Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You are in the home stretch. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Friday morning wake up call. Doesn't it feel good even when, like every week it's the same mister announcer guy with the homestretch thing, And every week it makes me happy because what happens on the weekend, we get to sleep in. Whoo whoo. I hope you're a Monday through Friday are And if you're not, you know what
I mean. So even if your weekend comes on Saturday or Sunday or whatever, oh man, knowing that you can sleep in that extra little bit and that no alarm is going to have to wake you up, that's the best part. Well it is for me anyway. I hope you guys are doing great this morning. Beautiful weekend. We could see highs today in the eighties, near ninety today and tomorrow cool it back down for Sunday again, and then it looks like we'll be cooler next week. But man, this is
a beach weekend if I have ever seen one. Some of the stories we're watching on your wake up call this morning. A former LAPD officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor. Three hit and run drivers who killed three people within four hours in South la or on the loose. Coming up at five o five, we're going to talk with ABC's Inez de la Kutera.
NATO's chief says Ukraine should be a member country. Okay, so that sounds great, and I know that we've heard the Ukrainian president Zelenski say yeah, they would love to be a member of NATO. However, how likely is that to happen? And what does that do if NATO says all right, you're in Ukraine, what does that do then to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We'll get into that within in just a few minutes. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former
LAPD officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor. The department says the alleged assault happened before Diego Miranda Lopez actually became an officer. The LAPD says he resigned when he was confronted with the allegations. Steve Gregory is going to be following up on this story for US later. Three hit and run drivers who killed three people within four hours in South la are on the loose. One of the people was hit and killed while being treated by responders from already
being hit by a car. Police say the other two men were hit while crossing the street. LAPD officer Gerald Chavarria says one man was just steps away from his home when he was hit. It was so violent that it pushed him almost a block down the street to the LAPD is asking for help to find the car that hit the man. Police say it's a silver Sedan with damage to its hood and windshield. All three crashes happened the night before Easter
and early Easter morning in La Blake troll Use. Two men who were wrongly convicted of attempted murder and served nearly seventeen years in prison have been declared innocent by a judge in Lancaster. I find that mister Rayford and mister Glass were not shoes nor the aim of the actual shooters. Now, under a new law in California, the state is required to pay the men one hundred forty
dollars for every day they spent in prison. A new trial for the two started in October, and it included a confession by the actual shooter, who was a gang member serving a life sentence for another case. So the exonerated men, who had no criminal history, said from the start that they were innocent. Their case was taken up by the Innocence Rights Project at the UC
Irvine School of Law. The families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in twenty seventeen are receiving shares of almost all of the shooters one point four million dollars estate. The man killed him before police got to him. A lawyer who handled the case says, over the next several weeks the money will be divvied up between the families of the sixty one people who were killed in the shooting. Now more than eight hundred and fifty people were hurt in
the attack. The lawyer says it took more than five years to a praise, sell, and distribute proceeds from the shooters assets, including his two homes, an investment property in Nevada, and forty nine guns. State money has been provided for a new desalination project in Torans. The California Department of Water Resources has given five million for construction of a pipeline from an existing water well
to an existing desaulting plant and self cleaning filter system. Officials say, when finished, the new conduit will provide enough water for twenty two hundred households and reduce the city's reliance on imported water. They say the project will also provide a sustainable, local, safe drinking water supply. Governor Newsom has said he
would spend money to build more desalination plants around the state. Steve Gregory Camfine news and the Supreme Court could suit announce a decision on access to a widely used abortion pill. The Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision by the end of today. ABC's Rachel Scott says the justices have several options. They could allow the restrictions to go into effect even in states where abortion is legal. They could take up the case themselves nearly one year after Roversus
Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court. Or they could send it back down to the lower courts to be worked out. The FDA approved the pill in two thousand. A federal judging Texas recently overturned that approval. An appeals court modified the ruling so that method presstone could remain available while the case continues, but with restrictions and that includes in person doctor visits and no pills by mail.
Multiple negative audits have prompted the recently formed renewable Energy Provider in Orange County to fire it's CEO. This is a move to make sure if the agency gets a fresh start. Osipower Authority board chair and Fullerton Mayor Fred junk says despite Brian Probolski's great efforts in twenty twenty to grow the OCPA to serve four cities by twenty twenty two, negative audits from the state, county, a city, and a grand jury took away from the positive growth. The Orange
County Power Authority has been ahead of its projections. The concerns have been from a transparency perspective from best practices concerns. Probolsky was fired Tuesday. His last day is the end of next month. In Fullerton, Corbin car sink if I news Well the Border Patrol says so far this year there have been a thirty percent increase in the number of illegal immigrants who have crossed the California Mexico border. Officials say from October twenty twenty two to April of this year,
more than one hundred nine thousand migrants were caught at the border. During this same time last fiscal year, it was just over eighty three thousand. Most of these would be on foot climbing the fencer, crossing the border between where there's gaps in the infrastructure. Agent Dan Anderson says seventy seven percent of those caught are single adults, and most of them come from countries other than Mexico. Anderson says fentnyl seizures are also way up from the same time last year.
He says sixty percent of the fentnyl in the US enters at the US California Mexico border. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Inez de la Kutera. So and as yesterday we heard the yten Stoltenberg of the NATO Alliance say that Ukraine needs its rightful place in NATO, and I thought to myself, first off, from where did that come? But secondly, WHOA that would change big time our approach to how we handle Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hey,
good morning. Yeah, that's right. So the NATO Secretary General Yev Stoltenberg was in the Kiev yesterday. He made a surprise visit to Ukraine, his first visit since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and standing alongside the Ukrainian President's Lenski, he talked about how Ukraine's rightful place was as a member of NATO, how NATO allies had all agreed that Ukraine should eventually be allowed to join, but that the focus right now should be on helping Ukraine defeat Russia.
Now, even though he's he's saying, you know, so, I think one it'll be interesting to see the reaction coming out of Russia. Russia launched its invasion in part, you know, arguing that it was worried that Ukraine could join NATO and that that would pose an existential threat to Russia. And the Kremlin actually made those same arguments again on a Thursday. So, um, we're keeping an eye on Russia to see what their reaction is here.
Um. But the other thing is that even though Staltenberg is saying that Ukraine should eventually be allowed to join, that all NATO members have right now agreed that Ukraine should eventually join. I think in practice it's going to be a little bit more complicated to get all uh, you know, NATO countries to
agree to Ukraine joining. We saw that the hurdles that needed to be overcome when when it came to Finland and Sweden, with both Finland and Sweden announcing they wanted to join close to a year ago now and then Turkey blocking those bids. Turkey had its own demands, and we know when it comes to Ukraine, you know, a number of countries have their own concerns about Ukraine
joining NATO. So, you know, I think in theory Stoltenberg is talking about how eventually, at a later point in time, Ukraine should be allowed to join, But in practice, I think it's going to be a little trickier than that, and it'll probably be a while before Ukraine does take any concrete steps to join, Okay, And what are or who are some of the countries and why might they want to block Ukraine coming into NATO. So
there's a few things. So one, you know, for instance, they need to figure out Ukraine's exact borders, and as Ukraine is waging its war on Russia, that's something that's going to be kind of hard to determine right now, with Russia having illegally annexed or in parts of Ukraine, and Ukraine for instance, still claiming Crimea as a Ukrainian territory, and so things like
that are going to make the whole process more complicated. There are also those countries that worry that you know, having Ukraine actually begin the process would just escalate the crisis here and would would bring you know, of course, draw NATO into the conflict with Russia and kick off World War three essentially, So that's of course a big concern. And then there are things that also Ukraine just has to you know, when it comes to for instance, Ukraine possibly
joining the European Union as well. Corruption is a big thing that they've been tasked with rooting out and proving that they've taken concrete steps to route that out. So the same ghost for NATO, they're going to have to show that, you know, there are certain things they're going to have to show before
they can actually begin the process. I thought too, it was interesting that yesterday things came out regarding the Olympics in Paris and what it would do if Russia's invasion of Ukraine is still going on when the Olympics are in Paris in twenty twenty four, that's right. Yeah, So that's been a big point
of debate whether Russian athletes and Belarussian athletes should be allowed to compete. In the past, when there have been issues with Russia, for instance, doping scandals, Russian athletes were still allowed to compete, just not under the kind
of national official you know, Russian flag, um. But but there are those you know this time around that are saying that even that shouldn't be allowed, that that letting any Russian athlete compete um would essentially be an endorsement of the war in Ukraine, and and and it would be the international community giving Russia a pass um. So so we did hear from the Paris mayor yesterday saying that she, you know, is against Russian athletes competing. Um,
it's not. It's not up to her though. So even though you know, she's making headlines and it's certainly some strong rhetoric coming from her, it'll ultimately be up to the International Olympic Committee to decide whether to let Russian and fellow Russian athletes compete, all right, And as, Thank you so much for your time this morning. We'll talk to you again soon. Thank you all right, see you later. That is abcason As de la Kutera.
Man. You know, it seems so you have you have the NATO chief coming in and saying Ukraine should be here, they are a rightful member. Blah blah blah. It is so much harder than that guy just saying it. And so even though you have headlines that come out that say, yes, absolutely we should see Ukraine in this, it takes an act of Congress or NATO as the case may be, to make this happen. And the chances of Ukraine actually becoming a part of NATO are slim to none at least
four right now. But it doesn't matter. Russia still sees this as provocation, and so will they retaliate in some fashion more than likely, because that's what Boutin does when that remains to be seen and how that's the scary part. Did you know that there's talk about AM radio being removed from new cars and trucks. When I heard this, we did a story on it.
Actually, I wait, wait, what do you know that THEMA and first responders across the country rely heavily on AM radio to deliver public warnings and emergencies because AM radio has an unmatched reach, it's resilient, and oh it's free. Do we forget about that now? Some people say you don't need radio because you get alerts on your phone, but that is not the same thing. A text alert on your phone is not a substitute for what AM broadcast
radio provides in your times of need. It's a one line text alert can't take the place of that voice on the radio me telling you here's what's going on. You get the twenty four to seven emergency passes, and that is assuming that the cell networks are even up and running if there was an emergency, and oftentimes they're not. So when emergencies occur, your local broadcast radio station is there to provide wall to wall coverage, life saving information and live
connections in crisis, and the radio stays there in the aftermath. So here's what you can do. Make your voice heard on this issue. The AM radio stay in the new cars and trucks. Text the letters AM to five to eight eight six. Text the letters AM to five to eight eight six. This is how you can tell Congress to keep AM radio in all cars
and trucks. So again, text the letters AM to five to eight eight six, and I mean, it makes absolutely no sense when AM radio has the reach unlike anything you're going to get on an FM dial, and they wanted to take it out. I was like, whose idea was? This shows you we don't have necessarily all the brightest bulbs in Congress just saying. A former LAPD officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor. The department
says the alleged assault happened before Diego Miranda Lopez actually became an officer. The LAPD says he resigned when he was confronted with the allegations. The Supreme Court could soon announce a decision on access to a widely used abortion pill. The Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision by the end of Friday. Let's say good morning now to the editor in chief of investopedia dot com, Caleb Silver. Caleb, good morning, good morning, and do not
touch my AM radio. I just made that text message myself. Can't touch any radio, especially Claify. Okay, thank you so much for doing that. Yeah, it just seemed like the dumbest decision. It was like, whose bright idea was that to take that out of cars? All right, So when it comes to the stock market, when we start talking about talking about the debt ceiling. Anytime you're going to sort of weigh in on money, or Congress is going to weigh in on money, you know that the
stock market is going to react somehow. Yesterday we saw a rebound. Explain why and how that happens. Yeah, I don't think the debt ceiling is his first and foremost in the investor's minds. Right now, we're going through earning season. We want to see how these banks are holding up. So investors are sort of sizing that up and deciding what's going to happen when the Fed meets again in early May. But the debt ceiling is going to become
a very serious problem. Although we don't have the exact date, people are targeting what they call date X. That's the middle of August when we run out of money. Remember, we have a thirty one point four trillion dollars deficit, and if we don't vote, if Congress doesn't vote to raise the debt ceiling, we will default on our debt and we'll probably get a debt downgrade that will affect the stock market, because when our debt gets downgraded,
that has an impact throughout capital markets. Okay, so really, then what you're saying is this is kind of backburner at the moment anyway for stock watchers. Yeah, but it's going to get to be very hot if we get into the summer and there is no debt ceiling. And right now there's a standoff. Representative of McCarthy, the House leader, just proposed a limit Saved Grow Act. Rolls right off the tongue. This is a way to raise the debts in or at least kick it into twenty twenty four and pull back
about four point five trillion dollars in savings. Most of that is money that President Biden and his administration pledge through the Inflation Reduction Act, but also money for the irs, also ending the proposal that cancel student loans. So there's a lot of rollback here if it passes. But President Biden is not looking at this at all, and so we'll probably have a stand up that goes into the summer. Okay, what does the stock market want? What's the
victory? I guess, or you know, can you kind of see that as far as the stock market would look at where it lands when the fight over the debt ceiling finally all shakes out. Yeah, I mean, investors like government spending. They don't want too much rollback because the government spending produces capital flow into the market. So if we have some sort of a deal where we can at least punt again, because that's what we do every single
year, put the debt ceiling into the next year. If we can do that without rolling back spending or without touching too much of the money that's already flown into the government programs through the Inflation Reduction Act, that might be a good thing. Or if there's some sort of compromise that shows that our politicians are actually willing to do what's right for the American people in the economy,
that might be a thing that investors would would take a liking to. But right now, this is a standoff and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better just given the political environment we're in today. All Right, thank you so much, Caleb, have a wonderful weekend, and thank you for sending that text. My pleasure. Okay, see you later. That is the editor in chief of investopedia dot com. Caleb Silver text, the word am to five two eight eight six. How cool is that that he
did that on the fly for us. I love that guy. He was talking about President Biden. The President is expected to formally announce that he's running again in twenty twenty four. Now, the announcement we're hearing could come as early as next week. ABC's Lindsay Watts says Biden has been hinting that he will run again. It comes even though Biden is seeing some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency. One Reason poll found only thirty nine percent of
Americans approve of the job he's doing as president. That's down from forty two percent last month. Okay, that's so interesting that she brought that up, because that's the last night when I read that he was probably going to announce next week. I thought, Man, this is a weird time. Unless that's kind of the Maybe that's going to be their platform is even when he's down, he can make an announcement and the Democrats rally behind him and they'll
bounce back, and his numbers they'll bounce back. Maybe I'm not sure. I'm not sure why at a time when you are, when your approval rating is as low as it is, why then you would make the announcement. Why wouldn't you want to have some policy or something go through that boosts voters confidence in you and wait until that moment. Now, maybe they don't feel they have that moment coming and so now's as good a time as any,
or maybe they're concerned it could go lower. Lindsey Watts says, voters have expressed concerns about the economy we were just talking about, including inflation, as well as the president's age. He would be eighty two at the start of his second term. Now you will also have radio host Larry Elder, who failed to replace Governor Newsom in a recall effort in twenty twenty one. He too, has announced that he wants the presidential nomination. This is on the
Republican side, though this would also be for twenty twenty four. He made the announcement last night on Fox News. He says the US can enter a new American Golden Age. He joins former President Trump, former South Carolina Governor NICKI Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, an entrepreneur Vivic Rumaswamy Elder, who was black, has criticized democrats woke agenda, Black Lives Matter, and the notion of systemic racism. Disney reportedly plans to lay off more people.
Disney plans to slash thousands of jobs. Bloomberg says the cuts will impact several areas within the entertainment division like TV, film, theme parks, and corporate teams, though affected will be notified as early as April twenty fourth. Disney had previously announced an effort to slash seven thousand jobs as it looks to eliminate five point five billion dollars in costs. The company went through its first round of layoffs at the end of March, with more cuts expected before the start
of the summer. Deborah Mark Kfi News, oh And part of the pristine White Sand Beach enjoyed by millions of tourists every year in Waikiki, Oahu, is off limits because of a seal. Officials of Courden Enough a large part of Kaimana Beach, where mom monk Seal Kaiwie gave birth April fourteenth. She and her pup are expected to hang out on the beach and in the water off shore for about five to seven weeks while the pup nurses. Starting six
years ago, the endangered seals of occasionally given birth on the beach. Last summer, a protective mother seal injured a tourist from California who got too close, so officials are keeping people away. Authorities say it to be best if swimmers went to one of the many other beaches on O Wahoo to give mom and her pup some space. There are fewer than sixteen hundred Hawaiian monk seals in the wild, and it's a felony to disturb them. Amy Kfi News.
The Supreme Court could soon announce a decision on access to the widely used abortion pill. The Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision by the end of today. ABC's Rachel Scott says the justices have several options. They could allow the restrictions to go into effect even in states where abortion is legal. They could take up the case themselves nearly one year after Roversus Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, or they could send it back down to
the lower courts to be worked out. The FDA approved that bill in two thousand, but a federal judge in Texas recently overturned that approval. At any point when this happens today, you'll hear it first live here on KFI. Something else you're gonna hear first live here on KFI is happening right now. We have Sacramento County Sheriff's sergeant also the public information officer for the Hold up
Artment, Amar Gandhi, joining us. I got a call from Sheriff Jim Cooper of the Sacramento of Sacramento County, and there's something that happened in twenty sixteen that has had a giant, unintended consequence on miners who are prostitutes in our state. And it's that unintended consequence that the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is planning on fighting in conjunction with the FBI, and they're announcing how they're doing it today, but they're giving us a sneak peek right here on wake up
call this morning. So Sergeant Gandhi, welcome, Thank you for joining me so early. No good money, Thank you for having me. So go back if you would, to twenty sixteen. What happened then by something that was signed by Governor Brown. That's had this unintended consequence that you guys need to fight now. Sure this really got the wheels and motion that in twenty sixteen Centaville thirteen twenty two it decriminalized prostitution for miners, which sounds crazy,
and it's exactly how it sounds. So right now, they cannot be arrested for committing prostitution right now if they're seventeen or younger. Now, going even further, as more laws got passed, you go in twenty twenty, any youth seventeen or younger cannot be spoken to by law enforcement without council present. And we'll go even further. Most recently in twenty twenty one that at built three fifty seven it repealed six fifty three point two two, which is laitering
for the purposes of prostitution. So that means if I, as law enforcement, are just conducting patrol and I see a girl who is to put a moldy, scantily clad wearing broad panties walking down the street, whether it's thirty two degrees upside seventy five degrees outside ten am or ten pm, I can't talk to them. I'm not allowed to go and detain them, not allowed
to conduct any type of enforcement action. Now, a lot of these unintended consequences is most of these girls are victims of trafficking in some shape or another, but we can't go out and even discover them, speak to them and really find out their story legally. So but if I do see a minor out after ten PM, I can talk to about a curfew violation that's still
illegal. And this is where we're trying to combat just the legislation, because we are behind the eight ball and these girls are getting trafficked up and down the state and throughout the country. If you hear the buzzword everywhere from virtually every politician you know, you hear from, and human trafficking is a big issue, but nobody actually wants to go out and do something about it. So we're going out and doing something about it. So in my mind,
I'm picturing a sort of sweep happening. You guys go out and you conduct something and you end up taking let's say twenty six prostitutes off the street, and then you look at it and you say, oh, look we have four of them who are miners. You can't help them. You can't tell these girls, hey, you're in a safe place, tell me that you're being trafficked or something like that. You have to release them, is what you're telling me. Well, what it is is until they identify themselves as
victims to us, our hands are really really tied. Now when they are minors, we have a few other tools we can use, but really they have to come out and identify themselves as victims, which again none of them are going to do because they are being I mean, quite frankly bullied is the nicest way I can say. But they are being abused, they are being drugged, they are being threatened, they are not allowed to contact law
enforcement. And right now this legislation has taken the teeth away and these pimps, and let's not call them, you know, anything nicer than they have to be. These are pimps, and they are abusive, manipulative, conniving vultures that are preying upon the weakest and most vulnerable members in our society. If I were to tell you that I want to introduce legislation to legalized childhood labor and I want to make sweatshops legal, you hang me out to dry.
You would call me a crazy person. But now I'm going to take it one step further and I'm going to tell you that, hey, it's legal for kids to go out and the prostitutes. But that's perfectly fine. Okay. If you if you find somebody on the street and you're able to get them, like you said, for the curfew violation, and you bring them in for that, what are even the I guess consequences of a curfew violation? But also when you bring them in for that, I'm sure that
you had before. Do any of them ever actually tell you I am a victim of trafficking or are they so scared by what their pimp has told them, you know something that you say something, I'll hurt you, I'll hurt your family, whatever their threat. Maybe it does any child actually say to you have the guts, I guess, to say to you that they are
a victim. How often I guess does that happen? It happens a lot, but it only happens after we contact them, and our inability to contact them is what's hampering these human trafficking investigations, and hampering again is a very mild way thing. They're preventing us from doing what we need to do to save these kids. And like I said, we're talking about decriminalizing and we are not trying to go out and lock these girls up. That is not
the intention by any stretch of the imagination. We want to save them. I have a soon to be seven year old daughter, happy birthday on it, but I think this is a very near and dear issue to me. I know the sheriff is a girl that he's got four daughters of his own. This is not something that we take lightly that we just want to revictimize these girls. We want to take them out of this environment, but they
have no method of escape without having an ability to be contacted. And again, you know, people want to say that, oh, the cops are just going after these girls. That is not the intent. We need to contact these girls, perhaps in an enforcement capacity initially, but that again opens the doors for the rescue and opens the door for the human trafficking investigations to
get these pimps in custody and get them to stop victimizing these girls. Now, coming up today at ten o'clock, I know Sheriff Cooper is going to make an announcement about the fight against this bill or against this. You know what the legislature has done in this case joined by the FBI today exactly what are you guys doing? What is your where you headed with this? How'd your fight begin? So we've actually conducted a seven day operation over this three
week span and have gone around throughout Sacramento County. We hope this idea kind of spreads about throughout the state and hopefully even further. But we went out and quite crazy to contact a lot of these girls in the most legal capacity we could. Took a lot of surveillance, a lot of manpower to do this, but we again contacted these folks that were really engaging in these activities
and went out for rescues. And in that time, we have three girls that we rescued that are that were juveniles, I mean as young as thirteen years old, fifteen years old, and sixteen years old. I'm going to tell you right now. We went out and I went out with the parents of the sixteen year old girl that we rescued the night before, and these folks were torn. This is not the traditional broken home or whatever you might think it is. These are working parents, live in a middle class neighborhood,
have siblings to everybody play sports. They described her as this rambunctious fireball of a kid who used to wrestle, played soccer, and then got involved with some friends, got a new boyfriend who was charming, good looking, kind iving, but when into the family, had dinner with them, played you know with them, they described, and then they started seeing the pattern.
He took her to a mall and they started shoplifting. He introduces her to drugs, He introduces her to his friends, and then they started engaging in some you know, other illicit activities and its evolved into being sex trafficked throughout the state. They have gone down as far as La San Francisco, Oakland, all over the state trying to chase her to rescue at different points. Mom talks about having almost lost her jobs several times over for just missing
time. So this isn't just affecting, you know. We hear a lot of the oh, it could happen there, or oh it's a bad there. He could never happened to me. It's happening everywhere, and it's happening on social media. It's happening when these kids are going to the malls, they're being recruited by other girls. You know, you'd get the oh you're so pretty, you should come model, you should come hang out with us, and you know, and this, and they have. They're very creative.
I don't want to ever call these hims or anything stupid, because they are not. They are crafty, and they are smart, and they are master manipulators. I'm so glad you guys are going after this. We're going to be following up today on the news conference that happens at ten o'clock. Sergeant Gandhi, thank you so much. Thanks Sheriff Cooper for me and I. We'll be talking to you guys again soon because I want to follow up on this absolutely. Thank you very much for having us then that. Yeah,
we'll be back, all right, sounds good. Thank you, take care, good luck today. Thank you too. Thank you for that. Is Sacramento County Sheriff spokesperson, Sergeant Amar Gandhi. I've known Sheriff Cooper for I don't even know now, twenty five twenty seven years. This is a guy who was in the State Assembly, bailed from the state Assembly to run for sheriff because he wanted to make sure that the things he saw weren't happening
in the state Assembly started happening. So who quits their state assembly gig to go be sheriff because you can't get enough done as an assembly person. If that does not show you how screwed up our estate legislature is, I don't know what does. But anyway, Coopa is the best guy, and I'm just thrilled to hear that he is sheriff in Sacramento because he's gonna do good
things. I think like this where he's inspiring other law enforcement agencies across the state to do good I like this sort of he saw what happened, He's gonna fix it and do something else. It's it's just nice to see somebody who gets out of politics goes back in law enforcement just because they want to get more done. I don't know anyway, big fan, I want to say good morning now to my friend Pastor Karen Davis in Glendora. This morning,
Pastor Davis, welcome back to wake Up Call. And when you offered a few months ago when you saw my wild sweet puppy Betty White all over Instagram, when you said, hey, I would love to bless that dog, I thought, oh my gosh, she's even get me the help of you know, the higher up to help me with this dog who's insane. Faster Davis, first off, thank you so much and good morning to you.
Good morning. Thanks for inviting me on absolutely so I know that this weekend you are blessing animals at Earth Day in the city of Glendora's Earth Day Festival, which I've been to before, and Glendora puts on a really good, extremely interactive earth Day festival. Yes, starts brighton or early at eight thirty with the community bike ride and then throughout the time from nine to one. We have all types of booths, all types of activities. If you're
not the four legged free animal lover. We also have reptiles, so cal Jungle will be there with the reptile I'll show. We have a scavenger hunt for kids, earth Day Arts and crafts for those of us that maybe have too many boxes of papers we want to get rid of. There's a confidential document destruction free collection of used motor oil, and they're collecting shoes where a
shoe drive by the Boy Scouts. The list goes on and on. Also safe drug drop off, so all kinds of things to help make our environment and our earth and better shape for all of us. And I think that that is important to have all of those different types of things in one place because somebody might be thinking to themselves, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to go drop off my papers or whatever, and oh yeah I
have that used motor oil and whatever. Now you can take it all to one spot, so you're not having to go fifteen different places to do the right thing by the earth. This way, you're just doing it all in one drop off spots, so you can load up your car one time and knock it all out right. And then you know, even though we've had all of this fabulous rain, still we need to be good stewards of our
water. So our water Department's going to have information on efficient irrigation and also have things to give out to folks and water wise plants, a demonstration on that. So trying to get us to be good stewards of each and everything. And now you are the pastor of First Christian Church in Glendora, so you guys will be out there tomorrow. But when it comes to the animal blessings, you're going to be out there. I think from nine to one
if I'm right, on that. What is an animal blessing and why is it so important to get an animal blessed? Well, I won't make any judgments on anyone's free companions, but no, we will be there. We all have a booth there to talk about our art academy and to have information on the church. But I will be there blessing animals from nine to one,
and I'll also be doing it Sunday morning. But for us, we're just following in the tradition that is not only a Christian tradition but for many faith communities and culturally, animals have been blessed throughout the centuries for a variety of reasons, whether it's the animals that were working animals and blessing was sought for that and for good crops as the animals helped work in the fields, or and this is the end, maybe not as pleasant thought, but blessing
for animals before they were used for meat, when they went to the packing
houses. It was thought that that's an important to do that, But for most of us, blessing those animals that are companions and part of our family to celebrate the role they play in our lives, so that for the Christian community, usually either in spring or in October on the feast day of Saint Francis, because he is seen as a patron saint of creation and animals, that those have been times when animal blessings have taken place, I believe at
all various street they have a very big animal blessing festival every Holy Saturday, the Saturday prior to Eastern Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that. And yeah, I know, I have a cousin who was Greek Orthodox, and I know she had the pastor. I'm not sure if that's what you call from the Greek Orthodox Church. But anyway, come out and bless all of our donkeys. And I didn't know that until I recently told. I mentioned my dad that Betty was going to get blessed this weekend, and he
said, did you know Anne used to bless the donkeys. I said, I had no idea. So I guess it does vary. I mean it goes across the board when it comes to which animal you're gonna bless, right exactly, And for all of those variety of reasons that animals have been part of our lives, that people have sought that divine interaction because people have valued that blessing as part of their life and the role that the animals play in their life. So yes, and I've blessed a wide variety of animals,
from ladybugs to horses. Oh my gosh, it's very large. It has always been interesting to see which pets or animals that people have brought. All right, well, it'll be interesting to see what comes out Earth Day in Glendora's nine to one on Saturday, and then so Pastor Davis will be blessing other animals at her first Christian church on Sunday morning. But Pastor Davis, thank you so much, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. And
let's just hope that Betty for Lake five minutes behaves. Thank you. I look forward to meeting her and I'm sure she will will be an angel because of her namesake. Definitely, yeah, I hope. So all right, I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you again. All right, thank you, have a great day. But hey you too. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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