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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. Thanks for joining us this morning. Well, the countdown's on people getting ready to travel, purchasing stuff. I noticed over the weekend the grocery stores were a little busier than usual today. Actually not today, but tomorrow and Wednesday are the

busiest air travel days of the year. I'm glad I'm staying home. They're expecting like two point six million people to travel through TSA checkpoints each day. But I have to tell you over the weekend I was driving around. I was actually on my way here yesterday morning because we came in because Dean Sharp hosted his Home for the Holidays live show here at the iHeart Studios to talk all things Holidays. Fun time got not to only meet home listeners, but

also some wake up Call listeners. So if you're listening today too, thanks for getting up with us. But driving around there was leaves on the roadway, probably because it's been really windy, so it's blowing the dead leaves out of the tree, and I was like, oh, it feels like fall. Finally, of course, it's going to be almost eighty to Greece. But besides that feels like fall. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.

The ten is open. The roadway damaged by fire more than a week ago reopened to traffic last night after being closed down four eight days for repairs. Babies evacuated from Gaza's Shifa Hospital have arrived in Egypt. Egypt's state run media says twenty eight babies were taken to a hospital across the border. In Egypt. Thirty one babies were taken out of the hospital over the weekend. Not clear where the other three are. Former First Lady Rosalind Carter has died shortly

after she started receiving hospice care at her home in Georgia. Missus. Carter was integral to Jimmy Carter's presidency. She sat in on cabinet meetings and was his confidant and closest advisor. She died yesterday, again at home. She was ninety five. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the big one the section of the ten Freeway in downtown LA that was shut down because of a massive

fire under the bridge has reopened even before what was estimated. Last week. Officials had announced the freeway would reopen by at least tomorrow, but lane's opened up last night. The original estimate for how long the freeway would be closed was three to five weeks. Investigators say they have an idea who started the fire, but no idea why. I'm Steve Gregory. That investigation, in partnership with LA Fire Department, where the state Fire Marshall Caltrans, has been

ongoing. Govern A Newsom said yesterday preliminary results of the arson investigation will be released by Wednesday, but gave no clues on what that might include. He said last week the fire was intentionally started, and over the weekend, CalFire released photos of a man they're calling a person of interest. You can see the photos and bulletin on our website at KFIM six dot com. Steve Gregory, KFIE News. A man walking all the one O five freeway in Lynnwood

has been shot by a CHP officer. Someone had reported a tall man with dark clothing and a backpack was walking across lanes yesterday afternoon, wearing headphones and talking on his phone. CHP says an officer made contact with the man, there was a struggle and then the shooting happened. The man was taken to the hospital. A large tree has fallen onto the street in Mission Hills. It's one of two toppled over by strong winds overnight. One of the trees

came close to landing on a pickup truck. Wind advisories are up for several areas, with winds expected to continue to blow today. We could see gus up to sixty miles per hour. The US and Israel have rejected calls for a full ceasefire in Gaza. They say talks toward a possible pause in fighting

in exchange for the release of hostages are sensitive. ABC Sjeordana Miller says gaps in the negotiations mediated by Katar are narrowing, and Israeli sources say Hamas would release at least fifty Israeli women and children, plus dozens of foreign nationals. They'd be freed in groups each day over a five days ceasefire. Israel would also release Palestinian women and miners in its jails. Representatives for the families say

there has been significant progress, but it could still take several days. We're gonna be talking with Jordana Miller more about this in about fifteen minutes, so stick around because she's got the latest from Jerusalem on developments overnight, from jigli jello molds to green bean castrole. My favorite the TSA is dishing on what Thanksgiving foods you can fly with this holiday. TSA officials say if it's solid like baked goods, meats, stuffing, or cast roles, it can go

through a security checkpoint. If you can spill it, spray it, spread it, pump it, or pour it, and it's larger than three point four ounces, then it should go in a checked bag. I just want to know who's bringing a turkey on them. I've never heard such a thing, and I keep hearing about that. I think that's hysterical. Let's say good morning to Nick Polio Kaney. We've got well, you're not exactly flying

down the freeway on the two fifteen. Boy, that's maybe like a turkey, which you know is a flightless bird, kind of like a penguin. So that's the craziest thing. That's wild. I you know, what can you imagine with all the check bag fees that you'll be paying that. You'd have to check your bag for your turkey. You're thirty pound turkey. You're good. O. Wait a, my look, no, you can bring the turkey on the plane exactly. Anyway, let's say good morning now to

ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim SpaceX's starship isn't exactly ready for prime time? Well maybe not. Yeah, they've still got them some things to work out, as we learned over the weekend. The first test, remember back in April, ended with a big explosion of shortly after the thing lifted off. It also destroyed, essentially destroyed, the lift of the launch pad there at Boca Chica, Texas, down on the Texas A Gulf coast, the way down at the southern tip of the state. Well, yes, so the

launch that happened this weekend, the launch pad survived. This is the biggest rocket ever launched. Imagine hoisting a forty story skyscraper into space. That's sort of what This is a four hundred foot rocket, biggest ever built and most powerful by the way too. That's important. So the thing lifted off a few minutes in to launch the initial stage rocket. It did its job. It lifted the thing up to almost the point of orbit. Then it separates

and falls away. And normally these SpaceX rockets, the booster rocket will will come back down to Earth, it'll be refurbished, it'll be fixed up and put into service again. This one didn't. It blew up a couple of seconds, well maybe a minute or so after the separation from the starship, so it was lost, fell down into the Gulf of Mexico somewhere. The starship itself continued on into orbit. It was supposed to make about an hour and a half orbit, almost a full orbit around the Earth, and then

drop down into the Pacific Ocean to be recovered. Well, for whatever reason, SpaceX lost contact radio contact with that spaceship. By the way, nobody on board, no cargo, nothing of any value at all. This was just a test. But once contact was lost, the starship itself initiated its self destruct, sequenced and blew itself to pieces. It's up in orbit. But there's nothing we can gain from that at all. But yes, the crews will try to find what's left of the Booster rocket in the Gulf of

Mexico today, so a lot to learn. Elon Musk still calls this a success. Okay, it seems like a lot of money to blow that up. How do we know how much like each rocket costs. I could tell you it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, these things are expensive. But by the way, I mean this Falcon nine concept, the concept of the booster rocket that lifts the thing into orbit and then falls back down and makes it gradual and very ConTroll an amazing landing if you've ever

seen it happen, which they just did another one this morning. Falcon nine just launched twenty twos Starling's satellites up right, Well, and that's the process. And so they bring the thing back down, they clean it up, they refurbish you to fill it up and get it ready for the next launch. That's the thing that makes this financially feasible, that they reuse those boosters. So, yeah, it is expensive to do this, but this was

a test. Again, It's only a test, right, no cargo on board, no people, clearly nothing at all of any value except the test equipment that was supposed to tell us what went wrong. Okay, so we were just talking about the Falcon nine rockets that now you say, they come and they land and they get cleaned up, and then they're used again. When that program started, did they have similar things happening? I mean, were they going up and blowing up and then they kind of had to perfect

it? Or is it happening different this time. It's always been like that. That's kind of been the course of experimentation, you know, since the nineteen fifties into the sixties, that you'd had failures, dramatic and spectacular failures. When you're dealing with you know, hundreds of tons of fuel and the thing blows up, people are gonna notice that. So it's not just a mechanical glitch or a computer error. Is this something that is spectacular and it

is right there on display for the world. I mean, that's been happening all the time. And so Elon Musk, maybe is he being disingenuous when he says it was his success. This is fantastic because he just lost hundreds and millions of dollars worth of stuff. But you know, he says that there's a lot to learn from this. Well, yeah, and it got farther than the last time, so they made progress. So do we have

any kind of idea of when he might send another one up. No, that's not you know, on the table yet, but it was April when the last launch, the first launch was held and did pretty much the same way. By the way that the launch pad did survive this time. Oh get they had made impress from that launch to this one and so it wasn't

destroyed the way it was the first time. Still, a lot of folks there at Boca Chica, Texas, down on the southern tip are concerned about the environmental impact and they, you know, they want to see this slowed down somewhat because they're concerned about birds and animals. I mean, this thing shook the earth to registered as an earthquake whint it launched. Just really wow.

And you mentioned that this thing is four hundred feet tall, largest rocket ever And I want to do a little comparison because we were just out at the California Science Center to see the Space Shuttle before they took it, before they take it off display, and they have since they've put the rocket motors in their upright position and then they're going to add the external fuel tank before they moved the shuttle over. But I just looked it up, the external

fuel tank and that thing is huge. I just saw it. It's only one hundred fifty only it's a hund and fifty four feet tall, So this one is four hundred feet tall. That thing is massive, it is, and the force and the thrust that's required to get that thing into orbit is incredible. You know. It's it's a matter of scale. You've got a bigger, heavier rocket, which is what you need to get a bigger heavier rocket into space. So every time they boost the size of this thing,

they increase the thrust of it too. So that's why what accounts for these magnificent launches. And by the way that you know they people came from all over the country to see this thing launched yesterday and enthusiasts space enthusiasts weren't. We're not dissatisfied by what they saw and the thing, even though the thing blew up. I'm just fascinated by this stuff. Are you guys? Just so excited about this? I can't wait to see the next one. And

I'm gonna go watch the latest episode of For All Mankind. I'm inspired now. Thank you, Jim Ryan, have a great day. See ay, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Workers have started tearing down a massive World War II blimp hanger at the former Tustin Marine Base that's been burning for weeks. On Saturday, authority said details of the hangar's deconstruction plan were being finalized, with the project

planned to take place over twenty four to forty eight hours. They say the goal is to put out all the remaining hotspots. Nothing is being done yet with the hanger doors or concrete pillars. A man in La who shot at a couple of armed robbers who ran up on his outside of his front door has had his concealed carry license Suspendedly, criminals came to my home point the

guns in my chest. After successful defending my home and my family, my five month old child, California has now decided to suspend my second amendment. The shooting earlier this month was caught on home security cameras. Vince Ricci said in a video posted on x the scariest part was that his wife and baby

were insides. Not clear why Ricci's permit was suspended. The Sheriff's department only said California's Department of Justice establishes guidelines for concealed carey weapons permits, and the Sheriff's Department must follow the DOJ parameters in accordance with the law. The nonprofit news organization cal Matters says maternity wards have been closing across California. Forty six

hospitals have closed maternity wards in the past decade. Reporter An a Ebari says some hospitals weren't delivering that many babies, some wanted to repurpose their centers, and others were having staffing issues. They say they've had a hard time hiring labor and delivery nurses and obs, and this was especially the case in some more remote and rural areas. She says the closures can impact prenatal care because when people lose a maternity ward, they often lose their OB's who end up

relocating. That can cause overbooking at other maternity centers, causing healthcare delays. Chris Adler kf I Knew The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes topped the box office in its opening weekend. The prequel to the blockbuster Hunger Games series at began back in twenty twelve, open with forty four million dollars. Trolls Band Together came in second with almost thirty one million dollars, and not so great news for the Marvels. It brought in just over ten million dollars

in its second weekend out and tied the holiday slasher movie Thanksgiving. When we come back, we're going to be talking with ABC S Geordana Miller about the continued fighting around the largest hospital complex in Gaza and also getting babies out to safety. Only three more days still Thanksgiving. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five lanes in each direction of the ten Freeway

in downtown La have reopened. More than two hundred and fifty people worked on the section of the freeway twenty four hours a day after fire damaged it a week ago Saturday. The stretch of road takes nearly three hundred thousand vehicles on per day. A blustery day is on the way. The western San Gabriel Mountains, Highway fourteen and the Grapevine are under a high wind warning until tomorrow morning. Windsor expected to blow thirty to forty five miles per hour, with

gusts to sixty miles per hour. And the western San Gabriel Mountains could see gus as strong as eighty miles per hour. Microsoft has hired open ai founder Sam Altman and another architect of Chat GPT after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that kind of shocked the AI world. Microsoft says Altman and op ai co founder and former president Greg Brockman would be leading a new advanced AI research team at Microsoft. At six oh five, it's handle

on the news. Police say they think they may know who set the fire that ended up shutting down the ten for more than a week, but they need your help in finding him. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, first thing, good news, what you told us about on Friday. The babies are being cared for and several have been taken out of the hospital in Gaza. Yeah, thank god,

thank god, there's some good news to report. Those babies were first moved from Al Shifa Hospital to a hospital in southern Gaza near the Rafa border crossing yesterday and today, twenty eight of the premature babies that were in serious condition dehydration, sepsis were transferred to over the border Rafa, crossing into Egypt, and they will make their way to a hospital in Cairo. So that is

good news, God willing those lives will be saved. As the fighting continues across the Gaza strip, primarily in the north, but Israel has also begun to expand its operations into the southern area around Hanyunis that is the last kind of Hamas stronghold. A city, a big city in southern Gaza, sits

on the south west. And what will complicate Israel's operations is it moves further south, is that there's also you know, a million dozens that are in the you know, the side the Communists in the southeast, So that's going to complicate the issue. Also a big story this weekend is the Israeli Army revealing what it calls new evidence of Hamas's operations inside the Al Shifa hospital. They released CCTV video from the inside the Al Shifa Hospital on October seventh,

the day of that heinous attack. Two separate clips were were shared of what looked like Hamas gunmen I mean armed men in one case pushing through a man an alleged hostage from Thailand, and then another clip we're told an injured man being moved through the hospital, also a foreigner, So you know, Israel saying that even on the day of the attack, Hamas operatives came through Shifa

Hospital. There were also shots from the parking lot of some of the Israeli g that were stolen in the attack, as well as we saw some new images of the tunnel that was found a few days ago, thirty feet deep and it runs about sixty yards than a barrier. Israel's in the process of breaking that barrier, they expect there'll be rooms and other legs of this tunnel

that is running inside. That the tunnel was found on the Alshifa Medical complex and running towards the direction of the hospital underneath, and that would be a big thing because they've been saying that Hamas is running a command in control and with all the kind of pushback, not kind of, but all the pushback against what Israel is doing, that would really bolster their argument that hey, you guys, they really are doing this underneath hospitals and putting their own people

in harm's way. Absolutely, I mean, I think it will be maybe another few days or a week until Israel finds more puts together and finds more of the ground. A tunnel network, Hamas has tunnels running all through the Godza strip. They're often characterized by one section and then a barrier like this by the way, that has areas where you could put a firearm in and fire right to protect perhaps anyone coming into the tunnel, like soldiers or anybody

else to attack the tunnels or people inside. So this is a hallmark of Hamas tunnels. It certainly is not. It would be absolutely shocking if this was the only little section of a tunnel they found at Schifa. Also, Jordana, we've been hearing and in fact you and I were talking about it. I believe on Friday that they are getting closer to a deal for a hostage swap. Was there any more movement over the weekend. Well, the war Cabinet here in Israel met last night. It was one of the subjects

that they discussed. There continues to be progress, made no breakthrough yet, but we still those kind of general parameters that we've been talking about are still stands that is Hamas would release at least fifty Israeli women and children. On top of that, some foreign nationals, and in return, Israel would pause the war a temporary cease fire for five days. The hostage is likely to be released staggered a little bit each day, and then Israel will also release

Palestinian women and miners that are in the jails here in Israel. Okay, And you mentioned women and miners because I think initially when they said that they were going to release Palestinian children, a lot of people were saying, why are Palestinian children being held? But is it more like teenagers and stuff who might have been involved in some of the incursions, And it is actually they're

teenagers that are old. They're mostly teenagers who are involved in whether it's you know, a classroom with Israeli forces in the West Bank, throwing molotov cocktails, rocks, some of them use arms even at a young age. These are not you know, these are not children in the tea, you know, an eight year old. No, they're not like the you know, the toddlers that hamaf has Oa they're holding. All right, tre Dana, thank you so much for the update. We're going to keep hoping we can

get some of those hostages home. Appreciate all of your insight and giving us a deeper look at what's going on. We'll talk to you soon, Talk soon. All right, yep, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former First Lady Rosalind Carter is being remembered as a key advisor, humanitarian, and champion for mental health. She was just eighteen when she married Jimmy Carter in their hometown of Plains,

Georgia, in nineteen forty six. They were in their twenties when Jimmy's father died and they took over the family peanut business. ABC's Morgan nor W says when Jimmy Carter entered politics in nineteen sixty two, Rosalind joined his campaign and helped him become governor. She also campaigned for him for president and was his closest advisor. Rosalind Carter died yesterday at her home in Georgia. She was ninety six. A five year old boy in northern California has been stabbed

to death by his twin brother. The twins were fighting on Wednesday when one brother grabbed a small kitchen knife, came back to the brother, and then stabbed him. The boy was rushed to the hospital but later died from his injuries. The District Attorney's office has gone over the case, and authorities say that no charges will be filed against a five year old. The Sheriff's office says that California law dictates that age, criminal intent, and knowledge of wrongfulness

are factors needed to charge a child with a crime. They say that in this specific case, there's no indication of negligence or criminal activity by any other party. Andrew Caravella KFI News. A federal appeals court in Washington is said to hear arguments over whether it should reinstate a gag order on former President Trump.

ABC's Mark Remillard says prosecutors claim the restriction is necessary to prevent Trump from making inflammatory statements, so the attorneys say it violates his free speech rights. The three judge panel hearing arguments today is made up of two Obama appointees and one Biden appointee who joined the court earlier this year. Hey the Clippers take

on the Spurs in San Antonio tonight. Tip Off is at five. You can listen to the game on AM five to seventy LA Sports Haffey Hot Dogs, The so Cal treasure for almost one hundred years, available at your local Albertson's Hoffey Local Original. Great Hey, when we come back. Steve Gregory has a million things you can see this holiday season, all in one place, and it is spectacular. Don't go away. Nice short week this week. I hope you're excited for that. Are you traveling, I'm staying put

Tony. Are you traveling, stan put you working? Go to my cousins. Okay, you're not. You're Only four percent of the people's surveyed said they actually host Thanksgiving dinner. That can't be right, but that's what the surveys said. Anyway, here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The ten is open. The roadway damaged by fire more than a

week ago, reopen to traffic last night, way ahead of schedule. Governor Newsom last week said it would be opened by at least Tuesday, after saying a few days before that it was going to be three to five weeks before the roadway reopened. Babies evacuated from Gaza's Shifa Hospital have arrived in Egypt. Egypt's state run Medias's twenty eight babies have been taken to a hospital across the border in Egypt. Thirty one were taken out of the hospital over the weekend,

not clear where the other three are. About fifteen million Californians are going to see some big healthcare changes in six weeks. Medical will open up to the age group of twenty six to forty nine and to some older than sixty four, but many are going to lose coverage as the state finishes reviewing who no longer qualifies after the pandemic. Almost forty percent of Californians have medical.

At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Bill's going to take a look back at the life and legacy of Roslyn Carter, who died over the weekend at five point fifty. Thanksgiving tradition for a lot of us the National Dog Show, and we are so excited. We're going to be talking to actor, comedian, author, and game show host and the host of the National Dog Show, John O'Hurley. Super excited about that. That's in

about twelve minutes. Steve Gregory is now going to take us on a journey through an immersive experience at the La Arboretum featuring more than a million lights. It's called LightScape and features colorful art installations from around the world with one thing in common. Lights LightScape is an illuminated path through culturally significant gardens. It started in Europe in the UK. Greg Curtis is the regional producer for the

show and also handles the San Diego production. LightScape is nestled in the middle of the arboretum and is designed so people can take a leisurely walk through the exhibits. We have Zoe Boutreu who's the artistic director, and she curates the entire trial. So we started August. We all walked trail together and she comes up with a map of what where she thinks the the installation pieces will fit. You had a chance to get a tour of the show, but

in the daylight during seven So yeah, we're just starting a trail. Everybody will come through the main entrance of the garden and then proceed down here. We'll already have a little bit of light happening in this tree. You can see it's lit up. It's it's a pee light tree, typical kind of scenario. We'll have a little We'll have music that starts right over here. It's about an hour long loop of music, and then right here we have our concessions area, so you can eat, drink, get some swag from

the event, and then it's of course it's decorated. We have these wonderful moving lights that go over that fountain and kind of light up the whole area. Do you also keep in mind about how long it would take the average person to get through it. Yeah, we want to keep it to about a little over an hour for a family afford to walk through, right and keep a really consistent pace. I think that's a good amount of time. And you know, everybody seems to enjoy it. Everybody moves in a single

direction, so we don't encourage people to go backwards on the trail. We just keep people flowing through the experience. Greg takes his work very seriously and is passionate about the show. And as we continue on the path, we come upon one of the more popular stops, the Winter Cathedral in daylight. It's simply a long and arched framing with thousands of lights. So there's things that happen in there. You know, people asking they're beloved to marry them

often inside of this, so we'll stop and they'll do a proposal. Yeah, Yeah, that's the one that it's in all the flyers. Yeah, it's their signature piece. We stop for a moment and walk through the arch, walk through it to see what it looks like. It's hard to get a sense of the wow factor in the daylight, but if you've ever seen pictures or video, it's pretty spectacular. We hop back on the ATV and continue the tour. We see someone working in the garden, they'll get up.

Sydney's an electrician. Is this one of those things that were when Christmas light goes out, the whole thing thing goes out. Uh? No, These are a little bit more sophisticated than that. We have a lot of lights here, so we're able to replace individuals. What's the biggest challenges an electrician on this project. It's a lot of cable. It's a lot of

cable and a lot of electricity we're dealing with. We have a number of generators that we're running to, so it's about mapping out where everything's going and making sure that we are within the limits. And how many generators do you think you have here? Seven? I believe yeah. Seven. From here, we get out of the ATV and go for a walk. That's where

we meet Dan, another electrician with the show. These types of bulbs now with these LEDs and that that doesn't pull nearly the wa it's just the old incandescent or anything, right, like eighty watts at their maxi full power. And since we're usually only running single colors in a lot of the variety of sections that you see, they drive in fractions of that. There are some real big panels that you'll see around the park that are out on the ground.

Those are up to around eight hundred and fifty watts if you're running them at full but that's just because they're giant blasters. They're things to give bright washes of color all over the place. We keep walking when we come upon a really bizarre setup. It's a tall, square frame with hundreds of cables hanging from the interior, and each of those has dozens of lights embedded into

the cable. It's called submersion, and obviously you get a pixel map in three D space that you can walk through and you can kind of touch and feel, and it's an immersive experience. And if some music it's just a tone or a sound, right, Yeah, is this kind of like a soundscape in the LightScape. Right. Wow, so at night you can you really feel like it's travelings and stay. So we'll do this again and it'll be totally different with the light. With the light too much. You want

to start, you want to go to do a walking back. As we head back to the start of the tour, greg tells me he hopes LightScape becomes an annual holiday tradition for families, with all the proceeds going to a good cause, the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. For wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory, KFI News. Thank you, Steve. LightScape runs through January second, and it is spectacular. I know that Steve thought during the day. We got to see it during the night and it is really

cool. So hopefully you'll include that on your holiday ventures out to go see cool things. Right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Traffic is moving again on the ten Freeway through downtown LA. Part of the freeway was shut down because of a massive fire just over a week ago. A reopened last night, way ahead

of schedule. Officials that estimated it would take three to five weeks for the supports to be fixed under the freeway, and last week they said the freeway would reopen by at least tomorrow. An employee at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is expected to plead guilty due defrauding a federal COVID nineteen relief program. Rasse Cutters Armann Hovanesien used pandemic relief loans to pay off real estate debt and

help pay for an illegal marijuana cultivation project. He's looking it up to twenty years in federal prison. The Billboard Music Awards ceremony has been held completely online for the first time. Country singer Morgan Wallan was the big winner last night with eleven awards, followed by Taylor Swift who picked up ten and Drake got five. Swift won Top Artist and Top Female Artist. Wallen won Top Male

Artist. The thirteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Jeff Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five thousand meals thousand meals every week to kids in need in southern California, and your generosity is what makes it happen. Couldn't do it without you, so there are three very very easy ways for you to help. One donate at pastathon dot com. Two, shop at any Smart and Final store and donate at checkout. Three, go to any

Wendy's restaurant in southern California and donate. And of course we're going to be broadcasting live all day from the Anaheim White House. It's happening on given Tuesday, eleven, twenty eight, November twenty eight, so that's a week from tomorrow, and you can come out and see us and donate and hang out and have fun from five am starting with wake Up Call, all the way too later with mo Kelly ending at ten pm. One hundred percent of your

donation goes to Katerina's Club. So please do help pastathon dot com and we help to see you at the Anaheim white House next Tuesday. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five lanes in each direction of the ten Freeway in downtown La have reopened. More than two hundred and fifty people worked on the second of the freeway twenty four hours, a day after a fire damaged the roadway a week ago Saturday. The stretch of road handles

nearly three hundred thousand vehicles a day. A blustery day, as I mentioned, is on the way. The western San Gabriel Mountains, the Highway fourteen corridor, and the grape Vine are all under high wind warnings until tomorrow morning, with winds gusting to sixty miles per hour. The western San Gabriel Mountains could have us as strong as eighty miles per hour. The average price of a home in La County's gone down two point three percent from September October.

The California Association of RILCHRI says Orange County had a two point seven percent month to month decrease, but the median sale price of a single family home in Orange County is still among the highest in the country at one million, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, a big shake up at open Ai. The maker of chat GPT and the founder of the company was canned. So some people

love the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Me I love the National Dog Show. Thrilled this morning to be talking to one of the hosts of the show, actor, comedian, author, game show host TV personality known for his portrayal of Jay peterman On Seinfeld, also the sixth host of Family Feud and host of To Tell the Truth for a couple of years and more. And boy can this man dancy one Dancing with the Stars. Ladies and gentlemen, Wake

up call listeners, please welcome John O'Hurley to the show. Good morning, how are you? I am fabulous and so excited to be talking to you today because, as I just mentioned, I love watching the National Dog Show every Thanksgiving and you're one of the hosts of it. So tell us, like, what's so great about the National Dog Show that people should turn in the tune in this year. Well, it celebrates the wonderful, wonderful qualities

that dogs bring to our lives. And you know, if you have ten people on an elevator and you walk in with the dog, everybody's head turns and looks at the dog. There's something wonderfully, wonderfully attractive about the presence of dogs in our lives. And we're lucky enough to have two thousand of the best dogs in the country, representing two hundred different breeds, on the greatest family day of the year. And it's wonderful to be able to present

this show and celebrate the rich history of dog breeding. I love that. So you said there's two thousand dogs that participate, how many do we actually see because we don't see each and every category, right, you will see the winners. It's a kind of a process of elimination during the day. By the time we get to the show on television, all of the breeds have been judged. Now the breeds are all separated into seven different groups.

So the groups are what you're going to be seeing the winners of those. And you know, I love it when it comes along when the groups come out and I go, oh, that's like the sporting group. That's my favorite one. And then the next group comes out and I go, no, wait, that's my favorite group. They're all so fun and spectable. And then when the little toys come out there, everybody enjoys that so much because they're just the little miniature version of their larger cousins. Yeah. Do

you have any favorites? John? Personal favorite? Jaw My favorite show dog is always the Irish Center And I'll tell you why. When it comes into the ring and it makes its initial run around the arena, all the heads. It's against the blue rug, that auburn hair and that very kind of strong, athletic erect look as they come in and it looks like the redhead that just ran into the cocktail party. Every head, every head turns and it's just you can't help but notice it. Yeah, Okay, beautiful dog.

Same with the app, same with the Afghani. I think it gets the same sort of attraction. Okay, And what's your been your biggest surprise hosting the show? Uh? Well, I would say the number of breeds and the variety of breeds, because every every breed has a rich history to why they were, why they're there. Dogs were never dogs were up really companions or pets. Back as as men evolved. They they were necessary for man to survive. They were hunters, they were ratters. I missed those

healthy in days of ratting. And but they they were footwarmers. You know, there were so many different varieties of things that they did, but they had a function and they were bred for that function. So it's like the terriers there, you know, they were they were supposed to go down little little vermin holes and pull out the vermin and uh and they had their little tails at the end that you pulled the tail on, they pulled the dog

out. That's so funny. Every yeah, everything, I mean every everything had a hitting a function. And that's so that's what they're celebrating today, the yet rich history of greeting. Yeah. So when the dogs aren't in the spotlight, John, are they regular pets or are they just kind of constantly pampered dogs being dogs? Every one of Yeah, every one of them has uh, has has spilled or had an accident on the floor somewhere.

You know, it's they're just dogs being dogs. But you know it's even funnier is during during the dog show, people will send us photos and uh and videos of their dog watching the show. And it's very funny to watch

a dog watching television. Uh. There's one in particular that I loved when the dog sitting on the sofa watching the large screen TV, jumps down onto the ground, walks over to the television and starts snipping the screen, wondering why the dog is reacting, and then walks around to the back of the television because he knows that's where the dog is. Dogs are so cool. Do you have dogs, John, I have three. I have a little Havanie which is a dog like kind of like a Maltese, a smaller dog.

And then two rescues, two that I have as well. So we support book. We support both worlds, the world of the purebread and also the rescues for the shelters. They can't be ignored either. Absolutely, And when can we watch the National Dog Show twelve till two every time zone. You're going to see it all across the country during the day following the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and right before football. So it's Dogs until two. Don't

touch that remote. I love it. Thank you so much, John O'Hurley, appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. We'll be watching you on Thanksgiving Day. Wonderful to talk to you. All right, thanks, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I love John Harley. By the way, the National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for downtown Riverside, Marino Valley, Corona,

Hemmet, Temecula. It's in effect until ten tomorrow morning. North Winds twenty to thirty miles per hour expected, with gus up to fifty five miles per hour GUS up to sixty five miles per hour could be possible in the Kahon Pass, lots of winds blowing today. Israel says it has more proof of hospital it has been searching in Gaza was being used by Hamas as a command center. ABC. Patrick Reevel says the Israeli military has been focused on

Al Shifa hospitals for weeks. It's real, saying video shows Hamas moving a wounded hostage into Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital on October seventh, just hours after that surprise attack, in which it sees nearly two hundred and forty hostages. A second video showing another hostage being dragged into Al Shifa. The IDF claims another hostage, nineteen year old IDF soldier, was murdered in that hospital. Her body was found last week. Moss claims she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

And President Biden has written an op ed and The Washington Post saying a ceasefire in Gaza is not peace, argue it would give Hamas time to regroup. The President also reiterating his calls for a two state solutions. ABCS J O Brien says, according to Biden, it's the only way to ensure security for Israelis and Palestinians. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange

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