Takeaways: 4th Republican Presidential Debate

You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI A M six forty KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. What do you want for Christmas? Little boy? My mind is gone black? Frantically I tried to remember what it was I wanted. I was blowing and blowing up, canted all about nice football? Nor should you want? You should your eye out? Kid? Merry Christmas? How? How? How it's time for your morning wake up call? Here's Amy King. Oh my gosh, I

can't wait to watch a Christmas story this year. You should you ry out? Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call. It's Thursday, December seventh. I'm Amy King. December seventh. That means eighteen days till Christmas? Or is it seventeen days? I'm not sure about this countdown thing? Do we count the day before? So? The big debate was last night, and I love debates. Think I've told you before

that I am obsessed with watching debates. I just like the interaction, the arguments, the yelling over each other, and every once in a while they make a good point. Well, I missed a lot of this one because I couldn't find it. It was on News Nation, So I'm trying to download the app onto my TV and then it's going and then when it finally comes up, it says debate starts in a few hours, so it's like, okay, News Nation is on East Coast time. That doesn't help me.

So I finally found it on CW, but it had started at five night, not six like that they had told us, and so I missed half of it. We're gonna be talking more about that with Steve Portnoy with ABC. He saw the whole thing, so we're going to get his take on it. We'd love to hear your take on it too. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The shooter who killed three people at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was apparently a college professor who had applied for

a job at UNLV but didn't get it. The man was killed by police yesterday. A fourth person shots in critical condition. We're going to find out the latest with ABC's Alex Stone in just about four minutes, so stick around. Professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches at Sacramento State are hitting the picket lines for a fourth day of a one campus per day strike

for better pay, parental leave, and improved health and safety. Faculty walked out at cal State LA yesterday Today is the last day for Medicare open enrollment. We talked with the president and CEO of Inland Valley Humane Society yesterday on wake Up Call, and if you did miss it, please do go check it out. It's up on the wake Up Call page on KFI AM six

forty. Really interesting to hear about why the shelters are so packed to the rafters right now and what you can do about it, whether it's volunteering or donating or maybe fostering or even adopting a new family member just in time for Christmas. But again, that's on the wake Up Call page on KFI AM sixty dot com. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four of the presidential candidates have met for

a fourth Republican debate at the University of Alabama. Donald Trump wasn't there. When former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was asked about what she would do to build the economy, she took the opportunity to criticize the former president and his economic policy. As much as everybody wants to talk about how Donald Trump had a good economy, nine trillion dollars in debt, he did just in four years and we're all paying the price of that. Hailey is rising in the polls

as the race for second place heats up. Investigators say they need help finding the killer of a young man in Compton. Elly County Sheriff's Lieutenant Mike Gomez says Miguel Prato was not in a gang and was sitting in an suv with his girlfriend on August eighteenth when someone walked up and opened fire. Investigators believe that the shooting was gang related and Prado was the innocent victim of a senseless act of violence. Gomez says a light colored sedan was seen speeding away from

the scene at one twenty two East Caldwell Street. Compton Mayor Amash Reef says Proto had just finished an eight hour shift as he recently obtained his security guard license. In Compton. Steve Gregory kf I News Army Coor of Engineers had started dredging sand as part of a twenty three million dollar project to replenish seventeen

miles of beaches in Orange County Newport Beaches. John Pope says the goal is to replace the natural flow of sand that was blocked when the FEDS built jetties, breakwaters, and other projects in the areas where the beach gets more narrow Because of the loss of sand, it's more prone to flooding and high tides. That water gets up into parking lights, into streets, and potentially into people's homes. Pope says by February, Cruz will have dredged almost two million

tons of sand to be deposited along Sunset and surfside beaches. He says the sand will flow naturally to replenish beaches to the south, but the project will need to be completed on a regular basis to really address the problem. Now, let's take an early look at our morning commute with our very own Nick Paula Yocchini, who is exhausted because he was at Disneyland for the Coast Holiday

party last night. Boy, let me tell you that was the truth and if you were one of the few that got to make it out and enjoin us, it was an amazing time. So check it out. The drive.

First go around this morning, and as you're making right through Marina Valley Nork on side of the two fifteen, you'll see the lace from before Eucalyptus, passing the merge of the sixty toward UCR and the Riverside interchange WESTBN side of the ninety one riverside through Corona, that'll be heavy stretches of slonging for the drive from Los Aierge and make great toward the two forty one toll road.

Also getting reports of somebody installed. It looks like it mostly has been cleared to the Senator divider westboun nine you went around the two forty one and even maybe a two of the car smashup that's been cleared to the Senator divider there. In fact, if you have an update on this or anything else, solwing you down pound to fifteen yourself on keyword is KFI traffic otherwise looking really good for you right now now say anything major going down for the early

morning drive. As you make it through Orange County, most overnight couchins projects I've wrapped up for the drive. Same story for La County heading back to the Inland Empire fifteen southbound actually getting into it out of the high desert to make way through hisparia. That'll be still going for you right now for main Street and stretches as you make way all the way toward about Kenwood. Kay, I find the sky helps gets you. They're faster. I'm Nick Pollocane,

Nick Polyocanne. You sound wonderful, but I can tell you are tired. I tie read Amy. That was an epic night at the Disneyland parks. It was absolutely amazing, and thank you huge thank you to the Disneyland Resort casts that I were there for us. So yeah, coach, Christmas party an amazing one in the books once again. And hopefully if you were not able joined us last night, next year when party comes back around, you'll be able to call in and win on coast one of three point five.

There you go, a little pluggy plugging, there we go. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone. Good morning, Alex. We know that every good morning. We know that three people were killed and police took out the shooter. But we've got more information. What's the latest on the UNLV shooting? We do, and we learned quite a bit overnight that the police are now compiling. So we know that the shooter was an older

gentleman sixty seven years old, not a student. Anthony Poalito his name and number of sources overnight telling us that he had applied to be a professor at UNLV but did not get the job. They don't know if that was the motive, but that's definitely something that they are zeroing in on at this point. It appears that the three who were killed were not students. They were faculty in staff, which would indicate the me this was targeted in some way

to not getting the job, but they've got to figure that out. They've been searching his home overnight that they have his cell phone. They're going through that right now. He has ties to North Carolina and Georgia where he worked

as a professor. And it was a shootout in the end with two detectives that ended all of this, and the sheriff in Vegas saying that was the key that saved a lot of lives, saying this so it hadn't been for the heroic actions of one of those police officers who responded, it could have

been countless additional lives taken. They were UNLV campus detectives who went running in and like police are trained to do now that they don't wait for uniformed police or heavily armed police, that they go in and they try to neutralize that threat, as police would say. And that is what those two detectives who were campus detectives, what they did when they heard the calls for help, and then there was that shootout and he was shot and killed. So still

a lot they've got to figure out. We know he had one handgun in this attack. He was not heavily armed. They are working on where that gun came from, if that was legally his. Quite possibly it was, you know, quite easy to get a handgun, so there's not a big mystery there of where that would come from. But they they're trying to put together those last parts today and figure out the why and if it is related

to him not getting the job and if he was angry. But there was a lot of panic on campus yesterday, students who were sheltering in their rooms for many hours they heard the gun shots. That there was a lot of worry. Yeah, and you know when the campus started putting out it's alerts on x or whatever social media that they put it out on. They put out the run hide and fight. That's a scary message because they're not just

saying lock the doors. They're saying fight like this that I just can't imagine. I haven't left have that happen. But you know, it's so it's unsettling that they're saying, you know what, maybe you need to get involved. They're not armed. Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's the messaging now anytime there's an active shooter and when they know it's confirmed and when they don't

have it contained. And in this case, it started in the Business School building and then moved to the student union area and was getting very close to a gathering area where they've got big legos and things where students can at lunch, you know, play and kind of collaborate like you would see at a restaurant or maybe a brewery somewhere where they've got like Jenga and different things to play around with. So would have been close to a really populated area on

campus right around lunchtime. So that the messaging was, you know, get out of there, and if you can't get out of there, save your own life and do what you need to do to stay alive. And so students, yeah, they were given that message, and you know, we heard the audio of students evacuating and they were hyperventilating as they were doing it.

I mean you can hear them freaking out. Totally understandably that the worry was so great, knowing that there was a shooter on campus and police were coming in everybody but their hands up, and you know, everybody in the classroom sitting there with guns drawn on them by SWAT team members moving in and then getting them out one by one. It is I mean, it's frightening

what they went through yesterday. And it's Las Vegas, only a couple of miles away from the Vegas Strip. Think of what happened in twenty seventeen and everything that the Las Vegas has been through. That that sparked a lot of those memories. Yeah. Well, luckily, I mean not luckily. I'm glad that they took out the shooter and that more people weren't killed, but god, three people lost their lives yesterday because of this. It's ridiculous.

Alex Stone, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate the new developments that you shared with us today. You got it, Thanky Gamy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A teen boy says he has also been attacked by

the man accused of sucker punching a grandfather pushing a stroller in Calabasas. The fourteen year old said the man assaulted him randomly on a bike path Tuesday afternoon, just came up from behind me and like grabbed me and like, I don't know you tried to hit the back of my head first, and then he tried me in my body for some reason. From protecting myself pretty good hit him in the stomach, but it wasn't really that effective. The boy

was able to get away, had some minor injuries. He says when the guy walked up to him, he didn't say a word. That man was arrested in Oxnard yesterday. Several RVs have been towed outside Forest Lawn in la as part of a city and county effort to clean the area up. Tow trucks hauled multiple vehicles from Forest Lawn Drive, where people had been living out of RV's, vans and small buses. Supervisor Catherine Barker says the cleanup was

years in the making. Over ninety RVs were parked on this stretch of Forest Lawn Drive for years. This is a sophisticated operation, one that involves a lot of partners. Partners like the Department of Public Health who are working to sanitize the human waste left at the site. City and county officials will be working with the people who were living in the vehicles to help them find housing

and other resources. Chris Adler Ka Fine News. The Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties has filed a complaint against Fontana, alleging the city is blocking abortion access the city or The suit was filed Monday, requesting a construction moratorium be lifted so progress can be made on the health center. It says

the moratorium violates people's constitutional rights to access reproductive health. The city council originally approved the forty five day construction moratorium to cover an area downtown where the center is supposed to be built. It was extended in September by more than ten months. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is headed to Washington, d C. To try to get more federal money to deal with the migrant crisis in

the Big Apple. This is a twelve billion dollar price tag over the three years, and this is an national problem of we have been paying the cost of that, and we believe that the federal government should pick up the tab. More than one hundred and fifty thousand illegal immigrants have made their way to New York City since spring of twenty twenty two. Adams is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders and federal officials in DC and attend the White House Holiday Party.

Nobody won last night's Powerball drawing, so the jackpot will roll over to four hundred and sixty eight million dollars. For Saturday nights drawing, the Mega Million's jackpot is up to about three hundred and ninety five million dollars. Those numbers will be drawn tomorrow night. Have you ever had this happen, Like something bad happens and then the same bad thing happens the next day. If

you were listening yesterday, you might have heard. I spilled my oatmeal like everywhere, all over the kitchen, in the microwave, on the counter, on the floor, and on myself, And then I smelled like strawberries and oatmeal for the rest of the morning. I went and I was heating up my oatmeal. Just a second ago, I spilled it again, not as much. I still have some. I'm glad, but I'm like, what are the odds? What is going on? Maybe it's my body revolting against

having oatmeal every day for the last six months. I don't know. Anyway, Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The shooter who killed three people at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was apparently a college professor who had applied for a job at UNLV but didn't get it. The man was killed by police yesterday. A fourth person shot is in critical condition. A gift card scam has been uncovered involving fifty four target stores

from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office picked up more than fifty seven hundred gift cards and says a third of them are fake and all linked to one person who's been arrested. Investigators say there could still be thousands of tampered with gift cards on racks. President Biden and the First Lady are going to be in La this weekend. Big Hollywood fundraisers being held Friday. Jill Biden is also touring research labs at Cedar Sinai Medical

Center at six so five. It's handle on the news. The big debate was last night, were there any winners and was anyone watching right now? Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, Israel continues its assault on han Unis. What is the latest, Well, the Israeli forces are facing intense combat u in han Unis in southern Gaza. We're hearing

there are essentially four Hamas battalions that work out of Hon Yunis. It's going to take Israel Military analysts expect several weeks for Israel to really dismantle, destroy or significantly, you know, h impact Hamas's military assets there and han Unis. But that that effort has begun. Is soldiers have also encircled the home of jach Sinoir. He's the top of the wanted list for Israel. He's

the head of Tamasa's military wing. He masterminded the October seventh attack his home, which has also been destroyed again soldiers there kind of symbolically because he's not there, he's likely hiding in the tunnel somewhere underneath hon units and then you know, complicating the battlefield or all the Gosen civilians that are just to the

east, even some to the west of Hongunis and south. You know, Israel asked hundreds of thousands of Gosdens to leave the north and go south, and they have almost a million did and now they're down there and they feel like there's you know, not doesn't feel like there's a safe place to run or hide or take shelter because now all the fighting is in the south as well. Israel has drop leaflets and an interactive map, but it has to

be said, you know, not everyone can access the interactive map. When you know, cellular phones are not working consistently on the internet on and off, and people are terrified. Some people just don't you know, they don't want to leave. They don't want to move if they've already moved once, and you know, people have died while they're trying to move from one place

to the next. So you know, I think until Israel actually carves out safe zones where there's a guarantee of no artillery and no airstrikes, that will be the only thing that may bring a modicum of safety to people in Gaza, because right now there are safer zones, but there's still not free of war. Yeah, it's safer zones, not safe zones exactly. Yeah, your Dana. I'm curious as to the is Hamas firing still into Israel. When this all started, Hamas was just you know, launching rockets into actual

Israel. But now that the Israeli forces are in the Gaza Strip, are they still firing into Israel or are they just firing at the Israeli military in the Strip. No, they're still firing on southern Israel. And there were sirens, several sirens went off today around the what's called the Gaza periphery,

all the communities that are there. Most people have left those communities, but nonetheless there's you know, Israel's main camp of troops and tanks are there, so it's still it's still a target, and there's It doesn't make the headlines all that often right now, but there's still several exchanges every day of fire between Hasbala, the running backed militant group that satan Israel's northern border in Lebanon, and the Israeli army there's back and forth every day. Yeah, we

don't hear about that. And is that the iron Dome takes care of most of that. Well, the iron Dome takes care of some of it. And Israel carries out strikes on the cells. The Lebanese that she has all of cells that are firing. Okay, they will attack the cells, all right, jor Dana Miller. Thank you so much as always for the information, and we will check in with you again soon as we continue to follow the Israel Hamas war. Thank you so much. Let's get back to some

of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Santa Ana. Winds are blowing into southern California. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the Inland Empire. Gusty winds up to about fifty miles per hour are expected today and tomorrow. The Weather Services the winds could make driving conditions difficult because of blowing dust and sand. The highest windsor expected overnight. The advisory will be in effect until four tomorrow. A man has been shot

and killed inside a barber shop in East la. Deputies responded at about six last night following reports of shots fired. They say they found the man with several gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died. The shooter has not yet been found. The man who killed well known marriage and sex therapist Amy Harwick has been sentenced to life in prison without the

possibility of parole. Prosecutor say Harwick's ex boyfriend broke into her home in Hollywood Hills in twenty twenty, waited for hours, then attacked her before he pushed her off the balcony. Harwick was previously engaged to TV show host Drew Carey. The state's nine to eighty eight provider says almost fifty thousand people died by suicide last year. That's the highest number ever recorded. The most recent CDC

stats also showed the largest increase among middle age and older adults. LA based Dede Hirst Crisis Line director Rebecca Zeitlin says ninety seven percent of calls, texts, and chats are resolved without the need for further intervention. They don't want somebody to problem solve and try to fix whatever is going on. What they truly need is somebody to sit in that darkness with them, validate their feelings,

be compassionate and meet them where they are. She says many people still don't know about nine eighty eight, which has received seven million calls, chats and texts since starting last year. Corbin Carson KFI News. Police say the grandfather sucker punched in Calabasas may have been a hate crime attack. The man who was punched may have been targeted because he's an Asian American or Pacific Islander. The La County Sheriff's Department arrested a man yesterday tied to the attack.

They say the same guy attacked to a boy of Asian descent on the same day. Professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches at Sacramento State are hitting the picket lines for a fourth day of a one campus per day strike for better pay, also for they're fighting for parental leave and improved health and safety. Faculty walked out at cal State LA yes yesterday. The Glendale Unified School District has advised students and staff to avoid using school issued computers because

of a cyber security issue. District officials say the problem was discovered yesterday and has impacted several of the district's information technology systems. Police are investigating at six o five at handle On the New City Creuse have cleared a two mile stretch of Forest Lawn Drive that had been taken over by RV's and makeshift homeless camps. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking to Stephen Portnoy about the takeaway from last night's debate, you know, the one where the one

who's leading in the polls by a mile didn't show up. So Christmas is just seventeen days away. So many things to do and see during the holidays, So we're going out and about to check them out for you and then share some of the things we found really fun, beautiful, engaging holiday activities that you can experience right here in Southern California. So our Southern California Sleigh

Ride takes us this week two Disconso Gardens for Enchanted. It's a winter themed nighttime display that covers the gardens, and we got to catch up with the communication director at Desconso, Jen Erico. Jen tell us about Enchanted. So Enchanted is a really special place because it's a light show during the holidays, but it really is about the garden and the beauty of the gardens. So when you come out, you're going to see the oak trees, but they're

gonna be lit with all different colors. They're gonna see tulips, but they're gonna be electric tulups. Okay, And right now, this is one of the most spectacular things. It's very simple. It's just this beautiful lighting and what's this called. This is our Starlight Garden. And when you come to the Rose Garden, which is a whole new area this year, you're going to just see little magical touches and this is one of them. It's one

of the best places to see a proposal. Uh hah. So guys, if you're thinking about proposal, getting down on one knee, the Starlight Garden might be the place to do it. It's this beautiful arched area and just has all these lovely little white stars through it. And how many different installations

are there around the garden. So we have nine different areas and they range everything from our ancient forest to our promenade, our Rose Garden, Maine Lawn, and we have lighting areas that are lit up, and we also have artists that come in and do these beautiful displays. And that's where we are now. Okay, and we're going to take a look at that. In just to saying I want to talk about the Ancient Forest. We hadn't wandered through that a little bit earlier, so tell us about what is in the

ancient forest. So the Ancient forest is an area at Tusconsa where we have our redwoods and our psychedds. There really these Jurassic plants during the day and at night we've lit it so it looks like it's full of millions of fireflies. It's really a highlight of Enchanted. It really is, and it's something that you need to come out and see for yourself. And I will tell

you. We got to go and wander through it a little bit earlier and we were going, I'm waiting for a velociraptor to come out, and it looks ancient and then with the lighting, those so beautiful and warm and how did Enchanted start? So in twenty sixteen we had a Halloween show here and it was really popular and our CEO, Julianne Rook, watched everyone come in and enjoy it, and she thought we should have a winter light show and

it should be about the garden. Yeah, And so she went all of the United States looking at all the light shows, and then when she came back, she invented this and it's really unique just to Desconso Garden and it's loosely based on something you found in a very chilly place. Yes, So one of the mort Narboretam has a show that is very based on their garden and it's in Chicago, so it's snowy there. So Teslin, what makes sense to a winter show here? Yeah, southern California where it's not freezing

cold. This is much better. And some of the people who worked at that place in Chicago followed you here, correct. So our creative director who's in charge of all of this, he came and thought the show through with all of us. And every year we sit down and we think what can we do better, what can we do different? And it just evolves. So Enchanted is different every year. Yes, So if you've already been to Discones Gardens, you should still come back. You should definitely come back.

And this year we've made this huge change because it is about all our special areas and we have never been in the Rose Garden before, and now the entire Rose garden's activated with lights and art and it's just beautiful. Okay. And we're standing on the edge of the rose garden now, so we're going to wander over and we need you to paint a picture for us of what people are seeing here because this is it's just like mind blowing. It's so

cool. So this is from the minds of La based artist Hebecosoh. They go to birding Man and a lot of the festivals and they do these beautiful geometric shapes. It's all based on math and science, and I mean it's really hard to describe just how just magical it is. It is. So in this space where the install is, there's like eight nine and these geometric shapes with all different designs on them and they look like lanterns. They have

the glow of like a lantern and they're so beautiful. And then there's music that you can hear in the background that's mixed in and you can wander around in them. And that's what the cool thing is about this place is you just go wander. I always say Disconso is a place you come to discover things, and it feels that way and enchanted too, and he be Koso I love it because even when you look on the ground, it's reflecting these

beautiful patterns. When you look in the trees, it's reflecting these beautiful patterns. So it's all about looking around and seeing nature and what we've done. Okay, and when can people come see this? So we are open through January seventh, so even after the holidayes five thirty to ten every night. Okay. Parking is free and you can get tickets at Disconsogardens dot org.

And the other cool thing about it, Jen is that you stagger the people coming in, Like everybody doesn't come in at five point thirty, right, correct, So we have people buy tickets every half an hour. That way, your experience is really nice. We don't want you to be crowded in here. We want you to just enjoy and have a great family time, a great date, just a great night out and maybe a great proposal. Maybe Arlai Garden. It is Enchanted at Disconso Garden going on this holiday.

That's where we took our Southern California sleigh ride this week. Come out and see it. I'm gonna be posting some video of our interviews so you can see some of Enchanted. It's really really amazing and like I said, like we were talking about, it's not Christmas themed, it's winter themed. And it's so just like peaceful and ethereal and just and with the weather so nice here, just go stroll in the gardens. Of course, you can go

see Enchanted for yourself. Tickets are available at Disconsogardens dot orgon If you want that sneak peek, you can see that at Amy Kking. I'm gonna be posting that video. I put up a video last night, a short one if you want to check that out now, and it's also at at KFI AM six forty so you can see. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I was just hoping to get away alive. Class has been canceled for the rest of the week

following a fatal shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At least three people have been killed. A fourth person is in critical condition. Police say they killed the shooter. The student says he heard alarms go off yesterday morning. I just assumed there was a fire drill. I put my laptop back in my bag, I put it on and I heard six more loud bangs, so I'm like, oh, this isn't a business series. UNLV said the shooter was at the home of the business school. The shooting temporarily

shut down airspace at Harry Reid International Airport and the Vegas Strip. Four Republican presidential candidates have duked it out in a debate at the University of Alabama. First to speak in last night's debate was Florida Governor Ron De Santis. He quickly attacked Nicki Haley, saying she doesn't stand up to Democrats. I have delivered results, so that's what we need for this country. And you have other candidates up here like Nicki Haley caves anytime the left comes after, anytime

the media comes after. Hayley's been getting more interest from donors and voters. She took the brunt of the attacks in last night's debate. A two year investigation into a twenty five thousand gallon oil spill in Huntington Beach has resulted in multiple federal recommendations. The NTSB determined anchors from two container ships dragged along the ocean floor, damaging the pipeline. The twenty twenty one spill killed fish,

and birds, damaged wetlands and hurt local businesses. Federal investigators Tuesday recommended larger buffer zones between oil pipelines and where ships can anchor better leak alert systems, more accurate tracking of container ships, and more. Investigators also found operators lacked training to alert of a problem, which led to a more than fourteen hour delay after the first leak alarm sounded in Orange County. Corbin Carson k if

I News. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach advisory in southern California. Forecasters say big waves and dangerous recurrents will continue over the next couple of days. They say the condition will increase risk of drowning and have warned beach goovers to stay off rock walls and jetties. Conditions will start to improve following the peak. Today tonight, the Clippers take on the Denver Nuggets at Crypto dot Com Arena. Tipoff is at six o'clock and you can listen to

the game on AM five seventy LA Sports Hollywood Park Casino Elevate. Your game is today Thursday. It is that was the Clippers played the Denver Nuggets last night. Let's do this one instead. Tomorrow night, the Clippers take on the Utah Jazz at Crypto dot Com Arena. Tip off oh at six o'clock. Listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports Hollywood Park Casino. Elevate your game there, we got it right. Police say the grandfather sucker

punched in Calabasas may have been the victim of a hate crime. The man attacked may have been targeted because he is of Asian American or Pacific Islander descent. The l Kenniy Sheriff's Department arrested a man yes day in the attack. They say the same guy attacked a boy of Asian descent on the same day. A gift card scam has been uncovered involving fifty four target stores from Los

Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office picked up more than fifty seven hundred gift cards and said a third of them are fake. All are linked to one person who's been arrested. Investigators say there could still be thousands of tampered with gift cards on store shelves or racks. A company in northern California has launched and landed a pilotless plane. The CEO of Reliable Robotics, who developed the automation system, once worked for SpaceX. He

says he believes his technology will improve the safety of pilotless planes. Okay, that scares me. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, the border has gotten in the way of getting aid to Israel and Ukraine. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's national correspondent, Stephen Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen. Four candidates were on the stay always good and bad about this one. Well, I'll leave it to others to decide

what they liked and didn't like. But let's see what happened last time. And look, Nikki Haley has momentum, She has the backing of influential donors, and so she took on the attacks from Ron DeSantis and Vek Ramaswami. Ramaswami called Nikki Haley corrupt because of her ties to corporations and fascist because she has said that she doesn't think that it's good that people can post things anonymously on the Internet without their names attached, and she said that people should have

to submit their identity to the social media companies. Before they're allowed to post online. Haley said that she'd crush Joe Biden and that her counterparts on the stage were just jealous that she got the endorsements from the Koch Brothers network and others and not them. Chris Christi used his time mainly to go after Donald Trump, who's been leading these candidates on the stage in the polls by anywhere

from twenty to forty more more points in the key early states. Now, this appears to be the last debate before Iowa and New Hampshire unless one should materialize. No more have been scheduled. Doesn't mean there won't be another debate, just that this moment we're not aware of any other debates and the thirty nine days between now and the Iowa CAUCUSUS Now, it was contentious last night. Chris Christy went hard at Ramaswami, calling him an obnoxious blowhard. He

defended Nikki Haley from the Entrepreneur's attacks. At one point, Ramaswami invoked conspiracy theories. He said January sixth was an inside job. He said that the racist great replacement theory, the idea of importing immigrants to this country to replace white people, is a Biden strategy. So it was a messy scene and in the end, I think it not much happened last night to change the dynamic of the race, which has Donald Trump far and away coasting to the

Republican nomination as the leader. And it's not by when you say far and away, it's by like fifty points in some polls. Well, I mean, look nationally, Donald Trump enjoys majority support, which means that if you were to add up all the support that Nikki Haley, Rhondas Anderson of ek Ramaswami now have, you still wouldn't top the support that Donald Trump has.

And it was really interesting last night. In some of his strongest moments, Chris Christie, who's not going to be the Republican nominee, it it appears, he went after Donald Trump hard and said that you know, he's not fit to serve and that the other candidates are afraid to offend Republican voters when he and concluding by saying that it's very likely in Chris Christie's mind that Donald Trump will be a convicted felon by next election day and that he won't even

be able to vote for himself. The audience responded by booing him, which gives you the sense that even if people in the audience were supporting anyone of the candidates on stage, they do not like that kind of criticism of the former president. Yeah. Are there any rumblings that you've heard about that Trump might ever show up for a debate or there's just no point in it for him because he's so far ahead. Well, again, there are no more

debates scheduled between now and New Hampshire, Iowa. Anything can happen, but for the moment there's no indication. And why would he if you look at the strategy. The strategy was to try to seem to appear above it, not to get dragged down by his opponents and have them be on a level playing field. So he's decided not to participate. What does it mean for

future debates generally? I don't know. For the last sixty plus years, we in this country have enjoyed the idea of candidates on stage exchanging their views for the public to hear and see. But in this case, Donald Trump is demonstrating the value of not participating. And I wonder what kind of broader impact that might have on these kind of forms going forward. Yeah, I guess I'll have to wait and see interesting. Steven Portnoy, thank you so

much for your time and insight. I'm glad you got to see the whole debate. I had to miss half of it because I couldn't find it on news. Oh well, I'll leave that to you and next star to work out, all right, Thanks Steve. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KF twenty four hour newsroom. Multiple RVs and other vehicles lining the street outside Forest Lawn and LA have been towed. It's part of an effort to clean up the city. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger says

more than ninety vehicles have been parked outside the cemetery for years. I am a strong believer that this work can be done compassionately and in a way that preserves a dignity of people experiencing homelessness. Barker was on site yesterday as the vehicles were towed, saying that people living inside the RVs were given plenty of notice that a cleanup was about to happen. She says the city's going to

be working with the homeless to help them relocate. Business owners impacted by that mass shooting in Monterey Park have less than a month left to apply for a federal loan. The Small Business Administration has allowed money set aside for natural disasters to also be used for businesses to suffered following the shooting in January that left eleven people dead. The low interest loans can be used for most all business

expenses, including payroll and inventory. Local lawmakers successfully lobbied federal officials and the White House to free up the money. Officials estimated more than sixty businesses were

negatively impacted by the shooting. Steve Gregory, King of Fineows US State Department has called again for fewer civilian deaths than the Israel Hamas War Department spokesman Matthew Miller said yesterday too many Palestinian civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and that they were having, as he put it, frank discussions with Israel about it. Miller says part of the problem is that Hamas is embedding itself in civilian areas, but added the burden is still on Israel to do everything it

can to reduce civilian harm. President Biden and the First Lady are headed to La. The White House says they'll be showing up tomorrow to tour research labs as part of the Initiative on Women's Health Research. First Lady is expected to visit the Barber Streis and Women's Heart Center and SMIT Heart Institute, as well as speak at a political finance event for the Biden Victory Fund on Saturday, and of course, a big Hollywood fundraiser is also happening over the weekend.

Veterinarians say your pets may be feeling the stress of the holidays too. Doctor Susan Nelson says, from loud bashes to quiet dinner parties, there are things you can do to help calm your pet when there's extra commotion around the house. There's verbal supplements that can be safe and effective for mild stress to help with that, and then for ones who really get stressed and bothered, we

can even look at some prescription medications if needed. Over the holidays, Nelson says owners can first try locking their pets away in a quiet bedroom or inside a crate to help lower the animals stress levels. Maybe people should do that lock themselves in the back bedroom during the holidays. Okay, this is KFI and kosd HD two los Angeles, Orange County. This has been your wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call, you can listen

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