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Tropical Storm Marie Upgraded to Hurricane · 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: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's 5 o'clock straight up. This is your
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for Thursday, September 3rd. I'm Amy King. If
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  Speaker 1: I've ever needed a Zen moment, it's right now. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to pull back the curtain a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We work diligently to get everything together so we can
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  Speaker 1: put everything together so we can share with you what
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  Speaker 1: happened overnight, share with you what's going to happen. Diligently. Diligently.
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  Speaker 1: And it takes a while. So I usually get in
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  Speaker 1: at about 3.30. And I got in this morning after
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  Speaker 1: getting a note from Editor Carlush that can't connect to
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  Speaker 1: any of the drives. We can't get into any of
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  Speaker 1: the programs. So we just got online about five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: So things might be a little scattered. Our crack IT
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  Speaker 1: team has been at this all night because iHeart in
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  Speaker 1: general is doing some big upgrade with their infrastructure with IT.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, they have to do it overnight
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  Speaker 1: because you can't do it during the Bill Handel show,
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  Speaker 1: for goodness sake. But anyway, so it's been a little tense.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I guess I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: Jackie for an hour if we don't have any news.
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  Speaker 1: But we did get online in the last, you know, five,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes. And thank you, Doug Irwin. They were running
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  Speaker 1: around trying to get everything done. I knew something was
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  Speaker 1: up when I walked down the hallway and all the
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  Speaker 1: engineering offices were open and lit up.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen every day. But anyway, like we said,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot that has happened while you were sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get to it and get you up to
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  Speaker 1: date and up to speed. Here's what's ahead on Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up Call. Waking up to word that feminist and co-founder
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  Speaker 1: of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, has died. She was the
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  Speaker 1: most visible symbol and voice of the U.S. women's movement
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  Speaker 1: in the 60s and 70s and was a fierce advocate
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  Speaker 1: for feminist causes for the rest of her life. She
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  Speaker 1: died at her home in New York City. Gloria Steinem
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  Speaker 1: was 92. A fast-moving brush fire that raced across hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of acres in the Rancho Mission Viejo area has been stopped.
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  Speaker 1: The fire started just after 2 yesterday afternoon, quickly grew
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  Speaker 1: to 250 acres and shut down Ortega Highway. Orange County
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  Speaker 1: Fire Authority... announced at around 7.30 that the fire's progress
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  Speaker 1: had been stopped and the shelter-in-place orders were lifted. At
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  Speaker 1: least two people have been killed and the shooter is
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  Speaker 1: dead in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis. Police say officers
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  Speaker 1: were fired on when they approached a building yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Three officers are among those hurt. President Trump says Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: is not ready for elections yet. ABC's Stephen Portnoy is
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  Speaker 1: going to join us in just a couple minutes to
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  Speaker 1: tell us what that means and when we might see them.
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  Speaker 1: There's a storm brewing. It's off the coast of Baja, California.
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Maria is gaining strength and could possibly maybe take
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  Speaker 1: aim at California. We're going to find out where she's
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  Speaker 1: headed with meteorologist Rick Rickert, who you might remember.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: Rick Tickert.
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  Speaker 6: Tickert.
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  Speaker 3: Tickert with an E.
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  Speaker 6: Tick.
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  Speaker 7: Rick Tickert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. See, I'm going to blame this on I.T. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be joined by Rick a little later
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  Speaker 1: this hour. You might remember him from years on Good
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  Speaker 1: Day L.A. on Fox 11, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. OK.
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  Speaker 3: Old friend.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up calls going out and about. We're headed to
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  Speaker 1: the rooftop of the Universal City Hilton because I and
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  Speaker 1: Neil Saavedra are getting ready to go over the edge
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  Speaker 1: to raise money for an organization that actually gets homeless
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  Speaker 1: people off the streets. and back on track for their lives.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Union Rescue Mission. We're going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: to CEO Mark Hood coming up in about 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The lineage logistics disaster in
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  Speaker 1: Boyle Heights has prompted more new legislation, the latest involving
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  Speaker 1: a kind of damage deposit.
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez says his Assembly Bill 817 tackles
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  Speaker 3: two issues raised by the lineage fire.
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  Speaker 6: First, by preventing any new building permits for companies like
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  Speaker 6: Lineage until they can show that they have a contingency
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  Speaker 6: fund of up to $ 20 million set aside for disasters
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  Speaker 6: like this. And secondly, AB 817 ensures that any settlement
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  Speaker 6: that a resident or business gets from any future litigation
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  Speaker 6: because of this incident is state tax-free.
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  Speaker 3: The bill's on its way to Governor Newsom to sign.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Rahner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's investigators in Carson are looking into two bodies
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  Speaker 1: found over two days near the Dominguez Channel and the
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  Speaker 1: Victoria Park golf course area. A man's body was found yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The body of a girl is said to be between
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  Speaker 1: 6 and 13 years old. Her body was found Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Officials say the body was in a state of severe decomposition.
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  Speaker 1: Some rain and high surf likely to affect Southern California
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  Speaker 1: over the Labor Day weekend from Hurricane Marie. Forecasters say
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  Speaker 1: the storm is going to track away from the West Coast,
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  Speaker 1: but the moisture from it could be drawn into our
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  Speaker 1: area with a 50 to 60 percent chance of widespread
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  Speaker 1: light rain Sunday through Tuesday. Newport Beach Chief Lifeguard Brian
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  Speaker 1: O'Rourke tells KTLA there's going to be extra lifeguards on
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  Speaker 1: duty over the Labor Day weekend because of Marie. Because
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  Speaker 1: we do expect, you know, heavy conditions. People come down,
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  Speaker 1: they look at the.
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  Speaker 8: Beaches, they see this beautiful water and want to get
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  Speaker 8: in it, and they don't realize that they could be
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  Speaker 8: in trouble within seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Work crews have been putting up temporary berms along the
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  Speaker 1: coast to stop any potential flooding. Time to say good
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  Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, the president said
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  Speaker 1: yesterday he doesn't think Venezuela is ready yet for elections.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: He said Delcy Rodriguez, the interim president, wants to see them,
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  Speaker 2: and so does he.
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  Speaker 3: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: How soon, he didn't say. And it happens that yesterday
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  Speaker 2: his energy secretary, Chris Wright, was in Caracas to sign
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  Speaker 2: the papers with Delcy Rodriguez on this new joint venture
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  Speaker 2: that would have the U.S. taking the majority output of
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  Speaker 2: a new joint venture. called North American Blue Energy Partners,
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  Speaker 2: that would ultimately hope to extract and refine about a
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  Speaker 2: million barrels of oil per day from the 17 oil
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  Speaker 2: fields that they now have a 100-year lease on. And
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  Speaker 2: that ultimately could, years from now, fundamentally reshape the global
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  Speaker 2: energy marketplace, tilt the balance more toward the Western Hemisphere,
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  Speaker 2: away from the Middle East, and everyone hopes... see gas
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  Speaker 2: prices come down. But the question about democratic principles and
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  Speaker 2: values sort of hangs over this. The president said yesterday
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  Speaker 2: that eight months on from the ouster of Nicolas Maduro,
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  Speaker 2: the people of Venezuela aren't ready yet for an open
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  Speaker 2: democratic process, that they've just gotten pulled out of a dictatorship. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so then going back to the oil, Stephen, it
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  Speaker 1: says that we could get a A million barrels a day, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the number that you said?
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  Speaker 3: That is what the hope is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so when we talked earlier, you were saying that
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  Speaker 1: their infrastructure is a mess. Years of decline, and they
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  Speaker 1: hadn't kept it up and that kind of stuff. Are
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  Speaker 1: we going to be able to get that much out,
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  Speaker 1: or are they going to have to do a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of fixing first?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're going to have to do a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of fixing, and just to put it in relative terms
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  Speaker 2: with a comparison, right now Venezuela's daily global output is 1%.
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  Speaker 2: daily oil output is about 1.25 million barrels per day
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  Speaker 2: so you're talking about adding an extra million to that
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about effectively doubling venezuela's oil output and that
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  Speaker 2: could have a substantial impact on global supply and that
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  Speaker 2: is the ultimate goal here but it's going to take
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  Speaker 2: some time right but that's the oil part of it
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  Speaker 2: we could talk again about the democratic governance part of
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  Speaker 2: it and how fraught this whole thing is you know
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  Speaker 2: is in going into this joint venture The United States
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  Speaker 2: is getting into business with a man named Alejandro Betancourt. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you Google him, you'll see that he denies allegations
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  Speaker 2: that he's a money launderer. It's been reported that the
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  Speaker 2: Swiss government believes that this man has committed crimes in
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  Speaker 2: Switzerland and that he should be arrested.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Government has reportedly rejected those requests from the Swiss and,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, invited Alejandro Betancourt to come here. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a man that we're apparently getting into business with.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have to, again, just like every time
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  Speaker 1: we talk to you, Stephen, there's a hundred more questions
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  Speaker 1: that I can ask you. And I know we don't
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  Speaker 1: have the time, but we'll dig into it more next
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  Speaker 1: time we talk.
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  Speaker 3: Tune in tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. All right. Thanks so much, Stephen Portnoy. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it as always. Let's get back to some of the
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  Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Jury deliberations
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  Speaker 1: are going into a sixth day in the trial of
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts. She's charged with strangling her three
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  Speaker 1: young children. The jurors were sent home again yesterday after
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  Speaker 1: telling the judge a second time that they couldn't reach
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  Speaker 1: a unanimous decision. The judge issued a formal instruction to
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  Speaker 1: press on.
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  Speaker 7: There is no reason to suppose that the case will
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  Speaker 7: ever be submitted to 12 persons more intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: The defense says Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when
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  Speaker 1: she killed her children in twenty twenty three. The crew
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  Speaker 1: of the USS Abraham Lincoln has streamed into Pattaya, Thailand
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  Speaker 1: as part of the port call following the ship's lengthy
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  Speaker 1: deployment to the Middle East. It was there to support
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  Speaker 1: the war in Iran and set a record with over
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  Speaker 1: 260 days at sea. The sailors expressed some excitement about
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  Speaker 1: being in Thailand. The Lincoln is expected to leave port
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  Speaker 1: this weekend and continue its journey back to the U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: the home port, San Diego. Iran has again targeted U.S.
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  Speaker 1: allies in the Middle East, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain.
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  Speaker 1: In response to U.S. airstrikes in Iran, Bahrain intercepted several
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  Speaker 1: attacks yesterday. Kuwait reported a fire caused by an Iranian
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  Speaker 1: drone and said it was attacked again early this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Iran has also tightened control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: A Saudi shipping company says two sailors were killed in
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  Speaker 1: an attack in the Strait on Monday. House Republicans facing
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  Speaker 1: competitive midterm races are getting some port. getting some support
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  Speaker 1: from higher up. During a Rose Garden dinner last night
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  Speaker 1: with cabinet officials and members of Congress, President Trump said
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  Speaker 1: he plans to campaign heavily around the country during the
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  Speaker 1: final month before Election Day. We're going to do the
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  Speaker 1: teletown halls. They're fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: They work amazingly.
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  Speaker 6: And we speak and we can do seven or eight
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  Speaker 6: of them, 10 of them, maybe a night.
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  Speaker 1: The races will be decided on November 3rd. A 19-year-old
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  Speaker 1: with a gun is forced his way into an elementary
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  Speaker 1: school in Virginia, injuring a staffer before shooting himself. Staff
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  Speaker 1: at Westward Hills Elementary School had called police yesterday about
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  Speaker 1: a suspicious person on campus, and the school was locked down.
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  Speaker 1: Officers found the shooter dead in the school's library. No
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  Speaker 1: kids were in there at the time. The staff member
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  Speaker 1: was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Russia says it's
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  Speaker 1: closing German cultural centers across the country. because Berlin blamed
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  Speaker 1: Moscow for an attempted attack at Leipzig Halle Airport last month.
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any other response would show
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  Speaker 1: a lack of self-respect on Russia's part. Officials in Germany
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  Speaker 1: said a drone with explosives was defused near a Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: plane on August 4th. Germany then announced the closure of
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  Speaker 1: the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House Cultural
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  Speaker 1: Center in the German capital.
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  Speaker 6: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court's being asked to shut down prediction markets in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Officials there want to ban certain types of gambling.
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  Speaker 1: California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is leading a push in
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  Speaker 1: Congress to rein in and restrict prediction markets, and Utah
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senator John Curtis says it has support.
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  Speaker 8: We need a regulatory framework that makes sure that this
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  Speaker 8: doesn't happen and that we don't have this insider trading.
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  Speaker 1: Prediction markets companies argue that Congress wants the Commodity Futures
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  Speaker 1: Trading Commission to be the primary regulator of online sports wagering,
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  Speaker 1: and the Federal Commission should override any state rules. And
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  Speaker 1: the new CEO of Apple is going to have some challenges.
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  Speaker 7: John Ternes has taken control this week with Tim Cook
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  Speaker 7: moving into an executive chairman role. Cook replaced Steve Jobs
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  Speaker 7: in 2011 when 72 million iPhones were sold. 255 million
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  Speaker 7: are expected to be sold this year. The road could
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  Speaker 7: be a bit tougher for Ternes, who had been overseeing
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  Speaker 7: the hardware division, which has lost hundreds of people to
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  Speaker 7: artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Those AI companies are also buying
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  Speaker 7: up all the computer chips, which makes the ones they
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  Speaker 7: get more expensive. Ternus will be on stage next week
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  Speaker 7: to introduce what's expected to be Apple's first foldable iPhone.
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  Speaker 7: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Foldable iPhone. Rich DiMero told us he thought that demand
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  Speaker 1: for those is going to be huge and the price
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  Speaker 1: tag is going to be huge, too. So we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to wait and see. Rain and big waves expected to
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  Speaker 1: pound Southern California over the Labor Day weekend as Hurricane
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  Speaker 1: Marie hits. gains power. Forecasters say Marie is going to
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  Speaker 1: track away from the West Coast, but we could still
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  Speaker 1: get rain, winds and high surf. There's a 50 to
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  Speaker 1: 60 percent chance of rain on Sunday through Tuesday, a
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  Speaker 1: lesser chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms. A state appeals
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  Speaker 1: court panel has upheld a transience conviction for murdering a
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  Speaker 1: UCLA grad student who was stabbed 46 times while working
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  Speaker 1: at a furniture store in Hancock Park. The three-justice panel
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  Speaker 1: rejected the defense's argument that Sean Smith's attorney violated the
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  Speaker 1: Racial Justice Act by comparing what Smith did to the
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  Speaker 1: actions of an animal in January of 2022. Smith was
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  Speaker 1: convicted in 2024 of first-degree murder. Disney actress Carla Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: has died. Her longtime talent rep made the announcement on
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  Speaker 1: social media, Jeffrey best known for playing Brie in Disney's
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  Speaker 1: Zombies franchise. She was also featured in the HBO comedy
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  Speaker 1: series Curb Your Enthusiasm. A cause of death has not
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  Speaker 1: been revealed and her family is asking for privacy. Carla
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey was 33. Okay, so this morning we are going
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  Speaker 1: out and about to the rooftop of the Universal City Hilton.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we here? Because we've partnered up again with
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  Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission to go over the edge. I
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  Speaker 1: have the CEO of Union Rescue Mission, Mark Hood here.
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  Speaker 1: here again we're going to jump over the edge of
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  Speaker 1: this building go down 26 stories and it's all to
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  Speaker 1: raise money and raise awareness for a very important cause
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  Speaker 1: tell us about it well.
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  Speaker 8: First of all amy thank you that you're here again
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  Speaker 8: i'm so excited that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrified to be here again.
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  Speaker 8: It's a wonderful event but it is one of our
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  Speaker 8: biggest fundraisers of the year and it really is the
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  Speaker 8: thing that supports the mission until we get into the
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  Speaker 8: holiday season And so for every dollar you donate right now,
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  Speaker 8: up to.
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  Speaker 7: $ 500, 000.
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  Speaker 6: It's doubled.
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  Speaker 8: And 87 cents of every one of those dollars goes
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  Speaker 8: back to helping the men and women and children we serve.
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  Speaker 8: And Amy, why are we doing it? Because our vision
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  Speaker 8: isn't just to house people at the mission. It's not
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  Speaker 8: just to shelter people. It's to end homelessness in their
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  Speaker 8: life forever. And that's what the mission does.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's what I want to talk to you, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Because we know that homelessness is out of control. We
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  Speaker 1: know the numbers are up. There's all kinds of problems
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  Speaker 1: with how the city is dealing with this problem. And
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  Speaker 1: part of what we love about the Union Rescue Mission
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  Speaker 1: is that you guys are going to the people who
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  Speaker 1: actually want help. and who you can get help, because
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  Speaker 1: we can't help all 70,000, but we can get some
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  Speaker 1: of these people into housing, into education, off drugs, and
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  Speaker 1: back into a normal life.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we absolutely can. And, you know, we serve almost
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  Speaker 8: 1,000 people a day, every single day.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 8: And last year, we put almost 1,000 families into permanent housing.
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  Speaker 8: We're now helping people find better jobs. We had our
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  Speaker 8: first graduating class from College of the Canyons with their
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  Speaker 8: CNC machine certificates. Half of those graduates already have Living
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  Speaker 8: Ways jobs. We have an aerospace company in the community
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  Speaker 8: that's now hiring our graduates. And so we're successfully breaking
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  Speaker 8: those addictions. We're dealing with domestic violence. We're managing the
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  Speaker 8: trauma that caused homelessness to begin with and helping people
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  Speaker 8: ultimately find their way home. There are solutions out there.
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  Speaker 8: We just have to be patient and caring enough to
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  Speaker 8: walk that journey with the people that come through our doors.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We know that a lot of funding goes to homeless programs.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not always money so well spent. One of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons that you guys, again, are different, there's so many
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  Speaker 1: great things about Union Rescue Mission, which is why we
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  Speaker 1: support it, is because you are privately funded because you
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  Speaker 1: don't get federal money.
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  Speaker 8: We get no federal money at all.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's been a conscious decision over the years because
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  Speaker 8: traditionally federal funding... It made it more difficult for us
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  Speaker 8: to be a faith-based organization. It made it more difficult
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  Speaker 8: for us to run our organization the way we want
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  Speaker 8: to run it. That's not as true anymore. Federal funding
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  Speaker 8: has loosened up those requirements, but we still receive no
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  Speaker 8: federal funding.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: We get a.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: Little funding from the city, but 98% of our funding
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: is from private individuals that believe in what we do.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: And again, we want to end homelessness for people. We
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: don't want to just be a shelter. We have a
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: strong belief. If you take someone that has been experiencing
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: homelessness in their life and all you do is move
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: them to a hotel room, you haven't done anything to
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: address the issues and concerns that calls that homelessness begin with.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: And we want to walk that journey with people. And
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: we're also very proud of the fact that we can
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: account for every dollar we spend. We know where the
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: money goes. And 87 cents of every dollar goes back
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: to the people we serve. And if I could just
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: make it feel, and if people ask, why aren't you
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: helping more people?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It's just funding. Yep.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: As we receive more funding, we're able to help more people.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: And again, we serve about 1,000 people a night. We'd
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: love for that number to be 2,000, 3,000. So with
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: people's donations and partnering with us, hopefully we continue to
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: help more and more people.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Okay. And the way that we're going to help is
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we're going to raise money. So what are we going
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to do on September 25th and 26th?
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: Well, we're not going to actually jump off the building.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I know. So I was being dramatic.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: We're going to repel off the building. We've been doing
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: this event for seven years now. It's a wonderful bucket
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: list event. It's super safe. Everybody's always made it to
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: the bottom.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: Not one miss.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Not one single miss.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: All these years, not one single miss. And it is truly,
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: truly a fun event.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, sure. If you want to take a sneak
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: peek over the edge, check out my Instagram page. At
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Amy K. King, I posted something yesterday, and we'll post
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the whole interview when we're done. We have more to
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: talk about with Mark, though, because we need to tell
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you how you can get involved, how you can donate,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: how you, too, could go over the edge, and why
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: this year the Union Rescue Mission really needs your donation
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: more than ever. And it's not just Union Rescue Mission,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but it's kind of all the nonprofits are having a
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: little trouble this year.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And it's understandable, you know, money's tight. Got a talk
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: back with somebody who had an idea for me on
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: what I should do when I go over the edge.
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Love the show, as always. Hey, you're going over the
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: edge on Dolly Parton Day.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: Why don't you get yourself a beautiful blonde wig and
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: a beautiful dress and, of course, some enhancements and go
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: over dressed like Dolly. Just thinking. A little outside the box.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: Have a great day.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: Love the show.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Bye.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: A dress up on the side of the building.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It is Dolly Parton Day, the 25th, 925.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: You'd make the news.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Hey.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the news stories coming
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Irvine police are trying
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to find a guy who attacked a golfer at the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: San Joaquin golf course. The victim had confronted a man
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: who had reportedly run across the course. The man then
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: started chasing the golfer. Investigators say the guy took a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: golf club from the cart and hit the golfer in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the head. A man from Huntington Park's been arrested in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Burbank on suspicion of secretly taking inappropriate photos of a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: woman at the Empire Center. The 61-year-old woman told Police
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Friday that the man was lurking inside a store and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: used his cell phone to take photos under her clothes.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: A witness backed up the story. Alfredo Solis was arrested
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: as he tried to leave the store. The NBA has
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: published the Clippers, actually not published, punished the Clippers following
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a salary cap investigation involving Kawhi Leonard.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: The league is stripping the Clippers of five first round
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: draft picks. Owner Steve Ballmer is being fined $ 30 million
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: and is being suspended for a year. President of Business
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Operations Gillian Zucker and President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: have also been suspended. Kawhi Leonard will have to pay
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: $ 700, 000 in restitution for improper benefits allegedly provided to his
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: uncle and former business rep. Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: L.A.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass says she wants the city council to restore
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the $ 2 million she proposed for cleaning and securing vacant
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and nuisance properties around the city. The funding was shelved
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: during the budget process. Bass says the Department of Building
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and Safety has identified more than 100 priority vacant nuisance
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: buildings around L.A., which can often end up being serious
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: public safety risks. And of course, we've heard about a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: couple of them just the last week, one in Studio
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: City and then earlier this week in the Hollywood Hills.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: The race for L.A. mayor is getting a push from
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the political left.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: The Democratic Socialists of America's Los Angeles chapter has endorsed
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: Councilmember Nithya Raman over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Raman secured
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: more than 60 percent of the vote among participating members.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: The endorsement could give her campaign a powerful grassroots network
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: of volunteers and door knockers. Raman has a complicated history
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: with the DSA, including disagreements over police funding, housing policy,
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: and the group's response to the October 7th Hamas attack.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: Heather Brooker, KFI News.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: The man who shot an off-duty L.A. County Sheriff's deputy
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in the head while he was stopped at a stoplight
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: was sane when he did it. The jury made that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: decision yesterday, which means the guy faces a possible life
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: sentence when he's sentenced next month. Deputy Ryan Klinkenbrumer was
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: killed in Palmdale three years ago. The defense claimed the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: killer was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2019.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: L.A.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Officials are trying to get FEMA to speed up approval
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: of grant funding to help Southern California recover from the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Eaton and Palisades fires and prepare for future disasters.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: L.A.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Brad Sherman have
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: all written to FEMA urging speedy approval of six grant
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: projects they say have been held up for months. The
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: cost of employer health benefits is expected to jump by
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the highest it has in more than 20 years. The
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: financial consulting firm Mercer estimates that annual employer health benefit
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: costs will go up by over 8% in 2027 alone.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Costs have been trending upward since 2022. This morning, we're
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: out and about on the rooftop of the Universal City Hilton,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: where we got to catch up with Union Rescue Mission's CEO,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Mark Hood. Because we're going over the edge. We're raising
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: money for a program that actually works to help people
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: get off the streets and back into the home and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: back into a better life. We're going over the edge.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous about it. Mark, you say
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it's fun, but I got to tell you. I am
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: so afraid of heights. This is terrifying to me. However,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: once you get out and you're halfway down.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: You go, oh, hey, this is so fun.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It really is fun. It's terrifying, but it's fun. Okay,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: tell us how people can help.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Okay, the way you can help is go to URM.org.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: The Over the Edge page will pop up as soon
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: as you go to our website. You can go there.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: You can register as a team.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You can register as an individual.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: If there's teams already out there that you want to sponsor,
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: you can sponsor those teams.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: There's the KFI team.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: There is the KFI team.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And there's the Amy King page. I encourage you to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: go to that and donate.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: We cannot wait to see you just max it out
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: this year.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And then before we go, I've got to ask you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: one other question. We were talking before we started recording.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: that this year has been tough.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's been hard.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Not only for Union Rescue Mission, but for all nonprofits.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: What is going on?
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: So the summer season for all nonprofits is just the
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: dry season of the year, July, August, September, really even
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: going into October. You always see donations trend down. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: I don't know if it's the economy. I don't know
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: if it's what's going on overseas. I don't know if
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: it's local politics. But this has been the driest season
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: that we can remember on record. And it's really impacting us.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: We haven't put anybody out of the mission. We're not
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: going to do that. We turn the lights off.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Before we put people out.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: But we need support now more than we ever have.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: And so that's what makes this event so important for
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: us because it's what will get us through to the holidays.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: So we really rarely we ever hear an appeal from
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: me like this, but we're going through some really tough
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: times financially. We really need your support now more than ever.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: And again, I have to emphasize in the city where
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: people are fatigued at where the money is going. 87
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: cents of every dollar we receive goes back to the
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: people that we serve that walk through our doors.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Every single day. Very important. That's why we support Union
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission. Okay, so here's your call to action. If
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you can donate $ 100... Love it. If you could donate $ 10,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: we love it. Every dollar counts because, as Mark said,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it's all going to actually help people get off the streets,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: get back into a better life, and get their life
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: back on track. It's so important, and we can help.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: We can do our little part. We're going to do
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it on the 25th and the 26th. Mark Hood, can't
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: wait to go over the edge with you again.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: Please donate.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We're out and about on the top
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of the Universal City Hilton getting ready to go over
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the edge.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Amy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yep. So it's T-minus 22 days and counting. I think
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: we're going to do it on Friday. The event is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: two days. It's September 25th and 26th. We'll be telling
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you more about it, telling you where you can donate.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And actually, the KFI page, I don't think it's active yet.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So don't donate yet. I hate to say don't donate.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: But hold off for just a moment, and then we'll
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: update you as soon as it's active, because I think
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to have a little competition between me and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Neil Saavedra again this year. But if you want to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: get a sneak peek at what it looks like from
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 26 stories up, you can go to my Instagram at
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Amy K.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: King.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I believe it's also on KFI story at KFI AM 640. Anyway,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that's coming up September 25th and 26th. Time to get
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in your business with Bloomberg's. Oh, who do we have today?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's not Denise today. Good morning.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make you guess. It's John Tucker.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Hi, John Tucker. How are you?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Hi, Amy. You know, speaking of lofty heights, who wants
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to be a millionaire?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: We all do. Maybe a billionaire. A report out this
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: morning shows the number of millionaire 401k accounts at Fidelity
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: has jumped to a record 769,000 between the first and
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: second quarters. Aiding Sabres has been this blockbuster quarter for stocks.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: The S & P 500 actually gained 15% of three
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: months into June 30. So that's the strongest performance since 2020.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Oddly enough, Amy, it's just like most people, you talk
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to them, even those that are 401k millionaires, they don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: seem all that optimistic.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And I'm not even a 401k millionaire, so imagine how
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I must feel.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Now, I know it's just like California is a different
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: beast when it comes to fuel prices.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: But it does help to be a millionaire if you're
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: filling up. AAA says the average for the rest of
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the nation is $ 4.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: 14.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: And then there's the fuel called the workhorse of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: global economy. That's diesel. It has hit a four-year high.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So diesel, of course, you know, they put it in
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the big pickup trucks, et cetera. It's needed for everything
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: from generating power and heat to transport and farming. So
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: it is a big deal when we see diesel prices
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: go up. And usually they have to pass those costs
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: along to the rest of us, the consumers who buy
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: this stuff for transport and farming.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we need it for everything. And just
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: so you know, and so you know, wake up, call people,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: 583 today is the average price.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: In L.A.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: County for a gallon of regular unleaded. I saw $ 7. 29
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: in Universal City a couple of days ago, and then
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: we had somebody hit us up on the talkback. They
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: saw 779. You've got to be kidding me. No, it's crazy.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's absolutely crazy. Okay, it's very active in the pre-market
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: for Broadcom today.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, we're just about wrapped up with earnings
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: season for stocks. And Broadcom, one of the most active,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: they predicted a boom in artificial intelligence chip sales over
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: the next couple of years. One of the competitors to NVIDIA.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: But investors, they want more. Shares are actually lower this morning.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: And I mentioned the NVIDIA. We just got this news
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: that they are, in fact, buying Hugging Face. This is
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: an AI startup.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the one that got hacked.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, worth almost $ 13 billion. And NVIDIA, most active pre-market,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: down right now just about three-tenths of a percent. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: there you go.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about bubbly things and how they're fizzling.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with young people today. I
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: can say that because I'm old. The stock market may
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: be bubbly. The latest crop of popular drinks have lost
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: their fizzle. Traditional alcoholic beverages being replaced by non-carbonated drinks
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: at bars and college parties. Companies catching on to Gen
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Z's distaste for carbonization.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Fizz-free beverages accounted for 38% of newly launched products in
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: the U.S. for pre-mixed drinks.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I want my carbonization.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Those drinks are flat. I do love a little fizz.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Although I don't remember, what was the punch called that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you had in the fraternity parties ever? That never had fizz.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Do tell, Amy. Sounds like a good story.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I'll just say I'm happy that there was no social
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: media when I went to college. Get in your business
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: as we do each and every day with Bloomberg. Thank
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you so much, John. We'll talk to you soon.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: We'll see you. Thanks.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: All right. California-based Uber is laying off 10% of its
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: global workforce. That's about 3,300 workers. Uber says the layoffs
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: will not affect drivers or couriers. Uber says the cuts
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: will help it consolidate management layers and trim costs and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: says it's not related to AI. The Cost of employer
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: health benefits expected to jump by the highest it has
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in more than 20 years. The financial consulting firm Mercer
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: estimates annual employer health benefit costs are going to go
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: up over 8% next year. Costs have been trending up
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: since 2022. A town in the Bay Area is moving
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to ban all alcohol and nicotine sales. The Corte Madera
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: City Council has introduced a motion that calls for a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: hard stop on sales of all cigarettes, Vapes and nicotine
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: pouches by February 1st, 2027. Retailers in Marin County would
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: have until January 31st to sell their remaining inventory. Let's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: say good morning now to National Weather Association and American
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Meteorological Society certified meteorologist. That's a mouthful. Currently works in
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the tower at LAX. You may remember him from years
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: on Good Day LA on Fox 11. Rick Dickert, good morning.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, Amy. Good morning to you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us bright and early this morning.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, Rick.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: And we got Will Kohlschreiber here. Hey, Will. How are you?
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: We go back many years.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: You go back many years.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we got a storm brewing and everybody's abuzz
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: because California could possibly maybe, maybe not, get hit by
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a hurricane for the first time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oversold, over advertised. There is a storm and it
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: has finally formed into an official hurricane overnight. Marie, it's
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: been a very active hurricane season in the eastern Pacific
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: because of that developing, continuing to develop El Nino. Marie, though,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: the center currently is located 380 miles southwest of Cabo
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: San Lucas, so hundreds of miles away. from the California coast.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And it's moving away from the coast in a west
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: to northwest direction at 10 miles an hour. It is strengthening.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: It's got sustained winds of 85 miles an hour, making
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: it a Category 1 hurricane on a scale of 1
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: to 5. But it is forecast to increase in intensity
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: to a Category 2 with sustained winds of 100 miles
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: an hour over the next 24 to 48 hours. But
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: the track of that storm will continue in a west
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: to northwest direction off the coast of Baja, well away
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: from Southern California. So we will not be feeling the
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: effects of a true hurricane or even tropical storm or
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  Speaker 5: tropical depression anywhere along the Southern California coast. With that said,
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  Speaker 5: moisture from the storm will likely be entrained or pulled
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  Speaker 5: into the upper level wind field over the West Coast.
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  Speaker 5: We have an area of low pressure, a trough or
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: a line of low pressure that's establishing itself along the
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  Speaker 5: West Coast. And with that southwesterly flow associated with that trough,
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  Speaker 5: Moisture from the storm hundreds of miles away to the
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: southwest will likely get pulled up into Southern California. So
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  Speaker 5: we're looking at an increase in clouds over the holiday
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  Speaker 5: weekend for Southern California. Humidity values will increase again. And
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  Speaker 5: it does look like we will see some scattered, mostly
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  Speaker 5: light showers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm.
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  Speaker 1: Which is pretty unusual for this time of year, right?
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  Speaker 5: It is not unprecedented. We see monsoon moisture and we
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  Speaker 5: have seen the remnants of tropical systems impact us in
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  Speaker 5: the past. That September rains typically with our Mediterranean climate,
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  Speaker 5: it is another dry month here in Southern California. And
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  Speaker 5: in addition to what's happening atmospherically, In the ocean, we're
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  Speaker 5: looking at another significant bump in our swell. The rip
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  Speaker 5: current set will be in play as well. And a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people will be flocking to the beach because
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: the temperatures will be high again. The humidity is going
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: to be up. So if you go to the beach,
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  Speaker 5: keep that in mind. The surf is going to be elevated.
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  Speaker 5: And with those rip currents, dangerous conditions will be at play.
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  Speaker 5: And if you do head to the beach, always set
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  Speaker 5: up your lifeguard tower with a lifeguard on duty. Check
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  Speaker 5: in with them and make sure that it is safe
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  Speaker 5: to swim or surf. where you are heading out.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be smart about these things. I had a question
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  Speaker 1: for you, Rick, because, you know, being a meteorologist, I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: have another friend who's a meteorologist and he just geeks
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: out on this kind of stuff. We've got three hurricanes
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  Speaker 1: now lined up in the Pacific, Marie, Lowell and Karina.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're like in a straight line between here
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  Speaker 1: and Hawaii. Is that unusual?
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Not, again, not unprecedented. It is a very active season.
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  Speaker 5: We've had storms like this tracking before across the eastern Pacific.
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  Speaker 5: And this was forecast months ago with the developing El Nino.
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  Speaker 5: Whenever we have an El Nino in play or a
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: strong El Nino, there's been a lot of buzz about
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: that as well. Again, that's warmer than average sea surface
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: temperatures out over the equatorial Pacific. We have very active
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: hurricane seasons. in the Pacific. That's exactly what we're seeing.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: It's exactly what was forecast. Now, in the Atlantic, the
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: opposite is occurring. In the Atlantic, they have yet to
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: have one hurricane. They've had a couple of tropical systems,
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: one of which that just impacted the Gulf, that no
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: true hurricane has impacted anywhere in the Atlantic Basin. So, yes,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: definitely active, not unprecedented across the Pacific.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: All right. Meteorologist Rick Dickard, thank you so much for
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the information.
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  Speaker 3: Rick, go ride those waves. I know you're jonesing for that.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Are you a surfer?
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I need to get out in the water. Well, you're right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Good to talk to you both. Thanks for having me.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. Have a great weekend and stay dry.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I know. So I guess that's good news. I was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: kind of looking forward to some, something kind of hitting.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Sounds like it's going to be a schvitz though.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It's going to, that's going to have, Bill's going to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: be very excited about that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Oh boy. Cue up the drops.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's get back to some of the stories
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24 hour newsroom. Democratic State
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Senator Ben Allen says he's waiting for Governor Newsom to
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: sign off on legislation that would establish a state-backed low-interest
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: loan program to help homeowners pay for wildfire-hardening improvements. Allen
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: says Senate Bill 894 got unanimous bipartisan approval from the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: legislature and was sent to Newsom last Thursday. He says
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: some renovations are too expensive and out of reach for
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: many people, so it is time to lower the financial barrier.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Newsom has until September 30th to sign or veto the measure.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Five people charged in connection with what authorities call a
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Penn State frat house cocaine ring have appeared in court
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: for preliminary and bail hearings. Agostino Abattiello is accused of
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: leading the operation. His attorney, Philip Massordi, says bail was
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: set at $ 250, 000 and Abattiello will be released to his parents.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: I think we saw the real, true center county justice
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: at work, and it's my pleasure to represent Augie Abatello
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: and his family.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: More than a dozen people are charged in the operation
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: that prosecutors say involved current and former Penn State students,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: one parent, and two fraternities. Speaking of parties, UC Santa
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Barbara has dropped from number one to number 26, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: that's probably a good thing. You gotta fight for your right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: UCSB fell out of the top 25 party schools in
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: America in one year after multiple incidents, including sexual assaults.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: A man was sentenced to 30 years to life last
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: month for assaulting multiple women as a student, while candlelight
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: vigils and safety campaigns took place after reports of groping
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: and rape in May and June. The annual list from
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: education researcher Niche looks at more than 600 schools using
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: student reviews, nightlife, access to bars, and Greek life. Florida
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: State's now number one, USC at number five, and San
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: Diego State at 18 are the only schools in California
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: to make the top 25. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 39:32
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• 39:42
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