You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, July eleventh. Ooh, it's seven eleven day. I'm Amy King. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call. President Biden is at the NATO summit in Lithuania. He'll be having a sit down with Ukrainian President Zelenski. More homes are in danger of sliding
down a hillside in Rolling Hills Estates. Meta is on fire, with one hundred million people signing up for its new social media platform Threads in just five days. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Turkey's good to go. With Sweden joining NATO, we'll be talking about that. Here are some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty for our newsroom. With our heatwave hitting wildfires always a danger, three massive air tankers have returned
to southern California for wildfire season. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says people shouldn't be fooled by our wet winter. This vegetation will be dried out and become explosive fuel. Which will result in rapid wildfire spread. The double rotor helicopters can carry three thousand gallons of water or retardened and will be stationed in Ventura, Orange, and LA Counties. A dozen homes have been red tagged in Rolling Hills Estates, most of them continuing to crumble into a canyon because
of a landslide. Driveways were up ended, garages were sideways. LA County Supervisor Janis Han says a deep fisher or crack in the ground is sneaking in between about a dozen homes. We gave them about twenty minutes to evacuate. The movement started Saturday night. The cracking, the popping that you heard every single minute showed you that these homes were going to go sooner than later. Con says one homeowner had just closed escrow two months ago. In Rolling Hills
Estates, Corbin Carson kafinews. The state has approved the reopening of Padrino's Juvenile Hall in Downey. About two hundred and seventy five youth offenders will be relocated after Juvie Holland Van Nuys was deemed unsafe by state inspectors. The county said it had been trying to overhaul the juvenile detention system, but critics, including a number of probation officers, say the county's long term hiring freeze affected minimum
save staffing levels and created a dangerous environment for both juveniles and staff. The twenty six acre Los Padrino's facility should be ready by the end of the month. In the San Gabriel Valley, Steve Gregory k i I News LAPD says a man accused of breaking into several homes in Rosita and sexually assaulting people inside may have also heard others. The man allegedly broke into Holmes on July first.
He was arrested on the fifth. Will he say they'd like to hear from anyone who may have been a salted a jail in My inmate in northern California who ran away from a hospital while in custody for homicide has been recaptured. Glasser County Sheriff Wayne Woo says Ericabrill was found just after twelve thirty yesterday afternoon in Rockland, east of Sacramento, thanks to a tip an alert homeowner
who was taking his dog out. The dog started barking he saw somebody moving in that green Belt area, and in fact it was a brill Abrilla. Is being held without bail on murder, aggravated kidnapping, and attempted murder on a peace officer charges. The man was first rested in April, when officials say he shot a THHP officer and two hostages. One of them was killed. Governor Newsom assigned bills into law to speed up clean energy infrastructure projects,
boost the state's water supply, and update transportation. We're selling a budget three hundred and eleven billion dollar budget two hundred and twenty six billion dollar general Fund, the largest budget of its kind anywhere in the United States. Newsom also signed parts of the twenty twenty three twenty four state budget agreement. The full budget includes money for public education, healthcare, climate action, and homelessness.
A family in Chatsworth has offered a thousand dollars reward for its fifteen foot pet python that's been missing for a week. The owners put flyers up around the neighborhood with a warning, let make sure that the smaller pets, you know, chihuahua's cats, anything of that nature. You know, you want to be careful, I mean dangerous to humans. I mean, yeah, she's a constrictor, right, but she does like to coil and compress. Hey. Hey, the snake named Big Mama escaped last week when her cage wasn't
bolted. The owner says Big Mama's probably coiled up and hiding somewhere comfortable, preserving her energy. Neighbors in Silmar are demanding the removal of a makeshift RV park. It's in the side yard of a home. This man says the RV park puts out a foul smell that neighbors have to deal with off order, like decay, human waste. I don't know if you have people that go camping in the porta potties. It's like that on a hot summer day,
just rowing through and through the neighborhood. Residents say sewage has run down at least one neighbor's driveway. Ely city attorney has charged the property owner with illegally having RVs on the property. Russia's war in Ukraine is at the top of the agenda at the NATO summit in Lithuania, ABC's and As Delaquita President Biden meeting with a non NATO member who really wants to become one right, Hey, good morning, that's right. Yeah. President Biden is going to
be meeting with the Ukrainian presidents. The Levski White House officials confirm that today they will question those to whether z Levski would actually attend, but they did confirm that he would and as Lubski himself actually put out a statement moments ago talking about her he was on his way to the summit. Blunk has been pushing to join NATO for a while now, He said the last year urging allies that tectically European ally is to let Ukraine join NATO, but there has
been some reluctance. There's been some disunity amongst NATO allies as to whether Ukraine should join and as to you know, how quickly Ukraine should be allowed to join. So we heard from President Biden over the weekend. He said that he does not think now is the right time for Ukraine to join, that Ukraine cannot join because it is currently at war with Russia and because of NATO's Article five, which states that an attack on one NATO member country is an
attack on all of them. Should Ukraine join now, that would draw all NATO member countries into the conflict and would essentially set off World War three, so they want to avoid that. Of course, Zelenski seems to understand that he has said so, but he still wants assurances, specific assurances from NATO allies. He wants a timeline, and he wants some kind of positive,
positive signal showing that NATO is serious about letting Ukraine join. He doesn't seem to think that that is what he's going to be getting, or at least according to the statement that he put out in the last hour he says. He says he's not happy with what he's hearing that discussions are being held at the NATO's summit about Ukraine's accession. I know those discussions are being held without
Ukraine. He says that he's seen nothing kind of specific concrete coming out of those discussions, and he says that uncertainty is weakness, and then he plans to talk about that when he gets to fill the units. Well, doesn't He sort of have to be careful though, because he's asking to come in, but he doesn't want to take everybody off too much because they're going to say no. I mean they're already saying no, you know, but any future hopes of getting in he kind of has to tell the line a little
bit. That's right. Now, He's in a tricky position. He you're right, he wants to join, so he can't, you know, completely bash them, but he also wants, you know, and I think he understands that he can't join while the war is ongoing. So he's gonna be asking for additional aid, additional support or he's been getting lots of support from NATO allies, and so yeah, he's gonna be walking this fine line of urging them to let Ukraine join while at the same time trying to get some
security assurances, some more aid. So so it's gonna be interesting to see what comes out of these Zlenski's visit and specifically of Zilenski's meeting with President bid them. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, was Ukraine even kind of on the radar to get into NATO, because I know Russia said it didn't want Ukraine to get into NATO, But was that even a thing before Russia invaded? So
it's a great question. The idea of Ukraine joining NATO was first floated in two thousand and eight, which was the beginning, if you will, of Russia's aggression in the region and since then. So they started talking about it in two thousand and eight and then nothing really came of it. You know, years went by and Ukraine was given no kind of timeline, no progress was really aid, and the the Ukrate's desire to join was kind of reignited.
UM. You know, I think when when when we saw that Russian troop build up along Ukraine's border and then when the war began, when when Russia's invasion um actually happened, That's when Zelenski then, you know, forcelly came out to say that Ukrate must be allowed to join. UM. But yeah, and you know there is some disagreement. There are some nations that don't think Ukraine should be allowed to join. Uh, there are some that that do. What we're hearing now more and more from NATO allies is that
they do think Ukrate should at some point be allowed to join. That Ukraine, Ukraine's rightful place is to be part of NATO. But again they're not giving any kind of timeline. So Zlenski not thrilled with that. Okay, Now there's another country that wants to become a NATO country, and that Sweden. Turkey has been pretty much putting the kibosh on that, But now Turkey appears to be okay with the idea. That's the other big headline out of
today. So NATO really putting on a show of force and unity here in letting Sweden joined. So it was Turkey that had been holding up to Sweden's bid, the issue being meant for any new country to join NATO, all NATO member countries must unanimously agree to that newcomer, and Turkey was accusing Sweden of harboring Kurdish militants, which Turkey viewed as terrorists. So Turkey wanted to
see Sweden do more to crack down on these militants. Turkey had been blocking Sweden's bid for close to a year, and Turkey does seem to be now happy with the progress that's been made, and so they did announced last night, as President Biden was touching down in Lithuania actually that they would drop their objections and so would clear the way for Sweden to join. So that's a
big deal. Sweden would become the thirty second that NATO member states. That is, you know, the polar opposite of what Vladimir Putin wanted when he launched this war. He said he was launching this invasion to to because NATO posed an existential threat to Russia, because he was worried that Ukraine would would join UM NATO and he got the very thing that he dreaded, which is of course NATO expansion. Yeah, like NATO's stronger now booten good call,
right. Um, So yesterday the president was in UM was in the UK. Do we know if he enjoyed his tea with King Charles? Yeah, so it's it's funny, it was, Yeah, it was. He met he was on a weirlwin twenty four hours in the UK. He met with the British Prime Minister Sunac and he did head over to Windsor Castle and he met with King Charles. They had tea. It's all behind closed doors. Um. They did come out to talk to business leaders and philanthropists to talk
about climate change. So we did get some images of that. Um. They according to National security advisor Jake Sullivan, Um, they did have, you know, a good time. They talked about climate change, they talked about China, and then they exchanged stories from the past. I love it. They had a good time talking about climate change. Okay, And as Dela Quintara, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you again soon. Neighbors are being warned to keep a close eye on cats and little dogs because
of a missing fifteen foot python in Chatsworth. It is seven to eleven and seven to eleven is celebrating with free slurpies to mark the convenience store's birthday. At five thirty five, we're going to find out from ABC's Luke Barr how former US gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser is doing after he was stabbed in prison. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The US Marines don't have a leader for the first time in a hundred years. Right now,
time to check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. A judge in Oklahoma has thrown out a lawsuit that seat US was seeking reparations for the Tulsa Race massacre in nineteen twenty one. So Jim, who filed the lawsuit and what's next for them? Well? Yes, it was filed by three survivors, all of whom are more than a hundre years old. Now filed by the historic Vernon Amy Church, by other organizations there in Tulsa, the Tulsa African Ancestral Society.
They were listed as the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. And again three elderly people one hundred years old, people who were survivors of the Tulsa Race massacre of nineteen twenty one, a little known event in history, maybe more so in the last few years, but even Oklahoma school children were not taught about what happened those two days in early June of nineteen twenty one. Now the
stories have been told. This lawsuit was filed in effort to try to gain some compensation for people who were there on that day and for others who say that their families were never the same after that. Okay, so remind us because again I've heard of the Tulsa Race massacre, but not a whole lot about it. Like you said, it's not that well known. So what happened during those two days? Yes? Well, this area of Greenwood, Tulsa, Team Green was the neighborhood there. After World War One, it
became a center of black affluence. It was known as the Black Wall Street. Businesses were thriving there in this African American section about thirty five square blocks of Tulsa On that day in nineteen twenty one, a man was writing an elevator, a black man, a white woman was on the elevator. He
either stepped on her foot or exchange words or something. She went back to her section of the city, the white, predominantly white section of the city, told someone, and soon there was a mom ripping through the streets of Greenwood, destroying essentially everything. Nobody's really sure how many people died that day. The numbers run from as low as thirty five all the way to three
hundred Amy. Nobody's really quite sure. But this lawsuit was filed by people who say that the insurance payouts assistance that came into the city to help with the restoration and the renovation of Greenwood went to different parts of Tulsa that they never were paid to the section of the city that was destroyed. That's why that was the basis of their lawsuit. That it came out of the public
nuisance law. So was was Greenwood rebuild? No, there's one building essentially the standing, the church that was there on that day is about the only building left, the historic Vernon Amy Church. I've been to that building there and it's essentially by itself. In this neighborhood, you could tell where buildings homes of others one stood, but essentially it's it's a lot of empty laws. But this one church has become the center of Greenwood and the center of
activism't to try to get the community rebuilt. So the lawsuit filed by the three people who are now again over one hundred years old, did it ask for money for them or money to rebuild the area and help the families in the area. Not quite clear on what they were really looking for sure, well, there was no dollar amount attached to this. It was again filed
under the Tulsa's nuisance law. The petition sought to quote remedy the ongoing nuisance caused by the nineteen twenty one Tulsa massacre in the Greenwood district and to obtain benefits unjustly received by defendants based on the massacre. The defense is in this case were the city of Tulsa, other the state of Oklahoma places that benefited from the payments that came into the city after the massacre, but they did
not go to Greenwood itself, So that was kind of the lawsuit. The crux of the lawsuit filed under the nuisance laws of Tulsa and did the judge say why he or she tossed it? She did not. Interestingly, though, last year, when the defendants in this case sought to dismiss the whole lawsuit, the same judge ruled that it should go forward. She Judge Caroline Walls, said that the case should go ahead. Now she's dismissed that lawsuit
quote with prejudice, meaning that it can't be refiled. But the survivors and their attorneys say that they're moving past this judge and now going to the Tulsa to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Meanwhile, these three survivors who are one hundred plus years old, I think the oldest is one hundred and nine years old. You know they're they're waiting to see what happens next, and probably don't
have that long to wait. I mean, not to be mean or anything, but this lasso was filed in twenty twenty and now twenty twenty three, we finally have a ruling on this portion of it. Why they wait so long if it's happened in nineteen twenty one, so over a hundred years ago, and why wait this long? Is it? Because everything kind of came bubbling up after the George Floyd thing and gave new attention to it. No,
you know, it essentially was swept under the rug in Tulsa. It wasn't the point of pride, certainly for the community in that eastern part of Oklahoma. Even kids in Oklahoma schools weren't taught much about that. It wasn't really a part of the history lessons there. I think that it was a point of shame for Oklahoma, and so it was it was quietly pushed away, pushed into the into the background. And then you know, over the last couple of decades, there have been efforts to try to find the mass
graves where victims presumably were buried. Some victims were thought to have been thrown into the Arkansas River that runs through Tulsa. UM, So you know that. I think it's just a matter of awareness and trying now to go back and determine what happened and why it happened, and certainly with an eye toward keeping in anything like that from happening again. Yeah, that's crazy. Well,
it'll be interesting to see what happens to it next. It certainly seems like, I mean not seems like a lot of people were wronged it's how do you make it better? You know? Yeah, right, And I think that if you if you've got a chance to go there, to the Greenwood District of Tulsa, it's it's it's eerie, it's haunting, but it's also inspiring to see that the people they want to see something happen with that part of the city. Okay, well, thank you so much, Jim
Ryan for your time. We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks you. Here's some others stories we're working on. The summer heats about to get hotter in SoCal. The National Weather Service has called it a significant heat event. Temperatures in the valleys will begin rising today as high pressure builds and the marine
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devastating flooding in New York. A woman in the Hudson Valley drowned as she was trying to leave her home. Officials say the storm has caused millions of dollars in damage and caused hundreds of flights in New York and Boston to be canceled. And slurpies at seven eleven are free today this July eleven to seven eleven Get it huh to celebrate the convenience store Chains ninety six birthday. Anyone who stops in today can get a free small slurpie. I haven't had one
of those years. ABC is Luke Barr is here to give us an update on former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser, who has been stabbed in prison. Thanks for having me so. Larry Nasa, a former USA gymnastics team doctor, has been stabbed in prison, our sources told us yesterday. Nasa was stabbed six times in the back and the neck on Sunday afternoon. According to our sources, he was described as having substantial injuries, butting what appears to
be a collapsed lung. Our sources have told the few's listed in stable condition and is expected to make a recovery. Okay, so do we know what happened? Why was he targeted? Was this just a fight in jail or in prison or what? So the circumstances surrounding the actual event our cylinder investigation. What we do know is there was a sort of altercation that spawned this.
But I think it's worth noting that nasa is in a unit at Coleman in Florida where he's housed, that has sexual assault offenders, pedophiles and the like, so they're all together in one unit. Now that adds a wrinkle to the investigation because our sources have told us that when there is an altercation, especially with somebody of a Nasaar's stature but also convicted of a crime against
children, they're often the first targeted. But because they were with sort of everybody that was convicted of similar crimes, it's it's sort of up to Bop to figure actually what happened. So he's kind of hanging with the homies, so they're not sure if that's one of the guys who attacked him. Yeah, And what we do know about about the suspect was that it was an inmate uh, you know, but they're trying to determine if it was one inmate or if there was sort of a group of inmates that that sort of
carried the saut okay. And then there was also some talk that this might have happened because of staffing shortages, like there weren't enough people watching the prisoners. Not only that, but the staff members that were watching the uh, the inmates. At the time Naster was was stabbed, they had worked overtime, mandatory overtime. Uh, and a lot of these a lot of these cases in federal prison Uh. You know, it's because of the staffing shortages
that people have to work overtime. And obviously, when you work eighty hours in a prison, uh, you know it it obviously, you know, makes it tired. And and this has happened before, you know, if you remember what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, those officers worked overtime as well, and they ended up falling asleep and sort of dozing off in some cases. So it's not just in common where NASA is, it's it's sort of a Bureau of Prisons. Why the problem? So what's next? He's so he's
in like the infirmary or something. Now, does he just go back out into his group when he's done, or will they do make efforts to protect him. Well, in other cases similar to this, they usually put him um in sort of special housing, uh sort of that way he can get recovered from his injuries and then to go back to general population. But then, uh, you know what usually happens is somebody will be charged by the FBI and the justice departments for this assault. And that's probably when we'll learn
more details specifically about what happened. Okay, all right, Luke Barr, thanks so much for the update on Larry Nasser. Well, here's some other stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. La County could pay three million dollars to a man who wrongfully spent thirty seven years in prison
because of a prosecutorial misconduct. National Registry of his Goneration's editor Barbara Ryan says Samuel Bonner was convicted of the nineteen eighty three murder because a jailhouse snitch lied to get a better deal for himself. We have a currently three three hundred thirty eighty gnerations, and those two hundred and thirty three involved the use of jailhouse informants. The judge says everyone in Bonner's case knew the snitch was a
liar back in nineteen ninety six, but prosecutors hid the information. Bonner was released in twenty nineteen. LA County Claims Board sent the settlement to county supervisors last week for approval. A small plane has crashed nose first into the roof of a hangar in Long Beach the face as The crash yesterday happened as the pilot was practicing landings and takeoffs at the airport. Pilot had to be extricated
from the wreckage and was treated at the hospital for minor injuries. The LAPD says a teacher's suspected of committing lewd acts with a child under fourteen is now in custody with bail set at a million dollars. Martin Rys Junior was arrested yesterday. He's from East LA, but police haven't released the name of the school where he works. Protesters in Israel of blocked highways to major cities during
countrywide demonstrations against the government's plan to overhaul the judiciary. Police used a water cannon to clear protesters who blocked a main artery leading to Jerusalem and several other and arrested several others. Hours earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Nettignah, who's parliamentary coalition, gave initial approval to a bill to limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers. NATO has opened its summit in Lithuania, day after Turkey withdrew its objections
to Sweden joining the alliance. NATO Secretary General Jens Stollenberg called it a historic day as he announced the agreement president by going to see the leaders of Sweden and Turkey at separate meetings today. Ukraine's president says he wants a roadmap for his country to join NATO, but the rules say no country can join if they're in a conflict, and obviously Ukraine is in a conflict with Russia.
US National Secretary Advisor Security Advisor Rather Jake Sullivan says that's one of the things being talked about at the NATO summit. I think what comes out of Vilnius in the Communica will be something that Ukraine will be able to embrace as a positive signal with respect to the question of Ukraine's future pathway towards membership. President Biden said yesterday that Ukraine is not ready for membership in NATO. The President
is expected to meet with President Zelenski while he's in Lithuania. The Apocalypse will come as a double feature and its name shall be Barbenheimer. AMC Theater says it's already sold more than twenty thousand same day tickets for the unlikely pairing of Barbie and Oppenheimer. The Yin and Yang July twenty first opening weekend pairing, with a total runtime of five hours nine minutes, not including trailers, will feature the bright bubbly doll story Storry, Margot, Robbie and Ryan Gosseling,
juxtaposing nicely with the nuclear bomb docu drama. Movie posters and t shirts have even been created to commemorate the momentous movie moment. Barbie's expected to pull double the ticket sales of Oppenheimer, So the only question for those doing the double dip Barbenheimer movie trip is which flick do you watch first? Michael Krozier k if Ie news. For me, it's gonna be Barbie. What about you,
Tyler? It's Barbie, not not Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer. I'll see eventually, but I feel like, if I'm going to be making a trip to the movies, it's going to be for Barbie. I'm totally gonna see Barbie. And I'm not going to see Oppenheimer. I don't want to. You're not gonna see it at all. No, Downey Junior says, it's a huge step in the right direction for movies, step in the right direction. Yeah, what is it? Well, I think I personally, I feel
like movies have kind of just been lately. But yeah, I like happy movies. I like movies that bring me joy. I don't think Hoppenheimer's gonna bring it anybody. It's about the atomic bombs. It's exactly Okay, So today is July eleventh. It is guess what else it is? It is Prime Day. It is Prime Day. It's Prime Day, you know.
So it's like Christmas in July. Right, it's supposed to be these great deals and I always go, oh, Prime Day, I'm gonna go check out what's available on Prime, and then it just takes you down a rabbit hole if you start looking around, Like I use Prime when I want to buy something. I don't use Prime when I'm I don't know, I just don't peruse. You don't treat Amazon Prime the same way you would a Prime Day. I should say, the same way you would treat like a Black
Friday. It's what you're saying. Yeah, And because you can't go into a store and wander around. I don't know. I got Nick is also here. I don't know if Nick's doing Prime, but you know, like it's not going to exactly a Black Friday sale where you just go to the store and you kind of cruise around and you look for cool Christmas presents and stuff. Because for me, shopping online, it just I can't do it. I have like a d D with the computer or something. I don't
like it. So here's one of the things that's always been interesting for Prime Day, and I haven't seen it happen quite yet. I've been keep an
eye on it. But if you were a person of like me and it was like the QBC kid and remember seeing that actually today and tomorrow usually though during Prime Days, they actually have a live stream on the app for you to be able to kind of shop around, so they'll actually have like a QBC style representation of this is what's available now, and this is what's happening
and you should check this out. So I kind of enjoy sticking around the Prime app at least for Prime days, because you actually can see a better representation of a lot of those products that, as far as we know, just live a kind of on a shelf in a warehouse somewhere. So it's like a blue light special exactly. Now that's a perfect way to put it.
That would be kind of cool actually if they if they popped up and they said, hey, this hour special is this, and this hour special is that, then you could just kind of get a notification go yes, I'm industried or no, I'm not right, because that's the whole thing.
If you're like our house is like there's a lot of things. Either you live in the Amazon the Alexa sorry I shouldn't say her name, but that Shamexa, that ecosphere, or you live in the Google Home ecosphere and our place is Amazon, and so that's where a lot of those deals are available for you today. To really get a steal on some of the products that are from Amazon, you know, because we've got like Eco pop and our Echo pop system whatever, Like our whole thing is we've got speakers and everything
else SMAXA is listening constantly at our house of exactly what's going on. But that's a great opportunity. But yeah, it's always something you can check out and see a demonstration of a lot of those products. And while it is a pop up and it will show up for you in the app, those deals are not just available for one hour, which they are regularly, You'll be able to check them out for the entirety of Prime Days, which is
kind of a nice little perk for you if you're a Prime member. Okay, and if you can't do it today, Prime Day is also tomorrow, So just so you know, there's going to be deals. And I did peruse a few things and you see stuff with a dollar fifty off and you go, what. Then there's some other stuff where it's a pretty substantial savings, Like there's a Ge tilt head electric stand mixer. Who knew you save
one hundred and fifty bucks on it. So there are some good deals out there, but there's also some what I would consider kind of crappy deals out there. The heat waves here tempts are going to be hitting triple digits for inland areas today and heating up to about one thirteen for some areas by this weekend. Neighbors are being warned to keep a close eye on cats and little
dogs because of them missing fifteen foot python. In Chatsworth, it is seven to eleven and seven eleven is celebrating with a free slurpiece to mark the convenience Storre's ninety sixth birthday, where just minutes away from handle on the news. This morning, Twitter traffic is tanking thanks to threads. Okay. Karen Travers, the CEO of the PGA Tour, is going to be testifying in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about its merger with liv Golf.
Why does Congress give a rip about a golf merger? Yeah, I mean because this is a significant business deal and the Saudis are the ones backing live Golf. The money is being done by the Saudi royal family, and there are a lot of questions about the human rights record of the Saudis, and critics say that this investment is billions and billions of dollars. That's sportswashing,
an effort to soften improve their global image. After the United States concluded that the Saudi crumb prince approved an operation to kill journalist jamal Ka Shogi, and that there are other human rights issues within the country. There's also issues about antitrust in the business, the monopoly aspect of this that some senators are going to raise, and this could be a pretty explosive hearing if senators really come in with a lot of questions and tough questions for these PGA representatives.
Notably, it's not the head of the PGA or the head of Lift Golf who will be testifying. They're sending representatives instead. But this is an announcement a couple of weeks ago that caught a lot of people by surprise because the PGA had been very openly critical of the Saudi Backlive Golf and then announced that
their one time rival would now become their partner. So it's interesting that they're saying that it could become a monopoly if Live Golf and PGIA merge, because before Live Golf a couple of years ago, there was only the PGIA, so there already was a monopoly. Kind of yeah. Yeah, And you know the question too about foreign influence in American sport, a country like that gaining such a major foothold and a country like Saudi Arabia in particular. That's
also something that senators have raised concerns about and will likely bring up. So it's not just a sports story. It's a business story, it's a foreign policy story, it's human rights story, the social story too. They're going to be nine to eleven families who are going to be hearing today or trying to make their voices heard around the hearing, who say that they should be held accountable for their role in the attacks. And that's something I think you
can also expect that some senators might bring up. Now, notably, senators can have hearings, they can ask questions, they can do investigations, but ultimately, you know, it's the Justice Department who's investigating this for antitrust violations, and that's what would stop a potential deal if it does end up getting blocked. See that's why we talk to you, Karen Travers, because now we know why Congress gives a rip about a golf merger. Thank you so
much. There, you have a great day. You two traffic cameras are headed to Glendale. The city is installing cameras in school zones, areas where many people have been injured and areas with a history of street racing. State Assembly Member Laura Friedman says, too many people are being killed on roads across California. We have seen an increase in street racing, reckless driving, and
people driving with a wanton disregard for safety and life. The cameras are being installed as part of a statewide pilot program involving six cities, including LA. Drivers will be worn before entering into a zone with cameras like trolley k if I news, lawmakers in California have been looking into human operators for autonomous vehicles trucks driving on California roadways without a human sounds like a pretty concerning thing for
drivers in the state. Jason Robennowitz, who serves as the president of a Teamster's Joint Council, says a new bipartisan bill prioritizes safety in San Francisco. Right now, the driverless cars are wreaking havoc across the city. They're stopping at green lights, They're causing accidents. Rebennowitz also says that the legislation requires a trained, live person in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle industry argues
that AI drives more effectively than humans. Andrew Caravella k if I News. The bill has already passed the state Assembly and is said to be heard today in the Senate Transportation Committee. Scientists have blamed climate pollution for deadly flooding that's hit several countries all at once. India, Japan, China, Turkey, and the US Northeast have all had intense rain recently. To say, climate pollutants, mainly carbon dioxide and methane, hold more heat in the atmosphere,
and a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which means more rain. A grand jury being seated in Georgia will likely consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former President Trump or his allies for efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia. The Fulton County DA has been investigating since shortly after Trump called Georgia's Secretary
of State to ask him to find enough votes to beat Biden. The Eli County Sheriff's Apartment may have to provide thermal underwear to any jail inmate who asks for it. County supervisors are set to consider the requirement today. YEP,
this is real. The motion by supervisor Hilda Silis says the latest Inspector General report on Reform and Oversight uncovered what Sillis calls the Sheriff's Department's reprehensible practice of not providing thermal undergarments to people in custody despite complaints of freezing temperatures in county jails. Okay. People in Silmar have attended a neighborhood meeting to call for the removal of a bunch of motor homes to makeshift r V park lines of
residential street. Video footage has been taken of what neighbors say is sewage running down a driveway. This man says he hopes that people in the RVs are given a new place to live and the RV park gets dismantled. The people there are just down on their luck and they need help and somebody's taking advantage of them. The La City Attorney has charged the property owner with illegally having the RVs on their property. A court data is scheduled later this month.
Like trolley k if I news can join, sisters separated at Texas Children's Hospital last month have been sent home. Ella and Eliza Fuller were borne by c section on March first, they were joined at the abdomen and shared liver tissue. A team of surgeons, nurses, and technicians performed the six hour surgery on June fourteenth to separate the twins, and a month later they get to go home. That's so cool. Okay. A couple of food updates for
you. McDonald's is ditching the mcale the McCafe bakery, so they're going to be taking out their blueberry muffin, their cinnamon roll, and their apple fritter. I guess I'm very sad, even though I never tried it. But the good news is, as I mentioned yesterday, they're bringing that the jalapeno bacon cheeseburger. So except us, it's a quarter pounder with cheese with palepino and bacon, So I guess it's a good trade off. Also, I
Hop has a new menu item. This actually sounds kind of interesting. You know, like we love mashups, we like pizza, bagels, nacho fries, cronuts. Well, now there's a pancake taco and since this Taco Tuesday, we thought we'd bring that up. So on July fifth, I Hop announced new menu items and one of the questions is can a pancake be a taco, and apparently it can be, because now they have fresh strawberry cheesecake
pancake tacos. It's the silver dollar pancake filled sliced strawberries and cream creamy cheesecake moose, finish off with a sprinkling of chips of chocolate chips. Yummy. There's a caramel banana pancake tacco. There's a breakfast pancake tacco that's got eggs and sweets, so it's like a sweet savory one. Sounds kind of yummy. And then the Okay, I would totally get into this country chicken and gravy pancake Tacco's silver dollar pancake filled with crispy chicken, shredded hash browns and
sausage country gravy. If you're in the mood for brine, you have the option to top this taco with pickles. Okay, I think I'd leave the pickles off, but other than that, it sounds pretty delicious. Okay. So here's one last thing. President Trump's or former president Trump's out campaigning, and he went to where did he go? He was in Iowa, and he went into a dairy queen and Here's what made some commentators on cable news lose their minds. Ezzard okay, okay. So basically he buys the blizzards
for everybody who's in the store. And I was watching some cable news channels and they're like, oh my gosh, can you believe he doesn't know what a blizzard is? Who cares? He bought him for everybody. I'd take that blizzard. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening
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