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 Thursday, May ninth. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Buckle up. We got a lot going on today, so let's get right to it. Shall We got your coffee? You ready? I got mine?
All right, let's go. The son of a fifty seven year old teacher in Burbank has been arrested in connection with her murder. Karen Lombardo was found unconscious in her home Tuesday night. Her adult son was arrested after police say they determined there had been some sort of fight at the home on North Avon Street. Lombardo's son is being held on two million dollars bail. The first shipment of aid to the US built floating pier in Gaza has departed from
Cyprus. Once it arrives, it'll be offloaded and delivered to Palestinians in Gaza. President Biden gave the order to build the large floating platform off the coast of Gaza. Two months ago, Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Green's plan to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson has failed. She wants Johnson out because of the
ninety five billion dollar foreign aid bill that did not include border security. We're gonna find out more about that how it all went down with ABC's Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up in less than five minutes. We've also got Nick's top picks for this weekend. Checking in with Nick Polly o'kaney. We're getting ready to get all spaced out because we're talking to Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig.
He's an ASSA astronaut. We're gonna find out how his training is going as he gets ready to launch to the International Space DA And don't leave your radio because if you're a mom or you want to do something special for your
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sending bombs to Israel if the IVF goes in to Rafa. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A fire has destroyed more than a dozen motor homes at Mike Thompson's RV in Santa Fe Springs. Battalion Chief Victor Marin says the fire started around the same time a burglar went off or a burglar alarm went off at the dealership overnight. The RVY trailers quickly catch fire. There obviously part close together, so
it was putting off a good small ketter and there was visible flames. Several explosions could be heard. A person was seen on security video, but the lot manager says the video video wasn't very clear. What do your police say? When officers got there, they noticed the vehicles on fire. The guy arrested for having an assault rifle at UC Riverside is a member of the school's
police department. University officials say twenty two year old Christopher Kim's part of the department's civilian Unarmed Highlander Safety Team, which does campus patrols and event security. A Monday night, Kim was arrested at his apartment, where investigators say they found weapons and a notebook with a drawing of a person shooting a rifle at another person with a crowd of onlookers. Kim told detectives the drawings were just
doodles. The investigation began after an unused rifle cartridge was found and an on campus apartment complex. Steve Corregor a Kaya Fine News, the ex interpreter for the Dodgers, Shohei Otani, has agreed to plead guilty to two federal charges for the theft of nearly seventeen million dollars from Otani's bank account. Ipe Misahara allegedly used them I need to pay off illegal gambling debts. Zahara was supposed to be in federal court in La yes today, but that's been rescheduled for
next week. The US Attorney's office says Misahara is looking at more than thirty years in federal prison under the Plea deal. The Ghost Safely PCH campaign has kicked off, reminding drivers to slow down on the highway through Malibu. More than fifty people have been killed on PCCh since twenty ten, and officials say
one death is one death too many. Cal Trans director Tony Tabari says cal Trans has already put more than four million dollars towards improvements along the highway to warn drivers to slow down, enhance crosswalks to add visibility to pedestrians crossing the PCH. HP said yesterday it has issued more than twelve hundred traffic violations on PCH since January, and ninety percent were for speeding. Local official state of drivers, Life's a beach, not a race, and better slow than sorry.
Chris Adler, KFI News. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Steven Portnoy. Stephen. A couple big things happened yesterday on Capitol Hill. One in the House, one in the Senate. First the House, Marjorie Taylor Green made good on a threat to introduce emotion to vacate. Tell us what happened, Well, it failed, and that's the bottom line. I mean, look Marjorie Taylergreen went to the House floor and she called the question. She demanded a vote on emotion to vacate the speaker. There was
a motion to table that vote, and that's what prevailed. So one hundred and ninety six Republicans and one hundred and sixty three Democrats teamed up to essentially say no thanks to Marjorie Taillergreen's effort to throw the House into chaos. And that's the end of the story. You only had eleven Republicans voting to upset the Speaker and topple him from office ultimately or at least allow for that to
happen. And they stand alone there now on an island. And so the question will be, all right, well, well, you know, will there be any kind of ramifications or retribution undertaken by Speaker Johnson or is this sort of a moment that everyone can move past. I think it's interesting that you had Donald Trump come out against Marjorie Taylor Green's effort, saying that this unity would be viewed as chaos and it would disrupt everything that Republicans are trying
to do, including win in November. And so Marjorie Taylor Greens had her stand. The questions, will she tried again? Will Democrats continue to object as they did yesterday saving Mike Johnson's speakership. These are the lingering questions, and one hundred and sixty three Democrats said no, thank you, which is completely different from when they were getting rid of McCarthy. There is a reservoir
of goodwill that Mike Johnson has with Democrats. Over the last several months, He's put on the floor bills that have passed on a bipartisan basis that have avoided government shutdowns and funded the president's foreign policy requests and priorities, including money for Ukraine, that most Republicans would have opposed. And so Democrats saw that as a courageous thing, and so therefore they came to his rescue that well, how long will that last? We'll see. But Marthoe Taylor Green for
the moment has been met with bipartisan opposition. So is this just a big, huge embarrassment for her? Do they? I mean, I don't know that. You have to wonder what degree anyone's capable of being embarrassed in our politics today? True? And I say that because at the end of the day, she is trying to make this argument. She did it on the floor yesterday. There's this uniparty, this cabal of Republicans and Democrats teaming up
to oppose the real and genuine interests of the American people. How it is that the general lady from Georgia has been on or on her own able to divine the interests of the American people in the face of three hundred and fifty nine of her colleagues. Is for her to explain. She's got her argument, she intends to make it, and this is all part of it.
So as long as she can continue to convince however, many people are giving her money at attention, well then she'll continue to hold forth the way that she does. But look, there are certain things that the Speaker could do. I'm not sure he's necessarily willing to do them, but you know, the Speaker wields enormous authority, and when he has the support of nearly all of his colleagues, he can seek to put backbench members in, you know,
essentially isolate them, strip them of their committee posts. The question is how much power and leverage do they continue to have while the motion to vacate can still be made by a single member, and that is that weapon that Margie Teller Green used yesterday and until unless that weapon is neutralized, it will continue to be a threat to this, to this in any speaker. Okay,
I know we only have you for about thirty seconds more. But over in the Senate, Minority Leader McConnell reacted to President Biden's announcement that pauses a shipment of AMMO to Israel. Yeah, I mean, look, and Republicans, I think Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Republicans and the Senate side, and he was the most one of the most outspoken members. But frankly, it's Republican opposition to what the administration announced yesterday pausing weapon shipments to Israel.
The President yesterday threatened to go further. He says, if Israel goes into quote, they're not going to get our support. He says, we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used. And that's a significant shift for President Biden. Okay, and I don't know if this is a yes or no, but the bill's been passed to give the billions to Israel. Can Biden stop it? The answer is complicated, but generally the president
has great authority to slow walk, if not cancel weapons shipments. All right, Steven Portenoy, thanks so much, appreciate it, you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A long time kindergarten teacher in Burbank has been killed. Police have arrested her twenty five year old son. People who knew her paid tribute to
fifty seven year old Karen Lombardo last night. She cared some deeply about her students, and they came first, but not before her own children, and the world is missing out on such a great human. Lombardo worked at Brett Hart Elementary School for more than thirty years. She was found dead in her
home Tuesday night. Detectives are only saying Lombardo was killed during some sort of altercation with her son k He's doing court today and OC Fire Authority firefighters pleaded not guilty to killing a man during a hit and run in Dana point O. C District Attorney spokeswoman Kimberly Eds says Jeffrey Graysinger's car can be seen on video applying the brakes but then driving off, leaving a man to die on
the street. Despite being indicted by a grand jury on a case where he was involved in a hit and run that killed a human being, He's been allowed to continue to work and serve the public. Ed says the crash last year caused the man to go airborne and eventually land on his head. Grassinger's lawyer said yesterday, this is a thirteen year veteran firefighter who saves lives and has done nothing wrong. People traveling through the John Wayne Airport in Orange County
will have some more food choices. New concessions approved by county supervisors Tuesday include Starbucks, the Earl of Sandwich, Andy Ann's I Love Them, and while Who's Fish tacos Ooh another great choice. While Who's founder Wing Lamb told supervisors before the vote vote it's been a long journey to their home base is while Who's has been in Orange County for thirty six years, and he's looking forward to having its flagship store at the airport. I bet a lot of travelers
are looking forward to it too. Time to take a look at Nick's top picks. We got so much going on on gone going on around southern Oregon. I'm all flummoxed, And did I just say s Oregon. That's where I'm from. Okay, southern California. I told you I was flummox Uh. It's all good, so much to do, So give us three of
your top picks. Okay. One is that you something you and I have done together, and that is going to be the City of Angel Spring Market or Unique La, which is happening at the California Market Center in downtown La Christmas. No, So they have a spring show and they have a Christmas show. So this is the spring one and it's kind of intended for Mother's Day obviously, which is on Sunday, So do not forget your mama or
whoever you may you know look to as a mom figure. But both Saturday and Sunday from ten until four, you and I have done this together. So there's some really fun food and jewelry and clothing and all these really fun local artists. There's actually one hundred and fifty day for an artists and small businesses that have been curated into a place for you to go. So that's an opportunity for you to check out something that is free. Ninety nine is
the one hundred and eighth Birthday Celebration of Monterey Park. Over at Monterey Park, they have playdays, carnival and a party every year running actually today all the way straight on through Sunday, and that's happening at Bonds Park in Monterey Park and it's free ninety nine so you can go out and enjoy love of live music, carnival with rides and stuff. Yes indeed, so it's a beer garden carnival with rides and they have live concerts which is kind of fun.
So it kind of wraps up your sink of the Mayo celebrations from last weekend, and then it's going into the celebration of API Heritage Month, so they'll be having tributes to Asian American Pacific Islander on Sunday, so it'll be lots of food. If you're saying, Gabriel Valley is a great opportunity for you to enjoy some really unique cultures and so that's a lot of fun and
that's being put on by the Parks and rec system. And then the pana Ampiesta in a Lakewood which is not too far from me, So that's pretty much a similar idea what we just talked about with the Monterey Park. But it's something that happens to celebrate the Pan American experience for North Americans and pretty much countries of the Americas if you will. So lots of food for you there, carnival rides again it is free ninety and to get in. Obviously
had to pay for those carnival rides and for the food. But it's a great opportunity because weather's supposed to be good this weekend, right, Yeah, absolutely, it's going to be perfect. So great, great options for things to get out and see this weekend. Nick's Top's top picks and where can we find out all of your picks for the weekend. Everything you can find out including halfway to Halloween special at this weekend with Nick dot com. Yeah,
we don't. Definitely we're taking out Halloween Baby, and he is a big fan of Halloween. Thank you, Nick, Indeed you got it. Amy. Funeral services will be held for La County Sheriff's Deputy Freddie Flores, who died six months after being severely injured in a fire at a mobile part of shooting range at the Pitches Detention Center in Castaic. He died April twentieth. Sheriff Robert Luna is among those expected to attend the service at Saint Didacas
Catholic Church in Silmar. USC's Faculty Senate has censured President Carol Fuld and Provost Andrew Guzband, saying both mishandled the pro Palestinian protests on campus and also for the cancelation of the main commencement ceremony. The Senate voted by a three to one margin in favor of the censure. The Academic Senate also called for the creation of a task force to investigate the decisions made by administrators surrounding the commencement
cancelation and the protests. A SpaceX rocket launch from Santa Barbara County, East Coast has been pushed back until tonight. Eight twenty pm is when the launch window opens the SpaceX rocket. It is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg's Space Force Space with Starlink satellites on board. Somebody else who's going to be launching into space is Colonel Nick Haig. We're going to be talking to him in about
half an hour. It's going to give us the latest on his training as he gets ready to head to the International Space Station At six so five it's handled on the news. A group of protesters arrested at UCLA on Monday came prepared to take over a building with ropes, bolt cutters, and chains. Okay, do you like to speed? I won't kno a little bit. I used to. Oh, but now that you've got a new baby, you slowed down that and the multiple tickets I got when I was younger.
Okay, so then I'm gonna ask you what kind of car do you drive? Well, what I was I didn't have the typical speeding car. It was. It was like a nicer version of a Hyundai back in the day. I got like, O don't know, it seemed fancy and I felt like I was a young guy in a fancier car. So I got pulled over. Okay, so Hyundai is one of the is the tenth highest, Let's see, how do I say this? It's on the list of the
vehicle makes and models that get speeding tickets. So apparently remember like it used to be, hey, if you drive a red car, you're gonna get ticketed. Well, now they're saying it may be the type of car that you drive. So the ten most ticketed car models are Infinity Psion, Volkswagen, Subaru, Mazda, Audi, Kia, Honda, BMW and Hyundai and the electric BMW I three speeds the most. Those those are the speeders. Seventeen and a half percent of its drivers have speeding tickets on their records.
Interesting, right, so it's not the color, it's the kind of car, and you've got that weird look on your face always following it was not exactly the model, but like like a Honda, I wouldn't say, like, aw, Honda speed, but if I see a Civic, I'm like, oh, well, you're probably gonna try to test that baby out. Okay, Well, so this Insurify survey says it might be that the speeders are choosing zippier cars with powerful engines rather than the cars tempting otherwise safe drivers
to put the pedal to the metal. So if you're the kind that are going for the zippy car, you're more likely to zip and get that speeding ticket. There are three brands of cars that get the least speeding tickets. Cadillac, yeah, my dad had one of those, Tesla and Volvo. Volvo is known for safety, so maybe less speedy, right, just a thought. Okay, So yesterday. I'm this was such a cute story and
also just makes me really grumpy. But yesterday there was somebody riding on the Metro Sea Line train, the Green Line, and they found a month old kitten, so of course they took it in. They gave it to the conductors and they turned it over to Metro, who turned it over to SPCLA, and they named this beautiful little cat Eloise. She's been taken into the South Bay Pet Adoption Center in Hawthorne. She's been checked out by the medical
staff. She's in good condition and she's adorable. And in fact, I know Michelle put it up on our website, so if you want to see it at kfiam six forty dot com you can see little Eloise. She's in foster care now and she's gonna have to be there for about four more weeks because she's still so young, and then she she'll be up for adoption after that. She is about a pound right now, mostly white tabby with three
gray dots on her coat. And yeah, thank you to Metro for doing something lovely, and for that rider who puts a kitten and leaves a kitten on a train. Maybe they had a box of them, and one of them got out. I don't know, but anyway, little Eloise is in good hands now and hopefully she'll have her new forever home soon. Here's some thing that you must be listening to. You listen to Amy's on it. I know, because remember we talked about Fallout a couple of weeks ago.
It's a hit. Amazon's new streaming series based on the video game has been seen by sixty five million viewers, and that was in the first sixteen days it was available. I think we talked about it on like day four or five. It makes it the second most title ever on the platform and the most watched since twenty twenty two. If you haven't seen, Fallout, is really good. The son of a fifty seven year old teacher in Burbank's been
arrested in connection with the murder of his mother. Karen Lombardo, was found unconscious that her home Tuesday night. Her adult son was arrested after police say they determined there had been some sort of fight at the home. Lombardo's son is being held on two million dollars bail. Severe storms have torn through the central and southeast US. Tornadoes, large hail, and high winds moved through, killing two people in Tennessee, including a twenty two year old who was
in a car hit by a falling tree. Another person was killed in North Carolina. Orange County has seen a twenty eight percent increase in homeless people in the last two years. More than seventy three hundred people are homeless in OC. That's seven percent higher than in twenty nineteen before the pandemic. County officials say they're encouraged that Orange County's rate of increase is less than that in neighboring counties and the state as a whole at six ZHO five. It's handle on
the news. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green tried and failed to oust the Speaker of the House. This week, wake Up Call is going out and about to the Natural History Museum. This could be a really cool thing for you to do with your mom or your kids for Mother's Day. Now, last time we visited the Natural History Museum, it was much more creepy Crawley because it was the spider Pavilion, But now it has transformed into the Butterfly Pavilion with
butterflies kind of fluttering all around us. We got to catch up with the program manager of Living in Vert BRIT's Lisa Gonzalez, who I call the bug Lady because she loves and knows tons about bugs. So, Lisa, what are people going to see when they come out to the butterfly pavilion. You're going to see a lot of butterflies that are just really jazzed up. They're super excited with this weather. They're chasing each other. We've got some malachite
butterflies behind us that are chasing each other. So that's probably a male chasing a female. So you got to get a little love and going, hey, that is their main goal. Okay, once they're an adult and they have wings, it's all about mating and laying eggs, so you're going to see a lot of those mating behaviors going on. Oh, there's a morpho or an owl. Actually, this is ol butterfly that's about to fly by.
This is actually really cool because ol butterflies tend to be more active early in the day and then later on in the day, so seeing an owl butterfly flying around in the middle of the day is pretty spectacular. That's the largest butterfly that we have. He's huge. What's his wingspan like six inches about yeah big, yeah, oh there is and now he just landed. He's like that was a lot of exercise. And because of the big eyes,
because of the big eye exactly. So if they're sitting still and both wings are open, you would see those eye spots on both both wings, and so it does look like an outface and that helps to deter potential predators of something's like checking out and trying to figure out if it's something that it could eat. And then it thinks it's a big predatory bird or just some
big animal, it's gonna think twice a much. Okay, So you've got big butterflies and little butterflies, and do you have monarch butterflies in here? We absolutely have monarch butterflies in here, and we have the whole life cycle going on right now, which is really exciting. So we have different species of milkweed growing in here, which is their host plant. Yeah, and we have some really tiny little caterpillars that just hatched we think maybe just a
few days ago. That's when we first noticed them. So we have the full life cycle of the monarch butterfly going on in here. Okay, and then the big, beautiful blue ones that are flying around right there. I mean, it's just electric. Yeah. Yeah, so that's that one. That one's called a blue morpho butterfly, and that's one of the most iconic butterflies, especially if you travel anywhere to the tropics like Central and South America,
you'll see these blue MorphOS flying around. You know, I technically you don't have a favorite butterfly, but if I had to answer that question, it might be really fond of the blue MorphOS. Just that color. It's just so incredible. Yeah, they're just sort of like they just flit around. It's very peaceful, I think. So, you know, I'm glad that people are able to see that they're flying around, because for some people to walk into a space and have a lot of insects flying around, that's
something that they might have to have a minute to adjust to. Yeah, and we do have some people who come in and we have a space towards the back where people can sit and kind of, you know, kind of get into the zone. But most people who come in, this is what they want to see. They want to see all the butterflies flying around being
really active. Okay, why is it important for people to learn about butterflies, well, I think, you know, butterflies, I think are a really good group of animals to get people interested in the topic as a whole, you know, because people are already meeting us halfway. They already really
like butterflies because they're so colorful. And then from there we can talk to them about why insects are really important as a whole group, because insects as a group do pretty much everything that you can think of on this planet. We use the term ecological service. That sounds kind of kind of dry, right, but it just means that insects as a whole are you know, they're pollinators, they're recyclers, they help, they're the cleanup crew of the
planet. They do just about everything you could think of. You know, they're they're so shiny, they're so colorful. And then from there we can kind of start a bigger conversation of why it's important for people to to encourage insects to thrive, to not be afraid of them, because for the most part, they're they're harmless animals. And then maybe even you know, plants a native plant or two in your yard or on your porch to help support
the insects in your neighborhood. So that's that's really I think our big goal. But you know what, if people want to come in here and just relax and have a moment of zen and take a few photos, that's great to You don't have to learn a thing if you don't want it right right, you know, I think, especially living in a place like La, things can be stressful. And if you want to just come in and take a breath and watch the butterflies and listen to the fountain, then that's absolutely
wonderful use of the space too. I love this. And then on the circle of life, as you said, they do so many different jobs, where like what are their predators and are they are their prey to some and are they predators to any So when they're adults, they are not predatory. They're just nectar feeding, right and all about yeah, and all about media exactly. But there are a lot of different animals that might attempt to eat butterflies. Birds are a great example, reptiles, spiders of course, so
those are all animals that would feed on butterflies. But here's the interesting thing about butterflies being so pretty. But we see those bright colors and as humans, we just we love colors, right, right, so we see that as a thing of beauty. But other animals actually see that as a warning. So those bright colors are advertising that they have some way to protect themselves, and typically that's a toxin in their body that they absorbed from the caterpillar
stage. So we just interpret it as something that's just like, oh, look at people are dumb. We go, oh, look it's pretty, let's go go see it, and animals are like, nah, not so fair, exactly very cool. So this I think would be a fabulous thing to do for your mom for Mother's Day, Like avoid the crowds at the brunches that are just going to be crammed full, and come and hang out
at the Natural History Museum and see the butterflies. They're so spectacular. I think that's a great idea I do, okay, And if you don't make it by Mother's Day, that's okay because you're open in the butterfly pavilion until when August twenty fifth, okay, so there's a lot of time to come and enjoy the butterflies. Great, And where would they get more information about
getting tickets and that kind of stuff. You absolutely visit our website to get tickets, and we highly recommend you get tickets ahead of time because this is a very popular exhibit and it sells out especially on the weekends, especially a busy weekend like Wether's Day, and you can get those tickets at NHMLA dot com. I'm also going to post the interview with Lisa on my ig at
Amy K King and at KFI AM six forty. It's really cool to see, especially if you see those big blue morpho but butterflies, which I think we're just mugging for the cameras. It was very cool, and of course I encourage you to go see it for yourself. It's the Butterfly Pavilion and it's going on now through August. Really pretty, really pretty peaceful. It was kind of a cool way to spend an afternoon. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A gas station owner in Anaheim has sued the city, alleging an independent investigation proves political corruption cost him millions in lost income. Whether this was to payback the favor or what we're going to find out as what we do Discovering. Lawyer Steve Barrick says the independent report proves his client was blocked from rebuilding on his
own land following an unrelated closure years ago for soil contamination. The individual across the street, the gas station owner, had contributed significantly to the mayor's campaigns over the prior years, so he says it was no surprise when the mayor killed my client's The former mayor has since pleaded guilty to corruption. Anaheim declined
to comment until the city has served with the lawsuit in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KFI news at trans air boeing seven thirty seven, with seventy nine passengers on board, is skid it off a runway and crashed in Senegal. At least ten people were hurt last night. The injured were treated at a hospital, others were sent to a hotel. California is replacing its decade old dream Big slogan with a new one, Ultimate Playground. The nonprofit Visit California handles marketing
programs to help grow tourism in the state. The group says reasons for the change are that the phase dream Big has lost weight over time, could be viewed as political and is being used more frequently by other companies. The Dodgers have a day off today, but tomorrow night they'll take on the Padres in San Diego. The first pitch goes out at six point forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA Sports
and stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five to seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of LA. Former President Trump's hush money trial resumes this morning in New York. Stormy Daniels is going to be back on the stand. Her testimony Tuesday included graphic details about an alleged sexual encounter with a former president about two decades ago. Trump paid
Daniels one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to keep it quiet. How that money was recorded in his books is what we're looking at and why he's being tried. Thousands of DACA recipients will soon have access to affordable healthcare under a new federal rule. About one hundred thousand beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be able to enroll in a qualified health plan through the Affordable Care
Act starting in November. Independent presidential Canada Robert F. Kennedy Juniors is a worm eate part of his brain and died inside his head more than a decade ago. Kennedy said he thought he might have a brain tumor, but it turned out to be a dead parasite inside his head. He also said in twenty twelve that he had suffered from mercury poisoning. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, President Biden says he's going to stop
sending bombs to Israel if the IDF goes into RAFA. Right now, let's say good morning to Space Force Guardian and NASA astronaut Colonel Nick Hay. Good morning, colonel, Good morning Amy. How are you. I'm great, and you've got to be good. You're training, You're less than one hundred days from heading to the International Space Station. Yeah, it's getting exciting.
Everything's starting to As you're training. When you're doing things for the last time and then you know the next time you're going to do it, you're going to be in space, it starts to hit home that pretty soon you're going to leave the planet. That's got to be sort of awe inspiring. So you are doing some training in Los Angeles this week. Yeah, so I'm
here training with SpaceX. They're the rocket and the capsule that's going to get us from the surface of the Earth up to the International Space Station, and so we come out here to train as a crew in their training facility in Hawthorne. Okay, so tell us like some of the things, because obviously we've talked about before ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of us are never going to experience what you're about to experience. So what kind of training are
you actually doing right now? Yeah, So specific to SpaceX, it's it's what do we do to help make sure that we take care of the people inside of the spacecraft. You know, we're going to pilot the spacecraft all the way up to the space station, but for the most part, it's automated, and we've got teams on the ground that are taking care of all of the systems on board that make sure we get from the launch pad all
the way up to the space station. So it's really the emergencies. What do we do if there's a fire, and how do we put that out, and how do we protect ourselves so we can't We just can't just run out of the capsule if there's a fire inside. We have to figure out how to put on things that are going to protect us, and how to clean the air and how to recover it so that we can keep going to the space station. So we prepare for the things we hope will never happen.
Yeah, I thought it reminds me of Apollo. Was it Apollo eleven or Apollo thirteen, the one with Tom Hanks and their Yeah, they get stuck and something goes wrong and they're in space, and like you said, you can't just leave, and you have to figure out how to fix something that's that's broken when you have no outside source to help you. So I think it's really interesting and probably very smart that you're planning for all contingencies.
Yeah, we try to train for everything that we can think of, and then hopefully we've got that team together like they did on a poll of thirteen talk about inspirational inspirational moments in the history of human space flight, teams working
together to try to tackle things they didn't think of. And I can tell you we get those teams in place today and then so if something did go wrong, which it's not going to, but if something does, then you're collaborating with people on ground at the ground and they have like do they have like a separate capsule that is the same as yours like they did in the movie. Yeah, we've got simulators here on the ground. It's kind of
amazing. So when you strap into your spacecraft and get ready to launch into space, it might be the second time you've ever sat in the particular spacecraft, but you feel at home because you've trained in simulators that replicate it down to the minute detail, and you've spent hours and hours and days in those
simulators. And so we've got those facilities here on the ground to help not only train us, but if there's something up there, then they can model what happened up there and then figure out, okay, what's the best way forward, just like you saw in the movies. I love it when life imitates art. Okay, So speaking of life, you're heading up to the International Space Station sometime this summer, and hopefully we'll get to talk to you
a couple of times before you head up there. But we were curious about life on the space station. So how big is the place that you're going to call home for six months. So the space station that's elf is i'll call it gigantic. It's as big as a football field, so a modern size, yeah, modern sized football stadium. You could set the space station kind of down into that stadium, one of those hundred thousand plus stadiums.
You can set it into the stadium and it use all of that volume stretch into end from that football field, and the solar panels they stretch from sideline to sideline. So is it is gigantic. It took one hundred launches of rockets to lift all of it up into space, and it took over one hundred spacewalks to put it all together in about a decade's worth of time. We don't live inside the entire space station because there's only certain parts that are
pressurized to keep the atmosphere in and support life. So the volume that we occupy is roughly the size of like the four or five bedroom home, so what like four or five thousand square feet. Yeah, so's it's space.
So we measure things a little differently. So volume is more important than the area, and so we tend to if you think about a room, everybody's you know, if you think of your house, if you've got eight foot ceilings or ten foot ceilings or telve foot ceilings, it probably doesn't really matter because you only occupy the lower six feet of that room. But in space it matters because we float all over and we use all the sides, you know, all all six sides of the room. So volume, it's got
about the volume of a six bedroom house. Okay. And then does anybody have their own room or are you guys always just kind of in the same rooms. It's hard in a space like that where you're there for six months together, it's hard to have your own personal space. But we each have what we call a crew quarter. And if you think of that, it's
a rather small closet. So I'm six foot tall. If I stand up and extend myself straight, my feet will touch the ground and my head will touch the top up and if I extend my elbows kind of to the side, I'll touch side to side. So it's a pretty small closet, but it is your space enough so that you can kind of escape a little bit. But you're up there and you get to know your crewmates rather well. Okay, So we had listeners right in to ask an astronaut a question.
And one of the questions that we got was how do you sleep on this space station? Like do you strap yourself down or you just float around? Or how does that go? Yeah, everybody's got a little bit different of a technique, personally myself. That little crew quarters I have, it's got doors, so I close it, I turn out all the lights, turn off all the computers, so it's completely dark, and I just float and I gently bounce from one wall to the other, and it's so gentle it
doesn't wake me up. And it is the best sleep I've ever had. It's like a hypercarrier chamber because yeah, you're just you're floating and there's no hotspots. You don't roll over in the middle of the night and you've got a sore shoulder because it fell asleep, or your back's got akink in it. Your body just falls asleep and goes to the position that feels most comfortable. And so I sleep like a baby. And there's no gravity, so
you don't know if you're laying down or standing up. It doesn't matter. There's no up, there's no down. When I was there, I slept on the deck, which meant, you know, my head was kind of pointed to left and right of the station, and I maybe pointing I'm maybe facing up towards you know, the stars or down towards the Earth. I don't know. I'm in this small little room with no lights in it, and I just floaked. Oh that's so amazing, Colonel Hag, thank you
so much. We've run out of time, of course, which just makes me so mad because I've got a long list of things that i want to talk to you about. I'm hoping that we can talk again before you head up to space, and I hope your training goes well and we look forward to talking to you again soon. Yeah. No, thank you so much. Appreciate the opportunity to share it and look forward to the next time you got it. Thank you so much. That is Space Force Guardian and NASA
astronaut Colonel Nick Hay. I am so interested in this, like just finding out like the ins and outs of what it's like and learning about his experience and that kind of stuff. So hope we get to talk to him again real soon. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer Kno and traffic special specialist Nick I. Am Amy King. This has been your wake up Call. If you missed any of wake Up
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