker 12: days out before an election, there should be no systematic
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  Speaker 12: removal of voters from the voter rolls because the fear is,
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  Speaker 12: as expressed in the law. that mistakes could be made
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  Speaker 12: and American citizens with the fundamental right to vote could
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  Speaker 12: have that fundamental right stricken from them or stripped from
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  Speaker 12: them without any kind of recourse. So I guess we'll
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  Speaker 12: have to wait to see what happens next. But this
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  Speaker 12: is definitely a story we're watching here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we will. And I gosh, again, I have so
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  Speaker 1: many more questions for you. I know you got to run,
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  Speaker 1: but thanks. We'll talk again soon about this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's over yet.
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  Speaker 4: You bet.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So my question is, if they're interfering with elections.
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  Speaker 1: When the administration is saying basically that they want to
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  Speaker 1: go after non-citizen voters. But why do it in California?
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  Speaker 1: Because they could take a million people off the rolls
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  Speaker 1: and it wouldn't flip anything in California. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: so solidly blue. You know, if they're trying to change
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  Speaker 1: the outcome of the election.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And so hopefully we'll get to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Stephen more about this. Very, very interesting. 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. Another hurricane has spun up
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  Speaker 1: in the Pacific Ocean. Forecasters say Trudy is expected to
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  Speaker 1: intensify rapidly and approach the coast of southwestern and west-central
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  Speaker 1: Mexico as a major hurricane this weekend. They say rain
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  Speaker 1: from the storm could produce life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially
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  Speaker 1: in areas along steep terrain. A new report claims the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration is trying to build a case against Congresswoman
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar that would get her deported.
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  Speaker 8: The Minnesota Democrats' Washington, D.C. area home was searched by
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  Speaker 8: federal agents on Monday who were reportedly seeking evidence of
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  Speaker 8: fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, among other things.
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  Speaker 8: On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials as
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  Speaker 8: saying the probe was aimed at building a case to
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  Speaker 8: strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her.
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  Speaker 8: Omar was born in Somalia in 1982 and came to
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  Speaker 8: the U.S. with her family in 1995. Michael Kastner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's continuing his campaign rallies. He stumped four Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidates in Arizona and Montana yesterday and says he thinks
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  Speaker 1: his rallies are energizing voters.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't going to do this, but, you know, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to end up doing about 32, 33 of them.
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  Speaker 3: And we're off to a very good start.
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  Speaker 1: Trump says most of his rallies are in Republican states,
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  Speaker 1: and he says that's because he wants to thank them
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  Speaker 1: and help Republican candidates win the midterms. Consumer Price Index
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  Speaker 1: data from the Labor Department shows what has led in
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  Speaker 1: part to inflation going up to 3.7 percent year over year.
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  Speaker 1: The CPI data shows gas prices are up by 9 percent.
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  Speaker 1: Health care costs have increased by 0.3 percent and the
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  Speaker 1: price of some food like fruits and vegetables now cost
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  Speaker 1: 0.5 percent more. A separate report shows average hourly earnings
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  Speaker 1: have fallen for the sixth straight month. Navy Federal Credit
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  Speaker 1: Union chief economist Heather Long tells Bloomberg News Americans are
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  Speaker 1: seeing their pay drop. Totally wiped out by inflation. Not
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  Speaker 1: enough drivers are moving over.
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  Speaker 13: While 90% of drivers claim they slow down and move
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  Speaker 13: over to make way for broken down cars, tow trucks,
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  Speaker 13: and police, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says less
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  Speaker 13: than two-thirds actually do. About a third of drivers are
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  Speaker 13: unaware if their state even has a move-over law. In
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  Speaker 13: the last year alone, AAA says 15 of their service
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  Speaker 13: providers were struck and killed in slow-down, move-over-related incidents.
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  Speaker 2: Rory O'Neill, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good, another scam. Scammers are now trying to get
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  Speaker 1: into your business through your calendar.
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  Speaker 14: What I got is hacked. It's called ICS phishing because
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  Speaker 14: the calendar files end in dot ICS. The cybersecurity firm Sublime,
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  Speaker 14: not the band, says it's increased 33,000% since May. They
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  Speaker 14: pop up as an invite in your calendar with no
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  Speaker 14: need to open an attachment, so salespeople, recruiters, and other
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  Speaker 14: jobs that involve meeting strangers are common targets. Experts say
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  Speaker 14: one way they get into your calendar is when AI
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  Speaker 14: agents accept invites on your behalf. So check your settings
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  Speaker 14: to make sure invitations aren't added automatically. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, today is the great California shakeout.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking with the global shakeout coordinator
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  Speaker 1: at USC's Statewide Earthquake Center about what we should all
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  Speaker 1: be doing at 1015 this morning during the Gary and
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  Speaker 1: Shannon show and why we need to do this every year.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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  Speaker 3: AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Rancho
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  Speaker 1: Palos Verdes has been awarded more than $ 54 million in
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  Speaker 1: federal grants to purchase 27 properties that have been severely
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  Speaker 1: affected by the ongoing landslide movement in the Portuguese Bend area.
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  Speaker 1: Officials say the money will allow the city to start
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  Speaker 1: the process of helping homeowners relocate, basically buy them out.
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  Speaker 1: Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, 6% of its workforce.
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  Speaker 1: It's the company's largest round of layoffs since 2022. CNBC
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  Speaker 1: says most of the impacted employees work in product, tech, HR,
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  Speaker 1: and legal. The layoffs come after Netflix's co-CEO said last
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  Speaker 1: month that the company is not growing as fast as
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  Speaker 1: they want. A Jack Russell terrier that bolted from her
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  Speaker 1: family's cabin during vacation at Yellowstone National Park is back
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  Speaker 1: with her family. Luna ran off on August 10th, so
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  Speaker 1: more than a month ago, actually more than two months
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  Speaker 1: ago almost, she's been spotted crossing streets, wandering through employee
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  Speaker 1: housing and entering lodges through automatic doors, but she kept
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  Speaker 1: running off and they weren't able to catch her. Officials
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  Speaker 1: finally captured the dog yesterday and returned her to her family.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Let's say good morning now to the
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  Speaker 1: Global Shakeout Coordinator at USC's Statewide Earthquake Center, Mark Benthean.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So today is the Great California Shakeout, not a shakeoff.
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  Speaker 1: So first, please tell us what happens when the shakeout
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  Speaker 1: happens and when. And then we'll talk more about why
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  Speaker 1: we're doing it.
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  Speaker 7: The Great Shakeout is an annual chance for people to
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  Speaker 7: practice what they need to do when the earth shakes.
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  Speaker 7: To drop, cover, and hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Get down low.
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  Speaker 7: Cover yourself with your hands and arms or get under
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  Speaker 7: a table for additional shelter. Hold on until the shaking stops.
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  Speaker 7: And it's just or adapt that if you're using a wheelchair,
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  Speaker 7: lock your wheels, cover and hold on, stay seated. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 7: it's really important to practice that. So you're ready to
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  Speaker 7: do the right thing when the earthquake happens.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so so what time does it happen and where
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  Speaker 1: does it happen?
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  Speaker 7: Most people will participate today on October 15th, 1015, at
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  Speaker 7: 1015 a.m. It's kind of our tradition. The time matches
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  Speaker 7: the date. But, of course, you can do your earthquake
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  Speaker 7: drill at any time today that works and even any.
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  Speaker 4: Day of the year.
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  Speaker 7: People go to ShakeOut.org to register that they're participating, learn
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  Speaker 7: more about what to do. And it happens everywhere across
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  Speaker 7: the state in homes and schools and workplaces everywhere. We're
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  Speaker 7: at Fremont High School today for their earthquake drill, really
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  Speaker 7: showcasing what they're doing. It also is a use of
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  Speaker 7: the school-based ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system that will be
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  Speaker 7: tested here today. LAUSD now has it installed in hundreds
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  Speaker 7: of their schools. People can get that alert on their
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  Speaker 7: phone by getting the MyShake app.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Mark, it's sort of a fun thing because we're doing
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: it here at KFI. It's going to happen at 1015.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: We're going to play the sounder and encourage everybody listening
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to drop, cover, and hold on. And it is sort
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of a fun event, but it's not a fun thing.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's serious business.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah. We've kind of made it a thing that's fun
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: for people to participate in, but it has an important message.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: So even calling it the shakeout, right? That's kind of fun.
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: We say freak out, shake out, don't freak out. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: because when you practice and you learn.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: You know, you get confidence that you'll be able to
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: do the right thing, that you won't get in doorways.
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: We should have never, ever told people to get in doorways.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: It doesn't protect you from anything. Getting down low, getting
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: under something is more important. You don't want to run outside.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Even though you might want to, but things fall off
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: of buildings before the buildings, which is rare in California
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: ever were to fall down. So there's a lot of
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: dangers if you're trying to run, running through broken glass,
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: the earthquake happens at night. So staying put, dropping and
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: covering and holding on.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're in your house.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And also it's happening across the country, by the way.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: More than 19 million people practicing earthquake safety, 10.8 million
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: in California.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what... Are some good places to cover? Like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't really crawl under a bed. I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: unless you have it on risers. What are good places
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to get next to? Like bookshelves are bad, right?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: So unless you've secured them and really, you know, but really,
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: so you mentioned bed. If you're in bed when the
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: earthquake happens, we encourage you to stay in bed, put
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: a pillow over your head. You can lay face down.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: You want to, before the earthquake happens, hopefully you've gone
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: through and secured things so they won't fall, especially where
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: you're going to spend a lot of time.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: If you're near a table, you can get down and
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: get underneath it. If not, you can get next to
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: an interior wall that doesn't have, you know, windows on it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: That way things can only come at you from one direction.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: If you're outside, stay away from, move away as you
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: can from buildings. and other things that might fall. But
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: the key thing is that you're likely not to be
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: able to move too far because in a very large earthquake,
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: the shaking will be too strong. And of course, if
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: you have that MyShake app, you'll get perhaps two seconds
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: of notice to get in that safe place before the
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: shaking arrives.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask you about the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: MyShake app. You know, it can give you a warning
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: what up to Up to 30 seconds before the couple
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that I've received have happened like 10 seconds before.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: It's just a large earthquake farther away to where the
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: shaking will still be strong where you're at. You might
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: get that long of a notice if it's really close
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: to you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: The system is. amazing.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: They can figure out within a few seconds of the
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: earthquake starting how big the earthquake is going to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: and where the shaking is going to be most intense
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: and send people in that area that warning. If you're
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: too close, they won't have that time. So you might
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: get the alert after you feel shaking.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: At least you'll.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Know how big it was and kind of some info.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: But 20 years ago, it would take minutes, even longer,
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: to know where it was and to do this type
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: of thing.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Now it's doing it in seconds. The U.S.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Geological Survey put a lot of research into developing that,
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: and there's a lot of ways to get the alert
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: in addition to the MyShake app.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, and you mentioned the MyShake app, and you're encouraging
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: everybody to get that. Just a good A good thing
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to have any extra warning is good, right?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: That's right. You'll get warnings like you get on Amber
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Alert or a weather alert through your phone, too, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: it'll just be that tone. You'll have to look at
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: your phone to know what it was. With the MyShake app,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: you actually will hear a tone plus a warning. a
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: verbal description that's saying earthquake, earthquake, strong shaking expected. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: you won't even have to hold your phone to know
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: that it's time to get down under something or protect yourself.
• 21:38
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Mark Bantheon with, uh, the California Shakeout. It's happening today, 10, 15.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: We're doing it here on KFI during the Gary and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Shannon show. So if you're listening, we're going to encourage
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you all to, uh, drop cover and hold on. Uh,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: good luck with the, uh, with the event today. And,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you know, it's going to, it's like we said, it's fun,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: but hopefully it's going to save some lives when the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: big one does hit.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and everything else you can do before, during, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: after to the seven steps to earthquake safety.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: You can find at earthquakecountry.org.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Earthquakecountry.org. Mark Bantheon, thank you so much.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
• 22:15
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun. It's the shakeout.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Scheduled right during one of my traffic reports. What's going
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: to happen?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Well, we might delay your traffic report just a little bit.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: The man convicted of murder in a shootout at a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's in Silver Lake is going away for a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: long time.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: 36-year-old Gene Atkins has been sentenced to life plus 200
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: years following his conviction in August on 41 criminal counts,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: including second-degree murder. He fled into a store after crashing
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: in a police pursuit, and in the gunfight, an officer
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: shot and killed store manager Mellie Corrado. Her father, Albert,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: described seeing the video footage in August.
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: And then she lay flat, and she expired.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I saw her doing.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: The last breaths.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Outside the court after the sentencing, he said Atkins' sentence
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: was not enough. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: A man from Baldwin Park has been arrested for an
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: alleged sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl in Orange County.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Police say the attack happened back in July at a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: park in Irvine. The girl says she met Juan Amaya
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: through Snapchat and that he said he was 17. He's
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: actually 25. Police say Amaya also contacted other teens on
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the app. and offered to give them money or vapes
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in exchange for sexual acts.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: The L.A.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: 's mayor race continues to heat up with just under
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: three weeks until Election Day. Political science associate professor at
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Cal State Dominguez Hills, Christopher Hollenbrook, tells KFI there is
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a consensus that Mayor Bass won the debate on Tuesday
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: with Nithya Raman, but he doesn't think that Bass will
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: win the election.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: I think there's just enough anger with her over the
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: last couple of years to see her voted out.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: But I've been wrong before, could.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Easily be wrong again.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Rahman still has a slight lead in the polls, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of voters are still undecided.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: L.A.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman Rahman claims she doesn't remember much from the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: debate with Mayor Bass. She said it during an interview
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: with NBC's Robert Kovacic after the faceoff on Tuesday.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Here's your moment, your strongest moment. tonight and your weakest
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: moment tonight?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, to be honest with you, I'm so sorry,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: but I was in fugue state and I don't remember
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: very much of it at all.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: The National Institute of Health says a fugue state is,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: in its words, one of the rare psychiatric disorders characterized
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: by sudden unexpected traveling from one's customary place of living
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: or work. Disney's buying into an AI company.
• 24:44
  Speaker 15: The entertainment giant has struck a $ 20 million deal to
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: license certain assets from Character.ai, just as the chatbot startup
• 24:51
  Speaker 15: files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Character.ai lets users create virtual
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: characters that can mimic celebrities and fictional figures. But the
• 24:58
  Speaker 15: company has faced lawsuits alleging its chatbots harmed young users,
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: along with copyright complaints. Disney previously demanded the company remove
• 25:06
  Speaker 15: bots impersonating characters including Elsa and Darth Vader. Character.ai says
• 25:10
  Speaker 15: the bankruptcy will allow it to pursue a sale by
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: the end of the year. Its platform will continue operating
• 25:15
  Speaker 15: for now. Heather Rooker, KFI News.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: When we come back, I think our shiny new bathrooms
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: on the fourth floor are haunted.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. High winds,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: warm temperatures, and low humidity mean critical fire danger for
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Southern California until at least Saturday. The L.A. and Ventura
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: County valleys, foothills, and mountains are looking at winds of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts 35 to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: 55 miles per hour. Could see gusts up to 70
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: miles per hour in the mountains. The FBI has offered
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: a $ 150, 000 reward for information leading to the arrest and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: conviction of a 75-year-old woman Her name is Mary McDonald.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: She's believed to be living in Dubai. She allegedly defrauded
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: banks in L.A. and Orange counties out of about $ 30
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: million by posing as the heir to the McDonald Aircraft
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Family Trust. Not to worry if you didn't win the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Powerball jackpot. No one else did either. There were no
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: tickets sold that matched all six winning numbers last night,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: so Saturday night's drawing will be worth an estimated $ 600 million.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: The Mega Millions jackpot's also up. It's going to be
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: worth $ 403 million for tomorrow night's drawing. As I mentioned,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: it is time for Dodger playoff baseball. Tonight, your back-to-back
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: world champion Dodgers take on the Brewers. It's do or
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: die at Dodger Stadium. Game four of the National League
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Championship Series. First pitch goes out just after five. They
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: did move the game time. They bumped it up because
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of weather back east or something. It's brought to you
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: by Home Depot. Delivery that works on your schedule, the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Home Depot Pro. It's about time. Okay, so I mentioned
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that I think that the bathrooms might be haunted. And
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: here's why. So they've been doing this construction, right? And
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: so our bathrooms were closed for, I don't know, about
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a month or something like that. Maybe it was longer
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: than that. And then they opened up and they said, okay,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: here they are. And now when you walk in, they're very,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: they're almost spooky. Like the lighting is weird. Everything's very gray,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: very sanitized, which I guess is good for a bathroom.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of Severance. If you've watched Severance, it
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: has that kind of a weird vibe to it. So
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'm using the bathroom as you do.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: As you do.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: As you do.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: As you do do.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: The toilet flushes. Not my toilet. Another toilet. And I'm like, hello?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And then another time I was in there and it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was just, you know, it's very quiet because it is
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in a bathroom. And the I thought there might have
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: been somebody in one of the stalls and the door
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: was kind of closed. But you can't really look under
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the stalls anymore because the doors now, they've lowered them.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: So now there used to be like, you know, a
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: foot and a half of clearance or something. Now it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: really hard to look under the stall.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Can't tell if somebody's listening to your conversation.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then when I was washing my hands, the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: soap dispenser went off. And I'm like, I'm nowhere near
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the soap dispenser. I'm thinking we might be a little haunted.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Well, plus in ours, you have to go in waving
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: your hands or the lights won't even come on. It's dark.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: It's pitch black when you walk into ours.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And you know what? There's nothing worse than when the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: power goes out when you're sitting in a bathroom.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Especially that one. I don't think there's any emergency lights
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: in there.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: All right. Time to get in your businesses. We do
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: each weekday morning. And let's say good morning to Bloomberg's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman. Morning, Dan.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And please give my best to the poltergeist residing in
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: your bathroom.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I know, right? It was weird.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I'm serious.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there and then... I'm like, I'm the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: only one in here. Okay. Buyers are gaining the upper
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: hand against sellers in the whole housing market right now.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: They are.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Homebuyers in the U.S. gaining more negotiating power. They have
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: more and more properties to choose from. That's according to Redfin,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: which says sellers now outnumber buyers by 63%. The online
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: real estate brokerage says that's the biggest gap in 13 years.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: At the same time, the number of buyers have dropped
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: to the lowest on record, with Redfin saying many home
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: sellers are having trouble finding buyers. Redfin also says some
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: sellers are listing now because they've given up on the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: idea that mortgage rates are going to drop. They're at 7.5% now.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: While others are just moving out of necessity, some are
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: just selling now as prices remain high. So it is
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: now tipped to a buyer's market.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Interesting. When I bought my first house, the interest rate
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: was at 7.5%. I mean, it was years ago. It's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: just that we've all gotten used to those great mortgage
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: rates that everybody's a little skittish if they're up as
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: high as they are now. One AI hardware company is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: printing money.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: The main chipmaker for both NVIDIA and Apple's most advanced
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: chips delivered a better-than-expected revenue outlook. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: projecting sales of as much as $ 54. 3 billion in the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: December quarter, easily beating analysts' expectations. That should translate into
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a roughly 44% gain in 2026 revenue. It also followed
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: a better-than-expected 69% jump in profit for July to September.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: So things look good for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, and Taiwan Semiconductor isn't the only one whose things
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: are looking pretty rosy for. Anthropic's doing pretty good, too.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Sources tell Bloomberg Amy that Anthropic has told prospective investors
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: its third-quarter revenue hit $ 16. 8 billion and that the company
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: was profitable in the third quarter on an adjusted basis.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Some investors had indicated prior to yesterday's meeting that a
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: fair valuation for the company is in the $ 1. 8 to
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: $ 2 trillion ballpark. Sources have said Anthropic expects to match
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: or beat the size of SpaceX's IPO, which was back
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: in June. Bloomberg is reporting that Anthropic is expected to
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: make its public debut before Thanksgiving.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: So a lot of.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Eyes are clearly on Anthropic with those types of numbers.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, what's going on with oil prices? Because we know
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: that gas here is trending downward.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's unbelievable.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: What is it now? $ 6. 50 a gallon from like $ 7?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I paid $ 6. 59 last week in that same gas station.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: It was $ 6.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: 19 this week.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a bargain. Oil fell as concerns over Middle
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: East supply disruptions eased and the International Energy Agency raised
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: its forecast for the war's impact on supply. While the
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen continue to launch missile and drone
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: attacks across Saudi Arabia, it is unclear if supply from
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the world's biggest crude exporter has been impacted. The IEA
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: says world oil consumption will decline by 2.6 million barrels
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: a day this year. That's 100,000 barrels a day more
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: than forecast just a month ago.
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman, thanks for helping us getting in your
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: business today. We'll do it again tomorrow, shall we?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Amy. Talk to you then.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Have a good one. When we come back,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: do you remember your high school mascot? Mine was the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Black Tornado. It was like this, you know, Black Tornado-y
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: looking thing that had this goofy, googly-eyed, smiley face on it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I think they've evolved a little bit since then. But
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: there are some really cool mascots out there, and you
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: can help pick the best mascot in the whole U.S.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking to the founder of The64. com
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: coming up next. And one of those best mascots is
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: right here in Southern California. We'll tell you about that next.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: We're staying positive in spite of what happened to the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Dodgers last night. You know, a 6-2 loss. But they
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: get another chance today. And for those of you who
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: are losing face, not face, but losing faith, we turn
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to the talkback.
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Amy. So, as a college coach that's been
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: doing this for about a quarter of a century, I'm
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: going to let you in on a little secret. Any
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: team can beat any team on any given day. Being
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: down three games to none doesn't mean anything. All that
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: matters is that you come out today and play with
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: the desire to win.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And I hope they desire to win really strong tonight.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Game starts at five. Here's what we're following in the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. Temperatures are rising as a Santa Ana
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: wind event blows into the Southland. Peak winds are expected
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: today and tomorrow with low humidity. That creates critical wildfire conditions.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: A red flag warning will be in place from 6
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: this morning until at least 10 p.m. Friday. A guy
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: who got into a gunfight with police outside the Trader
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  Speaker 1: Joe's in Silver Lake, leading to the death of an
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  Speaker 1: assistant manager, has been sentenced to more than 200 years
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  Speaker 1: in prison. The guy shot his grandmother and a 17-year-old
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  Speaker 1: girl in 2018 before he crashed near the Trader Joe's
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  Speaker 1: and then opened fire on police. Melly Corrado was killed
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  Speaker 1: when police returned fire. Gas prices are trending down. The
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  Speaker 1: average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County down another cent to $ 6. 29. Orange County's average has
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  Speaker 1: declined for the 14th consecutive day. It's fallen to $ 6. 22.
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  Speaker 1: Gas is averaging $ 6. 13 in the Inland Empire. Prices are
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  Speaker 1: still $ 1. 50 a gallon higher than a year ago. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say good morning now to the founder of The64. com, Justin Wu.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Justin.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Amy. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So first, tell us what 64.com does, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into why it's relevant right now.
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  Speaker 7: So 64.com is an online voting platform where the public
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  Speaker 7: chooses its favorite categories and the different people that win
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  Speaker 7: the different ones. And in this case, we have the
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  Speaker 7: America's Best mascot from high schools.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so we've got how many in their 64 are
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  Speaker 1: in the running? Because you run the tournaments like a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bracket, right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a bracket-style competition where, you know, two mascots
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  Speaker 7: will go head-to-head each round. There's six rounds, and then
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  Speaker 7: the one will emerge after, you know, 18 days as
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  Speaker 7: the winner of the entire tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and the first round starts today, right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, at 9 o'clock Pacific time today, the first round starts.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 7: And we have a Southern California team in the competition.
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  Speaker 1: We do, so I want to mention that one. And
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  Speaker 1: who's in there, and what's their mascot?
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  Speaker 7: So Molly and Monty from Mater Dei High School, the Lions,
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  Speaker 7: are in– it's the only Southern California contestant that made
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  Speaker 7: it this year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So we want people to go on and vote
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  Speaker 1: for Molly and Monty from Mater Dei. And then is
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  Speaker 1: it pretty much bragging rights that they get?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bragging rights.
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  Speaker 7: Last year, Carl the Cobbler won for Rapid City, South Dakota.
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  Speaker 7: So he'll be back defending his title. So, you know,
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  Speaker 7: it'd be great to see Southern California represent here and
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  Speaker 7: try to take the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: OK, what is Carl the Cobbler?
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  Speaker 7: It's I don't know, some kind of character. It's a cobbler,
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  Speaker 7: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: It's a guy.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of very interesting mascots. We have volcanoes.
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  Speaker 7: We have, you know, a little baby, a Spartan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's all kinds. It's a lot. Very interesting.
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  Speaker 7: You can go on the site and actually watch videos
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  Speaker 7: of the mascots to learn a little bit more about them. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, voting is free and you can win great prizes,
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  Speaker 7: gaming systems, all kinds of fun stuff.
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  Speaker 1: OK, I think you definitely should. Carl the cobbler. I
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: think he's a shoe guy. Like, literally, he's a shoemaker.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he looks like. And then you mentioned the volcano,
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  Speaker 1: which is another California school that's in the running. It's
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  Speaker 1: Chester High School, Mr. Volcano Man. And you really should
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  Speaker 1: go to this website and go check it out because
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  Speaker 1: he's hysterical.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, these mascots are amazing. These videos are really fun
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  Speaker 7: to watch the kids and the spirit. You know, I
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  Speaker 7: was the most spirited in high school, so I love
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  Speaker 7: this whole contest.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then another one that I just looked at, I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: was showing producer Ann, is Coalinga High School. They have
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  Speaker 1: a horny toad.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's awesome. We love all of the creativity.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: And a lot of these Nazcaps are, you know, coming
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  Speaker 7: like maybe 50 plus years old. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of tradition, alumni support, and these towns really rally behind
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  Speaker 7: these Nazcaps.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So aside from talking to us, how are people going
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  Speaker 1: to find out about this? Because you want everybody to vote. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: everybody at the school and people in the community, do
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  Speaker 1: you just put the word out to the schools?
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  Speaker 7: We put the word out to the schools so they
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  Speaker 7: all know. They even change their, you know, the billboards
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  Speaker 7: in front of the school a lot of the time.
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  Speaker 7: The towns rally behind the mascots a lot of the time. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it's a lot about the individual mascots and the towns
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  Speaker 7: pushing their own, the high schools pushing their own mascots.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And in this case, it's the modern day monarchs, Molly
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  Speaker 1: and Monty in Santa Ana County. And you can vote
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  Speaker 1: for them where?
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  Speaker 4: 64.com. It's free and win prizes.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And you do this, Justin, with all kinds of different things.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that you have something about haunted houses or
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  Speaker 1: haunted locations. That's a tournament that's coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Right now, one of the live tournaments is a horror movie,
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  Speaker 7: but very soon we have Haunted Destinations, which is places
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  Speaker 7: around the Amityville House, I believe, and some other ones
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  Speaker 7: around the country. We have everything from food. We do Po'
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  Speaker 7: Boys in New Orleans. Tacos in America is running right now.
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  Speaker 7: There's always some fun thing to vote in. If you're
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: into one kind of food or another, it's great to
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: see who some of the best in the country are.
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  Speaker 13: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Justin Wu, founder of the64. com. That's where you can
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  Speaker 1: vote for your favorite mascot. And of course, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be modern days, Molly and Monty. First round of
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  Speaker 1: voting opens this morning, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, 9 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Justin Wu, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Amy.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: All right, you got it. Let's get back to some
• 38:44
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