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A Tragedy in Oregon, A Tragedy for All · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time
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  Speaker 2: for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It is 5 o'clock straight up. This is
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  Speaker 1: your wake-up call for Friday, October 16th. I'm Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: She's wearing black.
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  Speaker 1: I'm totally wearing black.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder why.
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  Speaker 1: Mario's wearing black, too. It says black Dodger hat, but
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  Speaker 1: it's black. Yeah, I did it on purpose.
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  Speaker 4: Me, too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing blue at daylight.
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  Speaker 1: I almost wore Dodger blue just because you know what
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  Speaker 1: they lost, we know, but they had just a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a season and they're such a fun team to watch.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. So, um, remember we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: that chill in the air earlier this week and how
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  Speaker 1: much that was so great.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's totally gone.
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  Speaker 6: Totally gone. And things are banging around at night and
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  Speaker 6: it was really hard for.
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  Speaker 1: Me where you were in the Valley.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got more winds on the way today, but
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get you all up to date on
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Of course, the tragedy up in Oregon, awful.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers out of the World Series contention, awful. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what? We're going to make it a positive day anyway,
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  Speaker 1: because that's how we roll. Here's what's ahead on Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up Call. The wind-whipped fire burning in Malibu has charred
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  Speaker 1: 146 acres. It's 5% surrounded. The fire erupted late yesterday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon during gusty Santa Ana winds that prompted red flag
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  Speaker 1: warnings of critical fire danger across much of the Southland.
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  Speaker 1: Those warnings are going to be in place until at
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  Speaker 1: least Saturday. About 47,000 customers have had their power shut
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  Speaker 1: off to reduce the risk of power lines sparking wildfires.
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  Speaker 1: Safety shutoffs could affect about 200,000 more customers in Southern
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  Speaker 1: California before this wind event is over. A 5, an 8,
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  Speaker 1: and an 11-year-old, along with a teacher, have been killed
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  Speaker 1: in a school shooting in Bend, Oregon. Another child and
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  Speaker 1: adult were also injured, critically. A community member says the
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  Speaker 1: 16-year-old shooter was shot and killed by a person who
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  Speaker 1: was passing by and just happened to notice him going
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  Speaker 1: to the school and stopped him. ABC's former FBI special
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  Speaker 1: agent in charge, Rich Frankel, is going to join us
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  Speaker 1: with the latest on what we know about the shooting
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  Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. Also, my good friend
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  Speaker 1: Angie Arnett lives in Bend. She got the text that
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  Speaker 1: no parent ever wants to receive yesterday afternoon from her daughter, Allie.
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  Speaker 1: Our school is in lockdown. It's not a drill. I'm scared.
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  Speaker 1: Angie's going to join us on Wake Up Call a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later. Air traffic controllers normally watch planes from
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  Speaker 1: the tower and on screens, but ABC's Aisha Ali is
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  Speaker 1: going to join us at 520 to tell us how
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  Speaker 1: they're Training is changing to give controllers a look into
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit of the planes they're directing. And a kind
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  Speaker 1: of fun way you can support the Altadena community as
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  Speaker 1: it continues to recover from the wildfires in 2025. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe cross some names off your Christmas list at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. That's coming up on Wake Up Call. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Southern California Edison, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: has shut down power to thousands of customers in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: and Ventura counties. Because of the strong winds, the shutoffs
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  Speaker 1: are meant to keep electrical equipment from sparking a wildfire.
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  Speaker 1: The Santa Ana winds are expected to reach their peak
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  Speaker 1: today across L.A. County with gusts up to 90 miles
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  Speaker 1: per hour possible in some mountain areas. Red flag warnings
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  Speaker 1: for critical fire danger. are in effect for much of
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  Speaker 1: the county until 8 p.m. tomorrow. A fire in Malibu
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  Speaker 1: burned nearly 150 acres as the flames have been pushed
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  Speaker 1: by those strong winds. It started yesterday afternoon near a
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  Speaker 1: probation camp on Ensenal Canyon Road west of Mulholland Highway.
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  Speaker 1: Evacuation orders and warnings were issued. The fire now 5% surrounded.
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  Speaker 1: A fire in Azusa has burned about 43 acres. It
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  Speaker 1: was threatening homes and other buildings yesterday along San Gabriel
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  Speaker 1: Canyon Road near Mirador Drive and Ranch Road. evacuation orders
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  Speaker 1: were issued, but fire crews were able to stop the
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  Speaker 1: fire's spread. It's now 41% surrounded. And a fire at
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  Speaker 1: Camp Pendleton forced the 5 freeway to be shut down
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  Speaker 1: for a while in San Diego County, but it has reopened.
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  Speaker 1: The CHP is keeping an eye on things in case
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  Speaker 1: conditions change. The fire's burned more than 1,400 acres since yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: An evacuation order was issued for the Las Flores area,
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  Speaker 1: but that has been lifted. The Department of Justice suing California,
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  Speaker 1: claiming that more than 20,000 possible non-citizens are on the
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  Speaker 1: state's voter rolls. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says the
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit is based on lies.
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  Speaker 3: We're not impressed with its lawsuit. We have seen this
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  Speaker 3: conduct before. This is what the federal government does.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit was filed yesterday after a deadline passed for
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  Speaker 1: the state and L.A. County election officials to confirm the
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  Speaker 1: names on a list given yesterday. And confirming that those
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  Speaker 1: names are names of citizens. Fans have been able to
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  Speaker 1: see the Dodgers for a steal for Game 4. Resale
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  Speaker 1: ticket prices plummeted as much as 50% with the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: down three games in the best of seven series against
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers. Prices for championship series tickets were as low
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  Speaker 1: as $ 77. The Dodgers, of course, eliminated from the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: with a 6-4 loss to the Brewers last night and
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  Speaker 1: a sweep of the series. Milwaukee is heading to the
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  Speaker 1: fall classic for the first time since 1982. How long
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  Speaker 1: ago was that? Well, Love Boat, Three's Company and MASH
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  Speaker 1: were the top TV shows that year. Brewers have never
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  Speaker 1: won the World Series. Time to say good morning to
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  Speaker 1: former special agent in charge for the FBI, ABC's Rich Frankel. Rich,
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  Speaker 1: we've had another school shooting, this one kind of in
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  Speaker 1: my backyard. I'm from Oregon in the small town of
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  Speaker 1: Bend in central Oregon. Can you give us the latest
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  Speaker 1: on what we now know?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so it appears around 1 o'clock local time, a
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  Speaker 7: 16-year-old male had a shotgun. He may have fired, and again,
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  Speaker 7: we're hearing it's a shotgun, may have fired at a
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  Speaker 7: car passing by. A good Samaritan bystander saw this and
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  Speaker 7: started following him. The student then went into... went up
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  Speaker 7: to the school, fired the shotgun at the door. The
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  Speaker 7: door was locked at the school, but the shotgun blast
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  Speaker 7: was able to unlock it, make it ajar. The student
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  Speaker 7: got in through that door and immediately started firing. At least,
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  Speaker 7: I believe it was five more rounds. Struck four children
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  Speaker 7: and one teacher. Three of the children were killed because
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  Speaker 7: of the blast, as well as one of the teachers.
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  Speaker 7: One One of the students did survive and I believe
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  Speaker 7: is at a hospital being treated now. As soon as
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  Speaker 7: this happened, the bystander who had a concealed carry weapon
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  Speaker 7: came inside and fired his weapon at the shooter, at
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  Speaker 7: the 16-year-old shooter, and was able to stop him at
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  Speaker 7: that point. And the shooter himself did die at the
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  Speaker 7: scene as a result of that shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, heroes among us. So the school did everything that
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  Speaker 1: it was supposed to do. It did have the doors locked.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that this guy used a gun to shoot
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  Speaker 1: his way in.
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  Speaker 7: Correct, yeah. And, you know, by the way, I'm not
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  Speaker 7: knocking the school at all. And, you know, every time
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  Speaker 7: this happens, we get better. You know, after Columbine, things changed.
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  Speaker 7: After Sandy Hook, things changed. After the shooting at the
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  Speaker 7: school in Texas, things changed. You know, it continues to,
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  Speaker 7: you know, security continues to get better. But the problem
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  Speaker 7: with that is these bad guys still try to figure
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  Speaker 7: out ways to get into the school and kill people.
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  Speaker 7: Could there have been a better lock on the door? Yes, probably.
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  Speaker 7: Could they have done something different? I'm sure there's going
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  Speaker 7: to be an evaluation made, but this is just getting–
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  Speaker 7: there seems to be no end to it. By the way,
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  Speaker 7: law enforcement did their job. They were there within minutes.
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  Speaker 7: If not a minute, they were there as a result
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  Speaker 7: of a 911 call. So there's really no one to
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  Speaker 7: blame for this other than the shooter himself.
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  Speaker 1: And do we know anything about the shooter aside from
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  Speaker 1: that he's 16 years old?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing yet. Yeah. The law enforcement is keeping this very tight.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't have a problem with that because the
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  Speaker 7: investigation is just unfolding. But, you know, we need, you know,
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  Speaker 7: what we're looking to find out is, was the shooter
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  Speaker 7: truly alone? In other words, did anyone help him? Did
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  Speaker 7: anyone radicalize him? Did anyone drive him to this? Was
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  Speaker 7: it a terrorist group? Was it a 764 type of
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  Speaker 7: domestic terrorist group? Was it somebody at the school he
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  Speaker 7: didn't like? Was it just he was having a psychotic episode?
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  Speaker 7: We just don't know. That's the one issue when the
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  Speaker 7: shooters are killed, which, by the way, again, I understand
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  Speaker 7: why it happened. I think the bystander did a heroic
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  Speaker 7: job by saving other students. But when they are killed,
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  Speaker 7: we don't have that direct evidence. We're not able to
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  Speaker 7: interview the person. Now we have to go back to
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  Speaker 7: his history, talk to his friends, family and piece together
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  Speaker 7: why this happened. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that I have a friend who lives in.
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  Speaker 1: Bend that it happened in a special ed class. So
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  Speaker 1: it was a special ed teacher and the kids were 5, 8,
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  Speaker 1: and 11, which is why you have that range of
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  Speaker 1: ages because it was a special ed class in the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: So you wonder who that student was, the 16-year-old, did
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  Speaker 1: he have ties to that teacher? Did he have ties
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  Speaker 1: to the children? Then, you know, maybe we'll find that
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  Speaker 1: out as this unfolds. Rich Franco, special former.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry about that. No, go ahead. Yeah, I was just
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  Speaker 7: going to agree with you on that. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: was this an opportunity? In other words, was this the
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  Speaker 7: first classroom that he saw? Or as you said, is
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  Speaker 7: there something or somebody in that classroom where he had
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  Speaker 7: a specific issue with? And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully we'll find out. But that doesn't. Changed the
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  Speaker 1: fact that four people have been killed, two others in
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  Speaker 1: critical condition, and, of course, the shooter's also dead. Rich Frankel,
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  Speaker 1: former special agent in charge for the FBI, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And, again, we're going to be talking to my friend
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  Speaker 1: Angie Arnett, who lives in Bend. And Bend is a
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  Speaker 1: rather small town, so they're all talking. And so we'll
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  Speaker 1: find out what she knows as well, and that's coming
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit later. As I mentioned earlier, she
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  Speaker 1: got that text. from her daughter in school yesterday. It said, mom,
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  Speaker 1: we're in lockdown. It's not a drill. I'm scared. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A new ABC News Washington Post
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  Speaker 1: Ipsos poll shows eight in 10 Americans Our Against War
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Hegseth called to live stream the execution of
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  Speaker 1: Fort Hood shooter Nadal Hassan. The backlash, instant and fierce.
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  Speaker 10: Sergeant Alonzo Lunford, who was shot seven times in Hassan's massacre.
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  Speaker 10: Georgia Republican Congressman Austin Scott posting, live streaming executions is
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  Speaker 10: what jihadists do.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Rachel Scott says President Trump announced yesterday the execution
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  Speaker 1: in December. He is going to move forward. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be public and won't be live streamed.
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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon has issued a statement saying the secretary supports
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  Speaker 1: the president's decision and that they are completely aligned. Higher
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  Speaker 1: inflation numbers just released could point to another interest rate hike.
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  Speaker 11: The odds of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates again
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  Speaker 11: have gone up with the announcement of inflation going up
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  Speaker 11: this week. FedWatch says there's up to a 35 percent
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  Speaker 11: chance interest rates will go up another quarter point at
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  Speaker 11: the next rate setting meeting just a week before the
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  Speaker 11: election on November 3rd. The rise in inflation is being
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  Speaker 11: blamed in part on gas prices, which are 34 percent
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  Speaker 11: higher than a year ago, and heating oil, very similar
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  Speaker 11: to diesel fuel, which is 74 percent higher as winter
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  Speaker 11: comes in. Food prices have been steady, but experts say
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  Speaker 11: that'll change as businesses pass higher shipping costs on to
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  Speaker 11: consumers like Pepsi said it's doing. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: The new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah, who President
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  Speaker 1: Trump described as an attorney, never passed the bar exam.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Mary Bruce says Zachariah graduated from Pepperdine Law School
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  Speaker 1: before moving to China with her new husband.
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  Speaker 12: Sources later telling ABC News that Zachariah did not pass
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  Speaker 12: the exam. But that has not stopped her from calling
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  Speaker 12: herself a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Zachariah dismisses questions about her resume as miscommunication. When we
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  Speaker 1: come back, air traffic controllers normally watch the planes from
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  Speaker 1: the tower and on screens. ABC's Aisha Ali joins us.
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  Speaker 1: to tell us how their training is changing so controllers
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  Speaker 1: will get a look into the cockpit of the planes
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  Speaker 1: they're directing and safely keeping in the skies.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 13: Hi, Amy. There are a couple things that make me
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  Speaker 13: happy in life. One is a nice rare steak with
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  Speaker 13: a dry martini.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: And the Dodgers losing. This is Barry from Northern California,
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  Speaker 13: Giants and Niners fan. You have a great show. Thanks
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  Speaker 13: a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's a Niners fan. He's a Niners fan, so
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  Speaker 1: he gets a half pass.
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  Speaker 7: Barry. I know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of Dodger haters. I'm not one of them,
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  Speaker 1: but I am wearing black today because of the loss.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people in Southern California have had their power shut
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  Speaker 1: off to reduce the risk of utility lines sparking a wildfire.
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  Speaker 1: Red flag warnings for high fire danger are in effect
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  Speaker 1: into the weekend.
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  Speaker 7: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County health officials are warning of a powerful synthetic opioid
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  Speaker 1: known as cyclorphine. It has for the first time been
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  Speaker 1: confirmed as the cause of death of a fatal overdose.
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  Speaker 1: The drug... which is even more potent than fentanyl, can
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  Speaker 1: cause severe respiratory depression and death. It can be mixed
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  Speaker 1: with other drugs without the user's knowledge, increasing the risk
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  Speaker 1: of an overdose. A criminal case against a 64-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: from Costa Mesa who registered her dog to vote has
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  Speaker 1: been dismissed after she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and
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  Speaker 1: paid for anti-voter fraud billboards. Laura Lee Yoricks was originally
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  Speaker 1: charged with five felonies. She paid $ 1, 500 for the billboards
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  Speaker 1: along Orange County Freeway's warning against voter fraud. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's transportation reporter, Aisha Ali. Morning, Aisha.
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  Speaker 9: Hi, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I wanted to talk to you about this
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  Speaker 1: because this is kind of interesting to me. Air traffic controllers...
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  Speaker 1: are being trained, but they're changing their training. So they're
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  Speaker 1: not only going to be seeing planes from the tower
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  Speaker 1: and from their screens, they're actually going to go into
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit as part of their training.
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  Speaker 5: That is correct. So this is going to be in
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  Speaker 5: addition to their regular training in the academy and all
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  Speaker 5: the other training that they go through. This is a
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  Speaker 5: joint initiative between the FAA and the Air Traffic Controllers Union.
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  Speaker 5: And this is a program that they're bringing back, which
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  Speaker 5: was paused at the start of the pandemic. And the
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  Speaker 5: whole point, like you mentioned, is to give air traffic
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  Speaker 5: controllers an opportunity to ride with the pilots inside the
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  Speaker 5: cockpit on those jump seats. And this is to help
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  Speaker 5: provide controllers with, you know, better insights into a pilot perspective.
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  Speaker 5: So it's like as they're sitting in the air traffic
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  Speaker 5: controller's tower, so now they'll be able to know that, okay,
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  Speaker 5: at this stage of flight, this is what the pilot
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  Speaker 5: are focusing on. This is where their attention is. So
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  Speaker 5: how can we make these instructions and communication accurate? as
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  Speaker 5: clear-cut and as simple as possible for them so everything
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  Speaker 5: goes safely. The program starts after Thanksgiving, and each controller
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  Speaker 5: will be able to fly on two commercial or general
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  Speaker 5: aviation flights and one military flight every year. Obviously, as
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  Speaker 5: you can imagine, because they are going to be inside
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  Speaker 5: those cockpits, safety is the top priority for the agency.
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  Speaker 5: So they have said that all controllers will go through
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  Speaker 5: multiple steps of vetting at the airport and before they
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  Speaker 5: get on that flight. And this is not just a
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  Speaker 5: free flight. The controls will need to submit a report
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  Speaker 5: after each flight detailing, you know, what they learned and
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  Speaker 5: what objectives they got out of it.
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  Speaker 1: There will be a test. So that's probably pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: There will be a test.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a question for you about they used
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  Speaker 1: to do this, but then they paused it during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Which kind of makes sense with the whole close quarters
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Did they just forget about it
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  Speaker 1: after the pandemic? And then somebody said, hey, why aren't
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  Speaker 1: trainees in the cockpits anymore?
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  Speaker 5: So the FAA said they know air traffic controllers asked
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  Speaker 5: for it. They wanted it to be back. And the
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  Speaker 5: FAA also saw positive results from it. So they have
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  Speaker 5: brought this back now. It is unclear why it took
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  Speaker 5: them a little bit of time. But as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we do we did go through a couple
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  Speaker 5: of years of testing. social distancing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: So that was the focus.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: And for stuff like this to come back, it requires
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: a lot of coordination. So they also have to coordinate
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: with the airlines on this aspect because they are going
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: to be putting controllers on their flights. So the FAA
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: has said that all U.S. major carriers are on board.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: So they're all set. They've also done some testing and
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: have said that, OK, it has worked out. It is
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: showing results. But officially, controllers will be able to start
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: doing this more post Thanksgiving.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: OK, well, you know what? I think it's a good thing.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: You know, the more you know, it's It's like when
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I used to do events on college campuses, I hired
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: people to run the events, but then I went out
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and did them too because I wanted to know what
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the experience was like. I wanted to know, you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: how do you set this up and how do you
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: handle this person and that kind of stuff. So I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of the same thing where you put in.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: boots on the ground so they have a frame of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: reference for.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: It yeah the more knowledge the better yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Absolutely okay thank you so much for the update aisha
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: ali with abc news appreciate it we'll talk to you
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: again soon thanks for having me all right four suspected
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: burglars have been arrested in connection with the killing of
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a french bulldog during a break-in in north hollywood the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: intrusion happened about three in the morning while the people
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: who live at the home were sleeping Police say the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: burglars stomped on the dog and killed it. They also
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: stole a safe. The thieves were caught after leading police
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: on two separate chases. Police say at least one of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the four had a gun. They are each facing felony
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: burglary and felony animal cruelty charges. Students in California are
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: still struggling to make the grade.
• 19:03
  Speaker 14: New statewide test scores show fewer than half of students
• 19:06
  Speaker 14: met standards in English, while just 38% were proficient in
• 19:10
  Speaker 14: math and 36% in science. Scores improved slightly in all
• 19:14
  Speaker 14: three subjects, but math and English remained below pre-pandemic levels.
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: The state also continues to see wide achievement gaps with Black, Latino,
• 19:22
  Speaker 14: and low-income students significantly less likely to meet standards. State
• 19:26
  Speaker 14: education officials say these numbers show continued progress, but also
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: the work ahead.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Heather Brooker, KFI News. Prosecutors in L.A. County are considering
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: sex assault charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell. The DA's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: office says it is actively weighing the case. The allegation
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: involves a woman who says she was attacked by the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Democratic congressman in 2018, Lana Drews. says she was drugged,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: choked and sexually assaulted in a hotel room in West Hollywood.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Swalwell has denied the allegations. A new loan program in
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: California aims to help homeowners pay for wildfire safety upgrades.
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: SB 894 creates the California Wildfire Resilience Loan Program. The
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: program will offer financial assistance for things like clearing brush,
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: upgrading roofs, or installing safer windows to make homes more
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: fire resistant. The loan program is set to start in January.
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: It remains unclear how much funding will be available and
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: how to apply is also still being decided.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: KFI News. An L.A. DWP employee has been charged with
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: 12 felonies following a year-long graffiti vandalism spree that caused
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: almost $ 173, 000 in damages. Three other people are also charged.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Javier Rocha, who has worked for the DWP since 2018,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is set to be arraigned next Friday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: The L.A.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: County DA's office says the group went to extraordinary lengths
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: using climbing equipment and drones to record their vandalism. and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that they allegedly profited from it. A federal judge has
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: struck down the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: sanctuary laws.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: The judge ruled that the feds didn't have standing in
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: the case and that the government can't force local officials
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: to assist them in immigration enforcement. The administration had argued
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: that the city's laws were interfering with ICE's ability to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: enforce federal law. Mayor Mamdani celebrated the decision in a
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: statement calling it a, quote, victory for New Yorkers. In
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: New York, I'm Jonathan O'Halloran.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And it's time to give those feral cats a little love, too.
• 21:31
  Speaker 15: Today is Global Cat Day. This isn't a celebration of
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: your kitty. It's for kitties that don't have homes. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: guilt is implied, as when it comes to cats, more
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: is better. And today we celebrate community cats, the feral
• 21:43
  Speaker 15: ones who don't have a lap to curl up on
• 21:45
  Speaker 15: or a diet that's not heavy in mice. You can
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: help by supporting your local catch, fix, and release program,
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: donate food to a shelter, and you can always adopt
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: another one.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Because cats are awesome.
• 21:56
  Speaker 15: Brie Tennis, KFI News.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: That's what you need.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: You need to adopt feral cats.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Because you don't have enough going on there. No, I can't.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: But I agree with Brie. Cats are awesome. When we
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: come back, a fun way you can support the Altadena
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: community as it continues to recover from the wildfires in 2025.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Almost two years now. And maybe you can cross some
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: names off your Christmas list at the same time. That's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Amy King. Always looking forward to hearing
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: from you. If you have something to share with Wake
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Up Call on the Talkback.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: I'm a sad Dodger fan. They looked like I feel
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: this morning.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Tired and slow and kind of old.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they recover and have a great season next year.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: If there is a next year for baseball.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You know, there's that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: There's that. And he sounds just a little bit like Eeyore,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't he? Good morning, Boo Bear.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: If it is a good morning, which I doubt.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's going to be okay. Here's what we're following in
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-Hour Newsroom. The Milwaukee Brewers, of course, dashed
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' dreams of a three-peat. The Brewers won 6-4
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: last night to sweep the Dodgers in the National League
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Championship Series, and they're headed to the World Series for
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the first time in more than 40 years. Last year,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it was the Dodgers that swept the Brewers in the NLCS.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: The 42-year-old former head of a program that got funds
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: for homeless housing has pleaded guilty to a federal charge
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of defrauding the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority of more
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: than $ 23 million. That included $ 8 million the prosecutors say
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: went toward designer clothes, luxury vacations, and properties in both
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Westwood and Grease. Alexander Souffer of Westwood faces up to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: 20 years in prison when he's sentenced April 7th.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: The L.A.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Zoo is going to celebrate Halloween with two weekends of trick-or-treating,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: animal encounters, pumpkins, and live entertainment. Boo at the Zoo
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: starts next weekend. Candy will be available while supplies last.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to have to go to that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I just went to the zoo for their Zootoberfest, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: it was very cool, but we missed a lot of
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the animals. It was too late in the day, so
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the gorillas were hiding and napping or something. But boo
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: at the zoo. That sounds fun.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Boo.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: At 6.05, it is Handle on the News. Got an
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: update on that fire for you that has grown in Malibu,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: forcing some evacuations. But they've been at it all night,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: dropping water on it. Hope they get a handle on
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it soon. And speaking of fires, we know that the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: communities of Pacific Palisades and Altadena are still recovering from
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the wildfires, trying to rebuild their lives. And one of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the things that they did last, I think it was
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: last year, it must have been last year, is they
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: do this art fair. And it's the Alta Art Fair.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And so my brother and his girlfriend and I went
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to it last year. And it was really very cool.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And they're doing it again this year. So I thought, oh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about this. And then maybe you could
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: start your Christmas shopping early. Because they have local artisans.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: They're all from the Altadena community. And they have some
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: very cool stuff. And it's at the Fraternal Order of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, number 719, which is at 455 East Woodbury
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Road in Altadena. Super easy to get to, super easy
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to find. And like I said, they had some very,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: very interesting and very unique gifts there or stuff for
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: your home too. I bought some stuff for me. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: bought some stuff for my friends. And I just thought
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it was such a great thing. You can still go
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And if you're not sure how you can support these
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: people who are still trying to get everything back in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: order and get their houses rebuilt and their lives rebuilt,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this is one way you can help. Again, it's the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Alta Art Fair. It's happening tomorrow from 11 a.m. to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: 5 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, number 719.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And that's at 455 East Woodbury Road in Altadena. Oh,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: one more Dodger thing. At the beginning of the season,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We talked to Jose Bluebeard Lara. He's a Dodgers super fan,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and he had a prediction, and I thought I needed
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to save that prediction.
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: We're going to do a three-peat, and I'm predicting about
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: 108 wins.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Whoa, that was a little bit too much, Jose, because
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: there is no three-peat, and it wasn't 108 wins. They
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: did have 100 wins in the regular season, which is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: pretty spectacular.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: But, oh, what a fun ride it has been. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: let's do it again next year. Well, depending on whether
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: there's a walkout strike kind of thing, we'll keep you posted.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: lot of voters in L.A. County apparently worried about outside
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: interference in the midterm elections, which are less than three
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: weeks away.
• 26:51
  Speaker 16: That's according to a new poll funded by the nonprofit
• 26:53
  Speaker 16: California Community Foundation. 500 likely voters were surveyed between September
• 26:58
  Speaker 16: 30th and October 6th. Nearly three quarters of those that
• 27:01
  Speaker 16: responded said that they worry that online misinformation could confuse
• 27:05
  Speaker 16: voters or undermine confidence. They also expressed political interference and
• 27:09
  Speaker 16: missing mail-in ballots are their top concerns. Despite that, 68%
• 27:12
  Speaker 16: said L.A. County does an excellent or good job at
• 27:15
  Speaker 16: running elections and counting ballots. Deborah Mark, KFI News.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: News brought to you by American Vision Windows. It's going
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to be up to a judge to decide if Rob
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and Michelle Reiner's money should be used to pay for
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the defense of their accused killer, their son, Nick.
• 27:31
  Speaker 17: The answer hinges on California's Slayer statute, which bars killers
• 27:35
  Speaker 17: from financially benefiting from their victims. Nick Reiner never claimed
• 27:38
  Speaker 17: the portion of his trust he was due when he
• 27:39
  Speaker 17: turned 30. Before the December 2025 murders of Rob and
• 27:43
  Speaker 17: Michelle Reiner, litigator Julia Hay at the Greenberg-Glusker firm explains
• 27:47
  Speaker 17: the question is whether he's entitled to that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: Or whether because the money stayed within the trust, it
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: now is under the purview of the trustee, and now
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: that he has been charged, we must wait for a
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: determination of whether he is found guilty or not.
• 28:00
  Speaker 17: Mark Rahner, KFI News.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And a massive protest is set for this weekend in
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: downtown L.A.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: The group 50-51 and several other groups are banding together
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: for a No Kings protest.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: The goal is to make the election too big to wreck.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Hunter Dunn is a spokesperson for the group.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's going to be escalation.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That escalation is almost exclusively by Things may get out
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: of hand, but blames the cops.
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: Police officers, without provocation, putting on gas masks and then
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: dropping tear gas directly on elderly people, pregnant women, and children.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Dunn says the unpermitted protest is at 1 o'clock on Saturday.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business, as we do each
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman. Good morning, Dan.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Amy.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Tough loss.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: And hopefully there is a season next year, you're right.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have to wait and see, won't we? And
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: hopefully there's still a Netflix around next year because they
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: keep dumping employees.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Great shows, though. I don't get it. You know, tons
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: of subscribers. They're making money, but they continue their shakeup.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: The company is now replacing its chief creative officer with
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: a veteran TV and film executive, Peter Rice. After announcing
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: layoffs of 1,000 employees earlier this week, Rice previously served
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: as chairman of General Entertainment at Disney and before that
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: as president of 21st Century Fox. Now he assumes a
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: new role on October 26th. The executive moves are happening
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: as the company works to reverse a slowdown in both
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: revenue and viewership.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And Southwest Airlines getting fancy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: They're offering more premium travel offerings with new loyalty tiers,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: airport lounges, upgraded in-flight options. The airline says it's going
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: to overhaul its Rapid Rewards loyalty program beginning in January.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: It's going to introduce a silver, gold, and platinum tier
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: that offers more perks for frequent flyers. Southwest's new platinum
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: status will offer unlimited companion pass trips. and additional milestone rewards.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: I have to tell you, I kind of liked it
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: when it was just kind of bare bones, cheaper fares,
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: and they got me places on time, right?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And see, to me, and I like Southwest,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to me, it just looks like a money grab.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Yes, exactly right. Like, stick to what the core principles
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: were that got you to be a really great airline.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yep, I agree. But unfortunately, you and I do not
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: run the world, Dan, so, you know, we'll have to just.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Deal with it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Natural and Organic Foods Company could go bankrupt.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the company that produces Celestial Seasonings tea and
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Earth's Best Baby Food. It's said to be weighing a
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: bankruptcy filing. Sources tell Bloomberg that Hain Celestial has been
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: dealing with weakening demand for its natural and organic foods
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: while also facing a high debt burden. The company's stock
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: has plunged, check this out, around 99% since early 2025.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: A really bad five-year run, obviously.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Interesting, since there's such a push for the natural and organic.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, 99%?
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's unbelievable.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe somebody's not running their business quite right. We'll have
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to wait. That's just speculation. I was just guessing. Bloomberg's
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman. You might be correct on that one. Bloomberg's
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman, getting in your business as we do each
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: weekday morning. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I will talk to you Monday.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: When we come back, my good friend Angie Arnett lives
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: in Bend, Oregon. where there was that horrific school shooting yesterday.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And she has a daughter in middle school, and Angie
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: got the text that no parent ever wants to get
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that says, our school is in lockdown. It's not a drill.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I'm scared. Angie's going to join us next on Wake
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Up Call.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: AM 640.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: This Friday morning, here's what we're following in the KFI
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. A red flag warning remains in effect with
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: high temperatures, high winds, and low humidity increasing fire danger.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: The warning is for the valleys and foothills of Los
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Angeles and Ventura Counties and Ventura County beaches. Peak winds
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: are expected through this afternoon. At least two fires are
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: burning in the windy conditions around L.A. in Malibu and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: in Azusa. The Trump administration has sued the state of California,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: claiming more than 20,000 non-citizens registered to vote in the state.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: The lawsuit filed yesterday comes after the Department of Justice
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: gave the state and L.A. county election officials a noon
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: deadline to respond to its claim. Gas prices to continue
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to tick down in California. AAA says regular unleaded is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: averaging $ 6. 22 across the state. In L.A., it dropped another
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: cent to $ 6. 27 on average. It's $ 6. 20 in Orange County,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: $ 6. 11 in the Inland Empire. Prices have been trending down
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: for the past two weeks, but are still $ 1. 50 higher
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: than a year ago. Let's say good morning now to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: my friend Angie Arnett, who lives in Bend, Oregon, where
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: three students and a teacher were killed yesterday. in a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: school shooting. Angie, thanks so much for coming on with us.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Before we say anything more, I just want to say
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you're okay and so relieved to hear
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that your daughter Allie is okay. I'm guessing it was
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a normal Thursday afternoon yesterday just before one and then
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you got a text from Allie. Is that how you
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: found out about everything?
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Amy. Amy, thanks for having me. Yeah, we're
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: obviously reeling from so much yesterday and Yeah, like you said,
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: it was a normal day for me. I was just
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: actually on a work call, and I saw a text
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: come through on my phone from my daughter, and I
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: just kind of glanced at it thinking, not a big deal,
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: because a lot of times she'll text me saying she
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: did great on a test or something. But then I
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: looked again, and it said, Mom, we're in a lockdown,
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: and it's not a drill. OMG, I'm scared. And my
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: heart kind of sank. But still, reality did not quite
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: hit me because she had a lockdown once in our
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: little small town where there was a bobcat and a tree.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: So those are the kind of things we worry about,
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: wild animals and not things like that. I told my
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: husband what was going on, and he almost didn't think
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: much of it either. But we decided to get in
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: our car and head towards the school.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: Her school.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Meanwhile, I'm texting my sister and my brother-in-law, who also
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: have a child at the school, and they are both
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: nurses at the hospital here in Bend. And my sister
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: immediately responded. She said, I know we just went into
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: trauma mode at the hospital, and there's an active shooter
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: at Silver Rail Elementary School. And, you know, I was shocked.
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: I'm thankful, obviously, that it wasn't at my daughter's school,
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: but because we're such a small community and schools are
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: within close proximity of each other, they just put most
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: of the schools in lockdown because we didn't know where
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: all the active, you know, if there was another shooter
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: somewhere or if the active shooter was, you know, still
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: roaming around.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: And we were talking last night and it was because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: it's so horrific what happened. at the elementary school, but
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: this affects the whole community because like you said, for
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, there's six degrees of separation and
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Bend is a small community. It's like two degrees.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was telling somebody last night, like you could
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: sit our whole population in one big football stadium, really.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're big enough to be considered like a city,
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: but we're small enough to where it's, again, two degrees
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: of separation.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Okay.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: And so after you got the word from Allie, how
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: long was it, which is your daughter, how long was
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: it before you were able to be able to get
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: connected with her again? Because you said you went to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the school, but you couldn't get in because it was
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: on lockdown.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: And by then, several parents had gotten there. And my
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: husband and I are actually volunteers at the school for
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: safety monitors. So we were allowed to be in the
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: school and we still didn't know what was going on.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: You know, not enough information had been coming out. It
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: was still like a live active scene. Things were happening.
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: Like I said, my sister's a nurse at the hospital.
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: They were getting reports that people were coming in. And
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: I did text my daughter to say, hey, we're at
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: the school.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: It's okay.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: It's an incident at another school. But they're being very precautious,
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: you know. But we, I think she texted me around
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: 1.28 p.m. after they barricaded themselves in their classroom and
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: turned off all the lights, which was also very scary.
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: And we got to the school probably about 1.36 p.m.,
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: And we did not, they did not release the kids
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: till probably about 2.20 p.m. And all the parents were
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: outside just texting and trying to figure out what was
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: going on. Yeah.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And when it happens in a small community like that,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: did all of the parents pretty much just rush toward
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the school?
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so.
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think some people obviously were at work
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: and couldn't leave. But then another friend of mine who's
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: son goes to school there. She was, you know, trying
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: to get across town. And when I say across town,
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: really in Bend, it takes you about 15 minutes to
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: get anywhere here, max, you know. And so it wasn't
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: a crazy scene. I mean, I think people were trying
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: to be calm and collected and not freak the kids
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: out because not, you know, nobody really knew exactly what
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: was going on and we were trying to be calm.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: Yet I was You know, like I told you last night,
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: my best friend across the street from me, she's an
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: ER doctor. She was in the thick of it yesterday.
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: My sister, being a nurse, they went into full mode.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: One of my other friend's husbands was a fire chief,
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: and his crew were first on scene. So literally, my
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: phone has been on fire. fire since about, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: 2 p.m. yesterday, just talking with everybody that's been affected
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: and touched by the whole thing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And we know that a five and eight and an
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: 11-year-old were killed and also a teacher. And this was
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: in a special ed class at the elementary school.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is what we're hearing. So I also, you know, Ben's,
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: our biggest employment here really is the Ben Lapine School District.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: It's one of our top, if not our top employers.
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: So You know, teachers from know everybody. Everybody knows everybody
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: for the most part. And then we have a hospital
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: and it's not well, we have trauma in place. It's
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: not a big trauma center. So to give people perspective.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: that don't know, Bend is located about three-hour drive southeast
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: of Portland, and we're about five hours west of Boise, Idaho.
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: So kind of, you know, as we say, Central Oregon.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: We do have life flight coming in and out of here,
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: but usually it's for key accidents on the mountain and
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: not a shooting. What I understand, not fully confirmed, so...
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: Just what I've heard through some of my teacher group
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: friends is that it was a special ed class that
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: was where these kids were struck first. And one individual
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: from what I am being told, again, they're going to
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: have a press conference at 1 p.m. today to follow up,
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: was a girl in a wheelchair from one of the
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: handicap rooms or special ed rooms. And I know she
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: went into surgery. I believed she potentially got life flighted
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: to Portland. And then another teacher was brought in. My
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: sister had told me that they were told at one point,
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: you know, everything when they go into trauma unit, they
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: stop all the surgeries that are set to be in place,
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: like And they just all hands on deck called all
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: the anesthesiologists in town and everybody they could get. And
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: they were told to expect three to five students and
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: a couple other adults. But only one student and one
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: adult arrived at the hospital because the others did not
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: make it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Well, that's such I mean, Angie, I just can't even
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: can't even imagine what you guys are all going through.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Something that we should never have to go through. And
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: we seem to continually do that. I know you're you're
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Allie is getting together with friends today. I think that's fabulous.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I think that's probably what they need the very most
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: right now. Please give her a huge hug from me.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you and your family are okay. And prayers
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to everybody in bed.
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks. And just keep praying for these people. All
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: my friends that are, you know, not even the direct families,
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: but as you said, and I know we're just... one
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: step away from being, you know, completely affected by it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: And my daughter is like still traumatized and it wasn't
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: even at her school. So, but yeah, thank you for
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: taking the time with me.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Angie. Like I said, I'm glad
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: you guys are okay. Give Allie a hug for me
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk soon.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye.
• 41:01
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