You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from kf I AM six forty k FI and kost H T two, Los Angeles, Orange County. That Aby King, I could use a Dodgers game about now, even though it's football season. Did you see the Lions beat the Chiefs last night? Well, it's five o'clock on your wake up Call. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks for joining us this morning. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. The La County Department of Public Health says there's
been seventy three reported outbreaks of COVID in the workplace in August. That's almost three times higher than in July. There's been nearly a fifty percent an increase in outbreaks at schools in the last week. Actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to thirty years to life in prison for raping two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills two decades ago. He says he plans to appeal. A special grand jury report related to former President Trump's Georgia election interference case is due
to be released this morning. It's expected to shed some more light on the investigation into alleged efforts by Trump and eighteen others to overturn the state's twenty twenty election results. Now, let's get to some of the things coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man has been fatally stabbed during an argument aboard a Metro B Line train formerly the Red Line in downtown LA. Police found the man yesterday afternoon on a platform at the Pershing Square station.
He had been stabbed in the chest. The guy who did it was last seen running up the stairs from the station to the street. He is black, about six foot tall, one hundred eighty pounds, with black hair. He was wearing dark colored clothes and was wearing a black backpack that seventies show actor Danny Masterson has been senced to thirty years to life in prison for raping two women two decades ago. LA County Deputy da Reinhold Mueller says he thinks
calling in an expert on the Church of Scientology helped secure the conviction. They kind of still lived under those rules and guidelines that the church imposed, and I think that contributed in large part two a lot of their actions, Mueller said. The women claimed they waited years to come forward because they were forbidden by the church to report a fellow member to police. He says he's happy justice has finally been served. The California Department of Public Safety has released details
on the arrest of Dodgers pitcher Julio Urius. A report from the Exposition part Police shows on September third, just after eleven PM, officers who were patrolling the exterior of the BMO Stadium were approached by someone who told them about a five between a man and woman nearby. Officers made contact with the man and woman on South Hoover Street, just north of MLK Junior Boulevard, and after
a brief conversation, officers determined a physical fight happened. Urius was booked at one oh five am, and within forty minutes he paid the fifty thousand dollars bail and was released. Steve Gregory tate if I News On Wednesday, Major League Baseball plays to Urius on administrative leave. A judge in Orange County says a man who went viral for hitting and kicking his dog on video last year is not going to jail. OCDA spokeswoman Kimberly Eds says prosecutors charged the man
with a felony, and we're pushing for jail time. Orange County District Attorney's office takes the abuse of animals very, very seriously. We have a dedicated prosecutor who just handles these cases alone. Ed says. The judge reduced the man's charges to a misdemeanor Wednesday, after considering his lack of criminal record. The judge gave the man one year of probation and banned him from owning pets
again. North Koreas new submarine has nuclear attack capabilities. Leader Kim Jong un called it crucial in his efforts to build a nuclear armed navy to counter the United States and its Asian allies. In July, the US doctor nuclear capable ballistic missile sub in South Korea for the first time since the nineteen eighties.
Country singer Zach Bryan has been arrested in Oklahoma. Reports say he was booked on an obstruction of investigation chart yesterday, just days after scoring his first Billboard number one album and single. A post on Instagram shows he may have been on his way to Massachusetts to see the Philadelphia Eagles play this weekend. The
lineup for the twenty twenty four Stagecoach Country Music Festivals been announced. The three day festival will be held from April twenty six to twenty eight at the Empire Polo Club in India. Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen or the headliners. Other performers include l King, Willie Nelson, Leon Bridge's Post Malone, The Beach Boys and more. Passes go on sale September fifteenth. It is five zero six. Time to say good morning to ABC's Alex Stone.
Alex, it's been a month since wildfire tour through and destroyed Lahinah. You've been on the ground there. Can you tell us what the current situation is? Hey Amy, good morning. Yeah, Mawi is It's in a transition right now. The search for bodies is done. We know one hundred and fifteen people at least who were killed, but there are still a ton who were on the missing list. They had brought the number down, it's gone back up with more names that have been added to it. The EPA is
clearing hazardous chemicals out right now. They've been doing that for about a week and a half before residents are going to be allowed back in. The People who lived in Lahinah still have not been able to go in. Media have not except for when the President was in town a couple of weeks ago, really been able to go in and document in the hardest hit areas what is going on. So there is this push among residents to say, let us
go, let us sift through everything. But they also understand what's going on, so there is progress. It's still very much frozen in time in Lahinah, and the new head of emergency Management says they hope to get residents back in soon. He says this and with the update, this one month update that they're giving residence again. Is our intent and goal to support residents and businesses returning seeing their properties, visiting their properties for various purposes, obviously to
collect any remaining personal effects. And in the meantime, twenty nine hotels are still housing victims, eleven hundred airbnbs that cannot last forever, so the governor is now talking about long term moving people into long term rentals. The government will pay for at least eighteen months of housing for those who lost their homes because they also many of them lost their businesses and their jobs, and the Governor's saying they don't want all those people and families to become homeless. So
they're gonna work on that. So there's been a lot of progress, but at the same time, a month into it, people have not been allowed back in. They have not been allowed to go and you know, look for wedding rings and anything that may have survived in it. They don't have a long term housing plan yet. They're vehicles since their cars burned up, and how they're going to do that. So a lot they've still got to do. Where are the people of Lahina staying? Are they in their resorts?
Yeah, it's some of them that the airbnbs are all around the island wherever they could get Airbnb's that they were available, but it is it's kantapally essentially where they've put everybody. You know, there's a big West in there and a Sheridan and the Hyatt, but they've got to move them out. The island is saying tourists please come back. Alaska Airlines from lax is offering eighty nine bucks to go to Maui that they want people to get back in
there now. Tours from on Maui has always been controversial. There's always been a small loud group that has fought it and been angry about it. But the reality is that the economy of ma aUI as it currently is is based on visitors coming to the island, and so all of the scuba companies and the dive boats that go out snorkeling, the other resorts in way Leia and
Keihy and everywhere else, they're badly hurting right now. And they're saying, if that economy, especially after the pandemic, everything was so locked down, if they're going to survive, they need people to come back. They're saying, that's how you support Maui right now. They don't need clothes, they don't need food. They need people to come and spend their money at the restaurants and doing you know, tourist things that you would do. And so
they need to get Kannapoly up and running again. In fact, I just saw we got I got a note a moment ago that Leilani is on the beach, which is a real popular restaurant in Whaler's Village in Kannapoly that is open again, which that is a big sign because Whaler's Village, the big mall in Kannapoly, has been shut down and had guards all around it. So they're opening up again beginning that process of they've got to get the evacuees
out of those hotels, put them in long term housing. They hope to do that over the next couple of weeks and then get it open again. And you said that the mall has reopened. It wasn't damaged or anything else. It was not damaged at all. Yeah. No, no, at least we know that the one restaurant is open. There are others like Monkey Pod, which is another real popular restaurant, they are not open yet,
but the fact that restaurants are beginning to open. I don't know to the extent that the Whalers Village is open, but at least for the one restaurant, you can get to it. As of a couple of weeks ago, as I was doing interviews in Kannapoly the resorts, and I mean people when they go to Maui, as a lot of people have, you go to Kannapoly typically either that or why Lea, but Canna Poly is the big one, and it looked it reminded me a lot of as we covered Hurricane Katrina
in New Orleans. To see all the hotels surrounded by armed guards. They had checkpoints set up because they didn't want looting. They didn't have any in the big hotel Tells, but they were protecting female workers and others who were there, but mainly they didn't want looting going in there. So they had checkpoints and armed guards around Whalers Village, around the west end, around the Hyatt. I mean, all of them were cordoned off. And so hopefully
some of that will be coming down. And were that some of the businesses are reopening in Whaler's Village. That's a sign that they're beginning to move forward. Yeah, And I'm wondering. You said that the residents haven't been able to go back into Lahinah yet as they're continuing to do the cleanup and all
of that, and that's going to be really hard for them. And this is a little bit morbid, But I'm wondering if once they do kind of the EPA gets out of there and the residents have been allowed to go back, if they're going to let people go through Lahinah. And the reason I'm wondering is because it's when there were the big fires up in southern Oregon and they literally destroyed two small towns Talent and Phoenix just ripped through their downtown area
and I lived there. My mom is still up there, and I got to drive through, and it's sad and horrific, but it's also really fascinating to see, and I'm glad that I got to see it. I'm wondering if they're going to allow people back in there. Yeah, and it's a repeated thing. You think Paradise spreading from the car CRR car fire Santa Rosa, after the Tubs fire, where these huge areas are wiped out, I would suspect AOI is not going to allow people who are not residents in there
for a very long time until they've cleared a lot of it out. I know it's gonna be at least a while because they said the Army Corps engineers has to go in and remove walls that are no longer safe, you know, ones that didn't crumble but are up and have no support or chimneys,
that sort of thing. So they've got to do all that with the with the residents, because the residents are worried about outsiders in the federal government coming in with a long history going back many many decades, and the essential overthrow of the you know, Hawaiian Kingdom and all of that. So there's a lot of mistrust of those coming in from the continental US and what the federal government will do. So they're being told residents will be there for whatever the
Army Corps engineers does, So that's going to be first. Right now, you can go around Lahinah. There's a bypass right there, see a little bit of it, but they've put up what they call a dust screen, which is, you know, just a chain link fence with solid like cloth over it so you can't see in the government says that's to prevent ash from
flying around. There's a real belief that that's to make it so nobody can see what's going on in there and not make it you know, looky lose and questions about everything people are seeing, and so they have blocked off any view of it. You know a lot of these things that I think in California people would be quite angry about not being able to see, not having access, not allowing the media in. But in Hawaii it's very different,
and so I don't think the public will be allowed in. They've got the highway, the bypasses it you can get to Kanapala, you can get to other areas and endo they're probably not going to allow anybody in for a long time, at least who's not a resident. Okay, And before I let you go, ABC News is doing a project called Maui Strong eight o eight. Yeah, So this is an initiative that we're doing, like we did
in Vivaldi, for an entire year, telling the stories of Maui. Eight O eight is the area code of Maui, but it's also the date of the wildfire August eighth, So Maui Strong eight o eight. That we are, We've got resources that have not left since the wildfires, more that will be cycling in and out, and we'll all be going from time to time. So this is about continuing to put pressure on the government there to get answers about the response and the recovery, telling the stories of those on the
island and how they're recovering, not to let it fade away. How often do we parachute into somewhere, We cover it for a week and then we're gone and there's not a lot more focus that goes on it. So this is an initiative really led by by our President Kim Godwin, who she is saying she wants this to be front and center on the eighth of every month for the next year to make sure that we get the answers and so yeah, mawi's strong. Eight. Oh wait, we'll be going for the next
year. All right, Alex Stone, thank you so much for your update. I appreciate it a time, got it, Thanks Sammy. All right, right now, let's say good morning to Dean Sharp, the house whisper and host of home on KFI. Dean, we don't only need to do spring cleaning. It's time for fall cleaning. Good morning, boss. Yeah, I would agree. In fact, I would say that if you live in southern California, it's actually far more useful to do fall cleaning than spring
cleaning. Freaking It's well, you know, spring cleaning. I have nothing against it, but spring cleaning really came out of the idea of you know, and still exists in the idea like if you're sealed up in your house over a winter with sub zero temperatures all around you, Yeah, by the time spring rolls around and the sun comes back out again, it's time to open that house up and air it out and clean everything out. But you think about it. You know, you clean your house in the spring and
then you leave it because it's time to go outside. Here in southern California, obviously, even when we have nasty winters, we don't get locked up like that, and the house never gets that closed up. However, when winter rolls around in Southern California, especially last year and the year it looks like that's coming on us here, we are going to be spending more time inside. And then the holidays and all the entertaining and all the pressure that's
put on just about every area of the house. So I make the argument that every September it's time to do fall cleaning, and let's get the house ready for the fact that we're going to be spending way way more time inside it, and probably with guests and friends as well. We'll be putting a lot of pressure on the house. Okay, so for the inside, what are some of the top things people should be thinking about? Well, always
at the top of my list always is decluttering. You know, we just kind of you are you're talking to their You're talking to me, whether you know it or not. Do you have a decluttering issue? I do you know what I don't have a house. I have an apartment, and I am I just have collected things and am running out of room. My apartment has great storage, but I've been there for a long time and I'm running out of space. I need to clear out the closets. I think that's
just the case. It's just the strangest thing. I mean, honestly, first world problems. Right, we just moved through this world. We moved through this world, and things just show up. Stuff just shows up in our in our house, right, It just it clings to us when we go outside, we bring it home and now we've got to hit Yeah. So decluttering is always always a really really important thing to do. But there
are other things as well. For instance, if you are planning on entertaining and you do more cooking or that kind of stuff on the holidays, now is a good time too. For instance, clean the oven, which usually never gets cleaned, and cleaning the oven, taking your time to do it in a month like September when there's no pressure on, is the better way to do. A lot of folks have older ovens, right, Not everybody
has the benefit of having a brand new, sparkling oven. And I know most ovens out there have self cleaning modes on them, so you lock them up and they go for three or four hours at an incredibly high temperature inside and it takes all the guck and the muck and it just pretty much turns
it to ash, which is awesome. But the older your oven is, the more taxing that self cleaning mode is on it, and so as your oven ages, it is a better idea to sort of take your time and clean it manually than run it through itself cleaning mode, because it's kind of like asking somebody in their mid nineties who walks every day and is relatively healthy to run a marathon on Friday, unprepared and untrained for it's just is that going to make them healthier? No? I think it's going to take something
out of them. So using the self cleaning mode on the oven less always a good idea, okay. And that's we're cooking on the inside, cooking on the outside, which is still popular because it doesn't get so cold here. That's another time to clean for the barbecue. Clean the barbecue. Yeah,
yeah, I mean we've been using it all summer. It's probably gunked up and you probably have some good cooks on it left still, especially through the opening of football season and all of this stuff in September and October and so on. But at some point you're gonna be wrapping it up, especially when the rains hit. So yeah, get a good clean on the barbecue. Just clean the stuff, clean, clean, clean, whether it's inside
or out. That's what we're looking at. And then there are practical areas too, like you know, checking to make sure that everything is going okay up on the roof because very very likely we're in an Alnino year. Plus the atmospheric river is still present from season, so the chance of us having
a very very wet winter like we did this last year very high. And if you already know your roof has issues, now now is the time to call out the roofer and start deciding what you're going to do about it before the rain starts. And also a good time to check the gutters, right, Absolutely got to clean those gutters. And a lot of people don't think that. Well, you know, I don't have any trees near my house,
so my gutters are fine. It's not about leaves. Really, leaves are an issue, but you know what it is, you know what collects on your car as you sit out as it sits outside, dust, dust, dirt, and silt settles in the bottom of your gutters and the first rain turns it into mush, and then they don't drain properly. So everybody
who has gutters should clean them out this time of year. Okay. And here's something that I always forget that I heard you talking earlier this week, I think with Bill, was to change the filter in the furnace always. The filter in the furnace is the every three three months, every quarter, okay, four times a year, four times a year, okay, I always. And people are always doing funky things with their air conditioning in their
heater. They're churning off vents in rooms, they're closing doors. We've talked about how that's never a good idea, and they manipulate their HVAC system in all sorts of weird ways. The one thing you're supposed to do is the thing that most people forget, which is keep that filter clean. It's not
for you. Actually, the filter is not primarily for our comfort. I know there's all sorts of anti allergen filters and heppa stuff out there, but the filter is for the unit so it can keep working effectively and efficiently and not break down so quickly. And so if you're if you're not good at remembering, then you know, hey, it's the twenty first century. Set a reminder, a repeating reminder in your phone or in your calendar app. Or you can go to a place like filter buys dot com and simply get
on a rotating subscription of the payments auto shipments. Yeah, it just shows up on your doorstep and you're like, oh, yeah, it's my filter. Okay, I'm going to change it out real quick. I like that idea. Okay, before we let you go, I this is something to get your home ready. And that's just start practicing your your holiday recipes now. Yeah, I you know what, doing home stuff is not just about taking care of the house. It's it's getting ready in every regard. And
I just think September is a transitional month, right. I'm I already. Autumn is my favorite time of year. So by the time September rolls around, I am so ready. But yeah, when the holidays hit, you know you're gonna be asked to crank out some pretty good food. And now is the time before the pressure is on to experiment a little bit, mix it up a little bit, come up with something new this year, not just the old green bean casserole with the crispy Youngians on top. Hey,
there's nothing wrong with green bean cast that. There is nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying, now's your chance get a little creedive. I like that idea. Try it first before you do it on Thanksgiving Day. Okay, So getting your home ready is what we're talking about on Home with Dean Sharp this weekend, Saturday from six to eight and then Sunday from nine to noon. I hear you're going to talk about trees. Yes, Autumn, not spring again is the right time to prune your trees. But most people
are very gunshy when it comes to it because they don't know how. Sunday, I'm going to teach you, from beginning to end how to prune your trees correctly. Dean Sharp, host of Home with Dean Sharp an appropriate name right here on KFI this weekend, Thanks so much for your time. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment guru Jason Nathanson. Jason, good morning, Good morning. Jimmy Fallon seems like such a nice guy,
but we got some word that might not be the case. Well, yeah, this article in Rolling Stone that came out yesterday talked about a toxic workplace environment and basically the fish rots from the head, and that head is Jimmy Fallon, And you know, it talked about a few incidences over the past few years, most of them being a couple of years ago, but then
also some of them were debunked. One of them was an incident involving Jerry Seinfeld where Fallon was apparently abusive verbally to a Q card holder and he was so bad that Seinfeld had to tell him to apologize to this guy. Well, after this article came out, Seinfeld put out a statement to Rolling Stone saying it didn't happen like that, and that's an idiotic way to kind of reframe what happened. And in fact, the incident was something that was funny
that he and Fallon still laugh about to this day. So there is some defense for Fallon, And the article itself seems a little bit thin in its portrayal or it's allegations of there's no big bombshell, you know, Falin did this. Now, given all that Valon did apologize to staff yesterday, reportedly in a zoom call, saying that he you know, uh, he's sorry if he embarrassed people. He never set out to create that type of atmosphere
at the show. But it seems also that one of the issues being that the show has had nine show runners in the past nine years, and a lot of them have not been necessarily the best of people. But for the past year or so, it's been Chris Miller and the people say that the environment there is much better than it has been in the past. Are a high turnover like that? The show runners turning over? Is that common? No, not at all. That's a ridiculous amount of people who have been
at the top of that show in the past nine years. I mean, you know, some shows have had just one or two during their whole run, So that might be one of the reasons for the instability and some of the problems at the show. Apparently things are better now a lot of the that happened in the past. But you know, there have been rumors and stuff about Fallon's robatic behavior that this is mentioned in the article. They bring up drinking, some incidents where he might have been drunk. On set again,
we've seen that stuff reported before. It was years ago. It hasn't been recently, so we don't know if this is still an ongoing thing or if that's something that was just in the past and maybe isolated. Maybe funny people are just mean, that's possibility too, although there's a lot of them out there that you know, people who work for say Conan O'Brien or Colbert, you know, you don't really or Kimmel, you don't hear these kinds
of stories necessarily about them. And what's interesting also is that the Late nine host just started a podcast during the strike which involves Fallon and Kimmel and Colbert and John Oliver and Seth Myers, and I wonder if they're going to address this or at all or not on the podcast. It seems like something that you probably wouldn't want to bring up, but then also again with these kinds of guys, it seems like something they would definitely want to bring up,
right it really is? It really is. Maybe have to listen to that podcast and find out. So what's coming up this weekend at theaters? And why aren't you excited for My Big fat Greek wedding? Three oh do I have to explain why I'm not excited for my big because I mean, the first one did. The first one was fabulous. I loved the first movie, and then it's kind of been trading on that reputation for you know, another sequel and now a third sequel which has thirty percent fresh on Rotten tomatoes.
So I'm not alone in my lack of enthusiasm for it. This is you know, they take the whole family, they go to Greece. It's a you know, a little bit of an adventure there, and you know, if you were a fan of the first one and maybe the second, it's something that you want to check out. But also I don't know that anybody was like I really got to return to this franchise and see what these characters are doing. Some things are that are left, you know, in the past. All I know is if I do go see it, I'm
going to take my Windex. Okay. Do you know why I don't remember from the first wedding that her dad said Windex would kind of cure all ills. Oh okay, yeah. It was like one of the funny kind of running jokes on the movie that it was one hundred years ago though, there you go, and that's the thing it was. It was quite a while
ago, all right. And then also the Nune two. Oh yeah, if you're into scary stuff, and this is that time of year, you know, scary movies are Actually they've become a staple all year round at this point, and they make money. They're usually produced for very cheap. They almost never get great reviews, but to go and they like to get scared, and you know, September October it is a great time for that. The Nne the first nine, which came out I believe four years ago,
had a huge opening weekend in September. It's like fifty six million dollars. It's not going to be the case this weekend, but it's still gonna be pretty good for a slow September around thirty million. It should top the box office. And this is part of the whole Conjuring series. This is picks up in nineteen fifty six France. A priest is murdered, evil is spreading, Sister Irene once again comes face to face with the demon Nun and we'll see what happens. Yeah, I might have to pass on that one.
Yeah, it's it's better rated than my big back Greek wedding on rotten tomatoes. Okay, but you know it's yeah, those things come down to basically, are you a horror fan or not. If you are, then you're gonna go. If you're not, then you're not. Yep, I'm not. Jason, Nathan, and Sen thank you so much for being with us. Well to talk to you again next week. All right, take care. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man arrested for a series of car fires in Long Beach has been released. Investigators now say they don't think that man is responsible for the fires. The series of car fires started August twentieth in an area between the Long Beach Convention Center and Camden Harbor View apartments along Ceater Walk. Three of the fires were set in the apartment building secured parking
structure. The most recent happened earlier this week. Trial has started for a male manny from Costa Mesa, charged with molesting seventeen boys, one as young as two years old. The first words the prosecutor told the jury were they trusted him as Matthew Zazhevsky, clean cut in a suit, looked on intently. The assistant DA went on to explain how detectives found thousands of images and
videos of naked children, sleeping children, and sex acts on children. Prosecutors say the man advertised on multiple websites as being really good with boys with special needs. The defense attorney yesterday asked jurors to keep an open mind throughout the trial at the Orange County Superior Court. Corbin Carson kf I News. The
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