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Karen Travers. President Biden Promises Retaliation For Deadly Attack in Jordan
Jordana Miller. Netanyahu says war to continue despiete ICJ ruling
Steve Roberts. Could the improving economy boost Biden?

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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Good morning, This is your wake up call for Monday, January twenty ninth. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King. Hello, and I'm so happy to be here with you guys, But I should warn you I'm losing my voice a little bit this morning, so just bear with me, folks. I will try not to scare you all away with my very extra deep, super gravelly voice this morning. But let me

say good morning to everybody who's here. Good morning to Tony and Ann. Hello. All right, we have a lot of great things that we're going to be talking about this morning. Amy King is off today, as I mentioned, so let's get started, shall we. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. President Biden says he will retaliate against the deadly attack on US

service members, and Jordan will get the latest on the growing conflict. The International Court of Justice stops short of ordering Israel to cease fire against Palestine. Instead, they're urging Israel to take steps to limit harm. They and the Space Shuttle Endeavor is expected to make its final flight as it's lifted above the California Science Center and Exposition Park so it can be lowered into police for its vertical launch ready display, then at six oh five its handle on the news.

Six European countries have paused funds for the UN Palestine Refugee Agency after allegations that some of its staff were involved in the October seventh Hamas attack on Israel. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA police are trying to figure out why a man in Granada Hills killed his family and then himself. Police were called to a home

Saturday evening by a woman barricaded in a room. Officers had to force their way into the home, where they found the bodies of an elderly couple and their two adult children. The shooter has been identified as seventy nine year old Rodrigo de Leon. A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her four year old daughter in East La. Sheriff's deputies were called to a business parking lot late Thursday, where they found the child unresponsive in a vehicle. She died

at the hospital. The cause of death was reported as combined effects of strangulation and sharp force. The mom was also found in the car. She was later booked on suspicion of murder. Criminology experts at u SE Irvine Law School have dropped a remix of a legal guide called rap Lyrics on Trial. Remember What's the case that they you see? Irvine professor say the legal guide has helped attorney's nationwide who are dealing with rap evidence in criminal proceedings from initial discovery

through trial and sentencing. The second edition, released last week, explores the impact of cap and disclaimers and rap songs, adds caution to the use of the term gangster rap, and examines a new state law that addresses rap lyrics and the California Racial Justice Act. The rap Lyrics on Trial manual also discusses implicit bias with the use of rap lyrics and rap videos in criminal prosecutions.

In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News Grossman Burn Center co founder Rebecca Grossman is set to take the stand in Van Nuy's as testimony begins in her murder trial. She's accused of killing two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty as they crossed the street in Westlake Village. Grossman's lawyer claims she was not the driver responsible for the deadly crash, which they say happened outside a crosswalk. The mother of the eight and eleven year old brothers is also expected to

testify. Some zebras, camels, and miniature horses have been rescued from a burning big rig in Indiana. The truck carrying the circus animals caught fire on a highway early Saturday. The animals were treated for smoke inhalation, but they were not hurt. Another truck later delivered the animals to their destination. President Biden says the US shall respond, as you just heard, to the deaths of three American soldiers killed in a drone attack on a base in northern Jordan

near the Syrian border. Biden held a moment of silence yesterday for the three service members while at a church in South Carolina. Some members of Congress are pressing Biden to take action against Iran for backing the militia that launched the deadly drone strike. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A lawyer for former President Trump in New York has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more than eighty three

million dollars to write Ejen Carroll in her defamation lawsuit. Attorney Alena Haba said Friday, Americans were seeing a violation of our justice system. This is wrong. But we are in the state of New York. We are in a New York jury and that is why we are seeing these witch hunts, these hoaxes, as he calls them, and this is another one of them be brought in New York. Carol called the verdict a great victory for every woman

who stands up when she's been knocked down. Now, as you heard earlier, President Biden is promising retaliation for that deadly attack on American service members in Jordan. ABC's Karen Travers joins us live from the White House. Good morning, Karen, Good morning. All right, So let's talk about initially,

is there any new information that we know about the attack. No, we're just hearing now from the National security spokes named John Kirby, who's just speaking literally right now on ABC's Good Morning America, and he said that the president is considering options for what a response would be and that he is weighing this, he'll do it in a time and manner of his choosing, and that

he is considering different options from his national security team right now. No surprise, John Kirby would not get into what those options would look like, whether that would be striking inside Iran. Kirby would not get ahead of any of the president's decisions, but he said he would have options to look at, and that the US is not looking for a broader war in the region and

not looking at a broader conflict with Iran. So I understand some members of Congress are calling for a strong response here, and will that draw the US further into this conflict in the Middle East. That's certainly a big concern at the White House and the President saying we will hold those responsible to account, and the President also saying yesterday we shall respond. Then you have to then ask, of course, then what comes now? And notably the Chairman of

the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CQ. Brown, General c Q. Brown did an interview with my colleague ABC's Martha Radditz just a couple of days before this deadly attack, and this was one of the things they talked about. She asked him what do you say to people who are saying that the US is not being tough enough on these militants, that they're not being tough enough on Iran and Brown. Now remember this is before this attack, he said, he would say, do you want a broader conflict? Do you want

us in a full scale war? He said, the administration doesn't want to go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict within the region. That has been a big concern of the President and his team over the course of the last couple of months with all of their response strikes to these Iranian proxy attacks, because thus far they have been limited in their response, largely striking storage facilities to try and hit these groups where they can

then no longer launch these types of attacks. So, how will this incident impact US relations with Iran? Yeah, well, I mean they're obviously not

great at the moment. I think one of the other big questions too, is how does this potentially impact the conversations that are taking place broadly in the region over a ceasefire in Gaza, The conversations that the administration is very deeply involved in to try and bring about a longer pause between Israel and Hamas, and John Kirby was asked about this, you know, whether there are concerns

that any US retaliation could complicate those talks. I think that is something that is certainly going to be talked about in Washington this week because of where those conversations stand and reports that they're very close to striking a larger deal that could potentially secure the release of hostages. Kirby said, you wouldn't get ahead of

those talks. That those conversations continue and they've been constructive, but they believe that, you know, even despite these this weekend's events and this attacks, those conversations need to go forward. Now. I know that Kirby wasn't wanting to get ahead of the president. And there has to be some speculation as to what the options are that President Biden has here for retaliation. What can he do? And is it possible that it will be a smaller retaliation versus

like something more large scale. I'm not going to speculate. I'll just say that, yeah, that is not my place to do, but I will say exactly what the president is right exactly. I wish I knew, But the Pentagon has long had options for striking Iran itself. I think it's also notable though, that Iran is denying it had a role in this attack. Iran is saying that these accusations are baseless and that the militan groups don't take orders from Iran, and that Iran doesn't want to start a war and engage

in the conflict with the United States. John Kirby again this morning, was saying like, look, we know that they are supporting them. We know that they are giving them tacit approval to do these types of things, So you know whether or not they are directing orders here, they are playing a role in this. Karen Travers, thank you so much. And I apologize that I'm losing my voice this morning. I promised next next time, next time we speak, it will not be so gravelly and rough. I know

that feeling. I've been there all the time. Oh yeah, that's miserable. Well, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. I have a great day you too. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. CIA director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's Prime minister and the director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a deadlock in talks for a

new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. ABC's Matt Gutman says negotiators are making progress on a deal. It's rael A's Prime Minister benjam Minute Tanya who has been under enormous domestic pressure to bring those hostages home. His office calling those talks constructive and saying that the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out in talks coming up this week. Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a two

month cease fire in exchange for more than one hundred hostages. He says it would have all in several stages, with women, the elderly and wounded released first. Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza. The space shuttle Endeavor is expected to make its final flight as it's lifted above the California Science Center in Exposition Park so it can be lowered in a place for its vertical launch ready display. The final move could happen tonight or early

tomorrow, depending on the weather. Endeavor was retired from spaceflight thirteen years ago. And has been on display horizontally at the Science Center for more than a decade. A snowboarder has spent fifteen hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola at a resort in Lake Tahoe. The woman says she caught the gondola at Heavenly Ski Resort Thursday, expecting to ride it down the mountain, but the lift stopped just minutes later. She says she yelled for help, but no

one heard her. She wasn't found until the lift started again on Friday. That's terrifying. A man stabbed in Long Beach is in critical condition. Police say the attack happened just before seven point thirty last night on Magnolia Avenue between ninth and eleventh Street. Officers did first date until paramedics arrived, but the attacker got away. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM

six forty. The Casey Chiefs will face the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl, but most people won't be watching the players on the field and will tell you what they could be watching instead. The IRS says it has been working hard to make filing taxes a more easy and smooth process. Climate activists have tossed soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louver Museum in Paris. The activists said that they want to draw attention to unsustainable food production

and hunger in France. And at six oh five, it's handle on the news, A key negotiator and a possible border deal says that a deal could be ready to go to the Senate in the coming days. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Tax season has started. Americans can start filing their twenty twenty three federal income tax returns today. IRS Commissioner Danny Wirfol says the agency is ready to make

the filing's process as smooth as possible. IRS dot gov has been updated with new tools for taxpayers, and our call and walk in centers are fully staffed with trained as sisters ready to help those who call or who want face to face help. He says. The IRS has been rewriting almost all of its letters and notices and putting them into plane language, and they've been getting a

much better response from taxpayers. The White House says Iranian backed militants have killed three US service members in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan near the Syrian border. About three hundred and fifty US Army and Air Force Force personnel are deployed at that base in Jordan that came under attack, but in this case, air defenses failed to intercept the drone attack. ABC's m Wynn says some members of Congress are demanding the White House do more to deter Iranian

aggression. Senator Lindsay Graham says he's calling on the Biden administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran as deterrence against future aggression. Iran has denied any involvement in the drone attack. The International Court of Justice is urging Israel to prevent attacks of genocide against Palestinians. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says the war against Hamas will continue. ABC's Jordana Miller is live in Jerusalem with more

details. Good morning, Jordana, Good morning. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin n'ataniel, as you said, is vowing that the war will go on. He's been very critical of the International Court of Justices ruling. It stopped short of calling for a cease fire, but even in its ruling that Israel has to report back in a month, the Israeli Prime ministers said Israel's following international law and almost everything the Court asked of Israel, it is already doing.

Natania was called that case a hypocritical, absurd what he calls another sign of the upside down world, where Israel has been very clear that its aim is to destroy and dismantle a terror group and not attack or wipe out part or whole of the Palestinian population in Gaza. Now, why isn't the Court insisting on a cease fire. Well, clearly the Court did not hear enough preliminary evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and therefore did not act in

an emergency measure calling Israel to halt its war. Now it said, there's enough that was presented for a case that it will hear, which could take could take years. But there was obviously nothing that was so desperately concerning to the Court and Israel, it must be said, released dozens of secret documents, declassified them and gave them to the court to show that the decisions made at the highest level by the war cabinet always took into consideration civilian lives and

made it clear that its aims were against the terrors group Hamas. In other words, the court had presented statements by far right leaders who were not involved in the war, or just far right leaders in general, even though some of them could be part of the government, who had made very extreme statements. And in that case the Court said that Israel needs to punish those who

even incite to genocide. But again, Israel's Attorney General had already started to put out warnings and start the process against some of the ministers in the government who had made insightful comments like you know, let's drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza for example. That was one minister who, by the way, was suspended from the government and then will likely face legal charges as well from the Attorney General. So what power does the court have to actually hold Israel accountable

if they don't follow these requests that they've made. Well, that's a good question. The Court's rulings are binding, but not they can't really enforce the rulings. So if Israel were, for example, to not hand in a report in a month's time as it has been asked to then the issue could be picked up by the UN Security Council and the UN Security Council could try to pass sanctions on Israel. Likely they would almost certainly be letoed by the

US. But if Israel doesn't comply with the Court, then it can take it would some of the of its rulings would go over to the UN Security Council, where there would be some kind of punishment or accountability for not for not listening to the Court. Okay, it seems like we're going to have to be watching this closely to see if Israel does what's asked, and you know what the next steps will be. So Jordana Miller, live in Jerusalem,

thank you so much for your time this morning. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Climate activists have tossed soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louver Museum in Pairs. They also shouted slogans calling for a sustainable food system. Farmers in France have been protecting protesting for days over

several issues, including low wages. They're using their tractors to set up roadblocks and slow traffic across France to push for better pay for their produce, less red tape and protection against cheap imports. France's Interior Ministry has ordered the deployment of security forces around Paris. The wreckage of a plane appears to have been found close to where Amelia Earhart was believed to have gone down after refueling in

Papua New Guinea. ABC's Allison Cossack says Tony Romeo with the exploration company deep Sea Vision, recently searched across fifty two hundred square miles of the Pacific Ocean floor using an unmanned submersible. In the final leg of the expedition, the team captured a sonar image of what looks like an object shaped like an airplane

resting underwater within one hundred miles of Howland Island. Romeo says he was he wasn't surprised to find the aircraft intact because he always felt Earhart would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water. Princess Kate has been released from a hospital in London. She's said to be making good progress following

abdominal surgery. CIA director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's prime minister and the new director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a deadlock in talks for a new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. ABC's Matt

Gutman says negotiators are making progress on a deal. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Atanyahu has been under enormous domestic pressure to bring those hostages home, his office calling those talks constructive and saying that the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out in talks coming up this week. Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a

two month ceasefire in exchange for more than one hundred hostages. He says it would evolve in several stages, with women, the elderly and wounded released first. Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza. SpaceX sent another twenty two Starlink Internet satellites into orbit, DIGNII mansions, Full Power and lists of Go Falcon and Go Starling. The Falcon nine rocket launched from VanderBurg Space Force Space just before ten last night. It was the ninth flight

for the first stage rocket boosters supporting the mission. It safely landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. When we come back, we'll talk about President Biden's approval numbers. Right now, Southland weather from KFI, Sunny highs in the mid seventies for Metro La and oc hies will reach the low seventies at the beaches, Sunny highs in the mid sixties, round seventy in the Annealop Valley and i E with more sunshine and highs in the seventies coming on

Tuesday. Right now, it's fifty four in Burbank, fifty six in Redondo Beach. 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. This woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her four year old daughter in East La.

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has been discharged from London hospital and is making good progress after abdominal surgery, and the British government says it's going to ban the sale of disposable vapes and limit their flavors to try to keep kids from becoming addicted to nicotine. Then at six p'o oh five it's handled. On the news, a snowboarder spent fifteen hours trapped over nine in the ski lift gondola at Lake Tahoe Resort. We'll tell you how she survived. Then

at five point fifty, we're going to talk about the swift Bowl. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The White House says of running back to militants have killed three US service members and a drone attack on a US base in Jordan near the Syrian border. About three hundred and fifty US Army and Air Force personnel are deployed at that base in Jordan that came under attack, but in

this case, air defenses failed to intercept the drone attack. ABC's m no Winn says some members of Congress are demanding the White House do more to deter Iranian aggression. Senator Lindsay Graham says he's calling on the Biden administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran as deterrence against future aggression. LA police are trying to figure out why a man in Granada Hills killed his family and then himself.

Police were called to a home Saturday evening by a woman barricaded in a room. Officers had to force their way into the home, where they found the bodies of an elderly couple and their two adult children. The shooter has been identified as seventy five Rodrigo de Leon. A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing four year old daughter in East LA Sheriff's deputies were called to a business parking lot late Thursday night, where they found the child unresponsive in a

vehicle. She later died at the hospital. Cause of death was reported as combined effects of strangulation and sharp force. The mom was also found in the car. She was later looked on suspicion of murder. Criminology experts at UC Irvine Law School have dropped a remix of legal guide called rap Lyrics on Trial Murder. What's the Case that the u SE Irvine professor say The legal guide has helped attorney's nationwide who are dealing with rap evidence in criminal proceedings from initial

discovery through trial and sentencing. The second edition, released last week, explores the impact of capin disclaimers in rap songs adds caution to the use of the term gangster rap and examines a new state law that addresses rap lyrics and the California Racial Justice Act. The Rap Lyrics on Trial Manual also discusses implicit bias with the use of rap lyrics and rap videos in criminal prosecutions in Orange County.

Corbin Carson KFI News. President Biden's approval rating is the second worst rating by any of the eleven presidents who have served since Eisenhower took office. ABC's Steve Roberts joins US Live from Washington with more on how the economy is to blame. Good morning, Steve, Yes, you're absolutely right. The economy is the single biggest reason why Biden's numbers are so miserable. There's been this enormous hangover from the inflation and the other economic disruptions of the pandemic years,

and people are still feeling badly about the economy. Two thirds of Americans say the country's headed in the wrong direction. Three out of five are negative about Biden's handling an economy. But there's a big butt here. The latest economic news shows a brightening stock markets that records a few weeks ago inflation is actually much more under control than it's been. Economy's growing. Jobs are available, and that means that looking forward and a possibility, that's all it is.

It's a possibility that a brightening economic outlook will have a significant effect on this election because people start feeling more hopeful about the future, more hopeful about the economy. This is going to help Joe Biden. If you look at the latest figures from University of Michigan, they the best survey of consumer sentiment in the country, and for two months now the index has gone sharply upward to the point where Americans are now as hopeful as they were in July of twenty

twenty one when the pandemic really crushed the hard out of the economy. So if that continues, it could be a very important factor in this election. Now. How you know, people love to talk about the bad economy, you know, and you know, I was just talking with a friend last week who was saying, like, Oh, the economy is terrible, but how bad is it really? Well, it depends on who you are, right if you you know, if you if you have a job and you've

gotten a raised, the economy is good. If your kid got laid off. The economy is bad, but in general the numbers show significant improvement. That's why the stock market hit a record because the investors in Wall Street are betting on a positive future. The Federal Reserve, in order to ring inflation out of the economy, had to raise interest rates, you know, a dozen times. But the big fear was that this would kick the economy into

recession. But it hasn't happened. They've had what sometimes of economists call a soft landing. They've able to enable somehow to reduce inflation without triggering a recession. And so people who are looking at the economy, economists, investors are saying the outlook is bright. That the Federal Reserve is likely to start cutting interest rates going into the new year, which will only trigger more economic activity, makes it easier for people to borrow, easier for people to afford a

house. So the if that continues, I keep saying if, because there's no guarantee, But the if, the if, the move that has been so negative and so sour for years now, if that starts to brighten, it can have a big impact on the election because you talk about all these other issues, you talk about the border, you talk about immigration, you talk about Ukraine, you talk about gossip. These are important issues to many

people, but they are abstractions in Los Angeles and everywhere else. The economy is a real world, everyday issue for every family who's listening to us right now, every family that lives in southern California. And that's why the economy always trumps everything else. That's why inflation was so damaging to Biden for years

now. But the very mechanism, because the economy is so powerful, the very fact that it hurt Biden so badly for two years, means it could also help him if it turns up with and that's what we're looking starting to see in some of these numbers. Well, it will definitely be something we'll have to keep an eye and I'm curious to see how it changes over the next several months. So thank you so much, Teve for taking the time

to talk with us this morning. Sure, anytime, All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Grossman Burns and her co founder Rebecca Grossman is set to take the stand in Van NY's as testimony begins in her murder trial. She's accused of killing two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty as they crossed the street in Westlake Village. Grossman's lawyers claim she was not the driver responsible for the

deadly crash, which they say happen outside a crosswalk. The mother of the eight and eleven year old brothers is also expected to testify. Some zebras, camels, and a miniature horse have been rescued from a burning big rig in Indiana. The truck carrying the circus animals caught fire on a highway early Saturday. The animals were treated for smoke inhalation, but they were not hurt. Another truck later delivered the animals to their destination. SpaceX has said another twenty

two Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. Dignician engines full power and list off. Go Falcon and go Starling. The Falcon nine rocket launched from VanderBurg Space for Space just before ten last night. It was the ninth flight for the first stage rocket booster supporting the mission. It safely landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. The CDC says healthcare workers should be on alert for cases

of measles because of a growing number of infections. There have been twenty three confirmed cases since December one, including seven from international travelers, and two outbreaks with five or more infections each. Cases of measles have been reported in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Washington DC area. President Biden says the US shall respond to the deaths of three American soldiers killed in a drone

attack on a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syrian border. ABC's Martha Raditz says the base is home to about three hundred and fifty Army and Air Force troops. Three American service members killed, at least thirty four injured. Eight of those injuries so serious the Americans were quickly evacuated to receive a higher level of care. The Pentagon says the injuries include shrapnel wounds and possible traumatic

brain injuries. President Biden held a moment of silence yesterday while a church in South Carolina. Some members of Congress are pressing Biden to take action against Iran

for backing the militia responsible for the deadly drone strike. Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well known Mayan ruined sites are unreachable by visitors because of a cartel violence or land disputes, but two tourist guides in the southern state of Chappas says the routes to two other sites have been drug gang checkpoints and many groups are avoiding trips there as well. 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. Trump's lawyers in New York, A Trump's lawyer in New York, has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more than eighty three million dollars to writer E. G. And Carroll in her defamation lawsuit. Grossman Burn Center co founder Rebecca Grossman is set to take the stand in Van Nuys as testimony begins in her murder trial. She's accused of killing two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty as they cross the street in

Westlake Village. SpaceX has sent another twenty two Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon nine rocket launched from VanderBurg Space Force Space just before ten o'clock last night. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning, measles cases are on the rise, and the CDC says children are the most at risk. All right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna recruit Tony and Ann to help me with this next part because I am very excited. Are you guys

football fans? Are you? Did you watch any of the big games yesterday? Yes? I did? Okay? Are you a Chiefs fan or forty nine Ers? We shouldell everybody if you haven't heard yet, the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers will be facing off in the Super Bowl. So Anne, are you a Chiefs or a forty nine Ers fan? No? Absolutely not. Tony? What about you? No, really, I'm just watch games. You know you just watched that. And do you have a team? Yes, I'm a huge Charger fan. Okay, all right, so

the Charge So your team is not in it? But what if? What if? I think this is going to be the most watched Super Bowl ever because of Taylor Swift. Yes, I know. NFL is so happy. I'm sure happy that the chefs wan over the moon about it. So if you don't know, Taylor Swift is dating Chiefs titan Travis Kelcey and all these news stories have been coming out since yesterday, and my TikTok feed is filled with people who are wondering if she will be able to make it to the

game because she has a concert in Japan the day before. And I literally watch someone do like a diagram and a presentation on how Taylor Swift can make it to this game. I think more people are excited to tune in and see Taylor Swift than the actual game itself. So my next question, are you, guys, Swifties, will you watch the game just to see if Taylor makes it and her boyfriend wins? Again? Absolutely not. I'm going

to watch the game, of course, but I'm not a Swiftian. I don't care, all right, sorry, but I know a lot of people do. I'm in Yeah, I'm not the majority. Okay, fair enough, Tony. Are you Swifty? No? And if I see one more cutaway to her, I'll probably not watch the game, Honestly. You know a lot of people, a lot of the fans are pretty are upset that they keep doing that during so over it. Well, I'm not a Swift but I love a good love story, you guys, So I am just

rooting for love, that's all. I used to live in the Kansas City area when I first started out as a reporter, so just sort of buy, you know location. I became a Chiefs fan when I lived in that area. So I'm rooting for the Chiefs and I'm rooting for love. That's all. That's all I want to say. All right, So this is a really cool story that I want. I think it's so funny. So there was a couple in Wisconsin that delivered their baby in a McDonald's parking lot,

and they gave their baby a nickname that was McDonald's themed. Any guesses on what that might be? Did you read it already? No? I didn't actually, but if I say it a little nugget, see, that would be my first joy. Yes, no, they named it Tony. You have any guesses? No, Tony, I can't hear you. All right, we gotta get marked in here too. Mark Wheeler, are you there? Do you have any guesses on what this couple might have na their baby and the McDonald's parking lot? No, all right, I will tell

you it's little mcflurry. That's cute. But little Nugget is yeah, I mean, little Nugget seems like the obvious choice, but little mcflurry is so specific and unnecessary. But anyway, the baby is healthy and fine, all right. So this kind of makes me sad, but it is not surprising. Rent prices in California's largest cities are down yay everywhere except Los Angeles, so according to rent dot com, we are still have the highest rent.

The average rent in LA is thirty five hundred dollars a month. It's just so sad and frustrating. And I don't know how anybody is surviving out here. Honestly, it's sometimes I don't know how I'm surviving. All right. This is a debate that is happening for that keeps going on daylight savings time. Some people have been trying for years to get rid of daylight savings time,

but I don't think that's ever going to happen. And now there's this new like back and forth, you know, debate on whether or not someone will actually get rid of daylight savings time. I just feel like we would all be very confused if that happened. What time is it? We would not I mean, we're so used to this daylight savings the system as we know it, that if we got rid of that. I just feel like

we would all be so very lost. That's just my two cents. No one asked, all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A lawyer for former President Trump in New York has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more than eighty three million dollars to write her Egene Carroll in her defamation lawsuit. Attorney Alina Haba said Friday, Americans, we're seeing a violation of our justice

system. This is wrong. But we are in the state of New York. We are in a New York jury and that is why we are seeing these witch hunts, these hoaxes, as he calls them, and this is another one of them be brought in New York. Carol called the verdict a

great victory for every woman who stands up when she's been knocked down. CIA director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's Prime minister and the director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a deadlock in talks for a new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas ABC's Matt Gutman says negotiators are making progress

on a deal. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Atanyahu has been under enormous domestic pressure to bring those hostages home, his office calling those talks constructive and saying that the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out in talks coming up this week. Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a two months cease fire in exchange for more than one hundred hostages. He said it would evolve in so stages, with women, the elderly and wounded released first. Israel would also release

Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza. A snowboarder has spent pardon me, had a little bit of a cough. A snowboarder has spent fifteen hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola at a resort in Link Tahoe. The woman says she caught the gondola at Heavenly Ski Resort on Thursday, expecting to write it down the mountain, but the lift stopped just minutes later. She says she yelled for help, but no one hurt her. She was found.

She wasn't found until the lift started again on Friday. Tax season has started and Americans can start filing their twenty twenty three federal income tax returns on Monday, that's today. IRS Commissioner Danny Wirfol says the agency is ready to make the filing process as smooth and easy as possible. IRIS do gov has been updated with new tools for tax players, and our call and walk in center are fully staffed with trained sisters ready to help those who call or who

want face to face help. He says. The IRS has been rewriting almost all of its letters and notices and putting them into plane language and has been getting a much better response from taxpayers. The Space Shuttle Endeavor is expected to make its final flight as it's lifted above the California Science Center and Exposition Park so it can be lowered into place for its vertical launch ready display. The

final move could happen tonight or early tomorrow, depending on the weather. Endeavor was retired from spaceflight thirteen years ago and has been on display horizontally at the Science Center for more than a decade. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty incredible. Should definitely check that out. The wreckage of a plane appears to have been found close to where Amelia Earhart was believed to have gone down

after refueling and pop on a Guinea. ABC's Alison Cossack says Tony Romeo with exploration company Deep Sea Vision, recently searched across fifty two hundred square miles of the Pacific Goshen Floor using an unmanned submersible. In the final leg of the expedition, the team captured a sonar image of what looks like an object shaped

like an airplane resting underwater within one hundred miles of Howland Island. Romeo says he wasn't surprised to find the aircraft intact because he always felt Earhart would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water. The chief of the Elmonti Police Department says he stands by his dispatchers and officers. Following the ambush shooting of two officers. They had been called to a motel in twenty

twenty two about a woman stabbed. The woman's mother reported her daughter's husband was on PCP and had a gun, but the dispatcher didn't pass that information to the officers over the radio. She put it in the dispatch computer. Officer Joseph Santana and Corporal Michael pared pedrascuse Me were killed in the ambush. A third officer was hurt before the shooter killed himself. 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 kf I Am six forty, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app

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