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RIP Matthew Perry

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Amy King hosts your Halloween Eve Wake Up Call. West Coast based ABC News reporter Jason Nathanson joins the show to talk about Friends star Matthew Perry passing away at age 54. Correspondent and anchor for ABC News Derricke Dennis discusses the latest from Lewiston, Maine. ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy talks about the campaign trail shake-ups: Pence out, Phillips in.

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You're listening to k f I, a m six forty wake up call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Nothing gets past us. We are on it. Kf I, k OS T HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. Well say hello and it's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Monday, October thirties. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us today. Here's what's ahead on wake

up Called Santa Ana wins or blowing into the Southland. Gusts up to sixty miles per hour are expected. There are some parking restriction restrictions in mountain areas, and power could be shut off to reduce the risk of wildfire. Israeli troops and armor have expanded their assault into the northern and central Gaza Strip. Air strikes have reportedly been hitting closer to hospitals where Palestinians have sought shelter alongside

the wounded. Really for Workers said the largest convoy of humanitarian aid to arrive in Gaza still fell far short of what is needed. Matthew Perry's parents say their heart broken by the tragic loss of their beloved son. Perry, most famous for his role as Chandler bing on Friends, was found dead in his hot Timbatus home in Pacific Palisades on Saturday. He was fifty four. We're going to be hearing more about this from ABC's Jason Nathanson in just a couple

of minutes. Get to the latest details. Such a sad, sad story at six oh five. It's handled on the news. One is in, one is out in the race for president. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA has extended red flag no parking restrictions in brush areas because of Santa Ana win conditions. The red flag of work alert and enforcement of special parking rules went into effect

yesterday morning and will be in effect through eight am tomorrow. Red flag warnings indicate critical fire danger conditions. So Cal Edison has warned of public safety power outages because of the wind. The National Weather Services issued a high wind warning

for Riverside County. Gusts today are expected to range from fifty to sixty five miles per hour, sustain winds between twenty five and thirty five miles per hour expected in areas including Downtown, Riverside, Moreno Valley, Corona, Idlewild, Pine Cove, and the San Gorgonio Pass Neer banning. The high wind warning will be in effect until ten o'clock tonight. LA County Sheriff's detectives say they're trying to figure out why a man killed two of his children and injured two

of their siblings. Investigators say Prospero Serena is the biological father of all four kids and has been arrested in connection with their attacks. Just before midnight Saturday, deputies were sent to a home in Lancaster, and when they arrived, they said they found the children with severe and deep cuts all over their bodies. All four were taken to the hospital, where two were pronounced dead. Sarah is from San Bernardino County, and at least one of the nine one

one calls came from the children's mother. All four kids are under ten years old. Steve Gregory ka if I News. A woman in Anaheim has been shot and killed by police responding to a report of someone armed with a rifle. Police say officers confronted the woman yesterday and that she was shot at least once. She died at the hospital. Police say the BB or palette rifle

the woman had was recovered at the scene. Israeli troops have expanded their assault deeper into the northern Gaza Strip. ABC's Ian Pannell is near the Gaza border in Israel. We're hearing a lot of outgoing artillery and mortar fire, but Hamas is lammon Jad are still launching attacks into Israel on a daily basis. The Israeli military says its troops have killed dozens of militants who attacked from inside buildings and tunnels, and that strikes destroyed a building Hamas was using as a

staging post. Israel began airstrikes in Gaza in response to a cross border attack from Hamas that killed more than fourteen hundred people. The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll among Palestinians has now topped eight thousand. It's five oh six on wake Up Call. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathanson. Jason, it's always here hard to hear about the passing of actors, because even though we don't know them, we feel like we know them, and this

one's particularly tough. Sure, Matthew Perry was somebody who you know insert Friends pun here. We've seen all the headlines over the weekend, but he is somebody like people feel that they know because that show is something that people have watched over and over and over again, whether it's on reruns on television, whether it's streaming. I still watch it sometimes and you're not alone. Yeah, So a lot of people feel that they know him because of that.

And then also last year when, first of all, in twenty twenty one, when we had the Friends reunion and his speech was a little off and people were wondering, what's up with Matthew Perry. And then he put out his book last year and we got a full kind of taste of what he's really gone through over the years in his battle with addiction and just how bad it was and how in twenty eighteen he was in a coma and they thought

he was going to die. He said in the book that he has gone to rehab fifteen times, he's been in detox sixty five times, and he said he's spent like seven million dollars trying to get clean, million millers trying to get sober, and that had been his journey for many years now, which started in well, he said he started drinking when he was fourteen, and you know, alcohol was always kind of a part of his life, but he really the addiction got bad when he had a jet ski accident in

nineteen ninety seven, after he'd been on friends for a couple of years, and that's when he was introduced to viking in and that's when things really got bad. It was a lot of the pills and things like that. But he had said in an interview with CBC Radio this was while he was talking about his book last year, that you know a lot of things people have talked about, friends is the first thing that people have mentioned when it comes to him. But when he dies, that's not what he wanted people to

talk about. Last thing about me, Barnun is there somebody comes up to me and says, I can't stop drinking. Can you help me? I can say yes and follow up and do it. That's the best thing. And I've said this for a long time and I die, I don't want friends to be the first thing. Let's mention. I want that to be the first thing mentioned. And I'm going to live the rest of my life proving that, So that was definitely a big part of his life. And

then comes the speculation about his death. What happened, right, A lot of people want to know what the deal was, was he sober? What's going on? So the Ella County Medical Examiner's Office, they have done an autopsy. They said, it'll take a while before we know the results of that, uh, and whether there are any drugs or anything in his system because they need to do toxicology now, they need to do toxicology. That's

that's going to take a while. It's our understanding that they didn't find anything illegal around him, and the you know, the timeline of things was that they got a call around four o'clock that he was discovered by a witness unresponsive in his jacuzzi in his home in the Pacific Palisades, UH and when the La City Fire Department arrived on the scene, they pronounced him dead. So he they you know, they tried to do whatever they could, but he

was he was dead when they arrived. So we don't and it just has a witness found him. We don't know if it was a friend or family member or there have been reports that it was his assistant but we have not heard on the record who called nine one one or who officially found him. You know, what makes it even more tragic is like that he struggled with that addiction and everybody thinks, oh, you're famous, and isn't this great and you have this great life and everybody knows you. But he the fame

didn't do him any favors. No, And you know, you hear that over and over again, whether it's fame or whether it's money, you are who you are, and those two things aren't going to help make you better, a better person, or make life easier. You know, I think a lot of people would say, yeah, money's going to make life easier, but fame certainly, certainly not. You know, I hear from the people that I talk to all the time that the fame is the worst part

of the job. But all so in a case like his, it helps. Like he said there, he can help others with that fame. And I think that's what he got a lot of out of out of that book.

And at one point also he had turned his home in Malibu into a rehab facility, which he apparently was going to keep going with and open more rehab facilities, but that that never happened, that never materialized, But certainly he had talked about how his being his fame, being able to help people and help people who have gone through what he has gone through, that's the best part for him. Yeah, and have we heard from the friends.

We haven't heard from the from his castmates yet. No, We've heard from a lot of people. We've heard from various people who were on the show, like Maggie Wheeler who played his girlfriend Janis, and some others like that, but we haven't seen anything yet from from Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox and

the rest. They were all very close from what we understand, and they had talked about you know, they some shows, the show ends and everybody goes their separate ways and you keep in contact here and there, but they would have regular dinners, they would have regular you know, hangouts and things like that. They were all very close. So I would imagine either there's

going to be some joint statement or there's going to be something individually. But one has to imagine that they're very upset by the news of the weekend. Yeah, all right, thank you so much. Jason Nathanson, appreciate all the information Saturday to start the day. All right, take care, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour

newsroom. Negotiators for striking actors and the studios may be running out of time to end the actor's strike, which has lasted more than one hundred days. The two sides have had multiple meetings over the last few days, but no deal. The studios have set Halloween as a target date for finalizing a deal. The United Auto Workers union and Stilantis have reached a tentative contract agreement. Union says the deal is very similar to at Ford agreed to with a twenty

five percent pay raise over four years. Around fourteen thousand union members at a Stellantis plant in Michigan and another in Ohio have been on strike. United Auto Workers President Sean Payne has urged Ford workers to approve their tentative contract agreement. As you know, we have reached a historic tentative agreement at Ford. Our job is to roll the details out so you can make an informed decision. The membership is the highest authority in our union, and you will decide what

happens next. Pain says he wholeheartedly endorses the deal that raises pay by twenty five percent over four years. It also restores a cost of living adjustment that went away in two thousand and nine. A sixteen year old boy's been shot while being robbed in Winnetka near Canoga Park. Police say the teen was walking last night when he passed four men. A dispatcher says the men told him to empty his pockets. The boy refused, so one guy pulled out a

gun and shot him. The boy was taken at the hospital. A man from Paris in Riverside County has been caught with twenty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from a home depot. A search warrant was served last week following reports of retail thefts between October thirteenth and fifteenth. Sheriff's deputies say the stolen tools were from stores in Apple Valley and Victorville, as well as from stores that have not yet been identified. NASA has granted a two point eight million dollars

grant to UC Irvine for a five year survey of Antarctica's ice sheets. The project will provide the most detailed record of the condition and changes of glaciers in the southern continent. Uciglaciologists will compile data from the NISAR satellite missions collaboration between JPL and the Indian Space Research Organization incorporated with data from European, Finnish,

Canadian, and Japanese satellite missions. One of multiple areas of focus includes tracking accelerated ice sheet melting, not just where ice meats the ocean, but also further inland where melting ice cavities are forming. Corbin Carson KFI News. You know that Governor Newsom was in China. He was there for about a week, traveling around talking about climate change, how they're going to fight it, and working with leaders to come to some sort of an agreement on ways to

cut back on greenhouse gases, that kind of thing. And he took a few photo ops and he also took a tumble and took somebody out with him. So if you haven't seen the video, it's it's well, it's funny because everybody's fine. But he was playing basketball with some kids in Beijing on Friday, and so he's, you know, he's twirling the ball on his finger and showing off his basketball prowess and he's playing with these like ten year olds and He goes in to take a shot and just trips and plows into

a knocks over a kid. He jumped up, the kid got up, they dust it off. I kind of think they high fived, are hugged or something like that. But the video is, like I said, it's funny because nobody got hurt. But I'm gonna call it his basketball fumble? Is that a thing? Red flag warnings are up because of those Santa Ana wins gus up to sixty miles per hour. Low humidity and highs in the seventies and eighties have increased fire danger through the Southland through at least tonight.

In some areas is through tomorrow morning. The judge overseeing former President Trump's January sixth case has reinstated a gag order. It was temporarily stopped earlier this month. The order bans Trump from making certain statements about both the Special Council team and potential witnesses. Five Nights at Freddy's Shattered Predictions and top this weekend's box office with an estimated seventy eight million dollars in ticket sales. I think it

was expected to make like thirty million. The movie was released in theaters it's also streaming on Peacock. The record breaking Taylor Swift The Eras Tour movie drops to number two at six oh five. It's handle on the news. The un is warning that things are getting really bad in the Gaza strip and civil order is starting to break down. It's five twenty two. Let's say good morning to ABC's Derek Dennis in Lewiston, Maine, where those eighteen people were

killed in a mass shooting. Derek, lots of developments. We know that Robert Carr was found dead on Friday. Tell us the latest. Yes, sure so yes. His body was found in a tractor trailer in the back of a tractor trailer Friday night, after forty eight hours of sheer terror for that community in Lewiston, Maine. People were told to shelter in place,

to be on lockdown until authorities found him, and finally they did. They found his body at a recycling center where he worked, in an unlocked attractor trailer. So that ended things there, but the investigation continues. Just this morning, there's reporting that the forty year old Army reservist was exhibiting such threatening behavior that Army officials alerted authorities and told him to keep an eye on this guy. They thought he might commit mass murder, that he might you know,

shoot up a play. So that's according to the reporting that ABC News has founded. So now that we see those warning signs, somehow either were missed or weren't fully investigated. And so there's a big investigation onto what happened where the red flags ended in terms of no other response from authorities. That's part of the ongoing investigation still and the search for a motive, which is

still unknown this morning. Okay, and you said that they alerted authorities and he's a reservist, so is that where you do the one weekend a month, So he reported for duty that weekend and they said something's really off with him. Is that apparently what happened. Yeah, it's apparently what happened. And we know over the summer there was another report of threatening behavior, so

much so that his superiors ordered him into seeking mental health treatment. He spent two weeks in a facility, according to his family, who's been cooperative in the investigation, and was discharged. But there's no details on that disposition or where things went from there. And so if already say he would fall under mains Yellow Flag Laws, which allows for the confiscation of weapons from anyone deemed

a threat. But a local police sheet there said, you know, there's no indication he was forcibly admitted into a facility that would officially have triggered the Yellow Flag laws, and so that didn't happen, and so there's an investigation going on into why not how he was he able to continue to have guns up until the point of last Wednesday's mass shootings Eighteen people killed, thirteen wounded in two locations in Lewiston. Yeah, and we know that a note was

found and it had some bank information on it or something like that. Do we know what else was in the note? Yeah. Authorities are describing it not as a suicide note, but as a sort of an end of life note, right, with banking information, other instructions to his son on what

to do in case he wasn't going to be around. But authority to say a lot of it was rambling information, not fully coherent, but the banking information and other instructions of what to do, how to get around, how to get into his cell phone, things like that was in the note, and so authorities are looking at it. They're also looking at his cell phone. They've got a warrant to open it to look at what was inside. Also his social media postings, things like that. All of that is being

looked at by investigators as they search for a motive. Okay, and you mentioned earlier that the forty eight hours of terror is over now that he has been found dead. But this community has a long way to go to heal from this. So one of the things they held a vigil last night, didn't they Yeah, there was a couple of visuals over the weekend, one major one last night where the community of Lewiston and surrounding comunities really came together

to mourn, to support each other and to start the healing process. But as you said, it's going to be a while. It's going to take a long time. Because it's a small, tight knit community. A lot of the people knew someone or knew someone else who knew some of the victims in these shootings, and so it hit really close to home for a lot of people, and just talking to people, you want into one in five people it seems like knew someone very personally who was killed or seriously wounded in

the shootings, and so very very traumatic for this community. A lot of emotion at the vigils that were held over the weekend, including the one last night. All Right, ABC's Derek Dennis, thanks so much for giving us the latest from Lewiston. Sure thing. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom in La and aid to La City Council and Hugo Sodo Martinez has resigned over a social media post in

which he made Holocaust jokes about comedian Amy Schumer. Till Martinez called the post disturbing and reprehensible. He didn't name the aid, but the man was later Indeed, he allegedly traded posts on an account called Truannon. One reply compared Schumer to a Nazi concentration camp and made disparaging comments about her weight. Hundreds of people have stormed an airport in Russia looking for passengers arriving from the Israeli

city of Tel Aviv. Russian news reports say the crowd surrounded a plane yesterday, which belongs to a Russian carrier Red Wings. Video on social media showed some of the crowd waving Palestinian flags while others tried to overturn a police car. Police could also be heard yelling anti Semitic chants. More than twenty people were hurt. Sixty people were detained. The driver charged with killing four young

women in a high speed crash in Malibu is out on bail. Jail records show he was released Friday, following his second arrest in connection with the crash two weeks ago. His lawyer claims the twenty two year old was involved in a road rage incident that started at UKs in Malibu and that he was being chased. A trial is starting in Colorado to decide whether former President Trump is

eligible to appear on the state's ballot in twenty twenty four. ABC's Mark Remillard says a group of voters in the state challenged Trump's eligibility under Section three of the fourteenth Amendments, which bars someone from holding federal office if they've previously taken an oath to support the Constitution and then engaged in an insurrection. The court will examine several issues, including what it means to have engaged in an insurrection.

He says similar efforts to disqualify Trump are also going on in Michigan and Minnesota. Today's National Wicked Day it's to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the hit Broadway musical Wicked. Have you seen it? It is spectacular. It's the fourth longest running show in Broadway history, based on the nineteen fifty five Gregory McGuire novel Wicked. The Life Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, of course that went on to become is based on the movie and the book.

The original production start in a Dina Menzel, who you hear singing right there, Kristin Chenowith and Joel Gray. It won three Tony's and a Grammy, and I'm so excited about this. The Wicked movie is expected out in November of twenty twenty four. It'll be interesting to see if it's as good as the Broadway show, because, like I said, that was fantastic. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Surprise Pence is out. Phillips is in. Yeah, a big surprise. So who's Phillips.

We'll get to him in a second, So right. Mike Pence announced on Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas, in the middle of his speech that after prayerful consideration and what he didn't say, but what he meant is a look at the polls, he's decided to drop out of

the race that he's not going to in the Republican nomination. He's not going to defeat the president under whom he served or anybody else, and therefore he's going to pull himself out of the running with more than a week to go before the next presidential debate on the Republican side, which is November eighth in Miami. So there's one fewer person, one less person on the stage. It's now only twenty two. It looks like we'll have a field of maybe

five or six candidates on the debate stage next Wednesday night. This is narrowing a bit, but look, national surveys have former President Donald Trump far and away the leader on the Republican side. There's a new survey in Iowa this morning that indicates that he is more than about thirty points ahead of his leading rivals for the Republican nomination in Iowa. The leading rivals, of course, Ronda Santis and Nikki Hayley, but they're thirty points back. So look,

Mike pants is out. I think it's more a story that kind of sort of encapsulates the antipathy that republic Plicans feel toward Mike Pence for his refusal to stand alongside Donald Trump when in the final days of the Trump presidency there were calls for Mike Pence to do it no other vice president in history had done, which is set aside to reject electoral votes send them back to the States, as if to read inside the text of the Twelfth Amendment and Article two

of the Constitution that the vice president had some sort of extraordinary power that no one had ever thought of before. Mike Penn said, no, that's not exactly how this is supposed to work, and he stood up for the right of the people in the States to choose their candidate, and ultimately you had him vilified by former president and his supporters. So Mike Pence is out of the running. And let's talk briefly now about Dean Phillips. He's a Democrat.

What's this Democrat from Minnesota. He is a three term member of Congress who's decided that he wants to challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. Is he currently in office? He is a Democratic member of Congress from Minnesota, Okay, and he is stepping forward, not that he disagrees with Joe Biden

on policy, He's completely aligned with Joe Biden on policy. He simply argues that Joe Biden risks losing to Donald Trump, and Dean Phillips says he's going to put himself forward as a challenger who is frankly younger, about three decades younger. Dean Phillips, I think, is fifty fifty four, fifty three to fifty four, and Joe Biden is currently eighty. Next month turns eighty one, and by the time he is elected to a second term, if

he's elected to its second term would be eighty two. And so Dean Phillips is simply arguing that Democratic voters ought to have another choice. And what's interesting, I think is the fact that Dean Phillips is putting himself forward in the

New Hampshire primary, which Joe Biden is essuwing and not participating it. And why because Joe Biden has decided that South Carolina should go first for the Democrats, that the Democratic electorate of South Carolina, because it's heavily black, is more reflective of the Democratic Party nationally, and therefore South Carolina should go first for the Democrats, never mind the long history of Iowa New Hampshire kicking off

the primary process for both parties in the United States. So Dean Phillips is entering into the New Hampshire primary on the hopes that he can perform well because Joe Biden likely won't be on the ballot, so he can say, hey, I won the New Hampshire primary. I have a shot. But nobody thinks he has a shot. Well. I mean, look, I think it's unlikely that a no name who is coming up forward as a loan primary

challenger is going to somehow defeat an incumbent president. I don't think anyone's suggesting that. But the question becomes know to what extent does Dean Phillips, who are currently an unknown and a curiosity mainly among political reporters, start to put himself forward and get attention and cause the Biden campaign to feel a bit of

heartburn. If nothing else, they have to perhaps spend a bit of mental time and maybe even some money on this challenger, even though in New Hampshire, the hope of the Biden campaign is that delegates from that state won't count because the party on a national basis has decided to follow Joe Biden's direction and have South Carolina come first, and New Hampshire decides that it's going to go

first regardless. Well, then the delegates to the convention who would otherwise be chosen at the primary may not be seated and wouldn't count toward the ultimate outcome anyway. So the idea that Joe Biden's not going to win the nomination is not necessarily in the cards, but it becomes sort of emblematic of the challenge that Joe Biden will face nationally trying to convince Americans that he is the right man for another term in office. Frankly, given his age, and it's

an uncomfortable thing for the White House to talk about. They don't like to talk about it. Joe Biden doesn't particularly seek me interested in talking about it, except when he turns it around and says that his age reflects the wisdom and experience that he brings uniquely to the table. Here's the thought, what if he's getting in to raise his national exposure just in case Biden decides not to run, or something happens between now an election day and since Kamala is

so widely, wildly unpopular, he puts himself as an alternative. Well, you know, the polls indicate that Kamala Harris is unpopular as the president under whom she serves, and Joe Biden is also for the most part unpopular. I mean, he's I checked the five thirty eight averages, he's polling now under forty percent, and that also lends itself to a primary challenge. But look, you know, I think at the moment, there's no indication that Joe Biden isn't going to run for a second term. He reserves, I

suppose the right to change his mind. We're really coming up pretty fast on the process, really beginning in earnest history would tell you that passed incumbent, well at least one past incumbent president, Linda Johnson, didn't announce that he wasn't going to run until March of the election year. So I guess that gives Joe Biden some time figure out whether he's truly going to run. But anything can happen. I mean, that's the thing we have to remember,

certainly in our politics and in our current era, anything can happen. And Dean Phillips is entering himself into the running. The idea that he is the one who Democratic voters would choose, I think is a bit far afield relative to others who might also put themselves for never a dull moment. Thank you so much, Steven Portino. I appreciate your insights. A great day,

right exactly, Keep listening, Keep listening because there's more to count. Tell your friends, Yeah, right, right, exactly, Thanks so much. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County Medical Examiner's Office has deferred the cause of death for actor Matthew Perry, who was found dead in his hot time on Saturday. ABC's Alex Jon says the initial results of an autopsy yesterday were inconclusive.

You will take toxicology tests to know exactly why he died, and getting those results could take weeks. Perry had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. TMZ says no illegal drugs were found at Perry's home, but there were lots of prescription pills, including antidepressants, anxiety pills, and heart medication. Perry was fifty four. A US appeals court has ruled California's assault weapons ban will remain in force while the state appeals a lower court decision declaring the thirty year

old measure unconstitutional. A judge ruled this month that the band deprived law abiding citizens of semi automatic firearms in violation of the Second Amendment. California's attorney general called the decision dangerous and misguided. For President Trump and three of his children are expected to testify this week in the civil fraud trial against Trump in New York. Donald Trump Junior is expected on the stand Wednesday, followed by Eric

and Ivanka Trump. The former president, is expected to testify November sixth. The judge overseeing former President Trump's January sixth case has reinstated a gag order it was temporarily stopped earlier this month. The order bans Trump from making certain statements about both the Special Council team or potential witnesses. Five Nights at Freddy's Shattered Predictions and top this weekend's box office with an estimated seventy eight million dollars in

ticket sales. It was expected to bring in like thirty million it. The movie was released in both theaters and also streaming on Peacock and There's a little bit of disagreement on whether it's a good movie or not. Nick Poliochini went and saw it, said he liked it. Jason Nathanson, ABC's guy didn't like it at all. The record breaking Taylor Swift the Eras Tour has dropped

to number two. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, the un is warning that things are getting really bad in the Gaza Strip and that civil order is starting to break down. Bill's going to bring you the latest on that. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A vigil has been held in Maine to remember the eighteen people killed by an Army reservist who targeted a bowling

alley and a bar and grill. Investigators are trying to figure out if warning signs about the shooter or miss. ABC News has learned card continue to have access to weapons, despite a yellow flag law in Maine allowing guns to be seized from individuals deemed a threat. ABC's Derek Dennis says the shooter tried to buy a gun silencer in August, but was turned down because he had been

in a mental hospital. He says. Last month, the sheriff in Maine reportedly sent an alert to local authority saying the man had threatened to shoot up an RV an Arvy, an Army reserve center. Halloween weekend events have ended in violence in several states. ABC's ran On Alley says at least eleven people were killed and seventy six others hurt in twelve shootings across the country between Friday

and yesterday. Oh What a dramatic video showing the moment. Shots rang out in Tampa, Florida on Saturday. At least two people killed and more than a dozen wounded during the shooting. In Indianapolis, ten people shot and one woman killed at a Halloween party. Meanwhile, at least fifteen shot at a Halloween party in Chicago. Two people were shot in a parking lot of a

state college in Massachusetts. Police are trying to find the shooter. The state is distributing one hundred ninety two million dollars to fund one hundred thirty six projects to help cut pollution and make it easier for people to get around. The projects include electric bus routes in San Fernando Valley, building a new fueling station, for hydrogen powered buses in Orange County and free transit tickets in San Francisco.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says usaid for Ukraine and Israel will be considered separately. President Biden has asked Congress for one hundred and six billion dollars in emergency spending for Ukraine, Israel, and other foreign assistance. Johnson has said aid for Ukraine would require more accountability on money already spent. He said House Republicans would propose a fourteen and a half million dollar package for Israel. Former Vice

President Pence has suspended his run for presidents. This is not my time. He didn't endorse anyone else running in twenty twenty four. But former President Trump had an idea. I had a great, successful presidency, and he was the vice president. He should endorse me. Trump spoke at a campaign event in Las Vegas Saturday, hours after Pence made his announcement. During a speech

at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Pence's latest campaign filing showed six hundred thousand dollars in debt and one point two million in cash on hand. The campaign also said he didn't have enough individual donors to qualify for the next Republican primary debate. Investigators say two children under ten years old had been killed by their father at a home in Lancaster. Detectives say those children's two siblings

were also injured by their father. All four were at the same home Saturday night when a nine to one one call from their mother was placed just before midnight. When deputies arrived, they said they found all four with severe and deep cuts all over their bodies. They were rushed to a hospital, but two were pronounced dead. The other two are expected to fully recover. Official say Prospero Serna is the biological father and lives in San Bernardino County. He's

in custody, and detective say there's no apparent motive for the attacks. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News, a crash by a possible wrong way driver has closed northbound lanes of the four or five in Van Eyes. Initial reports were that a driver hit the center divider early this morning and was then hit by other cars. The driver who caused the crash appears to have been killed. Legendary musician David Copperfield has announced his latest spectacular illusion. It's a lunar

extravaganza. Copperfield has announced plans to make the moon disappear. He said, it's taken thirty years of work to develop the illusion, and I'm collaborating with, say the children of amazing organizations to show the work the difference one person can make. If one person can make the moon disappear from the sky, then matched out together that we can make poverty and hunger and danger disappear for

our children, honor. He does. Today practice runs of the trick are apparently going well, and he claims people have reported seeing strange things in the sky at night all around the country. Sandy Wells k Off I News. Okay, I'm looking forward to that, except I hate when you'd make the moon disappear. Love the moon. Don't we have a full moon? Is

it tonight? Was it last night? I don't know. So, you know, the holidays are just around the corner, and if you haven't booked your holiday travel plans, there are some travel experts who are saying, if you don't do it now, just forget it. Carol Mueller is the vice president at Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection. She says the longer you wait, the

more expensive. It's going to be, so book it as soon as possible, and that is if you're lucky, because flights and rental cars and rooms are selling out fast, and travel experts are saying it could be difficult to book anything by thanks or Thanksgiving because it's like less than a month away, and then Christmas and New Year's are getting harder and harder by the day. So they're saying that a lot of people are just saying, we're just not

gonna deal with it. It's too expensive, so we're going to stay at home or just go somewhere close by. The travel period for the US for the holidays is the last week in November to the first week in January. The one good thing about that is if you are traveling, domestic travel prices are down compared to last holiday period, but finding a flight is where the challenge is. Hey, we've got a new addition at the San Diego Zoo. I love to hear about new babies, and this one is so adorable.

For the first time in nearly thirteen years, an Emperor penguin chick has hatched at SeaWorld in San Diego, and apparently SeaWorld in San Diego is the only zoo in the Western hemisphere where there are emperor penguins, which are a threatened species. They of course are up in the coal. They don't fly because they're penguins, but their habitat is in danger because of the melting ice

and the climate change and all of that stuff. So they've got this chick and they're watching it and it takes usually like sixty five to seventy two days to hatch. But this little guy starts hatching. Actually it's a little girl.

She starts hatching and then she stops. So apparently they peck their way out right, she breaks through the initial membrane and the hatching process can take a few days, but then she kind of just stopped and they couldn't figure out what was going on, and so they watched her and watched her and then said, okay, it's time for us to step in and help.

So they had little crews that helped her hatch because they chipped away at the eggshell like very slowly over a period of like three days, and eventually out she came. And now she's doing well. She's actually been here since September, and you can go to the San Diego zoos website and check out the new baby, Empire Emperor Penguin. She is doing well. She's eating fish milkshakes God that sounds gross, and gaining five to ten percent of her body

weight every day. Absolutely da. She didn't have a name yet. If you're interested, you can go to the San Diego Zoo website and suggest a name for the new baby. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app

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