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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 KFI at KOST HD two Los Angeles and Orange County, and you as Amy Kay. This is your wake up call for Thursday, March twenty first. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks for starting your Thursday with us. I love that intro. It's Todd Lights. He's the PA announcer at Dodgers Stadium, which we will be hearing in just one week from today. And of course it's a Dodgers are playing right now against

the Padres in Seoul, South Korea. It's Game two of the Major League Baseball season. I'm not going to tell you what the score is, but I'm gonna tell it's a slugfest. You can listen to the game. If you want to hear the whole game, you can hear the replay at noon on AM five seventy LA Sports or on the iHeartRadio app. Also, yesterday I watched the Don Lemon Elon Musk interview. Remember Musk had said, Hey, come on to X and we're gonna have a whole show and you're gonna

have a deal. And so then Lemon said, Okay, great, I'm gonna do that. We'll let me interview you. And so they agreed to the interview, and they sat down and they talked for an hour, and then after that interview, Musk said, I don't want to do a deal with you anymore. So Don Lemon says he's still gonna keep doing his show. It just won't be on X, but you can find it on YouTube.

Really interesting, really interesting. Not gonna say one way or the other how I felt about it, because they want you to take a look and make up your mind about it, which is a lot of what Elon Musk was saying. It's really fascinating his approach to X and all of that. Anyway, it's also so national French bread day. Oh my god, I want spaghetti. I know it's five o'clock in the morning, but it makes me hungry. Maybe that's on the agenda for it later today. Note to

self, go get spaghetti. Here's what's ahead. On wake up call, the La School District has introduced a new AI tool for students. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says the tool, called ED can give students a wake up call. Hey, that's what I'm here for let them know when their bus arrives, remind them of assignments, suggest what to read, and even tell them what's for lunch at school. Carvallo says it is not meant to replace teachers,

support staff, counselors or other employees. President Biden is canceling nearly six billion dollars in student loan debt for about seventy eight thousand public service workers. He made the announcement yesterday. Church teachers, nurses, and firefighters who qualify will be getting an email signed by President Biden saying they are on track to get

student loan forgiveness in less than a year. Shohy Otani's interpreter has apparently and fired by the Dodgers allegations of surface that he stole millions of dollars from Otani to place bets with a illegal book maker. At six oh five, its handle on the news, lawmakers are cutting it close once again as they work to avoid a government shutdown Friday at midnight. Let's get started with some of

the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three hundred and sixty bus drivers, mechanics and utilitied workers in La have voted unanimously to go on strike. The Teamsters union representing the workers rejected contractor MV Transportation's best and final offer Tuesday night. A recent report by the LA Department of Transportation shows rates for drivers are the least competitive in the region, resulting in staffing shortages,

impacted service and delays. A man who allegedly hijacked a metro bus and crashed in downtown LA has been arrested. The guys accused of threatening the driver with a gun overnight. There were no passengers on the bus, but the bus did hit several park cars near the Ritz Carlton. The accused hijacker ran off, but was caught a gun that he had turned out to be a replica. Another building has become a popular spot for taggers, much like the

Ocean Wide Plaza in downtown LA that's now covered in graffiti. The five story apartment building under construction in East Hollywood is surrounded by fencing and has signs up warning people to stan out of the area that it's under surveillance, But despite those precautions being in place, one side of the building is still full of graffiti. Taggers have been using scaffolding to climb the upper levels of the building. A mistrial's been declared in the case of a man from San Juan Capistrano

charged with stabbing his wife to death in twenty twenty. The jury told the judge it couldn't agree on a verdict for first degree murder, and that caused prosecutors to drop the first degree murder charge so the jury could focus on lesser charges. Defense attorney Cameron Tally says the jury still couldn't agree on a second degree murder charge or voluntary manslaughter. They were tremendously smart. They didn't have a single question for readback or about the facts. They found those on their

own. Tally says. The jury deliberated for five days and had insightful questions about the law, and the judge answered those questions correctly. Attorneys are expected to meet next month to decide if there should be a retrial. Chris Adler KFI News the Federal Reserve has held its key interest rate for the fifth consecutive meeting. Inflation has eased substantially while the labor market has remained strong, and that is very good news, but inflation is still too high ongoing progress and

bringing it down is not assured and the path forward is uncertain. FED Chair Jerome Pali says the Central Bank is strongly committed to bringing inflation down to two percent over time. Federal Reserve official signal that they still expect to cut their key interest rate this year three times. Let's now say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed back to the Middle East. Where are we with the proposed cease fire for hostages

deal? That's right as a state. Anthony Blincoln was in Jedda, Saudi Arabia yesterday. Today he is in Cairo meeting with the president there, Abdul fateal Cci. Remember the Egyptians are playing a major role as mediators in the Gaza seasire talks that are underway right now nearby in cutter You know, Anthony Blincoln expressing some optimism and he thinks a deal is still very possible. You know that the gaps are narrowing. I have to say that's not necessarily what

we're hearing here at Israel. Hamas put out a response that, you know, basically criticizing Israel's first position in the talks. There's also disputes about which issues are going to be discussed first, so there isn't a ton of optimism though These talks are going to go on for we were told at least a couple of weeks, and then we'll know if there's any real movement or not.

The framework remains the same, a six week ceasefire in exchange for the release of about forty Israeli hostages, including all the women, including the female soldiers, and then Israel will release in some cases at a rate of fifty to one Palestinian prisoners for each one of those hostages. And Jordana it's such it's so lopsided with the release of the Israeli hostages for the Palestinian prisoners.

Is there a reason for that? Is it because a lot of the people being held are for low level crimes, so they figure that they're not as they're not as I don't know, valuable of an asset. Right, that's a good point. There are hundreds that are serving, you know, relatively

minor crimes. One of the disputes in the hostage deal talks revolves around which Palestinian prisoners that have committed murder will be released, and Hamas wants dozens of those high level Palestinian prisoners out and that's going to you know, that has been a point of dispute, but is willing to release some of them to get out the women, especially the female hostages. That's why the ratio for

those female hostages is expected to be the highest. There's only five of them, but it could be up to you know, one hundred to one just to get out the women, and dozen to who've committed murder. Okay, So as those negotiations continue, the fighting continues. And are the Israeli forces still at that hospital complex trying to get some of the Humas players. They are. Today's day four of that operation. We heard an update this morning

from the Israeli Army. They now say they've killed in gunfights both in the facility and outside, one hundred and forty AMAS fighters and supporters, and they've arrested more than three hundred suspected militants from inside. They've also found three million

dollars in cash US dollars, there, piles of weapons. It's clear that Hamas have had regrouped inside this hospital and they say that, you know, among the arrests are some of high level Hamas fighters and some from Amichi hot On the other side, we're also hearing that, you know, thousands of civilians who are sheltering around the hospital there have been asked to move south to evacuate, and that some of those civilians are getting caught up in the crossfire,

and that up to dozens could be killed over the last several days in this operation. Okay, and then are they still treating patients. I know it's not just one hospital building, it's a big complex, but are they still treating patient building? Yes, there's five or six buildings in this complex. Theseraeli Armies says no patients or medical staff have been hurt or injured.

They may be terrified, they may be trapped inside, but they have not been hurt, and the Israeli Army is brought in fuel for the generators. They say there has not been any disruption of the care for patients. Remember this is these are special forces that are operating in different parts of the complex. They haven't gone in and taken over the entire place, so they're not

going in with tanks and just bombing it. They have like it would be like the equivalent of our Navy seals going in something like that, going in exactly, going after it. Yeah, and among correct, correct, And among them are medics, Arabic speakers, doctors. They've sent in, you

know, plenty of people to try to take care of the patients. But it turns out that you know, these early army told reporters a few days ago that they'd been monitoring Al Shifa for a while and they had noticed and they were tracking that some of the Hamas leaders had regrouped in there, and that turned out to be the case after they got in. Okay, all right, Well, thank you so much for the update, Jordana a As. As always, your information is now invaluable and we'll talk to you soon.

Thanks so much, so take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Voters in California have passed a six billion dollar ballot measure requiring counties to spend more on housing and drug treatment programs as a way to tackle the homelessness crisis. Prop one marks the first update to the state's mental health system in twenty years. Governor Newsom, who largely campaigned the measure and raised more than thirteen million dollars to

promote it. Says it's a huge victory for doing things radically different. The US Attorney in LA says a new initiative will assist local law enforcement with prosecuting gun related crimes. Martinis Strata says they've always helped local agencies when needed, but now he's dedicating four attorneys to do nothing but meet with local police and sheriff's investigators every month to help them identify and build federal cases. Those who

think that gun crimes are good business will need to think again. The potential federal sentences for violent gun crime are severe. The FBI and ATF are also on board, providing resources where needed. Astrata says the initiative should help put a dent in violent crime. Steve Gregor Kfine News officials in the UK are investigating a reported breach at the hospital that treated Princess Kate. ABC's Maggie Ruley

says staff attempted to access Kate's private medical records. The London Clinics thing if a breach is found, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. The Princess of Wales had what the Palace called a planned abdominal surgery in January. They said the surgery was successful and Kate's condition was not cancerous. Another airline stowaway has

been busted. ABC's Alex Stones says this time the person allegedly took photos of other passengers boarding passes so he could hop on a Delta flight to Salt Lake City on Sunday. He boarded the flight and hit in the airplane bathroom, they say, until a plane pushed back from the gate. Then claimed he was in seat twenty one AF, but that seat was occupied. The plane

returned to the gate and he was met by police. The guy allegedly told investigators he used a friend's Southwest Airlines buddy pass to get through TSA and boarded the Delta plane when the flight he wanted was full. He's now in a jail on a federal detainer. Join me and wake up call on Sunday,

April twenty first, So excited about this. We're going to be at Brookside Park in Pasadena for the Wiggle Waggle Walk to benefit a benefit Pasadena Humane and that's going to help care for thousands of animals that they take in every year. As you'll remember, Jennifer Jones, Lee used to spearhead this cause, and since she has headed back to Northern California, she's passed the leash on to me. Get it. Okay, Yeah, so come out. You

can see adoptable pups, you can check out the booths. There's going to be a costume contest, games, demonstrations, food and more. And you can join our team, the wake Up Call Wigglers and come out to walk with us and visit with the KFI booth. There's going to be an exclusive KFI swag bag really cool stuff inside for your pooch. That's while supplies last. And if you can't join us at the walk, you can still donate to help us reach our goal at KFI AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle

that's where you're going to find all the information. You can sign up for the walk, you can join our team, or you can just make a donation or find out more about the Humane Society. But hopefully you will be joining us on Sunday, April twenty first for this year's Wiggle Waggle Walk benefiting Pasadena Humane. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. I got my coffee all ready to go. Hope it's a nice

relaxing day. Isn't always better when you start your day and you're not like crazy stressed out. I hope your day is like that. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La City Council is voted to move forward with several police reform measures, including giving the Chief of Police the power to fire officers. Currently that's up to the city's Board of Rights. A city attorney will now put together an ordinance to change the city charter.

Then it will be up to voters to decide whether to make those changes. The US may offer a plea deal to Julian Assange. The Justice Department is apparently looking at ways to allow him to admit to misdemeanor charges and settle the year's long extradition battle with the WikiLeaks founder. Massange is accused of espionage for publishing thousands of classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The La Dodgers and San Diego Padres are playing their second of two season starting games in Seoul, South Korea. The Dodgers won it five to two yesterday. Former Japanese superstar Yashinobu Yamamoto is making his pitching debut for the Dodgers. You can hear a replay of the entire game at noon today on AM five seventy LA Sports or on the iHeartRadio app and that one's in HD. Not going to tell you the score because the game's going on, but I'll tell

you it's a slugfest at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Interest rates aren't coming down just yet and investigating our investors rather seem to be okay with that. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, darn it, we missed International Happiness Day. Well you didn't miss it. You know you made it through, right, but you just didn't know his International Happiness DA. A lot of people don't know that,

and maybe that's a reflection of their own happiness level. But Gallup has been asking people since twenty twelve, going around to one hundred and forty countries in the world and asking people amy to imagine a ladder wrongs the lowest wrong, being unhappy, the top wrong being very happy, and asking people to put themselves somewhere on that ladder. And that's how they come up with it.

It's pretty straightforward kind of survey, and the results now are being released on the International Happiness Day, Okay, and apparently it's not that big of a deal that we missed International Happy Day because we're not that happy in the US. Well, yeah, when it kind of depends upon your age, because for the first time this survey has broken down the results by the age of

the respondent. So yeah, you're right. The United States has fallen off the top twenty list for the first time since this question was being asked. Right now, we're down at number twenty three, but it's largely being pulled down by the happiness or the sense of well being of people under thirty. So people thirty five and under just are not very happy in this country. People sixteen up are pretty happy. And in fact, those sixteen up if they were the ones, the only ones in the county, we'd be at

number ten around the world. If we only had people under thirty five and their happiness were being engaged, we'd be down around sixty five, sixty six something like that. So a lot of it is being sort of weighted down by people under thirty five. Kids are downers there. You have kind of okay, so what are these happiness rankings based on. We know that they have a one to ten scale, but what kinds of things are they looking at? Well, that's it. I mean, it's a self assessment and

that's it. Just are you happy? Right? Okay? How happy do you feel? So it's not based on any particular criteria other than the ones that you have in your own mind. Right, what makes me happy? And how do I feel about where I am in life? And so where would I put myself a lot, So it's kind of it's a self assessment. It doesn't lay out complicated you know, matrices or vectors on where you fall. It just says, how happy are you now? Put yourself on

this ladder? Okay, So we know we're not so happy in the US, or at least the young people aren't. Where is everybody super happy? Finland? Finland? Those people by Finland. It's getting cold there. It is cold there, and so it's at the top of the list in terms of happiness. It's followed by Denmark, Iceland, Sweden. So those top four are pretty they're cold, right, those are cold weather countries. Then Israel hits the list. Then the Netherlands. So for some reason, those

folks in Scandinavian that part of the world are pretty darn happy. And you know, for I don't know how much it has to do with the weather, but those are the folks who are happy and have been for the last decade or so. Maybe it's from all the electronic rays coming off of the northern lights, right or maybe Buyork. Maybe it's the music of Byorks happy scan. Yeah, okay, so real quick. Israel is on the list

as what did you say, number six, number five? Yes, okay, number six, And things in Israel right now are not very happy. So it's not just based on this year, right, isn't it a three year average or something? It is that's how Israel stayed in there, right right before Hamas and all of that happened. Then I think you're right if they if the survey were done today, the things might look a little different in terms of Israel's happiness. Maybe maybe the US too, given you know,

you just mentioned the stock market. They're all three major indexes are record highs, and investors at least appear to be fairly happy. Interest rates maybe coming down. And by the way, folks, hundred thirty five. They have they remember nine to eleven, right, that was they were nineteen years old when that happened. They're thirty five, thirty four or something. Yeah,

they were young, but they should be able to remember it. They know the economic crisis of two thousand and eight, two thousand and they know the pandemic. They know right now if they go out and try to buy, they're gonna have to pay three or four hundred thousand dollars. First of all, they've got to pay off their student loans. So they're under they're under stressors that people over sixty really aren't having to deal with right now. And that may be part of it here. Okay, so note to self,

wait for the rolling average. Maybe things will get better next year. And in the meantime, let's go to Finland. Don't worry, be happy. Oh yes, I love that song. Thank you, Jim Ryan. All right to you. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man in Orange County's been charged of sexually assaulting two girls in Anaheim. The twenty year old man was in

court yesterday but didn't enter a plea. He's accused of meeting the girls on social media, meeting up with them and giving them alcohol that's caused the girls to lose consciousness before they were allegedly assaulted. News brought to you by American Vision Windows. A Tustin police officer will not face charges for killing a mentally ill homeless man holding a broomstick. We got out your hands up, I

know you. Officer of Stella Silva was called out about a man living in bushes waving a huge steak knife and talking to himself, but bodycam video shows the guy come out in twenty twenty one with what officers said they thought at the time was a metal pole raised in a striking position. The state DOJ concluded Silva acted in self defense, but recommended the department review its body worn camera policies and de escalation training. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News,

environmental protection agencies announced new vehicle emissions standards. The EPA's Michael Reagan says they will go into effect in three years. These technology standards for model years twenty twenty seven through twenty thirty two will avoid more than seven billion tons of carbon pollution. That's four times the total carbon pollution from the entire transportation in the year twenty twenty one. Reagan says the new standards will help restore America's

position as a global leader against the fight for climate change. 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. California is Proposition one has passed by a narrow margin. Prop one's going to designate more than six billion dollars in bond funding to build housing and treatment facilities for people with mental illness, among other things. Governor Newsom was a strong supporter and called it a huge victory.

President Biden is canceling nearly six billion dollars in student loan debt for about seventy eight thousand public service workers. Teachers, nurses, and firefighters who qualify will be getting an email signed by the President saying that they are on track to get student loan forgiveness in less than a year. The Englewood School District is planning to permanently close five schools at the end of the twenty twenty four

to twenty five school year. The district says it's because of declining enrollment and financial issues. Protesters say the district just wants the land the schools stand on to sell to developers. One of the schools less than a mile away from Sofi Stadium and the soon to be open into a dome. At six oh

five, it's handle on the news. Republicans are planning to call President Biden to testify in his impeachment in At five point fifty, it's kitten season because it's springtime, which is adorable, but that also leads to a flood of kittens being dumped at shelters. So we're going to be talking to the kitten lady about what you can do, how you can help, even if you don't want to adopt. It is springtime, which seems to be a time

to celebrate food. Lots of food festivals going on, and one of them is happening at Knots Berry Farm. So we went out and about to the Boysoberry Festival and I got a chance to catch up with entertainment producer Chris Doe, who we last talked to for Nots Scary Farm back in the falls. So this is a much more friendly festival. I've never been to the Boisonberry Festival before, so it was kind of a real treat. So Chris,

what are we going to find at this year's Boisonberry Festival? Yeah? So Boys and Berry Festival is happening right now through all the way through April twenty Aphlus selectate. So we're tyler sides everybody here. There's food, there is entertainments, there's merchandiser, so much fun. But this beauty of it is a boisonberry festival and that all started with Walter or Not as a boisonberry farmer. We created the boisonberry. So what better way is Patrini than the whole

festival? Okay, so we all know there, let's take a lok. Yeah, we all know that there are boison berries out there, But I did not realize that the Boys and Berry originated with not Verry fun. Yes, so did he create it? It's a hybrid or are he just the first one to discover any picking. Yes, it is a hybrid of a couple of different berries that we have, and Walter Not created it and it took off and here we are, you know, years later, celebrating it

here at the Boisberry Festival. There's so much food, so there's so much beverage and all, of course all Boysonberry inspired and themed. Yes, okay, So I'm gonna tell you that we've already been around and we've done some tasting, okay, and I am amazed at their taking a regular delicious meal and then infusing the boisonberry into it. Like we had the sliced pork okay,

with mashed potatoes, and then it had a boisonberry gravy. Oh my goodness, that sound was a delist so delicious, right, and then traditional stuff like we had a boisonberry combler, and then we just had the funnel cake with a boisonberry ice cream. Oh so good. So you think of boisonberry has dessert, but it's not. It's main courses too. Yes, it's main courses too. And what I love about it is Southern California.

We have such a rich, diverse food offers that we have here, and so to take that Southern California cuisine and then add that boys and Berry to it, you get the best of both worlds. You know. One of my favorite things here is the low there. I love a lodate and all of a sudden day, yet you need a problem list is one of my personal favorites. So you take that, you have some boisonberry to it, and it tastes completely different. It is such a tread here. Yeah.

And one of the things we tried on the charcooterie board it was a boison berry mustard and you think of that and you go, well, that's a weird combination. And then you try and you go, well, that's just delicious. So it's like surprising flavors. Yes, you take what you think would be a dessert flavor and you put it on some of your main courts

and your savory dishes. Oh, it as a whole nother word doing Okay, Now, during Boys and Berry Festival, not only do we have tons and tons of food, and I think we said there's like seventy five new food offerings, and I do want to say that you guys have some vegan options and some gluten free options. There are gluten free options as well as vegan options that we had as well here at the festival. And then on

top of that a wonderful beverage program too. We have you know, drinks that are inspired by the Boys and Berry as well as if you are you know, over twenty one and likes to indulge in an adult beverage. We do have, you know, beers and cocktails that are boys and Berry inspired as well. I had a boison berry espresso martini with lavender sprinkles. It was so good and again surprising flavors. That sounds deficious, Yes, it does. I'm going to have a chance to try it. I feel like

I need to try that pretty soon. We'll be done with this interview quickly and then maybe you and I will run off and get that sounds like we Okay. So here's the other thing that's really cool about the Boys and Berry Festival. It's not just food, it's entertainment. It's entertainment, okay. And look at all these booths there are, I mean, how many boos? Thanks? Do you guys have their little small vendor booths and really cool, fun, unique things. Yeah, we partner with with a large amount

of local crafters. They come in and you're seeing right now a wonderful tea vendor that we have. But of course we say it's a boys and Berry festival, how do you infuse that boys and Berry fun into it? And all the crafters come up with something absolutely amazing and it's so delicious Boys and Berry bulwa it's real good. Oh. I saw the boys on a Verry goobag oh and I said, there's a whole booth that had boisonberry candles and they all smell so delishus like, yeah, so much to check out.

So again, it's going now through the April twenty eighth. Yes, right now, it's pretty much every day, and then it's going to go to weekends and selectings and how some people find more information before they buy their tickets. Yeah, they can go to dot notts dot com. They'll be able to get all of our operating dates as well of the days that we offer the Bois and Berry Festival. We'll have food, we'll have beverages, walk crafters of course, will entertainment. Will be a great time, delicious and

entertaining. Yea, you can ask for much more. Thank you so much, wonderful. I'll see you again. All right. That's out and about for this week at the Boys and Berry Festival. It not's very far and it was deliciousness. I must tell you if you want to find out dates, because like I said, it's going pretty much every day right now, it'll switch to weekends after spring break and select dates, so you can find

all the information at knots dot com. I think my favorite thing, and Nick, I'm not sure what your favorite thing was, but I think my favorite thing was the corn chowder with boisonberry syrup. Sounds so weird, but it was such a cool mix of savory and sweet. It was so tasty.

What did I like? There's just so much there. Barbara the barber coo over the mac and cheese with the boisonberry drizzle was also incredible, which lovely, And then there's a lot It's really there's a lot of sweet that's been added to the savory options, and that's what I kind of enjoy is that mashup of the two flavors. But yeah, I was gonna say, you know what really good was that slushy that I had in the cute little boysonberry container. Oh yeah, you can also get there, but it's the

only place you can get boisonberry flavored icy anywhere in the country. Pretty much anywhere in the world is it nots Verry Farm for the Boisonberry Festival. So that's one of the specially unique treats that is available right now through April and I love the boys and berries were created right here at knots Very Farm. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour News. We're one of the largest meth busts at the California Mexico border

included carrots. During the routine inspection of a semi truck at the O ti Mesa commercial port of entry, customs officers say they found five hundred and seventy four packages of meth weighing nearly three thousand pounds. Officers say while they were opening produce boxes Sunday morning, they noticed orange packages underneath clear banks of carrots. The orange packages, along with the crushed ice, were meant to blend

in with the orange vegetables. Officials say the meth has a street value worth millions of dollars. Steve Gregory kaf I News. Prosecutors in ventur Counties, a corrections officer from Fullerton has been charged with nine felonies for having sex with a fifteen year old girl. Court papers show from December of twenty twenty two to February of twenty three, a Zan Santu engaged in sexual activity with the

teen while working at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camerio. Special enhancements were also filed because Sandu took advantage of a position of trust or confidence. Allegedly, Sandu pleaded not guilty yesterday and remains in jail on a million dollars bail. Hundreds of public safety cameras are being installed throughout San Francisco. Mayor London Breeds says the goal is to help fight organized retail and motor theft and make

the city safer for people who live there, also businesses and visitors. She says four hundred licensed plate readers are also being added on a rolling basis at more than one hundred locations around the city. You're listening to a wake up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty My How time flies when you're having fun and hope you're enjoying the show this morning. We have a handle on the News coming up in just a few moments, So if you're not enjoying

wake up Call, you're definitely going to enjoy Handle on the News. Actually, we have some we still have some really great stuff coming up, so stick around. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A sixteen year old girl has died more than a week after she got into a fight with two other girls at school in South la. The girl's mother says her daughter and the girls fought in the bathroom at Manual Arts High School

on March fifth. The girl died March fifteenth of a brain hemorrhage. The mom says school officials and campus police didn't do enough to stop the bullies from going after her daughter, who had come home from school with injuries in the past. The US may be offering a plea deal to Julian Assage. The Justice Department is apparently looking at ways to allow him to admit to misdemeanor charges

and settle the year's long extradition battle with the Wikileak's co founder. Assage was accused of espionage for publishing thousands of classified doctors comments related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Dodgers and Padres playing their second of two season starting games in Seoul, South Korea. The Dodgers won the first one five to two yesterday. You can hear a full replay of the whole game at noon today on AM five, seventy LA sports and HD on the iHeartRadio app.

We're just minutes away from Handle on the news. Getting close to retirement. Not so fast. Some House Republicans are calling for hiking the retirement age. Let's say good morning now to the Kitten Lady, Hannah Shaw. Good morning, Hannah, Hi, thanks for having me. Okay, before we get started, because we're going to be talking about kitten season and stuff. How

did you come to be known as the Kitten Lady? Well, I started rescuing kittens about fifteen years ago after finding a kitten in a tree, and kittens just started finding me, and I started rescuing them, and the rest is history. I think that this is my theory that when you go into a shelter to find a pet, I think they find you. Sounds like that's what happened with you. I agree with that completely. Yeah, And

a lot of foster parents start out the way that I do. A lot of people don't realize how many kittens are in our shelter system, but they find kittens outside, realize what's going on and want to help. Okay, So it is kitten season, Hannah, which is exciting because kittens are adorable, but it's also scary because there's so many of them, and as you just mentioned, a lot of them just get dumped. A lot of them

end up in shelters thankfully, so at least they have a chance. But tell us about the event that you're going to be speaking out this weekend that specifically deals with kittens and what the situation is now. Sure, So on Sunday the twenty fourth at Pasadena Humane Society, there's going to be a really wonderful kitten shower event that's just like a baby shower, but for kittens. Because kitten season is here, there's a lot of kittens that are going to

be coming through the shelter doors. So we're asking people to come with donations to provide, you know, a lot of the supplies that these kittens are going to need, but also to come and learn about what kittens need. So I'll be doing a number of workshops covering everything from introduction to what is fostering, what should you do if you find a kitten outside this spring or summer, and then of course covering kitten care from you know, everything from

bottle feeding through weaning and getting them adopted. Okay, so if you if you just got a kitten would be good to go. If you're thinking about it, would be good to go, or if you're not ready to adopt, fostering may be a good way to go because you can help. But if you don't have the long term commitment. Yeah, and you know, fostering is something a lot of people don't realize they actually do have the ability to do. It's such a short term commitment with such a huge impact that

can be made on these animals. Even fostering for one to two weeks, Even if you foster just one litter of kittens every year in the spring or summer, that makes such a big difference for the Humane Society. You know, there are so so many kittens entering doors and we really just need the community all hands on deck to help out and make a difference. And this is the event where you can learn how to do that and find where you fit in. Okay, And the idea behind fostering is because the kittens need

extra care because they're babies. They don't have their mamas with them, and so you need extra people and they're just start enough people at the shelter all the time to take care of all of them. Is that right? Yeah? I like to think of foster parents kind of like a bridge, you know, or like a bridge between the kittens, like being in really a hopeless situation where if they're not with their moms, they are not able to take care of themselves. They're not you know, kittens are born even with

their eyes closed, ears folded, they can't regulate their own temperature. You know, they need overnight care. We're a bridge that just gets them, you know, across the line to where they are old enough to be you know, a bit independent, able to eat on their own, able to go to their forever home. So it's like babysitting. You know, it's a short term commitment makes a really big difference for them, and you know, it's such a joyful thing for foster parents like me to get to be

part of that journey for them. Okay and Hannah, what is the ideal kitchen kitchen kitten foster parent. What does that look like? Oh, there's so many different ways to foster. There are people who just do like overnight relief fostering. There are people who do fostering for full eight weeks from the time the kitten comes in at two days old, so you can work with

you know, little bottle babies, especially if you work from home. If you work from home, taking care of those little guys is something that we need a lot of people to do, and it's just a couple of minutes every few hours of care for them. But even if you don't work from home or you don't feel like waking up in the middle of the night, you can foster a mom with babies. You can foster weaned kittens where you know, if you have thumbs that can open up a can of food a

couple times a day, you can foster older kittens. So really you kind of adapt it to whatever your lifestyle is. You know, whatever time and skills you have to give, the Humane Society will for sure find some way to fit you into that program. Okay. And you can find out so much more this Sunday from ten to three thirty at Pasadena Humane where Hannah is holding a kitten shower. And where do they go to find more information and do they need to register or do they just show up so they can go

to my website. It's Kittenlady dot org slash events. I have a link there that will give you all the information and it's happening from ten to three point thirty on Sunday, and you can register on the website and find out more. All right, Hannah, Hannah Shaw, the Kitten Lady, thank you so much. I hope you find lots of foster parents over the weekend and also get some kiddies adopted. Thank you very much. All right, Thanks, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI

twenty four our newsroom. The interpreter for Dodgers player Shohei Otani has been fired over allegations of theft and illegal gambling. Andrew Dimbert says the interpreter allegedly stole more than four million dollars from Otani to pay off gambling debts. Zuhara allegedly placed wagers within the legal sports book in California. ESPN reviewed bank information, it says shows Otani's name on two five hundred thousand dollars payments made last year.

A spokesman for Otani says the baseball star has been the victim of a massive theft and they were turning the matter over to authorities. Misahara worked with Otani for years during his time with the Angels and now with the Dodge. Major League Baseball confirmed he was fired yesterday. Prosecutors in Riverside County say the alleged shooter in a murder for higher plot tied to a church leader maybe hiding out in Mexico. A Zeus Felies Garcia is charged with attempted murder, assault

with a firearm, and conspiracy. He and another guy were allegedly played paid forty thousand dollars last year by a church pastor from Victorville to kill a man who was dating the pastor's daughter. They shot the guy in October, but he survived. Three two lift off rocket Lab has successfully sent a spy satellite into orbit for the US National Reconnaissance Office and Electron rocket carrying the payload lifted off early this morning from Wallops, Virginia. The mission is called Live and

Let Fly Get It. Rocket Lab says the National Reconnaissance Office missions provide critical information to more than a half million government users, including every member of the intelligence community, the military lawmakers. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,