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Terror Attack Thwarted · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640 Wake Up Call with me,
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Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Very happy camper today. How about them Dodgers? Of course,
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Speaker 1: I'm also a sad camper because there is no game five,
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Speaker 1: which means I don't get to go to a playoff
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Speaker 1: game this season. I had tickets for Friday night.
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Speaker 2: That's okay.
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Speaker 1: The boys in blue advanced to the National League Championship Series. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: you know, the The Padres Brewers series was so good,
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Speaker 1: and I was so hoping that they were going to
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Speaker 1: come back and make it to the next round, but
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Speaker 1: they lost 3-1 last night, so they're knocked out.
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Speaker 3: I don't see Ann anywhere.
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Speaker 1: She's in mourning.
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Speaker 4: Oh, dear.
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Speaker 1: She'll be back tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Okay, here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. Four additional
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Speaker 1: sandbag distribution sites are opening up today in Long Beach.
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Speaker 1: as residents are being urged to get ready for possible
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Speaker 1: coastal flooding, high surf, and rain from the remnants of
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Speaker 1: Hurricane Rachel. Residents in low-lying areas, particularly the Alamitos Peninsula
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Speaker 1: and Alamitos Bay, are being urged to take precautions against
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Speaker 1: potential flooding this weekend. Of course, the Dodgers headed back
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Speaker 1: to the National League Championship Series. The Boys in Blue
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Speaker 1: beat Atlanta 3-1 in Game 4 to win the best-of-five
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Speaker 1: series three games to one. They'll face the Brewers, who
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Speaker 1: knocked out San Diego last night in Milwaukee for Game
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Speaker 1: 1 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday. President
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Speaker 1: Trump says Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton is possibly the
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Speaker 1: best attorney general in the history of Texas. Appearing alongside
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Speaker 1: Paxton in San Antonio last night, Trump urged his supporters
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Speaker 1: to get out to vote in the midterms and pretend
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Speaker 1: he's on the ballot. Trump went on to warn that
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Speaker 1: Texas will be destroyed if Democratic candidate James Tallarico wins.
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Speaker 1: We're going to find out more about why Trump is
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Speaker 1: backing Paxton in spite of some negative comments that have
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Speaker 1: come to light. ABC's Karen Travers is going to join
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Speaker 1: us in about 15 minutes or so. An 18-year-old has
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Speaker 1: been arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Mall
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Speaker 1: of America. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad Garrett is
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Speaker 1: going to join us to tell us how he was
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Speaker 1: caught and how bad it could have been. That's coming
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Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes. And we were
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Speaker 1: supposed to connect yesterday with author Jasmine Guillory, but there
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Speaker 1: was a scheduling mix-up. So we're going to try it
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Speaker 1: again today because I think you're going to love hearing
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Speaker 1: about her new book. It's called It's Only Dancing. Let's
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Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
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Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning
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Speaker 1: home to San Diego. It's expected to arrive around noon
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Speaker 1: after being at sea since November. The carrier left port
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Speaker 1: as part of normal naval operations with the original plan
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Speaker 1: to return in May, but then the war in Iran started.
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Speaker 1: War Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the ship yesterday
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Speaker 1: to visit with sailors and Marines deployed to the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: I would like to award to you. The presidential unit citation.
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Speaker 1: The award is the highest honor a unit can receive
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Speaker 1: that is typically reserved for significant achievement in combat. Four
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Speaker 1: firefighters and a civilian have been hurt in a house
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Speaker 1: fire near the Silver Lake Reservoir.
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Speaker 6: It started around 1045 in the morning on North Lakewood Avenue.
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Speaker 6: Of the five people sent to the hospital, two of
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Speaker 6: the firefighters were released later in the day. Arson investigators
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Speaker 6: were sent to the scene, but so far the cause
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Speaker 6: of the fire has not been determined. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: The head of an L.A. community action group says he
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Speaker 1: agrees with Councilwoman Nithya Raman's plan to fire LAPD Chief
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Speaker 1: Jim McDonald if she wins the race to be mayor.
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Speaker 1: Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Afari Hutchison says the LAPD
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Speaker 1: has the worst track record in the U.S. for overuse
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Speaker 1: of deadly force. Hutchinson says that's McDonald's fault. So Rahman's
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Speaker 1: plan to fire him is a long-needed step to overhauling
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Speaker 1: the LAPD's use of deadly force.
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Speaker 7: L.A.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Bass and City Council Member Nithya Rahman are set
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Speaker 1: to answer questions from members of the city's Hispanic community
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Speaker 1: in the race for mayor. They're taking part in a
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Speaker 1: televised forum focusing on homelessness, housing affordability, public safety, and
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Speaker 1: other issues. It airs tonight. At 7 on Univision, each
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Speaker 1: candidate participating will be separately interviewed for 30 minutes. It's
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Speaker 1: 5.07 on your wake-up call this Thursday morning. Let's say
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Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's crime and terror analyst, Brad Garrett. So, Brad,
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Speaker 1: I want to find out details on this. It's a
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Speaker 1: Mall of America planned mass shooting, and the feds have
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Speaker 1: arrested an 18-year-old person who apparently had been planning this
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Speaker 1: for quite some time.
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Speaker 8: So according to the complaint, Amy, the FBI in an
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Speaker 8: undercover capacity started interacting with this 18-year-old in December of 2024. Now,
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Speaker 8: that's almost two years ago. Some would say, why did
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Speaker 8: it take this long to arrest him? Well, when you
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Speaker 8: look at these undercover cases, you kind of are driven
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Speaker 8: by the speed of the person who wants to commit
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Speaker 8: the crime. And obviously, you have to have certain elements
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Speaker 8: to be able to charge them. So eventually what happened
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Speaker 8: in the last few days is that he said, I
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Speaker 8: need an AK-47, I need ammunition, and I'm going to
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Speaker 8: go to the Mall of America in Minneapolis and kill
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Speaker 8: 30 to 60 people.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 8: They, in an undercover capacity, sold him an AK-47. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: it wouldn't be functional, but be that what it may,
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Speaker 8: with 200 rounds of ammunition, he paid them, and then
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Speaker 8: they arrested him. So it's another example of getting in
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Speaker 8: front of somebody that wants to do mass harm. You know,
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Speaker 8: the big question, as you well know, is how many
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Speaker 8: people like this kid are out there that are sort
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Speaker 8: of at the crossroads of of committing some potentially committing
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Speaker 8: some super violent act. It's, I think the number is
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Speaker 8: higher than you might think, but obviously I don't know
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Speaker 8: what that number is.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think it's, I was just going to ask you how,
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Speaker 1: I wonder how many of these cases are out there.
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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting because we've talked before, uh, you
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Speaker 1: and I about, you know, when do they jump in?
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Speaker 1: When does law enforcement put a stop to it? Because
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Speaker 1: You have to give evidence, but you also have to
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Speaker 1: allow them to get pretty close to acting on those
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Speaker 1: threats and then hope that you can stop them before
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Speaker 1: they actually carry it out.
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Speaker 8: Right. Well, you know, and that's all clearly a judgment call.
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Speaker 8: And the people who do these type of cases, generally speaking,
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Speaker 8: sort of know that they go at a certain pace
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Speaker 8: and you need certain elements because you I mean every
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Speaker 8: day they're talking to the U.S. attorney's office about this
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Speaker 8: is how we got– this is how far we got
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Speaker 8: last night or whatever it might be until you get
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Speaker 8: up to the certain elements. And you are correct. You
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Speaker 8: ideally want them to walk up to the line, but
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Speaker 8: you also have to feel comfortable enough that this is
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Speaker 8: not going to occur with him going to anybody else.
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Speaker 8: to help him along because, you know, they build a
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Speaker 8: relationship with these kids who then trust the person they're
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Speaker 8: talking to. But, yeah, I mean, could this have gone sideways?
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Speaker 8: Did he get another way of getting a weapon? Sure.
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Speaker 8: But these are things that you have to do to
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Speaker 8: catch kids that are about to go do a really violent,
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Speaker 8: awful act.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk a little bit about who this
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Speaker 1: guy is. He's 18 years old. Who is he?
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Speaker 8: Okay, so his parents are from Somalia, but he was
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Speaker 8: born here.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 8: There's some information out that in months past, the FBI
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Speaker 8: actually went to his parents to talk to them, presumably,
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Speaker 8: about what he was doing online. That apparently didn't have
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Speaker 8: any effect. And, you know, since I don't know what
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Speaker 8: occurred in that conversation, I will just tell you There
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Speaker 8: are certain immigrant populations that are very leery of the
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Speaker 8: police and law enforcement because of where they grew up.
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Speaker 8: So did they not trust the FBI? Did they not
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Speaker 8: do anything? I have no idea, of course. All I'm
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Speaker 8: suggesting is it's another challenge in these cases because clearly
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Speaker 8: you need a community's help. You need parents' help. to
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Speaker 8: come forward and say, you know, somebody needs to take
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Speaker 8: a look at what my kid's doing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he wanted to go into the Mall of
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Speaker 1: America and shoot a lot of people. Did he have
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Speaker 1: particular targets?
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Speaker 8: No, I mean, his comment was that the Mall of
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Speaker 8: America is owned by folks of the Jewish faith. And
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Speaker 8: that was his motivator, apparently. And that, you know, killing
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Speaker 8: anybody there would have been in his mind, sort of
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Speaker 8: a Jewish sympathizer.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 1: So interesting. I'm 18 years old and his goal in
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Speaker 1: life is to go and do a mass killing.
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Speaker 8: It's amazing how far down the rabbit hole of darkness
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Speaker 8: some of these kids will go.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank goodness we caught this one and hopefully we'll
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Speaker 1: catch the next one as well. ABC's Brad Garrett, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for your information this morning.
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Speaker 10: You're welcome.
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Speaker 8: Take care, Amy.
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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. President Trump has clarified his
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Speaker 1: comments about Iran possibly striking L.A. or San Diego. He
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Speaker 1: brought it up again yesterday during a political rally in Texas.
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Speaker 9: You want to see a horror show? You want to
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Speaker 9: see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit
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Speaker 9: Los Angeles and you want to see some bad things happen.
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Speaker 9: You want to see a country that would be in
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Speaker 9: free fall. We're not going to let that happen. We
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Speaker 9: protect our cities. We protect our country. We're not letting
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Speaker 9: that happen.
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Speaker 1: Critics argued earlier this week that Trump was calling on
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Speaker 1: Iran to strike the West Coast cities. The president was
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Speaker 1: talking about higher gas prices at the time. which he
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Speaker 1: said was a small price to pay to keep Iran
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Speaker 1: from having a nuclear weapon. A review of voting records
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Speaker 1: shows two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive U.S. House and
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Speaker 1: Senate races have either broken with President Trump on policy
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Speaker 1: or played down ties with him. The review by Reuters
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Speaker 1: finds candidates in 41 of 62 competitive congressional races are
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Speaker 1: distancing themselves from Trump ahead of the midterms. The candidates
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Speaker 1: have criticized him or widened the gap on certain issues.
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Speaker 1: President Trump's golf club in Florida could be used as
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Speaker 1: a Camp David-style presidential retreat.
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Speaker 11: The president says the military and Secret Service presented him
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Speaker 11: with this idea. The Palm Beach Post reported Trump International
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Speaker 11: Golf Course's lawyer sent a letter to Palm Beach County
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Speaker 11: commissioners about the offer. He said the golf course would
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Speaker 11: be designated as a U.S. presidential golf course and be
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Speaker 11: made available to all past, current, and future presidents, as
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Speaker 11: well as foreign heads of state to use. The letter
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Speaker 11: went on to say the golf course would pay for
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Speaker 11: the presidential lodging facility to be built and would be
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Speaker 11: a gift to Trump's successors since it would not be
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Speaker 11: done until he's out of office. Debra Mark, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: A judge in Tennessee has ordered the state's Department of
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Speaker 1: Correction to preserve evidence related to Krista Pike's botched execution.
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Speaker 1: ABC's Faith Abubay says Pike's attorney says she is conscious
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Speaker 1: and getting critical medical care.
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Speaker 6: Pike's lawyers say doctors believed she was brain dead and
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Speaker 6: were making final preparations to take her off life support
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Speaker 6: Tuesday when she regained consciousness.
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Speaker 1: The lawyers say Pike is still shackled to her bed
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Speaker 1: in the hospital. A tropical storm off the coast of
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Speaker 1: Mexico is expected to create hazardous weather in Southern California.
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Speaker 7: The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday extended the forecast cone
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Speaker 7: for Rachel, which now shows the system hitting the American Southwest.
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Speaker 7: Rachel's been a Category 1 hurricane, but forecasters predict it
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Speaker 7: will be a tropical cyclone by the time it reaches
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Speaker 7: the U.S., although still producing heavy rain, strong winds and
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Speaker 7: other hazards. The remnants of Rachel are expected to make
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Speaker 7: landfall in Southern California by early Sunday. and could create
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Speaker 7: some rainy conditions across the southwest through next Tuesday. Tammy Trujillo,
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Speaker 7: KFI News.
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Speaker 1: A tortoise born before the Civil War may hold clues
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Speaker 1: to slowing human aging. Vanderbilt Health researchers have been studying Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: the world's oldest known living land animal. He's 194 years old,
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Speaker 1: believed to have hatched in 1832. He lives on an
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Speaker 1: But researchers say they've tested his DNA and it shows
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Speaker 1: exactly is why, but they say they hope this discovery
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Speaker 1: of the young DNA will eventually lead to treatments that
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Speaker 12: He's cool.
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Speaker 2: Have you seen videos of Jonathan?
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Speaker 1: I have not seen Jonathan, but when we went to
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Speaker 1: the Galapagos, we got to see a lot of tortoises.
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Speaker 5: They're old, too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're very cool. When we come back, President Trump
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Speaker 1: doing some modern day barnstorming. His latest stop ahead of
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Speaker 1: the midterms is Texas, trying to drum up support for
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Speaker 1: Senate candidate Ken Paxton. ABC's Karen Travers has the latest
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Speaker 1: on that coming up next. The remnants of Hurricane Rachel
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Speaker 1: expected move across Southern California this weekend. Forecasters say the
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Speaker 1: storm will bring downpours and strong winds. Flash flood watches
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Speaker 1: and warnings along with wind watches could be issued by
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Speaker 1: the end of the weekend. Drivers in L.A. could soon
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Speaker 1: face fines for parking within 20 feet of marked or
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Speaker 1: ordinance to Established fines of $ 63 is part of efforts
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Speaker 1: Don't have to dream on anymore. Aerosmith is going to
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Speaker 1: Pre-sale tickets for CityCard members start today and then the
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Speaker 1: general on sale is Saturday at 10 a.m. Let's say
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Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. So Karen, President
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Speaker 1: Trump basically barnstorming ahead of the midterms to try to
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Speaker 1: rally support for Republican candidates. His latest stop is in
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Speaker 1: Texas to support Ken Paxton, who's kind of a tough
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Speaker 1: sell for a lot of folks, but could be a
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Speaker 1: make or break on whether the Republicans retain control of
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Speaker 1: the Senate. So what's he saying about Paxton? Because Paxton
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Speaker 1: has said some things that don't quite line up with
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Speaker 1: the president recently.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, Paxton's making it a little difficult for
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Speaker 10: the president, but the president is still standing by him.
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Speaker 10: There have been audio recordings that have come out through
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Speaker 10: media outlets of Paxton at a fundraiser where he has
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Speaker 10: heard distancing himself from the president, indicating that he thought
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Speaker 10: that the midterm convention that the president held in Texas
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Speaker 10: last month actually hurt Republican candidates. He said you can
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Speaker 10: hear him on the audio saying that numbers went down
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Speaker 10: for him and others after that. And then in another
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Speaker 10: one this week that was released, Paxton is heard saying
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Speaker 10: that the war in Iran causing gas prices and food
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Speaker 10: prices to go up is the biggest problem for his
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Speaker 10: campaign right now. The president yesterday was asked if he
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Speaker 10: regrets endorsing Paxton. He says, no, no, he was a
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Speaker 10: great attorney general. He'll be a good senator. And he
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Speaker 10: was asked if he agrees with Paxton's assessment that the
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Speaker 10: war with Iran and the spike in prices is the
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Speaker 10: biggest hurdle right now for Republicans and He didn't answer
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Speaker 10: that part of the question, but again, kind of talked
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Speaker 10: about what he's doing to end the war with Iran
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Speaker 10: and bring gas prices down. But it is a challenging
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Speaker 10: race for Republicans right now. The polls show that the Democrat,
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Speaker 10: James Palo Rico, is leading at this point. The fact
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Speaker 10: that the president's been there twice in a week, three
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Speaker 10: times in a month, certainly indicates that Republicans are concerned
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Speaker 10: with how Paxton is doing at this point.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And so it's really.
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Speaker 1: It's out of character for Trump to support somebody who's
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Speaker 1: openly criticizing him.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: I mean, you know, there's always a way to like support,
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Speaker 10: but also make some jabs, which we've heard him do
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Speaker 10: talking about Paxton's clothes and things like that. But I
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Speaker 10: think there's a recognition that this is a very important race.
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Speaker 10: This is a state that's reliably red. The president has
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Speaker 10: won there all three times. I mean, this is not
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Speaker 10: supposed to be in play. As you noted, Paxton has
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Speaker 10: had his issues. You know, many Republicans would say he's
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Speaker 10: a flawed candidate. They are pouring money into this race
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Speaker 10: to try to keep it in the red column.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And isn't the money that's being poured in, isn't
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Speaker 1: that sort of recent where Tallarico has had strong financial
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Speaker 1: support for a very long time? And it's sort of
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Speaker 1: like the Republicans didn't start pumping money in until they
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Speaker 1: realized that Paxman was really in trouble.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, like, you know, a bit of a five alarm
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Speaker 10: fire and saying we need to put money in here.
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Speaker 10: And then that shifts it from other races, too. And
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Speaker 10: it's always like the line in politics, especially in the
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Speaker 10: final four weeks, you know, where the money is going
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Speaker 10: and where the big surrogates are going, whether that's President Trump, J.D.
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Speaker 10: Vance on the other side, President Obama out on the
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Speaker 10: campaign trail, where those people are going indicates where they
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Speaker 10: think the support is needed, where they're concerned about, especially
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Speaker 10: the money when they start shifting it around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: OK.
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Speaker 1: And then where's he headed to next? Do we know?
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Speaker 10: Going to upstate New York tomorrow, the Syracuse area, then
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Speaker 10: Tennessee and Alabama on Saturday. But of course, Alabama is
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Speaker 10: going to be getting that hurricane spreading into Saturday. So
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Speaker 10: some questions about what will happen with that trip.
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Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Karen Travers. Thanks so much for the info.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 1: So if you hate the heat. You're going to like this.
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Speaker 5: We are on our last day of extreme heat warning.
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Speaker 6: The extreme heat warning ends at 8 tonight, says National
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Speaker 6: Weather Service meteorologist Kristen Lund.
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Speaker 3: And rain is coming.
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Speaker 5: We might see some rain as early as Saturday morning,
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Speaker 5: but we could see it continuing until as late as Tuesday,
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Speaker 5: 10 p.m.
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Speaker 3: It won't be a lot of rain, but she says
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Speaker 3: all of SoCal should get a taste.
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Speaker 5: Literally anywhere, we'll be seeing several hours of light to
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Speaker 5: moderate rain through these four days.
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Speaker 3: And some strong surf could do more damage to already
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Speaker 3: eroded beaches. Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: Well, I certainly hope there's no flooding. I know that
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Speaker 1: they're warning about that, but I'm really looking forward to
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Speaker 1: some rain showers.
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Speaker 5: So happy.
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Speaker 1: I know, right? It's been so hot. And yesterday I
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Speaker 1: walked home. And I thought, oh, it's supposed to be cooler.
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Speaker 1: But like when that sun is just pounding down on
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Speaker 1: you right around noon, you're like, oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 8: All right.
19:33
Speaker 1: Well, it's going away. It's going away.
19:35
Speaker 12: It's all right. This is an absolute scandal.
19:38
Speaker 1: Sentencing has been pushed back to December for a former
19:41
Speaker 1: aide to Governor Newsom and campaign manager to Javier Becerra,
19:46
Speaker 1: who was convicted of stealing $ 225, 000 from Becerra's inactivity. political
19:50
Speaker 1: campaign account. Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton says it's
19:54
Speaker 1: outrageous that sentencing isn't going to happen until after the election.
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Speaker 12: It's the Javier Becerra corruption scandal, where he took money
20:02
Speaker 12: from his California campaign account, breaking federal and state law
20:06
Speaker 12: in order to top up the salary of his former
20:09
Speaker 12: chief of staff, Sean McCluskey. so that he could go
20:12
Speaker 12: with him to Washington.
20:13
Speaker 1: McCluskey pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to commit bank
20:18
Speaker 1: and wire fraud. The LAPD says the investigation so far
20:22
Speaker 1: into the fatal fall of a 17-year-old at Franklin High
20:26
Speaker 1: School in Highland Park has not found evidence linking allegations
20:30
Speaker 1: of bullying to the student's death, but officials say the
20:32
Speaker 1: investigation is ongoing. Video shows the boy going over a
20:36
Speaker 1: railing last week after a fight with another boy.
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Speaker 8: The L.A.
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Speaker 1: County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a suicide. California
20:45
Speaker 1: may soon become the first state to ban most man-made
20:49
Speaker 1: quartz countertops.
20:50
Speaker 7: Officials want to ban countertops with high levels of crystalline silica,
20:54
Speaker 7: which can be dangerous to workers. The main concern is silicosis,
20:58
Speaker 7: a deadly lung disease caused by silica dust. Since 2019,
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Speaker 7: over 650 cases and 35 deaths from silicosis have been
21:05
Speaker 7: reported in California. Manufacturers say the countertops are safe if
21:09
Speaker 7: proper safety steps are taken. Officials, though, say current safety
21:12
Speaker 7: rules aren't enough. Australia has already banned quartz countertops. Tammy Trujillo,
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Speaker 7: KFI News. Home foreclosures have jumped dramatically.
21:21
Speaker 14: New data says filings for foreclosures, including default notices, scheduled auctions,
21:27
Speaker 14: or bank repossessions, were up 13% in August from the
21:30
Speaker 14: year before. Property data provider Adams says South Carolina had
21:33
Speaker 14: the worst foreclosure rate in August, followed by Florida and Texas.
21:37
Speaker 14: Properties that have finished the foreclosure process are up 42%
21:41
Speaker 14: from last year. Texas led the way there in August
21:43
Speaker 14: with more than 1,800 completed foreclosures, way ahead of California
21:47
Speaker 14: at number two with just under 600. The report says
21:50
Speaker 14: overall foreclosure activity is still below pre-COVID times, but it's
21:53
Speaker 14: catching up quickly. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
21:58
Speaker 1: A group of researchers and patient advocates in California is
22:02
Speaker 1: working to better understand the most extreme cases of autism.
22:05
Speaker 3: Profound autism refers to those that have very limited to
22:08
Speaker 3: no verbal communication, often have an IQ below 50 and
22:12
Speaker 3: need 24-7 care. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is
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Speaker 3: now funding research to study it. Allison Berent is a
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Speaker 3: researcher with the institute and has a child with autism.
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Speaker 3: She tells KFI she's very optimistic.
22:23
Speaker 12: I couldn't be these individuals because I'm living it and
22:29
Speaker 12: I'm seeing it.
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Speaker 3: The study is funding basic research to link genetic research
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Speaker 3: and disease biology to better understand the cause of profound
22:36
Speaker 3: autism and to create better therapies for the future. Eileen Gonzalez,
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Speaker 3: KFI News.
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Speaker 1: I'm a happy camper today. Hope you are too. Dodgers
22:44
Speaker 1: advancing to the championship series.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Do we have a three-peat coming? I certainly hope so.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm very happy, but I'm also very sad
22:52
Speaker 1: because I had tickets to game five. And since the
22:55
Speaker 1: Dodgers won it in four, There is no game five.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, Amy.
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Speaker 2: This is Scott from Play Adele Carmen.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Scott.
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Speaker 2: It's go blue. Yeah. But sad for you. Maybe you
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Speaker 2: can get another game later.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: For the playoffs.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 2: Have a wonderful day listening to you now.
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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Scott. Yeah, actually, no, because we have
23:18
Speaker 1: a group that has season tickets. There's no way we
23:21
Speaker 1: can afford them on our own. And so we do
23:24
Speaker 1: like a little mini draft to see who gets which
23:26
Speaker 1: playoff tickets. And that was the one we had tickets
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Speaker 1: to for this season. So I'll be watching from home
23:33
Speaker 1: or maybe a nice sports bar. Here's what we're following
23:37
Speaker 1: in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Almost home. The USS Abraham
23:41
Speaker 1: Lincoln is motoring towards San Diego after a near-record deployment
23:45
Speaker 1: in support of Operation Epic Fury. The carrier with more
23:49
Speaker 1: than 5,000 sailors on board is expected to arrive at
23:51
Speaker 1: Naval Air Station North Island around noon. The big ship
23:55
Speaker 1: was at sea without a port of call for 286 days,
23:59
Speaker 1: the second longest deployment since the Vietnam War. Long Beach
24:03
Speaker 1: has activated its new automated speed enforcement system. Cameras will
24:08
Speaker 1: identify vehicles going at least 11 miles over the posted
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Speaker 1: speed limit. And for the first 60 days, we'll just
24:14
Speaker 1: send out warnings. And then after that, Citations will be issued.
24:19
Speaker 1: Signs will be posted to warn drivers about the speed cams.
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Speaker 1: The Powerball jackpot has grown to more than a half
24:26
Speaker 1: billion dollars. No one matched all six numbers drawn last night.
24:30
Speaker 1: The next drawing on Saturday will be worth an estimated
24:33
Speaker 1: $ 516 million. And tomorrow night's Mega Millions jackpot, also growing,
24:37
Speaker 1: the pot will be worth $ 364 million. Here's what's coming
24:41
Speaker 1: out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. California is giving tax
24:44
Speaker 1: credits to another 35 film and TV projects as part
24:48
Speaker 1: of the state's expanded push to retain local production. Among
24:52
Speaker 1: the projects being awarded are the long-awaited fourth film in
24:56
Speaker 1: Ice Cube's Friday franchise, the reboots of Clueless. Ooh, that'll
25:04
Speaker 1: be fun. And the 1970s TV series The Rockford Files.
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Speaker 1: I would be interested in both of those.
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Speaker 4: The L.A.
25:12
Speaker 1: Convention Center expansion project is apparently going to do some
25:15
Speaker 1: good things for the local economy. L.A.
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Speaker 11: Mayor Bass and city officials say the project could bring
25:20
Speaker 11: in an estimated 186,000 visitors and more than $ 400 million
25:25
Speaker 11: to the economy. They say since construction on the project
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Speaker 11: started a year ago, 18 major conferences have chosen to
25:31
Speaker 11: hold their annual events in L.A., The expansion project is
25:34
Speaker 11: being built through a phased delivery with construction leading up
25:37
Speaker 11: to the 2028 Olympic Games, pausing for that event, then
25:40
Speaker 11: continuing through completion as soon as 2029.
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Speaker 1: Debra Mark, KFI News. The FBI in LA has announced
25:46
Speaker 1: charges against nine people over an alleged Mexican mafia-linked murder
25:51
Speaker 1: conspiracy and extortion scheme in Pomona. The charges are tied
25:55
Speaker 1: to a shooting in July over a perceived debt. The
25:59
Speaker 1: feds say eight of those charged are alleged associates of
26:02
Speaker 1: the Mexican mafia prison gang. The ninth is accused of
26:06
Speaker 1: removing bullet casings after the shooting to prevent investigators from
26:10
Speaker 1: collecting evidence. Six of the defendants were arrested yesterday. One
26:14
Speaker 1: was already in jail. Governor Newsom has joined the fight
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Speaker 1: against voter ID in California.
26:19
Speaker 2: Newsom joined the No on 39 campaign as an honorary co-chair.
26:23
Speaker 2: We had a dog vote in the last two elections
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Speaker 2: in Orange County, and that's unacceptable. Co-author of the bill,
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Speaker 2: State Senator Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach is hopeful.
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Speaker 5: It's going to be incredibly close.
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Speaker 8: We're the outlier here in California.
26:34
Speaker 2: We're only one of 14 states that doesn't use it.
26:37
Speaker 2: The other side is trying to confuse everybody. It may
26:39
Speaker 2: seem like it's complicated. It's not. If Prop 39 passes,
26:42
Speaker 2: voters would need to show an ID before casting a
26:45
Speaker 2: ballot or give ID numbers on mail-in ballots so the
26:48
Speaker 2: votes can be counted. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
26:53
Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
26:55
Speaker 1: weekday morning at this time. Say good morning to Bloomberg's
26:58
Speaker 1: Erica Herskovitz.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Erica. Good morning, Amy.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Pepsi. Apparently, it's a hard sell
27:06
Speaker 1: these days.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Pepsi's having a tough time getting American shoppers to bite.
27:11
Speaker 13: The beverage and snack giant cutting its profit forecast this year.
27:14
Speaker 13: The maker of Doritos, Lay's, and Gatorade now expects earnings
27:17
Speaker 13: growth of just 1% to 2%, down from as much
27:20
Speaker 13: as 6% previously. Price cuts on snacks haven't done enough
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Speaker 13: to lift sales, and Pepsi now plans to raise some prices.
27:28
Speaker 13: The company will continue to offer more products with protein
27:30
Speaker 13: and fiber. as well as those with simpler ingredients.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if it has to do with GLP-1. That's
27:36
Speaker 1: affecting so many items in the marketplace. And I just
27:40
Speaker 1: want to say that last night I was watching baseball
27:43
Speaker 1: and I saw a Pepsi ad and it had polar
27:46
Speaker 1: bears drinking Pepsi. Everyone knows that polar bears drink Coke.
27:51
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're trying to do. All right, Levi's.
27:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a ripoff, pretty much.
27:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're stealing from Coke. Okay, Levi's may have picked
28:01
Speaker 1: the wrong jeans for back to school. What happened?
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Speaker 13: The company's fall campaign focused on baggy jeans, which missed
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Speaker 13: the mark with shoppers who've been favoring those low-rise styles.
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Speaker 13: Sales through its own store and website rose just 2%
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Speaker 13: last quarter, which was the slowest growth in nearly three years.
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Speaker 1: That's not good. Okay, so Uniqlo... Is moving up the
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Speaker 1: global fashion ranks. And I'm glad that we're talking about
28:27
Speaker 1: this because it is now Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium.
28:30
Speaker 1: And we were just talking about it last time we
28:32
Speaker 1: were at a game where we're like, what is Uniqlo?
28:35
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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Speaker 3: It's that store in the mall.
28:37
Speaker 1: Well, it's a store in the mall.
28:39
Speaker 3: It's that store in the mall. You never kind of
28:41
Speaker 3: go in.
28:42
Speaker 4: You never go in.
28:42
Speaker 1: Is it for young kids?
28:44
Speaker 4: I think it is.
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Speaker 3: And it's a lot of basics.
28:46
Speaker 1: It's not like.
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Speaker 13: Any high fashion you know what i mean so parent
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Speaker 13: company fast retailing says annual sales jumped at uniclo 17
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Speaker 13: to a record 25 billion dollars putting it on track
28:57
Speaker 13: to overtake h & m as the world's number two
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Speaker 13: apparel retailer behind the company that owns zara the uh
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Speaker 13: this shows that uh uniclo has come pretty far and
29:06
Speaker 13: has come from its origins as a low price japanese
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Speaker 13: casual air chain to become an international brand built around
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Speaker 13: functional all-season apparel, which may also, you know, as a
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Speaker 13: Japanese brand, may also explain why it sponsors Dodger Stadium.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense, right? H & M, Zara, that
29:23
Speaker 1: all makes sense. Okay, good to know. Flag football is
29:26
Speaker 1: having a big moment, especially with girls.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, participation soaring, fueled by the NFL's push to grow
29:32
Speaker 13: the sport. More than 100,000 high school girls played flag
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Speaker 13: football last year, up 48% in just one year. The
29:39
Speaker 13: NFL has pledged to million dollars toward flag football since
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Speaker 13: the end of 2025 with much of it earmarked for
29:45
Speaker 13: the development of men's and women's pro.
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Speaker 1: Leagues all right i think that's great flag football is
29:50
Speaker 1: a blast erica herskovitz getting in your business as we
29:54
Speaker 1: do each weekday morning with bloomberg thank you so much
29:58
Speaker 1: Thank you, Amy. All right. When we come back, the
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Speaker 1: author of The Proposal and The Wedding Date. You know those.
30:03
Speaker 1: They were both made into big Hollywood hit movies and
30:06
Speaker 1: they started as books. Well, the author is Jasmine Guillory
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Speaker 1: and she is going to join us with her next book.
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Speaker 1: It's called It's Just Dancing. And I will tell you,
30:17
Speaker 1: I read it in one sitting. Always love to hear
30:20
Speaker 1: from you on the Talkback. It's that little microphone in
30:24
Speaker 1: the upper right-hand corner if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about Uniqlo, which is a huge sponsor
30:31
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers now, and I don't know who they are.
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Speaker 6: Amy, I can't believe you don't know what Uniqlo is.
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Speaker 3: You must go and discover the magic of Uniqlo.
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Speaker 12: Ooh, I must go.
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Speaker 8: You must.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 1: I'll go discover the magic. And then speaking of magic,
30:46
Speaker 1: the Dodgers could be headed to a three-peat. And I
30:49
Speaker 1: was actually thinking about this, and somebody weighed in on
30:52
Speaker 1: the talkback about it, you know, because the Dodgers spend
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Speaker 1: so much money. I mean, shouldn't they win?
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Speaker 6: I'd just like to know, who gets fired if the
31:01
Speaker 6: Dodgers don't win? I mean, you spend all that money
31:05
Speaker 6: on all those players and you don't win.
31:07
Speaker 4: Somebody effed up.
31:08
Speaker 6: So somebody should get fired if you guys don't win
31:11
Speaker 6: the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Well, we shall see. Of course, I'm hoping for a three-peat.
31:16
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see. And, of course, the
31:18
Speaker 1: Dodgers start playing the championship series against Milwaukee on Sunday.
31:23
Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-Hour Newsroom.
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Speaker 4: L.A.
31:27
Speaker 1: County health officials say they will investigate a home in
31:30
Speaker 1: the Fairfax District where trash and debris have once again spread.
31:34
Speaker 1: piled up despite years of complaints and cleanup efforts. Piles
31:38
Speaker 1: of trash now cover the property on North Martel Avenue
31:42
Speaker 1: near Melrose. The property drew widespread attention in April of
31:47
Speaker 1: 2024 when L.A. Mayor Bass visited the site. She declared
31:51
Speaker 1: it a public health emergency and directed city crews to
31:53
Speaker 1: remove the massive piles of trash.
31:56
Speaker 9: L.A.
31:56
Speaker 1: City Councils voted in favor of banning the sale and
31:58
Speaker 1: distribution of nitrous oxide by tobacco and cannabis retailers. The
32:03
Speaker 1: city attorney's office will now prepare a draft ordinance to
32:06
Speaker 1: expand the types of businesses that could be subject to
32:10
Speaker 1: criminal charges for selling nitrous oxide products. Southland drivers might
32:16
Speaker 1: not notice it yet, but gas prices are starting to
32:19
Speaker 1: come down just a little bit from last year's near
32:21
Speaker 1: record highs. The average price for a gallon of regular
32:24
Speaker 1: gas in L.A. County is down another penny to about 640.
32:28
Speaker 1: Its seventh day of decreases following more than 40 straight
32:31
Speaker 1: days of increases. Orange County prices tick down to $ 6.
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Speaker 2: 32.
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Speaker 1: It's $ 6. 26 in the IE. 5.53 and time for us
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Speaker 1: to say good morning to the author of a new
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Speaker 1: book called It's Only Dancing, Jasmine Guillory. Good morning, Jasmine.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 1: So tell us about, well, first of all, I'm going
32:54
Speaker 1: to say that you have written a several other books,
32:57
Speaker 1: and some of them were made into hit movies, like
32:59
Speaker 1: The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds and The
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Speaker 1: Wedding Day with Deborah Messing and Dermot Mulroney. So you
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Speaker 1: obviously have.
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Speaker 4: A- I just have to say, actually, my books, The
33:10
Speaker 4: Wedding Day and The Proposal were not related to those movies.
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Speaker 4: They weren't? I wrote them after the movies came out. Yes, yes.
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Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
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Speaker 6: There are lots of books.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, sorry about that.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no, that's okay.
33:20
Speaker 2: All right.
33:20
Speaker 1: So the book that you wrote now is a reboot.
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Speaker 1: of a movie that we know from our childhood, and
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Speaker 1: that's Dirty Dancing. So tell us about It's Just Dancing.
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Speaker 4: Well, so this book is a young adult book. It's
33:40
Speaker 4: about Catherine, who likes to be referred to as Cat.
33:44
Speaker 4: Her parents call her Kitty, which she hates. She goes
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Speaker 4: to a month-long family camp with her parents and her
33:50
Speaker 4: younger sister. She's 17, so you can imagine how much
33:53
Speaker 4: she hates going to a family camp with her parents
33:55
Speaker 4: and her younger sister. But while she's at the camp, she...
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Speaker 4: Stumbles upon the staff party the first night and she
34:03
Speaker 4: sees Jordan, who is the hip hop dance instructor at
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Speaker 4: the camp, and she sees him dancing and is mesmerized.
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Speaker 4: And she, of course, and she later kind of accidentally
34:17
Speaker 4: volunteers to dance with him for his big dance of
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Speaker 4: the year. Kat used to dance ballet, but hasn't danced
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Speaker 4: in a while. And so kind of has to relearn
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Speaker 4: how to dance and has to learn how to dance
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Speaker 4: hip hop with Jordan. And then she learns a lot
34:33
Speaker 4: of other things with Jordan as well.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 1: And she has to, of course, keep the dance secret.
34:37
Speaker 1: So it was interesting because I sat down and I
34:39
Speaker 1: read the book, Jasmine, and I was like, okay, I'll
34:42
Speaker 1: read the first few chapters. And then four hours later,
34:44
Speaker 1: I was done and read the whole book.
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Speaker 4: So Oh, that's so lovely.
34:47
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. And it's so familiar
34:49
Speaker 1: because it really is a reboot of Dirty Dancing. But
34:51
Speaker 1: Dirty Dancing was like from 1980-ish. So it's like, you know,
34:56
Speaker 1: almost 50 years later. And so this has a fun
34:59
Speaker 1: 21st century twist to it. But as you're reading it,
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Speaker 1: I loved it because I was like, oh, yeah, they're
35:06
Speaker 1: the families driving to the camp. Oh, yeah. One of
35:08
Speaker 1: the daughters doesn't want to. Oh, the younger daughter's more public.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so there's so many of the storylines that
35:13
Speaker 1: are very, very similar. But there's also differences because it's
35:17
Speaker 1: in a different time.
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Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah, I wanted it to be very much a story,
35:23
Speaker 4: you know, in 2026.
35:25
Speaker 5: Right.
35:26
Speaker 4: And what what are you know, both Kat and Jordan
35:29
Speaker 4: are 17. What are teenagers going through right now? What
35:33
Speaker 4: are the what are the same things that, you know,
35:35
Speaker 4: we all felt as teenagers? And then what's different about
35:37
Speaker 4: life as a teenager now than when it was, you know,
35:40
Speaker 4: when I was a teenager or younger? you know, in
35:43
Speaker 4: 1987 when the movie came out or 1960s when the
35:48
Speaker 4: movie was set.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Was it 87 that it came out? I thought
35:52
Speaker 1: it was earlier than that. But yeah.
35:54
Speaker 5: It was somewhere there.
35:55
Speaker 1: So and one of the big things that happened in
35:58
Speaker 1: the movie was that she got involved because there were
36:03
Speaker 1: One of the dancers had to have or didn't have
36:05
Speaker 1: to have an abortion, but was going to have an
36:07
Speaker 1: abortion because she wasn't ready to be a mom and
36:10
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So that's not one of the
36:12
Speaker 1: themes of this particular book. But you have other issues,
36:17
Speaker 1: current issues that kids are dealing with.
36:20
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, I think kids deal with a lot
36:23
Speaker 4: of important societal issues today. I think people kind of
36:27
Speaker 4: pretend that kids don't understand what's going on. They understand.
36:31
Speaker 4: They pay attention. And it's part of their lives. And
36:35
Speaker 4: so I wanted that to be a part of the
36:38
Speaker 4: book as well. Like they understand. um, it is part
36:43
Speaker 4: of what they're going through. And also they want to
36:46
Speaker 4: get involved in what's going on. They know that this is,
36:49
Speaker 4: you know, that many of the issues that we deal
36:52
Speaker 4: with and talk about are going to affect their future.
36:54
Speaker 4: And that's what kids want to be involved with. That's
36:57
Speaker 4: what they care about. Yeah. Okay.
36:58
Speaker 1: So now I have a question for you, not about
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Speaker 1: the book, well about the book, but so you're obviously,
37:05
Speaker 1: you're a good writer. You've written several books. Um, But
37:09
Speaker 1: why choose to basically rewrite this book, which is not book,
37:15
Speaker 1: but this movie that is already such a part of
37:18
Speaker 1: our culture and our history?
37:21
Speaker 4: You know, I loved the movie so much. And I
37:23
Speaker 4: also was really excited by the idea of writing a
37:28
Speaker 4: contemporary version of it and one with Black teenagers at
37:33
Speaker 4: its core. I felt like the story of dancing hip
37:37
Speaker 4: hop would be really fun to add to it. And,
37:41
Speaker 4: you know, thinking about this is the first book that
37:43
Speaker 4: I've written for teenagers. And so thinking about that different
37:47
Speaker 4: audience perspective What appeals to them? What is upsetting them?
37:52
Speaker 4: What are they excited by? That was all kind of
37:55
Speaker 4: really exciting for me to think about and to write about.
37:59
Speaker 1: OK, Jasmine Guillory, author of It's Only Dancing. And like
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Speaker 1: I said, I read this in one sitting. It's a
38:05
Speaker 1: it's a fun read. Like I said, it's familiar, but
38:08
Speaker 1: it's got new themes and new twists on it. Maybe
38:11
Speaker 1: I mean, it's good for adults, but maybe if you
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Speaker 1: have a daughter or even a granddaughter. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: think it's it's relevant for so many different age groups.
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Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Jasmine. Where can we get
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Speaker 1: your book?
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Speaker 4: You can get that get the book anywhere books are sold.
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Speaker 4: I'm doing an event in L.A. next week, actually, at
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Speaker 4: Reparations Club. But the book should be out everywhere now.
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Speaker 4: And you can find me on my website, Jasmine Guillory
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Speaker 4: dot com or on my Instagram, Jasmine Picks.
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Speaker 12: Awesome.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Jasmine Guillory, author of It's Only Dancing.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun read. Have a great day.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad we got to connect with her. And I
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Speaker 1: thought it was based, they had books the same name
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Speaker 1: as the movies.
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Speaker 6: Who knew?
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Speaker 7: Who knew?
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Speaker 1: But I will tell you, it doesn't matter if her
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Speaker 1: books were made in movies or not. It really was
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Speaker 1: a fun read and it was an easy read. So
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Speaker 1: if you're looking for something kind of light and fun,
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Speaker 1: and I will tell you that her parents in the
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Speaker 1: book were much, more communicative than the parents and also
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Speaker 1: understanding than the parents in Dirty Dancing. So it's kind
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Speaker 1: of fun to see the differences over the different generations.
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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. Officials in Long Beach say
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Speaker 1: four more sandbag distribution sites are being opened as residents
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Speaker 1: are being urged to get ready for possible clashes. flooding,
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Speaker 1: high surf and rain tied to the remnants of Hurricane Rachel.
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Speaker 1: Sand and sandbags will be available at designated fire stations
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Speaker 1: from 10 this morning. They'll be available until Tuesday. Officials
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Speaker 1: say the materials are available to Long Beach residents only
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Speaker 1: and you do have to show ID and are limited
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Speaker 1: to 10 bags per person. California is taking on the
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Speaker 1: state's lack of affordable student housing with new legislation.
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Speaker 7: The laws remove delays from local rules, lawsuits, and some
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Speaker 7: environmental reviews and offer rewards to developers for building affordable options.
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Speaker 7: In the past, many student housing projects have been delayed
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Speaker 7: by red tape and lawsuits. Former foster youth and homeless
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Speaker 7: students will get first choice for student housing and can
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Speaker 7: pay after receiving financial aid. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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Speaker 1: And the European Parliament has put up a statue of...
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Speaker 1: President Trump.
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Speaker 14: The eight and a half foot tall sculpture features Trump
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Speaker 14: naked and sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man
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Speaker 14: while holding a golf club in the scales of justice.
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Speaker 14: Danish artist Jens Gelschut says Trump likes gold, so he
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Speaker 14: covered him in gold leaf. Members of parliament can host
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Speaker 14: displays on the grounds in Strasbourg, France, but they must
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Speaker 14: be approved and cannot be offensive, inflammatory or against its values.
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Speaker 14: Gelschut says he wanted to raise discussion about making politics
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Speaker 14: in Europe not dependent on Trump. Miniatures of the sculpture
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Speaker 14: are also there for people to take as protest tokens.
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Speaker 14: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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