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One thousand dock workers waft off the job for the first time in nearly fifty years, and since then we have seen fourteen vital ports all along the Eastern Gulf Coast at a virtual standstill.

Dock workers were striking over pay and also the automation of tasks at thirty six ports stretching from Maine to Texas. The La County DA's office is reviewing the Menendez brother's case following new allegations of sexual abuse from their father. The story of the brothers in the infamous murder trial

The city's decision to maintain a moratorium on building new homeless shelters in Norwalk had already gotten the governor's attention, but yesterday Knwsom took action, taking away the city's eligibility to receive state funds to support housing and homelessness programs. It had previously accepted twenty nine million dollars. The governor says the city's moratorium is beyond cruel. He also says

A couple of homeowners in Monrovia say they've got a rather unusual squatter living under their house. Mark Chow says he and his partner were watching a scary movie on Wednesday night when they heard a noise in the basement.

So we're like, okay, something's under there, So we kind of like tiptoed towards it a little bit, and then I could hear a little more scratching, and then we ran back inside the house.

The sounds came from a two hundred and fifty pound black bear. Chow tells KTLA the bear was so big it could barely fit through the crawl space door. He says, it's squeezed its way out, destroying the window in the process. The window has been replaced so their squatter doesn't return. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, an unlikely alliance has emerged.

Yes Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney out on the campaign trail yesterday with Vice President Harris. Liz Cheney, of course, is a former Republican congresswoman. She was once the third highest ranking House Republican and she chaired the January sixth Committee. But I mean, she has an incredible

Yeah.

I heard part of what Kamala Harris said when she was talking about Liz Cheney, and she's like, we might not agree on much, we might not agree on anything, but let's still join forces.

Yeah.

I mean, I think if you lined up on paper like a list of issues and went through their positions on it, they're not going to match up. But you know, I think then it says a lot about how passionate Liz Cheney feels about this particular issue and this particular Republican candidate and what this means.

To her right now.

And you know, yesterday President, after he got back from Georgia, said that he watched some of her remarks on the plane back and called it one of the most consequential speeches he ever heard. He says, she has character and like her dad, and that while you know, these argued with their dad all the time, he said, he's always

Like that, which is interesting again to say, because when you look at the unlikely bedfellows here, I mean, like the Democrats have called Dick Cheney like the new Satan or something like that. It got pretty nasty between.

Yeah, I mean, I covered the two thousand and four campaign as a campaign embed, you know, back with the people that run around with the cameras and they're out there, and I spent about six months on Air Force two with Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney because she was like one of his top advisors then, and I think, you know, if you had said back in two thousand and four that this is where we would be right now, I mean, nobody would believe this, given what his views are were

Got a not another celebrity endorsement.

Yeah, she did yesterday, not surprising, but Bruce Springsteen officially endorsed her campaign. You know, he's consistently supported Democrats before endorsing President Biden in twenty twenty. He's performed at campaign rallies for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John Kerry. But I think it was notable to hear his message yesterday. It wasn't about the economy, It wasn't about you know, the new way forward and what she's going to do on a litany of policy issues. It was again about

Oh we'll see if that message dressed in next Thank you so much, Karen Trevors, have a wonderful weekend, you too, thinks. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD chief Choice he wants more parents whose kids are part of a bike riding mob robbing seven elevens to come forward.

People saying that they're stealing candy or these small things.

They are disrupting the way we live every day.

Three parents so far have turned their kids in after the LAPD released surveillance footage last month. Choices the parents' actions are a sign that the community is heading in the right direction. Fourteen seven elevens have been targeted by the bicycle mob since July. Dozens of firefighters in Orange County have gathered to support a firefighter's transfer to a spinal rehab center following a rollover crash.

Eight firefighters were injured when their carrier rolled several times after battling a fire that started in Tribucal Canyon. O See Fire Authority Captain tang Win says Andrew Brown is courageously battling us injury.

That excellence was on full display during the airport fire, as Andrew and the rest of ocfa's at Santi Algo Hancrew put their life on the line to protect life and properties.

Hand crews Wednesday gathered along Brown's route from Mission Hospital to John Wayne Airport and at the Neural Rehabilitation Center in Colorado. Four firefighters were released shortly after the crash two weeks ago. The others remained in the hospital in Orange County. Corbin Carson k if.

I news new license plate readers in the San Fernando Valley have helped police make two arrests.

License plate information help police find two alleged robbers who attacked a woman at a seven to eleven while trying to steal her scooter.

Our victim was punched in the face by one of the suspects in order to try to take that scooter from her.

Laped Captain Kathleen Burns says the readers also helped catch a woman who stole a rolex from an elderly man. Officials said yesterday twenty four of the one hundred license plate readers plan for District twelve have been installed so far, the entire one hundred cameras should be up and running by the end of the year.

In Porter Ranch Blake Trolley, k if I.

Knews, Iran's Supreme leader says Iran will attack Israel if it needs to. He spoke this morning and led a prayer sermony dedicated part of his speech to praise Hesbelah and Hamas, telling the crowd that Israel will never defeat them. Iran launched nearly two hundred missiles toward Israel on Tuesday in response to Israel killing the leader of Hesbelah. President Biden has had a first hand look at damage from

Before Helen had made landfall, I also immediately improved emergency declarations your governor and others asked for, and so all of us could focus on the first responders and standing up emergency operations centers. That was the focus.

Biden also toured affected areas in Florida yesterday. We're going to be talking with ABC's Jim Ryan before the top of the hour to get the latest on the aftermath of Hurricane Heleen and it is not good. Another baseball fan has filed a lawsuit over Dodger play show Hey Otani's fifty to fifty ball. A man in Florida claims that he had possession of the historic baseball last month

The morning of the crash, I hit my head so hard on the pavement that I blacked out, and I have no memory of the event whatsoever.

Nelson says. The crash in July led to a skull fracture, a broken bone, broken nose, rather a broken collar, broken shoulder, three broken ribs, and lung Trauma first responders on the scene say they got him to a trauma center within three minutes of getting Unseene. The FDA has ordered Hymns and Hers to stop selling a generic version of a popular weight loss drug. The drug has been in short supply. The FDA says the supply shortage of the GLP one

That's right. Israel appears to be expanding its ground operation in southern Lebanon, moving from about a mile or a mile and a half from the border further north right, and Israel says the aim is to go in and basically fight, fight it out and remove the rod one fighters. That says, well as elite forces that are older weapons or any the area so that it no longer poses a threat to the Israelian communities in the north of the country.

Okay, and are both sides still firing at each other. It's just it's a lot of back and forth. We're hearing that Lebanon kind of fired back at Israel for the first time.

Well, Lebanon every day has been firing on Israel, right, they've been firing. Yesterday they fired about two hundred and thirty missiles and rockets and drones, and today I think the number is somewhere around one hundred already at about three twenty in the afternoon. So it is a continuous back and forth conflict. Hasbala is not letting up, the Israeli armies not letting up. Israel is firing into Beirut

Jordana, Are are sirens just going off all the time as this the rockets are being launched back and forth? Or is it only when it's something like what happened earlier this week with Iran firing off the missiles around Israel?

Right so here in Jerusalem the sirens aren't going off, but I can tell you that every day from early in the morning until late at night, the sirens are going off in northern Israel, that is in and around Haifa, the Galilee, the Golan Heights, Tiberius, those areas we're seeing the sirens go off, you know, every day, you know, maybe a dozen times a day. So it is up in the north of the country. It is for all intentsive purposes, there's another war there.

And you mentioned that it's going near the Goal On Heights. And I'm remembering because I got to go to Israel a few years ago, and you know, we went to like holy sites. Are they hitting anything like that?

Right?

Well, so any of the missiles, rockets or drones that are headed towards populated areas are shot down, okay, so and the ones that fall in open areas, they're setting fields on fire. They you know, ruined agricultural fields thousands and thousands of acres in the north, but they haven't really destroyed any holy sites, all right.

And then with the one year anniversary of the October seventh massive her is just a few days away, what is going on in Gaza now? Because I know we've shifted focus, so we've been talking about the hes Balala Lebanon and the incursion into Lebanon and that kind of stuff for the past couple of weeks. But what's going on now in Gaza.

Well, there's still some fighting going on in Gaza, and Israel still control the land, I mean Gaza and Egypt and Gaza and Israel to the east and to the north. And there's still thousands of troops on a corridor that splits the northern part of the Gaza sir from the

Right, Okay, all right, Jordana Miller, thank you as always for the information. We look forward to our next conversation. Have a good weekend. Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to try to find people missing and those who need supplies. A week after Hurricane Ane Helen made landfall in the southeastern US, the number of people dead has now topped two hundred and could go higher.

Okay, that sounds incredible because it's always hard to find anything with like maybe more than eight if you're lucky, And.

So we even went this. We went out to some wildlife preserve last year and we were running low, and so he's looking on his maps where's a charging station, and then we finally found one. And then we decided, well, we've got some time to kill because it takes a while, so we went to find a place that had like a restaurant if we found some hotel that had a charging station, and then like one of them didn't work, so we had to move. I mean, it was a pain in the butt, but we eventually got it done.

And okay, fancy right, and.

It's got a lounge and there's also a restaurant restroom for if you're traveling with your pets. Because how long does it take to charge your car?

It depends.

So usually if I need so you an EV you usually charge to eighty percent because that helps you maintain the best battery life, and that for me takes about

So if you need a full charge though, if you're like running.

On twenty to twenty five minutes, yeah.

Twenty to twenty five minutes, okay. And how much does it cost for me?

Especially this whipe is an electrify America, which is kind of a deal that goes with EVS. Right now, it's free, but usually the cost is between five and eight dollars.

Okay, So this one, it is going to be a charging they'll charge at the charging station, but it's.

Okay, So there will be a cost.

Yeah, but it's somewhere between forty five cents a killo whata hour and sixty five cents a kilowat hour depending on the time of day. And the average price in California is fifty per cents, so it's right there in line with that.

And so that's really inexpensive in the scheme of things, and to have a Gelson's and have a nice bougie lounge for your pets.

That's great, right, And so this the rove station is going to be opening October fifteenth. It's right off the five Freeway in Santa Ana. And then they're saying we're going to offer more of these, and I'm saying this is the future because like you said it, it doesn't take two minutes to charge up. It takes more like twenty or thirty minutes, depending on the charge.

And it also looks like just I looked at it really quick, and it looks like it has solar panels, so they really covered, which will be even nicer so where you parked your car won't be in the sun. It also looks like at this specific charging station.

Ah, so that's another thing that you'd think.

So that's another part, right, that.

You're just sitting out there and your car's baking while it's charging.

That's great.

Yeah, So I recall I'm thinking that we're going to see more of these kinds of things because one, it's a revenue generator, so you can maybe get the private sector involved in it. And then I'm thinking of seeing these things like all along Eye five because you know the rest stops that we have, it's just toilets. But wouldn't it be nice if it was like a little place where you could have the pets. Then you could get something to eat or drink or somewhere to chill out while you're charging.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so I'm on board all right. Well, and then once they get them open up, we might have to send you out to this place to check it out since.

Or it could be out in about when we don't have a holiday season that it's already maybe out and about with any can go out to the road charging station.

I like, thank you, Okay, we can use my car.

We'll ride along in Nick's ev Thank you.

Nick got it.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Pacific Air Show takes off today in Huntington Beach, with some planes landing on a special runway on the beach right by the fans.

The F twenty two's, the F thirty fives. We've just got about everyfing airplane that you'd want to see.

Pacific Air Show director Kevin Elliot says fans will see the Thunderbirds, the Microjet Para Commandos, and the Osprey demo, and.

For the first time we're going to have the B one bomber coming all the way from Edwards Air Force Base.

Pilot Luke Ticella will land on the beach like he landed on a helipad six hundred feet in the air on top of the world's only seven star hotel in Dubai.

Hetty Paty is only like eighty seven feet and we are the first people in the war to land an airplane on a elevet.

That's Hetty pat.

He says he'll land on the beach so kids can interact with the plane. Aerobatic pilot Michael Gulian is flying the all yellow Extra three thirty sc.

That will be tumbling and over end in the sky.

We'll be flying.

It was of two hundred and fifty miles an hour and then almost one hundred miles an hour backwards.

The show runs through Sunday at Lionair Museum in Santa Ana. Corbin Carson KFI News.

If you haven't been out to the Pacific Air Show, it is fabulous. We went last year and it was just so so great. Twenty six members of the La County Sheriff's Office have received the department's Medal of Valor.

The ceremony in downtown La featured harrowing bodycam footage of what the Sheriff's office called heroic efforts by deputies. Suicides were stopped, people were pulled from burning buildings, and Detective Elliott Ribey was stabbed but still managed to lead deputies to a bad guy.

I felt like it was like a punch.

The Medals of Valor and Meritorious Conduct are considered to be the department's highest honors.

In Downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.

Hurricane Helene has left so many roads unpassable on the East coast. Pack mules are being used to carry supplies in In North Carolina. Volunteer Amanda Schumacher is using mules to get insulin and other goods up mountains to families in need.

Be able to put four or five mules in a row, you know, with one person leading them, you know they're able to carry one hundred and fifty pounds each to get supplies, which is more effective.

The death toll from Helene is still going up, with at least two hundred and fifteen people killed across six states. So these scientists must have a really tiny microscope. They've mapped out the entire brain of a fruit fly. The neurobiological research, which is published in the journal Nature, shows more than fifty million connections in their little brains. Scientists say the mapping could prove provide insights into brains across the entire animal kingdom. The brain of a fruit fly

Jim.

Dock workers are back on the docks today, but the deal's not done yet.

It isn't and may not be done until January fifteenth, but at least there's a tentative agreement. You know, the strike lasted for three days. There was a lot of pressure on the two sides to try to get something worked out. The strike, in terms of long Shoreman's Association probably couldn't have come at a worse time, considering that

So wait what they haven't agreed to any terms yet, or they did agree to some pay terms.

Call it a casual agreement. You know, it's the dock workers wanted seventy seven percent that kind of a pay increase. The USMX the port owners came back with a sixty two percent. I think I said fifty, but they came back yesterday with a sixty two percent increase. The two sides shook hands, and now the DOC workers are back on the job. One thing they didn't discuss, or one thing that's not part of this agreement, and.

It's probably what I was just about to ask you to me.

Yeah, automation, and it's still out there, and the workers want to see that taken out of the equation. You know. It's one thing to have have cranes and the forklifts out there working on the docks, but to have them controlled by robots or by AI, that's the one thing the DOC workers do not want. And it seems as though the USMX, the owners of the ports, that they're digging in.

On that, which kind of makes sense. I mean, it's really if you just look at it, for me, it looks like it's a really tough position to be in because you can't stop progress, right, It's hard. You hate to see it when it affects jobs. But I mean, like we were, I was talking about this with a friend the other day and we were talking about the minimum wage increase for fast food workers here. Well, they

Sure, so it's coming, you know, and it's been coming for some time. I remember the first time I walked into a radio station that was automated, like nineteen eighty four, and the station kind of ran itself. It had its own big machine that to put stuff on the air, and thought, well, there goes my career. Forty years later, everything's fine, you know, and still got a job.

You're still here. Yeah, yeah, hip, Okay, So nobody's sharing about this. We're going to switch over to Hurricane Helen. It's been a week now, and the situation there is just I mean, it's just untenable.

It's a horrible it really is.

I mean, something like seven hundred thousand power out of just still across Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, and up in Virginia as a result of Helene. Who knows how many people might still be cut off from the rest of the world because of how remote it is out there in the Black Hills, the Black Mountains of western North Carolina.

I just did a story Jim about how they're using mules to get to people.

Yes, if you're using any means possible to get supplies in their helicopters, mules, jeeps, any kind of vehicle or convenience to get things in there or to get people out, to get evacuees out of there. So that's going on for some time. Tragically, the number of dead has risen above two hundred now, which makes this the deadliest hurricane to hit the US mainland scence Katrina in two thousand and five.

Yeah, and you were mentioning the other ways that they're getting help to people. I was watching a show yesterday and they had former NASCAR champion Greg Biff. Well, he's got a helicopter. Yeah, and he's buzzing around there and people are like literally flagging him down. Yeah, and he's stopping to help them. I mean, it's crazy. So the question is like where is FEMA, because we're hearing more and more that they're just they don't have a great

It's not out of money, but he said that it's going to be tough to make it through the end of this hurricane season that goes through November. First, that it's likely that FEMA will go to Congress and ask for a supplemental spending bill. And I can't imagine that Congress would turn them down. But I think you're right. I mean, people in suffering situations like this like they are in western North Carolina. They're not going to be

Yeah, and hopefully they will continue. And like you said, make sure that when you do make your donations to help to the Red Cross, it's Redcross dot org. Don't fall for possibly bad or scam.

On Redcross dot net, not Redcross dot govor or Redcross dot com. It's red Cross dot Org.

Well, I hope they get the help they need. It's just it's just mind blowing how bad it is back there. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Have a good weekend.

All right you too.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County District Attorney Gascone says his office is reviewing the case of Eric and Lyle Menendez in light of renewed allegations of sexual abuse by their father. Gascone says his office has a letter written by Eric that outlines the abuse, as well as a second letter from someone else.

We've also got evidence that was provided by the defense by his lawyers that one of the members of the manul Van alleged that he was molested by the father.

The brothers were convicted of killing their parents in their mansion in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Two people in downtown LA have received a five hundred thousand dollars settlement after being stabbed at a target in twenty twenty two. A twenty four year old woman a nine year old boy sued Target and others, alleging the attackers should not have been able to grab a knife from a display.

A strike will cripple this company.

And if we have to strike, it's the Way's decision.

To do so because they're not honoring their commandment.

UAW Saystlandis is trying to backtrack on its contractual commitments to build the Dodge Durango in Detroit and reopening assembly plants in Illinois. I used to have a Durango. I love the Dodge Durango. The joke maybe on the New Joker movie, The sequel to the twenty nineteen movie, is expected to come up a bit short at the box office. Joker Folly, how do you say it? Fully? A duh starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, is expected to make fifty to sixty five million dollars in its debut weekend.