You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, November twenty eighth. I'm Amy King, thrilled you're waking up with us this morning. It is Giving Tuesday, and more importantly, it is Pastathon twenty
twenty three. We're here at the Anaheim White House. We're here all day long. Of course, Bill Handle's going to start at six o'clock. We've got Gary and Shannon after that, John and Ken after that, followed by the one and only Tim Conway Junior, and then closing out the day, that's probably when the really big money is gonna come in with later with Moe Kelly. Here's how you can participate. First of all, come visit us. We're at the Anaheim White House and as I mentioned, we're going to
be here all day. It's decked out, it looks like a party. We're ready to raise some money for the kids. Twenty five thousand kids are fed every week by Katerina's Club thanks to Chef Bruno, and we need your donations. Easy to do, drop off pasta, come on in, have some coffee, say hi to the gang. You can also shop at any Spartan Final and donate at the checkout. You can go to any Wendy's in southern California and donate five dollars or more to the KFI Pastathon and you're gonna
get a coupon book with fourteen bucks. And another way to donate today we're going to be telling you about this is we have auction items for Pastathon. You can go to pastathon dot com and see all the auction items and there are some really cool ones, including a weekend get away to the Terrannaa Resort. There's an Evy electric bike and I'll tell you all the details on that from our friends at Thorson Motors. We also have you could co host the
show with John Colebelt for an hour. John's not very happy about it, but we're doing anyway. It's for a good cause. Like I said, we would love it if you'd stop by and cs. We are at the Anaheim White House. Let me get into what's ahead on wake up call. Israel and Hamas have agreed to a two day extension to the ceasefire, which should mean twenty more hostages are going to be released as part of a fourth swap under the original deal. Amas released eleven Israelis last night, and Israel
released thirty three Palestinians. LA fire crews have been fighting a massive fire burning at a construction site in South LA. They say buildings under construction caught fire early this morning and spread to at least four other buildings in the neighborhood. Google says it's going to start purging inactive Google accounts. The company says it's going to delete the accounts starting in December for security reasons. You can keep
your account active by logging in in at least once every two years. At six oh five, we're doing handle on the news live from the Anaheim White House, and it is official. More people flew on Sunday than any other day ever. Let's start with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I mentioned the La City fire crews fighting that
massive fire. We're headed out to the scene and we'll bring you the latest on that burning in South LA. Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their ceasefire for another day. ABC's Matt Gutman says eleven hostages were released by Hamas yesterday, which marked the fourth day of the truce. We don't know much about the health of the remaining hostage and that is a huge bone of contention for Israel. They are demanding that the Red Cross be given access to the
remaining hostages. We believe it's around one hundred and fifty at this point. Gutman says a lot of the remaining hostages are men who have seen their families released. Over the past several days. Israel has said it would extend the ceasefire by one day for every ten hostages released. A man accused of shooting three Palestinian College students in Vermont has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. The mother of one of the students says her son has a bullet
in his spine. I don't know what he'll be like. He may have to be in a wheelchair. I believe that he won't be I believe that he'll be able to walk, but his life has been taken away from him as it is, and he's going to have to recreate this new life. She says, she's shaken, hollow inside and aching to be with her son, who is lying immobilized in a hospital bed. One of the students who suffered a less severe injury was sent home from the hospital yesterday. Investigators are
looking into whether the shooting Sunday was a hate crime. Ten commemorative plaques have been ripped off the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument at Olvera Street, polis A. Thieves used sledgehammers to knock the bronze plaques commemorating LA's history off walls and out of the ground in the last couple of weeks. Replacing the plaques is expected to cost more than one hundred thousand dollars. It is is
Pastathon twenty twenty three. We are broadcasting live at the Anaheim White House and invite you to come down. Oh look who's in the house. It's Neil Sevader, the Fork Reporter. Thanks Neil. And you know we couldn't do any of this if it wasn't for Chef Bruno. So let's get the day started right and say good morning to the man the myth, the legend Bruno
Sorato Bon bon Jo two K five listener all around the world. Yeah, and today I'm going to tell you we kind of snuck away to get away from the craziness that is Pastathon. So we're down in the wine cellar, my favorite place. We're not gonna imvibe quite this early in the morning. But tell us what we expect today because it's a big day. It's Pastathon. It's here, Oh, the busiest day of the year for Katerina's Club. We started this early. We gold went on to tonight and people call,
people come over. They live in pasta Tomato, give it donation. It's a amazing the response of all the K five listener it's really overwhelming. People love what we do. They love K five obviously is without K five, we won't be what we do today for Caterina's Club, and we will not be where we are without Brunos Serrato. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, so's There's so many fabulous things about this organization and what you do.
One is that you feed how many kids a week? We are twenty five thousand meals weekly, over a million a year, which is basic. Ob five thousand meals a day. We are in one another in ten location, tourist city in Orange County, and uh, there's all the projects then follow us, but I'm not responsible for them. I'm only response for Orange County in a long beach, which is that the count but it is our enahblehood. And you know four years we are with the server. I was
countributed the girls a couple of weeks ago. Nine point four million meals so far. That is just crazy. And the other thing that is so beautiful about Katerina's Club is that all the money that's donated, all of it goes to feed the kids. It's not going there aren't administrative costs and all that. It's right to the kids. Yeah, because we have other grant and
for administration costs like everybody else have it. But gave our money go to the kids direct for what we do for the children of Ashcany Okay, and when you how long ago did you start this? A forty tea two thousand and five, one kid, one pasta, one city, one location, Okay, And you've told me this story before, but because it's pasta tom, we have to we have to reiterate how this got started with you feeding
someone and what inspired you to keep on going? Well, I went to Boys Girls Club of Anaheim and the director Tom is the kid eating potato chips. There would be is only dinner to nine because they live in a motear room. I asked, what's the mote room? So well, you have a family live in a hotel in nineteen fifty five when this they opened, they were the tourist hotel. Now as Forllow income citizens and also Dorug adding dog Dialo and IVTLS residents of those hotels and the kids feel as good mom,
mom can not be good because the kitchen in there. I trans it to my mom, which was your for methadi Mama caterina as a detaillan mom? What you said? We no what dot you feed in Pascal? It was the first kid, first location, first city, and you fed in Pasta and then you did it again and did it again and did it again and you started out small and now you're feeding thousands of children a week. And what tell me how you feel about the response that you get because so
many people come forward and donate. What does that mean to you? Well, it's a respect to what I do. I mean, uh always says a lot of good people out there. If you can't find one, b one as what a mother is a teation, Oh yeah, as an open us everywhere left and the right is bend us war kidding shoty sick or tired to read of this. But when people read, then some chef and a white towels feeding children all over the county. I want to help. They say, that is a huge respect to me, to my organization, to
the people walk with me. It's like, I have a huge respect for the people donated. Yesterday, somebody came here, just give me five thousand dolls. The other day, somebody came one thousand dollars. Four days ago, somebody came for dinner. Giving one hundred dollars doesn't matter much to give me. It's just like your respect of what they do and you doned it. I mean that makes me feel very good. Yeah, well, you
make us all feel very good for what you're doing. And we're going to be hearing so much more from Bruno today and from all of the people who make this happen, because it's truly, truly in just an on inspiring, inspiring organization, and we're so thrilled to be part of it. And we want to encourage everybody now to come down and they can come by because we haven't we haven't broadcasted live the whole day since the pandemic. So this is
this is a time which we're all excited. Lot of people love this yep, and a lot of people's got to come to see it as they go back to the Lutz and very excited. This is a fun day to be here, yep. So I'm here right now, and then Handle's going to be here, then Gary and Shannon and of course Johnny can Tim Conway Jr. And we're going to wrap up the day because we're going right until ten o'clock with later with Mo Kelly. So we invite you to come down donate.
If you can't come down and donate, there are other ways you can donate. Yeah, you can go online, which is Caterinasclub dot org. If you can't remember called a restaurant, we will help you to find out. If you put my name anywhere on the Google you will see the website somewhere that I mean. You can donate a different way. You can send checks to the club if you don't have the other top club sent to the restaurant but make sure you put the checks to Katerina's Club dot all to Katerina's
the password for every tier around here. Okay, and plus you can go to Wendy's. All the Wendy's in southern California are taking donations, as are Smart and Finals in like three or four states. So but we want you to come here today. So come by, stop by, make a donation, say hi and thank you so much. Bruno, thank you Cha. So many ways to help, and it all starts with you, ends with twenty five thousand kids a week getting a meal. It's Giving Tuesday. It's
the thirteenth annual KFI Pastathon happening right now. We are the Anaheim White House. Would love for you to stop by, hang out for a while, or just stop buy and drop off some pasta. Either way it works for us. Let's get back to some of the story coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A water main break has caused a mud slide in Hacienda Heights. This guy, who lives in the area says the slide isn't
really a surprise. We had water leaks that started all over a week ago that were recorded by several neighbors and they said it was fine that they deal with it, but we knew it eventually it was all going to wash down. La Kenny Fire says the slide happened last night. Four homes have been damaged, one has mud inside. Seven homes don't have water. A woman who tried to fight off a purse snatcher outside of Costco in Industry is in
critical condition. She was dragged by the thieves car Sunday night for about half the length of a football field as she tried to hold onto her bag. She hit her head when she fell off. The two robbers were in a dark colored Infinity QX sixty. The La Kenny Sheriff's Cybercrimes Bureau says when it comes to buying stuff online, be aware of some red flags. Sergeant Pete
Hisch says, be suspicious of unsolicited emails and text messages. You get an email from a company selling something, don't click on the link, don't click on the document or anything like that. Those a lot of times are I say more times than not. On Nefariahish says, never use a debit card to purchase items online because if you're hacked, you could lose all your cash
and getting it back might be next to impossible. And if you'd like to use apps to buy stuff, only download retailers apps directly from the Apple Store or Google Play. Steve Gregory kf I News. When we come back, we're going to be talking giving this Giving Tuesday and how to make sure your money goes to the people who need it most with the host of How to Money with Joel Larsgard. Want to say thank you so much to the beautiful
Hilton Anaheim. They provided accommodations for the KFI Pastathon Crewe. I was one of them and had a really RESTful night's sleep. Hilton Anaheim located steps away from the Anaheim Convention Center and the Disneyland Resort, making it the ideal destination to explore the city of Anaheim and all it has to offer. Hilton Anaheim hootel dot com thanks again, Hilton had a great night's stay there. A seventy eight year old Israeli woman held hostage by Hamas for more than fifty days,
says conditions got worse as time went on. The hostages didn't have enough food. She was kept in what she calls a suffocating room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet before she was released. More hostages are expected to be released today thanks to a two day extension of the ceasefire agreed upon yesterday. Rescue crews are on the verge of rescuing the forty one construction workers who've been trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for the last two weeks. Officials in
India say rescuers have drilled their way through debris to reach them. California's Attorney General Rob Monte is warning consumers about charity scams this Giving Tuesday. He says you should check the charity's registration status, be careful when making electronic donations, watch out for deceptive tactics, protect your identity, and only give to trusted
organizations like Katerina's Club. At six oh five at Tandle on the news, the US is producing more more crude oil than ever, thirteen point two million barrels a day. Right now, let's say good morning to the host of How to Money on KFI, Joel lars Guard. Joel, we want to talk to you today about charities because a lot of people are going to be donating this holiday season, and specifically on this Giving Tuesday. And we got
to be smart about it. Oh yeah, I mean there's so many made up days in our calendar now, Amy, it feels like there's like National IPA Day, which is actually what I can get behind because I like a good beer. Yeah, but Giving Tuesday is one of my absolute favorites, and it's really it's been around for like ten years, but the fact that it's become kind of a force for good in this country is a wonderful thing.
There's things you just need to be be careful of that you need to pay attention to when you're donating your money, and there's ways to kind of stretch that dollar, make that giving dollar go even further. But this year,
this is one of my favorite days of the year. Okay, So tell us about some of the things that we need to look out for, because you know, you can make a donation to a charity and you have this great feeling inside because you've donated some money, and then you find out that the charity is either not spending the money for the people who are supposed to be getting it, or it's just not a real charity at all.
Yeah. Yeah, that's one hundred percent true. So there definitely anytime there's money floating around, scammers get involved and they want a piece of the pie. And much to your chagrin, you might have or you might be, you know, bring donating to a charity that's not actually real. They often do use like plays on words. For for instance, instead of the American Cancer Society, is like the Cancer Society of America, and that one's actually
fraudulent. So you got to pay attention. You got to you gotta like look up the charity itself. And there's ways to do this. There are I actually have a post on how to money dot Com on how to vet a charity effectively, there's a bunch of steps you can go through just to make sure, okay, this is actually a registered charity and wait a second,
they're actually having the impact that they say. There's like, for instance, when we're talking about Caterina's Club, you can look them up on Charity Navigator and you can see, well, what is this, what is this third party website who vets charities? What do they say about this nonprofit? Turns out Katterina's Club passes with flying with Flying colors, and so of course
it does, I know. So it's good to know a wait a second, my money's actually going largely to support the mission that this nonprofit claims. Because the truth is, and I hate that this is true, there are a lot of nonprofits where there's too much overhead. Even if it's not an outright scam, there are charities where a lot of money goes to fund people at the top, and it's not Fewer and fewer of those dollars are actually going to have the impact on the ground that you're hoping they would have.
That's not true fortunately with Katerina's Club. And so when you look at that rating on charity Navigator, it's a four star rating, and you might say, why not five star, Well, they're on a four star basis at charity Navigator, so they're getting top ratings and so it's definitely Yeah. But if there's other places you're interested in giving, look them up on a site
like charity Navigator. You can kind of see get a look a peek behind the curtain to see how effective this charity is in the mission that they purport to be, you know, embarking on okay and tell us too about tax deductions because some charity donations are tax deductible. Yes, that's true. So and that is a part at least partly a reason that people give right is to say, okay, cool, well maybe I can lure my tax bill. At the same time, I will say, far fewer people qualify for
a tax deduction for giving these days because of the higher standard deduction. So because of that higher standard deduction, which this year for single folks is thirteen eight hundred and fifty dollars, for married folks is twenty seven seven hundred dollars. So if you're not itemizing deductions, and something like ninety percent of Americans are not itemizing deductions, you will not get a tax benefit for this charitable
contribution. It's important to mention, though, that there are ways to kind of game that system. And it's called like batching or bunching. And so let's saying you're saying, well, you know, I plan to donate roughly like thirty thousand dollars over the next two years. That'd be a lot of money. You'd be very generous. Well, you could maybe say instead, you know what, I'm going to give all of that money now, so I can get a tax deduction for at least some of the money I'm giving.
Away, and then I'm going to give none next year. So that's a way to kind of ensure that you get some of a tax deduction for your donations by kind of clumping them into a single tax year as opposed to spreading them out equally over multiple years. Okay, and then let's move over to one other thing that you mentioned to me that I think, Oh, that's not something we hear every day, And that's good news from the irs.
That's true. Yeah, usually not the payer of good news. Usually it's a letter in your mailbox and you're like, oh, gosh, I don't want to open this, but no, this is good news. And so basically, there was this rule that was supposed to be implemented. It was delayed last year, and it looks like it's being delayed again this year.
And what it is is anybody who uses these payment apps like PayPal, Venmo or cash App, which is like a massive percentage of Americans, they were going to receive a ten ninety nine K for their activity on the app if they exchanged, if they're more than like six hundred bucks, essentially was paid, and that could be just like paying your friend to split the check at dinner. Or something like that, which is what a lot of people
use these apps for, or buying something on Facebook marketplace. So if you had done just even a minimal amount of activity, you were supposed to be getting one of these ten ninety nine k's, and then you'd have to fight it out with the irs about what you were using that app for in order to ensure you weren't paying taxes for the money that went through those apps. And so basically the threshold used to be twenty thousand dollars in order to get
one of those. It was reduced to six hundred, which means almost everyone would have been implemented implicated. But they are holding off on this. They knew this was going to be a nightmare for folks, and so they're not
actually going to follow through on this rule yet. It sounds like next year they're going to lower the threshold into a medium sort of spot of five thousand dollars in transactions are going to get you a ten ninety nine K that you have to then you have to pay taxes on money that goes through those accounts unless you can prove essentially that they were not purchases. But so this is good news anybody using those apps should not worry. They're not It's not going
to mess up your tax season. See I love good news and Joel Larsgard. You can hear Joel and all his smart money advice Sundays from noon to two here on KFI. You can also follow him on Instagram at how to Money. Joel, thanks so much for talking to us this Giving Tuesday, and thanks for reinforcing to us that Katerina's Club is a great charity to give
to. Oh it's so great like listeners should be confident that their dollar is going to a great a great organization and that their dollars are being used for good. I love that. Thank you so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Police in Burbank are trying to find a homeless man they say vandalized a synagogue and other locations with anti Semitic graffiti. The damage
was done Friday. Investigators say the man is known to be in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Temple City, El Segundo and LA. Ridership across LA's metro system has grown by nearly twelve percent. In October compared to the same month last year. Official say it marks the eleventh straight month of year over year growth. They say ridership is now seventy nine percent of its pre pandemic level. Metro recently increased its focus on safety and navigation help for passengers.
A food pantry for dogs is now available on skid Row. The pantry has given out twenty eight bags of dog food in its first week. It was started by doctor Kwan Stewart, a veterinarian who treats dogs on skid Row. Doctor Stewart says, despite being short on resources, homeless people tend to do a great job caring for their pets, nearing probably eighteen hundred nineteen hundred dogs. In my time twelve years doing this, I've had to remove one dog
from one owner. Stuart says if the pantry on skid Row is successful, he hopes to expand the concept into San Diego and other areas on skid Row.
Bake Trolley kf I News. When we come back, we're going to be heading into the kitchen so you can see what's cooking every single day at the Anaheim White House and how it benefits the kids from Canna Reita's Club on this Pastathon twenty twenty three, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a two day extension to the ceasefire, which should mean twenty more hostages are being released as part of a fourth swap under the original deal. Hamas released eleven Israelis last
night, and Israel released thirty three Palestinians. A water main break has caused a mud slide in Hassi Into Heights, LA County. Fire says four homes have been damaged. The slide happened last night. Mud got into one of the homes. Google says it's going to start purging inactive Google accounts. Company says it will delete the account starting in December for security reasons. You can keep your account active by logging in at least once every two years. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. President Biden is skipping the UN Climate Summit. Bill's going to tell you why. At five point fifty, we're going to be checking in with our very own Chris Adler. She's going to show us what else Bruno does. Aside from feeding those twenty five thousand kids a week, there's a lot more, and your donation helps make it happen. Right now, it's time for us to head to the kitchen to see how Katerina's Club feeds those kids every week with your generous donations.
So let's find out what's cooking with Chris Lewis. Thanks for joining us this morning, Chris, thank you so pleasure. So Chris, tell us when you guys are cooking up this pasta for all these kids. You do it every day? Yeah, every day, Monday or Friday. And when do you start in the morning. We have people that start up four thirty in the morning, a couple more like coming at five thirty, and the pasta folks come in at e okay. And then you're cooking until about when each
day one thirty two o'clock okay. And then after you've made all this pasta, and you make mountains of pasta every day, you're like a guestimate of how much you make every day on a normal day, it's like five hundred and twenty pounds of pasta put on a busy day to be warm, okay, and you're feeding twenty five thousand kids a week. And what kind of like we're looking at pasta here, and that's like a mix of pastas you do you do one kind of pasta? Do you do all kinds of pasta?
All kinds of pastas? What's donated? Sometimes they get it, have to buy it. We try to use all the donated pasta. Okay, you've got storage storages nearby that have better, like bold storages or dry storages that have just palettes and palets of pasta, because there's no way you could store here at the restaurant. Correct. Yeah, so you have guys that have red yeah okay. And then you also, along with over five hundred
pounds of pasta, there's a bunch of sauce. Yeah, lots of mare and rara like, so do you know how much sauce do you go through it? This would be considered a small pot, and it's ten gallons. We have pots that are fifty and seventy gallons that we use, and we have this whole entire stowfield though, so it's like six or seven of them. Wow, okay. And then when you guys are done cooking at all, then it's got to get to where it's going. So how does it
get packaged? Done? Sometimes we put it in hotel pens. They're just different sizes, two hundreds, four hundreds, six hundreds, and we'll wrap from sometimes in that, we'll put them in hot boxes and then our drivers will drive them there and then they'll serve there. But then we also have we do to go containers. Okay, so they let us know how many to go containers they want. We will put them on to go containers, stack them up in a nice bag or warmer bag, and then our drivers
with them drive. That's cool. So now how long how long did you cook for Katerina's club? I cooked from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen. And now you've been promoted. Oh yes, and what do you do now? I'm the sousshot at the household? So next time I come to visit the ANAHEIMRK. White House, You're going to be helping prepare my meal. I'm here almost every day. Well, congratulations on your promotion. Thanks so much
for the information. Chris, appreciate it. Thank you. I'm you know, people like Chris are helping to change lives every day, and you can too with your donation. Go to pastathon dot com. Shop at any Smart and Final and you can donate at the checkout. You can also make a donation at any Wendy's in southern California, just five bucks to the KFI Pastathon.
We'll get you a coupon book worth fourteen dollars. And of course we invite you to stop stop by here at the Anaheim White House eight eight seven South Anaheim Boulevard. We're here now, We're going to be here all day for Pastathon twenty twenty three benefiting Katerina's Club. Hey, that interview I just did with Chris, you can check that out on my social media at amy Kking. Also, we talked to Chef Bruno a little bit ago, and if you want to check that interview out, you can also find that on
my Instagram at amy Kking. Also at KFI AM six forty dot com. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La City fire crews to put out a massive fire burning at a construction site in South LA. Buildings under construction caught fire this morning and spread to at least four other buildings in the neighborhood. A large apartment building also burned, and some homes having exterior damage. Residents will be allowed back
into the area later this morning. News brought to you by Ruter Hero. Two people have been taken into custody for the death of a nineteen year old woman in central California. Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue says the ex boyfriend of Melanie Camacho was arrested for her murder yesterday after he led deputies on a high speed chase. Meldie's mother reported her as a missing person about six forty five this morning. About eight forty five Saturday morning, a witness saw vehicle partially
on fire. That vehicle was later determined to be Melanie's twenty fourteen white niece on Ultima. Pogue says Vicente Jasso through several of Camacho's belongings out of his van during the chase. He says Josso's friend was also arrested for being an accessory to murder. The couple reportedly broke up three days before Thanksgiving. A man from Strumanoakes has been sentenced to nearly seven and a half years in federal
prison for scamming Orthodox Jews out of more than seven million dollars. Prosecutors say the theft happened through an investment company. The man and his brother ran out of their parents' home. The brother pleaded guilty in January. He'll be sentenced next month. A new survey us the economy is affecting the holiday shopping season. Wallet Hub expert Cassandra hop Happy says one in three Americans are cutting back
on gifts this holiday season because of inflation and rising costs. Jesus Nearly twenty five percent of people still have debt from last year's holiday season. So not only are people struggling with having the money to be able to give as much as they would like this year, they're still grappling with their spending from last year if they haven't paid that off already. Happy says fifty percent of Americans say they won't be able to pay off their holiday purchases in full by the
due date. It is pastath on twenty twenty three. We would love for you to join us at the Anaheim White House where at eight eight to seven South Anaheim Boulevard, of course in Anaheim. We're going to be here all day long, got handle coming up in about fifteen minutes and would love to have you join us here. Come by, say I make a donation pasta cash sauce. It all goes to Katerina's club and helps feed kids. LA City fire crews put out a massive fire at a construction site in South la
It took more than an hour to do it. Officials say an apartment building under construction caught fire this morning and damaged some neighboring homes. People who had to leave their homes should be allowed back later this morning. A seventy eight year old Israeli woman held hostage by Hamas for more than fifty days says conditions got worse as time went on. The hostages didn't have enough food. She was kept in what she called a suffocating room and slept on plastic chairs with
a sheet before she was released. More hostages expected to be released today thanks to a two day extension of the ceasefire that was agreed upon yesterday. Stephen Colbert's taken some time off his late night TV show. He says it's not because of a turkey overdose, but because of a ruptured appendix. This is the second time health issues have sidelined Colbert this season. He missed a week of his show in October after getting COVID nineteen. We're just minutes away from
Handle on the news this morning. It's official more people flew on Sunday than any other holiday ever. The nonprofit organization Katerina's Club is hoping to raise more money this Giving Tuesday to find homes for families in Orange County living out of motels. Two hundred and sixty seven that's the number of families Katerinas Club has
helped house in the last twelve years through the organization's Welcome Home program. The program is part of the organization's three pronged approach to feeding, housing and offering job training to low income families. Owner of the Anaheim White House restaurant, Chef Bruno Serrato, initially started the mission with his mother Katerina, with a goal of feeding hungry children, but Chef Bruno quickly learned that an empty stomach
was only part of the battle. He realized that the kids couldn't thrive if they were living out of motels. The reason is because they can out the fall the firlth and last month deposit in a final and almost one percent of the family. Biggest problem is that Chef Bruno started offering a way for families to get out of the motels and that includes covering their first and last month's rent and a security deposit if necessary. Families are put through a screening process,
including drug testing and proof of employment. A change of the life not only to the kids, but also give a diny tea back to the parents. I got to join Chef Bruno at his restaurant for a Thanksgiving feast where he hosted his annual snow Day, bringing in hundreds of underprivileged kids and treating them to a full Turkey dinner, sledding, and a visit from Santa Holy. That's what I've been doing. So do you have a favorite cookie?
What's your favorite cookie? Chocolate chip? Mind too. One of the people visiting the snow Day was Jose, a working father who was living out of a motel with his baby girl because he can't afford to get into an apartment of his own. You know what, it's been extremely hard, not just for myself, but more for my daughter because it's kind of like, as a parent, it's my job, my duty to make sure she's fine,
you know, stable, having a place to stay. Jose's parents live in Mexico, and he was living with his sister before she asked him to leave and he says, every day has been a struggle. My credit isn't so good, you know, so it's been pretty hard. People don't even want to like take a look at my application because there's people online before me. She just have bad credit, you know. It's just nobody ever taught me that, you know, like my parents, they don't even know anything about
credit or anything like that. What Jose doesn't know is that Chef Bruno has approved him for an apartment and will be helping him move out of the motel. I mean, what happened if we paid fills the last month to help you out to move out, would accepted you? You got to ask her? Would you accept him on me? Yeah? Oh moments all for real. Appreciate you very good, but you and that's why you haven't here for it helping people like you, they need the little help to move forward in
their own life. Program director for Katerina's Club, Jennifer Oregon has worked closely with Jose and his family, and she says there have been times where he's had to sleep in the car with his one year old daughter. They had no choice but to stay in their vehicle. They sat to shelters. They're on waiting lists, whether there's you know, no room, no no housing bouchers, no motel vouchers, so it's very difficult for them to get any
further assistance. She says, knowing that Jose will have a warm bed for his daughter on Christmas is the best outcomes she could have hoped for. Seeing people, good people that due to unfortunate circumstances, have been put in this position where their families are forced to you know, live on the streets or in motels, you know, small children. It's it's very heartbreaking and this
is just one of the families. Chef Bruno has been able to help with generous donations from the public, and he says this Giving Tuesday he hopes to bring in more money to be able to keep supporting families. Wado one of the member the most is when the mom takes me back, you say, Chevlon, I never take for granted what you did for us. M Kiss was the wolfs in the class. He came home today with the Student of the month. Katerina's club has served over nine million meals to date and feeds
more than five thousand children each day. Over eight hundred and forty students have participated in Chef Bruno's Hospitality Academy, and more than forty two thousand hospitality scholarship donations have been awarded for Wake Up Call. I'm Chris Adler. Thank you Chris. You know it was such a special moment to see Jose find out that he's going to be able to get into a home with a hand up
from Chef Bruno's program. And you can help more people, you know, maybe get out of the break that cycle, get a good meal, get a new home, get jobs. Bruno helps you do all of those things. And it's an amazing organization and we're going to be talking about it and sharing that with you all day. It is giving to Tuesday. It's the thirteenth annual KFI Pastathon happening right now. And as we mentioned, there are so many ways you can donate. The first The first one is to come
by the Anaheim White House. We're going to be here all day and you can drop off a donation. If you don't have time to come in, just drop it off. If you do have time to come in, we invite you to do that. Here's something else is super cool. You've heard some of the KFI hosts talking about this. We've got all these great auction items at pastathon dot com. The auctions are live now. You could have your home whispered by Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Wouldn't that be cool?
We'll come on, He'll come in, take a look at your home, give you some great design consultation advice. Don Francisco wants to give you coffee for a year. There's a weekend in Rancho Palace, Verdes at the fabulous terran Aa Resort. There's an opportunity for you to co host an hour of John coblt Show with him on KFI. Also, you go to a Dodger game with Gary and Shannon and hang out in the swanky suits. Also, there's an in studio experience with Gary and Shannon. You can find out
all abouth those at pastathon dot com. You can bid on the auction items through Saturday night and just go check them out see if there's something that you might want to partake in. Well, that's it. That's it for wake up call. We've got handle on the news coming up next. Where did the hour go? Thanks for tuning in with us this morning. This is KFI and kost HD to Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the Anaheim White House for Pastathon twenty twenty three. I'm Amy King.
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