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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 this Friday, February twenty third. I'm Amy King, got my coffee, got yours, jumping up and down, getting the energy going, getting ready to go. Technical producer Tony is disagreeing with me completely. At least your eyes are open, Tony, so that's good. Hey. You know, the SAG Awards are this weekend, and as being an employee of KFI, we are union members, so we get to screen

the movies. So I had to catch up because the voting deadline is noon, and I've seen most of them, but there was a couple I hadn't seen. And the one I hadn't seen, or one of the ones I hadn't seen, was Poor Things, the Emma Stone movie. It was weird and I remember people saying it's weird, and I'm not going to tell you any about it because I had no idea what it was really about, and uh, I guess that made it more entertaining. She did. She did

an amazing job. But just know that there's a lot of sex and a lot of nudity. So I'm glad I didn't go like to a movie theater with a friend and see it because it would have been really uncomfortable. She's amazing, but uh anyway, and then I also watched The Color Purple because it's nominated for a couple of things. And I have to tell you, some of the songs were really good. Some of them kind of fell short. And I think my expectations were too high because I loved the original movie

The Color Purple. I thought it was just so so iconic and good. So this one just kind of dragged on and I found myself up and about doing stuff around the house and then going, oh, wait, I'm watching a movie. So anyway, That's that's how I spent my day yesterday. But here's what's ahead. On wake Up Call today, AT and T says a cell phone outage that affected about seventy five thousand phones across the US is

over. AT and T says it was a technical issue, but the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI say they are going to look into the outage to make sure it wasn't part of a cyber attack. Plans to build a gondola to take fans from Union Station over neighborhoods to Dodger Stadium are a step closer to becoming reality. The La Metro Board of Directors approved an environmental impact statement yesterday and also okay plans to address concerns of residents and business owners who

will be impacted by the gondola. Google has put its Gemini AI image generator on pause. Apparently users had been complaining that it was generating inaccurate historical images like black founding fathers, a female pope, and also black vikings. Google says it's working on a fix and will release an updated version of the generator pretty soon. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. We're

coming up on the two year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At and T says sell service that affected more than seventy thousand customers yesterday. Actually an interruption was not caused by a cyber attack. ABC's Josh Marglin's has the company confirmed it was a coding error. Somebody did something with the software with the updating moving back and forth. They say it was purely a

software glitch. It was resolved and they are working to make sure that everything is fixed and doesn't happen again. The outages started at just shortly after midnight our time yesterday and affected service pretty much all day. Jurors in the murder trial of Grossman Burne Foundation co founder Rebecca Grossman are do back in court in Van Nuys for their first full day of deliberations. They got the case yesterday.

Grossman is charged with killing two young brothers in twenty twenty while speeding in Westlake Village. Her lawyers have argued hers was not the first car that hit the boys. The judge in former President Trump's civil fraud trial in New York has denied a request to delay enforcement of penalties. Trump was ordered to pay three hundred and fifty five million dollars earlier this week and was given a month to do it. His lawyers asked for a thirty day extension to come up

with the money. The judge found Trump's team failed to explain or justify any basis for a delay. The first US spacecraft has landed on the Moon's surface since Apollo seventeen touchdown in nineteen seventy two. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised the effort it took to get the Odysseus to the Moon yesterday, a new adventure in science, innovation, an American leadership in space. Well, all of that aced the landing of a lifetime. The unmanned lander will spend about a

week gathering data before it loses power. NASA is planning to land a crew near the Moon's south pole in twenty twenty six. Just getting news into the KFI news room, the President Biden has announced more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine and the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny.

The US is also imposing exports export restrictions on about one hundred entities that support Russia's military efforts, and will also take action to reduce Russia's energy revenues. Those all coming from a statement released by the White House. President Biden has met with the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalney, who died in

prison. Biden says Navolney was a man of incredible courage. We're going to be announcing the sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, and that the one thing I made that was made clear to me is that Yolana is She's going to continue to fight. The US is expected to impose more than five hundred new sanctions, which had just announced this morning. They will again target Russia's military industrialized complex, energy revenues, and third parties who ass

s MUSCO and assessing or accessing supplies required for the war effort. A fake doctor from Orange County who served prison time for practicing without a license allegedly tried to open a new, unlicensed business just two weeks after he got out of prison. The Orange County DA's Kimberly Eds says Elias Segoviano pleaded guilty to charges less than a year ago that he targeted mostly Hispanic women and did illegal botox

procedures on them. Many of these women suffered serious disfigurement as a result because he had no idea what he was doing. Prosecutors say the guy was released from prison on December twenty second and tried to start the new business on January fourth. He's facing the same charges he did before. A federal judge in Orange County says the founder of an alleged white supremacist group will not face charges related to a fight because of anti fire right bias. The man and others

are accused of attacking rivals at a rally back in twenty seventeen. Well A judge ruled Wednesday that because the prosecutors chose not to go after charges against Antifa members from the same rally, he was not going to allow charges against the far right group, even though he said they deserve to be prosecuted. The judge said far left groups did much worse. LA County says the food delivery

app grub Hub has been ripping off customers. The suit, filed Wednesday afternoon, alleges, among other things, grub Hub would promote free food but then add on hidden fees at the last minute. Scott Coons, an attorney with the county, and says the companies also misrepresenting driver's fees on the app. It's sort of like hide the ball, bait and switched tactics that are very frustrating for consumers and frustrating for drivers. Grubhub disputes the claims and says it's

clarified language on the app to be more transparent. Steve Gregory KFI News, a former FBI and format accused of lying about bribery allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter is back in federal custody. ABC's alex Stonesa's The arrest yesterday came as Alexander Smirnoff was meeting with his lawyers in Vegas. There was a warrant tell this charges from California, on which he had been previously arrested.

According to his attorney, Smirnavy is charged with making false statements to federal agents. Smirnov is also charged with having ties to Russia. He was initially set free Tuesday under certain conditions, like having to wear a GPS monitor and turning over his passports. Prosecutors argued his foreign ties and access to money would allow him to flee the country before going to trial. A bachelor's degree from community

college could be free under a new state bill. Assemblyman Miguel Santiago says the state's education system has enough money to offer the free degrees. In fact, the community college funding has increased over the last several years. K through twelve funding has increased. Under a current program, students can get two years of free community college. Santiago's bill extends the program another two years. Community colleges

across the state offer limited bachelor's degree programs. Blake Trolley, k if I News. Well, the weekend is upon us. What to do? What to do? Well, that's where we call in the services of Nick Poliochini, host of This Weekend with Nick podcast. Morning Nick, Good morning Amy, Good to see you or hear you, good to see you too. Okay, So this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna do this every week now because there's so much to do around La and you always know some

of the really fun things to do. So we're going to take Nick's top picks for the weekend. What you got for us? So top three are going to be one in La County, one Orange County, and one in the Inland Empire starting count Ada for all weekend, cover the whole South Land. The Firecracker Festival will be going down in Chinatown this weekend in La County, celebrating the wrap up of Lunar New Year. That's both on Saturday and Sunday, and there's also kind of a focus on health and that's always been

the case in Chinatown for the special event. The event happens for you both on Saturday and Sunday, and it has a five k and ten k run, also a twenty and fifty mile bike ride. There's a kitty fun run and you can even get your pups in on it because they have a paw or dog walk that happens through Chinatown, so you can get details about that. This weekend with Nick dot Com over to Orange County and I'll actually be hanging out with Darcy Staniforth, who is our own Dean Sharp, the House

Whisper's sister. She's hosting a special ghost tour at the Kellogg House at the Heritage Museum in Orange County in Santa Ana. So that's taking place actually tonight. There's a special edition of it that will be happening next week for Leap Day for Leapier this year, and then there's many other weekends that are coming up where you can check out some really impressive history about Orange County and the Kellogg family, who have a beautiful facility in Santa Anna that's kind of a

heritage piece. And then the last thing I got for you is in Herpa Valley for the Inland Empire. And this is kind of wild to me because Dickens doesn't necessarily say February, but that was Carles Dickens, correct, exactly. So the Dickens Fest is their thirty first annual happening in Riverside County, happens every year. It'll be both Saturday and Sunday, and it's happening at

the Jensen Alvarado Historic Ranch and Museum. Again that's in Horupa Valley. What do you do at the Dickens They have all those people, so think about like Christmas. If you ever see like the Carollers that are all decked out in their finery, it's the same thing, but they're leaning more into like Oliver Twist and all the other different Charles Dickens books and really having characters from them that you're able to interact with also learn history of the time and era

of Charles Dickens in Europe. So it's really kind of a fun thing. But you wouldn't think about heading to the Inland Empire for something like that, so you know, it's kind of a fun different way. And with it being a little bit chilly this weekend and maybe even a little bit of drizzle coming back in on Sunday, it will be, you know, a good opportunity for you to kind of embrace the days gone by. Okay, and

you mentioned the five and ten k run at the Firecracker Festival. So I'm going to take this time to tell you guys that Nick and I are doing something that we've never done before. Indeed. Yeah, so you know that we're both big Disney fans, and so Nick, he was texting me a couple of weeks ago and he's like, Hey, want to do the fun Run with for Disney because the Disney has like these themed runs and they're doing

one for Halloween time or ahead of Halloween time. So Nick and I both time starts out in August this year, so yeah, oh yeah, Okay, for Disney, it's not yeah, so for the rest of the world is yeah, So in September, I think it's on the seventh, Nick and I are both doing a ten k and neither one of us run, No, but would need to look really cute in our costumes. Yeah. And here's what, because it's not a timed event, and here's how we've

justified doing it. It's that when we go to the park. If you go to Disneyland and you keep track of it on your watch or you have a fitbit, you walk six, seven, eight, miles in a day, so we're just going to compress that and walk the six point two miles in a couple hours. Yeah, and it'll be fun, I know how Disney characters along for the ride with us and being able to enjoy the you

know, kind of opening weekend of Halloween time at the Disneyland resort. So that'll be a great opportunity and it gives us something to look forward to and work on to improve our health as well through two twenty four to get to that. So we should probably start training now because again I don't run period, right, I mean unless I'm like running across the street, so I don't get hit by a truck or something. But that's it, okay.

So those are Nick's top picks for the weekend. And if you want to check out other really cool fun stuff to do because there is so much going on around southern California. Where do we find you, Nick? You can find me on Instagram, Nick pollio'keeini on This Weekend with Nick and also you can visit This Weekend with Nick dot com. Thank you Nick. When we come back, we're going somewhere we haven't been for more than fifty years with

ABC's Jim Ryan. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. President Biden has just announced more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia over its war with Ukraine or actually in Ukraine, and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni. He died in prison last week. The US also using some export restrictions on about one hundred entities that support Russia's military efforts. LAPD is looking for the one that got away. The driver of a

blue Corvette led police on a high speed chase. It speeds up to one hundred seventy miles per hour for about a half hour. Last night. LAPD lost the car in downtown LA. The first US lunar lander has touched down on the Moon since nineteen seventy two. Intuitive machines guided its Odysseus lander onto a surface yesterday and it's now transmitting data. The lander's mission is to collect data needed by NASA for about the next month or so. At six ZHO

five, it's handle on the news. He's going to be telling you about what caused that big outage. Was it a technical glitch or something more sinister? Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, another step for man. Well, actually it's for a lunar lander, well for not a person but a machine. And yes, it did

touchdown yesterday. We assume there was a long delay between the moment that we assumed that the lander touchdown on the lunar surface and some kind of confirmation coming from Intuitive Machines, the company that is behind this whole project right now. The company said that it was receiving a week's signal later on, and that was confirmation enough that the thing had actually settled onto the surface. But there

was kind of touch and go there for a while. I mean, in fact, they had to do an extra loop around the Moon to solve a technical glitch related to a navigation system. They weren't sure that they could find an appropriate spot for the thing to land. It's all being done autonomously. It's not like back in the days when you had a couple of guys sitting in this lunar lander, you know, physically guiding the thing to a soft

touchdown. The machine does it by itself and we wait then for confirmation messages from the machine that the job was done. Well, they got it done. So what's this going to what's it going to do for the next week or so. Well, it's going to send back data. That's the big thing here about what it's discovering there on the Moon. A big part of this project is a NASA experiment. They're trying to find any evidence that there's water somewhere on the Moon or some kind of water source, right, frozen

water, or that some evidence that water was there. Because the Artemis project that NASA has on the books is going to send people to the Moon at some point in the next few years, probably before the end of the decade, I mean, and then on tomorrow's Well, if we have water already on the Moon, that means that we don't have to take water with us to sustain the astronauts. Also, what's water, it's hydrogen, it's oxygen,

oxygen. You can use those elements to create fuel jet fuel. So we'll be making our own jet fuel on the Moon and then using that to launch off to Mars and beyond, plus sustaining the lives of our astronauts sitting

there on the Moon. And I would think that that it would be kind of imperative that they had water because water weighs a whole lot and we have learned from our yours in my conversations and talking to Neil deGrasse Tyson, like every ounce counts when you're trying to get something off of Earth and into space. Sure, I mean, that's why this lunar lander was only about twelve feet tall something like that. It's a it's a fairly it's about the size

of a phone booth. And you're right, every inch of it is packed with stuff because it's expensive to do that, and you know, so they try to put in as much as they can and make it as light weight as possible. But you're right. Water weighs I think eight pounds a gallon, and that's that's and to try to sustain people who need about a gallon a day, it's almost impossible to take that much with you. So this certainly makes it more convenient, maybe even feasible to do. He doesn't,

doesn't Japan or somebody have another lot lander on the moon. Well, they remember that last month Japan launched one and put it down on the Moon, but it was upside down, so it was a cent worthless. Then the Peregrine lander that was supposed to land the US project last month, you know, it to malfunction then never made it to the moon. It came oh, that's right, down right, because it had problems like two hours in and they went, yeah, we're not making it to the moon this month.

All right, Is there anybody else there? That's it for now? No? Nobody else. India has projects going in direction too, but you know, the the US Project right now is the one active, one up and running. Okay, And then let's search gears and talk to something that affected us down here on Earth. And that was AT and T had an outage about seventy thousand plus people affected across the US. Yeah, yeah, and that's enough to raise concerns that it was some kind of cyber attack or

some kind of hacking from the outside. Well at least Cord and T and T. The AT and T is based here in Dallas, and they were putting out notes yesterday about this this widespread outage, you know, And their final determination was that it was a software problem, in the same way Amy that you sometimes go to bed and your phone says I needed a software updates, So just plug me in, leave me alone. You'll get up in the morning, you'll have the new iOS installed. Great, well, that's

what AT and T was trying to do across its whole system. It does that occasionally. It's a normal kind of thing. But if there is an issue and there was yesterday with either the software or with the person in charge of the software, or combination of the two, there is a glitch and people weren't able to use their cell service. They could get onto Wi Fi.

But even as early as five o'clock yesterday morning Eastern time, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA was reporting that it had no indication that this was a hack attack, that it was some kind of glitch that was causing this internally at AT and T. But still, I mean, the what ifs are huge, and I'm sure HANDLE will be taking a look at that today. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. And then the other thing I think that we need to keep in mind is to keep things in

perspective. It was seventy five thousand phones affected across the whole US, and AT and T has two hundred and forty million customers. Yes, what's more those there was an outage in AT and T. I think it was AT and T in Arkansas earlier in the week and two hundred thousand people were affected there and we never heard right there. Yeah, it was because it was Arkansas, because it was isolated, probably both of those things. And again

it was kind of a software issue too. But you know, this was You're right, it was widespread, It involved a lot of people in the scope of things. It didn't catch in the end. Okay, so technical trouble, but the FBI and Homeland Security said we're going to be watching just in case. Sure, yeah, they're watching it. But at this point, the indication is that it was There was nothing sinister about this, but

you know, people need to be on guard. I think, is it time to order another landline for your house when I don't know if they could even install on anymore. Well, here's the thing in California. It's not happening in Houston, I don't think, or in Texas where you are. But they're trying to get out of requiring landlines be provided like AT and T doesn't want to provide landlines anymore. So that's going to be probably a fight

after this. Yeah, well, I think you're right, because I mean they were telling San Francisco I think was telling people, you know, the Emergency Opposition Center there saying, look, if you can't get a nine to one one call to us, find a landline. If you can't get through to us on your cell phone, we're on Earth. Are you going to find a landline? I don't know. I don't even have one at my house. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your time

and information. Talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man on a metro bus who was pepper sprayed by another passenger during an argument in LA's Mid City area has died. Police were called to Western and Olympic last night about an assault. They were told two men had been involved in an argument and the guy with the pepper spray took off. No description of the van was

provided. A registered sex offender accused of indecent exposure at WII Spa in Koreatown maybe facing a trial. The trans woman allegedly went into the women's side of the spa, exposing her erect penis to other women, including a minor. This woman, who goes by the Instagram named Kubana Angel, posted a video from twenty twenty one of her confronting spa staff who refused to kick the woman out, and you got a man with his penis count back. He's a

woman. He ain't no woman. Yeah, give her her money back. The trans woman has been a registered sex offender since two thousand and six and was in court yesterday for a jury trial hearing. She's also facing five separate felonies for indecent exposure at a swimming center in twenty eighteen, Chris Sadler Ka FI News, a federal grand jury is indicted a man accused of attacking another

passenger on a flight from Seattle to Las Vegas. The FBI says Julio Lopez was acting fidgety last month before he punched a guy sitting across from him and stabbed the man with pens. Lopez reportedly told agents he had never seen the guy before but planned to kill him. He also claimed he thought the mafia was chasing him. Lopez was restrained during the flight and arrested once it landed.

When we come back, if you're trying to keep up with the Joneses, Dean Sharp has the hottest housing trends for twenty twenty four that's next. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. AT and T says a cell phone outage that affected more than seventy thousand phones across the US is done with. AT and T says it was a technical issue, but the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI say they're looking into the

outage to make sure it wasn't part of a cyber attack. The US has announced more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia. It's a move to punish Moscow's war machine and those being held responsible for the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. A. Massive landslides expected to keep Highway one fifty just north of Santa Paula closed for several weeks. Cal Tran says the mud has to dry

out before crews can even start clearing it. Trying to get between OHI and Santa Paula being advised to use Highways thirty three, one oh one or one twenty six instead. At six oh five, it's handle on the news that crime spree around La County that left a total of six people dead. A seventeen year old has been arrested in connection with that at five point fifty we're gonna be talking with ABC's Jason Nathanson. We'll be going to the desert and

out of this world. Right now, let's say good morning too the house Whisper and the host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. So Dean trends aren't only in fashion, they're also in housing. So let's talk about

what's hot and what's not this year. Well, I love, you know, late February, right before I head off to the International Builders Show, kind of looking back at the early January articles that come out, Like every magazine, even you know, US World US News and World Report likes to release these articles about like what's going to be the building trend for twenty twenty four, And I love looking back thinking, yeah, maybe hit or miss.

This actually is an article based on an article from a US News and World Report that I was looking at and they've got a few here, and I thought it would be interesting to kind of take a look at it. The first one is absolutely one that is here and growing, and it's a growing biophilic design. Ye like that word biophilic. Biophilia. Biophilia is the is the love of nature. It's not just that though, it's actually a

theory about human beings and our need to interact with nature. And so in the last I'm going to say fifteen years or so, biophilic design is a whole category of architectural design now in which we are very intentionally focused on the idea of bringing out doors, in bringing indoors out and just kind of sort of thinning the veil between the structures that we live in and the natural world around us, not so that we get cold or too hot, but so

that we're really not isolating ourselves from nature. And as a trend, I would say it's way more than a trend. It is caught on, and it is simply the new standard that most really good designers are working towards, and that we've honestly been encouraging our clients to work towards for a long time. More windows, more open doors, more concentrating on vistas, more plant

material inside your house. Just it's all good things there. You know, I am a nature boy, and there has always been this tendency of mind to want to kind of diffuse the middle ground between being inside and outside with your house. Yeah, And in the article that you shared with us that highlights the biophilic design. There's a really cool picture and I'm like, i'd

all those plants immediately. But it's like green plants cascading over like a planter box that's above the tub in the bathroom, and it just looks so cool, doesn't it look cool? And those happen to be air ferns, and so they literally and here's the thing, you wouldn't kill them because if they have enough light and they're getting enough light in that particular room, those plants there actually just thrive and grow on the moisture of a high humid environment.

So I guess the fact that it's the bathroom. Yeah, they're gonna do great. They're literally just gonna eat it all up. And they do great and you barely have to give them any attention. So yeah, they're all sorts of these new things. So biophilic design, that's a thing. Okay, sure, cool. I just have a friend who just redid their whole first floor and it's all in gray towns. Yeah yeah, and you know

what that's problematic? Now? Well no, and see, this is the thing that I really hate about these articles and the way that the design industry presents itself, as if, as if we can change directions as quickly as fashion. You know, it's not just like you know, what plaids are out people this year. That's not going to be. It's not the case. Goodbye grays. That's what the article is saying. Nobody's doing grays anymore. That's not true. We've always done grays. Grays have really replaced earth

tones for a good while. So there was a trend, for sure. There was a fad even let's go so far, and I use the word fad as you know, an extreme overreaction to like earth tones and things like that. The fad part of gray is over. But gray is here to stay. It really is, because it's such a useful tone in a home. So everybody who just remodeled their place and said, I really like gray, why does this article say my house is now out of date. We

just finished three months ago. You don't have to worry. You don't have to worry. So it's just an overreaction. But yeah, the fad of everything must be gray. We're well past that now. But that doesn't mean that gray isn't the right color for your place. That's something that you love, you know, because I didn't want to break the news to her that she was outdated. Yeah, yeah, that's just a thing. Okay,

what is a fad? Y g louted cabinets? What's that louted cabinets is well, this is a cabinet door that has these kind of vertical columns on it. Okay, that is, without question a fad. So don't feel like you got to go out and get yourself fluted cabinet doors because if you don't like it, let it be. Don't touch it, because next year, I guarantee you we're going to see an article saying, yeah, fluted cabinets are done. That's over. So you know, that's the kind of

stuff. We just don't want to overreact to some of these predictions. Okay, what about the one about making room for the in laws? Absolutely, there is no question. You know, ADUs, the accessory dwelling units you call them what you will, casitas, guest rooms, mother in law suites, that extra space in the house, especially in the state of California, because now ADUs are so easy to add to your home. Is this an

extra structure or is it you're adding have to be? You can be, You can add on to the house Okay, you can convert your garage into an adu. Now, in other words, most cities before this said, listen, no, you can't take the garage because you are required to have parking. But the state of California said no, no, you can park outside. So you can use the garage. You can add on to the house, or you can build a separate structure somewhere on your property if you

have room for that. The point is housing in California. The codes have changed and they're super encouraging this, and it's just I think, I think it is the trend of our culture. We've got aging parents to take care of that we don't want to put and homes. We've got boomeranging children coming back from college who are waiting for their one big job opening to come about. All of these things are pointing us towards the idea of having extra communal

space for extended family and friends. Okay, and just real quick, because we've got about twenty seconds left. But bringing inside outside is a thing, or bringing outside inside, Oh, for sure, it is a huge thing. It's a huge thing. Nobody you and I kind of talked about it last week about Wayfarer's chapel right, I mean a perfect example of bringing outside in a chapel made of glass, a very very small space, but you can see right through it to the outside. That's why people love that place.

Okay. So like small screened in patios, small backyard patios, front porches, those things are all trending right now, all in Okay. Dean Sharp the host of home right here on KFI from six to eight am on Saturday and nine to noon on Sunday, and can't wait to hear once you check in after the International Builders Show. Yeah, we'll have lots of fun

to talk about. Thanks Amy, Thankstein. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our news room of State Assembly bill being introduced would make it easier to remove potential jurors with a bias against police if it were to become law. The legislation would overturn Governor Newsom's twenty twenty policy, which says jurors could not be the subject of peremptory challenge on

the basis of their negative views of police. Riverside. Republican Bill as Sale says his bill would allow attorneys to ask for the dismissal of a potential juror if it was determined that person was anti cop law experts have said the bill would hit a lot of hurdles, especially because of the strong support for criminal

justice reform in the state legislature. Steve Gregory Kafi News Lawyers for former President Trump had filed multiple motions in Florida asking a judge to dismiss the criminal case that charges Trump with illegally retaining classified documents. The motion includes a claim that presidential immunity protects Trump from prosecution. The Supreme Court has heard arguments on the immunity claim. Trump is facing dozens of felony accounts in federal court in Florida.

You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One hundred nineteen vote centers will open across La County for early voting ahead of California's March fifth primary, starting tomorrow. The vote centers will be opened daily from ten am to seven pm. Six hundred more locations open across the county on March second. You can find the list of in person voting locations at locator dot la,

vote dot gov. President Biden has announced more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia, the aim to punish Moscow's war machine and those being held responsible for the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. A Girl Scout troop in Sacramento has made radio contact with the International Space Station. Love this story. The troop spent months making a ham radio and then yesterday made contact with astronaut Jasmine

Mogbelli on the space station. They talked for about ten minutes about NASA, her mission, experiments she's working on, and even how she spends her free time. The girls then got special merit badges, well deserved. We're just minutes away from a handle on the news this morning. The three to one oh and the three two three are getting some company. LA's getting a new area code right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment guru. Are

Jason Nathanson? Jason, how are you a new area code? Yeah? I'm still not about the Like, what four to two four is that one of them? Do we have four two four here? I've never dialed a four two four. There's there's there's some others. My brother's mad about being a three one. Oh, why that's that's always been the best one. I don't that's the one you want. When I grew up, there was eight one eight, there's three two three, and there's three one oh,

and that was it. No need all these others. Okay, Well, so, uh, Jason, we've got not much going on but a couple movies coming out. Yeah, it's it's slow. It continues to be a slow year at the box office. Is this normal, although for this time of year it isn't. It isn't. Usually by now there's at least something that's broken through, and we really haven't had that. And we've had some

really bad movies a few weeks, so that'll change. Next week we're gonna have Dune two, which was delayed from last November because of the strikes, So that's going to kind of break things open, and people are excited and waiting for that, and I'll have my review of that next week. I did see it this week, and I can tell you that it is very good. Okay, So that's exciting at least. And that's not untill next weekend, though, correct, So we have one more week in theaters right

now. One movie that's actually getting a lot of really good reviews which I haven't seen, is Ordinary Angels. This is Hillary Swank who stars in this kind of faith based drama. It's based on a true story from the nineties. She plays a woman, a struggling hair hairdresser in a small town who discovers she's been kind of looking for her purpose. There are some alcohol problems

and things like that. Yeah, and she meets a guy and who has two daughters, the youngest daughters waiting for a liver transplant, and she kind of discovers, oh, maybe my purpose is to help to help these people, and then it kind of turns into what the community did and faith and miracles and everyday Ordinary Angels. It's eighty percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, one hundred percent from people who saw it early, which I guess is

the last night's screenings. So that is if you're, you know, looking for something like that, the kind of heartwarming, inspiring story that's getting really good reviews out there this weekend, So that's one possibility. Another that that is in theaters this weekend is Driveaway Dolls, which has a lot of good people involved Ethan Cohen from the Coen Brothers. He co wrote this, he directs it. You have Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Vishnawathon starring as two women on

a kind of comedy caper road trip action. This is an R rated film. Is it a modern day Selma and Louise? Yeah, I mean not exactly, but you know there's there's some of that in there. You got Beanie Feldstein, you got Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal. So you got a really great cast in there. Not getting overwhelmingly great reviews, but it's getting decent reviews, okay. And then if we're gonna hunker down, sit on the couch and want to stream something, yeah, well, I mean I

can tell you what's out, I cannot tell you not necessarily. That doesn't mean it's good. So you have and that's okay. We need your advice anyway. Your girl scouts there who contacted the Space station might be interested in Constellation, which is about a astronaut played by new Mira Pace who goes she survives a disaster in space. She's on the ISS and some things go wrong and she returns to Earth to discover that key pieces of her life seem to

be missed. This is it seemed to be what missing missing? Yeah, okay, it's dark. There's a lot of questions and mysteries going on here. It was a little too dark and a little too weird for my taste. Okay. Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and Better Call So also co stars, and you've got a bunch of other people as well. Not really for me these days, just really not into the dark weird stuff. But you know, maybe there might be an audience. There's three episodes out now on

Apple TV plus. There's an eight total. It's one of those ones where you're wondering, am I gonna get answers by the end of this or am I going to be left wondering with a lot of questions? Okay? All right? And then the Sag Awards are being awarded tomorrow night. Yes, do they carry any real weight for the big one? The answer, Oh yeah, no, absolutely. The Guild Awards are the ones that are the most when it comes to the Oscars. They're the most predictive in terms of

who's going to get what. Because the Saga Awards actually has the biggest they share the biggest voting body with the Oscars. Because it's the Screen Actors Guild. I think there's there's more actors in the in the Academy Acting branch than any other branch. So whoever wins at the Acting awards at the Screen Actors Guild Awards usually ends up going on to win the Oscars. Okay, do

you have any predictions you want to watch that? You want to watch the Producer's Guild Awards, right, you want to watch the Writers Guild Awards, to watch those if you're filling out your poll and things like that. On the movie side, Oppenheimer is, you know, probably going to do pretty

well. Do you think it'll get Best Cast? They don't have a best movie category they have a best cast they don't and that that's the only category that does not translate to Oscar success because that is different than the Best Picture Oscar thing. So I think it's possible. I think I think it could do very well. It's interesting to see it'll be on Netflix. Yes, on Netflix, so live streaming award show on Netflix, the first time that

they've ever done that, So you know, that's that's something new. But most usually most people don't pay ten into the Sagwarts. They don't watch Oh well, I'm going to be watching. Well you were not most people. Oh well, there you have it. That is true. Okay, Well, and with that, let's just end our little conversation. Jason. All right, thank you so much, Jason, have a great weekend. All right, talk to you soon. But let's get back to some of the

stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I will be watching. By the way, The La Metro Board of Directors has moved forward with a proposed gondola project to Dodger Stadium. Supporters of the proposed gondola connecting Union Station at Dodger Stadium say it would take some cars off the street and attract development to the area. Metro's board yesterday accepted the three hundred million dollar private

project's environmental impact report with conditions. Chinatown resident Phyllis Ling says she's not happy an over priced steam park ride that rips into our beloved park in our neighborhood. Don Luis Camacho says the project would be good for his family's restaurant, and we think it would help draw new guests to Albera Street. The board's

conditions include job development and beautification initiatives. Michael Monks KFI News. Health Ministry in Gaza says more than one hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in the past twenty four hours. Hamas says its top political leader has held talks with Egyptian officials about a possible cease fire and an exchange of hostages. About two hundred and fifty people were taken when Hamas attacked Israel in October. About

one hundred are still thought to be alive. The US has imposed more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia. ABC's Karen Travers says President Biden calls them punishment for Russia's war against Ukraine and the death of Putin critic Alexey Navalney. The President says in a statement the sanctions will target individuals connected to Navalney's imprisonment, as well as Russia's financial sector, defense industrial base, and sanctions of

vaders across multiple continents. The US is imposing export restrictions on nearly one hundred entities that support Russia's military efforts and target energy revenues. Biden says the sanctions will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at home. And a magician from New Orleans says a Democratic consultant paid him one hundred and fifty dollars to use AI to impersonate President Biden in a robo call.

That call last month told voters in New Hampshire not to vote in the state's presidential primary and just save it for November. We leave your help and electing Democrats up and down the ticket. Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. Paul Carpenter says he was hired by a consultant who worked on ballot access for Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips.

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