You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app k f I and kost in HT two, Los Angeles and Orange County. Your host, Amy, Okay, it is five o'clock straight up on your wake up call for Friday, January nineteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. You know what that reminds me of? Because it reminds me of baseball. Baseball's not that far away. Spring training starts in like a month. Isn't that exciting? Go over here? Oh?
Really? You go to Arizona, Scottsdale or downtown Scottsdale and yeah, we go to Phoenixville and who do you see? Cone? Well, my wife is a big Angels fan, Okay and her. Yeah, I haven't been able to make it to Florida for my astros, so, but we do go see the Dodgers, even though tickets have gotten expensive and I'm guessing show. Hey, it's going to be hard to get in this year, except he's not playing. I don't think it mattered. I don't think people know
that he's going to be sitting in the dugout. He's The autograph is worth it, you know, we're trying to. We'll see. We'll see. It's not very baseball like weather this weekend. We've got storms rolling in. So if you want to do stuff inside, if you have a fireplace, that would be a good thing this weekend. Curl it by the fireplace as the rainfalls, or if you except that. We've had those wood burning bands in effect all week so I think they've run out because hopefully the rain's going
to clear out the air a little bit. But anyway, rain's starting tonight's gonna last through the weekend, so be prepared for that. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The Innocence Project has taken up the case of convicted killer Scott Peterson, who's always said he's innocent of killing his wife, Lacy and their unborn child. The nonprofit group has filed new motions in court citing newly discovered evidence. Peterson, who's now fifty one, is serving a life
sentence for the murders twenty two years ago. We're going to be talking with ABC's Alex Stone at five point twenty to find out what that new evidence might be and what's going to happen next. Congress has passed a stopgap funding bill to prevent a partial government shutdown that would have started at midnight. The bill
is now headed to President Biden to sign. The short term spending bill will keep the government funded into March. This is the third short term stop gap spending bill passed since September sawmakers struggle to come up with an agreement to fund the government for you know, a whole year. California will provide an additional two hundred and fifty million dollars for down payment assistance to first time home buyers
through the California Dream for All Loan program. Home Buyers have until April to apply. A lottery system will then determine who gets the assistance. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. A guy in California is in trouble for giving kids as young as fourteen gang tattoos. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Candidates looking to replace La County District Attorney George Gascone have taken the stage to argue
why they are right for the job. Many of Gascon's eleven challengers last night criticized his leadership. I think we should be attacking George Gascone's policies because it's his policies and his management style that are at fault and that's what needs to change. Gascone says he'd be honored to be re elected for a second term and would continue his efforts to move forward the office into a twenty first century prosecution that curs with the victims for our community and thus so in a thoughtful
and intelligent way. He says crime is down over the past year, but more reform is needed. The primary election is March fifth. Trial has begun for the man accused of killing a six year old on the fifty five freeway in Orange Sean Roadridge. Senior Deputy DA Dan Feldman says, Marcus Airy, He's confessed to knowing the danger of firing the one shot that killed Aiden Laos.
This is an expression a mister rees of cold indifference of his palous and total District guard for shooting life OCI Senior Public Defender Randall Bithyune said yesterday the twenty twenty one shooting was a stupid mistake. He didn't need to kill anybody. He had no malice and he had no intent. Arry's faces forty years from second degree murder at the OC Superior Court. KORbin Carson kf I News, the US has carried out another round of air strikes against Huthi rebels in
Yemen. Penagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh says US fighter jets destroyed at least fourteen Hoothy missiles at a dozen launch sites. These missiles on launch rails presented
an imminent threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the region. She says US attacks so far have not stopped the Hoothy missile launches, but that the US is going to keep hitting back as long as those yemen rebels threatened commercial ships trying to make their way through the Gulf of Aden and the Red s berts Bee's set of lip balms that taste like a back basket of chicken
wings has sold out in a day. The company announced its collaboration with Hidden Valley Ranch on Wednesday, before introducing the four new flavors Buffalo, Sauce, Crunchy, Celery, Fresh, Carrot, and Ranch, and by yesterday the site was wiped clean. Reps say the idea started as an April fool's joke in twenty twenty two. I think it should have stayed that way. That sounds gross. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Caleb Silver, also the
editor in chief of Investopedia. Caleb, AI is already affecting our lives, and Google, Amazon, and Discord employees are finding that out the hard way. Yeah. So sadly there are layofs happening in these big tech companies. Why because they're focusing a lot of their effort, a lot of their investment, and a lot of their hiring on AI related activities. That's the future for these companies. So you're seeing some job cuts, not big numbers of
those. Any job cut hurts, especially if you're the one on the other end of it. But at the margin, you're seeing a couple hundred, a couple thousand job cuts in certain areas. So they're shifting resources to these areas of the future, and that's AI. So is the money you said they're shifting resources, So the money is being redirected to pay for what it's going to cost to implement the AI. It's not necessarily because those jobs just
aren't needed anymore because of AI or is it a egination? Yeah, the way tech companies call it. They call it reallocation of resources. So figure if they don't need as many people in the sales division for a product they're not supporting, but they want to put more emphasis onto the higher paying, harder to find jobs in AI and some of the engineering jobs. That's exactly
what they're doing. Don't forget. A lot of these big tech companies, and I'm talking about Amazon salesforce, even the Duolingos of the world and the alphabets did a lot of hiring over the past few years. They bulked up a lot, so they employ hundreds of thousands of people in some cases. So sometimes they're cutting two thousand jobs, maybe seven hundred jobs, or just reallocating again to the areas where they want to emphasize the future of their business.
That's AI. It's not as if AI took the jobs. It's just that these companies want to make sure they are resourced appropriately so they can succeed in that future. Okay, and can we expect to see a lot more of this as we head down the road. Yeah. We're in the period
of earnings reports for all public companies. This is the first job for the last quarter of last year, so you're going to hear that as these companies come out with their report cards, so to speak, on their financial performance, they'll probably go to announce some job cuts because that's part of the sort of the resetting for the year. We're probably going to hear a lot of that over the next quarter or two, but we're not going to see a
huge spike in unemployment. That could be a back half of the year. And when I'm talking about a huge spike, I'm talking about maybe four percent four point one percent as an unemployment rate, which is still relatively healthy. Yeah, but a new study does say that like forty percent of jobs could be lost to AI. And I'm curious as to whether we're seeing trends like right now you're talking about Google and Amazon, and those are the companies making
the AI or supporting it. But when does it start trickling down, And like what they've said, particularly vulnerable jobs, it would be like insurance people like work that people aren't going to have to do because the AI will be able to do it for them. Sure, think about a lot of the data processing that goes on, a lot of the intake that goes on, And I'm you just brought up insurance. Insurance is one area. Big sales companies are another area where they just do a lot of manual work. AI
can replace some of that. But the whole point of a lot of this is not that AI comes in and robots take your job. You've got to use AI to enhance the profitability of the company and to enhance what you do as an employee. So if you can use those skills in what you're doing to make you more efficient at your job, you're probably going to be Okay. It's not as if all of a sudden jobs disappear because there's a software
that does it faster and better. It can do a lot of those services better, and that's why you see these companies reallocating using AI where they were using human labor and then moving humans to the places where they want to emphasize the growth of the business. Okay, so AI is here to stay. I mean, it's when when was the first time that we really heard about chat GPT. It's been like a year a little bit more than a year. Yeah, it's been a couple of years, a couple of chat GPT.
It's just the manifestation of what AI can do. Right our official intelligence has been around forever. This is in the sci fi novels of the nineteen fifties. But the fact that we can use generative AI, that we can use learning large language models, the Internet can use that to sort of correlate data that's been around for the past couple of years in a commercial way through
chet GPT in other areas. It's just going to grow from here. But this is the very beginning of using big data sets and using computational power to cut through big data sets to solve problems or get to solutions a lot faster. Okay, So as consumers just people listening to the radio station right now, Like, how are we going to benefit from that? Is that investing
in AI? Sure, you can benefit from investing in AI. I think about anything that you do that requires a lot of data processing or manual labor, whether that's your own budget or whether it's in your job, and you're doing a lot of just taking in a lot of data, making data sets, so you can actually solve some problems. That's going to help you. But it's not as if all of a sudden it's going to take over the driving of your car. It's going to make you breakfast in the morning.
It is just a way of using computational power to cut through data to get to answers right now. And I think a lot of you know, the media and Guilty as Charged makes a big deal about it. The robots are coming for your job. They are in some cases and jobs that could probably
use that. That said, this is a technology like the Internet, like the phone, like the railroad, that enhances productivity, and the companies that embrace that and use that best are going to succeed, and the employees and the workers who know how to use it and their jobs are going to succeed as well. Okay, so you just mentioned something that struck a chord with me. You said something about budgeting, and I'm so bad at budgeting.
But think of that, like you could say, hey, I need you to create me a budget, and the AI could do that for you. Absolutely, you'll do right now. I ask CHEFGBT that it'll put plug in some variables and they can do that for you. And that's just a personal budget. But yeah, think about it. If you've ever worked with a financial advisor, the intake form just that intake of how much do you have, how much do you want? How much do you think you'll need the
retirement do you have kids? That takes several hours. AI can do that and provide product solutions right away right now. That's how it's being used in the financial services industry. Then you look at major data sets that the government looks at, like the Labored Department when they're trying to find out where the hiring is and where the strength is in the economy. That takes days to
compute. With AI, you can do that a lot faster. Those are just two examples, But just think about those types of industries where we're taking in a lot of information and we need to process it and look at in ways and help us make better decisions. Great use of AI. Super exciting and still a little bit scary. Caleb Silver, thank you so terrifying. Yes, thank you so much. You can follow Caleb at Caleb Silver.
Thanks so much for the information today. You've got to thank you. Let's get started with or let's continue some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The city of Los Angeles is adding more streets on the west side to its overnight RV parking ban Venice Church pastor John Palka says he backs the ban. We routinely have to clean up human waste and toilet paper. There's the stench of urine. This Venice resident says the updated ban
approved this week really doesn't get rid of the problem though. So what's going to happen is that the areas where they now have bands, those people are going to leave there and they're going to come to our neighborhood where they know that they can be. Backers of the updated band say it will lead more
people who live in our v's to move into traditional housing. Opponents say housing is too expensive for a lot of people who live in our v's. Sunday marks the one year anniversary of the shooting in Monterey Park that left eleven people dead. Monterey Park Police Chief Scott we says he in the department learned a lot from that tragic night for us. It was a growing experience for the department. We says the shooting on January twenty first was a wake up call.
Everybody kind of took a step back and said, well, can really happen here. At around ten twenty two pm, police say seventy two year old who can try and walked into the Star Ballroom dance studio and opened fire with no apparent target. Moments after the shooting, tray And drove to Alhambra, where he tried to kill people in another dance studio, but an employee
was able to stop him. Tran killed himself the next day. In addition to the eleven dead, nine others were injured and countless people will forever be scarred by what they saw that night. So it was really a sobering experience for everybody, besides wrapping our arms kind of around the officers that were there that night and helping that they get through it because it was pretty stressful for all of us. I have to say I had some young officers, I
had older officers, and it was pretty stressful. We says the department and the city have grown a lot closer. Steve Gregory King, if I news best day ever. That's the theme for the twenty twenty five Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. I know. We went and talked to the organizers of the parade and they said, as soon as twenty twenty four is over, they start work on twenty five, and boy did they. Incoming President and
Morales made the announcement of the next year's theme last night. It could be the day you learned to ride a bike, a favorite family vacation, the birth of your first branchild. These are the moments that make life worth living. Morales says. As we look back at the events that inspired us and look forward to opportunities the new year will bring, we celebrate all the precious
moments in between. Agreed. US forces have conducted a fifth strike against Iranian Backhouthi rebel military sites in Yemen US Central Commands as the latest strikes destroyed two hoo the anti ship missiles that were aimed into the Southern Red Sea and prepared to launch. The freezing cold has killed at least fifty five people across the US, at least ten of them in Oregon, where ice storms left parts of the state covered in a sheet of ice that still hasn't thought out,
according to some of my friends who live there. The first astronaut from Turkey is head to the International Space Station. The crew of Axium Mission IREI lifted off yesterday afternoon from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon nine rocket, which also included astronauts from Italy, Spain, and Sweden at six o five. It's handled on the news. Hunter Biden has agreed to talk privately with lawmakers after initially ignoring their subpoena. Let's say good morning to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex.
The Innocence Project has taken up the case of Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his wife Lacy and their unborn child in Modesto. I was kind of surprised by this one, but keV, give us, give us the information that you got on this. Hey there, Amy. I think a lot of people were surprised by it. The Peterson case was the first thing I ever covered for ABC back in two thousand and four when I joined ABC, and
immediately my first WEEKND flew up to Redwood City and started covering it. And there hasn't been a lot of thought about Scott Peterson and in twenty years, and there have been appeals and you know, little things here and there, and he's tried over over again, and even the California Supreme Court got involved and said, well, yeah, there was a juror issue, so they took away the death penaltygue gave him life in prison without parole a couple of
years ago. But they said no, you don't get a new trial, No you don't get out, which he has tried. And so the courts over and over have said you got a fair trial. Move on. And now for the Innocence Project of LA, which is the LA chapter from the Innocence Network, not the Northern California chapter, but the LA chapter, saying that they're going to take up the case. You know, they've got a
strong reputation. They have a strong history of overturning cases, typically taking cases that we've never heard of before from you know, like forty years ago of somebody who is wrongly convicted by corrupt cops, that sort of thing. So to take a case like this one that captivated the country twenty years ago,
and I mean he was so vilified back in two thousand and four. Is you had this guy who didn't want his pregnant wife and got rid of her so he could be with his massage therapist girl friend, Amber Fry, and that he but it was all circumstantial. There was never any evidence really pointing to that he absolutely did it. But it was this just overwhelming load of circumstantial evidence that they created an image that very much made it look like that
he committed the murder. But we talked to one of the jurors yesterday. He said, one hundred percent Scott Peterson is guilty. Police one hundred percent still believed Scott Peterson is guilty. Prosecutors do as well. But the Innocence Project is saying, look that they've got new evidence that showing that police focused in on him, made it look like him, ignored other evidence, ignored
witness statements and went after him, but that somebody else didn't. Yeah, and you were saying that there was all this circumstantial evidence, including things like that he had said he had gone fishing and then her body was found in the way are not far from where he had gone fishing, which wasn't really near their house, correct, And that he had bought concrete, and you know that she was tied to ky at least the theory was that he had
tied her down with concrete, even though when her body was found she was washed ashore and had no limbs and had no head. So there wasn't a lot of evidence there at that point, but there were a lot of things where they said because he did this, that this probably went on, that he was found in La Joya, appearing to run, changing his hair color, living out of his car. He said, well, he was running
away from the media. If you remember back then, it was during the Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria, Kobe Bryant in Eagle, Colorado, and Scott Peterson. It was like a trifecta. We were jumping from trial to trial every day and this was the big one, and media were following him everywhere. So was he really just getting away from the media. Was he running to Mexico? Well, they claimed he was running to Mexico. His side claimed he was just freaking out and trying to get away from media.
So what they're focused on here, though, is all stuff that we knew about in two thousand and four. But police had said over and over again, well, that was all coincidental, had nothing to do with Lacy Peterson. A burglary across the street from their home the same day she went missing. That now, the Innocence Project says that they believe that was involved in her disappearance. That they want DNA, they want fingerprints, they want statements
from the suspects who arrested. Two of the four two got away, two were arrested. They want to know what police did to investigate that and why they ruled that out being involved. Then the day after that Christmas Day two thousand and two, there was a burned out van with blood in it, found down the street from their home near the Modesto Airport. And now the Innocence Project says they want to know was their DNA done on the blood in
the van? What was that? If not? They want to run now you know what did they do to rule out that band give Modesto police they always said, well, nah, it just happened that this all happened in their neighborhood at the exact same time, and that there was nothing involving the Peterson case. The Innocence Project seemed to feel differently. But again all of those at least from the law enforcement and jury side, they say, no,
that the evidence was there and that he's a guilty. Man was Scott Peterson And since you covered it, Alex, he was kind of had. He's very charming and charismatic, is that correct? Charming? But I would say, at least during the the police investigation and the trial, arrogant. You know, he always you would think if you murdered your wife that you would be standing on the hilltop yelling I didn't do it. And he was not always all that cooperative in court. He always kind of had, you
know, a walk, you know, the smirk on his face. Not that that means that they're guilty. Everybody handles everything differently, But that didn't do him any favors in the public eye. And then when it came out he had had numerous or you know, several mistresses. And then with Amber Fry, they had the recordings, if you remember, Gloria Alread represented Amber
Fry. Mark Geragos represented Scott Peterson, and they had these recordings of him lying about being not having a wife or being a widower and not wanting children, and again that that created this image of a guy who did not want his pregnant wife and acted like she didn't exist. But yes, in away from police and the courtroom, everybody who knew him said, you know, very very charming, could win you over, very salesmanlike in everyday life.
Wondering if the Innison's project bought the salesmanship, I mean, I just you don't know, because and it'll be interesting to see what they actually come up with and if they have anything, because I know that they have done amazing work to free people who have been wrongly convicted. We talked to the lawyer from the Innocence Project to just recently got someone out who had been serving like more than twenty years in prison because they got him on circumstantial evidence and then
were able to prove that he wasn't the guy. You know, So they do good work. I'm just I'm so leery of this one. Yeah, this one for them to take up a well known case, and they put out a statement, yeah, yesterday saying that evidence has been discovered the points to mister Peterson's innocence and points to the actual perpetrators of the crimes against Lacy and Connor Peterson. At least that's what the court document said. And then
they said that they are investigating what he claims to be his innocence. So some of this is still them investigating it and you know, looking into it, and that's why they want this evidence from the court. But the court could say, sorry, no, we've gone through this. Even the California Supreme Court has said no new trial. He's not getting out, but there's a strong likelihood with this filing, the court is going to say okay,
prosecutors, you tell us your side. They'll look at both and say, hey, we at least have to have a hearing, and then we see where it goes. It could be a new trial, or the court could say no, that this is over. Well, we'll be watching. And thank you so much for your insight. I didn't realize that was your first big case. So I've been around for a long time. Maybe all right, take care, Alex, appreciate it, good Bucke, have a good
readod you two. California will provide an additional two hundred and fifty million dollars for down payment assistance to first time home buyers through the California Dream for All Loan program. Home Buyers have until April to apply. A lottery system will determine who gets the assistance. Electric car chargers could soon become more affordable.
The Biden administration has announced the Treasury Department is proposing a tax credit that we give a thirty percent discount on the purchase of electric car chargers to about two thirds of consumers in the US. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Congress has again waited until the very last second, but did pass a stopgap bill to keep the government funded until March. Let's say good morning now to the home whisperer and the host of Home on KFI, Dean
Sharp Dean. Last week we talked about basically establishing the parameters to find out what you can and cannot do to your property before you build. So so now we've set the parameters before you build, what must you do? Well before we build? We have to get into the mode of understanding how important it is to design. We have got to set up our design team.
We have you yeh, design matters most, it really really does. If there is one thing that our show has done, has attempted to do over the last seven years that we've been on here on KFI, it is to really underscore for the average homeowner. And this is something that has just typically been an afterthought for the average homeowner, how important it is, how utterly
important it is to design, to work through the design. And I mean that in all serious I'm not saying that that homeowners don't do any design work. Of course they're They're like, of course I want my place to look nice, But I mean serious about it. Everybody thinks about picking up the phone and calling a contractor, but most middle class homeowners don't still in their minds think what you know, first thing we got to do, We got to find ourselves a designer. But it is so so very critical. It's
eighty percent of the result of everything that you're doing to your home. So that is the next step along the path. Design matters most Okay, And when you're talking about that, is that, like you said, call a designer. Do you call a designer right away or do you sit down and say these are the things I want and kind of start hashing it out and really thinking through the elements that you want in your home before you get somebody
from the outside involved. Well, that's a good question, and it can be some it's simultaneous because you want to get the process rolling of having a designer, building a design team, a creative team for yourself. But yeah, there is one hugely important role in this process that you, as the homeowner, have to step up into. And it's not so much as the designer. Your job is not to necessarily figure out what it's going to look like or what it needs to look like, but what it is that you
want. And I always say this most importantly, why what it is that you want and why I got you. Well, like in my first house, I wanted a certain things, and then my second house, say said, you know what, on my next house, I want a porch and I want a fireplace, and then on my next house, I want you know. I mean, you want different things at different times, but you figure out, like you said, you figure out what you want, and you figure out why, and then have somebody come and help you figure out
how exactly exactly and the reason. And I say, figuring out why is this? You know, design is a language, and it's a language that you may not know how to speak. And that is perfectly okay. It's not your job to know how the space should change, but rather to know why you want the change. And really, most importantly, I always tell my clients don't let's not rush ahead. I understand you might have a preference. Oh I want this light kind of countertop, dean er, I want
this thing to Okay, that's all well and good. Just tell me the kind of experience you want to have in the space, because it might surprise you how we get there. I was just on a consult earlier this week and a lovely couple and they were explaining to us, hey, we need to expand our kitchen, and I agreed for what they needed. They wanted a bigger kitchen, but there were two directions that kitchen could have gone in. One was to remove some structural walls, and half of their budget,
that's what they were thinking. Half of their budget would have been sucked up in just removing the walls, because that's a big involved thing. As I took a look at the larger house, I noticed that they weren't living in the living room. They were cramped into the family room area, and then
there was another little weird table shoved in there. And strangely enough, instead of staring at the kitchen, as I wandered through the house, I said, you know, I think the solution to your problem takes place over here in the living room. And they're like, what are you talking about? And what I did was I redirected them to use three different rooms differently. And what it enabled us to do was then take the kitchen and expand it
in the other direction and put all of their budget into the kitchen. So that's what I'm saying, don't expect yourself to anticipate how we're going to get there. Just tell me the experience you want to have and then let the creative team go to work. I love that. Okay, So not everybody can get Dean Sharp because Dean Sharp is only one person. So when you're looking to get a designer, what kind of things are you looking for? Well, of course you're looking for the same kind of thing that you would
look for in a contractor. You want referrals, you want recent referrals. You want to talk to their clients that they have right now, just so you can get a sense of how things are going. You want to see their work. You want to find out if this is just a one trick pony. Right, You're like, why why does everything look like a modern farmhouse that you design? Or are you capable of designing the kind of stuff that we want to have done? Like Chippy Joanna Gains. They make beautiful
things, but they all kind of look the same. It is? It all kind of looks the same. And maybe that works for you, Maybe that's what you want, or maybe you need something completely different and you need to vet somebody that they're capable of doing exactly that. And then on a personality level, you really want to find out if your designer is a good listener, because again, we need to get right underneath your skin and find
out what's going on with you. Are they passionate enough to give you pushback along the way, all right, a little creative pushback like no, Amy, no, no, no, no, no, no no, we're not going to do that. Or are they just gonna let kind of the tail wag the dog, as it were, and are they willing to save
you from your less than perfect ideas? But still, even with that, it's a fine balance because at the end of the day, you are the boss, and so you know, I've had designers sometimes say I can't work with these people for us, Tina and I we like to give pushback where necessary, but at the end of the day, like over our objections, listen, if this is what you want, you know, you're you're the one laying out the money for this. We're going to give you what you
want always. Okay. I love that and I like that you know that a good designer is going to make those suggestions and like you were talking about with that one home design, not just say yeah, let's do this, but kind of reimagine the space exactly exactly So you really want somebody whose personality really vibe with and who has got enough passion for the project that they're willing to give you a pushback, that it means something to them as much as
it means something to you. Okay, perfect, And you're going to be talking a lot more about this this weekend on Home with Dean Sharp Saturday six to eight am, Sunday nine to noon. Building your Dream exactly. How part two? Is there going to be a part three next week? Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Now, I'm not promising, I'm not promising that we're going to do this series uninterrupted, but that is our goal here at the beginning of twenty twenty four to actually take a step by step
guide through building your dream home. There may be little breaks in between for more relevant to temporary issues, but we're going to do it. We're going to get it done. I love it. Thank you so much, Dean for your time. You can always follow Dean at Home with Dean so easy. Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A mistrial has been declared in Riverside County in the trial of a former LAPD
officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man at a costco in Corona. The man's parents were also severely injured in the shooting. Lawyers for salvad Or Sanchez say the shooting was done in self defense. Jurors yesterday said they were deadlocked couldn't come up with a verdict. The process for a new trial is set to begin February thirteenth. A man from Florida is expected to plead guilty in Orange County for his part in the fire bombing of a planned parenthood in Costa
Mesa. Another guy charged in the case pleated guilty in November. A third man is awaiting trial. The bombing happened in twenty twenty two. A man from Koreatown who was illegally selling guns with another guy has been hit with a more than three year prison sentence. From twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two, William Penia sent photos and prices of guns to his partner so that his partner could sell them. Evidence presented a trial indicated that Pania was obtaining firearms
from sources in other states, primarily Arizona. US attorney's spokesman Karen McAvoy says Peneous partner admitted to aid illegal gun transactions last year. He's set to be sentenced next month. An undercover agent bought both guns and AMMO from Painous partner Blake Trolley kaf I News, Got Your One to Day, Got Your Centrum. Three new studies that involved more than five thousand people show that taking a
daily multivitamin may protect older adults against memory loss. Researchers say the daily multivitamin benefited healthy adults in things like reasoning, attention and planning, and the ability to recall memories from day to day life. US forces have conducted a fifth
strike against Iranian backed Hoothi rebel military sites in Yemen. The air strikes gum as President Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment has not yet stopped the Hoothies from attacking ships traveling through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Those attacks have disrupted global shipping. The freezing cold has killed at least fifty five people across the US, at least ten of them in Oregon, where ice storms left parts of the state covered in a sheet of ice that still
hasn't thought out. Pre sale passes go on sale today for eleven or today at eleven for the twenty twenty four Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals can be headlined by Lana Del Rey, Doja, Cat, No Doubt, and Tyler the Creator. The festival is happening the weekends of April twelfth through the fourteenth, and nineteenth through the twenty first at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, some fans
are suing Madonna for being late to her own concert. Can't wait to hear more about that. Police in LA and Orange County are looking for more elderly people whose homes may have been burglarized by a man posing as a Brinx Home security worker. The man was arrested in Riverside County for a burglary in Harbor City last month, where detectives found evidence linking the man to several other cases in Anaheim last summer. O CDA Todd Spitzer says his office has charged the
man with five felonies and five misdemeanors. It's unequivocally clear you come to Orange County. When we catch you, we're gonna hammer you, and we're not shy about going to court and protecting our victims, police say. In the Harbor City burglary last month, the man told an elderly woman he was at her house to install censors for her security cameras, and once inside, took her jewelry and credit cards. Chris Adler, KA, fine news. Now
let's say good morning too, ABC's entertainment guru. It's Jason Nathanson. Jason Iss hits theaters this weekend. Yes, tell us all about it. This is the new way. It's It's so we're kind of in a slow time at the box office. We're not getting in a lot of big, huge studio movies. This is not a studio movie, and we're gonna see Mean Girls top the box office once again this weekend. Even though you said it's not very good, I said it was okay. I said there's okay,
there was there was no point in in in versus the original. I think, you know, like there's still just go watch the original. I think it's it's still better, okay. But it was, you know, it was okay. I didn't dislike it. Okay, but iss is about the International Space Station. That's where you get the the initials there. Ariana debots from West Side story she wanted to Oscar a couple of years ago. She starts as a scientist who travels to the International Space Station. She's going for
the first time. But she gets there and there there are several other Americans who have been there before, some Russians who've been there for a little while, and then tensions start to flare as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. So did you see Leave the World Behind on Netflix idea? So this is kind of that's happening on Earth. This is happening in the in the space station in space right. It's kind of like the spiritual cousin to that
film. It's really really tense. It's a slow burning thriller that really. It starts out and you can feel the tension and then it just gets more and more tense as things go along. Now, I got to see this at home. This is only in theaters this weekend. If you were able to see it at home, if you want to wait till it's done streaming, you know, that would be fine. I don't know that you need
to necessarily rush out to the theater to see it. It's okay, it's not a bad watch, but it's not one of those I think you need to necessarily go pay a bunch of money, you know, and take time out of your weekend to go see. But I did enjoy it, and the kind of the I think I like a little bit more, the premise
behind it, a little bit more than the actual execution. Okay. And so you mentioned Leave the World Behind, which I did see on your recommendation or I don't know if it was a recommendation, but after you talked about it, I did recommend and I personally didn't like it at all. Sure, but so does it have that sort of same feel because when we were talking about it, I was talking to Wake Up Call about it, and we were saying that it did move very slow, and it like things kind
of happened, but you weren't really sure. What is that the same vibe that you get from ISS? I mean a little bit. They're different, very different movies, very different tones. Leave the World Behind, you know, had some strange stuff going on, some I thought some you know, really funny stuff. When it came to you know, their incorporation of pop culture like friends and things like that. You know, this is a completely
different tone. It's just really all about tension from from the first second basically that the film starts and building this tension between these six characters. So it's you know, if you like that sort of thing. I know a lot of people don't like that sort of thing. It's one of the criticisms of the show, The Bear right and some other The Bear is a very tense,
anxiety inducing the show. But it's so good. It's good. But it's definitely not a comedy in my opinion, which is kind of incredible since it just ran the table at the I mean comedy. But you know, so some people do like that kind of stuff. I personally don't like to live in that world. I think the real world is tense enough. I don't like it in my entertainment, but it didn't necessarily bother me in this film. Okay, So then let's shift gears because there's another movie coming out
called Origin, and it's about the origins of racism in America. Yeah, and this is a real treat in terms of what I get to do as part of my job, because this is a movie that's been flying under the radar. It should have gotten a lot more awards attention than it did. And you know, and one of the reasons is my fault as well, because I was late to this film, didn't get a chance to see it until this week. I saw it yesterday and it absolutely blew me away.
Really. Yeah. This is Eva du Verna, who she directed Selma Thirteenth, you know, a bunch of some really great stuff. She wrote and directed this. It's the story of a woman played by angeu Ellis Taylor who she is dealing with tremendous person tragedy and she does so by throwing herself into her work as a writer. And this is kind of based on the true
story of how this book from a couple of years ago was written. And her character is she's kind of a sociologist examining social systems in the US, and she starts to get into how the treatment of black people in America is tied to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, is tied to the caste system in India. And she's pulling on all these connective threads and putting them
together. And the film itself, the way the story is told it's about this one woman's journey, so it's very much kind of a narrative story in that way, but it also feels like it's partially a documentary and a little bit of a history lesson as well. It's absolutely excellent filmmaking from Aver Duvernet and an outstanding performance from Andrea Ellis Taylor. Had I seen it last year, it would have been on my list of the most impactful films of twenty
twenty three. For sure. This film should heavily be in the awards conversation. And we'll see if it gets any Oscar love next week. I don't think it will. I just don't think people have seen it. I don't think they've taken the time to see it. Indeed, you never heard of it until you put it into your this is what I'm going to talk about tomorrow notes. Yeah, and that's one of the issues, and that also comes to marketing and the Oscars campaign. You know, it's one of those
movies. It was in theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a week or so to qualify for the awards is in December, but now just now it's coming out in wide release. Maybe if it had been out in wide release a little earlier and people were talking about it, it would have gotten more people to see it. But whatever happened, it's a shame and a crime as far as I'm concerned. But the fact is that you can go see it this weekend, and I would highly encourage everybody to do so a
glowing endorsement. Okay, so we've got the Oscars. Speaking of the Oscars, the nominations are coming out next week and anything that we should be looking forward to, Yeah, I mean we'll see I think some of the stuff that we've continued to see so far of the you know, when it comes to Best Picture, of course, I think we're gonna see, you know, a lot of nominations for Oppenheimer that's going to get it because that's one of those films that has a lot of the acting spots best Picture also a
lot of the technical stuff as well, and director for Christopher Nolan. So look for that to do very very well. And then a lot of the stuff that we've seen so far this season, and we're talking about Best Picture, you know, I think Barbie is probably going to get in there. American Fiction, the Holdovers. I like American fiction at all. Okay, I liked American Fiction. I thought it was I wanted it to be.
I love I love the premise of it. It didn't get me one hundred percent, and I don't know if I would put it on Best Picture, but it's definitely it's gotten that buzz and it's going to continue. Yeah, and I like it. Is it Jeffrey Wright? Is it the name Jeffrey Wright? Yes? I love him as an actor. I think started. Yeah, I think it was good. It just it fell flat. It
didn't live up to what I expected it to be, gotcha. And you know, again, at the end of the day, all these things are subjective, right, and so you know, I think we look at you know, I vote on the Critics' Chorte Awards. We talked about that last week, and I of my votes, fourteen of them more different than what actually won. So you know, everybody has different opinions, and you know,
we all see things very differently. Again, one of the reasons why it's a shame of film like Origin, which I think should be in this conversation and should definitely get the Best Picture nomination, probably isn't going to get it, might not even get anything. Well, we're going to go see it anyway based on what you said, because now I'm excited to go see the thing. You know, I think it's one of those things. Check out the trailer. If it speaks to you, then I think you will
definitely enjoy it. If it doesn't, it's not going to be for everybody, and I certainly that's fine, So hold your angry emails and tweets and things like that. But you know, again, these things are subjective. But I thought it's what can't be denied for me at least, is that it's fantastic filmmaking. Okay, great, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much. All Right, take it all right, I'll talk to you next week. But let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Prosecutors say the man who allegedly killed a six year old boy in a road raid shooting an orange confessed when he was arrested. Senior Deputy da Dan Feldman told jurors yesterday Marcus Ayres also admitted to knowing his action could kill someone. In the interview, he explains why he decided to shoot at a car with people in it on a freeway during rush sh Howork
because someone gave him a finger. The defenses. Aries had no way of knowing Aiden Leos was in the car in twenty twenty one and had no malice or intent to kill the boy. Aries is facing forty years in prison for second degree murder and other charges if convicted. Taylor Swift has received nine nominations for the twenty twenty four iHeart Music Awards. She's followed closely by Jelly Roll, Sizza and twenty one Savage, they each got eight. Olivia Rodrigo got
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