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JIM RYAN. BEFORE YOUR NEXT TRIP, PROTECT YOUR TRAVEL ACCOUNTS FROM HACKERS
JOHN COHEN. ANALYSIS: MORE EVIDENCE THAT RUSSIA POSES A REAL THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES -- REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY WANT TO SEND INTO SPACE
DEAN SHARP - WAKING UP WITH THE HOUSE WHISPERER
Transforming your home with more SPACIOUSNESS (less expensive) instead of more SPACE (very expensive). • MOVEMENT and FLOW are more important than fancy MATERIALS
JASON NATHANSON. THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT

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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. Almost to the weekend. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalney has died in prison. Russia's state media says he wasn't feeling well earlier and then became unconscious. Navalney was an outspoken critic of President Putin's and has survived several poisoning attempts. His cause

of death has not been released. Navalney was forty seven. A verdict is expected today in New York in the civil fraud trial involving former President Trump's business. State Attorney General Letitia James has asked for a three hundred and seventy million dollar fine and a lifetime ban of Trump's company operating in New York state. A judge has already ruled that Trump engaged in fraud, and he is the one who's going to decide the penalty. A three point eight earthquake has rumbled

under Ontario. The quake shook the area at eleven thirty eight last night. People reported feelings shaking in Riverside. Sam Bernardino and Laverne at six oh five at handle on the news. A former FBI informant's been charged with lying about President Biden's role in a Ukrainian business. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Russia says imprisoned opposition

leader and critic of President Putin, Alexey Navalney is dead. The Russian Prison Service says Navalney got sick during a walk today, fainted and then died. It said the reason for the death is being investigated. Russian media says preliminary information points to a blood clot. Navalney was serving a nineteen year jail sentence for offenses considered politically motivated. ABC's Maggie Ruley says he collapsed during a flight in twenty twenty and then spent time in a hospital in a coma. His

TAM claims he was poisoned. He made the decision to return to Russia, where he was later in Despite being in jail, he has remained one of the most prominent Russian opposition leaders. Navalni has moved to an Arctic penal colony last year, which is considered one of the toughest prisons in Russia. It's a like thing I've go pursued before. LA City Councilman Kevin de Leon is one of the city officials who toured the so called tagged towers in downtown LA

that have been covered in graffiti in recent weeks. Laped Sergeant Gordon Helper says the building was abandoned when the developer ran out of money to finish it in twenty nineteen, and it looks it It just looks like it's been vacant for a lot long time. There's a lot of vandalism in the stairwells, there's

a lot of in vandalism inside the rooms, and there's it's destroyed. The owners of Ocean Wide Plaza have until tomorrow to clean up and secure the site, and if they don't do it, the city's going to do it and then charge him for it. Prosecutors in La have filed murder charges, which include special circumstance allegations against two gang members accused of going on a shooting spreeing claim the lives of four people, including a fourteen year old boy. LA

County DA George Gascone says both shooters are facing life without parole. We will not waiver in our commitment to justice and ensuring the safety or public. We will continue to work tirelessly when gun violence and hold those accountable for such egregious act. The two Allaed shooters are accused of randomly targeting everybody they shot. Both guys were arrested on Monday. Blake Trolly k if I News, Nickelodeon's

preschool platform Noggin, has been gutted as part of Paramount's layoffs. About eight hundred staffers were let go this week, including the entire team that ran Noggin. The programming included thousands of shorts, as well as episodes of Paw Patrol, Pepa Pig, Dora the Explorer, and Blues Clues. Variety. CIS layoffs are happening across all divisions, including at CBS, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Plus, Showtime, Comedy Central, Nick and MTV. Medicaid would cover anti

obesity medications under a proposal in the Nebraska legislature. The author of the bill says it would help people deal with serious problems like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and blood pressure or high blood pressure. He estimates it would cost about four million dollars a year if passed. Southern California is about to get more rain. The National Weather Services the leading edge of the storm system will

begin to affect the central coast by late Saturday. The brunt of the storms expected to hit the LA area Sunday night and continue until Wednesday, with a potential for several rounds of heavy rain, maybe some thunderstorms. Initial predictions call for a total of two to three inches of rain, could be even more in the valleys and coastal areas. Four to eight inches expected in the foothills and mountains. But right now, let's check in with ABC's Jim Ryan.

Jim, it's only February, but a lot of people are starting to plan for summer vacation, right, Yeah, this is the time you start doing that. You start looking ahead to your spring break, your summer vacation. And if this year is like last year and the year before, we're going to see record numbers of people traveling right in the air, on the train,

taking cruises. Well, one thing you need to be careful is you start making those arrangements to be careful that you've secured those websites, secured the apps that hardly anybody uses travel agents anymore, Amy, They just book these things themselves, their hotels, their flights, their rental cars, whatever.

But in doing so, you're opening yourself up to a potential hacking. A few weeks ago, Booking dot Com was broken into was hacked by criminals who were able to get ahold of passwords that were on an internal messaging system there with it within Booking dot Com. So if you use Booking dot Com or expeedy or any of them, really you just need to be very careful with how you handle your own data. Okay, So when you say you need to be careful with how you handle your own data, I mean you have

to input information into the system. So how do you be careful with it? You're right, yeah, I mean with the with the travel sites, you have to put in your known traveler number, your passport number. With the airlines, you have to enter those things. You really can't get around it. But that's a treasure trove of stuff that hackers have, the information that can be used to build a doppelganger. Amy, for example, to go out and apply for credit cards in your name, and it hurts you

financially for a long time. Come big headache. So what you need to do is secure those sites. Use two factor authentication. You know, set up the system so that your travel related accounts you have to receive a text or receive a message or somehow secure it with two factor authentication. That should help to protect those accounts. Get sign a notification. So for example, your Southwest Airlines account, if somebody tries to use it, then you get

a notification. Just turn that notification on. Then the passwords. This goes for all sorts of websites and apps, not just travel sites or apps. Make sure you're using unique passwords, not the same one for all of you your airlines, all of your hotels. She used different passwords. Difficult to remember passwords, or better yet, use the biometric method you know that your

phone has in it. Now look at your phone. You try to open the American Airlines and it asks you to use your facial recognition to get into that set. You don't have to remember all those particular passwords. Yeah, I like the facial recognition one because great. Quite honestly, Jim and tell me if you're the same as me on this the password thing. Don't write your passwords down. Use a really weird one use a unique one. Well,

how am I supposed to remember it? I can't even remember the basic ones, let alone ones that have the characters and the numbers and the symbols. It's difficult and you shouldn't write that down, don't put it on a post it on your laptop and then you know because it's just right for hackers. The other thing if you send and this is unique to travel and of course a lot of the folks who will be traveling the next few months are

not frequent flyers. These are people traveling for pleasure on vacation, so they may not be up to all on all other stuff. If you're sitting at the airport, you side to log on, take a look at stuff on your phone or your laptop. Best to use your own personal hotspot, right, don't use the airport WiFi. Sure it's free and it can be a nice deal and it's quick and convenient, but at the same time, it's just it's a hunting ground for hackers. Better yet, leave your laptop at

home. You're on vacation for havent's sake, I know, right, So I was curious about that though too. So they don't even have to be nearby. They just know that there is a public network and they can jump

on and watch what you're doing. They're very wily. I mean, I couldn't figure out how to do it, but certainly hackers know they have the savvy and the expertise and the criminal mind to get through the safety net and to get at your personal information and stuff that you're clicking on your keyboard. So yeah, just be very careful about that stuff. Plugging into the powerport at the airport or at the train station, it can be a problem too.

It can expose the data on your phone to hackers too, So still be very aware. You know, treat your lap chop, treat your passwords and your personal data like you do your wallet. Keep it close to you at all times, don't show it to people, take it out only when it's needed, and then put it back. Okay, and you mentioned the plugging in at the power stations. I actually Rich Demiro are tech guy and I were going to talk about it. We ran out of time this week.

But that's the thing too, because if you plug into the public charging stations, that makes you vulnerable to hackers. Apparently doesn't happen that often, but it does happen sure well, because when you're plugging in a physical you know, USB cable, not only are you drawing power from whatever that source is, but you're also sharing your data with whatever source that is, right,

It's it does more than just power your phone. It also can be a conduit for personal information coming off your phone and exposed to people who would do harm with that information. So don't be suspicious, don't be paranoid, just be very very careful. Well, that's the thing you say, don't be suspicious and don't be paranoid, But you're making us just suspicious and paranoid.

Well better suspicious than you know, bankrupt i'spous or chasing your own passwords for the next few years because somebody stole them and opened up a bunch of credit cards in your name. Just be just be cautious, be circumspect, Okay. And then is another way that you could just like do a blanket protection of yourself just to freeze your like freeze your accounts with the credit reporting

agencies so no one could open anything. Well, that's certainly that's one way to protect your credit, right to do that, But then it makes it a little more difficult for you to use those particular options, you know, especially if you're dealing with your credit. But here I think we're talking more about your ability to conveniently, quickly and easy go into Hurts rent a car, for example, and rent your car and your hotel and book your flights.

And if you're using the same password for it Hurts and for holiday inn and for American airlines. Yeah, I mean, you're just you're opening yourselfself up to a real potential problem. What's more, by the way, with the booking sites, with Expedia and with booking dot Com, those sites, by their very nature have to share your information with other sites, with the rental car and with the hotel and with the airlines, So you know,

just be extra cautious. I mean, we may all have to go back to using booking or using travel agents some day, but even they are susceptible to this kind of thing. I wish we would. I love it when somebody plans it for me and I don't have to do it. And you can still do that, all right, So as you're making your plans, be alert. Don't be alarmed, but be alert, be careful, amy be alert. The world needs more alerts. Okay, thank you, Jim

Ryan, have a wonderful weekend. Ye. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Nine firefighters are recovering from burn injuries caused by a big rig explosion in Wilmington. Two of the firefighters responding to the initial truck fire were critically injured and rushed to the Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Trauma surgeon Molly Dean says it was

crucial to stabilize the firefighters airways, especially with inhalational injuries. Beneed that not only had they been burned, but that there had been an explosion and a blast. They had potentially been on top of a truck and then thrown back. One of those critically injured firefighters was airlifted to LA General's Burn Unit yesterday for continued treatment. LA Fires has one of the trucks, one hundred gallon

pressurized natural gas tanks, injured the firefighters when it exploded. Chris Adler KFI News. A state regulatory board has found two juvenile detention centers in La County are unsuitable to house detainees. The board yesterday found the Barry j Nidorf Facility in Silmar and the Los Padrino's Juvenile Holland Downey are out of compliance with regulations on staff, on training, use of force, disciplinary procedures, safety plans,

and access to recreation. The county has sixty days to fix the issues or the facilities could be shut down. Special Council Robert Hurr is set to testify next month before a Republican led House committee. Her recently declined to prosecute President Biden over his handling of classified documents. The House panel, led by Jim Jordan, is expected to press her on Biden's mental fitness. They've requested transcripts and recordings of his interview with the president. Public testimony will be held

March twelve. The White House says Russia has obtained what it calls a troubling emerging anti satellite weapon, but the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says it cannot be used to attack people or cause physical destruction on Earth. This is not an active capability that's been deployed, and though Russia's pursuit of this particular capability is troubling, there is no immediate threat to anyone's safety. Russia has

downplayed the US concern about the capability. Officials say the claims are a ruse intended to make Congress support more aid for Ukraine. When we come back, we're going to be talking with former counter terrorism coordinator for the Department of Homeland Security about the threat that Russia poses to US, whether it's with a anti satellite weapon in space or not, and also the death of Putin critic Alexei Navalny. Just finding that information out this morning, and we're going to get

some more information from John Cohen on that in just a moment. 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 news room. A storm headed towards southern California could bring several rain rounds of heavy rain, even thunderstorms. Forecasters say the brunt of the storm will hit the area late Sunday through Tuesday, with two to five inches in valley and coastal areas, four to eight inches possible

in the foothills mountains. Egypt appears to be setting up a refugee shelter near the Gaza border in case Israel invades the southern city of Rafa. Egypt has denied preparing for refugees, but an area is being set up that would have basic facilities for Palestinians in case and Israeli offensive drives them over the border. CSA officials trying to figure out how a woman was able to fly from Nashville

to lax without an ID or a ticket. Authority says she was spotted going through security in Nashville, but apparently wasn't asked for an ID or a boarding pass at security or at the American Airlines gate at six oh five. It's handle on the news. The city official says the tagged towers in downtown LA remind him of Chernobyl. Let's say good morning to former counter terrorism coordinator at the Department of Homeland Security. It's ABC's John Cohen, John the Big News

this morning. We're just hearing that Alexei Navalny is dead. The good morning to be with you. Yeah. Alex Davone was a forty seven year old lawyer. He is best known for being essentially the face of political opposition to

Vladimir Putin. He opposed Putin in large part because he viewed him as being absolutely corrupt and a threat to democratic processes, not only within Russia but also around the world and throughout his career as he has sought to expose the corruption of Vladimir Putin, He's been jailed, he was poisoned, and targeted for assassination. So, you know, when I heard the news, the sad news this morning of his death, I have to say I really wasn't surprised.

There's always been a part of me that's wondered when this would actually occur. Yeah, I think that you and I am probably a lot of people who are listening right now have that same feeling. They're like, oh, yeah, it was just sort of a matter of time. Yeah, absolutely, And I think, you know, it's another and a growing list of sort of real time events involving Russia, NATO, and the political debate here

in the United States. I mean, if you could be stepped back a little bit and look at, you know, how Vladimir Putin maintains political control in Russia. You know, he jails journalists, he jails those who oppose him, or he assassinates them. He holds onto power through the triangulated usage of the intelligence apparatus, the oligarchs, the wealthy businessman who possess most of

the wealth in Russia, and organized crime. And we should also not forget what his overall objectives are because they're very clear, and you only have to understand the history of Ladimir Putin to know what they are, which is, he wants to maintain a grasp on power regardless in Russia, regardless of how he does so. He wants to restore the territorial boundaries and geopolitical influence of the Soviet Union, So he wants to reclaim territories that for decades have been

free democracies. UH. And he wants to expand the reach of Russia across the globe. And in order to accomplish that, he has to undermine NATO, and he has to undermine he has to weaken the United States. So he's been engaged in essentially a years long hybrid or asymmetric war using cyber information operations, proxy conflicts UH and even direct provocative or military interactions with the US using the Wagner Group and another assets. So it's he's a dangerous man.

He's a ruthless man internally, but he represents a significant national security threat to the United States. Yeah, you mentioned the Wagner Group, and I am I'm at a loss for his name right now. But there was the guy who said, you know, Putin, you we got to stop this war. This is wrong. And then he died in a plane crash. Well, right, but again this was Putin's cook, right. This was an oligarch who was one of Putin's closest allies. He ran the Wagner Group.

He was he was in direct command of the forces that were promoting Russia's will, not just Ukraine, but in parts of Africa and in the Middle East. And this is somebody who was considered one of Putin's closest advisors, and when Putin viewed him as being in opposition to what he wanted to do,

he mysteriously died. Yeah, And the reason that we were going to talk today, John, was and then the Navalde thing happened, or we just found out about it, was because of the revelation that Russia has designs on launching some sort of a nuclear weapon to take out our satellites. There is no imminent threat, but as you were just saying, Russia does pose a threat to the US. What are some of the other things that they may

be trying to do to undermine US. So the satellite in which you were referencing what the intelligence community has discovered and what they were briefing Congress on is a program by Russia to introduce into orbit nuclear enabled satellites hunter and killer satellites, and they're what we've learned thus far is that their objective would be to take out US satellites, whether they be spy satellites, weather satellites, GPS

satellites, communication satellites. So you can imagine the impact that that would have when everything from our banking infrastructure to our military capabilities. This seems to be from my perspective, you know, just one in a continuing thing number of things that we're seeing Russia doing, which looks like a preparation in case there

is a greater military conflict with NATO and with the US in particular. We know that they you know, we just heard, yes, they also about Department of Justice taking down a cyber operation by Russian military intelligence which was focusing on US based critical infrastructure companies. We know that Russia has conducted for years cyber attacks directed at penetrating not only our election infrastructure, but our banking,

our power, our water infrastructure. We know that from conversations you and I have had that for years. Russia has been engaged in any operation or information warfare against the United States where they've sought to disrupt our elections. They've sought to so discord across the populace. They've sought to influence elections so that politicians

friendlier to their causes could be put into power. They've sought to inspire violence, undermine faith and confidence in the US government, disrupt our relationship with our NATO allies. They're targeting our NATO allies in a similar manner. Again, their goals. Russia's goal is not just to annoy US, it's not to compete with us on an equal footing, but it's to weaken us so that they can achieve their geopolitical objectives. So this debate in Washington that's going on

right now, it's important for people to listen to the debate. You can have different views, but you need to look at the debate that's going on in Washington within the context of the national security threat that Russia poses to the United States. Okay, and we will be watching John Cohen, Thank you, so much for the information. Boy, we got a lot to watch out for with Russia on. Yeah, and I hate to sound depressing on a Friday morning, but you know, we just need to stay on top

of this absolutely. John Cohen, thank you so much for your time this morning. Nice talking to you. All right, take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Gone on, the jam gone again, Well maybe not. At the popular Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palace, Birdies. It's been close for an unknown amount of time because of accelerated land movement in the area. The church says

there's no public access. The one hundred seat glass chapel opened in nineteen fifty one and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in twenty twenty three. Couples with confirmed wedding reservations will be given refunds. News brought to you by Simper Solaris. A man from Santa Ana's been charged with leaving his eighty two year old mother in such horrible hoarder conditions she died of septic shock. This was

in no way an accident. This is a murder. Orange County DA spokeswoman Kimberly Ed says Richard Towers's mother was left with hundreds of roaches scurrying around the feces and urencrusted floors. This woman was found in horder like conditions. She was covered in dried feces and multiple bedstores, including a sore that had left bone exposed on her head. It says Towers refused a welfare check in December,

and his mother died of septic shock last month. She says, despite prosecutor objections, a judge gave the guy just a five thousand dollars bail In Orange County, Corbin Carson CAFI News. The FDA has approved the first ever medication to treat severe frostbite. Officials say aurelium will reduce the risk of amputation by dilating blood vessels so the blood can flow easily. The injection also prevents clotting. Official say in extreme cases of frostbite, tissues can freeze, causing

the blood flow to stop. When we come back, we're getting spaced out with our house whisper dean sharp stick around for that. Southline. Weather from KFI becoming partly Sunday with highs in the mid sixties at the beaches around seventy inland, fifties to low sixties for the high desert. Partly cloudy with highs in the sixties Tomorrow, More cloud Sunday, with a chance of rain by late Sunday than the rain's really expected to come down Monday and Tuesday could be

heavy at times, will dry out on Wednesday. It's fifty six in Irvine, fifty six in Lahabra. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Alexey Navalney, one of the biggest critics of Russian President Ladimir Putin, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti Kremlin protests, has died in prison. He was forty seven. Nine firefighters have been hurt in an explosion of a big rigs fuel tank that sent a fireball into

the air. One was critically injured taken to a burn unit. Another was critically injured. The tractor was fueled by compressed natural gas in two one hundred gallon tanks. One of them exploded about six minutes after firefighters arrived on the scene in Wilmington early yesterday. Tiger Woods is one of eleven golfers tied for forty ninth place, eight strokes off the lead heading into today's second round of the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club. It's Wood's first official PGA Tour

event since having his ankle fused last April. Woods withdrew from the Masters a couple weeks ago. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Another person has managed to get on a plane to Lax without a ticket or id if I poin fifty, We're going to be talking with our entertainment GURUIX Jason Nathanson about a sticky new movie and what high fashion has to do with the Nazis. Let's say good morning now to the house whisper and the host

of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Good morning Dean, Good morning Amy. So we're going to get spaced out a little bit today, a little bit, just a little bit. This weekend on the show, we're continuing our series on how to Build Your Dream Home step by step guide, and we're really going to be focusing on some really high concepts in design. And yet these are the things that I love so much because they have the potential to save so many people so much money. And wait, starting money.

I like that idea exactly exactly, and it's starting off with this idea of the difference between space and spaciousness. Okay, space and spaciousness. Now, space is a mathematical absolute. It is how much room is in your house. Period. You measure the walls, you do the math. You're like, well, I have x amount of square foot, I have fifteen hundred square feet, I've got two thousand square feet, I've got twelve hundred square That's it. That is the math, that is the hard reality.

Spacious Ness has nothing to do with that. Spaciousness has to do with the design, the layout of that space and whether it feels like there is room. Spaciousness is a very emotional kind of psychological concept. And the reason why that is so important is that most people who are feeling like, uh, I just I don't feel like I have enough room around here, they think, all right, I'm going to have to add on. And let me tell you, it's not that that's the wrong move. It's just you got

to know, adding on to your home is expensive. It is expensive. You pour a lot of money literally into the ground, into the foundation and up on the roof where you never these are is that you don't on a daily basis live and breathe and experience all of the investment that you've made.

And so when we go into a design project, when it is a remodel and not a new build, one of the things that I challenge our clients on is, hey, let's do our best to rework and tune up everything that you've already got create as much spacious ness as possible so that and you know this happens maybe eight times out of ten, we don't have to expand the envelope of the house, and the money that you spend all goes towards

that esthetic experience that you're actually looking for in your home. Okay, so Dane, what are a few things that we can do, just real quick, maybe bullet point a couple of things that you can make your home more spacious. Well, one of the things you do is you evaluate the way you move and flow through the space. What's in the way do you find yourself stepping out of the way of things in order to get from point A to point B. If that's the case, we want to try and rectify

that. Another thing that's so critical, and this is mostly important, the smaller a house gets and that is where do we have our vistas, Where do we have our windows, Where do we have our openings to the outside world, Because the more we can see of the outside world, the more spacious the space that we're standing in fields And you know what, you brought up the story of Wayfarer's Chapel. That is one of my favorite structures in

all of southern California. I don't know if you know, but the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It's his son that designed Wayfarer's Chapel, Lloyd Wright, Frank Junior. And it's been there since the nineteen fifties. And it is a relatively small space. Yeah, it's only one hundred seater exactly. It sets one hundred people, which makes it just a little larger than our

performance theater on the fifth floor of the station here. And yet all of that glass, all of the view, all of the trees just outside that basically are visually brought inside. No one ever walks into that space and doesn't feel as if it's spacious. And those are the kinds of tricks that we're talking about. Okay, so here's here's another one. Because I have a

relatively small. Okay, it's really small. I have a very small living space, but it does have it has higher ceilings and it's got windows. And then on the but on the backside, it doesn't have windows because it's on the side of a hill. So I got this big piece of art that looks like it's a wide open space and it makes the space feel bigger. There you go. You also mentioned high ceilings, the higher we can get a ceiling even in a small room. What we're doing is we're creating

volume. We're not increasing square footage, but we're increasing the volume of the room, and the room just feels room me or so. Yeah, there are all of these steps, and there are a one hundred more that we're going to be talking about this weekend of things that we can really analyze. Now, you can't get them all done in every house, but if you know what the list is, you can apply at least a few of them to your space and hopefully not have to expand it out and spend your money

inside the envelope that you're already working in. See, I told you we were going to get spaced out with Dean and you can continue this conversation six to eight Saturday nine to noon Sunday, It's Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI. You're also going to be talking about the International Building Show, our Builders Show in Vegas at the end of the month, and some of the really cool new things that they have available for you do it yourselfers.

Yes, little teases from IBS and yeah, I know those are terrible initials. Yeah. I was like, hey, I don't want to talk about IBS. Yeah, we going to IBS this month. I don't know. Yeh, how's your diet? I'm not sure, but yeah, that's true. Okay, thank you so much, Dean. Have a wonderful day and we'll be looking forward to listening to you Saturday and Sunday morning. Thanks Amy. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty

four hour newsroom. Seven hundred and twenty thousand fentanyl pills have been seized from a car near the border in San Diego County. Attorney General Rob Bonta called the bus last week massive, saying he's grateful for the work of the special agents and law enforcement partners who worked together to get these dangerous drugs off the street. The guy driving the car was arrested. Bonta says the California Department of Justice will prosecute the case. News brought to you by Semper Solaris.

A sixty year old woman has been arrested for a fatal hit and run crash in Canoga Park. Detectives say a silver Toyota Camry and a dark colored Sedan were speeding on Tipega Canyon Boulevard January thirty first, when the cars collided and one of them slammed into a light pole. Investigators are trying to figure out if the crash involved street racing or possibly road rage. And The Pacific Air Show has plans to build a runway on the sand in Huntington Beach to bring

planes even closer to fans. The Pacific Air Show has become the number one air show by attendants in the United States. Pacific Air Show director Kevin Elliott says the beach runway will be a world's first for air shows. While the temporary runway will add a lot of value for ticket holders, it will leave no impact on the beach or the surrounding environment. Elliott landed on the beach

in one of the planes yesterday to preview this year's lineup. We will have fan favorites back the US Air Force Thunderbirds, the F twenty two Raptor Demo Team, the A ten Demo team. The show runs the first weekend of October in Huntington Beach, Corbin Carson, KFI News. 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. A storm headed towards southern California could bring

several rounds of heavy rain, even thunderstorms. Forecasters say the brunt of the storm's gonna hit the area late Sunday through Tuesday, with two to five inches of rain possible in the valleys and coastal areas, four to eight inches in the foothills and mountain areas. Ellie County is being given sixty days to fix or shut down its two largest juvenile halls. The Board of State and Community Correction made the ruling yesterday. They say conditions at the Los Padrino's facility in

Downy and the Nidor facility in Silmar are still not meeting standards. Hundreds of minors are held at those juvenile halls. TSA officials trying to figure out how a woman was able to board a plane in Nashville and get to Los Angeles without an ID or a ticket. Authority say she was spotted going through security, but apparently wasn't asked for an ID or a boarding pass at either security or the American Airlines gate. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the

news this morning, should pedophiles be surgically or chemically castrated? There's a move to make it happen. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment guru, our friend Jason Nathanson. Jason Madam Webb is out. It's the latest superhero movie to get horrible reviews. Uh yeah, and this one getting more bad reviews than any I think I've ever seen in history. Right now, it's thirteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes with the critic reviews fifty four percent from

the audience, which is that's a real terrible score. Because usually even if the critics savage something, there are enough people who go like it and they see it and they enough that they like it. But this is this is pretty bad. And I can tell you that when I saw it, I came out of it going, was that as bad as I thought it was? And then I started to see, you know, there's an embargo on the review, so I didn't see reviews for another week or so, and

the reviews were as bad as I thought it was. So we're all in agreement. This movie is pretty terrible. Okay, but tell us what because I saw a preview for it, and I was like, what is this? Is she Spider Man but Spider Girl? Who what she is? Not? No, so this is a completely different character. This is this is

just a different character. It's in the Spider Man universe. Okay, this is a Sony Marvel Spider So like think Morbius in some of those other spin offs that we've seen that don't have Spider Man in them, and Spider Man is not in this one. But it is very clear that this does take place in the same universe in which Spider Man exists. But does she get bit by a radioactive spider? She does not get bit by a radioactor. I mean, you know, some things, I can't give away everything.

You know, you got to go see it. There's got to be some mystery to it, all, right. But Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb, who is a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future, and she realizes she can use that power to then change the future. She ends up teaming up with three teens, including one played by Sidney Sweeney. And you know, Dakota Johnson is fine here. She's not the issue. Sidney Sweeney is fine, and the acting for the most part, is

fine. There's a villain here, though, perhaps the one of the worst ever put on film, just in terms of his motivations are completely unclear. The dialogue is so bad, there's so much exposition, and then they still don't explain the things that need to be explained properly. The action scenes are pretty terrible, and you know, if you're going for something like this, at least the action should be, you know, on a somewhat decent level.

Are you talking about the Marvels now? Because that's how I felt about the Marvels. No, I like the Marvels. See, I didn't like it at all. I had no problem with the Marvels. The Marvels. The Marvels was fine, and any issues with that I think has to do more with superhero fatigue and the universes and having to know too much about this

series and that series and this movie and combining here. You don't have to know anything going in about any of it because there's no connection here for this movie to any of the other movies that you might have seen or are going to see. And they clearly set this up for hopefully they wanted this to be a franchise. From what we've seen so far of the numbers, this is not going to get a sequel, and nobody should green light this. But the real crazy thing here to me is the fact that this had to

go through so many levels of bureaucracy to get made. This is a major studio film from Sony, so that means exactly katives were involved in the scripts, in the dailies. So many people had eyes on this before it got to the screen, and so for something to get to the screen, which is this kind of poorly made is pretty shocking in this day and age. Yeah, I feel that way about several things. You think about, like you just said, all the eyes that have to go, all the gates

that it has to you know that it has to go through. That is somebody at some point has to go. We need to either change this or not do it, you know, because there's so many talented people out there, right And you know, I've felt this way now about a couple movies the past couple of weeks. Argyle was one of them, Lisa Frankenstein last week, which I give a little bit of a more grace to, even though it ultimately didn't work for me. You had people trying things out for

the first time, and sometimes that just doesn't work. This is a studio superhero movie. They should know the formula by now, and unfortunately they it just does not work. Okay, let's shift over to streaming. I just recently started watching Life and Death, which is the show about Amy Schumer on Hulu, and great news for me because I just found out season two is dropping. Yes, Season two is all out today. So if you like that, you can go you can go watch that. I mean, there's

not a whole lot to say about it. You know, it's not I don't know that it's a show that needs a whole lot of explanation. It's loosely based on her life. It's comedy, it's drama, it's kind of all the things. It's kind of a slow moving just kind of hang out and watch it. But it's really interesting. And do you think I think Amy Schumer does a really good job not being funny. Yeah, she does.

And she does a very good job of being self effacing and really putting a lot of her life out there and not shying away from the messy parts, which continues in season two. Okay, and then shoot, we're running out of time. I hate when this happens. Jason. The new look on Apple TV Plus, is it worth a look? Yeah? I love

the new Look on Apple TV Plus. This is a great series. This is It's a World War two story told, but a story that you don't know a lot of the times we know the beats of these these shows. This is the story of Christian Dior, the fashion designer, and Coco Chanel during World War Two in Paris, during Nazi occupied Paris. The true story, Yes, okay, what they had to go through, the allegiances that

they had to, the sides they had to pick it. You know, we've seen so many World War two things to get something new is pretty rare, and this is so well done and the cast is fantastic. Ben Mendelton, Juliette Binoche, Mayzie Williams, John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, Glenn Close in a guest role. You know, I thought, like fashion and World War two? Is that going to work? And it does beautifully? And is z Apple doing what they normally do? Dropping two and then you have

to wait? Wee can three loads out now and then one new one weekly? I know what I'm doing this weekend. Thank you, Jason Nathanson, have a wonderful weekend. You two take it all right before we get out of here and wrap up wake up call for this week. First, thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. Second, for the faithful, there's a fishy option. So it's Lent, so no me, right or is it just on Fridays. I'm not sure because I'm not

Catholic, I'm a Lutheran. But the filet of fish is back at McDonald's. So from now today until the end of March, southern California, McDonald's restaurants are offering two ninety nine filet of fish sandwiches every Friday in the spirit of Lent and the Year of the Dragon. The Lunar New Year Celebration is happening this weekend in San Bernardino and it's happening Saturday from eleven to five the Court Street Square Park and you can expect cultural music performances, food vendors,

art galleries, and much much more. There's other You're the Dragon Lunar New Year celebrations. There's one in Alhambra on Sunday. Also check one out at the Santa Monica Place. So if you want to do Lunar New Year, we got lots for you. 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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