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The Lingering Presence of 9/11 · 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.
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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, Amy King.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's 5 o'clock. This is your wake-up call for Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: September 10th. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. So is it warm enough for you? It
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  Speaker 1: was just balmy again when I got outside this morning.
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  Speaker 1: The crickets were very loud. I think they like the heat.
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  Speaker 1: Very loud. But I got in my car and my
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  Speaker 1: temperature gauge in the car is always off a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's at 86 degrees.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But the heat will be moving out soon enough. And
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  Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be a beautiful weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up Call. Oh, and by the way, welcome back, Ann.
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  Speaker 1: She was off yesterday because they went to a Padres game.
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  Speaker 1: She said it was great fun. Padres won. But it
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  Speaker 1: was stupid hot. That's okay. You still get to sit
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  Speaker 1: and watch baseball. How does it get any better than that? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. The LADWP is
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  Speaker 1: urging customers to conserve electricity through 8 p.m. during the
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  Speaker 1: extreme heat and humidity. Officials say conservation efforts could help
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  Speaker 1: reduce the strain on the power grid and prevent any
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  Speaker 1: possible outages. Customers being asked to set thermostats to no
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  Speaker 1: lower than 78 degrees. and avoid using large appliances until
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  Speaker 1: it cools down. I had mine set at 79 last night,
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  Speaker 1: and it was lovely. The Getty Center remains closed today
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  Speaker 1: because of a brush fire burning just north of the museum.
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  Speaker 1: The fire broke out yesterday afternoon along the northbound 405
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  Speaker 1: in the Sepulveda Pass. LA Fire says it burned about
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  Speaker 1: 25 acres before forward progress was stopped. Evacuation warnings around
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  Speaker 1: the fire have been lifted. There's no damage to the
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  Speaker 1: Getty Center, but the are keeping it closed today so
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  Speaker 1: fire crews have better access to the area. One of
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  Speaker 1: the pilots on the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in
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  Speaker 1: Miami repeatedly warned the jet was going too fast as
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  Speaker 1: it descended and said the landing should be aborted. That
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  Speaker 1: was on the cockpit recording that NTSB investigators released yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Five people were killed when the cargo plane overshot the
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  Speaker 1: runway and crashed into a van and other vehicles Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember... Where you were when you first heard
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  Speaker 1: that America had been attacked?
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think most of us do. ABC's crime and terror
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  Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett was closer to it than most of
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  Speaker 1: us here in California. We're going to talk to him
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  Speaker 1: about what happened on 9-11, how it brought us together,
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  Speaker 1: and what's happening now. That's coming up in just a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. President Trump says he thinks the war with
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  Speaker 1: Iran will end the day after the midterms. ABC's Karen
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  Speaker 1: Travers joins us at 520 to tell us why. Also
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  Speaker 1: see if she has any insight into President Trump's promise
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  Speaker 1: to give everybody $ 5, 000. I don't know that he can
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  Speaker 1: do that. Fullerton Fire is going to remember the 25th
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of 9-11 with a very special observance that you
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  Speaker 1: can attend. We're going to be joined by Fullerton's Fire
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  Speaker 1: Chief Adam Lohler a little bit later. Let's get started
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  Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. Get ready for another day of extreme heat
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  Speaker 1: and humidity. Some areas are going to see temperatures as
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  Speaker 1: high as 108 today, and it could feel even worse
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  Speaker 1: because of the humidity brought on by the remnants of
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Marie. Extreme heat warnings are in effect until 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: for most of L.A. and Orange County, either warnings or
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  Speaker 1: heat advisories. Several heat records were set yesterday. Downtown L.A.
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  Speaker 1: hit 105. Long Beach and Anaheim hit 107. Santa Ana
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  Speaker 1: reached 108. There is relief in sight as a cooling
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  Speaker 1: trend is expected by Friday and Saturday. Thank goodness. As
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass steps away from the L.A. Homeless Services Authority,
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  Speaker 1: her challenger, City Councilman Nithya Raman has announced plans of
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  Speaker 1: her own to deal with the city's homeless crisis.
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  Speaker 6: At a news conference, Raman said as mayor she wants
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  Speaker 6: to reduce the number of tents and encampments by 50%
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  Speaker 6: in time for the 2028 Olympics and to have addressed
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  Speaker 6: all of them by the end of her term. And
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  Speaker 6: she promised faster construction of permanent affordable housing.
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  Speaker 1: Homelessness funding will be tied to measurable outcomes. How many
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  Speaker 1: people come indoors? How many people move into treatment? How
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  Speaker 1: many people reach permanent housing? How many people remain housed?
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  Speaker 6: Mark Rauner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: LA County's investigating Farmers Insurance for how it has handled
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  Speaker 1: claims from Eaton and Palisades fire victims.
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  Speaker 7: The investigation was sparked by complaints from policyholders about alleged
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  Speaker 7: refusals to pay for testing and remediation of contaminants, underpayments,
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  Speaker 7: and denials of legitimate claims. Scott Kuhn with the Office
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  Speaker 7: of the County Council says they're hopeful farmers will cooperate.
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  Speaker 1: With the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing this to try to get people's benefits that
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  Speaker 2: they paid for through their policy payments and get those
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  Speaker 2: folks made whole so that they can return.
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  Speaker 5: To their lives.
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  Speaker 7: Last month, the county filed a lawsuit against another insurance company,
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  Speaker 7: State Farm, after similar action by the state, alleging mishandling
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  Speaker 7: of claims related to the fires. Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 2: The L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Council has tentatively approved raising the cost of admission
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  Speaker 1: to the L.A. Zoo by another $ 2. The fee went
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  Speaker 1: up $ 5 last year. Council voted 11-0 yesterday for the
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  Speaker 1: latest increase. A second vote will be required since the
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  Speaker 1: vote did not meet a 12-member requirement to allow it
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  Speaker 1: to be immediately advanced. Time to say good morning to
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  Speaker 1: ABC's crime and terror analyst, Brad Garrett. So, Brad, more
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  Speaker 1: than 90% of Americans say they remember where they were
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  Speaker 1: when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center 25 years ago tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the air in Portland at KUPL. We
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  Speaker 1: even remember that Brooks and Dunn's Only in America was
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  Speaker 1: playing on the air when we first found out that
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  Speaker 1: the first plane had crashed. You were much closer to
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  Speaker 1: the devastation. So where were you on 9-11? What were
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Brad?
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  Speaker 5: I was an FBI agent in the Washington field office. Amy,
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  Speaker 5: every state, like for Southern California, Los Angeles is the
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  Speaker 5: headquarters for the FBI. There's the Washington field office, which
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  Speaker 5: is where I was, which was like, three to four
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  Speaker 5: blocks from the Capitol, about four blocks from FBI headquarters,
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  Speaker 5: about a mile as the crow flies to the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 5: And so as these crises occurred, I mean, we shortly,
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  Speaker 5: after the first plane hit, then clearly the second one
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  Speaker 5: in New York, it was clear that this was a
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  Speaker 5: terrorist attack of some form or fashion. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 5: the Pentagon happens.
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  Speaker 2: And we.
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  Speaker 5: Sort of were up in the air as to what
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  Speaker 5: to do because Amy, you might recall the FAA just
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  Speaker 5: shut down the airspace.
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  Speaker 1: I do remember that, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the only thing in the air were fighter jets,
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  Speaker 5: and rightly so, of course. But I think they had
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  Speaker 5: trouble keeping track of those because we kept getting reports
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  Speaker 5: there's unknown aircraft near your building. Well, that's not what
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  Speaker 5: you want to hear.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that the field office would be a target.
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  Speaker 5: It might be. Clearly, FBI headquarters and, for sure, the Capitol–
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  Speaker 5: were logical targets. And so we were really concerned about
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  Speaker 5: what we're going to do. And fortunately, nothing happened immediately
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  Speaker 5: around my building. But once the Pentagon happened, they sent
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  Speaker 5: a number of agents and support personnel to the Pentagon. Now,
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  Speaker 5: maybe fortuitously, I'm going to say that, but I didn't
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  Speaker 5: get sent there because I stayed back to work leads.
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  Speaker 5: I've lost a number of friends and still a number
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  Speaker 5: that are sick Because of working at the Pentagon for
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  Speaker 5: three to four weeks. So, you know, there's that aspect.
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  Speaker 5: But literally the FBI, including my field office, were literally
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  Speaker 5: shut down doing what we would do day in and
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  Speaker 5: day out with me working homicides and other stuff towards
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  Speaker 5: 9-11 leads. And again, I mean, you had to get
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  Speaker 5: your arms around this to figure out what we had,
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  Speaker 5: which we did, I think, in fairly quick order.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's interesting because we are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: 3000 miles away. And when it first happened, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like we're, what is going on and is it just
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  Speaker 1: New York or are they going to try to hit
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  Speaker 1: targets in Los Angeles, which is obviously the biggest city
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  Speaker 1: on the West coast. And, and I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: just such a time of uncertainty. So after that first,
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  Speaker 1: you got word of the first plane crash, Did you
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  Speaker 1: guys immediately go, ooh, terrorist attack? Because we thought it
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  Speaker 1: was just a small plane had accidentally crashed into the tower.
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  Speaker 5: It was sort of unknown. I mean, the idea that
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  Speaker 5: a commercial airliner would literally run headfirst into a skyscraper.
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  Speaker 5: But then when the second one happened, it was pretty
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  Speaker 5: clear that this is not some random accident. This was planned.
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  Speaker 5: And then, of course, you had the Pentagon that I
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  Speaker 5: mentioned and the Shanksville. Fortunately, that plane, because of some
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  Speaker 5: heroic folks, never made it. My guess is that plane,
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  Speaker 5: they were going to stick into the Capitol. But, you know, fortunately,
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  Speaker 5: that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that earlier this week that there were
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  Speaker 1: plans to have a lot more planes, like 10 of
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  Speaker 1: them or something, and then they had to scale. it
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  Speaker 1: back and just settled on four.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's accurate. So if you think– let's
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  Speaker 5: just say they put 10 hijacked planes. I mean we
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  Speaker 5: may or may not still have this conversation. It just
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  Speaker 5: depends on what got hit. But it certainly would have
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  Speaker 5: added the capital cost. It could have– could they have
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  Speaker 5: bombed the CIA, which is not far from me, out
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  Speaker 5: in Virginia?
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean we could have had 10,000 killed
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  Speaker 5: on 9-11 instead of three initially.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been 25 years, and I bet you–
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  Speaker 1: your memories of what happened are so vivid. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of those moments in life like people.
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  Speaker 5: Said– Right. I mean, basically, the studies suggest that everyone
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  Speaker 5: that was 10 or older, over 90 percent of us
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  Speaker 5: remember exactly, as you mentioned earlier, where they were and
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  Speaker 5: what they were doing.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of those pivotal moments.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Brad Garrett, we're glad that you were not too
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  Speaker 1: close to the Pentagon when all of this happened. We're
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  Speaker 1: glad that you're safe and we're lucky that we get
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you all the time. So we will
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again soon. Take care.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds great. Thank you, Amy.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. We were so far removed from it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just the people who were closer to it, just being
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  Speaker 1: that close to the Pentagon and, of course, the people
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  Speaker 1: in New York City. I still can't believe it's almost
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  Speaker 1: 25 years. We've got more coming up about some of
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  Speaker 1: the remembrances that are being done in anticipation of this
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  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary. We'll bring those to you coming up on
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. Let's get back to some of the
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  Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A wrongful
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  Speaker 1: death lawsuit has been filed over the fatal cargo plane
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  Speaker 1: crash in Miami. Five members of a cleaning crew were
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  Speaker 1: killed Sunday as they wrapped up their shift at the airport.
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  Speaker 1: The plane slammed into their van during its landing. ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Victor Akendo says more lawsuits are coming.
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  Speaker 11: The family, one of the five men killed, claiming the
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  Speaker 11: disaster was not an unavoidable accident. The husband and father
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  Speaker 11: had just wrapped up his shift and was driving the
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  Speaker 11: cleaning crew van that was struck.
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  Speaker 1: An attorney for the family says it was a catastrophic
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  Speaker 1: failure of a landing. A cockpit recording shows one of
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  Speaker 1: the pilots did warn that they were coming in too
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  Speaker 1: fast about two minutes before the crash. Nearly 90% of
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: the people who live on Kauai remain without power after
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Hurricane Lowell struck the Hawaiian island earlier this week. The
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  Speaker 1: Category 2 storm damaged homes and downed trees across the island,
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  Speaker 1: which saw the worst of its impacts with wind gusts
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  Speaker 1: over 90 mph. The National Hurricane Center downgraded Lowell to
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  Speaker 1: a tropical storm late Tuesday night. A federal appeals court's
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  Speaker 1: considering a case that could make it harder for women
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  Speaker 1: in Louisiana to get the abortion pill online or through
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  Speaker 1: the mail. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is
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  Speaker 1: hearing Attorney General Liz Merrill's lawsuit against the FDA and
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  Speaker 1: major drug companies. The issue is whether abortion-inducing drugs should
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  Speaker 1: be shipped into Louisiana in violation of the state's abortion ban.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: Murrell says the drugs should be prescribed and dispensed in
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  Speaker 1: person only. Apple has unveiled its long-awaited iPhone Duo, a
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  Speaker 1: $ 2, 000 foldable smartphone that's about the size of a passport.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Mike Dabusky says that's not the only pricey thing
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  Speaker 1: Apple announced.
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  Speaker 9: The new iPhone 18 Pro models are more expensive than
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  Speaker 9: last year's devices. Elsewhere, the AirPods 5 get improved active
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  Speaker 9: noise cancellation, and the Apple Watch Series 12 can now
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  Speaker 9: monitor variations in your heart rate.
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  Speaker 1: He says a global shortage in computer memory driven by
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  Speaker 1: demand from the AI sector is pushing up prices for
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  Speaker 1: most tech products. The L.A. City Council has voted to
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  Speaker 1: spend $ 13 million to purchase more than 100 new LAPD
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  Speaker 1: vehicles for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. They say they
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  Speaker 1: need the specialized non-patrol vehicles to cover the demands of
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  Speaker 1: high-profile events at so many venues. Council members Nithya Raman,
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  Speaker 1: Eunice Hernandez and Isabel Gerardo opposed the spending. A traffic
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  Speaker 1: stop of a Lamborghini in Gardena has led police to
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of more than $ 500, 000 in stolen merchandise at
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  Speaker 1: the driver's home. Police found clothes, footwear and other merchandise
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  Speaker 1: last Friday believed to be connected to cargo thefts, train
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  Speaker 1: burglaries and the distribution of counterfeit goods. Police also found
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  Speaker 1: the driver had a weapon, which he wasn't legally allowed
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  Speaker 1: to have because he's on probation. A man's been arrested
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  Speaker 1: for allegedly stalking reality TV star Kris Jenner. 25-year-old Zen
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  Speaker 1: William Robson is facing a misdemeanor charge of trespassing and
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  Speaker 1: refusing to leave private property. He was arrested Monday night
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  Speaker 1: after being detained by a security guard at Jenner's home
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  Speaker 1: in the Santa Monica Mountains. Let's say good morning now
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  Speaker 1: to ABC's Karen Travers. So Karen, the president yesterday said
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he knows exactly when the Iran war is
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  Speaker 1: going to end.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, exactly, meaning a rough time frame, but
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  Speaker 12: it's still a ways away. He said it would be
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  Speaker 12: after the midterm elections, which is still 54 days away
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  Speaker 12: at this point. The president indicated that he thinks Iran
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  Speaker 12: is just trying to wait things out. He also seemed
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  Speaker 12: to suggest that he thinks that the Democrats are going
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  Speaker 12: to take control of Congress and that Iran is just
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  Speaker 12: looking for what he called a weak group of people
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  Speaker 12: to be in power, because then at that point they
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  Speaker 12: can just continue doing what they had been doing for years.
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  Speaker 12: and try to pursue a nuclear weapon. But he said
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  Speaker 12: under his watch that wouldn't happen. Of course, no matter
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  Speaker 12: what happens with the control of Congress in the midterm elections,
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  Speaker 12: the president's still the president. But, you know, I think
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  Speaker 12: a couple of things there that were striking. One, the timeline,
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  Speaker 12: that he doesn't think that this is going to end
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  Speaker 12: in the next two months. Two, that he said that
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  Speaker 12: there's no conversations he's willing to have at this point
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  Speaker 12: with Iran, that he's not interested in engaging negotiations with
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  Speaker 12: the Iranians. And three, that kind of assessment, which was subtle,
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  Speaker 12: he didn't specify it, but that the Democrats are likely
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  Speaker 12: to have success in the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was an interesting comment, too, that
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a second. Are you just admitting
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  Speaker 1: this because you've been saying that that's not going to happen?
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: OK.
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  Speaker 1: And then I. I was wondering, did you hear his
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  Speaker 1: comments from last night about the five thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: So, yeah, you know, yeah, he said this last night
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  Speaker 12: during his RNC midterm convention speech saying, you know, if
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  Speaker 12: you if the Democrats, if the Republicans win the House
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  Speaker 12: and Senate, he would give a five thousand dollar speech.
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  Speaker 12: check to all adult Americans. I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 12: of questions about this, like one, the legality of it, two,
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  Speaker 12: the cost of it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, just doing the back of the.
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  Speaker 12: Envelope math, it's $ 1. 3 trillion that where would that even
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  Speaker 12: come from, given where we see with the national debt
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  Speaker 12: at this point, the amount of interest The government is
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  Speaker 12: paying right now and the national debt is about a
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  Speaker 12: trillion dollars a year. But the White House has not given.
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  Speaker 5: Details to explain where that would be.
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  Speaker 12: The vice president last night indicated it couldn't come from tariffs.
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  Speaker 12: But even that would still not cover what the president
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  Speaker 12: was claiming last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he made some comment about that, how we've we've
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  Speaker 1: brought in so much money that we could afford to
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  Speaker 1: put out these dividend checks. But I immediately when I
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  Speaker 1: heard that, I went, can he even do that? So
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see, see what happens, because
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  Speaker 1: some people are saying it's basically a bribe, which you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to do. So we shall see. Karen Travers,
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  Speaker 1: ABC News White House correspondent. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: the information.
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  Speaker 12: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: You, too.
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  Speaker 2: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Is looking to change the way City Hall handles film
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  Speaker 1: and TV production.
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  Speaker 4: A new City Council committee is looking at how longstanding
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  Speaker 4: practices may be making it harder to film here.
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  Speaker 8: When they don't have that certainty, they opt to work
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  Speaker 8: elsewhere and do the job projects elsewhere.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Chair Adreen Nazarian says departments have operated the same way
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: for decades.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: It's an issue of culture. When something has been done
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: a certain way for decades, 10, 20, 30 years. It's
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: hard to undo that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: He says the committee plans to bring city agencies before
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: the panel, examine how they handle filming, and push for
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: faster permitting. Heather Brooker, KFI News.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: The chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee says he expects L.A.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass to testify at a hearing into how LASA
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: has spent millions of federal dollars following allegations of fraud
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and financial mismanagement. Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchette calls or
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: tells KFI's John Kobelt that he wants to know where
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: all the money went.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: The CEO, her husband, was involved with a company that
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: received roughly $ 2.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: 1 million. That, to me, is a signal right there
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: of arrogance and callousness towards the taxpayers.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Bass formally left the LASA board yesterday. Her lawyer says
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: she's not available to appear at the House hearing scheduled
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for next Tuesday. A senator from Florida says he's not
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: at all happy with the mayor of L.A. or the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: governor of California.
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: Rick Scott says Karen Bass and Governor Newsom have not
• 19:21
  Speaker 13: been giving up the documents he's requested for nearly a
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: year over the preparation, response and recovery from the Palisades fire.
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: Scott and Senator Ron Johnson from Wyoming began their Palisades
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: fire investigation after demands from former L.A. Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt,
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: who lost his home in the fire, which killed 12 people.
• 19:37
  Speaker 13: The investigation does not include the Eden fire in Altadena,
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: which burned at the same time and killed 19 people.
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: The senator from Florida claimed voter fraud in the primary
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: for L.A. mayor, which Pratt lost, but the claims were
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: quickly debunked by First Assistant University.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: U.S.
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: Attorney Bill Asseli. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Trump administration calls California's key water plan unworkable. The plan
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: would restrict how much water the federal government pumps from
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the state's largest rivers. The Trump administration says it would
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: jeopardize the water supply for farms in the Central Valley.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The largest agricultural supplier in the valley, Westlands Water District,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: is also calling for changes to the plan. The rules
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: were designed to stop the ecological decline of the San
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. In a letter,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says it threatens the entire
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: fabric of California's agricultural economy. The LAPD says it'll be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: beefing up patrols in the coming days for the start
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of the Jewish holidays. The department says it stands with
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the Jewish community as we head into high holy days.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown tomorrow, kicking off 10 days
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of reflection that leads up to Yom Kippur on September 20th.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Rosh Hashanah is a time when Jews gather with family
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: members and their communities to reflect on the past year
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and the new one beginning. Ads against voter ID in
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: California have started showing up on TV.
• 21:04
  Speaker 14: The No on Prop 39 campaign has launched a massive
• 21:07
  Speaker 14: TV ad campaign. Prop 39 is the so-called Voter ID Act.
• 21:12
  Speaker 14: The ad starts by asking potential voters if they really
• 21:15
  Speaker 14: know who's behind the bill. Then it cuts to an
• 21:17
  Speaker 14: image of President Trump saying Trump and his MAGA allies
• 21:20
  Speaker 14: are behind it. The No campaign says if Prop 39 passes,
• 21:24
  Speaker 14: it'll make it more difficult to vote. But the Yes
• 21:26
  Speaker 14: campaign says it's no different than using an ID. At
• 21:29
  Speaker 14: the grocery store, Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: One of the 11 jurors in Massachusetts who voted to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: acquit Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three children, says she
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: thought Clancy was guilty. And she says maybe she still
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: believes it. The juror told CBS Boston that she was
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: swayed during what she called hostile deliberations with big personalities
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: in the room. The shouting could be heard in other
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: rooms inside the courthouse. One juror did not side with
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the majority and a mistrial was declared last week. And
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: today marks one year since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: assassinated during a speaking event at Utah Valley University.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: The 31-year-old left behind a wife, Erica Kirk, now CEO
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: of his Turning Point USA organization, and their two young children.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: Reflecting on this week's anniversary in an essay for the
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: New York Times, Erica Kirk noted that the grief is
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: there always, but said she's learning that mourning and living
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: life at the same time are part of the rhythm
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: of grief. President Trump mourned Charlie Kirk's passing at the time,
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: calling the incident a dark moment for America and saying
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: his voice had now become bigger and grander than ever before.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Tyler Robinson, the man charged with Kirk's murder, has pleaded
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: not guilty. Mark Mayfield, KOFI News.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Your official home for Dodger baseball is AM570 LA Sports.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow afternoon, your back-to-back world champion Dodgers take on the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Marlins in Miami with first pitch going out just after four.
• 22:55
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• 22:57
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• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Discover Japan's number one selling beer. Seek what is unique.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Residents have been allowed to return to their homes on
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the Alamitos Peninsula in Long Beach. Just west of Seal Beach,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: several homes were evacuated Monday night because of possible structural
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: damage from the pounding of high surf. One home was yellow-tagged,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: but the rest have been declared safe. The boardwalk along
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the seaside between 63rd Place and 68th Place remains closed
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to the public while repairs continue.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Officials have launched an investigation into whether L.A. County... has
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: violated the Constitution by failing to provide safe conditions for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: prisoners at the Men's Central Jail downtown. Officials say the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: investigation will focus on the conditions of the facility itself,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: not on the actions of the L.A. County Sheriff's deputies
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: who staff it. An animal rescue group has offered a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: $ 10, 000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of the person who shot a coyote in the face.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: The coyote, named Wendy, was captured last week in Studio City.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: She was put down after vets determined that the injuries
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: she had were just too severe and she would never
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: be able to be released back into the wild. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: coyote had a large growth on her face for more
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: than a year that most likely developed after she was shot.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Get
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: ready for another day of extreme heat and humidity.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: Many areas will see temperatures as high as 108, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: it's not a dry heat, so it will feel even
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: worse due to the humidity brought on by the remnants
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: of Hurricane Marie. Extreme heat warnings are in effect until
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: 8 p.m. for most of L.A. and Orange counties. Several
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: heat records were set on Wednesday.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Downtown L.A.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: Hit 105, Long Beach and Anaheim 107, and Santa Ana
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: hit 108. There is relief in sight. A cooling trend
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: is expected by Friday and Saturday. Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: LA Mayor Bass has joined state lawmakers and local officials
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in calling on Governor Newsom to sign two bills related
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights. The legislation prevents
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: permits from being issued to facilities like Lineage Logistics unless
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: they have a contingency fund of up to $ 20 million
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: in case of an emergency. It would also exempt all
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: future settlements from taxes. and increased fines to up to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: $ 50, 000 per health and safety violation during a state or
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: federal disaster declaration. The number of uninsured Californians under the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: age of 65 is expected to to nearly double by
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the end of the decade.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: That's according to an analysis by the University of California
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Berkeley Labor Center. It would mean an increase from 2.4
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: million to 4.6 million people without health insurance. The anticipated
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: rise in the uninsured population could have major impacts on
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: hospital systems, insurers, and the economy. A labor center estimate
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: says the changes could end up costing California... upwards of
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: 200,000 jobs, mostly in the health care industry. Deborah Mark,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: KFI News.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And some prisoners in Kansas are putting their money where
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: their mouths are to make sure kids get a good
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: meal at school.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: The incarcerated men in Kansas donated nearly $ 4, 000 from their
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: own personal funds to the Norton Community School District. The
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: prisoners are members of Reaching Out Within, a rehab program
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: for those trying to make lasting behavioral changes and become
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: models for nonviolence. Several of the men in the program
• 26:24
  Speaker 13: said they experienced hunger themselves growing up in financially unstable homes.
• 26:28
  Speaker 13: Some employees from the Kansas Department of Corrections also donated
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: more than $ 450 of their own money for the cause.
• 26:34
  Speaker 13: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: It's 540 on your wake-up call. Time to get in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: your business with Bloomberg's John Tucker.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Morning, John.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, Amy.
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: Good morning to you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Not a good morning if you were thinking
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: or hoping that maybe oil prices would start coming down.
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: Yeah, as soon as you said that. You're a jinx.
• 26:55
  Speaker 15: The international benchmark has crossed $ 105 a barrel. American crude
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: up over $ 100 a barrel this morning. So, among other things,
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: it's raising more inflation concerns ahead of the release of
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: the Consumer Price Index. We're going to get that tomorrow.
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: It may also give Federal Reserve officials another reason to
• 27:13
  Speaker 15: raise interest rates. They're going to meet next week. In
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: the meantime, how's it going with the war? Iran and
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: the U.S. digging in for a protracted war And there's
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: little sign of a near-term ceasefire or any sort of
• 27:27
  Speaker 15: return to normal Middle East energy flows, even if the
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: hostilities remain at a low intensity or were to end today,
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: which is very unlikely, Amy.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: So everybody's feeling the pinch of the pocketbook, but that's
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: not stopping people from going to Macy's.
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Macy's says its customers are resilient. They're raising their outlook,
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: posting second quarter sales that beat estimates, just getting their
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: earnings this morning. They own Bloomingdale's, and that's, I guess,
• 27:58
  Speaker 15: the luxury segment. That is paying off. It registered the
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: best performance among Macy's different businesses. On the luxury end,
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: I mean, that's more evidence of, like, the K-shaped economy.
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: You have the lower end and the higher end, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: the higher end consumer just keeps on spending, as evidenced
• 28:14
  Speaker 15: this morning with these results.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of spending, President Trump last night at the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: convention promised that if the Republicans hold on to the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: House and the Senate control of it during the midterm
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: elections or after the midterms, that he's going to send
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: everybody a $ 5, 000 check.
• 28:33
  Speaker 15: Yeah, this is the– and that is definitely a quid
• 28:37
  Speaker 15: pro quo. He calls it the Trump dividend if the
• 28:41
  Speaker 15: Republicans control– retain the control of Congress. Now, if he
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: paid $ 5, 000 to every U.S. adult citizen, this plan would
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: cost $ 1. 2 trillion in total. At least this morning, investors
• 28:55
  Speaker 15: are pretty unfazed by this announcement. The president does not
• 28:59
  Speaker 15: have the authority to greenlight such a plan on his own.
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: A cash payment program that would require approval from Congress
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: and fellow Republicans. They even previously rejected the president's tariff
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: dividend proposal, among other things. It's too much spending.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, speaking of spending, Starbucks spending a billion dollars
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: to try to make their Starbucks cafes a little more appealing, apparently.
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: Yeah, they're going to upgrade about, what, 9,000 of the
• 29:26
  Speaker 15: cafes we're learning this morning from one of their vice presidents.
• 29:30
  Speaker 15: The design changes include more seating, and Starbucks says these
• 29:34
  Speaker 15: are meant to promote a sense of community. And I
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: know when I want a sense of community... I go
• 29:40
  Speaker 15: drink coffee at Starbucks.
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: No, not really.
• 29:43
  Speaker 14: Well, you know what?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: People used to, though, in even my neighborhood Starbucks, people
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: used to go and hang out there, and I don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: see that as much anymore. So, obviously, they're trying to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: bring that back.
• 29:52
  Speaker 15: I know my daughter goes there to do, like, you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 15: homework or whatever. I don't even think she buys the
• 29:57
  Speaker 15: coffee anymore. Just hang out there.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I bet they love that. All right. Bloomberg's John Tucker,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: getting in your business as we do each weekday morning.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Have a great day.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Amy.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: LA County's investigating Farmers Insurance on how it's handling insurance
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: claims from the Eaton and Palisades fires. The investigation follows
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: complaints from policyholders about delays, refusals to pay for testing
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and remediation of lead and other contamination. The county filed
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a lawsuit against State Farm last month for allegedly mishandling
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: claims related to the two fires as well. A man
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: from Orange County has been sentenced to 30 years in
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: prison for his role in a fraud scheme in which
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: nearly $ 270 million in bogus claims were submitted to Medi-Cal
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: for prescription drugs. The drugs were not medically necessary and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in some cases not provided at all. The Rams have
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: arrived in Australia. They're going to be kicking off their
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: 2026 NFL season against their longtime rivals, the 49ers. Kickoff
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: less than 12 hours from now. It'll be at 535
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: our time, 1035 in the morning their time. Oddsmakers say L.A.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is a favorite to win the Super Bowl this season.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: 49ers arrived in Melbourne last Friday. Melbourne against 17 hours
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: ahead of L.A. Let's say good morning now to Fullerton's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: fire chief, Adam Louser. Good morning. Actually, it's Louser, isn't it?
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Good morning.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I've been messing up the pronunciation all morning. It's
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Chief Adam Louser. Chief, Fullerton Fire is remembering the victims
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of 9-11 on tomorrow's 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: in a very special way. Please tell us what Fullerton
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Fire is doing.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, we've partnered up with Fullerton residents, Scott and Julie Townley,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: who have had a memorial at their residence at 863
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Northwood Avenue here in Fullerton since the day after 9-11,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: 25 years ago. It's probably one of the best examples
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of small town America neighborhood memorial that I know exists.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: So we are doing a ceremony that begins at 830 tomorrow.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And the most important part that we're doing this year
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: as part of the 25th anniversary is that we're going
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: to read fire and police personnel are going to read
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: all 3,029 names of the people who were killed that day,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: both on the planes, in the buildings, and first responders.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, and we know that they've done that at ground
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: zero for years, but is this the first time that
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you guys are going to be reading all the names?
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: We did it back on the 20th anniversary, and so
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: we wanted to make sure that we did it again
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: for the 25th.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: And then the ceremony is being done tomorrow starting at 830.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And then the display is going to be up for
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the remainder of the day. And what is the display?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: When people come out, what are they going to see?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: So the display, it's up currently. So it's available for
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: people to stop by 24 hours a day. And Scott
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: lives on a corner lot. And so his whole front
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: yard is is dedicated to this memorial. Scott is a
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: retired Santa Ana Fire Department Orange County Fire Authority firefighter,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: so this makes it an even greater tie-in, but he
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: has white crosses for every single FDNY firefighter that was
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: killed that day. along with all NYPD and Port Authority
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: personnel that were killed that day, and then individual flags
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: for every single person that's there with their name on
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the flags. So when you come up to it and
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: you see the attention to detail, it is very impactful.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: You need to this year also, starting at dusk, And
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll have two large beams of light that will
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: be shining from behind his house to signify the Twin Towers.
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Now, Chief Loeser, we were all impacted by 9-11, but
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you got an up-close look at the World Trade Center
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: after it happened. Tell us about that.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Sure. At the time that happened, I had actually just
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: graduated from the Santa Ana College Basic Fire Academy. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: was not hired by a fire department yet, but I
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: was a volunteer firefighter with the Fountain Valley Fire Department
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: in Orange County. And when that happened, much like everybody
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: else that was alive, you know exactly where you're at
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: and how you felt. When that went off, I didn't
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: feel a sense of wanting to serve or do something
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: much like everybody else did. So I ended up taking
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: a Greyhound bus over to New York City because the
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: trains and planes service had stopped. Uh, so I left
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: actually on my birthday, um, and, uh, worked with other
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: volunteers on the, what was called the pile for 10 days. Um, and, uh,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: What a tragedy. I was telling somebody else the other day,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: the first night that I actually got down onto the pile,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: we worked the night shift. It was 1 o'clock in
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: the morning. We were escorted down there by NYPD. I
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: still remember getting out of the police cruiser and looking
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: at where the remains of the towers were and just
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: felt a gut punch there. And the enormity of what
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: had happened and the destruction, people just don't get it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And it's so etched in my mind of what that
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: looked like and the smells and the sights. It was tragic.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: But that was my way of trying to do something.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: And then after. How do you feel 25 years later?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Because I just am astounded that it's 25 years when
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I think about it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: I am too.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, time flies. But the crazy part is, you know,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: whenever I talk about it or I think about it,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I am immediately transported back to those exact moments again. And,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you know, the emotion that's tied to both being there
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and then also witnessing as the event was actually unfolding,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: it still weighs.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Heavy on me.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And that's the big part of, I think, remembering events
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: such as this. The tragedy is obviously the biggest, is
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: a big part. But I think the larger takeaway is
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: how much good came out of people during that time
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: as far as helping one another and supporting one another.
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  Speaker 2: And that was, I witnessed that firsthand in New York
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  Speaker 2: City during the time I was there. And even when
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: this day comes up annually, people have a different outlook
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  Speaker 2: on things, even if it's just for that day. And that,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I think, is probably the best takeaway we can really
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  Speaker 2: address from this tragedy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so then bringing it back to the 9-11 commemoration
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  Speaker 1: that you have going on tomorrow, What do you hope
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  Speaker 1: people are going to take away from the event in Fullerton?
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  Speaker 2: The biggest piece that I would hope people would take
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  Speaker 2: away is truly just what taking a moment out of
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  Speaker 2: your day to remember the event. Secondarily, trying to make
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: sure that the new generations, the people that weren't born
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: at that time, that they learn about it, they understand it,
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  Speaker 2: and it continues to have a path along. And also,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: as I said, the importance of service to one another
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  Speaker 2: out of such a tragedy. So we do have several
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: elementary schools that will be there for the ceremony. And
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: we do expect a large number of people to be there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And as I said, it is very impactful. And Scott
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: and his wife, they've given so much to make sure
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: that the community can remember this. And so we're so
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: fortunate to have them in the city of Fullerton and
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: to be a community partner with us as first responders.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And Captain Loeser, one more, or Chief Loeser, one
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  Speaker 1: more time, where and when is it?
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  Speaker 2: It'll be tomorrow, which is Friday, 9-11. The ceremony begins
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: at 8-30. It is located at 863 Northwest. Woods Avenue
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  Speaker 2: in Fullerton, California. The ceremony itself, including reading the names,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: will go until approximately 1 o'clock. But the site is
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: open right now. So if you are if you're able
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to take some time during your lunch break or after,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: you know, before you drop the kids off at school,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: you know, we definitely encourage everybody just to stop by,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's for five minutes. Um, and, uh, just
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: take a moment to, to remember, uh, those that were
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: lost and, um, the good that can come out of
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: helping one another during tragedy.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And do remember this isn't a residential neighborhood. It's not.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So when you drive up, don't be surprised when you
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: plug in your ways and you're like, wait, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: somebody's neighborhood. It's actually at somebody's residence.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Correct. It's a small little neighborhood. And, um, that's really what,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: that's really what makes it for me. It's, It's the
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: best example of neighborhood and community, and you won't be disappointed.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: All right. It sounds like a beautiful way to remember 9-11,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: especially on this 25th anniversary. Fullerton Fire Chief Adam Loeser,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time again, and I
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: hope everything goes well tomorrow. It's a sobering day, but
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: like you said, it's an important day. Never forget.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me on, and we
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: look forward to seeing everybody who wants to come out
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: and check out the event.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Chief Loeser.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 41:00
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• 41:03
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• 41:06
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• 41:08
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