You're listening to kf I Am six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's any King. This is your wake up call or Tuesday, August twenty nine, Good morning, I'm Amy King. Did you see that moon? It's not even full yet. I was driving in and the moon is it looked like it was rising. I don't know if it's rising or falling, but so cool.
And we have a rare blue moon coming up at the end of the month. It's gonna be another hot one. God, I was hot yesterday and I was driving between the LA area and the Alley and there's this noticeable, like ten or fifteen degree difference. Got another hot one coming today before it cools down. And the other thing I noticed when I was driving around yesterday is a lot of people are out walking their dogs, which is lovely, but when it's one hundred and ten, the ground is like even hotter,
especially when you're walking across the asphalt, and nobody had booties on. So I'm not a luxury kind of person, but remember that your dogs don't have shoes on when you're crossing the street and it's one hundred and ten degrees outside. Come on people, Okay, I'm a coffee, got your coffee ready to go? It's Tuesday. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Idalia
has become a Category one hurricane. Is it motors toward Florida. Forecasters say the storm's going to continue to gain strength and will be a dangerous major hurricane when it makes landfall Wednesday. Attorney General Rob Bonte has sued the Chino School District over its new rule requiring staff to tell parents if they're students identify as transgender. Eminem is telling Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop singing his songs
after Ramaswamy wrapped an Eminem's song on stage at the Iowa State Fair. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California Attorney General Rob Bontas filed a lawsuit against the Chino Valley School District over its new policy to notify parents of a student's gender identity or sexual orientation. Bontas is the policy is dangerous for kids. That's not Banta,
This is Bonta. Transgender and gender non conforming students already face disproportionate levels of abuse and harassment and are at great risk of suicide and serious mental health issues. The district says its policy also requires law enforcement to be notified if a student feels threatened by a parent because of their gender identity or sexual orientation. The community of Tribuco Canyon has prayed and rallied together following a mass shooting that
killed four and hurt six others. We would like to thank everyone for all your love support of prayers. Cook's Corner general manager Ronda Polomari posted condolences for everyone involved who were here Wednesday, August twenty third for the most horrific act by one man who has changed the lives of so many. Saddleback Church Pastor Stacey Wood named the people lost when hundred showed up over the weekend for a prayer vigil. Lee Hey and his family and loved ones. Tanya Clark and
her family and loved ones. We have Glenn's and his family and loved ones. The shooter was killed by deputies in Orange County. Corbin Carson kaf I news Child's been postponed and Riverside County for an ex police officer accused of killing a disabled man and hurting the men's parents at a Costco and Corona Remember that one. It's been pushback to October thirtieth so the record's requests and other defense matters can be resolved. The X cop is charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault
in the shooting in twenty nineteen. Federal prosecutors say they think former La City Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas will serve the majority of his three year prison sentence for corruption. Ridley Thomas has been given a November thirteenth surrender date. He was convicted earlier this year of a bribery scheme between him and the former dean of USC's School of Social Work. US attorney Martinez Strada says the scheme was not
a victimless crime. We the people, the constituents, the community that the defendant was elected to serve, deserve much better. Prosecutors say. From twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen, Ridley Thomas supported contracts between USC and the county in exchange for benefits for his son in downtown La Blake trolley. K if I News, a European airline is trying only adult zones on flights between Amsterdam and Kiasaw starting in November. The zones will be four passengers sixteen and older only.
There will be walls and curtains separating the only adult zone from the rest of the plane. It's five zero six on your wake up call. Time to say good morning to Stephen Portnoy, ABC News National correspondent. So, Stephen, we got two big dates were set yesterday. What are they? Well, the one big date was set. It's March fourth. That's the date for jury selection and the trial here in Washington, DC. That's the January sixth case brought by Jack Smith, a special council, and it's been
set. And that's the big news here. Okay, So jury selection starts that date, or the trial is slated to start that day. Well, that is the same thing, and that's the day that jury selection will begin. That's essentially the trial start date. Okay. So then just to refresh everyone's memory, remind us that this date is different than what the prosecution want and what Trump lawyers wanted. You're right, the prosecution wanted the trial to
start on January second of next year. The defense team the trial to start April of twenty twenty six, two and a half years from now. The judge said that she found neither date acceptable, that the defense needed more than four months to prepare, but she said two years was too much time, and she settled on March fourth. Now, what's interesting is March fourth happens to be the day before the Super Tuesday primaries in more than a dozen states,
including California. Why would they set the date for Super Tuesday or the day before Super Tuesday. Why did the judge choose March fourth. Yeah, she did not fully explain herself, except to say that she conferred with the judge who's overseeing another trial, and that's in New York. That's the case that starts March twenty five, three weeks after the case that will begin here
in Washington, DC, she says. Judge Chutkin here in Washington says she called Judge Mars Shawn in New York and spoke with him about the fact that he has another pending matter involving the former president will begin in later March. That's the only explanation that Judge Chutkin gave except to say that there is a societal interest in a speedy trial. But she did say that she found four months unacceptable, two and a half years unacceptable. She decided six months from
now is a good time to start the trial. Okay, that's interesting that they're so close together, so they're expecting a relatively short trial, or technically could two trials be going on at the same time. Well, that's an interesting question. Look, you know, the former president is going to have to be expected to show up to sit before a jury so that the jury can see the defendant. But the former president does not necessarily have to attend
every session of the trial. In fact, you know, there's some experts who believe that he might not have to attend much at all. But maybe he'll want to. I really don't know, and it depends perhaps on the
judge and the jurisdiction. But one thing that Judge Chutkin did say yesterday is that regardless of his professional obligations, not the legal obligations, for professional obligations, his need to run for office and appear in various places and try to win the delegates of California and other states, they'll have to set all that aside that as a defendant in her courtroom, he's going to have to make it work, okay. And can the lawyers say that's election interference because it's
preventing him from campaigning. The lawyers can say whatever they want. The former president can say whatever he wants. But the idea that it's election interference, that's not an argument the lawyers are going to make inside a courtroom with any great success. Okay. And then down in Georgia, the date was set for the arraignment. Yes, so the arraignment will take place a week from
tomorrow. But you know, at least one of the defendants has already waived the right to an arraignment and therefore entering a not guilty plea on paper, these it's a very perfunctory thing, stacked fifteen minutes apart, all nineteen co defendants, the former presidents supposed to go first, nine thirty in the morning. Could happen, virtually, could be waived. We'll see what happens. Okay, Gonna be a busy day on September six. Thanks so much for
your time, Stephen Portnoy. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four Hour newsroom. A woman has been awarded nearly twenty four million dollars in damages in connection with the shooting death of her son by LAPD officers in Kanoga Park in twenty seventeen. Navy veteran Jesse Murillo was holding a metal bar that the officers apparently thought was a machette. Family attorney Dale Gallipos's body cambridge footage showed the shooting was not justified. Number one,
he was never facing the officers during any of the shots. Number two, he was running away from the officers when he was shot, and number three, the fatal shot occurred after he already went to the ground. Daily Kenny DA's office reviewed the shooting in twenty twenty and decided not to file charges against the officers, saying at the time the decision to open fire was lea ly justified. Prosecutors in LA say they want to retry and x ucla campus Gannet
collegist who's already serving eleven years in prison for sexual assault related charges. A judge set a hearing for October twenty fifth in Burbank. The doctor was found guilty last year of sexual battery by fraud and sexual penetration of an unconscious person involving former patients. At one time, the former doctor was reportedly the highest paid physician in the UC system and treated about six thousand patients. More than
five hundred lawsuits were filed against him and UCLA. Moving out young wealthy people who once lived in California moving out the other states. The study from smart Assets says they've gone to states like Florida and Texas. The study found California, New York, and Illinois lost the most people between the ages of twenty six to thirty five and with at least two hundred thousand dollars a year salaries. About forty five hundred people left California, but about five thousand people moved
in. Data came from the IRS and the twenty twenty one tax year. Disneyland is changing its hotel policies starting January twentieth. Guests staying and the properties will no longer automatically get early entry into Disneyland and California Adventure, instead guesting at one of the Disneyland hotels, and those who have valid park admission and reservations can enter one of the parks thirty minutes before the regular Park opening time. As you know, we lost a TV legend. Bob Barker died over
the weekend. He's not having a funeral, His longtime publicist says, at Bob's request, there will not be a funeral or a memorial service. He wants it to be a more private thing. Bombark is going to be laid to rest next to his wife, Dorothy Joe Barker. She died in nineteen eighty one. They'll be their final resting pace. Place is at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills. Okay, so this is nothing new. Politicians use walk up music at campaign rallies to fire up the crowd, but the fake
Rama Swammy took it to a whole new level. You might remember he had he did a video. It went viral when he wrapped Eminem's Lose Yourself at the Iowa State Fair down the whole crowd. Everybody don't can Well, apparently Eminem's not very happy about it. He's told him basically stopped singing my songs, and he's sent a letter. BMI sent a letter to Rama Swammy's campaign lawyer that says Eminem's works are no longer part of a music licensing agreement and
that Eminem requested that. Now we mentioned that this was not the first time, but this has happened that politicians used the walk up music all the time. Well Adele wanted Donald Trump to stop using her songs because he was using Rolling in the Deep and Skyfall at political rallies. In twenty six, Trump was using dream On at his political rallies. Aerosmith didn't like that. Let's see the Trump campaign used Here Comes the Sun. George Harrison's estate did not
like that, so the Beatles said no, thank you. A lot of these are apparently for Trump. Bruce Springsteen didn't want him using Born in the USA at his rallies. Elton John was not happy that Trump was using Rocketman and Tiny Dancer at political rallies. Farrell opposed Trump playing the song Happy at rallies. Prince Well he didn't want or the estate of Prince didn't want Trump using Purple Rain, and then Rihanna threatened legal action against Trump for unauthorized use
of her don't stop the music rallies. But he's not the only one. Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Donald Trump used Twisted Sisters. We're not going to take it. They didn't like that the Foo Fighters My Hero was used by John McCain. He said, knock it off. Sarah Palin was
using Barracuda as walk up music. Heart wasn't happy about that then. I think the only one where they said don't use it and it was targeted at a Democratic candidate was in twenty sixteen when Hillary Clinton used Bikini Kills Rebel Girl in an ad and the drummer for Bikini Kill had the song removed from the adge because she was supporting Bernie Sanders. Seems like mostly Republicans. They don't like the Republicans using the cool music. Here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The Stan Fernando, San Gabriel, and southwestern Ventura County valleys, along with San Bernardino overside Orange in San Diego Counties, remain under an excessive heat warning through at least eight o'clock tonight, but temperature is expected to get as high as one oho eight. The Department of Transportation has hit American airlines with over four million dollars in fines. That's the largest fine
ever for keeping passengers waiting on the tarmac. The fine is tied to forty three flights that affected more than fifty eight hundred passengers. Between twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, thousands of people line the streets of downtown El Segundo to greet the Little League World Series champions. The team won the title on Sunday, and let the celebrations continue. The team's going to be honored tonight at Dodger Stadium. Let's say good morning to the host of How To Money on
KFI, Joel lars Guard. Good morning, Joel, morning. Amy. So Zillo Home Loans is offering a one percent down payment mortgage. Yeah calls that sounds right, right. I mean, if you're the person buying the home and someone says you don't have to bring nearly as much money to the table, You're like, Wooho, that just became so much easier for me to save up for the house, right, I don't have to save up in nearly the same nearly the same amount of down payment because now Zillo is
saying, ah, just one percent, that's enough. And right now this is only being offered in Arizona to our neighbors over there, But this is something that could become more widespread and it's worrisome to me because the thing is there's multiple there's multiple problems with this. One. If you don't have to save up as much, are you actually financially prepared to buy that house?
And then second, especially with rising rates, well, the less you put down on the home means the more you're financing at a higher rate, which means a much higher payment. And aren't interest rates up? But like seven point two percent? Now, oh, did we just lose Joel. Let's see if we can get him back. I think the other thing that it affects two is the PIMA, the Homeowner's insurance. If you put less than twenty percent down, then you have to have that insurance, which increases your
payment even more. So you take the seven point two percent that you're financing. When you're financing more, you take the twenty percent of the PIMA insurance. It's a couple hundred dollars a month, and then you take that The medium price in California is eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars or something crazy, So even with one percent down, I guess it's only eighty three hundred dollars. But yeah, he makes a good point. Can you really afford it
if you only can afford to put eighty three hundred dollars down. If we get him back, we're going to be asking him too about how people are foregoing homeowners insurance. And I can tell you that one of the things that it's fine getting harder and harder to find homeowners insurance here in California because a lot of companies like Farmers and All State and several others have pulled out of the California market. But I think having home insurance is a necessity because if
something really goes wrong, you're stuck with the bill. And I know that people who have earthquake insurance you still have that super high deductible and some people can't get earthquake insurance in certain areas because of the earthquake wrist. But I would say get that insurance if you can get it, because when you need
it, it's gonna save your butt. Since we year are not getting Joel back, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and we'll see if we can catch up with Joel in a little bit. Health officials in Orange County reported the first human case of Westnile virus. This year, a woman in Orange tested positive but didn't feel any symptoms. The Healthcare agency reported eleven cases and people. Last year,
two people died. Officials say the best way to avoid the virus is to avoid mosquitoes, so they advise emptying any standing water, wearing long sleeves outside, especially at dawn and dusk, and using bug spray with deet. The Hawaiian Electric Company says it's downed power lines are responsible for the deadly wildfires on Maui, but the utility refuses to take all the blame. The company said
while it's lines ignited the fires. Earlier this month, Maui County firefighters failed to properly extinguish a brushfire, which reignited, causing the destructive fire that tore through the historic town of Lahaina. Hawaiian Electric CEO said it does not preemptively shut down power lines, but the company said yesterday it de energized power lines for six hours before the second fire ignited. The company also set a lawsuit
filed against them by the County of Maui is factually and legally irresponsible. Steve Gregory kof I News, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hills has been shot and killed on campus. The accused shooter was arrested about an hour and a half after the shooting yesterday. Based on witness information at the scene, UNC police were able to identify suspect and after a search of
the surrounded area, this suspect was taken into custody. UNC Police Chief Brian James said yesterday investigators were trying to find the gun used and the reason for the shooting. The false semester just started last week. You saw August is ending on a blue note with a rare supermoon. A blue moon isn't actually blue, It just signifies a second full moon within a single month. Nasis's
super moons are brighter and bigger than average moons. Oh maybe that's why the moon looks so large today when I was driving in stargazers can catch the blue moon tomorrow night, that's when it's actually full. The last of four consecutive super moons in twenty twenty three will be the Harvest moon September twenty eight. The next blue moon after that won't happen until May of twenty twenty six. Did you hear that Burning Man is going on. I didn't know Burning Man
was even going on this year. I haven't heard anything about it. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. E Dahlia has become a Category one hurricane as it motors toward Florida. Forecasters say the storm's going to continue to gain strength before making landfall on Wednesday. We're gonna be talking
to Jim Ryan in just one second about that. Hawaiian Electric says it's power lines caused the wildfire on Maui the morning of August eighth, but says power lines had been de energized for six hours by the time of second fire started and destroyed Lahina. Attorney General Rob Banta is suing the Chino School District over its new rule requiring staff to tell parents if their students identify as transgender.
At six oh five. It's handle on the news Hawaiian. The Hawaiian Power Company, as I mentioned, says its lines did start one of the fires on Maui, but it has also blamed firefighters for the fire that destroyed Lahina. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Florida is bracing for Hurricane Dalia. Yes, getting ready for it as best they can, and for a lot of folks who live close to the shoreline, amy that means simply packing up and getting out. Interstate four headed over to Orlando
was packed this morning with people who were evacuating from the west. It's from the Gulf coast of the Florida Peninsula and headed in that direction. Others who live farther in Lanton twenty miles are just laying in supplies of water and canned goods, as starting up the generator just in case the power goes out, because it will and it's likely to be out for a few days. The airport here at Tampa closed at midnight last night, won't open until Thursday.
So how many people actually do evacuate when when the governor calls for that? Because I know we had a hurricane, but we didn't evacuate. No, we have a hurricane either. We were gonna have a hurricane, but it got downgraded. Well, this one, it looks pretty honest. It became you know, Ada turned into a hurricane this morning at the five o'clock update, went from below seventy four miles per hour the top wind speed above seventy
four miles That makes it a Category one hurricane. It's not really the wind that's going to be a problem this time now, although it's expected to be up around category two per perhaps even a Category three storm by the time it makes landfall here around Tampa or north of Tampa. It's the storm surge that will be the major problem. So the wind, well, it's going to
do some damage to property and trees around here. It's also going to push the tide in farther and this may strike right at high tide, which would make the storm surge even more intense. Add into it the full moon, and you're going to have a perfect storm, as it were, of characteristics. Okay, so when they talk about the storm surge and they say it's going to be twelve feet, does that mean that the whole the sea level rises twelve feet or just the waves come in. I don't understand what that
means. Yeah, that's gentleman. It means is that the the shoreline right there at the shore line, it will be twelve feet above. But but that's just the waves that are crashing ashore, that are being pushed in by the wind and by the low pressure of the storm itself and so but obviously the as you get half mile, quarter mile, a full mile in land, it won't be that high. But the storm surge right here at Tampa Bay is expected to be around four to seven feet on top of the high
tide. So the sheriff had sort of an interesting comparison here. He said, that's that's going to put this storm well above my head, the storm surge. So he's certainly going to evacuate, so is everybody else in his community. Where are you going to go? Well, I'll be here in Tampa and probably up on top of a building somewhere to see what's going on. I mean, that's kind of been my formula here for the last twenty years or so. Is it just being on a high location? Okay?
And when people leave, because Florida is pretty good about this because there they get hurricanes on a kind of regular basis. Where do they go? Do they go to another state or do they just go into inland areas? Where do they go? Well, in this case, I think most of them are heading over toward the East coast. So if the storm is coming up the Atlantic coast, people who head over here towards Tampa or up into the
Panhandle. For this storm, people will head over to the east coast toward Orlando or Jacksonville, or even up into Georgia, maybe the Carolinas if they have family up there. So it's just a matter of moving away from the predicted landfall area. Okay, And we mostly dodged a bullet with her with what was Hurricane Hillary then turned to a tropical storm, then became a subtropical cyclone depression something or other. But is there any chance that they're going to
get a break on this one? Is or is Idealia just powering and getting stronger. Well, there's always that chance. But considering that the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are historically warm right now, that serves as jet fuel for a storm like Idealia. So I think the chances that it's going to get any less intense are almost zero. The chances that it will get more
intense from where it is right now about wow. And what we had in our favor was as the storm moved up the Mexican coast, we hit the cooler waters in the Pacific because our water is a lot cooler, and once it hits that cold water, it sucks the power out of the storm, right, Yeah, we don't have that situation now. And you also have the fact there's no real upper level sheer to this. Normally, the upper level whether pattern would pull the top off of this storm. That we don't
have that right now, so it could be a problem. Okay, well, stay safe, all right, stay on high ground. We'll check in with you two. Thanks Jim. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And excessive heat warning is in effect until eight tonight in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, where temperatures could hit as high as one hundred and nine temps overnight are just in
the seventies and eighties. A less severe heat advisory is in place until eight tonight in the Santa Clarita Valley, Palace Verdes Hills, coastal areas reaching into downtown La Santa Monica, Mountains Recreational Area, and the Anelope Valley Freeway Corridor. Pet experts say even grass can be too hot for pets to walk during a heat wave. They say grass indirect sunlight will get about ten degrees warmer when it's one hundred and five degrees. Concrete could be as hot as one
hundred twenty degrees, as asphalt as hot as one hundred forty degrees. With temperatures of one hundred twenty degrees, pet pause can burn in as little as five minutes. Something to remember when you're taking the pop out for a walk. News brought to you by Stemper Solaris. Adelia has become a hurricane. As we just discussed, the storms headed toward at Florida's Gulf coasts. The National Hurricane Centers warned of an increasing risk of dangerous hurricane enforced winds in Florida
for the next two days. Landfall is expected early tomorrow. It's likely to continue strengthening all the way until impact, and it could have catastrophic storm surge. Governor Ron de Santis has declared a state of emergency in forty six counties. Evacuation notices have been issued in twenty one counties, and the state has
mobilized eleven hundred National Guard members. Officials in Florida say the man behind the racist murders of three people in Jacksonville texted his father about where to find his last will and testament. And a suicide note. The dad called nine to one one and said his son had felt suicidal before when he was fifteen. He left the note a suicide note, and got on his bike and was
headed downtown to jump off a building. The dad says by the time he notified police on Saturday, the twenty one year old had already shot and killed three black people and himself at a Dollar General store. Anti government protests in southern syriaev Truck stretched into a second week. The protests started because of surging inflation and the country's spiraling economy, but quickly shifted focus with marches calling for
the fall of the Assad government. Protesters have kicked members of Assad's Bath Party out of some of their offices. They've also welld the doors shut and spray painted anti government slogans on walls, and Russia says President Vladimir Putin is not planning to attend the funeral of Mercenary chief. You have Guinea Progosian, who was killed in a plane crash. Russian investigators say that after forensic testing, it can confirm Progosian was among ten people on board the ill fated flight.
Last week, ABC's Britt Clement says Russia has not said what may have caused the private jet to suddenly fall out of the sky near Moscow and denied any responsibility for it. Officials wouldn't say when or where the leader of the Wagner Group would be buried. Some Russian media have suggested it could happen today in Progosian's home city of Saint Petersburg. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers. Good morning, Karen. What's the agenda
on the agenda for President Biden today? The President's going to be talking today about the administration's efforts to lower healthcare costs for there in families broadly, but he's specifically going to be talking about the new list that was announced today of the first ten prescription drugs selected for the Medicare price negotiations, the major step
in their effort to bring down healthcare costs. For the first time ever, the Medicare health program for older Americans can negotiate with drug companies about the price of some of its most expensive drugs. And this is happening because of the Inflation Reduction Act that the Presidents signed into law last year. The negotiations with the participating drug companies can start this year, and then we'll go into next year, and any negotiated prices go into effects starting in twenty twenty six.
So some of the drugs that were on the list today include medicines to treat blood clots, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. The White House says this is going to make a major difference for millions of seniors bringing down their out of pocket costs. And when you're talking about bringing down out of pocket costs, what kind of reductions are you talking about? Is it ten or twenty percent,
or fifty or sixty? Gotta see what the negotiation looks like. They don't really have a good estimate just yet, but the Administration says that the ten drugs that are covered that are announced today, Medicare enrollees that we're taking these ten drugs. Last year twenty twenty two paid a total of three point four billion dollars in out of pocket costs. Out of pocket costs, so that's significant. So they say that that number is certainly going to come down
once these prices are negotiated. Does Medicare have to negotiate I mean that's part of the laws of view now as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. This is a measure that was included in that legislation that Medicare is allowed to and now has to negotiate with participating drug companies that are part of the Medicare program. The companies can choose to withdraw, but that means they're not selling the
drugs into the government. And if they choose to refuse to negotiate, if they had been part of it, they could also face some heavy taxes. And are the drug companies kind of kicking and screaming or they're just going along with it so far? Not kicking and screaming from everybody. There was one lawsuit filed by murch saying that this was unconsortabitutional. They filed this back in early June. The administration told me at the time that they felt that they
were on firm legal standing on this. A lot of lawyers we talked to at the time so that they agreed. Mark said it was unconstitutional, but the White House that they were going to fight it through the whole legal process and they felt that they would prevail. So is Mark still fighting or did they kind of back down. Yes, yeah, no, the process is
still playing out, but we haven't seen a major push. I mean farmat today the big pharmaceutical lobbying company put out a statement criticizing this new surprise. They had fought it during the process of the Inflation Reduction Act being drafted into legislation. But as they say, this is something the President signed into law last year, last August, so it has been baked into law for over
a year now, didn't Isn't there already something that affects insulin. Yeah, that is the cap on insulin for seniors at thirty five dollars a month, and the White House says that that has already made a major impact for millions of Americans. That you know, this stuff has already gone into effect as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. That's had a significant impact on people. So is that sort of a testing the water. We'll see how the insulin
one goes, and then we'll expand it to more. Yeah, that went into effect on January first, and he was like nearly four million seniors with diabetes who's now had their cost cap at thirty five dollars per month, and they're looking to expand that. Then for more people. Okay, and then real quick, what kind of timeframe are we looking at if they have to start negotiating now? Are when are we expecting the drug places to actually fall?
Do we have any kind of twenty twenty six, So the negotiations will be this year and twenty twenty four, and then the negotiated prices would go into effect in twenty twenty six. Okay, thank you so much, Karen, Drivers appreciate your time this morning. I have a great day. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal jury has awarded nearly twenty four million dollars in damages to
the mother of a man shot and killed by police in Kanoga Park. The man was holding a metal bar in twenty seventeen that police said the officers believed was a machete. The other county DA's off has decided not to file charges against the officers, saying they were legally justified in firing their weapons. Windows at several businesses in the San Fernando Valley been smashed. Will he say, an La Fitness in North Hollywood, a moving supply store in Van Nuys,
and a health store in Sherman Oaks. We're all hit yesterday morning. San Clementi has asked the state to consider building temporary homeless housing for the region on state property. In Costa Mesa. The problem of homelessness is a regional issue, Thank Clementi. Councilman Steve Noblock says, the old Fairview Developmental Center could house homeless people from multiple cities in South County. San Clementi is already built
out. We don't have one hundred acre facility that's capable of housing twenty seven hundred individuals. Costa Mesa Mayor John Stephen says his city's already working with the state for permanent housing on that property. We're looking to put two thousand units there of mixed income, mixed use, kind of a village, if you will, he says. Costa Mesa partnered on the regional shelter, and San Clementi can too. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News Metro says
more than twenty three million people used transit systems in July. It marks the eighth consecutive month of year over year growth. July marked the first full month of operation for the new A and E lines. In July, ridership on those lines rose by twenty six percent on weekdays compared to the combined on the A n L lines. Last July, ridership on weekends was up nearly forty two percent. I wonder how much of that had to do with Taylor Swift.
Former President Trump has been told to work his campaign trips around a March fourth trial date in Washington, DC. Aaron Katurski says prosecutors argued Trump's behavior on a daily basis requires a speedy trial, saying he has publicly disparaged witnesses, he has attacked the integrity of the courts, the citizens of the District of Columbia who make up our jury pool, and this potentially prejudices the jury pool. Judge Tanya Shutkin says Trump, like any defendant, will have to
make the trial date work, regardless of his schedule. Trump's lawyers argued any quick trial would amount to a miscarriage of justice. Okay, you all know about TikTok trends, right, like eating tide pods and stupid stuff that can kill you. I think one of them was the cinnamon you'd take like a teaspoon of cinnamon, and I think there was one that had to do with helping people pass out, like grabbing them from behind and making them pass out.
Here are a couple of TikTok trends that may actually be good for you. There's a thing called silent walking. It's been trending since early this summer, so you know it's walking, but the trend is to do it to clear your mind. Go for a walk alone, free of distractions. It's kind of like a meditation thing, right, So here are things to do.
Walk in and near by quiet area. Take care of your basic bodily needs before you leave the house, like you know, get something to drink, something to eat, and use the restroom because those things can be distractions if I have to go to the bathroom or you're hungry, you're thirsty. Make sure it's just you and your thoughts. So silent walking really means no
phone, no music, no walking buddy, and no dog. It doesn't sound like much fun to me. I like taking an animal with me, I like going for walks with friends, and I love having music if I'm going by myself. So but silent walking. And then here's the other one, bed rotting. It's not as gross as it sounds. So it involves spending the day in bed, scrolling through social media, binge watching your favorite
shows, or just sleeping or doing other relaxing things. Bed Rotting, i think, is one of my favorite things to do in the whole world. I'm a big advocate of bed rotting. I think I did it over the weekend. I watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, which came out and now it's streaming so you don't have to pay for it. And then I jumped into the rabbit hole and watched all the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and now I'm watching the end of the Marvel Series two. I tend
to do that, so bed rotting is perfect for me. This is KFI and kost HT two, Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. If you missed any wake up call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.