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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. Today's the thirtieth anniversary of the Norwich north Ridge earthquake. It hit just before four to thirty one am on this day in nineteen ninety four. I wasn't in la from it for it, but man, the people who were pretty much everybody has a good, not a good memory, but a very strong memory of what happened that day. I just had a bingeie day. I'll be telling you what I just couldn't tear myself

away from. It's coming up in Amy's on it. That's at five point thirty five. Hope you'll stick around because maybe you won't be able to tear yourself away from it either. Pretty good show. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. ABC News has canceled its Republican primary debate in New Hampshire because

the candidates won't commit to participating. It was supposed to happen tomorrow. Candidate Nikki Hayley has said that she would only debate if Donald Trump is there, and he has skipped all of the Republican debates for the twenty twenty four nomination so far. Seal Beach police and businesses in the city of teamed up to try to cut back on the number of retail thefts in the city. Seal Beach Police say several operations over the holidays resulted in lots of arrests and the

discovery of soul and vehicles and merchandise. The city says the number of retail crimes is up. Officials estimate retail businesses in California lose seven billion dollars a year to organize retail theft. About eleven thousand people are going to be hired in California and Nevada to build the rail line between Rancho Cucamonga and Las Vegas. The Biden administration approved three billion dollars in funding for the two hundred and

eighteen mile stretch of tracks last month. Works expected to be given shortly and be finished in time for the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics in La At six oh five, it's handled on the news coming up. A deal has been reached to get some medicine in to some of the one hundred people still being held hostage by Hammas. Bill's going to talk about that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Four men have been found dead inside a home in Palmdale. They were found yesterday afternoon. A fire department spokesman says there were obvious signs the men had been dead for a while. A neighbor said three of the four men were related. Belis in Irvine say one thief has racked up an almost forty thousand dollars illegal tab at dozens of Target stores, mostly by snatching iPads. The

first two crimes he was actually doing return fraud. Irvine Police Sergeant Carry Davey says the guy had racked up a bunch of money on gift cards by grabbing merchandise he didn't pay for from inside the store and returning it. Most of the cases that we've had, they were just straight burglaries and shoplifts. This one actually was a robbery. The cases ranged from last April to last week, where the target employee struggled with this guy, but the guy made off

with the iPad. However, Davy says a clear photo of the guy's face released over the weekend has generated new numerous tips and an arrest should happen soon in Irvine. Core Ben Carson kaf I News. January is National Skiing Safety Month. Officials at Boreowski Resort near Lake Tahoe say they're prioritizing the safety of guests and employees. Tucker Norid says, don't be surprised if some chairlifts don't

open until later in the day. You might see a chairlift not open until eleven o'clock or twelve o'clock because we are making sure that that terrain is safe before we open it up to the public. Nord says, ski patrols are dispatched every morning to assess chairlifts and terrain to make sure everything is working right. He says ropelines are set throughout the resort to keep people out of areas that may be closed or have exposed rocks. There have been two avalanches in

the Lake Tahoe area in the last week. One person was killed in one of the slides at the Palisades Tahoe Ski area. The Biden administrations planning to relist the Hoothi Rebels in Yemen as a global terrorist group. It's in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea and golf with aiden US Central Command says the US has carried out another air strike targeting a Hoothy missile facility in Yemen. A nine to one one recording has been released from the day Defense

Secretary Lloyd Austin was taken to the hospital following surgery for prostate cancer. This happened on January first. The caller asked the dispatcher to have first responders arrive in a discreete manner. I asked, then, anuance not show up with white and sirens. We're trying to remain a little subtle. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, Usually when they turn into a residential neighborhood, they'll turn them off. The caller said. Austin was alert and not reporting chest pain.

Austin's been about two weeks that Walter Reed Medical Center. He has since been released. It's five six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Mike Debuski. Mike, it's a week after CEES and I guess Sam Sung wanted to wait so it could just have all of the spotlight bingo. That is exactly kind of the strategy that we're seeing Samsung employ and we've seen other you know, tech companies. Employee in recent years.

CES is obviously a place for you know, a lot of tech companies to gather, but it's become a place for kind of the smaller startups to really have a chance to break out. Bigger companies like Samsung, they like to host their own events and kind of grab all the headlines for the day. Today, we're expecting Samsung to release its latest S series phones. This is

their competitor to the iPhone. It's largely the iPhone of the Android space amy in many ways, given how much these things are or how popular these things are. So we're expecting three different variants of this new smartphone today, the Galaxy S twenty four, S twenty four Plus, and S twenty four Ultra. We're expecting them to have the latest Snapdragon processors. They're going to have new O LED screens that get a little bit brighter, and we're expecting them

to look broadly speaking, the same as last year's models. If we're looking at just the hardware here, it is kind of a boring update, if I can say that. But when you look at the software end of things, I think that's where we're expecting Samsung to make the most news here. They are planning to launch what they're calling Galaxy AI, which is a large language model, a generative artificial intelligence that it's planning to integrate directly into its

smartphones. So an interesting move from Samsung here, but perhaps no surprise given how much we've been talking about AI for the last year and a half and how much we've seen this largely software based sort of technology trickle into hardware products in recent months. We saw the AI pin a few months ago. Last week was all about AI at CES, with AI showing up in your car and showing up in sort of new interesting devices like the Rabbit r one.

Now it's coming to your smartphone. What's a Rabbit r one? I don't remember hearing about that Rabbit r one. It's an interesting new device. It's kind of in a category two itself. It's from a startup called Rabbit, and it's a little about the size of a stack of post it notes if you can picture that. It's got a tiny, little two point eight inch screen, it's got a scroll wheel and a camera, and it's designed to

use artificial intelligence to use your phone for you. So instead of opening up your phone, you can just talk to this device and say, hey, book me a trip to you know, Miami, Florida, and it will go into your United account using your phone's browser. It will set up, you know, a rental car for you in a hotel using the appropriate apps,

and then present you with an itinerary that you can then approve. And that's just one application of it. A lot of questions around that particular device, you know, specifically, like how you train it to do certain things and whether this actually works it all, and you know, whether there's the potential for this to go you know, horribly horribly wrong when we talk about flights and rental cars. But they do plan to put it on sale and it has proven to be, you know, kind of the big success story

of cees from last week. Ten thousand people sign up to get one within the first twenty four hours of it being unveiled. Well, it sounds like it's sort of like a half a phone in some ways. Yeah, it is kind of like a phone for your phone. And one of the big questions at least that I have is like, do you still have to carry your phone with you? Is it like you carry both of these things now

or is this standalone on its own. I hate carking two phones, Yeah, even a phone and a half maybe, but like it's it's still a it's an unusual device. But you know, gadgets are back, which I think is really exciting, So you know that's part of it. So here's another question, then, because Samsung has its new phone with the Galaxy AI, is the rabbit necessary because it sounds like Galaxy's putting AI on its phone right Well, I think that will largely depend on exactly how Samsung is thinking

about Galaxy AI. We don't know exactly what features their planning or how Galaxy AI is going to show up in the phone. Really, we only know the name Galaxy AI. But we can look to some other examples in the smartphone space of exactly how this is going to work, specifically Google. So Google has the Pixel eight Pro, which is their top line smartphone, and

in recent months they've started to roll out AI features in that phone. I think one of the more eye catching features AMY is what's called the Magic Eraser, where you can go in circle people in photos that you've taken and erase them and it will use generative AI to fill in the background behind it. We can work It's an interesting idea, right, and you can see the

practical application that a lot of people would have. You can also highlight things and move them around within your photo, all sorts of different photo editing tools made possible using artificial intelligence. Of course, it raises a lot of questions about the potential for this to be used for you know, misinformation. Right. These tools have been around in photoshop for many years, but now it's coming to everyone's phone, right, it's in your pocket, It's much more

easily accessible. There's also the question of like, what do we want to photo to be at the end of the day. Do we want it to capture a memory as we remember it, or do we want it to capture reality as it happened. I think looks perfect, sure, but those things are not often the same, right, you know, that's the big question. So I think it's an obvious move for Samsung to put this into its

camera system as well. We've also seen Samsung and Google work together very closely in the past, so there's the potential that Google can come out on stage and say, hey, Magic eraser is now going to be on Samsung has twenty fours. The other potential here is for it to be used as a translation tool, right, you can listen to other people's words and have it

be live transcribed for you. Well, there's nothing to say that that can't live transcribe into a different language, so that you can communicate with people who are speaking a language that you don't speak. It's an interesting idea to keep an eye on. And then, of course, yeah, virtual assistance is

the other part of this as well. We've already seen Amazon say that they're going to bring Generative AI to Alexa, so you can have more naturalistic conversations with it, more free flowing conversations that don't necessarily need to be you know, adhere to certain language or you don't need to say specific words and phrases

to get you to understand it. It's just going to understand you. Well, Samsung has a virtual assistant it's called Bixby, and using Galaxy AI, there's the potential for Bixby to get a lot smarter, So a couple different avenues that Samsung could go down here. Yeah, it's interesting too when you say something that you're like, okay, well, that's going to make that obsolete, and that's going to make that absolutely because like if it's on your phone. Do you need an Alexa? Yeah, you know, possibly.

But you know, the argument there from the voice assistant companies is that, well, you know, you've had the potential to do this on your phone and on your smart speaker in the past, and smart speakers, you know, are still around, right, They're still popular. So I think it gets at this larger idea of ambient computing. Not to get too nerdy on your ear, but it's like this idea that you know, your computer isn't your phone, it isn't your smart spe it isn't your desktop or your laptop.

It's just everything around you. You can interact with your computer quote unquote by just talking into the air and maybe your phone will pick up that request, or maybe your smartphone will pick up that request. It's just an ambient computer that exists around you at all times. It's kind of an interesting idea.

It's been floating around there for a while, but you know, we've seen, you know, more people start to pick up on it, given the rise of general artificial intelligence and the potential for it to really make our smart devices our virtual assistants. The series the Google Assistance, now the Bixbi's of the world a little bit more naturalistic and easy to talk to. Okay,

and Mike, when are these available? We don't know specifically. Again, We're going to get a little bit more information during Samsung's event today, but I think it's safe to assume, you know, pre orders start pretty soon and they'll have these things on shelves within the next couple weeks too, maybe three weeks. I know some Android people who will be very, very excited. Mike Debuski, thank you so much for your time this morning.

Of course, take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The American Red Cross in LA says it is experiencing an emergency blood shortage. The organization, Stephanie Grande, says the nation is seeing the lowest number of people giving blood in twenty years, with critical levels across the country. Hofully this need is reflected or seen a low turnout in La and we really and Angelina's to step up and full

with a sleep. Grande says, every two seconds someone in the US needs blood. She says most people can donate every fifty six days. Pakistan has recalled its ambassador to Iran over an air strike in Pakistan that killed two children. Iran claims it was targeting bases yesterday for militant Sunni separatists. The militant group known as the Army of Justice says the holmes attacked housed the children and wives of their fighters. A federal judge as sided with the Biden administration and

blocked Jet Blue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines. ABC's Alex Stone says the judge ruled yesterday it violated a century old antitrust laws. The ruling has sent Spirit stock price tumbling. It would have been a three point eight billion dollar deal and would have created the nation's fifth largest airline. The DOJ had sued to block the merger, saying it would cause airfares to go up. The judge said getting rid of Spirit would have hurt cost conscious travelers who rely on the

airline's low prices. When we come back, we're going to be talking to ABC's Jordana Miller. There could be some movement when it comes to more than one hundred hostages, including Americans being held by Hamas in Gaza. It's five twenty one on your wake up call. Good Wednesday morning to you. I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. The six point seven magnitude quake hit just before four to thirty one a m. January seventeenth, nineteen ninety four. Fifty seven people were killed in the quake. LA fires using the anniversary to urge residents to prepare for future earthquakes and other natural disasters. It was the first to knock out power in virtually every area in the La

metro. Hackers have infiltrated an online forum used by UC Irvine students and professors. They posted gruesome videos of the desecration of human corpses and mutilation of animals. About three thousand people saw it before it was blocked. A woman who manages the forum says several students were taken at the hospital because of excessive vomiting from seeing the videos. The university says the hackers demanded one thousand dollars in

ransom money. The new home of the La Clippers has been named the host of the twenty twenty six NBA All Star Game. The Intuit Dome in Inglewood will be ready for play ahead of the start of the next NBA season. Inglewood's also going to be the host to the twenty twenty six World Cup and twenty twenty seven Super Bowl at Nextdoors Sofi Stadium at six oh five. It's handled aw the news Jet Blue and Spirit airlines have been blocked by the FEDS.

Right now, let's say good one warning to ABC's Jordana Miller and Jerusalem So Jordana, we may have some positive news on the hostage front. That's right. Cutter and France have been able to carve out a deal between Israel and Hamas to get medicines to the hostages more than one hundred and thirty two not being held by Hamas and Gaza. This would be the first time that the hostages would get any of the medication and even be seen by an Alphide

organization like the mccrescent since they were taken back on October seventh. And hostages we know some of them have diabetes, some high pretension, some suffer from asthma, which you can imagine if they're held in any kind of underground places tunnels without much air, that would be a real problem. Others were on anti anxiety medication, the gastro issue. So there's significant medical needs of these hostages, and the medicine has already arrived in Egypt and is now at the

Rafa border crossing. There's some kind of disputes now about whether or not the trucks carrying the medicine will be that by israelas appears that they will not a part of this deal. And for every box of medicine that it was brought in for a hostage, Hamas was able to negotiate a thousand boxes of medication, you know as the ratio, so one to one thousand is of course, there's also a shortage of medicine. Okay, and Jordana, you're breaking up just a little bit, so I want to just make sure that we

heard you right. So you're saying that Israel is not going to be allowed to inspect the boxes, and there's some dispute over that. That's right. There's a dispute about, you know, who will be trucks coming in with the medicine at a ratio of one box to one thousand, So there's several thousand boxes, thousands of boxes of medicine that's going to come in that's expected by Israel. Basically everything going in to try to make sure there's no weapons

getting in, so they goutless strip. It appears that the Steel is agreed not to inspect this truck that will be brought in by Couver and they are really taking the lead on this, and they're trying to carve out, as they did their role in the first hostage deal release, that they will be a major player in a second hostage deal release as well. They are overseeing

the entry of the medicine. From what we understand, it will go will be deposited for different hospitals in the Gaza Strip and from there it will be distributed to the hostages, and that cutter will be the one to verify that that has been done. Okay, And so they're getting the medicine. Are they going to get medical attention or are they still the hostages still haven't been seen by doctors or anyone from the Red Cross. You mentioned the Red Cress

in a minute ago. That's right, they have not been seen by anyone from the Red Cross. And this deal does not include a medical evaluation of how the hostages are doing. It is simply a drop off of medicine for them. So it still falls short of really the responsibilities of the International Red Cross to make sure that these hostages are at least you know, staying alive

and you know, an indecent condition. It's worth saying that the hostages who came back, you know, the initial reports were everyone's in good condition, but over the weeks that have passed, you know, it's clear that some of these hostages were not in great shape, especially the elderly. There were a few cases where they were hospitalized. But obviously psychologically the hostages also are

suffering, even the little ones, the three year olds. You know, we hear stories, you know, here on the news, their parents come on to talk about that. And does this agreement Jordana signal any kind of movement in the release of more release of more hostages. Well, we're told that Cutter sold the deal to Hamas saying, you know, if you get these medicines to the hostages, it will you know, increase our chances of

being able to cut a deal to end this war. So you know, you know, play along, right now, get the medicine to the hostages and cut her promising the work to try to get a deal to end the war. And you know, everyone really wants to end the war except Israel, you know, because Israel feels it is not sufficiently damaged or dismantled Hamas' military capabilities in the South. So Israel wants a little bit more time,

you know how much. We're not sure, but several months it seems, uh, and Cutter here trying to tell Hamas, you know, hey, maybe we can stop the intensity of Israel's military operation and the war. Uh, and get you some kind of seafire, you know, play along right now, and get the medicine to the hostages. So you know, this is being seen at least Cutter is publicizing this as an intermediary step to their leadership on a Hamas a on a hostage deal, flash ceasefire that will end

the war. And we know the United States wants that as well. Yeah, I'm also and maybe this is the cynical part of me, but it's like Hamas is saying, Okay, we're going to let the medicine in because they need the hostages alive when they lose those hostage since they lose leverage. That's true, they do, you know, they you know, sadly it's often said here, you know, a hostage that's alive is worth a lot more than a body. Yeah, and we have to say that Israel,

you know, Hamas is holding one hundred and thirty two hostages. Still. Of those, we already know that twenty seven are confirmed dead. So they're holding twenty seven bodies. That leaves them another more than one hundred of those. You know, if we want to be cynical, let's hope for the best. But there's likely not all of them are alive, and maybe maybe sixty. Maybe there's sixty that are alive, seventy that are alive, so

you know. And by the way of the Americans, we know two are confirmed dead, right, the couple from Judy Weinstein, a guy and her husband God who are both Americans, and they were both murdered on up to sevens and their bodies were taken to Gaza. So there are six Americans that may be alive. Well, let's hope that morget to stay alive with these medications and that it will lead to something. Jordana Miller, thank you so much for the information. God willing, No thanks Hocking, all right,

you too. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. San Clementi has waited two decades for a sand replenishment project, and that has now been delayed for at least two more months. Beach erosions been tied to recent landslides damaged to the OC rail corridor in other issues, Sant Clementi Councilman Chris Duncan says, but the fourteen million dollar Army Corps of Engineers project used a hopper dredge that sucked up and spit out

gravel, rock and other cobble on the beach instead of fluffy sand. This is not new information, but it's the first time we're understanding that the equipment that's here is probably not the best equipment or our borrow site. He says. Hopefully the project can still dump about four hundred thousand tons of sand, widening the beach by fifty feet by summer, as promised in San Clementi Coorbin

Carson kf I News. The Jewish Community Foundation of LA has awarded one point one million dollars to seven nonprofits seeking to improve black maternal and infant health. The foundation says systemic inequities in the healthcare system have put black moms and babies in LA at risk. Data shows mothers and babies of color dye at more

than double the rate of their white counterparts. Previous grants have focused on adult poverty, education equity, homelessness, domestic and sexual violence, and human trafficking. For President, Biden has invited top congressional leaders to the White House to talk about one hundred and six billion dollars in supplemental foreign aid for Ukraine,

Israel, Taiwan, and for the Southern Border. Republicans have insisted any package that includes foreign money to Ukraine also has to include changes in border policy. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate is working to get a short term funding bill to the House by Friday's spending deadline. When we come back, Amy's on it. Yep, it's me. I'm on it, and it's

a bingeworthy show, and tell you all about it. Southland weather from KFI mostly cloudy with highs in the low sixties at the Beaches Metro La Inlando, c in the Valley's mid sixties. For the Inland Empire, sixties in fifties and sixties for the Antelope Valley. Mostly cloudy with highs in the sixties too, about seventy tomorrow. Then we have a chance of rain by late Friday. A half to an inch of rain is expected through the weekend, with

highs in the fifties and sixties. It's fifty four in Garden Grove, fifty three in Orange. ABC News has canceled its Republican primary debate in New Hampshire

because the candidates won't commit to participating. It was scheduled for tomorrow. Nikki Hayley has said she will only debate if Donald Trump is there, and he skipped all the Republican debates for the twenty twenty four nomination So far, the Biden administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have unveiled new regulations for overdraft fees. Banks will have to offer overdraft loans or a courtesy service, and that

is expected to drop fees by over fifty percent. Experts say consumers have paid about two hundred and eighty billion dollars in overdraft fees since two thousand. Yeah, I'm part of that. The new regulations will go into effect next year.

Lana del Rey, Doja, Cat Tyler, The Creator, and a No Doubt Reunion all named as headliners for this Coachella organizers say pre sale passes, We'll go on sale Friday at eleven at coachella dot com, and festival organizers say that Coachella this weekend or this year is happening the weekends of April twelfth to the fourteenth, and the nineteenth through the twenty first. At six

oh five, it's handle all in the news. The nine to one to one call for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to go to the hospital has been released. First responders were asked to keep it quiet. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Jim Ryan about that lunar lander that was launched a couple of weeks ago. Remember it was a failed mission. Well, the lander's coming back down. Ami on Itami on it? What

am I? I'm on streaming? There is so much out there streaming, and now with the actors strike and the writer's strikes done, Uh, I think we're going to be expecting to see lots more new things coming out. And you know, some of the stuff is new, some of it's a little bit older. Some of it you may have missed altogether. Like a couple weeks ago, I watched Christopher Robin. I completely forgot that that was even a movie, and it was adorable. So and I take recommendations from

friends because there's so much out there. How do you peruse all of it? This year or this year? This week, I'm taking my recommendation from the Television Academy because Beef just cleaned up at the Emmys for a limited series. It's on Netflix, and so I thought, I need to see what all the hype is about. And plus Cono, our normal producers not here today, he said, yeah, it's a good one. So here's the deal on Beef. It is a limited series, but it's really the whole

season of a show. It's either like eight or nine or maybe even ten episodes. I can't remember how many because I just binged them all and just kept it going. But some full on shows only last one season, so this was like a regular season for a show. But it was in the Emmy categories as a limited series. So the show is Beef, and that

is exactly what it is. It's a beef between a man and a woman spawned by a road rage incident that starts in a parking lot, and then, because we are also hyper connected with social media, and webs, the web and all of that stuff. These people figure out who the other one is, even though they didn't see each other's faces, and that's when the

chaos ensues. So it follows his life and it follows her life, and then their lives start getting intertwined, some of it intentionally as they kind of fight back and forth, and some of it unintentionally, and it kind of reminds me of it stay with me on this one. It sort of reminds me of everything everywhere, all at once, but obviously more toned down. There's no interdimensional travel or anything like that. But the way that their lives

intersect and get tangled together is really fascinating. And Beef one an Emmy for writing, and it is well deserved. The writing is fantastic in this and the characters are interesting. They're tragic at times. It's fun to watch them and learn how like this character appears to be one thing, but really it's just a total mess behind the kind of when you pull back the curtain.

They try to be good, they fail, they fall down, they get up, they try to be good again, and then they fall down again, and you know there's there is that search for redemption, which I am always looking for in a show and that it always kind of seems to fall short, but it is a great binge Or you can be like a more normal person and watch like an episode at episode or two at a time, or you can be like me and be a bingemeister and watch the whole thing

in one day, which I did definitely recommend Beef. It's on Netflix. It's Emmy Award winning and after seeing it, I can see why really really interesting show. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Eagle Rock will be getting more police foot patrols to combat you guessed it, retail crime. LA City Councilman Kevin de Leone is allocating one hundred thousand discretionary dollars for the increased security. LAPED officer Heiner

Hernandez says Eagle Rock has had an uptick in break ins. You're seeing individual people and people working together collectively breaking into the locations you're talking about, breaking windows, making entry, going to the cast registers. At least ten businesses have been broken into in the last few months. That includes a restaurant on Colorado that had its front windows shattered by a wine thief. Ye added foot patrols are set to begin no later the next week in Eagle Rock, Blake

Trolley kf I News. Department of Justice is expected to release a report tomorrow on the twenty twenty two school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The department announced its plan to conduct a review of how police handle the situation shortly after the shooting that killed nineteen students and two teachers. Officials say the idea is to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders deal with future situations.

Tragic that there probably will be future situations. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is in the hospital. He's being treated for an infection. His office as Grassley is getting antibiotic infusions and will return to work as soon as possible, but that he will be following doctors' orders. Grassly is ninety. He's the oldest member of the US Senate and has served eight terms. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a new rule to over a lower overdraft fees. Some banks charge

as much as thirty five dollars a transaction. The Financial Protection Bureau wants to make it a flat three dollars overdraft fee, and banks would also have to clearly disclose interest rates and fees. Retail sales are up zero point six percent for December as a strong job market helped fuel holiday spending. ABC News has canceled its planned Republican primary debate in New Hampshire over a lack of candidate participation.

The decision to cancel tomorrow's event comes after the deadline to respond to invitations passed yesterday without any confirmation from former President Trump or former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Haley had said she would only participate if Trump or President Biden did so. That leaves just Rondi Santis on the degate stage alone, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami is called on both Ronda Santis and Nikki Haley to drop

out of the race and endorse former President Trump. He says he thinks the pair would be doing the country and this party a service by stepping aside. His comments yesterday came a day after he dropped out of the race after he fell short in the Iowa caucuses. So it's a new year, and you might want to go somewhere fun for the new year, so we thought, where are the best places to go? Well, personal finance company wallet hub did a survey and found that there are a few super fun places to go

in the US. Las Vegas is ranked the most fun city in the country number one on the list. Of course, known for partying, and it's one of the only cities on the list where public drinking is allowed in most or all places, obviously very important. Orlando is ranked second most fun cities, apparently because it has relatively cheap hotel rooms and low average prices for staple

foods like pizza and burgers. Okay, Miami is ranked number three on the fun list as it has a good balance of public beaches, it has natural wonders like the Evergrades, and has lots of local sports teams like the Myammy Dolphin. California. San Francisco ranked fifth as the most fun city and then the bottom ranked cities, So places you don't want to go if you want to have fun Oxnard, California, South Burlington, Vermont, and Pearl City,

Hawaii. Why is a city in Hawaii not fun? It's beautiful there anyway. That's according to wallet hud. Hope it'll help you plan your next vacation. Another day, another wake up call that has gone by really fast. I'm Amy King, glad you're getting your day started with you. Hope to keep you informed about lots of fun things going on and some not so fun things as well. We're going to be talking todaby c's Jim Ryan in just a second about something that's kind of scary, something else kind of scary.

Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Today's the thirtieth anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. The six point seven magnitude quake hit just before four thirty one a m. January seventeenth, nineteen nine. Twenty four. Fifty seven people were killed in the quake. La fires using the anniversary

to urge residents to prepare for future quakes and other natural disasters. Hackers have infiltrated an online form used by UC Irvine students and professors and posted gruesome videos of the desecration of human corpses and mutilation of animals. A woman who manages the form says several students had to be taken to the hospital because of excessive vomiting from seeing the videos. The University says the hackers demanded one thousand dollars

in ransom money. Students who test positive for COVID nineteen but aren't seeing any symptoms are now allowed to go to school. Workers can go to work too, According to new COVID recommendations from the state, it'll apply to those with no symptoms as long as they wear a mask endors for ten days. The state Health Department says this is a more relaxed approach to isolation and testing. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, Jet Blue and

Spirit airlines have been blocked by the FEDS. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, the lunar Lander mission is a fail. We know that. And last week when you and I talked, the thinking was that the lunar Lander was just going to be kind of in perpetual orbit. But that's changed. It has. Yes, it looks as now that as early as tomorrow is going to come back to Earth but

burn up in the EU's atmosphere. It's posted on a trajectory that it'll be flat enough, it's not going to sort of skim into the atmosphere and then crash down to the ground. It's going to undoubtedly, or at least the expectation is that it will burn up before it touches the ground. When will that happen, We're not quite sure. It could be as early as tomorrow.

Where will it happen, that's not clear either. NASA is working with Astrobotic, the Pittsburgh based company that designed and built and launched this thing on January eighth, to try to figure out the when and where this is actually going to happen to me, okay, but the thought is that nothing's going to come down, correct, Okay, So that's the Paragrium was a small

land. The things only about six feet tall and maybe eleven twelve feet wide, and so I mean, in cosmic terms, that's pretty darn small. It won't take much for it to just disintegrate, burn up, and become essentially ashes. Okay. Now, then that makes it sad because remember last week we were talking about the remains of certain people were on the lander, like James Douhan and Michelle Nichols from Star Trek. So those are not going

to be perpetually in space as intended. Right, Will they get a discount or will they get a refund. Will their families get something back? That's a great question. I mean, the contract they signed to see these remains the orbiting the sun eternally, that's not going to happen. So it's a good question. It'd be interesting to see what kind of recourse those people have

with There were two companies actually that were handling that sort of thing. More than two hundred The remains of two hundred people, including hair from the head of John F. Kennedy, George Washington, maybe Eisenow or one of the other presidents were on board that ship as well. So what happens in terms of that, I mean, I guess it's six one a half times in the other the remains will not be floating in space. They're going to burn

up. They're gone forever regardless. Well, and as we discussed too, it was such a tiny, tiny amount. It's not like they were putting an urn up in space. It was just a little tiny bit of like you said, either a hare or something cremated remains or something like that. So I wonder if there's more that they could try again. Probably so, you know, I think this was the second time that Gene Roddenberry had some

portion of his remains on board a spacecraft like this. So yeah, I think there are I don't know how many hairs are left from George Washington's head, but there was one of his one of Kennedy's. So I suppose if that as long as there are DNA ramens of all these folks, then there could be lots and lots more trips. Okay, I don't know if you're going to know this, Jim, but you're a smart guy, so I'm

just going to take a stab at it. So you know how we talked that we thought it was going to be in an orbit, but something has happened to degrade that orbit. Yeah, So the question is why don't more like satellites and stuff that aren't working anymore, that are just floating around and there, why don't more of them come back? Well, this still had some propulsion ability to it. The problem the malfunction had nothing to do with

the Vulcan rocket that sent it off into space. Once the separation happened, then the folks at Astrobotic realized that there was a propos propulsion problem. So the tiny rockets on board the ship that helped us to guide it to steer it. They were running out of propulsion, running out of fuel. So there was enough to send the thing out into a trajectory that was as far away as the moon and then to turn it bring it back around this way.

But it's quickly running out of fuel and eventually will you know, the satellites don't have fuel on the middle, I mean once they're in orbit, they're in orbit. But yeah, there was enough you know, oomph on this thing to get it unfortunately, so it went as far away as the Moon, but the Moon was often a different part of its orbit, so it didn't actually circle the Moon, but it wanted as far as the Moon before they steered it brought it back around here. So it's an intentional program

now to get it to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Oh, I thought it ran out of not gas, I know that, but I thought it ran out like really soon after. I didn't realize it went to the Moon. Yeah, that's had enough in reserve. They kept saying, yeah, forty hours, we got forty hours left to propellant. And well they said that two days in a row, and I guess they've been able to preserve or conserve enough propellant to make these tiny adjustments on the thing to ensure

that it could be brought back to Earth. All this stuffisode just absolutely crazy and so just so so interesting. And then I started thinking about wasn't it space Lab, like years and years ago that came back down and a big chunk of that actually came back down into the atmosphere. Yeah, that thing was big. That was huge, you know, space Lab. I remember that thing. But this is again, it's fairly small. It's really small.

It's a little shorter than I am. It's a little wider than I am, so there's not a lot that has to burn up on entry into the into the atmosphere. It's a little shorter and a little wider than you. Oh, Jim Ryan, you are a kick. Thank you so much for the information. I'm relieved to hear that nothing's probably actually going to hit. Nobody's in danger at least. Okay, good glad to hear it. Oh so, Skylab dropped huge trunks of hardware into the Indian Ocean and across

western Australia in nineteen seventy nine. Wow, it's right, Google Fact of the day. Nice, All right, Take care, Jim. Thanks to yea, all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Tesla is building a super charging station in Hollywood that's going to have more than just car chargers. Fred Lemke says supercharging hubs like this are needed as more more electric vehicles hit the road.

There's a couple of one or two charging stations or maybe three tops in an underground parking facility, or they're in the parking lot at the gym that I go to. But if they're filled, you know, what do you do? The station on Santa Monica Boulevard's gonna have thirty electric vehicles, supercharging stations, a twenty four hour restaurant, and two movie screens. Tesla owner Elon

Musk first mentioned the idea in twenty eighteen. He said he wanted a supercharger location in La to include an old school drive in roller skates and a rock restaurant. Tesla has not said when the facility will open. Now, speaking of charging stations, have you been watching the deep freeze around the US and

guess what's not working? Ev charging stations? I was watching a story, I think it was early this morning, even where where there's all that snow and sub zero temperatures and people are pulling up to charge and the charging stations aren't working. Apparently it's too cold for them. And then on super hot days they tell us to conserve and don't charge. I think we need more charging stations. Hey. The Pacific Northwest is getting ready for ice and freezing

rain. Parts of southwest Washington and western Oregon are under ice storm warnings and freezing rain is forecast for the Seattle area. Schools are closed, bus services limited, and warming shelters have been opened. In Oregon, two men have been rescued from a burning home in Hollywood, ones in critical condition, the other is listed as grave. The fire was reported around three this morning. Firefighters say the men were trapped behind a security gate inside the home and forcible

entry tools were needed to get them out. An indoor and outdoor burn ban has been extended for another day until at least midnight tonight because of a forecast of high pollution levels. The burn ban is for the non desert areas of La Ventura and Riverside Counties and all of Orange County. It doesn't apply to mountain areas above three thousand feet a shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held

by Hamas's headed to Gaza. France and Gatar arranged for the delivery. The deal also includes the delivery of more medicine and humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. ABC's Andy Field says the agreement was reached as Israel reported that Hamas has killed two more hostages, Kumen killed in their thirties and fifties. Israel says more than one hundred and thirty hostages remain in Gaza, including some Americans.

A fireworks factories exploded in central Thailand, killing at least twenty people. A regional police commander said there were twenty to thirty workers at the factory at the time of the explosion, and that none of them could be found. The cause of the explosion is being investigated. Police say another explosion in November killed

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cloudy tomorrow, a couple degrees warmer with high stoping out around seventy. Mostly cloudy on Friday, with the chance of rain after midnight as a storm moves into the Southland. Good chance we're going to get rain Saturday, Sunday and into Monday. It's fifty three in Anaheim, fifty five or Dondo Beach, fifty two in West Covina, fifty in Pasadena. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call, and if you missed any of wake Up Call, you

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