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Union Rescue Mission · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange.
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  Speaker 3: County.
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  Speaker 4: Now batting for Wake Up Call, your host.
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  Speaker 5: Amy King.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's 5 o'clock straight up. This is your wake-up call
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  Speaker 1: for Tuesday, September 22nd. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Do you feel the chill?
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  Speaker 6: Not quite yet.
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  Speaker 1: Today is the first day of fall. It actually arrives
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  Speaker 1: at 5.04 Pacific time tonight. So about 12 hours away.
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  Speaker 1: What is... The autumnal equinox, well, it's when the sun
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  Speaker 1: crosses the equator, and then we have equal amounts of
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  Speaker 1: light and dark today. So we have less light hours
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  Speaker 1: moving forward as we head to winter. Here's something to
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  Speaker 1: lighten up your day. The Rams won last night, 28-6
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  Speaker 1: over the Giants. So producer Anne, in spite of being
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  Speaker 1: exhausted from her job at SoFi Stadium, is a happy
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  Speaker 1: camper today, and we always like that. Here's what's ahead
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  Speaker 1: on Wake Up Call. The Hollywood merger between Paramount Skydance
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  Speaker 1: and Warner Brothers Discovery appears to be back on. Paramount
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  Speaker 1: has settled a lawsuit aimed at blocking the merger with
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  Speaker 1: California AG Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general.
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  Speaker 1: The settlement includes a requirement that Paramount produce 30 movies
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  Speaker 1: a year and substantial investments in domestic film production. Three
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  Speaker 1: people have been hurt in a workplace shooting at an
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  Speaker 1: assisted living facility in South L.A. Police say the shooting
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  Speaker 1: happened shortly before 11 yesterday morning. One person was critically injured.
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  Speaker 1: The person arrested and those shot all work at the
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  Speaker 1: facility on Denver Avenue. The White House television press pool
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  Speaker 1: has stopped covering President Trump's events after the White House
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  Speaker 1: banned reporters for CNN, MSNOW and Politico. CNN, NBC, Fox,
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  Speaker 1: ABC and CBS all said in a joint statement that
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  Speaker 1: No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects
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  Speaker 1: to its reporting. Trump said on Truth Social the ban
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  Speaker 1: is not an assault on the free press, but an
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  Speaker 1: assault on the fake news. So Trump's dealing with that.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us in a
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  Speaker 1: couple minutes to talk about how President Trump will be
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  Speaker 1: meeting with world leaders this week at the U.N. General Assembly.
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  Speaker 1: In New York, he's also in the spotlight this morning.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up again in just a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of flights were delayed and canceled yesterday. About 7,000
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  Speaker 1: were affected because of a system outage. Aisha Ali with
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  Speaker 1: ABC has the latest for us. What caused the ground
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  Speaker 1: stop and why backup systems in place weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: keep planes in the air? That's coming up at 520.
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, Neil and I are going over
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  Speaker 1: the edge in three days. to raise money for the
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, an organization that actually helps homeless people
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  Speaker 1: find their way home. We want to share a real
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  Speaker 1: success story from the Union Rescue Mission to let you
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  Speaker 1: know what your donations are going to as we go
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  Speaker 1: over the edge to raise money and actually help people
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  Speaker 1: get off the street and back on their feet. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking with Irene. Again, a success story
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  Speaker 1: from Union Rescue Mission that's coming up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on Wake Up Call. Hope you'll stick around for that.
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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 mega merger between Paramount,
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  Speaker 1: Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery is a step closer to
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  Speaker 1: closing now that California and 11 other states have agreed
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  Speaker 1: to a settlement over a lawsuit to block it.
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  Speaker 7: California Attorney General Rob Bonta says Paramount has agreed to
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  Speaker 7: several key terms when it comes to making more movies
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  Speaker 7: and where its studios will be located.
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  Speaker 6: The future of this merch company. is in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: He says Paramount agreed to keep its studios here, make
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  Speaker 7: at least 30 movies a year, and operate cable channels
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  Speaker 7: in a way that won't unfairly lead to price increases
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  Speaker 7: for customers.
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  Speaker 8: This deal gives certainty about the future of production right
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  Speaker 8: here in LA, in California, in our country.
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  Speaker 7: Some are still against the deal, including the Writers Guild,
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  Speaker 7: which says the deal will damage writers and the industry
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  Speaker 7: at large. Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A man in Claremont who allegedly charged at sheriff's deputies
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  Speaker 1: with a knife has been shot and killed. Sheriff's deputies
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  Speaker 1: say deputies were going to an eviction operation yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: they heard about a theft at a nearby gas station.
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  Speaker 1: They say the deputies went to check it out and
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  Speaker 1: were suddenly charged by the guy with the knife. And
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  Speaker 1: that's when the shooting happened. No one else was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Health officials in L.A. County say 100 cases of West
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  Speaker 1: Nile virus have been reported so far this year. and
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  Speaker 1: they're urging people to take precautions. The number is the
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  Speaker 1: highest for this time in the mosquito season in nearly
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  Speaker 1: a decade. Five deaths have been reported. Health officials say
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  Speaker 1: almost all of the people diagnosed with the virus have
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  Speaker 1: suffered severe illness affecting the brain or spinal cord and
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  Speaker 1: required hospital care. Mosquito control spraying will be done this
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  Speaker 1: week in La Puente. The San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and
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  Speaker 1: Vector Control District is planning to do the treatments by
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  Speaker 1: truck between midnight and 5 a.m. tomorrow and Thursday in
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  Speaker 1: the area between Azusa Way and Chatterton Avenue. That's north
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  Speaker 1: of East Valley Boulevard. They plan to target mosquitoes at
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  Speaker 1: multiple stages of their life cycle. People can also help
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  Speaker 1: cut the mosquito population by dumping out in the standing water.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently even small, small amounts, like what you leave in
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  Speaker 1: a water cup that you leave outside, that's enough for them.
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  Speaker 1: They're nasty little buggers. Let's say good morning to Will Kohlschreiber.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some cones up in Calabasas.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be the 101 freeway northbound right between
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  Speaker 6: Lost Hills Road and Chesbro Road. We've got the roadway
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  Speaker 6: down to about, well, it's just three lanes now. Taking
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  Speaker 6: away a couple lanes there. And that's going to be
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  Speaker 6: the case until... about 6 a.m., so just a little longer,
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  Speaker 6: about an hour longer from now. If you are headed
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  Speaker 6: through the Downey area, look out for a stall there.
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  Speaker 6: This is going to be the 105 eastbound at Lakewood Boulevard.
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  Speaker 6: Stall there on the off-ramp. It's partially blocked because of that.
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  Speaker 6: Traffic's slow from Garfield. And if you are headed through Corona,
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  Speaker 6: look out for a crash there on the right shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: This is the 15 northbound at the 91 northbound. Things
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  Speaker 6: are a bit slow back from Magnolia. Things are heating up.
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  Speaker 6: Hopefully things will kind of stay decent out there on
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  Speaker 6: the roadways. But now's a good time to drive. With
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  Speaker 6: Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm Will Kohlschreiber. Thank you, Will.
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  Speaker 1: It's 5.07 on your wake-up call. Time to say good
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  Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, let's talk about Trump's
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  Speaker 1: ban first on the three news outlets at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: News organizations are kind of closing ranks on this one.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we saw yesterday that the television networks
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  Speaker 9: that make up the five network pool, ABC, CNN, CBS, CNN, Fox,
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  Speaker 9: and NBC said they were not going to pool coverage
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  Speaker 9: of the president because CNN was not able to serve
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  Speaker 9: as a pool representative yesterday as part of that regular
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  Speaker 9: alphabetical rotation. The pool representatives put out a statement saying
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  Speaker 9: the public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent
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  Speaker 9: information about its government. No administration should restrict a news
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  Speaker 9: organization because it objects to its reporting. Still photographers who
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  Speaker 9: covered the president's event at the White House yesterday and
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  Speaker 9: traveled with him to New York took photos and did
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  Speaker 9: not upload those, didn't publish those pictures. So they didn't
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  Speaker 9: get out in solidarity with the position that the networks
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  Speaker 9: were taking and to try to, you know, put some
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  Speaker 9: pressure then on the administration to make a change.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting. So Karen, just so everybody knows how it works,
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  Speaker 1: because this, of course, is putting you guys in the spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: that space is limited when you go to certain events
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  Speaker 1: and availabilities. So you said that there's that five network pool.
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  Speaker 1: And it rotate. Does it rotate for each availability or
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  Speaker 1: just like ABC have it for a week and then
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  Speaker 1: CNN has for a week? How does that work on
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  Speaker 1: a normal day? It's by day.
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  Speaker 3: It's by day.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's by day. So, you know, in the Oval
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  Speaker 9: Office is small. So by day, it's a rotation of
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  Speaker 9: who is the main camera for events that would be
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  Speaker 9: for just the pool. There's a print pooler. There's a
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  Speaker 9: radio pooler. There's a TV pooler. And they rotate day
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  Speaker 9: by day. So CNN was up next yesterday as part
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  Speaker 9: of their pool rotations, again, alphabetical. And they were not
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  Speaker 9: able to, of course, access the White House because their
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  Speaker 9: credentials have been revoked. Their access has been denied. And
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  Speaker 9: the network said, we are not substituting for them. We're
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  Speaker 9: not going to the next network. We're not going to
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  Speaker 9: fill in for them. If it's not CNN, it's nobody.
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  Speaker 6: OK.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that affects like when he does a
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  Speaker 1: a meeting in the Oval Office or something. This week,
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  Speaker 1: he's headed to the UN. Is it going to affect
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  Speaker 1: that too? It is.
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  Speaker 9: There would not be a network television camera in his
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  Speaker 9: meetings today at the U.N. on the sidelines. So we
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  Speaker 9: will see. Now, there could be other cameras in there.
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  Speaker 9: There were yesterday when he was at a meeting with
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  Speaker 9: the New York City mayor. There were other cameras at
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  Speaker 9: the departure yesterday from the White House, but not the
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  Speaker 9: network pool that, of course, gets that video out to
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  Speaker 9: thousands of clients and then millions of viewers.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then Trump is in New York today. He's speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the U.N. General Assembly, and that's just one of
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  Speaker 1: the things he's doing. He's got a pretty busy.
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  Speaker 6: Week, apparently.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, the speech is scheduled for right around 10 o'clock.
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  Speaker 9: Usually they're about on schedule. And then he'll have meetings
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  Speaker 9: on the sidelines with the prime minister of the UK.
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  Speaker 9: He'll be meeting with the prime minister of Japan, as
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  Speaker 9: well as meetings with Gulf leaders from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
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  Speaker 9: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. And the meeting
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  Speaker 9: with President Zelensky of Ukraine as well.
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  Speaker 1: OK, and I. we hear that the Iranians are going
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  Speaker 1: to be there. Excuse me. They're going to be there,
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  Speaker 1: but is there any plans to have U.S. and Iranian
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  Speaker 1: negotiators or leaders meet?
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  Speaker 9: No, there is not. But there will be a delegation
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  Speaker 9: in town. The State Department says that the core delegation
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  Speaker 9: was allowed to attend. Smaller group than last year. The
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  Speaker 9: Iranian president was leaving Tehran today, set to give his
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  Speaker 9: remarks tomorrow. And the foreign minister arrived yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: All right. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. We'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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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. Hurricane Polo has just grown
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  Speaker 1: to a Category 5 hurricane in the Pacific. It's forecast
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  Speaker 1: to dump heavy rain to southwestern Mexico but remain offshore.
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  Speaker 1: Forecasters in the U.S. say Polo has maximum sustained winds
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  Speaker 1: of more than 130 mph and may intensify further. The
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  Speaker 1: storm is on a path that would skirt the Mexican
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  Speaker 1: coast for a few days but again is not expected
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  Speaker 1: to make landfall. Mortgage rates have already gone up since
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  Speaker 1: the Fed increased interest rates for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: three years. ABC's Sherry Preston says home buying is getting
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  Speaker 1: more and more expensive. The average rate for a 30-year
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  Speaker 1: fixed rate mortgage now stands just below 7%. A decade ago,
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  Speaker 1: Bankrate says the same mortgage would have averaged only 3.5%.
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  Speaker 1: Redfin says 45% of sellers say they're willing to offer
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  Speaker 1: concessions to make a sale. Ooh, like dropping the price
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  Speaker 1: in half. Wouldn't that be nice? Then you could afford
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  Speaker 1: to buy a house in California. A member of Congress
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  Speaker 1: is supporting calls to ban ICE traffic stops after a
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  Speaker 1: man from Venezuela was shot during an immigration enforcement operation
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett says if people want
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  Speaker 1: to protest, they should do it peacefully and use their
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  Speaker 1: power at the ballot box in November.
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  Speaker 8: Any protest that is about throwing rocks and venting anger
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  Speaker 8: does not help us. It only helps Trump and those
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  Speaker 8: who are running ICE.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyers for the man shot Sunday say he was delivering
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  Speaker 1: for DoorDash when he was sideswiped by another car and
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  Speaker 1: then pulled out of his car and shot. Police say
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  Speaker 1: the man was shot after a car chase and what
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  Speaker 1: they called a small foot pursuit. So there's some conflict
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  Speaker 1: on what actually happened there. Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington,
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  Speaker 1: has filed a motion to dismiss the murder case against her,
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  Speaker 1: saying to try it again would amount to double jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: A jury couldn't reach a unanimous verdict earlier this month
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  Speaker 1: and a mistrial was declared. Reddington says he saw Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Clancy's 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, that's her ex-husband, and
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a bit confusing.
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  Speaker 3: Not high tech, but yeah, I saw it. Yeah, pretty
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  Speaker 3: much what we've all heard all along.
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  Speaker 10: I think he's been pretty consistent, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Clancy's due back in court next week for the first
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  Speaker 1: time since the mistrial was declared. President Trump and New
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  Speaker 1: York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani have met for a third time.
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  Speaker 1: You heard Karen Travers mention that this time at the
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  Speaker 1: mayor's house. They met yesterday at Gracie Mansion and talked
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  Speaker 1: about more affordable housing projects in Queens and the expiration
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  Speaker 1: of temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. After
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  Speaker 1: the meeting, Trump said that he has met several of
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  Speaker 1: New York City's mayors and believes that Mamdani could go
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  Speaker 1: down in history as a great leader. AI is going
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  Speaker 1: to be front and center when President Trump and Chinese
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  Speaker 1: leader Xi Jinping meet this week at the White House.
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  Speaker 10: The meeting Thursday comes amid rising concerns about AI's potential
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  Speaker 10: threats and the competitive tension between the two countries.
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  Speaker 7: On Sunday, U.S.
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  Speaker 10: Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said the U.S. and China discussed
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  Speaker 10: setting up a mechanism for AI dialogue and a notification
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  Speaker 10: system for AI incidents impacting national security. Both nations are
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  Speaker 10: worried about AI's potential to attack critical infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: Despite U.S.
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  Speaker 10: Export controls, Chinese AI models are increasingly competitive. Debra Mark,
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  Speaker 10: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: AI bosses say artificial intelligence could destroy mankind, but it
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  Speaker 1: can also remind us about a doctor's appointment.
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  Speaker 4: Big tech bigwigs say maybe AI should have a kill switch,
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  Speaker 4: some regulation, or just a pause, but they also continue
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  Speaker 4: to work on AI assistance that'll buy your groceries or
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  Speaker 4: schedule your appointments. Many people say getting AI access to
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  Speaker 4: their medical info, calendar, credit cards, and more is scary,
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  Speaker 4: but Meta's personal AI agent, Muse, recently hit number one
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  Speaker 4: on Apple's free App Store. Officials say the dangers can
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  Speaker 4: be big or small. A man in Australia says he
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  Speaker 4: recently asked his A.I. assistant to get him a spot
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  Speaker 4: in his Pilates class.
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  Speaker 7: So the A.I.
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  Speaker 4: Hacked into his gym, deleted another person's reservation and signed
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  Speaker 4: him up. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Using A.I. for good. Got to get in that Pilates class.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, thousands of flights were delayed and
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  Speaker 1: canceled yesterday because of a system outage. It happened at
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  Speaker 1: six major airports, mainly in the Northeast, but of course
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  Speaker 1: spread nationwide because those are six big airports. Aisha Ali
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  Speaker 1: with ABC has the latest, what caused the ground stop
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  Speaker 1: and why backup systems in place weren't able to keep
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  Speaker 1: planes in the air.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
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  Speaker 2: AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Cases
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  Speaker 1: of West Nile virus have soared in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: County.
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  Speaker 1: Health officials say there are already 100 cases of the
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  Speaker 1: virus this year. That's the highest number by this time
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  Speaker 1: of year in at least a decade. Five people have
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  Speaker 1: died of the virus in L.A. County this year. Governor
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  Speaker 1: Newsom has signed seven bills that are focused on data
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  Speaker 1: centers in California. His office says the bills are focused
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  Speaker 1: on water, electricity, and land use. The bills require data
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  Speaker 1: centers to report water and electricity use. His office says
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  Speaker 1: the goal is to keep the cost of data centers
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  Speaker 1: from being put onto customers.
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  Speaker 11: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County supervisors expected to approve the naming of more of
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  Speaker 1: a street in the Palmdale area after murdered L.A. County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Klinkenbroomer. The city of Palmdale has already
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  Speaker 1: voted to rename a stretch of Avenue Q in honor
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  Speaker 1: of the deputy. The motion from Supervisor Catherine Barger calls
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  Speaker 1: on the county to do the same for the section
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  Speaker 1: of Q Avenue that's in an unincorporated area outside city limits.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Aisha Ali. Aisha, we've
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  Speaker 1: got more trouble in the skies above the U.S. airports
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  Speaker 1: and at the airports. So what left so many thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people delayed or stranded yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 11: So it all started when a circuit blew out at
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  Speaker 11: an air traffic control facility that's located in Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 11: it handles the airspace over New Jersey and Philadelphia. So
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  Speaker 11: when that circuit blew out, air traffic controllers were not
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  Speaker 11: able to communicate or monitor any of the planes in
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  Speaker 11: the area. The FAA immediately issued a ground stop so
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  Speaker 11: no planes were departing or coming in from other airports
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  Speaker 11: to a specific airport because, you know, obviously safety is
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  Speaker 11: a priority. The FAA does have backup system in place
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  Speaker 11: for when something like this does happen. However, yesterday, a
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  Speaker 11: construction crew with the New Jersey transit system was working
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  Speaker 11: in the area and they accidentally cut that system. fiber
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  Speaker 11: line that is the backup system. So the backup system
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  Speaker 11: did not kick in, and it takes a couple of
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  Speaker 11: hours for them to repair that fiber line. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 11: the FAA decided to fix that circuit break, but for
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  Speaker 11: them to be able to do that, they had to
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  Speaker 11: clear the airspace for at least 30 minutes. So now
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  Speaker 11: we saw these ground stops popping up at other airports
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  Speaker 11: in the area, so in New York, all the way
• 17:26
  Speaker 11: down here to Washington, D.C., and They had to be
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: paused for them to be able to do that all safely. However,
• 17:33
  Speaker 11: that fix also.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Did not work.
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: They were, however, able to resume flight operations later on
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: for airports in the New York area. But that meant
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: that flight operations at Newark and Philadelphia airports remained paused
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: and flights were not departing or departing. going from other
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: airports to there, which caused a lot of diversion. So
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: if you were headed to that, you were diverted to
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: other airports if your flight was nearby and had already
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: been in the air. And it wasn't until later in
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: the evening yesterday that they were finally able to resolve
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: all the issues. and resume all the flight operations. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: by then, we already had more than 1,000 cancellations and
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: over 8,000 delays. And while all of this was going on,
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: at one point, United Airlines, which has the biggest hub
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: at New York Airport, had decided that, okay, we're going
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: to stop our operations at the airport for the remainder
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: of the day because of all the disruptions have been happening.
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: But when fixes were implemented and things were back up
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: and running, they did resume their flight operations. And so
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: far this morning, things are looking much better. So if
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: your flight was diverted or canceled, you should be able
• 18:42
  Speaker 11: to get back in the air.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: So that's good news. So Aisha, I have a question
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: for you about, you said the circuit blew out, so
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the comms go out. So Is that in that instance,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: are all the planes cut off? I mean, they have
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: no one to talk to or can they communicate with
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: other with other officials in other areas?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a good question.
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: So there is more than one air traffic control facility.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: This particular one handles the planes that are either departing
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: from those airports or coming in. But there are other
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: air traffic control facilities in the area. So you're not
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: just flying in the dark completely. There are other air
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: traffic controllers that you are able to get in touch with. So, yeah,
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: there are systems like that in place. But it's just
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: harder when those specific controllers are not able to communicate,
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: which is why it was impacting departures to and from
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: those airports.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: OK, sounds like a massive headache overall. And even though
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: operations are going well today, as you mentioned, a thousand
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: flights were canceled yesterday. So it's going to take a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: while to catch up. Yeah.
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: So but hopefully at some point you should be able
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: to get back in the air. But I think they're
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: looking better.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ABC's Aisha Ali, thank you so much for the information,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: helping it sort us out. Hope it doesn't happen again.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: That's the goal.
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Take care.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Three staff members at an assisted living facility in South L.A.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have been hurt in a shooting. One was in critical
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: condition yesterday. LAPD Deputy Chief Mark Green says the shooting
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: happened in the lobby of the building on Denver Avenue.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Officers did a systematic search of that location while also
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: rendering aid to the victims and extracting those victims from
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: the location.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The accused shooter was found on a different floor and arrested.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Witnesses say he was a custodian at the progressive home
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: for the elderly. Englewood Mayor James Butts has held a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: press conference to deny allegations that he groped a high
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: school girl at an event last week.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: With supporters who also spoke on his behalf, Butts responded
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: to the community leaders who have called for his resignation.
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: The accusations made against me by Yolanda Davidson, Najee Ali,
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: Earl Afari Hutchinson, and Leonard Redway are.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Baseless, unsourced... And completely false.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: But said three of them have been served with cease
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: and desist demands.
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: There is no documented complaint against me or anyone else
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: in the city of anything.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Mark Groner, KFI News.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: A San Diego state lawmaker says a new law is
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: putting ICE agents in danger.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Assemblyman Carl DeMaio from San Diego says the cartels are
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: now offering two grand for information on ICE agents.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This puts the lives of ICE agents at risk.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: DeMaio says it's because of a bill Newsom signed into law.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Which would make it a crime for an ICE agent
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: to wear a mask to hide their identity.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Not only are ICE agents facing violence.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Under state law, they are now at risk of being
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: prosecuted by Gavin Newsom.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: DeMaio wants Newsom to do, as he puts it, the
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: right thing.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Stop working with the cartel.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: The Department of Justice says California has no jurisdiction over
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: federal agents. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have let
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrant college students work on campus.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Assembly Bill 713 aimed to prevent colleges from requiring federal
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: work authorization for campus jobs. This is the second time
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: in two years that Newsom has rejected a similar bill.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Newsom said he was concerned about legal risks for state employees.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: Supporters said campus jobs and internships are important opportunities for
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: undocumented students. The UC and Cal State systems did not
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: take a position on the bill. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: 22 CSU students are being honored with Trustees Awards for
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Outstanding Achievement. That's considered the highest distinction a student can
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: earn in the university system. CSU officials say more than
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: 500 students have received the honors since 1984 when the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: program started. This year's honorees will be recognized at CSU
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: headquarters in Long Beach today. A study from USC shows alcohol.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: use alcohol use among adults is down for the first
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: time since the COVID-19 pandemic but it is still above
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: pre-pandemic levels researchers say from between 2022 and 24 alcohol
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: use dropped by about two percent while heavy drinking fell
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: by more than eight percent that was mostly for younger
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: adults in gen z but the study finds the opposite
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is the case for adults 50 to 64 from 2018
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to 2024 alcohol Alcohol use among that group went up
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: by almost 4%, while heavy drinking rose by more than 36%.
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Not even going to try to figure that one out.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: People are older, and they've said, we've had enough.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: We've had enough.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: What the heck?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Just have a drink.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Still to come on Wake Up Call, we want to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: share a real success story with you from Union Rescue
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Mission to let you know what your donations are going
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to as we get ready to go over the edge
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to raise money and actually help people get off the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: street and get back on their feet. That's still to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: come on Wake Up Call, so please stick around.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: AM 640.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Today is your last day to get out and enjoy summer.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. California
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and 11 other states have reached a settlement with Paramount
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: over its proposed merger with Warner Brothers Discovery that clears
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a major hurdle for the deal to close. Attorney General
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Rob Bontas has paramount agreed to protections for workers and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: commitments to invest $ 300 million a year for five years
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to U.S. film production. Gabriel's Law is finally law. The bill,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: introduced by Palmdale Assemblyman Tom Lackey, strengthens protections for abused children.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: It's been signed into law. Gabriel's Law is named for
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez. From Palmdale, he died in 2013 after
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: months of abuse. You know, that was 13 years ago,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and I remember it because.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: It was so horrific.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: The law requires social workers to make sure that children
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: get medical care if they need it and hold social
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: workers accountable for knowingly falsifying or manipulating official records. The
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens to the public
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: today in Exposition Park. It brings a collection of more
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: than 13... thousand works across 30 galleries that span centuries
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of work that include everything from painting and photography to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: comics murals and artifacts from george lucas's star wars films
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: at 605 is handled on the news for the first
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: time in a long time the president doesn't have all
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the networks following him around at least not on camera
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: bill's going to tell you more about that here's what's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: coming out of the kfi 24-hour newsroom California is under
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a state of emergency as officials prepare for what could
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: be a dangerous and destructive El Nino winter.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: The water off the coast of California is warm and
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: forecast to get warmer.
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: Very probable that these ocean temperatures will break records, potentially
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: creating the strongest El Nino ever recorded.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Laura Hollander is California's Deputy Director of Flood Management and
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Dam Safety. She says the preemptive state of emergency declaration
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: just issued by Governor Newsom will allow communities to prepare.
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: Coastal erosion and dangerous wave action is likely to continue
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: this winter, especially as strong storms make landfall.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: She says if it's a bad El Nino, coastal Southern
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: California could see the worst of it. Jason Atkinson, KFI News.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Long Beach has declared a local emergency because of the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: El Nino. The proclamation issued yesterday gives the city greater
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: flexibility to prepare and respond if conditions get worse. Remnants
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of Hurricane Marie have already caused some serious damage along
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the Alamitos Peninsula in Long Beach. A man from Stanton
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: who was killed trying to stop a mass shooting at
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Cook's Corner in Tribuco Canyon in 2023 has been named
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: as a posthumous recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Heroism.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Glenn Sproul Jr. is among 16 people from the U.S.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and Canada named in the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission's latest
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: round of awards. The commission describes the medal as the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: highest honor for civilian heroism in both countries. A former
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: state parks superintendent has pleaded not guilty to secretly recording
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: naked lifeguards in a locker room at a Bolsa Chica
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: State Beach in Orange County. Kevin Pearsall is facing five
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: felony charges. Prosecutors say he placed hidden cameras in the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: employee locker room and recorded several videos over 11 months
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: beginning in August of 2024. He's accused of sending images
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to two men and to making sexually charged comments about
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the victim's anatomy. He's due back in court in December.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: If you're exhausted, you're not alone.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: A new report says three-quarters of adults in the U.S.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Are fatigued.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: The CDC defines fatigue as physical or mental exhaustion that
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: is not improved with rest, so it's not just simply
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: being tired. 71.5% say they're fatigued at least some days,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: with more than 16% saying they're pooped most days or
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: every day. It's apparently more significant with women than men.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Experts say hormones or other health conditions play a part.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: But new technology is making it worse. Researchers say social
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: media scrolling, checking emails, and other digital multitasking force the
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: brain to repeatedly refocus, which contributes to mental fatigue. Michael Crozier,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: KFI News.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business, as we do each
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: weekday morning at this time. Good morning, Bloomberg's John Tucker.
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: Hey, Amy, good morning to you.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So, John, everybody's worried about oil. Prices are up. You know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: is oil going to get through the straight? Is the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: supply going to be choked up, choked off? But oil
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: supplies may soon be getting a boost.
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: I'm getting choked up thinking about it. Our sources telling
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: us this morning, Saudi Arabia in the early stages of
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: Starting up a vital oil pipeline, it's enabled Riyadh to
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: bypass the Strait of Hormuz. So, yeah, this is important.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Is that the one that was shut down? Because it
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: was damaged or it's a different one?
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: This was one that was attacked by drones with the Houthis.
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: So Saudi Arabia aiming to restore exports via the pipeline
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: later this week, they say. It was recently hit by
• 28:54
  Speaker 14: those drones. Multiple oil traders say. Already, we're seeing signs
• 28:59
  Speaker 14: of tankers arriving at the port of Yambu, where the
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: piped barrels are exported from. When it was shut down,
• 29:05
  Speaker 14: the kingdom pivoted its exports back to the Persian Gulf.
• 29:08
  Speaker 14: And you know the story there. Not a lot of
• 29:11
  Speaker 14: ships get through.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm looking at the crude oil prices before
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the opening bell now, and they're back down. I mean,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: they're still up higher than they have been, but they're
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: down below $ 100 again.
• 29:23
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Brent, which is the international benchmark, we call it,
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: it's down 1.7 percent. So 98.61 a barrel this morning.
• 29:31
  Speaker 14: American crude down over 2 percent. Right now that's trading
• 29:34
  Speaker 14: at 93.60 a barrel. Still, I mean, no bargain.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: No, no bargain. And speaking of no bargain, gas in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: my neighborhood, $ 6. 39 a gallon. Okay. It's the world's most
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: valuable company. I know, you can't because you're in a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: different state. You don't have California's prices. It's the world's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: most valuable company, but its stock is flashing a warning sign.
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll get through this real quick. We're talking about
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: Nvidia here at less than 17 times profit expected over
• 30:05
  Speaker 14: the next 12 months. The share is trading near the
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: cheapest level in more than a decade. The multiple half
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: what the stock commanded last year when revenue and profit
• 30:15
  Speaker 14: growth was slower. Well, analysts say here's the bottom line.
• 30:19
  Speaker 14: This is just a pretty healthy dose of skepticism that
• 30:22
  Speaker 14: the company's current earnings power is sustainable. Nvidia shares up
• 30:26
  Speaker 14: 22 percent so far this year. This is a performance
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: that ranks as the second best among the so-called Magnificent
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: Seven technology giants, but it pales in comparison to other
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: semiconductor makers this year.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Peloton, speaking of paling in comparison, did really great during
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the pandemic, then really had some problems, but says it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: getting ready for its turnaround.
• 30:52
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it's introducing a treadmill that can be folded. It's quieter, too.
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: $ 2, 200 TreadFlex, its most affordable model to date, and it
• 31:02
  Speaker 14: goes on sale October 1st. Now, the company believes this
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: is going to be popular with people living in apartments
• 31:07
  Speaker 14: and cramped spaces. The other products include the $ 3, 500 TreadVision
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: and the high-end $ 6, 700 Peloton PlusVision. I love this. Both
• 31:19
  Speaker 14: machines come with larger cup holders. So I guess you
• 31:23
  Speaker 14: can gulp your supersized Sloppy as you're trying to exercise.
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: By the way, I don't know anybody, I mean, at
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: least in my circle, who owns a Peloton who doesn't
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: use it as a clothes rack at this point.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, I've had several of those over my lifetime. Good
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: news for fat bald guys. What you got?
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: Yeah, like me, Novo Nordisk. Eyeing the hair loss market.
• 31:46
  Speaker 14: As the maker of Ozempic seeks to expand its direct-to-consumer
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: pharmaceuticals business, the condition is actually part of a list
• 31:52
  Speaker 14: of areas where Novo sees a potential overlap. Some of
• 31:55
  Speaker 14: the science being pursued now for the treatment of hair
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: loss rooted in endocrinology. The branch of medicine focused on hormones,
• 32:02
  Speaker 14: a field where Novo has a pretty long history, so
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: they're kind of optimistic.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I like how you worked that in, what it's rooted in.
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: Anyway, Dow futures up 220. NASDAQ futures, they set a
• 32:17
  Speaker 14: record yesterday, but right now down 17 points, Amy.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's John Tucker getting in your business with us. We
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: do it each weekday morning.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Thanks, John.
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: Talk tomorrow.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: All right. When we come back, we're going to meet Irene.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: She was a guest at the Union Rescue Mission. Now
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: she's off the streets and getting her life back on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: track for her and her two children. She's one of
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the big reasons we're going over the edge and the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: reason we're raising money for the union rescue mission. We'll
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: be talking to Irene next. So stick around.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: AM 640.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: The suspect in a deadly Chatsworth bus crash is at
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: her arraignment postponed for a third time because of her
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: medical condition. Bailey Rios was illegally arrested. allegedly illegally driving
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: high on drugs when she ran a red light and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: crashed into a Metro bus, killing two people and injuring
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: five others. An NBC4 helicopter crew was also killed when
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it crashed, covering the SUV Metro bus crash a week ago.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: A date's been set. Parole hearings for Lyle and Eric
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Menendez scheduled for February 23rd and 24th of next year.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Both brothers will attend the hearing from prison in San
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Diego County. Pumpkin spice season officially arrives today. Today's the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: first day of autumn. Days and nights are the same
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: length today. The old farmer's almanac says the autumnal equinox
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: will occur precisely at 8.04 p.m. Eastern time when the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: sun crosses the celestial equator. Days will get shorter now
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: until the winter solstice on December 21st. Let's say good
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: morning now to Irene. Irene is one of the people
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: that you'll be helping when you make a donation to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Neal's and my efforts to go over the edge for
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. Good morning, Irene.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us today. So, Irene, we
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to have you on because... I wanted to share
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: with our Wake Up Call listeners a success story to
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: let them know what their donations are being used for.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And you are one of those success stories. So please
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: tell us what first brought you to the Union Rescue Mission,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: because at first you were a guest.
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: So back in 2022, I was running from domestic violence
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: and battling a severe alcohol and drug addiction issue. I
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: was running from hotel to hotel, shelter to shelter with
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: two of my three children. I have Raiden and he's
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: six and Christy, she's 12. I was running out of
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: options and eventually found myself like literally on the streets.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: So I remember at that time, like I had nowhere
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: else to go and went to a county library out
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. And the librarian called the Los Angeles
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Police Department. And it was because of them that I
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: found myself at Union Rescue Mission. I basically, I'd hit
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: my rock bottom. And so that's where my journey began.
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  Speaker 1: So Irene, you said, so you were at the library
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  Speaker 1: and you were just, like you said, you were out
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  Speaker 1: of options. And so the library said- We can find
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  Speaker 1: a place to help you, but we need to call
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  Speaker 1: the police and they'll take you there? Or how did
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  Speaker 1: that play out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I thought I was in trouble. I really,
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  Speaker 3: because I was in the library, I would go there
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  Speaker 3: and bathe my kids there. And so one of the librarians,
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  Speaker 3: she knew. She just waited for me to let her
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  Speaker 3: know that I needed help. So it wasn't that she
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  Speaker 3: was trying to get me in trouble. She just, she
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  Speaker 3: knew that was the option was to call them and
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  Speaker 3: they would get me where I needed to go.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then were you in the relationship and you escaped
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  Speaker 1: from the domestic violence situation? Is that what got you
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  Speaker 1: out of a house in the first place?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that started, I mean, running from domestic violence
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  Speaker 3: started back in 2018. So since 2018, I've been to
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  Speaker 3: several different shelters from Long Beach to Antelope Valley, just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get out of the area, my unsafe area.
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  Speaker 3: So I just spent the rest of my, that entire
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  Speaker 3: time just running around to escape that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think it's interesting because when you hear
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  Speaker 1: about domestic violence situations, and I mean, I've always been
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: of the opinion, well, then just leave. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot more complicated than that. You've got children,
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  Speaker 1: you've got bills, you've got to take care of them.
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  Speaker 1: And where do you go? And is there a safe
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  Speaker 1: place for you? And did that all weigh into your decisions?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I would try from time to time
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  Speaker 3: to stay at families, but I started to not feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't trust anybody. So I was never feeling safe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even though people would say, oh, no, you're
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  Speaker 3: safe here. The fear was still there. I'm still overcoming
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  Speaker 3: that right now. Thank God I am in a safe place.
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  Speaker 3: But I still hold on to the trauma of thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 3: will they find me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or, you know, am I OK here?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so tell me about what it's like at the
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, because you've been there now. You've become
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  Speaker 1: a staff member now. But what's the feeling when you
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  Speaker 1: finally get into a place that is safe?
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  Speaker 3: That was my main thing here. Well, I went to
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  Speaker 3: Union Rescue Mission. And from there, one of the staff
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  Speaker 3: members told me about an opportunity to go up to
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  Speaker 3: Hope Gardens, which is where I do currently reside. And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about this place. At that point,
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  Speaker 3: I was just looking for a bed. I didn't need
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: anything fancy, just a bed. I needed somewhere safe, most importantly,
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: for me and my children. So I came up here
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  Speaker 3: to Hope Gardens in November of 2022. And I didn't
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  Speaker 3: realize at the time, but God was bringing me somewhere
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  Speaker 3: that would change my life and my well-being and future
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  Speaker 3: was starting here.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did it change your life? What did it do
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't know that I needed classes. I knew
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  Speaker 3: that I had a problem. I just didn't know how
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  Speaker 3: I was going to get out of it. So I
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  Speaker 3: got the opportunity here to start programming. And that was
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  Speaker 3: a requirement here. Like you had to program, go through classes,
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  Speaker 3: trauma-informed therapy. I had to commit to counseling for myself,
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  Speaker 3: for my children. And honestly, at that time, either I
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  Speaker 3: was going to do it or I was going to
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: lose my kids. I had DCSS involved and I was
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: fighting to keep them. So whatever it took, I was
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: just down to do it. But this definitely is what
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: ultimately changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: So they do more than just give you a meal
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  Speaker 1: and a place to stay. They actually help you figure
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  Speaker 1: things out, get off the street, get the help that
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: you need to get back into your life.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, definitely. They help me understand myself, the relationships
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  Speaker 3: I was forming, the choices I was making and the
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  Speaker 3: kind of person like I was becoming. So I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know any of those things. In fact, you couldn't tell
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  Speaker 3: me that before, but they helped me to see that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So you were resistant to hearing that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because to me, it wasn't a problem, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but I ultimately stopped the blame game where I was
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: blaming my abuser. I was blaming everybody but myself and
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I started realizing it was me choosing these people. So
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  Speaker 3: I was changing those things within me.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: That's so cool. And then you mentioned you're living at
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Hope Gardens. For people who don't know, it's part of
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, but what is Hope Gardens?
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  Speaker 3: Hope Gardens is a safe haven for women with children.
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  Speaker 3: We also have singles and seniors who are here where
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  Speaker 3: we have the opportunity to pause and rebuild and reflect
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  Speaker 3: and We're supplied, like I mentioned earlier, with the resources
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  Speaker 3: to help us to move on out to stability and
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: permanent housing later so that we can we don't have
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  Speaker 3: to revisit this situation again.
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  Speaker 5: That's so great.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so for people, Irene, who are thinking about donating
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  Speaker 1: because we're going over the edge on Friday, but they're
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: still on the fence about it. What can you say
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: about Union Rescue Mission that's going to help them turn
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: thinking about it into doing it and making a donation?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: People like me, I mean, we rely on people like you,
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  Speaker 3: and your generous donations do not go unused in a
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  Speaker 3: great way. Like, you're changing lives. You're making a difference
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  Speaker 3: for children, for women, for men. You're changing lives entirely.
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  Speaker 1: Irene, former guest at the Union Rescue Mission, now a
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  Speaker 1: staff member. We're so happy that you found her. Union
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  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission. You made me cry.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 1: That's so great. So thank you so much for sharing
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  Speaker 1: your story. We appreciate it. Best of luck to you
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: as you continue your journey to find your way home, Irene.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 14: Thanks.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love what Union Rescue Mission is doing. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. And if you can donate, we would appreciate it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: U-R-M dot O-R-G slash O-T-E to make any donation that
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: you can. Again, Neil and I are going over the edge.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be there videoing just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just in case.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 14: You never know.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So cool. Love that story from Irene. And
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: just like that, our time is through on Wake Up
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