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 HD two Los Angeles and Orange County, and you get your haste Amy. Okay, good morning. This is your wake up call for Monday, November thirteenth. I'm Amy King. Thanks for waking up with me this morning. Hope you had a great weekend. Do you know it's like less than two weeks until Thanksgiving and it was eighty five degrees yesterday. It still feels really weird, but I have
to tell you I'm in total Thanksgiving mode. We had pumpkin Ravioli on Friday night and then last night pumpkin Yoki. I'm in full Thanksgiving mode. I made a nice little brown butter sauce. I'm getting to be quite the chef, even though not a very good cook. But I actually did the brown button didn't burn it, so I'm pretty proud of myself. So today's going to be a doozy thanks to that fire in downtown LA that shut down the ten. If you're headed out, you might want to step it up and
get going early. There are estimates that you might want to leave about an hour early because of that. We're gonna check in with Nick Poliochini in just one second. He's going to give you an early look at what's going on on the roads. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call, and estimated three hundred thousand commuters in LA are going to have to find a different way
to get where they need to go. Part of the ten Freeway and surrounding freeways and connectors are closed indefinitely after that fire at a Pallette yard underneath the freeway over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says there may be a deal in the works to free more hostages held by Hamas. He wouldn't go into any detail, saying the chances of a deal are better the less he talked about it. About two hundred and forty people, including Americans, are
being held hostage. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has suspended his presidential campaign. He made the announcement on Fox News last night. In fact, I was watching it and he's talking to Trey Goudy about how he's headed to Iowa and all this, and all of a sudden, he says, but I'm not going to Iowa as a candidate. I'm announcing that I'm getting out of the race, he said. Voters have made it clear to him now is not his time. He didn't rule out running in the future. He also has
not yet endorsed another candidate for president. At six oh five, it's handle on the news and here we are again, just a few days away from a government shutdown. Bill's gonna weigh in on that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And who better to start with in our very own Nick Polio Keiney wanted to check in with you early, Nick, And of course this is probably going to
be what you're going to be talking about all morning long. But we have a mess bruin in downtown La. Yeah, and it's been that way all weekend long. Amy. It's started acture on twelve thirty in the morning on Saturday morning, and it was pretty These pallette are a pallet yard underneath the freeway near East fourteenth and Alameda Street and both sides of fourteenth Street underneath the
ten which is really really creepy. If you've seen any of the images that people were shooting and putting out on social media fully engulfed for you underneath the free when the flames are coming up underneath it So looks like what exactly happened was some of the steel guard rails and freeway infrastructure itself pretty much was melted from that situation, including a fire truck that responded to it was completely damaged.
And there's some really creepy images you can see on social media of that as well. Yeah, so how is that going to affect us this morning? What all's closed right now? Northbound five to the westbound ten connectors off limits, Southbound five to the westbound ten off limits, westbound sixty to the ten. Westbound ten on ramp at Soto as well as the Alameda Street on ramp and the ten west Santa Fe On Ramp are all off limits. I'll post on x or Twitter closure map for you to be able to check out
some of the alternate routes that are available for y'all. Make sure to tag you as well Amy and Kfi to have those details for you. An eastbound alternate for the ten is going to be exiting at Alameda and sixteenth Street, and there are signs posted to help get you through there on the westbound side of the ten. You're going to be coming away from Well Entered, getting off the Washington Boulevard, and then it looks like Central Avenue or sixteenth three
will help you get around that again. I'll put all those closures up for us on extra Twitter. Okay, great, thanks Nick, and we're going to check in with you again in about two minutes. You can give us the latest on that and then other stuff going on as we get our Monday morning started. Appreciate it sounds great, You got it. Governor Newsom says state agencies they're going to work twenty four to seven to repair the section of
the ten freeway in downtown that was damaged by fire. Newsom said he's treating the cleanup with the same urgencies his agencies did during the nineteen ninety four north Ridge earthquake, and he says he knows the question on everyone's mind, when the hell is this going to get reopened? That is being assessed in real time. Yesterday the governor flew over the freeway and did a walking tour of this. He says the state property was leased to an entity that was behind
on rent and had been cited multiple times for code violations. Photos of the storage lot of shown vehicles, food vendor carts with propane tanks, wooden pallettes, and a homeless camp in downtown LA Steve Gregory KA Fine News, Oh what a mess. The schools in the Test And School District will be closed again today while health officials check the areas surrounding the big big blimp hanger that burned last week at the former Test And airbase. The district says some campuses
have already been cleared and will reopen tomorrow. One option for schools that don't reopen is virtual learning house. Republicans have proposed a temporary two step plan to avoid a government shutdown this month. It extends government funding for some agencies and programs until January nineteenth, and continues funding for others until February second. Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle says it's not what's needed right now, but he is
seeing some signs of progress. We all know the way this is going to end. We're going to get a clean cr The only question is will we get it before a government shutdown, or will we get it some days and weeks into a government shutdown. The temporary plan does not include additional aid for Israel or Ukraine. We're going to be talking more with ABC Stephen Portnoy about the details of this plan or these plans and the chances that it has of
passing. It's five seven on your wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Millard. Jordana, what's the latest as Israel continues to push further into the Gaza Strip. Well, all eyes today really on the Al Shifa Hospital that is Gaza's largest medical facility in northern Gaza, and now for a third day in a row, there's intense combat around this hospital.
Hamas terraces engaging in firefights with the Israeli forces. Israel says it is not directly firing on the hospital and not attacking it directly, but nonetheless the hospital has suffered some secondary damage from this combat and a number of civilians were killed over the weekend. Because there were tens of thousands of people that had been sheltering outside the hospital thinking it would be a safe place, many of them,
most of them evacuated over the weekend. Inside the Al Shifa Hospital said on Saturday it lost power because it ran out of fuel. As you know, Israel's not allowing fuel into the Gaza strip because it says it will you know, Hamas will steal its fuel and use it in the war. It also argues that Hamas has plenty of fuel stockpiled and it could give it to the hospitals, and it is refusing that Alshiva Hospital now really not operational.
We're hearing today that at least thirty two patients have died there and that includes three premature babies. Are thirty six other babies that were in incubators that have now you know, they've had to doctors had to take them out and try to keep them alive. And Israel says it has offered to evacuate these babies
to other hospitals or to Egypt, but Hamas is preventing that. We're going to have to wait and see and pray that some of these babies and other sick patients can get out of this hospital as it is increasingly in the middle of this war. And you're saying that the firefight is happening in and around the hospital. Is Hamas inside the hospital firing out. The combat's happening around
the hospital, not inside. There's no Israeli troops inside. There have been reports that Hamas militant militants, terrorists, fighters, commanders, whatever you want to call them, have been firing on Israeli troops from inside the hospital. But there there are no troops inside, and Israel will not go inside the hospital and not while there are sick people there. That's our that is what we understand now. You know, it is so hard for us to tell
the story because we don't have a lot of sources on the ground. Uh, and it becomes a he said, she said. On the other hand, if we fay, if we kind of take a larger picture of what has already happened in this in you know, now we're in the sixth week of this war, we have to say that. You know, Hamas has claims that it does not control the hospital and has nothing to do with the babies or the staff. It's hard to believe when we see the way Hamas
is operated that far. They took an Israeli nine month old baby and several children into captivity. Uh. You know, if they were concerned about these babies surviving, they would enable them to leave the hospital, it seems, but that is not obviously on their priority list. It's hard for US US in the West and the United States to understand the brutality of this group. I have a seven month old baby, and I'm horrified by these stories.
So this is uh where, you know, everyone is hoping that somehow they're going to there's going to be some mechanism to keep these babies out and evacuate them to Egypt. You mentioned the hostages too, and I heard over the weekend that there could be a deal coming or it's in the works. Nettan y'all who said there could be, but he wouldn't give any details, saying the less he says, the better the chances of the deal coming together.
What's the latest you're hearing about it. Well, you know, for several days, we've been hearing that momentum is building towards a hostage deal. We understand that the Prime Minister rejected an earlier deal that included the release of only ten or fifteen hostages. It simply wasn't enough because there's two hundred in the right there's because there's two hundred and nine that's you know, less than ten
percent. So we are now hearing that it is going to be you know, dozens and dozens of hostages potentially released in exchange, it seems, for the release of some jailed Palestinians here in Israel, perhaps some women or men over the age of fifty, you know. And we're not sure how long the pause in the fighting will be. But remember Israel has said that the military campaign puts pressure on Hamas and makes it more likely to negotiate for a
hostage release. That may or may not be true. You know, it may be that Hamas you know, holds on to the hostages more tightly as the campaign progresses, you know, waiting for a further point in the future to try to use them for leverage. Well also, but it's also heartbreaking.
Yeah, and you would think too, I mean, if you're just sitting back and looking at it, that you would think that Hamas would hold on to the hostages because that also is possibly keeping the Israeli military from destroying several other areas or tunnels that where there may be hostages held they might be you know, not putting right and treasure right and the Alshifa Hospital exactly.
I mean, why is the Alshifa Hospital in the middle of this war Because Israel believes that Hamas is using parts of the hospital and has built bunkers underneath the hospital to store weapons and militants and possibly the hostages. So you know, it certainly complicates Israel's war plans, especially when it comes to destroying the
tunnels where some of the hostages are likely being held. I mean, four hostages have made it out, and the one elderly woman who spoke to the press said, you know she was you know, she was marched essentially through miles of muddy underground tunnels that she described were spider like webs underneath a gaza. All right, well, we will continue to watch it, and as always, we appreciate all the information that we get directly from you. Jordana
Miller in Jerusalem. If you want to follow Jordana, it's at Georgiana L. Miller on Instagram. Thanks again so much. All right. Officials are warning commuters it could take an extra hour to get to work this morning because of a closure on the ten. The freeway is shut down because of a palifier under the freeway and Saturday that melted away some of the freeway's steel guardrails.
Not only the ten is affected, several other freeways and connectors are going to be closed, and of course Nikkolaiokini is going to keep you right on top of that. Pro Israel rally has been held in Thousand Oaks at the same place. A sixty nine year old Jewish man was injured a week ago and later died after a run in with a pro Palestinian protester. There were
no issues with the rally yesterday. Bag After members will begin voting tomorrow on a new three year contract with the Hollywood Studios that ended the one hundred and eighteen day actors strike. The deal includes AI protections, an eleven percent base pay increase for extras and residuals for streaming shows. At six oh five is handle on the news. The pool of Republican presidential candidates just got smaller. Senator Tim Scott has suspended his campaign. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom, we've heard of all the pro Palestinian protests, but a march in France was different. Please tell us about it very much. So we've had some very very large pro Palestinian marches in France itself, and actually yesterday there was a protest against the view of anti rising anti Semitism in the country. They've been documented by the police records roughly about one
thousand quote unquote incidents up and down the country over the past month. So at the behest of both houses of Parliament they had they had a march through through Paris yesterday and again uh, some some notables leading the march. You had Sarcozzi. You also had another former Prime minister, Francois hol On there as well. Macron did not make it, but he sent in a letter of approval. So yes, uh, trying to get on the street and get get their message out, just like as we're seeing here in the UK.
We had a pro Palestinian march on Saturday here from Hyde Park to the US Embassy. That one was bigger. It was about three hundred thousand uh turned out for that. So yes, we're seeing marches in a number not only the capitals, but a number of cities throughout Europe. And it's been going on for the past month here and it looks like this, No, no look of that calmbing down in any way, shape or form. And was the march yesterday was it peaceful? Did they have run ins with opposite
sides? Oh? That was that was peaceful. The one here in London there were something in the neighborhood of ninety three arrests. Three of those were on the pro Palestinian side. Ninety arrests were on the anti pro Palestinian hard right faction, if you will. So, yes, it was a counter demonstration to the main demonstration. So yes, we are seeing that dynamic playing
out here, okay. And for the for the demonstration in Paris yesterday, it was just one big one or was it in several places around the country, Yeah, it was. It was that was where the largest one was. They estimated in total up and down the country one hundred and eighty thousand plus. But as I say, it varies, but they think between one hundred and one hundred and five thousand people in Paris, Okay. And you they, as you mentioned, there were some pretty big powerful people there.
So was security pretty Yeah. They always are. They always are. The French police are always out to go back to the Jill Jean protests of about five years ago, they got used to showing up each and every Saturday or Sunday. So yes, they're quite versed and they're there and they take action if it is required. But as you said at the top. No real problems this particular weekend. Good to hear, Tom. Do you speak French? Very very basic? I can go to a restaurant there. Nut's about
it. I'm asking because you say the names so beautifully. Which one has that? No, all the French names, you say them very you know, like you like you speak the language. We when you go there and you cover it, you learn about five new words each trip. So there you go. Okay, Thank you so much, Tom, appreciate your input and information this morning. Have a wonderful day. Take care all right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Republican Senator Tim Scott has announced he is out of the twenty twenty four race for president. The South Carolina senator made the support announcement on Fox's Sunday Night in America with Trey Goudy. One campaign worker told the Associated Press that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the show. The news comes as Scott continued to struggle in the polls and just days after
the third Republican primary debate. Scott entered the race in May with more cash than any other Republican candidate Courtney Adelman KFI News, and as I mentioned at the top of the hour, I was watching Fox News when Senator Scott made that announcement yesterday, and it was like, I was kind of doing some stuff for the show today and so half listening, and then I kind of looked up and said, did he just announce that he's doing that? He's
dropping out? And then the host of the show's Trey Goudy, and you could tell that he was thrown. He was not expecting that because he was like I, I, it wasn't in the script. So interesting. Too bad. I really liked Tim Scott. I still liked Tim Scott. Lawyers for President Trump are said to begin their defense in New York in the civil fraud case against the Trump Organization when new testimony is expected today from Donald Trump
Junior, who's also a defendant in the case. He testified as a prosecution witness less than two weeks ago. He said experts and accountants were responsible for financial statements. The state Attorney General says, we're fraudulent news brought to you by American Vision. Windows maintenance work at all cal State University campuses is about to come to a halt. More than a thousand employees are going on a one day strike tomorrow. Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, locksmiths, and others
planned to walk out at twenty two campuses in the state. Their union calls its members the unsung heroes who keep the place running. Another wildfire's burning in Hawaii. It's in a remote rainforest on the island of Oahu. The sixteen one hundred acre fire was first spotted on October thirtieth. It was ninety percent surrounded by Friday. It has mostly burned inside the Owahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge, which is home to twenty two species listed by the US government as endangered
or threatened. Write to lo L on a text or on your Facebook or Instagram post. Yeah, that's so yesterday. I didn't even know this until just now. The new one is I jbo L any idea What it means? Kno, not a clue. Not a clue, Nick, you know no. I was typing it out to try to figure out idea. Okay, well, so the laughing and crying face emoji is, you know, very old now. The new one is I JB O L. It stands
for I just burst out laughing, according to dictionary dot com. So, I guess it's kind of the new rofl rolling on the floor laughing, except what do you call it? Oh? I gave you an IgE bowl. That sounds ridiculous. Okay, well that's my new I just burst out laughing, Nick, you just burst out laughing. I loved it. I'll hey, you know, you know, just push the button and I'll be there. And estimated a three hundred thousand commuters in Los Angeles are going to have
to find a different way to get to where they need to go. Talk about needing kindness. Today, traffic is expected to be a mess as part of the ten Freeway and surrounding freeways and connectors are closed indefinitely because of that fire at a pallet yard underneath the freeway. Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there may be a deal in the works to free more hostages held by Hamas. He wouldn't go into details, saying the chances of
a deal are better the less he talks about it. About two hundred and forty people, including Americans, are currently being held hostage a town south of the capital city of Ricovik. Iceland, is being evacuated because of a possible volcanic eruption. The town was cleared out Saturday following hundreds of earthquakes in Thearia. They recorded like fourteen hundred earthquakes Icelandic officials say they are expecting an eruption within a couple of days. At six five Handle on the News, former
President Trump is siding with the media on this one. He wants his trial televised. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about how lawmakers are going to try to get bills passed to avert a government shutdown, which is now just five days away. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim tipping. Is it a tipping point? More and more people are being asked to tip and tip more, well, right, yeah, and then this may be part of the National
Kindness Day. How about tipping your waiter or your weight staff. But do you have to tip the barrister at Starbucks? Do you need to tip the convenience store clerk who really didn't do anything except cash you out? And you know it's so yeah, that's more and more people say that they are being
asked to tip more. In this survey by a Pew Research of twelve thousand people, by the way, it's a huge sampling, seventy two percent say that tipping is now expected in more places than it was five years ago. And I think that goes without saying that. You you see it more often. You see the tip jar there, or the clerk spins the tablet around and asks you to write in a tip amount before than skimming your card or whatever you do. So, yeah, more people are being asked tip.
Are they being asked to tip more? Perhaps? Are they actually tipping more? Not necessarily? Yeah, you'll find that about you know, about a quarter of people say that, yeah, I tip about twenty percent. That's kind of the standard now. Yeah, but two percent say I don't tip at all, zero percent ever ever, Okay, I do have a problem with that. Yeah, come on, okay. So but now you're saying, and I was reading an article that said, oh, it's a good
idea to leave twenty percent. I'm like, when did it get to be twenty percent? A couple of years ago it was fifteen, and then it was eighteen, and now when they you know, when they do the suggestions on the receipts, it goes you can do eighteen, or you can do twenty, or you can do twenty five. I'm like, what happened to fifteen? Why don't they put that on there anymore? Well, for somebody like me who works with words, not with numbers, twenty percent is just
easier math. It really is. I mean, one point five fifteen percent is okay, but twenty percent just became easier to do. But you know, it depends upon the situation. By the way, here's here's a tip for you, Amy. If you see that listing there, Hey, if you want a tip, fifteen percent, it'll be this amount, it'll be twenty percent, it'll be this amount. That is the after tax amount, right, so you might want to go back in and figure it out before
the tax is added onto your bill on your slip. That way, you're tipping the amount before tax, not after tax. I know, but I don't think that anybody does that anymore. It's like there's all these these social moras like how much you're supposed to tip so? And I think that the biggest cause of here's my word of the day, consternation. I don't use big words very often is when you go and, like you said, the barista at Starbucks, or I go to my little Chinese place down the street
and they basically all they I've done is serve me at the counter. They haven't brought food out to me. They're not checking my water, they're not getting me another cocktail. And then they turn around that screen and stand there and look at you. Yeah, and it says how much do you want to tip? I don't want to tip. This is not a tipping situation,
all right. Well, twenty nine percent of the people in this in this survey said that tipping is an obligation, twenty one percent hits a choice, forty nine percent of full half of them say, you know what, it depends on the situation. So don't feel too guilty if you don't tip your barrest reach that okay. But and then on the flip on the flip side, are they are people showing they're unhappy with the service by tipping less they are, yes, or by not tipping at all. And I think
people are catching on to this. It was just sort of a blanket thing before, especially during the pandemic. Those folks are there risking their lives to serve you up, so they deserve tip. And I think now, folks, some of the customers are saying, yeah, things are different now and I'm not maybe going to tip as much. Yeah, although I will tip a little bit more on the holiday days. It's that time of the year, and maybe today because it's National Kindness thing. Good for you, be
kind all right, Thank you so much, Jim. Appreciate your time as always. Take care. All right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says cal Fire is investigating the cause of the massive fire in downtown LA that damaged a section of the ten Freeway. Newsom says the state property was leased to an entity that was behind on rent and had multiple code violations. He says he's
rethinking the state lease program. Who is leasing these sites and are they being monitored? Are they being held accountable? And the answer specifically on this site is yes. In fact, we're in litigation with the Lassie. The governor wouldn't elaborate on the litigation yesterday, but said the Lassie may have been illegally subleasing to a third party. The fire started early Saturday, morning in downtown la Steve Gregory kf I News Elle Mayor Basset's traffic through the downtown area is
going to be a huge mess until further notice. The laser will be so powerful if you are driving through downtown on the freeway and take the route around, Bes says. Officials will monitor traffic patterns to adjust any detours or alternate roots. She says. La dot will also synchronize stoplights on surface streets to alleviate expected backups from detour traffic. Why don't they do that anyway? That's why I hate driving through downtown. News brought to you by American Vision Windows.
A professor at UC Irvine is part of a team of scientists who will design the most powerful laser in the world. The laser will be so powerful that for the millionth of a billionth of a second that the laser will fire, it'll be more than a thousand times more powerful than the global power grid.
UCI Associate Professor Franklin Dollar says the two separate twenty five PETAWAT lasers will be built in New York to research particle acceleration, laser driven nuclear physics, targeted radiation delivery for cancer patients and high field physics and quantum electrodynamics to emulate the energy level of the Big Bang. What could go wrong? In Orange Downy Corbin Carson kf I News. Two giant rocket motors are now standing one
hundred and sixteen feet tall at the California Science Center. Each one weighs one hundred four thousand pounds. The rocket motors were lifted into the upright position at the Science Center last week. Visitors can now see the top of them from outside the construction area of the new Space exhibit. The motors are the first large components to be installed the Shuttle's giant external fuel tank, and then the Space Shuttle Endeavor itself will be added in January. As we told you last
week, we got to go to the California Science Center. If you haven't checked out my video on that it's really cool, then of course I encourage you to go down and see it for yourself because the exhibits only open until the end of this year until it goes away so they can reposition this shuttle.
But you can see my interview at Amy K. King on Instagram, also at KFI AM six forty seven million dollars at the box office might sound pretty good, but if it's a Marvel Universe movie, that's another story. The Marvels made forty seven million dollars in its premiere weekend, which was the worst opening in MCU history. Nick and I went and saw the movie. Nick, I think we're sort of in agreement. The movie was kind of
me. Yeah, it was really mad overall. I mean Kamala Khan's character, who is the left if you saw Mis Marvel, we love her period across the board, and she's a Marvel, Miss Marvel, Miss Marvel. I thought she was Miss Marvel well miss well no no, no, miss like ms yeah instead of miss yeah, miss Marvel. But anyway, she really is the breakout star for me, and it's purely because she is such a Marvel superfan before getting her own series on Disney. Plus, she really
leans into it. Breelarsen fantastic as Captain Marvel. But yeah, there's overall, I think it was a filler to get the story continuing going on as we move into Phase six of Marvel the Cinematic Universe and all the things that are to come. Yeah, I just Reelarson. I love Breelarson. I think she's a fantastic actress. I just don't think that her character really had anywhere to go. There wasn't anything really interesting about this story arc. They
kind of started some things where they share their powers. They find out that the Captain Marvel and mis Marvel, and then some what's the other girl's name, Manica Rambo Monica Rambo, yes, yes, which is her best friend's daughter, but Captain Rambo. They end up sharing these light powers and they have to figure out how they can work them together, and then that kind of fizzles out. I don't want to tell anything that happens. I mean, it's it's still a Marvel movie. It's fun to look at. It's
got lots of action and that kind of stuff. But I just think in the whole Marvel universe, this was just kind of a dud. Yeah, And I think the only thing that we will be a little bit spoiler alert is the you will see one post credit scene that will help you see what is coming to the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the near future. So that's kind of the real reason's the reason to go see the Little Movie for sure. Exactly. So there's only one of the you need to stick
around for. And that's the heads up for you, a little bit of insight, although there is one more fun little reference at the very end, but really that's kind of as you just are, maybe a friend of a feeline like you Amy, Yes, oh and that was I. I would tell you the cats are the best thing about this movie. And you'll you'll know when you see it. Okay. Officials are warning commuters could take you an extra hour to get to work this morning because of a closure on the
ten. The freeways shut down because of a pallette fire underneath the freeway Saturday that melted away some of the steel guardrails. A pro Israel rally has been held in Thousand Oaks at the same place. A sixty nine year old Jewish man was injured a week ago and later died after a run in with a
pro Palestinian protester. There were no issues with the rally yesterday. Donald Trump Junior will be back on the stand today as the defense presents its case in the Trump organization's two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud trial in New York.
Prosecutors say Trump inflated real estate values to get better loans and insurance on his properties two minutes away from handle on the news and Appeals Court says, just because Honda is basically spying on you with your car, doesn't mean they're doing anything wrong. Nice. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, here we go again. All of a sudden, we're just days
away from a government shutdown. Yeah, this is a result of the measure that was put on the floor by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that led to his ouster. And so the current extension of government funding runs out at the end of this week Friday night. So what's the solution that's been proposed to avoid a government shutdown going into next weekend ahead of Thanksgiving. House Speaker Mike
Johnson wants to do. And this is a new term for us here in Washington, DC and the weird way we speak, we're still getting used to it. A laddered cr What does that mean? Two steps? Really, it's two expiration dates on an extension of government funding through either January nineteenth or two extra weeks February second. The first deadline would apply to do domestic agencies like the Transportation Department, the Veterans Affairs Department, Housing and Urban Development.
The second deadline would apply to the National Security Apparatus, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Homeland Security Department. Now, this is a measure that's being opposed by some outspoken Republicans, even though this idea of a forked two stage deadline situation was a Republican idea. The bill is opposed by at least four House Republicans, which would be enough on a party line basis to kill it because it does not include any cuts or any kind of policy rider
that Democrats might view as a poison pill. Why would Republicans object to it because, as I say, they expected that the new Speaker would put in place short term stopgap funding measures that would not just have different deadlines, which is a Republican idea, but it would cut spending, and this bill does not do that. This is a clean extension of government funding with two different
expiration dates. So why would Democrats oppose it if it's clean. Well, they think it's a bit given this idea of a two stage laddered continuing resolution, and they don't think it's a good idea to do this sort of thing now or in the future. And so they're going to oppose it. The
White House put out a statement on Saturday calling this an unserious proposal. There's also the fact that the presidents requested more than one hundred billion dollars for Ukraine in Israel in an emergency supplemental measure that is not included in this short term stop gap for agency funding. So this proposal is possibly going to be voted
on in the House tomorrow. But if it's clear by the end of today or early tomorrow to Speaker Johnson that he doesn't have the votes, the Democrats are going to withhold their support and enough Republicans will vote to tank it, maybe he won't put it on the floor tomorrow. Okay, that's a lot to unpack. So the one hundred six billion that is that is not included.
This sounds like what McCarthy did earlier when he said we're not going to include it right now, We're going to deal with a not right now. Is Johnson saying the same thing? Yes, essentially. I mean, remember, the House has already passed a fourteen billion dollar Israel funding measure, but because it doesn't include support for Ukraine, nor does it include humanitarian really for the Palestinians. It's dead on arrival in the Senate. And it also isn't
that the one that they paid for with something else? That's right, yes, of course, and it include the pay for provision, which is taking money from IRS enforcement. For over all those reasons, it's dead on arrival in the Senate. The bottom line is, you know, Congress has not acted to pass aid for Israel or Ukraine, and never mind the border security
funding. So there's so many things on the table sort of balls in the air, and none of it is really going to wind up at this moment on the President's desk, the prop of the immediate crisis, because everything requires it seems a deadline for action, real significant action to happen in divided government. Here, the immediate crisis is Friday night. If a measure can be passed by the House and Senate that extends that deadline further, well then we
won't have a government shutdown on Saturday. That could happen. But for the moment, the only proposal that's been written down on paper is this laddered two stage two expiration date government funding at the current levels that the Speaker, Mike Johnson has offered that Democrats are eyeing suspiciously and may just sit on their hands for and Republicans. A small number but outspoken Republicans are expressing their outright objections
to let's see how it all unfolds this week. Okay, And that's the one that you just mentioned, if I'm hearing you right, that only kicks the can down the road till January and February. It's not really a funding plan. It doesn't It doesn't take care of the problem. It just pushes it back a couple months. Well, to the extent that the problem is how to fund these agencies. It solves it, but it doesn't do it
at the adjusted twenty twenty four fiscal year funding. That would be the normal way of doing business, which would be to say, we'll take last year's budget and we'll plus it up a certain percentage. That's what the normal order would be. This keeps the agency funding at last year's that is, fiscal twenty twenty three's levels. Republicans say it should be even lower than that. So the idea that the solution is to only increase the budget for the fulls
fiscal year, Republicans would oppose that instinctively. Okay, but it doesn't. It doesn't keep it funded even if they passed it. It only funds it until January and February. It doesn't do it through twenty twenty four, right, or well exactly, it does through the end of September, which would be the normal order. Okay, so we got five days. The countdown is on. We'll be watching, all right, Thanks so much, Steve. Take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news room. Schools and Tuestin are closed again because of the fire that destroyed a massive hangar at the former Tustin Air Base. Asbestos was detected in the air last week and the fire flared up over the weekend. The test in school district says schools will stay closed while an assessment is done of the environmental impact of each campus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah who says there could be a potential hostage deal with Hamas, but he didn't
give any details. He told NBC's Meet the Press talking about it could get in the way of the delicate negotiations to free those captive. On October seventh, health officials in Gaza say thousands of people have left the region's largest hospital as Israeli forces and Palestinian militants fight outside its gates. ABC's Matt Gutman says
hundreds of patients, including babies, have remained inside Al Shiva Hospital. The very severely ill, the sickest of the sick patients can't go anywhere, and about fifteen to twenty percent of the medical staff have stayed with them in order to try to care for them and try to save their lives. But at this point they have virtually nothing. He says. They don't have water, they don't have medical supplies, and they're down to single sockets for an operating
room. Israel's Prime Minister says they have offered fuel for the hospital to keep the incubators going, but Hamas refused it. He says. Israel has also offered to build field hospitals and low cost carrier Fly. Dubai says it's adding thirty Boeing seven eighty seven nine Dreamliners to its fleet. The announcement was made this morning at the Dubai Air Show. The deal worth fifty two billion dollars. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles Orange County live from the
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