Labor Day Special

You're listening to kf I AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps K five and kost HT two, Los Angeles, Orge County. Daddy name as Amy King. This is your wake up call for Monday, September fourth, Labor Day. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Hey. If you're up with us this morning, thank you and I'm sorry because it probably means you're working on this Labor Day holiday. But we get to wake up to day together, so it's a good day,

right, We're going to make the best of it. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call. Beaches are expected to be crowded and there are high surf advisories that could keep lifeguards extra this Labor Day. Because of expected big waves four to seven feet and rip currents, people are being urged to either stay out of the water or stay close to occupied lifeguard towers. Seventy three thousand people are stuck in the mud after torrential rains hit the Burning Man Festival.

One person has died. More rain fell yesterday that caused the muddy campgrounds to get even swampier, and also road closures in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. A driver stuck at the bottom of a ravine for days near Bakersfield has been rescued. The truck fell about one hundred feet down into a ravine on Tuesday. Rescue crews airlifted him out on Saturday. That's a long time sitting at the bottom of a ravine. Let's get started with some of the stories coming

out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A Labor Day rally and march being held in LA to draw attention to what organizers are saying our long patient wait times, mist diagnoses, neglect, and chronic staffing at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Organizers say they expect about four thousand healthcare workers to show up for the rally at Los Felis Elementary School this morning. Then protesters will march with members of other unions to the medical center, where a civil

disobedience action is planned. Live music has returned to Cook's Corner for the first time since a mass shooter killed three people at the biker bar in Tributeo Canyon. It's a benefit concert here at Cook's Corner for the victims and the families. Ferris Will Junkie's drummer Paul Brown says he's been a member of the Cook's Corner family for twenty years. This one hits close to home, and Glenn is my wife's son's godfather. He was killed trying to stop the shooter.

Brown says he's proud the bar decided to reopen Friday, just nine days after a man shot nine people before being killed by deputies. We can't let his actions deter our lives, you know. We have to go on living. Ferris will Junkie's Place from noon to five at Cook's Corner in Tribuco Canyon, Corbin Carson, k if I News LA Kenny Sheriff's investigators are trying to figure

out who shot and killed a woman in the Antelope Valley. Deputies were called just before eleven yesterday morning to one hundred thirtieth Street East and Avenue R four. They found the woman had been shot in the upper body. She was pronounced dead at the scene. There's no information on the shooter. The guy suspected of stabbing an eighty four year old man to death at a home in East Whittier has been arrested. The guys also accused of assaulting another elderly man

last week, just moments before the murder. The Ell Kenny Sheriff's Department hasn't released the accused killer's name because they say they are still investigating several wildfires they're burning across northern California. Officials say five of them are between four thousand and nearly eighty four thousand acres. The US Force Service says the largest is the Smith River Complex fire in Del Norte County. It started during storms on August

fifteenth. It's about nine percent surrounded. An escaped prison inmate in Pennsylvania has been spotted by a security camera. ABC's j O'Brien said as Danello caval Cavalcanti was spotted Saturday, less than two miles away from the prison. Officials believe Cavalcanti, who's also wanted for murder in his native Brazil, may have tried to break into at least two homes. Local, state, and federal authorities

now involved in the search, warning residents to stay on the lookout. The escape happened last week as a convicted killer was being transferred to serve a life sentence for the stabbing death of his ex girlfriend. About twenty five people have turned out for a procession in Key West, Florida to remember and honor part time resident Jimmy Buffett Love It. The mayor, Terry Johnston said, Buffett exemplified the island lifestyle and attitude. He had a home and a studio and

office in Key West above his restaurant where he sometimes performed. Jimmy Buffett died over the weekend. He was seventy six. I think you're gonna want to stick out a stick out. You're gonna want to stick around for the rest of Wake of Call. Nick and I have some fun things planned now that Labor Days here, that means we're shifting towards fall, and fall means Halloween. We've got a boo preview for you, so we'll be telling you about

that in just a few minutes. If you're looking for something super delicious and super fun. There's one more weekend of the six two six night Market coming up this weekend. I got a chance to get out and about at the six two six night Market at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. It journals about one hundred thousand people per weekend, and we caught up with Jen Sanchez with the six two six I gotta tell you, I have never been here before, and I am wowed by this. Jen tell us when people are going

to find when they come out to the six two six night Market. Yeah, of course you can see it's already bustling. Oh yeah, so much food here. We have a little bit of everything. You're always going to find something that you're in the mood for. Right. We have I have a huge sweet tooth, so we have tons and tons of desserts. We have live performances, dejas, everything you can think of, we probably got

it. That's food wise. Okay, So let's talk about the food because when this when this first started, like ten eleven, twelve years ago, was really an Asian night market. Correct is modeled after what they do over in Asia, that's right. And we've brought it over to the US, right, we did, and since then it's really expanded it a lot. Yes, we've expanded a lot. So aside from obviously just the scale of

this festival, we've been adding vendors every single year. We're up to three hundred vendors at each location now, yeah, and like two, yes, two hundred food booths and then about one hundred food merchant arts are merchant art specifically, and then two hundred foods specifically. But yeah, I'm like I said, oh, and with over two hundred options, you're your bound to

bounce find something that you like. Right, we already have. We went to all that playing and I've already tried three things and they're absolutely delicious. I can't try right now. We can, we can walk and you can see, and we just open at four o'clock and it's going to be open until until twelve until twelve am. But in a couple of hours, this whole place is just gonna be hacked, absolutely swarmed. Yes, that's right. And it's family friendly. It is family friendly. We are in all

ages event, correct, that's great. And there's like you said, there's main courses, there's desserts, there's cocktails, some bundring yep, and I thought you told me about the baby bottles. There's a vendor that has some exotic juices. Yes, that's right. That tell us about themselves. So we do have like like they're like all us best because they have a lot of different things. They have you know, passion fruit, just typical things we have. Actually right here on the right, you'll be able to see

it. Oh great. Yeah, so this is a kind of a branch of the other one, separate but together. So yeah, we have like pineapple, strawberry milk, We have all kinds of things that they bring to forward for the sixty six night Market here. And then of course we have the bottles, which you can't get enough of. They're great, they're little bears. And then we have the baby bottles, which again is a staple here at sixty six night Market. Okay, oh, and here's one an

example of getting away from the Asian baby. There's a schwarma booth. Yes, that's so. Now this is going on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and it's the last weekend of the year, so if you haven't come out yet, this is the time to do it. That's right. Yeah, Well Mexican is a Mexican Yeah, absolutely, yes, So yeah, I mean, like you said, we have so so much to offer, and then in the last weekend, we have so many cool things coming up. We have our Spam Brand vander Vendor cookoff. Anyway, what is it?

So basically, Sam, the Spam Brand is coming as a sponsor and they're cooking up our vendors with like palettes of spam so that they can compete in a cookoff, and each vendor has kind of created their own unique dish to kind of turnto the competition, and it's gonna be up to attendees to kind of decide which vendor has the best uh spam dish. Okay, so you can vote on the best spam. Yes, that's right. Okay. And if by chance they don't make it out to this six two six nine markets,

there's two more mini markets. One of them is in San Diego the following weekend and the other one is where it's gonna be in Santa Monica. Okay, So if you miss the big one, there's little mini markets and we'll put that information up on our website. Anything else we need to know before we go eat a lot of food? Oh man? Yeah, I mean, we we have so many things coming up this this next weekend.

We have we have a silent disco that's happening, which sis yeah okay, yeah, so that's we tried it in Orange County and it did well, like really well. So we're having two to two blocks here. Okay. I'm really excited about that. We have always a ton of performances on our stage, and just so many small we have games. We have something for everybody. There's always somebody here for you. And two hundred food boosts. We gotta go. I gotta eat. Jem Sanchez, thank you so much,

so much luck to you. I hope it goes great for you this coming weekend. Thank you. I will tell you that I was full for about a day after that because there is so much to try. It's that's really really cool. It's out in Arcadia. It's five bucks to get in and then you know, you pay for the individual things that you order and they kind of range in price from like five to fifteen bucks. And the food is just so so delicious, and you want to try at all.

Because there's two hundred food food booths, you can't. But we tried, and we were so full when we left that place. To find out more on the night market and hours for this Friday through Sunday, it's the last one of the weekend in Arcadia, you can check out six two six nightmarket dot com. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Torrential rains have caused tens of thousands of people at the Burning Man Festival to spend more time than expected in Nevada as Black Rock Desert. ABC's Morgan Norwood says all the rain Friday and Saturday turned the solid ground into a big old muddy mess, some choosing to leave by any means necessary with the roads closed and the nearest paved road five miles away, some having to make the truck by foot, including comedian Chris Romp and celebrity

DJ Diplow. Event organizers shut down the festival to cars after one death was reported. People were told to conserve food, water, and fuel as they sheltered in place. The burning of a forty foot effigy was canceled on Saturday, but organizers say the Man the Man burn is now scheduled for tonight. Not all the seventy thousand people at the festival thought all the rain and mud was a bad thing. I'm sleeping in a tent in a very muddy area, so we're most of our stuff is kind of wet at the bottom,

and there's mud, and getting in my tent is like a nightmare. Yeah, obviously that person thought it was pretty bad. Another Burning Man fans said he'd never seen anything like the weekend rain at the festival, and because roads were closed, people couldn't get out. Some people were literally putting like plastic bags over their shoes and hiking out to the nearest town. A businessman and philanthropists from la is one of five people nominated by President Biden as US representatives

to the un Jeffrey Worth is president of Worth Real Estate Group. He's also chair of the board of directors of Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Things got kind of chaotic at an electric music festival in New York. ABC's Mark Remillard says the Electric Zoo Festival in New York City had several issues, starting on Friday, when that night's event was canceled because the main stage wasn't ready. Then

Saturday's events started two hours late. By Sunday, frustrations boiled over after the venue reached capacity and organizers turned people away, even some who had tickets. That's when videos showed fans pushing through the gates and rushing their way in gates. He says, organizers have promised refunds to those who couldn't get in. So festivals from coast to coast had some issues, apparently over this weekend. Hey, this is sort of an interesting side effect of Hurricane Adalia. Some

flamingos have caught a ride to the US. My mother would be going crazy for this. She's a big flamingo person. So flamingos are showing up on the mainland of the US, which their native to the Yucatan in Mexico.

But apparently they catch a ride in the hurricane, whether they want it or not, and birdwatchers say they've been seeing them all over the place, So they spotted some in Florida, so that's kind of understandable because that's where the storm hit, right But by Saturday, three days after the hurricane made landfall, flamingo sidings are being reported in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee,

Virginia, and even Hawaii. They don't live here, but apparently they're here now and the birdwatchers are very excited about it, and they don't know what's exactly going to happen, because the flamingos could kind of make their way back down to the Yucatan, but a lot of people are saying they hope they kind of decide to hang out and if there's enough of them who made it here, they might be able to nest here and start a new population,

because flamingos used to be native to Florida, but their population was pretty much a demist decimated by the plume trade back in the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. Way to go people, So they haven't been here for a while, but maybe they're back, and they're pink, and they're beautiful and isn't it great. About five to six thousand people are expected for the forty fourth La Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition Parade and picnic Rally in Wilmington. It's

built as the largest West Coast Labor Day solidarity parade begins in ten. Wildfires continue to burn across northern California. They ranged from between four four thousand to the state's largest in del nort County at eighty four thousand. That fire started about two weeks ago. It's just nine percent contained. Three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have returned to Earth after spending about six months on the International Space

Station. A SpaceX capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida early this morning at six oh five. Is handled on the news getting snap benefits will no longer be a snap. Wayne's going to tell you about that handles off by the way. Today for Labor Day, it is a big day for barbecue. And what's better than a good steak. Well, the chef of a well known steakhouse in downtown LA says when it comes to grilling steaks, people tend to overdo it. Oh. Marie Williams says people need to stick to

the basics. First mistake is one not having a clean grill still having last year leftover food stuck on there. Williams, who's the executive chef of The Palm in downtown LA, says the second mistake has to do with the temperature of the grow. You need to have a hot side of the grill and a cooler side, so that way you can control the temperature of your meats or grills. Somethings you want directly on the heat, and somethings you want

off like what we call indirect heat. Chef william says he uses the high heat for things it's like vegetables and the cooler side for a reverse sere. So I like to cook it at first a little bit off of the direct heat to kind of get it to that temperature and then at the last minute, I'm going to put it to the hot side so I can get that nice char and get the caramelization of the natural sugars inside the meat. And

what about the top mistake people make when it comes to seasoning. People overseason it and thinking that they need to add every little thing from their cabinet, like I need to add this salt, I need to add carlic cock, I need to that. They're like they've been watching so many television shows when you can just realistically just add if you have a nice steak, all you

need to salt and peper. And what are the proper temperatures? If you're looking for a medium rare, you're gonna look anywhere between probably around one twenty five to one thirty medium between one thirty one forty one forty to one fifty. You're looking at around medium well and anything over one fifty five you're pretty much well done. And if you don't have a meat thermometer, handy Chef

Williams has a couple of tricks to check the town. You know, if it has give, then it says if you can like push your finger through it, you're more at the rare, and as it kind of gets tougher to like push all the way down through it, you start to come up to medium rare to the medium and then once you get the well done, there will be no give in the middle of the like of the fattiest part of the meat, there'll be no there will be no give to the actual

touch of the meat. Or you can do another little trick that I have. If you have like a thermometer, safety pin or something, you can stick it in the middle of it and then put it on your hand and if I touch if it's cold, you know it's rare. Chef Williams took the time to cook me at three four ounce prime New York tomahawk. The perfect cut. What I wish would say is the chef's cut. Most chefs love ribby, and you want to get a bone in, so if you're

your first time, because it's more forgiving. So if you're not really sure about your temperatures and you overcook it, if you have a better chance of having that more delicious cut of meat. So I would always recommend something with a bone. When you're done cooking that steak, what should be the next up you hear a lot about it resting and whatnotes you should. You want to let it rest for the same amount of time you cooked. You cooked

it. So if you're took you ten ten minutes for your steak to cook, you should let it rest for ten minutes. That's a rule of thumb. So it's a nice amount because your stak doesn't need to be served like piping high. Now you can let it rest and then like flash it back on the hot real real quick, just to you know, get it hot. Get it hot if you like your steak really hot, but you definitely want to let it rest for the same amount of time you tip the cook.

Let's get you. So, where's my steak sauce? Steak does not need steak sauce. I think that's a big man. I think people love to drown it in a one and now you're just tasting a one sauce, which is not bad. A one is good. But I think as if you're a person that's willing to go to medium, rare or even medium, you'll find that the steak alone is juicy enough. I like bernese Bernes is different. That's not steak sauce. Well, okay, but I dip a little bit in there. Oh you like Berneses. Okay, yeah, okay,

it's not I mean Berne's it's delicious. I prefer just actually horse radish too. Horse radish is good. You're right, I'm sorry. William says he was thirteen years old when he cooked his very first steak. I did it in the broiler and it was unfos well done. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I've met I ate it any when I was a kid, so but I didn't come out of the way I wanted it. It was delicious still, I mean, I ate it all. Plus

the Friday Gone. He just made it like my own lost thirteen. What would you know. I wouldn't know. I had no clue. I didn't know anything about temperatures. I just put it in the broiler and it's like, oh, this looks good, and it came out of it. Now I look back at was it was definitely well done, but probably still smoking the house. It was definitely smoke alarm. We're definitely about to go off anytime soon in downtown LA. For a wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory

came if I news. Steve gets all the really tough assignments. Doesn't he a thirty four ounce steak? Oh my gosh? And then the sounds of that grilling yeah makes me hungry at five thirty in the morning. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Employees had a family owned jewelry store now Monty have fought off a petty

big would be smash and grab robber. An employee at Maze's jewelry store tells KTLA the husky thief walked in Saturday, sprayed bear repellent and shattered display cases. He had the hammer on the hyne and the other high. He has a purper spray, so have purper spray everyone in the ice and on the air. Sanajano School fight him back, but the workers did fight back in defense of a family member. Three guys hit and kicked the robber near the

entrance. One of them beat the guy with a long stick, and other pulled the guy's shirt off as he ran out of the store, pulling up his pants as he was chased out. He got away in a gray Dodge Charger. Several cars in a two story garage have been damaged by fire in LA's Beverly Crest neighborhood. The fire was reported about one thirty this morning. Firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the twenty four hundred square foot

hillside home. A company called California Forever says it has bought fifty thousand acres worth of land in an eastern part of Salona County for a new dream city. The area is just outside San Francisco. The company was founded by a former Goldman Sachs trader in twenty seventeen and is supported by several tech billionaires. Its website says it's a chance for a new community, good paying local jobs, solar farms and open space. And I'm sure I can't afford it.

I love the music of this man, and you have a chance to see him perform live this weekend in Thousand Oaks and Santa Clarita. I can't stand to fly. I'm not there nine. I'm just to fine the better part of me. I'm more than a bar. You're waking up to. Grammy nominated Platinum selling artists five for Fighting, also known as John, I'm Drassing. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. John, So you're

gonna be first. Before I talk about what you're here for and what you're going to talk about, I want to talk about five for Fighting because five for Fighting sounds like you're a big old band and you're actually a one man

show. Well back in the day the age of little fair boy band grunge music, late nineties, my record company came to me and said, you know, John the male singer songwriter is dead and you need a band a band name and La king fans will remember Wayne Gretzky's bodyguard Marty McSorley, and I'd been to a King's game that day, okay, and I was a little miffed that they wanted me to change my band name, but you know, nobody can pronounce my name anyways, you did a wonderful job, and

so I started sarcastically, said, well, how about five for Fighting because Marty McSorley gotten in two fights that day and I expected them to hate it, and they're like, we love it. I'm like, you're crazy. It sounds like we should be opening for Metallica, And it was so surreal. Early in my career, we would go out and you know, you take any gig you can get right, and they booked me at these you know, heavy metal gigs and I'd be sitting there with my piano playing Superman

for people mohing. It was very strange, but you know, for fighting over the years has kind of paid off on me because you know, with the sports world and being a big King's fan and able to get a hockey ticket where I want to go, there's some there's some fringe benefits. So the music that you heard at the very beginning of this was Superman, and that's the song that really got you going, So tell us about what happened there. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was very interesting. You

know. I'd had a minor hit with a song called easy Tonight and the record company, Columbia Records, said well, you know it's Sally Records, but we'll give you one more song and I suggest, thanks guys, so long and and they said, you know, what do you want to pick? And I said, well, I have this little song Superman that you know, when I play it, people seem to react and they're like, no, it's too slow, the panel's not on the radio. And I said, well, you know, if this is my like one and done,

I'll go down with this one, and it was interesting. Radio initially didn't want to play it because it was so different. It wasn't kind of what was on the radio. And over time it kind of grew and grew, and I got this weird call one day from the label and they said, you know, your song's number one in the Philippines. I'm like, really, beans, And but we had a hint that it was catching on, and then you know, you hit that tipping point and the song,

you know, really started to take take on some legs. And then of course after nine to eleven it became one of the songs that kind of recognized the heroes in nine to eleven and then like an anthem type of song, yeah, especially in New York. And then with the concert for New York, of course, it kind of took on a whole new dynamic nobody could have ever imagined. But and that's when you played the benefit show at Madison Square Garden YEA to honor the first responders, And that was just two months

after nine eleven. It was surreal, you know, twenty some years later, it's still hard to explain, you know, any other night of my career being on the stage of every living icon would have been, you know, incredible, but of course that night it was very somber. But you know, to play that song and look out and see, you know, twenty thousand people who'd been down at ground zero kind of digging through the rubble,

be able to release and cry and sing and scream. I remember I was singing Superman and I looked out and there was just some big, burly union worker with two beers and singing Superman me with tears running down his face. And it really kind of, I think, impacted the rest of my career because I saw, you know, very honestly, how music can matter and ways beyond fame, fortune, hits and all that stuff. And it wasn't just my song. It was watching the Who blow the roof off Madison

Square Garden and seeing everybody release and how much it mattered to them. So to this day, it was a very surreal and humble moment. Yeah, And when you do a show like that, that's so powerful. I mean I get teared up just talking about nine to eleven and it was, you know, more than twenty years ago. Yeah, So like, have you ever just broke down and lost it during a performance? Yes, yes,

many times, and you know. We actually just did a reunion with the Gary Cineas Foundation with some of the firefighters that were on that stage, and I played the song again with them kind of standing right next to me like we did at Madison Square Garden, and I couldn't keep it together, you know, I forgot the words of my own song that I've done twenty thousand times, and but yeah, it's it's you know. But that's the wonderful

thing about those moments. It transcends and it allows music to provide a solast that I don't think other mediums can, okay, And I think that what I love about the songs of yours that I know and Superman. Obviously it's a big song, but it's also intimate, and I think that that kind

of leads us to what you're doing here locally. Well, years ago I started doing symphony shows, which were so wonderful because I have worked with incredible composers, and to be able to play my songs with a symphony, I think really adds a new dynamic. And we wanted to take it to smaller intimate venues, so kind of we reduce the arrangement to string quartet. In the last five or six years during the fall, we go out and do a string quartet tour. So it's it's me, it's a string quartet.

The players or New York you know Prodigies. My violin player Katie just wanted Tony for Mulin Rouge and they're just incredible musicians. And so we really do this intimate show where I can kind of talk about the songs, tell some stories and play with this this amazing set of musician and really add I think a new dynamic, not to just stay hits like you know, Superman hundred years chances, but the whole experience. For me, sometimes I get lost

just watching them. So yeah, we'll be you know, TiO Santa Clarita, my own stomping ground, and playing at home is always very special as well. Five for Fightings String Quartet shows are this weekend Thursday night in Thousand Oaks at the Sure Forum. Friday nights performance has already sold out. Saturday the show is at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center in Santa Clarita, and you can follow John on Instagram at five for Fighting Music and to get tickets.

It's five for Fighting dot com. Can't wait for this show. His music is so amazing, and then in those small venues like that, Oh my gosh, it's gonna be great. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. People in Wilmington are getting ready for the area's annual Labor Day parade and picnic rally. Jesse Marquez is a local carpenter. He tells NBC for the event today is a big

deal. I'll tell you one thing is unions do change lives. You know, you are able to get benefits, you are able to provide and be treated fair on the job sites, and being able to provide for your families. You know, it's a big deal. The event begins at eight am. The rally is set for noon at Banning Park. An electric self driving car company says it is not responsible for a recent pedestrian death in San Francisco. The person was hit by a regular car with a driver on August fourteenth.

First responder said they couldn't get to the bleeding person because self driving cruise vehicles were blocking their way. The person hit later died. Crew says video shows the ambulance had a clear path and could have made it in a more timely fashion. According to the administration's study, we're not using you yet. Just Chris an Endeavor on behalf of NASA and SpaceX, welcome back home, Thank you for flying SpaceX. NASA's SpaceX Crew six has returned to Earth.

The Dragon spacecraft splashed down shortly after midnight off the coast of Florida. Three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut were aboard. They spent the last six months at the International Space Station. So once Labor Day is over, people start turning their attention toward fall, and that means Halloween and a lot of places in southern California not wasting any time getting ramped up for that. So Nick, paula Uchini, and I are going to be heading out to hit some of

the hot spots leading up to Halloween. And I've noticed, like in the past few years, it seems like to me that people are getting into Halloween earlier and earlier. So we want to share with you some of the things that are coming up. And Nick already got the party started at Disneyland.

I did. And it's funny because, as I'm joke a lot of times, July fifth, the day after fourth of July, a lot of folks are hopping into the fall's feelings, so come, oh my god, yes, absolutely not till after day when I go to Walgreen's and I go to CBS and I can see Halloween decorations as of July fifth and six. Yeah, there's there's definitely a push for it. But to go back to what you were talking about with Halloween, I'm being underway as a Friday the first

of September at the Disneyland resorts. So not only can you check out amazing decorations, a special tour of Happy Haunts at Disneyland Park Disney California Adventure, We'll be having a lot of things, the overlay for cars Land, which is always fun, and you'll be able to check out a lot of the villains across the resort, but also downtown Disney, so you don't even have to go into the park to enjoy all the fun and festivities on the Fall.

You'll actually be able to do Pluto's Pumpkin Pursuit, which we'll have details for you here on Wake Up Call about as time goes on. But it is a fun activity you can do with your kids. It's kind of like a pumpkin scavenger hunt, like a Where's Waldo things? So okay, so we know that Disneyland is going to be all decked down. In fact, it already is because, like Nick just said, Halloween Times started on Friday, so there are the other theme parks are getting geared up. So also

Universal Studios is getting ready. They're doing their opening and you're going to be going to that this week, and then you and I are going to go another time go check out some of the scary mazes. Yes, exactly. So this Friday is the beginning of Halloween Horror Knights at Universal Studios Hollywood. So that's underway, and well, the thing with that is kind of fun.

You can actually enjoy that even if you go during the day and don't go for the Universal Studios portion, the Halloween Horrors Knight portion, you can see a lot of the decorations are already there and have been there for oh gosh. They start building the mazes out for that sometime right after spring break, so a lot of the things have been kind of percolating under the surface, and you've been able to see some of the fun things that are happening

there, especially on the upper lot. If you're familiar with the Universal Studios, evener you or not, you can always check out things going on at Universal CityWalk. Again, that's outside of the theme park and you can check that out. Okay, So, and we're gonna be I have not been to Halloween Horror Nights because Nick is a likes to get freaked out, scared, screaming like a ten year old girl kind of thing. I like, oh, it's a happy pumpkin, and look at the cute little black cats.

So we're going to go and I'm prepared to be scared. So we're going to check that out. And then another one that's coming up that has both the super scary and the not so super scary is Knotsbury Farm, right, so we'll be doing that a little bit later in the month, and that will be both the fiftieth anniversary of Not Scary Farm. And it's crazy to think since nineteen seventy three, knots has been having a Halloween event that started out as just one weekend and now it runs for almost a month and

a half of nights. And then also, as Amy is looking forward to because she's a huge fan of Snoopy and the Peanuts, Gang, there's Camp Spooky during the day if you have just regular admission to the parks. And then again this too, just like Disneyland Universal, you can actually just go to the California Marketplace, which is the shopping center outside of Nototsbury Farm and check out a lot of Halloween things that are going on there. So you

don't even need park admission to check that out quite yet, okay. And then there's some other places. Of course, those are the big theme parks that they're they're starting off early. And then there's some other stuff that's coming up in October that we're already planning for for you, So we'll go check it out and then tell you about it and see if you want to go to it too. But one of the places we're going to go is going to be creepy and crawley and super spooky. We're going to go to a

spider pavilion. I stoked for I know, I am too. I'm scared to death, but I'm really excited about that. And then there's also haunted car washes and that could be super fun and super creepy all at the same time. And then and then the other thing we're gonna go check out for sure. And then there's some other ones like we might do the Haunted hay Ride at Griffith at Griffith Park, which I thought would be a fun, family friendly event, but apparently it's a good date night if you want to

scare the crap out of your date so she clings on to you. Event, Yeah, that's your thing for sure, Okay. And then also then it might be a nice date and family night thing is at Disconto Gardens. They have an exhibit called Carved and it looks really really cool, So we're gonna go check that out and then tell you all about that. But there's so much stuff coming up, and you know, summer's over, folks.

Time to get ready for Halloween, right all right, thanks Nick, Kay, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A benefit concert is the first event at Cook's Corner in Tribuco Canyon since a retired cop shot nine people at the biker bar,

killing three Ferris wheeled junkies. Drummer Paul Brown says he's been going to Cook's Corner for twenty years and knows one of the people who was killed, to be able to be the first band back and to be able to help raise money to get everybody back on their feet and let the healing process begin. It's super important to me. Ferris Wheel Junkies will play from noon to five today. The beloved Biker Bars general manager said Friday when they reopened, it

was time to get the family back together. Pope Francis has opened a church run homeless clinic and shelter. During the first ever papal visit to Mongolia, Francis toured the House of Mercy in the final event of his four day visit to the region. He says initiatives like this are not aimed at winning converts, but are simply exercises in Christian charity. Lawyers for convicted murderer Alex Murdoch in South Carolina at claim they've discovered evidence that could change their client's future.

His lawyers already filed notice they planned to challenge his guilty verdict. His team interviewed jurors in the case looking for bias, saying there are serious questions as to whether this jury was subject to outside influences during the case. ABC's j O'Brien says the attorney's planned to talk tomorrow about their plans to appeal Murdock's conviction. He was found guilty earlier this year of killing his wife and son and

received consecutive life sentences. Ukraine's president has announced he's replacing his defense minister, who was accused of corruption earlier this year. President Zelenski called it time for a new approach in the defense ministry. ABC's Britt Clennant says the news comes

as the US is expected to send depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine. While these types of munitions have been criticized by some groups, the UN's nuclear watchdogs, saying there's no proof it poses a radiological hazard to population, she says the munitions are capable of piercing Russian armor and the holiday weekend is wrapping up and for a lot of people, that means roads are going to be packed with

people heading home. Analysts with transportation software company Enrics say the worst time for you to be on the roads this Labor day is between ten am and six pm. The best time is anytime after seven pm. Of course, we're going to help get you there with traffic and we're going to check in with Nick one more time in just a second. Right now. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call.

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