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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Happy Tuesday, Happy rainy Tuesday. Still raining, but my ride in wasn't too bad, and said things producer and said things were a little bit dicey, but I didn't have any flooding or anything on the freeways as I was headed in, although I know that that it can be different in different parts of town. So and I'm very happy people

are listening to my advice and heating my warnings to slow down. We didn't have any crazy drivers, at least I didn't run into them this morning. But the day is still young. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Flash flood warnings and flood advisories are still in effect for much of La and Ventura Counties. The National Weather Service said there have been several rock slides, mudslides, flooded roads, and more rain is expected to fall through the day.

The storm is also expected to produce big waves of the beaches and gusty winds in the mountains and foothills. Five to ten inches of snow as possible above sixty five hundred feet. The un Security Council will vote this morning on a resolution put up by Arab nations demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The US will most certainly veto it, but the hope is to show there's

broad global support for ending the Israel Hamas war. Capital Ones announced plans to buy Discover for thirty five billion dollars in a deal that would bring together two of the nation's biggest lenders and credit card companies. The value of both banks is up as Americans continue to rack up credit card debt. At six oh five, It's handled on the news, the Alabama Supreme Court says frozen embryos are people which could have wide ranging implications on people who use in vitro fertilization

to get pregnant. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Of course, the big one is the rain. Flash. Flood warnings and flood advisories are in effect through tomorrow morning over much of La County. Also Venturists and a Barber counties as a winter storm continues to plow through the state. Crews have responded to at least

twenty seven reports of fallen trees and branches. There were four reports of mud sides and debris flows yesterday, including one in Latuna Canyon near Sun Valley. On the other side of town. Part of Benedict Canyon Road was restricted to

local access only because of a collapsing roadway. Mulholland Drive is closed between Skyline and Beaumont because of severe damage in four different locations, and a sinkhole has closed the Skirball Center Drive Mulholland Drive off ramp from the northbound four h five members of the California Faculty Association have voted to approve a new contract agreement with the cal State University System. The union says seventy six percent of voting members

approved. The agreement, which was reached last month, still needs to be approved by CSU trustees. The owner of a jewelry store in Riverside has scared off two smash and grab robbers with a shotgun. The owner fired shots at the floor and towards the robbers to scare them off. We don't have an exact total yet, but we do believe that they made out with a decent amount of stolen jewelry. Riverside police officer Ryan Railsback says the two robbers followed

a woman through the stores automatic locking door Saturday. Once inside, the two began smashing display cases with hammers and loading up on jewelry. Nobody was injured in the shooting. Blake trolley k if I News. President Biden says he's considering more sanctions against Russia in response to the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Biden told reporters yesterday he'd be willing to enact additional sanctions on top of

those already levied after Russia invaded Ukraine. He also accused Republicans of not responding properly to the death of the Russian opposition leader. The way they're walking away from the spread of Russia, the way they're walking away from NATO, the way they're walking away from leading our obligations. David Pass a shocking. Biden is still pushing for Congress to approve a bill passed in the Senate that includes another sixty billion dollars in funding for Ukraine. Hiker who got lost in the

Jeli's National Forest has been rescued thanks to his iPhone. The hiker got lost near the Arroyo Seco Research Foundation that's next to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He was on his way to see Switzer Falls Sunday night, but never quite made it. His iPhone SOS feature let authorities know where he was, and a rescue crew went out and got him. The man and the rescue crew then liked about two hours back to safety. It is five oh six

on your wake up call. Let's now say good morning to ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers Karen. Last week, President Biden says there was really no point in meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson about border security, but he may have changed his mind on this. Yeah, So yesterday the President was asked about a meeting with Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, and he said I'd be happy to meet with him if he has anything to say. So that

could be an important qualifier. That second phraser A big president beg if I mean I have to say, you know, nobody's asking me to put a quarter on it. But I'm not really setting a schedule for this meeting just yet, and if it does get scheduled, I just don't know what a big breakthrough it might produce. Because the White House has been very clear going back to last week and you and I talked about this, they just didn't

see the value of this meeting. The House Speaker had requested several times for a one on one meeting, we are told several times the White House denied those requests because they say that Johnson is holding up the legislation that passed with biparty support in the Senate and had demanded the same kind of border deal that he had killed already this month, and so they just don't know what a conversation could produce, and they don't really want to reopen negotiations at this point

between the President and Mike Johnson when there is legislation from the Senate on the table for the House to move forward on. And this morning very strong statement from the White House saying that House Republicans are off on recess right now, which they call an early undeserved vacation, fairly or unfairly, and that there is this Senate bill on the table for them that they could just take up and pass, and then the ninety five billion dollars is there for Ukraine,

Israel, and Taiwan. So I think it's still all indications are it's the Senate bill or bust from the White House perspective, and maybe the President meets with Johnson, but it's not like they're going to go back to square one and start renegotiating all of that all over again, because from the White House perspective, that's already been done. Okay. And also, they can do border security all day, but they have they have the ninety five billion dollar

measure ready to go. Yeah, and that's the money that would go to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan. It does not have border measures in it because remember, as we talked about, it was there and then it got taken out when the House Speaker and House Republican said they were not going to move forward on it after that public and private pressure from Donald Trump over it. So they said we're not going to take it up. So the Senate said, fine, we're just going to take it out because we want to at

least pass something, and that's what they did. Okay. I want to shift over now to Alexey Navalny. The president has come out following his death saying that President Putin is responsible for the opposition leader's death. Does that just that statement carry any weight, or is there something he can do following that. You know, yesterday the President said that he is considering sanctions, additional sanctions on Russia. He did not say what kind of sanctions they would be

or any timing on that. He did make it clear and he had said this last Friday as well, that there already are sanctions on Russia, like significant sanctions over the past two years, just because of the war in Ukraine. So it's not clear what more could be done and what impact that would have. Administration officials have told us that they are considering something more against human rights violators connected to Navalney's imprisonment, So something very symbolic and specific related to

Navalney. But you know, it's not clear on the timing of that. But the President wasn't showing any cards on it. He was very strong last week though, when he talked about Alexi Navalney's death. He said, you know, Russian authorities will tell their own story, he said, But make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalney's death, he said, and it's

another more proof of Putin's brutality. Okay, and then just one really quick question is there any buzz about whether Navaldny's death will sway any Republicans to get on board with that with that Ukraine funding. The President was asked that specifically yesterday and he said, I hope so, but I'm not sure, Laurie. They're all on recess, so they're not here for another week. So nothing's happening for a while. Okay, nothing is happening for a while.

All right, ABC's Karen Travis, thank you so much for the information this morning. I have a great day, all right, you too. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Huntington Beach voters will decide in March weather to implement a voter ID

law in the city and a plan to monitor ballot dropboxes. California State Senator Dave Minn says he's going to work to stop cities and counties in California from putting up their own restrictions on elections, and basically, when you think about it, we don't want a bunch of different cities making up their own rules on what types of voter ID you may or may not need when you show up, he says. Voter ID would bring down turnout and create barriers,

especially for seniors, young people, and communities of color. The mayor of Huntington Beacha's residents are questioning the integrity of their elections and have been asking for voter ID for a long time. California's one of fifteen states that does not have voter ID laws. A short term funding bill for the US is set to expire in ten days, and as we were just talking with Karen Travers

about, Congress is on a two week break. Lawmakers are due back February twenty eighth, which is just two days before the March first deadline to fund some government agencies. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he will not pass another short term funding bill. Well, that could get very interesting, couldn't it. The Biden administration says the computer chip company Global Founderies is getting one and

a half billion dollars to expand domestic production in New York and Vermont. It's the third award of financial support for a semiconductor company under the twenty twenty two Chips and Science Act. The law allows the government to invest more than fifty two billion dollars to revitalize the manufacturing of computer chips. In the US, a Gucci store in New York City has been robbed. Believe say two men and a woman walked into a store just afternoon yesterday and ordered the cashier to

get on the floor. They say the three stole luggage and other items before they took off in a Honda CRV. No one got hurt. NASA says, you're running out of time if you want to live on Mars sort of. The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHIPEA, is accepting applications for people who want to live inside a habitat designed to mimic life on Mars.

There journey unfolds over the coming year. It's through this stellar crew that NASA scientists will learn critical insights on the physical and behavioral aspects of a mission on Mars. Judy Hayes is with the Johnson Space Center in Houston. She says, looking for healthy, motivated people who are non smokers, thirty to fifty five years old, and proficient in English. They are about to embark on an analog mission that encompasses operations, logistics, and research of living and

working on Mars for three hundred and seventy eight days. The crew will do research and live on the food they grow. A group of four entered last summer, and when they leave next spring, the next group will take over. It's a paid gig, and there's more information on NASA's website. The deadline to apply is April second. Steve Goregory, King of Fine News. That sounds very cool, but it reminds me of when they went into the

geosphere. The geodome or something on Cheers could be interesting. Ever, wonder how you measure up when it comes to other people making money? Well, here's the numbers. The average salary in the US for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three was fifty nine, three hundred and eighty four dollars. The highest average earners are between thirty five and forty four. They make thirteen point eight percent more than the national average salary. Love these numbers. The average

salary by occupation. You want to make a lot of money, you should be a cardiologist. They make them at four under and twenty one thousand dollars a year. And if you want to not make a lot of money, you should shampoo people because shampoos earn the lowest average salary. The gender pay gap men versus women closing a little bit more, down point seven percent in the last year, but between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two it grew

by one point three percent. I think that's a net loss. And when it comes to wage growth versus inflation, the average salary in Q four of twenty twenty three grew by five point four percent. That's great. There was also a three point two percent increase in inflation, so your your raise is smaller and inflation's up, like you know, twenty percent or so in the

last couple of years, So I think that's still a net loss. Right when we come back, we're going to find out why people are putting more and more on their credit cards, speaking of money and earnings, why they're working longer, and why younger people are not saving for a rainy day. It's almost time to learn how to money with our very own Joel lars Gard. That's coming up right now, Right next, you're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. It's Tuesday, got more rain

on the way. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, and evacuation warning remains in effect in the Tapanga Canyon area till nine tomorrow morning. The warning for the area along Santain Maury Road, northeast of Tapanga Canyon Boulevard and southeast of Calabasas was issued yesterday after about three inches of rain fell in just a few hours. A four or five freeway off ramp in the spob of the pass expected to be closed for up to a month.

A large sinkhole opened up yesterday the northbound side off ramp of the Skirball Center and Mullholland Drive exit. President Biden's headed to La today for a fundraising event. Tickets to the event going forward between thirty three hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and along with presidential arrival traffic jams, so we don't only have the rain to deal with, we'll be dealing with presidential traffic as well. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Have you been

arriving earlier than expected on your flights lately? Could it be because of climate change? Bill's going to dig into that for you. Right now. Let's say good morning to the host of How to Money on KFI. It's our very own Joel Larscard, Good morning, Joel, morning Amy. Okay, so just real quick because I know this this was sort of a new development, but Capital One is going to buy Discover for thirty five billion dollars.

Yeah, so that's really kind of fascinating. And the Wall Street Journal ran with that story last night and weet just two big banks trying to combine is in kind of today's regulatory climate. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens and whether the various government entities want to allow this to actually take

place. But for Capital One, it kind of makes sense because what they're looking to do is compete with Visa and MasterCard and Discover is really the nobody really thinks of Discover Visa and MasterCard or the big two, And so maybe a combo of Capital One and Discover can allow them to bring Discover into more

prominence and create some more competition for the big guys. Which it's kind of like when you think about two airlines two smaller airlines merging, right, I kind of think about it like this, is it actually going to provide more competition or is it going to reduce competition? That's what the regulators are gonna have to sift through well. And what I want to know is it going to make for like better interest rates for us, better opportunities for us,

or does it create fewer choices? And that's the question right now that remains. And I think it could potentially mean lower fees for small businesses and bring down prices for all of us if Discover becomes a serious third player challenging that dooly essentially a Visa and MasterCard. But it remains to be seen whether or not a merger of Capital Want and Discover can pull that off and become really a third entrenched player in that payment system, or if they're still going to

remain kind of a third tier part payment system. Okay, so this isn't a done deal by any stretch, so we'll be watching it, but it's out on the table now. Yeah, for sure. Since we were talking about banks and credit cards, people are racking up more credit card debt these days. Why oh man, why do people use credit cards and not pay them off? I don't know, they don't have dollars well, And also the truth is for some people, sure it is the extension of not making

enough money. Prices going up for other people it's just poor financial habits, right, And the overall headline credit card debt number has risen to one point one trillion dollars and that sounds really scary. I mean, it was just a few months ago we were talking about crossing that trillion dollar threshold. But when we're talking about levels of debt per household, and when we're talking about pre pandemic levels versus now, well they're actually it's not as bad as as

it seems. That headline number stinks and it's not something I like to see. It's not something I encourage or root on. But it's not as bad maybe as you might see when you're just like looking at the headline. But yeah, it's a problem, and that means I think the average credit card

balance for individuals or families is something like six thousand dollars. And when that continues to revolve, especially with higher interest rates right now we're talking twenty one twenty two percent interest rates on your credit card, that becomes a cycle that's hard to get out of. And it's crucial to get the help to either develop a payment plan on your own, whether you go in debt snowball,

debt avalanchees are two different debt payoff methods that you can use. But or if you are in even more serious debt, have more serious debt problems, and you need to seek out like a nonprofit credit counseling center. Money Management International is one of those great places to turn. But yeah, you need to get out of credit card debt. This is a problem. This shouldn't be normal. Okay, What Joel, in your opinion, is the number one thing people should do when they go Okay, it's out of control.

I got to stop it. What's the number one thing they should start doing today? The biggest thing is to take inventory of your expenses. And like, there was a recent study about your recurring subscriptions and how much money do you spend in subscriptions and people guessed how much they had in recurring subscriptions every month. They've vastly underestimated what it is that's going out. Yeah, you

know, I was just thinking about that the other day. I think it was after you and I were talking about streaming, and I was like, how many streaming things do I have? Uh huh? And I need to go and look and look at the bills. Well, it happens to all of us, like I realized the other day when inside of our Amazon Prime somebody in our family subscribe to Paramount Plus, and I was like, wait a second, I didn't know we were paying for this, and so I went back to look at it and I'm like, oh, yeah, we've

been paying for it for two months. And so you have to go through and know what's going out before you can solve the problem, before you can plug the leaks. And so many people don't check over their credit card statements, don't have a budget, and don't reconcile that budget. Back in the day, we used to have checkbooks with registers and everything had to kind of reconcile right and or at least if you were if we were paying attention,

it did. And so that's the biggest problem I think, is not knowing where the money's going. Once you know where the money's going, you can start to make cuts and you can start to say, wait a second, I didn't even know I was spending on that, or I don't even care about that, and that's when you can start to cancel those services or cut back and pair back on your spending, Like you might not even realize how much you're spending eating out. The average American spends more eating out than they

do on groceries to eat in, which is insane. It's kind of crazy to think about that. That happened just after the pandemic essentially where that switched. And so it's it's worth looking into and seeing where is the money going so I can make changes. Yeah, I'm like, you just remind me, like I'm good about some things about you know, the going out thing versus the staying in or getting a Starbucks for five bucks or making a whole pot of coffee for ten cents. I'm good about the Starbucks thing. The

other parts not so much. Yeah, And part of that then you have to just kind of say, well, what are my financial priorities? And I think sometimes budget's like a four letter word people it's like get on a budget and people are like, yeah, they tune it out because it's it's such old tired advice. The truth is, if you think about the budget differently, that it's going to help you one get out of some of that debt that's hanging over you and stressing you out, and too, if it's

going to help you achieve financial goals that are more important to you. So right now, money's just being frittered away on all of these different things. And if you say, wait a second, we wanted to take that eight thousand dollars vacation to Tahiti. I think we can do it. If we buckle down and we like know where the money's going, and we make some

changes and we move it around, that can actually help you. I think having those bigger overarching goals, it's what's key to sticking to a budget and it actually becomes this really hopeful enterprise instead of this like this drudgery thing where you're like, you're not trying to necessarily save every penny, You're just trying to make sure it's funneled in the directions that bring you the most joy. Okay, I like that. I like that. I want to get some

more great advice on how to get your financial house in order. Listen to How to Money noon to two on Sunday right here on KFI with our very own Joel Larsguard, or you can follow Joel at how to Money. Joel, thanks so much, looking forward to talking to you next week and listening this weekend. Sounds good. Thanks Amy. All right, take care, Jim, Let's get started. Or let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A pedestrian's been hit by

a car and killed on a northbound five and Sun Valley. HP responded around six point thirty last night to an area near the Tuxford Street exit, where officers found the man's body. They say no cars were stopped in the area when they arrived. A man arrested in the killing of two students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was the roommate of one of the students killed.

Officials are just releasing that information. The murders happened Friday. Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vesquez says the guy arrested yesterday was found three miles from the university. It really is very critical that we dot every I and cross every tea and make sure that that investigation is as time as possible. Classes were canceled yesterday so students could take part in a day of healing. And a bill's been introduced in Sacramento to make the yellow slightly slimy, big old Banana

slug the official Golden State slug. Good to see. Lawmakers are focusing their attention on really important issues. When we come back, we're gonna check in with ABC's Jim Ryan about how what goes up must come down, and it's about to Southland. Weather from KFI heavy rain at times, gusty winds, chance of thunderstorms today and tonight. Ees in the low sixties at the beaches Metro La and Inlando c right around sixty in the Valley's low sixties in the

Inland Empire, forties and fifties in the high Desert. The rain should end by tomorrow afternoon and then we'll be dry for a couple of days after that, and then there's a chance of rain again this weekend. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Do you hear that it's Love your Pet Day? That's every day. Here's what we're following

in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Flash flood warnings and flood advisories are still in effect for much of La and Ventura County Santa Barbara County two. The National Weather Services been a lot of rocksides, mudslides and flooded roads, with more rain expected to fall through today, plus big waves at the beaches, gusty winds in the mountains and foothills, and five to ten inches of

snow above sixty five hundred feet. View and Security Council is going to vote this morning on a resolution put up by Arab nations demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The US will most certainly veto it, but the war or the hope, is to show there's broad global support for ending the Israel Hamas War. A new study shows taking antidepressants like prozac while pregnant can impair a

child's brain development and possibly cause mental disorders later in life. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest antidepressants that raise serotonin levels can influence how the brain learns and adjusts. At six oh five, is handle on the news. A GoFundMe page has raised a half million dollars to help former President Trump pay that massive three hundred and fifty five million dollar fine. Anti

Trumper's not happy about it. At five point fifty, with ships continuing to be attacked in the Red Sea, the US is going to be getting some help in getting those ships safely through. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, We got a lot of junk orbiting the Earth, and at some point what goes up must come down, Yeah,

but it can take years for it to actually come down. In the meantime, it's hurtling through space and causing potential conflicts with rockets that are going up, satellites that are already in space, other stuff that needs to get out there. So yeah, it's a problem, and it has been for the last few decades. Since twenty twelve, the number of satellites or a number of rockets launched into space has risen exponentially. From nineteen sixty to about twenty

twelve, we stayed fairly constant in the number of launches. Well, and now with SpaceX, with Blue Origin, with all these others, I mean that the number has risen dramatically. Well, they're going up like almost every week, seems like, yeah, yeah, some different kind of mission is being launched all the time. On Sunday another mission was launched. This is a little JAP East satellite whose mission is to go out into space and to find a spent rocket that went up in two thousand and nine. And like

lots of space junk is just kind of hurtling through space. This one's doing four and a half miles per second, and it's pretty typical. I mean, it's a typical piece of space junk. But the goal is for this little satellite to catch up with it, which is no mean feat. It doesn't have transponders or something that makes it easy to track. So the satellite will catch up with it. It will study its trajectory, you study it's tumble and see how it might be dealt with, and then in a couple

of years another satellite will be set up to do something about it. Either nudge that rocket down into Earth's atmosphere so it burns up and goes away, or push it out into space essentially, So there are plans in the works to deal with all the space junk that's out there, Amy Jim. How do they find something that's traveling seventeen thousand miles an hour? Yeah, not

easy. Well, first of all, you know, they keep charts and they keep maps and notes on stuff that goes up, and then using some pretty high math that is way above me, they figure out where this stuff should be. And then of course they use the ground based radar and different kinds of technology. Space based radar in some cases to keep track of all

this stuff. But if you look at there, there's a chart, a beautiful chart and illustration showing our Earth there and all of the space junk that's around it represented by little dots, and we are just surrounded by this stuff. Is it a problem? Well, it is if you plan on going into space, traveling to the Moon or to Mars, or putting up an object of your own. The International Space Station since nineteen ninety nine has had

to course correct thirty times because of potential conflicts with space junk. Right, so it's already causing some problems out there. Well, it reminds me of two things. One the movie Gravity, because space junk hit the space station or wherever they were up there on and that caused the whole catastrophic collision. Yeah. And then also Wally, remember Wally, they're in the spaceship, because they show this picture of Earth and it's just surrounded by crap. Yeah.

Right, And that's kind of what it looks like out there. Is you know, space is big, as they said in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, really big, but it's lower Earth orbit lower. The orbit is not infinite, right, And this stuff takes up space and it's it's cruising along and causing potential conflict. So yeah, it's it's something that people are thinking about. At least are there any plans to clear the cosmos? Well, yeah, that's kind of the goal of this test that's under weigh right

now, this test of technology. And then there are some cool ideas out there so that a satellite in the future could go up and nudge a piece of space junk down into a lower orbit so that it burns up in our atmosphere here and causes there's no problems. There's also something which I think is really cool. It's a piece of tape or a ribbon that would be attached

to satellites before they're launched. So the satellite goes up, it does its job, and a couple of years later it's dead right and the batteries die or whatever, and its mission is finished. So then the drag racer ribbon would be deployed. It's seventy meters long. It's called they call it terminator

tape. It creates enough drag that the satellite starts to slow down and eventually the orbit degrades and it falls into Earth's atmosphere and burns up, so it's kind of like a like a parachute on the back of a drag racer. All right, I got another idea because you said that the tape was going to come out, and I said, what are you going to do? Like fly paper and just go and go buy in anything that you run into, it'll just stick to it and they'll collect all the junk and clear it

out. Well, there is an idea, by the way, kind of like that, to have big magnets, to have a big steel plate on the side of the SAT, and then a satellite or another rocket or whatever the collection device would have a magnet and would clink onto this thing and then pull it down into Earth's orbit to burn up or do whatever they're gonna do with it. So, yeah, they're trying to find ways to collect this stuff. Twenty five thousand pieces of space junk, larger than a softball,

traveling at four and a half miles per second each one. You can see the potential problem there. All right, Well, let's help this little Japanese satellite is successful so they can start fixing this problem. Yeah, it's a bigger problem every year. Yeah, all right, if youcs. Jim Ryan, thank you so much. If you want to follow Jim, it's at Jim Ryan TX like Texas. Thanks Jim to ya. Let's get back to

some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. City Council in Rancho Palace Verdi's plans to formally ask Governor Newsom to declare a state of emergency because of the shifting ground on the peninsula. The declaration would help clear the way for immediate work to be done to stabilize the area. Elle County Supervisor Janis Hans says she thinks Newsome should visit the area and see the

storm damage for himself. Some homes are on an eroding cliff side, and the historic Wayfarer's Chapel, as we've been telling you about this week, is on the verge of collapsing. It's been closed indefinitely. The OC Water District has collected eight point three billion gallons of rainwater so far this month. That's enough for two hundred four thousand people for a year. That's enough water to

serve the entire city of Huntington Beach for a whole year. O Swater District GM John Kennedy says about ten days a year, storm water must be released from Proto Dam so fast that it just flows into the ocean free water that mother Nature has sent us. But new storm prediction tech could help. The cler of engineers can keep more water behind the dam because they have better information on where the storms are going to hit or not hit. Kennedy says they're

also working to increase Proto Dam's storage capacity in Orange County. Corbin Carson caf I News, Taco Bell and Salton Straw ice Cream a partner to bring back Klondike's Choco Taco. The fan favorite was discontinued after forty years in twenty twenty two, but it's gonna come back this summer. The new version includes a hand pressed waffle cone filled with cinnamon and cho ice cream, dipped in chocolate

and then topped with toasted brown rice rice. Okay, that's weird. It's gonna be served with custom sauce packets including chocolate, chili, cinnamon, wild berry, and mango jalapeno. It'll also come with cheesecake dip. The new Choco Taco will first be available at Salt and Straw. Okay, except for the rice part. I'm all in on that, Nick Pouliochini, what do you think, choco taco? Yes, but the rice, it's the rice crispies. That's what those brown rice things are, toasted brown rice like,

yes, rice crispies. Okay, that sounds better. I was like, gross, brown rice on a taco. Yeah, no, no, no, I got you. No, it's a toasted brown rice crispies. That's the thing, because obviously they're trademarked. So okay, thank you so much for clearing that up. It it helps a lot, and now he's going to help you get a you're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty heavy rain, gusty winds, snow in the mountains, and

even thunderstorms expected today as a winter storm continues to move through Socoal. The rain has caused flooding in several areas, closing roads. LA City crews have responded to twenty seven reports of fallen trees and branches and four reports of mudslides so far. Four oh five freeway off ramp in the Supolvida Pass is expected to be closed for up to a month. A large sinkhole opened up yesterday

in the northbound off ramp to the Skirball Center Mullholland Drive. The four leading candidates running for California's open US Senate seat will debate for a third time. Democrats Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barber Lee and Republican Steve Garvey will debate at six o'clock tonight on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot. The March fifth primary is just two weeks away, and we're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, the US has introduced its own UN resolution for

a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. In the face of continued attacks against ships traveling through the Red Sea, it's now not only the US working to protect those vessels. Yeah, and it's a bit nuanced though. The U, finally kind of late off the bat has now decided they're going to do some help in the Red Sea, and they've said, yes, they will go out there. They will have a flotilla of some sort and assist vessels that may be

in trouble. But the caveat is they will not unlike the US, and to a smaller degree, the UK. They will not be launching any air strikes against Uthy targets in Yemen, so it goes some way, but it is not a quote unquote game changer. And as far as the assets, at this stage, it looks like Germany will be supplying one frigate and Belgium going to be doing the same thing. So we expect others maybe adding a few, but it's not going to be a huge, huge deployment, if

you will. So they're going to go there, but they're not going to actually be doing anything in a military capacity, So it's just a show of strength maybe well part of it. Yeah, but if you're you know, we had Sunday, we had a cargo vessel, British registered cargo vessel, the Ruby Mayor, and that was hit by Houthy missile and it was severe enough that the crew had abandoned ship. Were still not clear how bad that ship is right now. Hoothy's today claim that that ship has in fact sunk.

That has not been confirmed yet. I was in the Gulf of Aden heading into the Red Sea. But you know that that kind of stuff is happening. What these EU vessels could do in a case like that, come alongside steam to the position, come alongside and disembark crews that may have to depart a vessel. That kind of thing. Oh okay, I guess that makes sense. Doesn't seem like it's that effective, but you know, okay.

And then some are saying that the who these are attacking ships that are taking shipments to Israel, and that's why they're attacking and targeting those ships. But is that actually the case? You know, it's been it's been interesting. They've they're their track record by the numbers, they do have a few, maybe a handful of of hits on ships, they've attacked many more quote

unquote unsuccessfully. But they would be going after, as you point out, vessels that may be going to to Israel or countries that support Israel, such as the US, such as the UK case in point, the British registered vessel that was hit on Sunday. They've also hit some other vessels that have nothing at all to do with GOS. So, Yes, their intelligence is a bit suspect, and yeah, it really calls into question. You know, they're the quote unquote ability for them to ferret out and choose targets that

would support their contention, that they're doing this to help the Palestinians. Okay. So and at this point we know that they've been launching missiles and dropping stuff from drones in the Red Sea for a while now, but nobody's been killed in the Red Sea yet, No, no, exactly. It's interesting

for what it's worth. Uh came out in a in a press statement from a military spokesman in Senna, saying this particular ship on Sunday, we don't want anybody killed and we're glad that the that the entire crew got off safely. You know that that might be just for the colonel. Yet they said that in a statement a colonel for the Jutis. And again that's you that

that's just you know, playing internationally. But that's at least they're they're stated, and that in that regard as stated, if you will position that they're not out there to kill people, but they are out there to disrupt traffic. Okay, And what's at stake if these ships are stopped from traveling through the Red Sea, Well then again, as you well know, it goes around South Africa, so it takes ten to fourteen additional days to get to

Europe. And that means a lot more costs case. I point one item over here in the UK about the variety of things that come from Asia. Of course, every kitchen here is stacked up with things that were made in China. But be that as it may, there could in fact be a t shortage down the road in the UK. Oh no, exactly. So that's what and that's what the Brits are saying. They're going, you know, well, you know your kettles, they might go. And they're saying,

well, kettles last a long time. We don't care. But if you say your supply of tea is going to be a lot more expensive if you can get it, Yeah, they're going a little litle bit goofy on that particular ride. Okay, well, we will be watching. Thank you so much for the information, Tom, appreciate it. Take care, all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has declared a major disaster in San Diego

County for the storm January twenty second. The caused widespread flooding and damage. The declaration covers local, state, and tribal recovery efforts, with money available for temporary housing and home repairs. It'll also provide low cost loans for uninsured property losses and small business programs. President Biden's returning to California to pick up more money for his reelection campaign. Air Force ones expected to arrive this afternoon

at LAX. Biden will be going to a fundraiser hosted by some of his longtime donors. It'll make an appearance in Culver City tomorrow before he heads up to the Bay Area for more fundraising. A large collection of guns has been seized in South LA. The LAPD says the Newton Division's Gang Enforcement Detail had been watching a group of about fifty to seventy gang members near a warehouse on East sixteenth Street when they noticed the guys drinking alcohol and smoking narcotics on a

public sidewalk. The officers say when they approached the group Saturday afternoon, the guy scattered, Some had weapons and tried to toss him backup. Was called in, and officers did a skirmish line to control the crowd. Three guys were arrested and seventeen guns found, six of which are ghost guns. Steve Gregory can't you fine? Ows the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says she knows why President Putin killed her husband and will release details soon. She

says she'll name names and show faces. ABC's Britt Clennant says Julia Navalni released a nine minute video message yesterday saying Russia's regime must be punished for killing her husband. She said she will continue his work to fight for a free Russia, calling on her supporters to stand with her. She blamed Putin for her husband's death. The Kremlin denies that Navalney is accused Russia of hiding her husband's body to cover up his murder. Russian prison officials said last week, Alexey

Navolney died while out on a walk. Okay, there's something really cool that's happening in Huntington Beach right now. At least I think it's very cool. It's okay, it's a roomba for the water. So you know, you have the little roomba and it goes and just kind of patrols around your living

room and picks up all the dirt. Well, so there's this little robot device that is floating around Huntington Harbor and it's sucking up trash, so it's There are rovers that have been sent out to six different locations in Florida. There's another one in Cincinnati, but Huntingdon Beach program is the first one in southern California, but they're looking at doing it at some mother beaches as well.

The rovers called the av Pro. It has been going out each week at two different locations in the harbor and it goes out, does its thing for about an hour and then it comes back and it's got a bag attached to it so it tows all the debris behind it. And since the trials started on fiber first, they've brought in about two hundred gallons of trash.

During five cleanups, they've filled six thirty two gallon trash cans everything from sticks and twigs to bags, bottles, cigarette butts, balloons, and even cans of paint. I think it's super cool. In fact, it's so cool that our very own Corbin Carson is going to be going out and doing a story about it later today, so we'll get more information throughout the day.

Pretty cool. Hey, It's National Cherry Pie Day, a day to celebrate what's been dubbed the Great American dish cherry pie second most popular pie in the US, next to apple, and it's all thanks to the English colonists who brought cherries to the US in the sixteen hundreds. The pie is traditionally made with tart cherries, black cherries, or Morello cherries. It can be topped with ice cream, even in Kansas, where it was once illegal to put

a scoop on a slice. Seriously, it was illegal. 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 iHeart Radio app.