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PATRICK REEVELL. Deadly attack on Russia’s Crocus City Hall kills more than 130
JIM RYAN. More states are considering Texas-style immigration laws
Kris Adler Feature Women’s History Month – Inspiring Female Pilots AND Kate Gate
KAREN TRAVERS. White House warns of ‘consequences’ for Israel if it moves ahead with plan to invade Rafah

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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 is your wake up call for Monday, March twenty fifth. I'm Amy King. So glad you're starting your work week with us today. Tony is starting his work week with us today, but only one more day and he's very, very excited about it because Kono's coming back and Tony is ready to sleep in. We also have a producer ends taking the day off, so we get producer Michelle for the day. That's

always a treat. Oh and there she's waving, but now she's busy getting ready for Bill Handle's show, so she's not talking to us right now, which is fine. Nine months until Christmas. I saw that it was March twenty fifth, and I went, oh, God, Christmas is coming.

I've already started buying presents. Do you ever do that? Like when you go out, I see something and I go, oh, that would be cool for this person, and so I just get it, and then it has to be in storage in the closet until December, and then I dig everything out and see what I bought throughout the year because I never remember. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call today? Today is the deadline for former President Trump to pay the four hundred and fifty four million dollar bond in

his New York civil fraud judgment. If Trump is not able to secure the bond, New York Attorney General Letitia James and her staff may start the process of seizing Trump's assets. Never a dull moment, It's going to be interesting to see what happens there. Metrolink and Amtrak service is back on track in San Clemente. Service restarts today. It's been shut down for the last couple of months because of landslides on the track. Work to put in a retaining

wall to show up the hillside has been completed. Chick fil A is backing off. It's decade old no antibiotics ever pledge. It's intended to help prevent human antibiotic resistance. Well, Chick fil A says now it will embrace a standard known as no antibiotics important to human medicine. They had to kind of back off because of projected supply shortages. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. So the sun is acting up. There's a geomagnetic storm

headed our direction. Tell you what that means. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A seventeen year old girl has fatally shot herself at the La County Sheriff's in station. Lieutenant Art Spencer says the teen went into the station in the city of Industry last night and knocked on the door. He says there was a struggle and

the teen grabbed a gun from the deputy's holster during the altercation. It is alleged that the female suffered from a self inflicted gunshot wound with what we believe to be the deputy's fireman. He says it is believed the shooting is related to a family disturbance call deputies had responded to earlier. The Dodgers show, Hey Otani's expected to speak about the gambling scandal that led to his interpreter being

fired. Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into allegations that if a Missahara stole millions of dollars from Otani to place bets with an alleged bookie. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says he thinks it's good that Otani has chosen to speak. I think it's it's the right thing to do, and I'm happy he's going to you know, speak and speak to what he knows and give his thoughts on the whole situation. Robert says he thinks it'll give everyone a little

bit more clarity. New York Attorney General Letitia James is prepared to start seizing some of former President Trump's assets if he doesn't pay the four hundred and sixty four million dollars he owes in his civil fraud case. If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek, you know,

judgment enforcement mechanisms in court. James has registered the court's judgment in Westchester County, which is a sign that she may be eyeing Trump's Briarcliffe Manor golf club and Bedford estate known as Seven Springs, in addition to his properties in the city. Trump's attorneys have argued it impossible for them to secure the bond to appeal. The usc and UCLA women's basketball teams have made it to the

second round of the women's NCAA Tournament. UCLA takes on Crichton at Polly Pavilion at five point thirty tonight, then USC faces Kansas at seven at the Galen Center. The teams are in different brackets, so they wouldn't play each other until the final four. Wouldn't it be fun if they both made it to the final four? Now, let's say good morning to ABC's Patrick Reveal.

Patrick. We're gonna be talking, of course, about the terrorist attack in Moscow, and Patrick has probably a unique perspective on this because he spent ten years in Moscow before relocating to London. So Patrick, good morning, Please tell us the latest on the terrorist attack that's even more deadly than we first thought. Good morning. Yeah, the death toll is now at one hundred and thirty seven people killed and still it should be said, over seventy in

hospital according to authorities. You know, this is really one of the deadliest terror attacks to hit Russia in its modern history, and it's certainly the deadliest in about twenty years. And you know, over night we also saw for the first time the suspected attack has been brought into court to be charged. I think the images of the attackers are worth talking about, or the images

of the men accused of being the attacks are worth talking about. The men were brought in looking extremely battered, you know, black eyes, swollen faces. One of them was brought in in a wheelchair. And you know, there are obviously questions whether these men have been tortured, and I think in general Russian authorities are barely even trying to conceive it. Some of them are actually praising the suggestion that they've been tortured. The video circulating online showing one

of the men having his ear cut off and put into his mouth. Another man appears in one of the videos to be being electrocuted. And these are things that actually, you know, Russia, There's always been issues of torture in Russia, but I've never seen him in my time covering, I've never seen it quite so naked, you know, high profile case like this. The Crimlin this morning also noticeably declining to comment on that, but also declining

to deny that the men had been tortured. Yeah. I mean it's you think about that and you think how horrific that is, But then you also think that they walked into a concert hall and just started shooting the place up. I mean, so what they did, I mean, what's the equivalency, you know, completely, I think, you know, I think it comes down to a question of law, right. You know, I think

these men, what these manner acused are doing is utterly appalling. But you know, it's be the same in the US, right, we try to uphold civilized standards where you don't torture suspects. But I think, as you said, the attack itself was absolutely horrific. I mean, these men walked in to a concert hall that was packed, it appears with thousands of people

and just began firing indiscriminately. You know. ISIS have released a video from what appears to be body cam footage from one of it's from the attackers that shows them just firing point blank range of people. They then set fire to the venue, which is an enormous venues. I've been there. It's one of the biggest malls in Moscow, and the concert venue is completely burned to the ground. You know, just horrific. As you say, I think,

you know, ISIS have claimed responsibility for this attack. They released a video for What's very notable is that Russian authorities are so far ignoring that. Kremlin again this morning refused to say that they're even looking at whether it's ISIS, and that's because so far, Vladimir Poodin personally, but also many leading Crimin figures are trying to put the blame on Ukraine. They've been trying to suggest that Ukraine is somehow involved, despite all the growing evidence that Isis was

very much behind this attack. And when the Kremlin comes out and says that, I mean, do you live there, do the Russian people believe it or do they see that it doesn't add up? I think the problem it's very difficult because ultimately, the Kremlin has such complete control over the media in Russia and it's broadcasting this out and you have to try and imagine what it would be like in your own country, particularly you know, where most Russians

really many do increasingly speak English, but the majority don't. And so when Russian language media is just full of planes and insinuations that it could be Ukraine, your doubts submerge. And part of the problem is that just in Russia, there's always the sense that you never really know what's going on, and that's what you hear from Russians is just that they live in this sort of

total sense of uncertainty where they don't really believe anything. But in reality, when you scratch the surface, you find they usually are repeating Kremlin lines that have got sold out there, and so I think, unfortunately, and also because they are at war with Ukraine right now, I think many people will unfortunately start to believe the official version. There'll be all the you know,

and there'll be insinuations that somehow Ukraine were using ISIS for example. But you know, the US has said it's provided intelligence before the attack suggesting the ISIS was planning such an attack, and there is every indication that they did, because at the start of the month there was a very unusual warning from the US embassy and also multiple other Western embassies in Moscow telling people to avoid concerts

because of the threat of an imminent terrorist attack on concerts in Moscow. Two weeks it didn't happen that weekend, but two weeks later it did happen, And so there is every indication that in fact, yes, this was ISIS, and that yes, the US did try to warn rush it. And

still they're discounting it. But I mean, I don't get it, but I you kind of almost if you get inside Putin's head or try to, it makes sense that he would say, oh, it's Ukraine, you know, to try to get support or whatever I think it does, because you know, they have every incentive to say this wasn't ISIS ISIS and try and put it on Ukraine because the fact is that if it is ISIS as it

appears, it's a huge security failure for Russia. It makes who look like he is His regime is not providing security that it promises, and so he has every incentive to instead try and turn this into something useful for himself and to try and mobilize Russian support. I mean, you'll see there's also a lot of speculation and conspiracy online that this could even be some kind of false flag by the Kremlin, that they could have even organized it themselves. I

mean, honestly, you can never totally rule anything out in Russia. But frankly, it doesn't have to be a false flag. It can simply be that this was a real ISIS attack, But the Kremlin now doesn't want to acknowledge that because it's much more useful for it to blame it on Ukraine and try and stoke hatred for Ukraine. Yeah, what is isis is beef with

Russia. ISIS have had a long beef with Russia. It began in part because of this long running islamust insurgency in the south of Russia, in the Caucuses in Chechhnir, but also because Vatama Putin intervened militarily in Syria, and so ITIS for many years tried to launch attacks like the group's exclaimed responsibility of isis K, which is the branch of ISIS based in Afghanistan and Central Asia, which Russia has a lot of borders with Central Asian countries, and there

are you know, millions of Central Asian people in Russia. The men accused are citizens of Tajikistan, and I think, you know, ITIS basically have tried for years to do this. When I was there, we always feared that they would manage to make an attack because they you know, this was the height of the attacks in Europe back in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.

We always thought it would happen in Moscow. It never did. And I think the question people are asking is, you know, is the fsb our Russian security Service is too distracted by the war in Ukraine that this was able to happen. Good question. ABC's Patrick Evil, thank you so much for your information and a unique insight on what happened over in Moscow. Appreciate it. Thanks. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Very questing code three for a possible mountain lion attack. A mountain lion has killed a man in a forest near Sacramento. The Eldorado County Sheriff's Office says they received a call Saturday afternoon from an eighteen year old who said a mountain lion attacked him and his twenty one year old brother. Deputies and paramedics finding the mountain line next to the twenty one year old on the ground. ABC's Jerene Shaw says the younger brother was taken to

the hospital. He has had several surgeries. The Department of Fish and Wildlife and an el Dorado County trapper shot and killed the mountain lion. Officials say the man had gone into the forest Saturday to look for deer antlers. A woman from Riverside County says an attack by a driver who'd been speeding through her neighbor neighborhood has affected her physical and mental health. The woman from Norco says she yelled at the driver to slow down a couple weeks ago and grabbed your

cell phone to take a picture of his license plate. She says. That's when the guy stopped, got out of his car and demanded her phone, then attacked her. The guy was cited for assault and battery and released. The FAA is taking a closer look at United Airlines following a series of serious mishaps. ABC's Faith Abubet says the Federal Aviation Administration is looking to identify hazards

and insure safety. United has put its employees on notice, telling them to actually expect an increased presence of the FAA in their operations, while still stressing that safety is their top priority. Bloomberg says United is being stopped from approving new pilots and may not be allowed to add new roots. It's time for Opening Day Dodger Baseball from Dodger Stadium just a couple of days away. The Dodgers will take on Saint Louis this Thursday afternoon, starting at one ten.

You can listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports and NHD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports brought to you in part by LA Care for all of LA. When we come back, we're going to be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan about how several states are kind of following the lead of Texas and in the absence of a clear federal plan, may be planning to take immigration enforcement into their own hands. 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. La Dodger Star Show, Hey Otani will be talking publicly for the first time since illegal gambling and theft allegation surfaced involving his now former interpreter. The interpreters accused of receiving more than four and a half million dollars from the Dodger Superstar to payoff gambling debts made with an

illegal bookie. One person has been injured in a car explosion on a residential street in Compton. The explosion was reported about seven last night. Pictures from the scene show a badly damaged car and a field of debris on the street and sidewalk. The cause of the explosion isn't clear. Someone who a powerball ticket in Sun Valley is a new millionaire. No one won the jackpot, but a ticket sold at a seven eleven came close, matching five of the

six winning numbers from Saturday night. That ticket is worth two point four million dollars. Your next shot at the big prize is tonight. The powerball jackpot is up to eight hundred million dollars. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Former President Trump has a busy day. He's got a deadline to pay a bond on a four hundred and sixty four million dollars, and he's expected in court in the Stormy Daniel's hush money case. Right now,

let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, the Texas immigration law is still tied up in the courts, and while we wait to hear whether the Court of Appeals is going to allow it to move forward, other states are going, hmmm, maybe that's a good idea. Yeah, seven states at last count, and probably more than that. Hows some kind of immigration law that's being considered out, all of them led by Republicans.

Taking a queue from Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, this is a winning issue on the campaign trail, and those folks know that it's really essentially pitting the Democratic Biden administration against various state governments, even some states that are far from any border. Iowa, for example, has taken up one law and

its governor is supposed to sign it. She and others around the country are undoubtedly waiting to see what happens with the fifty US Secret Court of Appeals, because that's the panel that now is taking a look at the constitutionality of this amy okay, and so in the do they just kind of wait and see what the appeals Court has to say, and then they'll go, okay, so it said this, so we will move forward exactly, and you know

that's happened in the past with other state laws. You'll wait to see what happens in the legal process, what kind of success one style of law has before you go ahead and sit down and drop one of your own. So the out lawmakers are waiting to see what happens with this one. This is the law, of course, that's before the one that allows or requires early police officers at the local level, county chef's deputies and city police to arrest

people they suspect of coming into the country illegally. Now District attorneys all along the border have been counseling police about how, in practical terms, to enforce this. They're all essentially being told that, look, if you see somebody, unless you see them coming into the country across the Rio Grande, in our case, between the ports of entry, unless you see that happen, don't even bother presenting a case. It'll be too difficult to prove, too

expensive. And what's more, we just don't have the jail space to handle everybody who's charged with a misdemeanor trespassing allegation, which is what would come under this law. So, Jim, it's not going to be if I'm understanding what you're saying. They're basically being told, when you see them come across

the border, then you can go ahead and get them. But if you see them walking down the street in El Paso and go hmm, something looks off there, don't even bother with that, right unless a violent crime is being committed, then you know this is something that is going to be headed, like marijuana possession perhaps, or any other trespassing charge. Do you jail

somebody who's arrested for simple trespassing? Do you give them a citation. So yeah, it's and police will use their own discretion, and that's what the DA's are telling people. Look, if you see them, you can take them into custody. If you don't see the offense taking place, it's going to be really difficult to prove. Okay, here's here's a I love what ifs oh? I know? Right, So if it's if it gets blocked by the Fifth US Circuit Court, it could go back up to the Supreme

Court to see if they'll decide it. Right, and even if it's upheld, it'll most likely get back to the Supreme Court. Okay. Either way, it's going to end up there. Okay, So if it's blocked, what happens if Texas just ignores the court and says, screw it, we're

going to keep enforcing. Well, they could be up against a massive lawsuit, right, You're The argument against U S before is that the Texas is usurping what has been a federal responsibility written into the Constitution, that it's up to the US government to enforce its borders and not the state of Texas. And a police officer in you'll pass, for example, So yeah, I think they if they do that, then you know, they're looking at some massive lawsuits. I think, and do we have any idea when we might

expect a decision from the Fifth US Circuit Court, Not at all. I mean, if people have given up guessing or trying to bet on when these things might happen, could be this week. I suspect it will be, but I'm not going to lay money on it. Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much. See Amy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

At three homes and the Hollywood Hills have been red tagged because the hillsides behind them could come down another storm over the weekend soak the hillsides even more. Firefighters say there has been soil movement in the area, mud and debris has seeped into the back of the properties. News brought to you by one eight hundred got junk Measrolink is restarting passenger rail service through San Clementy, where a landslide took a chunk of the hillside out. The slide two months ago damaged

a pedestrian bridge and left debris on the tracks. The Orange County Transportation Authority worked with Metrolink to build a two hundred foot long wall at Mariposa Point to shore up the hillside. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners started limited service earlier this month. Two crew members have been killed aboard a Holland America Cruise ship off Half Moon Bay and the Bahamas. ABC's Rena Roy says the two were in an engine

room on Friday. Maritime law firm Walker and O'Neil says the workers were installing filters there when a steam compensator unrelated to their duties exploded. She says the room was filled with steam. The ship returned to its home port of Fort Lauderdale's Saturday. That same day, there was a fire aboard a Carnival cruise ship also in the Bahamas. Witnesses reported a lightning strike or the sound of thunder before the fire started. No injuries were reported. Speaking of injuries,

skiing becoming more and more dangerous according to some new research about skiing. And here's the deal. And I know Nick Pouliochini just was up skiing in Mammoth last weekend, so I want to find out if he knows anything. He knows anything about that? Oh, get that early morning frog. So in California, more than six thousand skiers and snowboarders had to go to emergency rooms in twenty twenty two because of injuries on the slopes. And here's what's kind

of interesting to me. During the period from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty two, the number of skiers and ski snowboarders was about the same, but the number of er visits are up fifty percent from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty two. So, first, Nick, did you see anything, I mean, did you see just like reckless skiers while you were out and about. Well, I was going to say, Brian got taken out and he still suffered. His left knee is an absolute mess right now because somebody that was a

newer skier took him out. Now, Brian and I are snowboard but we were out on the mountain. He got taken out and we had to evaluate it with the ski patrol to figure out if we were going to have to take him to urgent care because in Mammoth there's not much anything but a hospital there. So we experienced it firsthand that that really is. And the funnier

part was it was a very quiet weekend. Surprisingly it was Saint Patrick's Day weekend, and you know, there weren't nearly the number of people you would expect out on the mountain, and so it was a wide open situation where the guy that was on the skis just took Brian out and looking around there

was absolutely no one to be seen other than that. And my sister was the one that happened to be out on the mountain with him that portion of it, and she was beside herself because she's like, how did this guy? He came out of nowhere and he took Brian out and then was down.

So, yes, we experienced it firsthand that people just are hitting the mountain with not the level of either maybe training or experience or having somebody with a little bit more knowhow that's taken them out on the mat and to get them a little bit better prepared for things. Yeah, so that kind of

falls in line with what this article is about. It says one of the issues is that there is more recklessness on the slopes, like you said, maybe somebody who doesn't really know what they're doing, And the other is that the behavior is often exacerbated because people there's pot gummies there's magic mushrooms and there's a lot of booze being consumed before people hit the slopes. Well, and think that was Saint Patrick's day weekend, So that says a lot right there.

And I mean, granted, there's no breathalyzer before you strap on a snowboard or strap on some skis, but that could have been one of those

optimal weekends I have had that available to you. Yeah, And here's the other big factor, and this is from like former ski patrollers and emergency medical texts and that kind of stuff, because people who work at the ski resorts are pretty tight lipped about it, and apparently they won't comment at the resorts, but former people who used to work there or do that emergency response stuff,

they said that. Another thing is that skiers are so focused on taking selfies and taking video for their social media that they're completely oblivious to what's going on around them. And I would everybody wants that snap, everybody wants that moment, So I get it. So let that be a word of caution to you next time you head out of the slopes. It's sort of like when you're driving, you got to be your own best advocate and be safe

because the people around you aren't necessarily paying attention. When we come back, we're going to be talking Kate Gate, and we'll also check in with our very own Chris Adler, who's flying high with a group of women who are soaring into a male dominated industry. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI AM six forty. We're just getting word that three senior Boeing

executives, including its CEO, will step down. The company says the CEO, the chairman, and the head of its commercial airplanes division will be leaving the company because of the growing scandal over this safety of its planes. A new bill's been introduced in response to the death of a twelve year old boy who collapsed during pe in Lake Elsinore last year. The bill would set up guidelines for student activities during extreme weather conditions in California schools. Yahushua Robinson's death

has been attributed to a heart defect exacerbated by heat exposures. Today's the deadline for former President Trump to pay the four hundred and fifty four million dollar bond on his New York civil fraud judgment. If he can't come up with the payment. New York Attorney General Letitia and James and her staff are ready to start the process of seizing Trump's assets. At six oh five, it's handle on the news Republicans could lose a Senate seat or a senator because of trump

Mania. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Karen Travers. Vice President Harris is talking tough on Israel and also tap dancing about why President Biden is on TikTok when he's such a harsh critic of it. It is Women's History Month, and Chris Sadler says female pilots and van eyes are breaking barriers as the demand for women in aviation sores where that's a sweet sound for most aviators, a sound of freedom is they prepared to take to

the skies. For private pilot Katie Peters, the sound of the engine starting means she's one flight closer to earning a commercial pilot license. I grew up watching my dad and uncle's flying commercial airliner jets and always thought that that was really fun, but it wasn't sure if it was something I could do professionally. She became a flight attendant for a major airline for several years, but could never shake the dream of earning her wings. That little bug in the

back of my brain was still kind of poking me to fly. So I decided to make the switch, and I'm working on it now. Peters is one of several female aviators who fly through the First Take Aviation Flight School in Van nys All Right, we've got fuel, um both break check, trim, set for takeoff. She says it it's empowering to be a woman in a male dominated field, but it certainly has its challenges making sure that you can stay focused and everybody else is staying focused on what the goal is at

hand, and that your gender isn't actually distracting anybody. Women make up about forty seven percent of the workforce in the US, but females only make up about five percent of the piloting workforce. First Take Aviation flight instructor Emma Baker says aviation has been more welcoming to women in recent years, but there are still some skeptics. People have a hard time coming around to the fact that I am a female instructor, and sometimes I come in to meet a new

student, they go, oh, you're a girl. I was affecting a guy. So then I do have the challenge of like having to prove myself extra like, yes, I am a female instructor, but I got here for a reason. I know my stuff, Like you're in good hands. Baker is training four students to fly and says one of them is a minor. It is heavy stuff. People are trusting their lives with you. I have a seventeen year old student, so her mom is trusting her life with

me. It's really important to stay calm and just let them make mistakes. Let's get this baby started. Certified flight instructor Giselle Gomez has been training student pilots that first take since October. She says, although she's never been discriminated against as the female in flight, she's seen it happen, especially being a young female pilot. There's a lot of misconception that you're not qualified to do

what you're doing, and I definitely see that within the industry. I got an opportunity to get into one of the cessnas with these three ladies, and it was incredible to watch them handle the plane with absolute professionalism and confidence. I think we're just gonna do one six right whatever the tower gives us and we're just gonna cross taxiway Alpha to Charlie. Oh, I am my kinner right now in her instruction, got it, Roger and I couldn't help but

laugh when I realized all three of them had perfectly polished nails. Yeah, it's a but you guys are pink, I do. They're like pink sunglasses on, and these ladies of the skies won't be stopping here. Gomez says her ultimate goal is to make it to the airlines. Honestly, just trying to enjoy every moment and my path in the sense that general aviation, being a flight instructor maybe going tow on thirty five, maybe doing something else.

I'm just trying to enjoy the time I have now, and because once I do end up going to the airlines, it's gonna be It's gonna be fun. But I'm gonna look back on these moments and definitely miss them. Here me loud and Claire, all right, break check breaks are good, all right? Chief pilot at First Take Aviation, Edgar Kanievo says female pilots bring different perspectives. They're great in flight and there are a lot less egos to da We've tried to encourage so many female pilots to get in to make a

change in aviation. We know what the percentages are. There's not many, and so we're really proud of any female plots to come through here, but especially the ones that we have, he says. Students who have trained under female pilots at first take have had positive experiences. All of our female pilots do that go above and beyond from staying for their tech grides, helping them out on the sides, on the side after their flights. Men really going

above and beyond for their students and preparing them really well. Women have been interested in flight since the Wright Brothers gave up their bikes for planes in nineteen oh three, and although there are more females in aviation than ever before, women are still highly underrepresented in flight. But for these women a first take aviation, they won't just leave behind contrails, they will leave behind an important piece of women's history. For wake up call, I'm Chris Adler. Thank

you, Chris Adler. Love that go girls, women's history mouth good to

know. So we know that we found out about Kate Middleton that she has cancer on Friday and I know that there was a lot of speculation about what was going on because we hadn't seen her since she had her scheduled abdominal surgery in January, and apparently on social media there was all kinds of speculation that one like maybe she got plastic surgery and when it and it went terribly wrong, or that she took off and was fleeing because Prince William was having an

affair and now she's hiding overseas, or there was one that said that there was unexpected complications, she was in a medical coma, and then there was even some talk that she died over Christmas and honest was being cloned. Okay,

so we know that that's not true. We know that she has cancer, and there's also a lot of people saying now that you know what, they really messed this one up because she didn't want to go public because it happened in January, and now we're at the end of March and she's just now saying so thing. So I just wanted to chime in from my experience, obviously with no medical background in any way, shape or form, but I will tell you that I get it because four years ago I had the

Big C and I wasn't going to tell anybody about it. In fact, I didn't tell anybody about it. Lettie. I had the surgery in June, and I think it was mid to late August when I decided to talk about it. So I get that, like you're dealing with you're dealing with surgery, you're dealing with news you don't know how. And she's got a family. I mean, I have my family, but I don't have children, and so she's got a lot to deal with and I'm guessing that,

you know, you have to process all of that. So I'm totally giving her a pass on that. I don't know how they move forward with it because it is kind of confusing because they're not saying what kind of cancer it is. And again, is it her business or is it really everyone's business because she's royal and the British people basically fund their lives and their lifestyles.

I guess we'll find out in the coming days, but I will tell you the other thing that I heard is that she said she's getting chemotherapy as a precaution, and I'm hoping that that's a good sign because I too had chemo

therapy for six months as a precaution. It was sort of my insurance to make sure that there weren't any little nasty floating cells still in my body that weren't detected because they did all the they removed part of my own testin, they took out lymph nodes, They did all the testing and everything came back clear. But my doctor said, because of the stage that it was and where it was, they said, we really would feel better just as insurance

if you did this the chemotherapy. So I'm hoping too that that's the case. With her not saying that it's the same kind of cancer that I had, I don't think it probably is based on the information that we have, But hoping that she gets better and she's feeling better and feeling stronger, and hopefully they'll put some of these rumors to rest, because I'm quite frankly, I'm a little bit stick of cape gait. You're listening to Wake Up Call

on demand from KFI AM six forty l a Dodger star show. Hey Otani, we'll be talking publicly for the first time since illegal gambling and theft allegations surfaced involving his now former interpreter, someone bought a powerball ticket in Sun Valley and is a new millionaire. No one got the jackpot, but a ticket sold at a seven to eleven came close, matching five of the six winning numbers from Saturday nights drawing. That ticket is worth two point four million dollars.

El Camino Real Charter High School is when the state academic the Cathlon Way to Go team. The team from Woodland Hills will now represent California in the national competition in Pittsburgh next month. This is El Camino Real's third state title in the last five years. Check out the brains on those guys. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, three top dogs at Boeing incl gluting it's CEO are leaving, not exactly flying off into the

sunset. Right now, Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, So, we have the Vice President talking a little tough when it comes to Israel. Yeah, you know, she did an interview with my colleague Rachel Scott, and Rachel pushed her on whether the US would consider consequences if Israel went forward with that planned operation into Rafa, the one that the administration says would be a big mistake, the one that Harris said in this interview

would be a huge mistake. But the Vice President said that she is ruling out nothing in terms of consequences. She didn't say what that would be. She said they're taking it one step at a time, but that they've been very clear in their perspective that this should not happen. And this is a big week because the administration is meeting with senior Israeli officials in Washington to present what they say is a better way forward, an alternative way forward where Israel

would not have to conduct this major ground operation. The White House hasn't said what that would look like. They're not revealing their place, but you know by all accounts and are reporting over there Netanya, who is still full steam ahead with this. It's just delayed while they wait to have this conversation with the administration. And I think that's the big question then after that conversation takes

place of is this truly a red line for the White House? Will there truly be consequences and what would that look like from the United States if Israel does go forward with this planned operation. Okay, and well, we'll be watching that and then right before you go, because I know you're on a timeline, she's tap dancing around TikTok too. Yeah, yeah, you know. She deflected on you know why they have a TikTok account for the campaign

and telling people to follow them and engage with them there. But the official position from the administration is that they support the legislation that could lead to TikTok being banned in the US if the Chinese owner bike Dance doesn't sell it. And so it's a tricky balancing act that they're trying to do of engaging there, trying to get to where people are trying to reach out to vote,

to the young voters, go to the young voters. Yeah, and she said yesterday, you know, it allows people to share information in a free way. It's an income generator for many people on TikTok. But she also said they have national security concerns about the owner of TikTok. She also reiterated they have no intention of ban TikTok. That's not the purpose of the conversation and the legislation of it. But they're trying to, you know, force

that sale. All right. Karen Travers Thank you so much for the information. Have a great Monday. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A seventeen year old girl has fatally shot herself at the La County Sheriff's Industry Station. The girl went to the station just after seven thirty last night knocked in the door. Investigators say there was a struggle between the deputies who opened the door and the teen,

and at some point she grabbed a gun from the deputy's holster. The Sheriff's department says the shooting may be related to an earlier family disturbance call. Anaheim has demolished a fourth CD motel as part of a long term plan to revitalize the cities one and a half miles of Beach Boulevard. The city's Rebuilt Beach Plan calls for removing about half of the fifteen motels currently on the boulevard.

Anheim says the demolition of Anaheim Lodge last week and the demolition of the neighboring motel property Covered Wagon last year will make room for affordable apartments and condos. The city says the last year Anaheim Lodge was open resulted in almost five hundred calls for police and one fatal shooting. Anaheim says it's been a year and more than half a million dollars relocating twenty nine adults and ten children who were living in eighteen motel rooms in Orange County. Core bin Carsen k if

I need. Four men have been charged in Russian in connection with the mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow where more than one hundred and thirty people were killed. The men are citizens of Tajikistan. ABC's Derek Dennis says all four are charged with terrorism. All are said to be operatives of the terror group isis K. Analysts say isis K has grown stronger after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in twenty twenty one. Russian President Putin has tried to tie Ukraine

to the attack. KEEF says it was not involved. Court documents say two of them in charged have accepted their guilt in the attack Act, but their condition has raised questions about whether they were speaking freely. The men looked bruised and beaten when they appeared in quarter over the weekend. One had a bandage over one ear. Kind of a sad news out of Oakland. We had told you this was going to happen, and In and Out permanently closed its

restaurant in Oakland this weekend. The last day of operations. I bet the lines were long, was yesterday. The company said that crime in the area just made it too dangerous for both its customers and its employees to continue operating. Even though the branch was profitable, they just said it's not worth it. And it's the first time that In and Out has had a permanent closure. It's closed some stores apparently over the years, but this is their first

permanent closure. Very sad news. Love myself a little In and Out Join me and the wake Up Call crew on Sunday, April twenty first, we're going to be at Brookside Park in Pasadena. It's time for the Wiggle Waggle Walk. It benefit It's Pasadena Humane and helps them care for thousands of animals that they take in every year. So come on out join us for the walk. There's going to be adoptable pops out there. There are going to

be booths and food and demonstrations and some costume contest and some games. You can join our team, the wake Up Call Wigglers. I would love it if you'd come out and walk with us to visit the KFI Boos. You'll get an exclusive KFI swag bag while supplies last, of course, and it's going to be a great day. I did it last year with Jennifer Jones

Lee and she handed over the leash to me. So if you can't join us, you can still donate too to help us reach our goal and you can find out all the information, make a donation, sign up for the team, all of that at KFI AM six forty dot com, slash wiggle. This is KFI and kost HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. 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 six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app

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