June 19, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers opens the show talking about tensions rising with Iran. ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett speaks on the Karen Read murder trial and how evidence interpretation ca sway a jury. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC national news correspondent Jim Ryan about a convict using LAX prison rules and DIY uniform to effect escape.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up
call for Thursday, June nineteenth. I'm Amy King live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's juneteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hopefully that means will we're gonna have light traffic today
because that's stuff clothes.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
It's looking that way.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Good, yeah, good, nice, easy. Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
There's actually lots of cool June teen celebrations going on
around the south Land. And I ask producer, and you
really understand what June teenth that's all about?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And she was like that not super clear. So we're
going to dig into that a little bit at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's fascinating, fascinating and tragic at the same time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, yes, you're looking at me like I'm not awaken.
I'm sorry. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The Bus family has reportedly agreed to sell its majority
ownership of the Lakers to Dodgers Call owner Mark Walter
for ten billion dollars. ESPN says Genie Buss is going
to remain team governor to the NBA, so she'll still
have a place on the team.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
If it does go through.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The deal will be the highest priced sale of a
pro pro sport franchise in the world. The Dodgers are
going to announce plans to assist LA's immigrant communities. The
team's been taking some heat on social media for not
taking a stance on the ongoing immigration enforcement around LA.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says Iran will pay a
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heavy price after a missile hit a hospital in southern Israel.
Dozens of people, including children, were injured. Israel and Iran
have been hitting each other with missiles for nearly a week.
Hundreds have been killed in Iran, dozens have been killed
in Israel. Is the US going to get involved in
the conflict. Well, we'll get the latest from ABC's Karen
Travers at the White House that's coming up in about
three minutes. The jury has come back with a not
(02:20):
guilty verdict for Karen Reid. She was accused of running
over her police officer boyfriend and then leaving him to
die in the Snow. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad
Garrett is going to join us at five twenty to
tell us how lawyers convinced the jury that she didn't
kill him, and ABC's Jim Ryan joins us right before
the top of the hour a five point fifty about
how that former police chief in Arkansas got out and
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stayed out of prison for so long before he was recaptured.
A man on the lamb, those escape stories are always
so fascinating to me. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A controlling stake of the LA Lakers is being sold
for a record setting ten billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
The Bus family is handing over majority ownerships to billionaire
Mark Walter, already a key figure in LA Sports as
co owner of the Dodgers. Genie Buss will stay on
as team governor, preserving a link to her family's legacy.
Matt money Smith, from kfi's sister station AM five to
seventy LA Sports, says Walter's deep pockets will only help
the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
And Mark Walter. You're talking about the Guggenheim Group and
tens of billions of dollars worth of just straight cash
that they can pump into the team Money.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Says, that's good news for fans.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Yeah, I think you'll see that the fan base of
each recognized, Oh wow, this is going to kind of
put us more on the same level as opposed to
the Lakers being a step behind the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The Blockbuster deal marks the biggest sale in US sports history.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Heather Brooker KFI News, that's a lot of dope. Lakers legend.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Magic Johnson has praised the news of the Lakers sale,
calling Mark Walter the perfect choice to carry on the
bus legacy. Johnson cited his shared success with Walter and
the Dodgers, saying that Genie Buss made the right call
and can now comfortably pass the baton to a trusted
friend and business partner. LA City Hall has agreed to
lend millions to the LAPD to cover recent overtime costs.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Emergency Move takes five million dollars out of the city's
reserves and offers it to the police as a loan.
Kelslman John Lee says the recent demonstrations against immigration enforcement
have stretched the LAPD's resources, forcing many to work overtime.
This is going to allow us to pay for the
overtime that was again unexpected by LPD, but unfortunately it
had to be spent. The city administrator has been tasked
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with the payback plan to get that money back in
the reserves. It's estimated the protest have so far cost
the city in total close to twenty million dollars. Michael
Monks KFI News, the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Los Angeles Press Club, and two news organizations have sued
La County, claiming the County Sheriff's Department targeted members of
the media with non lethal but dangerous munitions and used
excessive force against its members covering the anti ICE protests.
A similar suit was filed earlier in the week against LAPD.
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Hell By, the woman who sang the national anthem in
Spanish at a Dodgers game over the weekend, has been
honored at La City Hall. Nesa says the team asked
her not to sing the Spanish version. La City Councilwoman
Monica Rodriguez has Nessa took a courageous stand for Latinos
in the wake of widespread immigration enforcement.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
We are the majority of faces in the city of
Los Angeles. We are what keeps this economy moving across
this country.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We are what makes Los Angeles strong.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Nesa said she was banned from Dodgers Stadium after the performance.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The Dodgers have disputed that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at
the White House. Good morning, Karen, So, Israel is continuing
to pound Iran. Iran is firing back missiles at Israel.
They just hit a hospital in southern Israel. President Trump
has met with his national security team. So where does
the US stand on possibly getting involved?
Speaker 10 (06:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (06:01):
The President said yesterday that he said I haven't made
the final and I'd like to make.
Speaker 12 (06:06):
The final decision one second before it's due, because he
said things change, especially with war. Sources tell us that
the President has approved attack plans for Iran, but he
has not decided yet whether to move forward with them.
He is said to be waiting to see if Iran
would be willing to discuss ending its nuclear program.
Speaker 11 (06:27):
That's according to sources familiar with the matter.
Speaker 12 (06:30):
Yesterday, when he was asked about the possibility of taking
military action against Iran, the President said, I may do it,
I may not do it.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
Nobody knows what I'm going to do, but he said
I can tell you this. Iran's got a lot of trouble.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
The President's been under a lot of pressure from Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu to get more involved in this
military effort. The United States is the only country that
has that thirty thousand pound bunker buster bomb that has
the capability of getting deep into Iran's underground new enrichment facility.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
It's inside a.
Speaker 12 (07:02):
Mountain, it's protected by thick concrete, and that's what the
President said to be considering as an.
Speaker 11 (07:06):
Option to take that out to really hamper to their.
Speaker 12 (07:12):
Possibility of building and sustaining a nuclear program.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So when when they talk about the US getting involved in,
President which is sort of the hallmark of his presidency,
I might, I might not, And nobody's going to know
until I make the decision. Could it be, or do
you hear any rumblings that it? Could it be that
it's just like a one time thing. We're sending in
the bomber with the with the bunker buster and it's
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a one time thing and then we're out again.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Could be?
Speaker 12 (07:43):
I mean, that depends I think on what Iran does.
They certainly promised retaliation, saying you know that the Americans
should know that Iran will not surrender and any intervention
by the US would be met with a forceful response
and irreparable damage. That was a message from the supremem leader.
So you know, that is the next potential stage. Then
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if the Iranians target US personnel in the region, US assets,
whether it's bases or embassies, things like that, then what
happens next? And is the United States drawn into this?
Speaker 11 (08:16):
That is a big question.
Speaker 12 (08:17):
It's a big unknown, and it's certainly something that many
within the president's own party are very concerned about right now.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, and so there are because we may forget that
we've got is it thousands of troops over very close
to where all.
Speaker 11 (08:32):
Of this is, forty thousand in the region.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, so Iran wouldn't have to come here. They could
attack troops there. And what about like diplomats, people at
embassies and that kind of thing that there would they
become targets as well?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Possibly they could be.
Speaker 12 (08:49):
I mean that's not for me to either say, but
some American diplomats and family members who are authorized to
leave in Israel are now being thrown out of the
country by the US military as part of the concern
of what could potentially happen.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, and then I know you've got about ten seconds.
What's the vibe on Capitol Hill? Is it support for
intervention or kind of a hands off attitude?
Speaker 12 (09:12):
You know, I think that there are some within the
President's party who are concerned. This is a president who
ran against new wars, against foreign engagement. There are Democrats
who are concerned about this too. I think the interesting
thing to see too is that beyond Capitol Hill and lawmakers,
but just a divide within, like the MAGA Coalition, some
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very vocal against this.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
The President seemed to brush this off yesterday, saying, you
know that this isn't his choice to do this either,
but if it's a choice between fighting and Iran having
a nuclear weapon, he said, you have to do what
you have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay. ABC's Karen Travis at the White House. Thanks so much.
Have a great day, you two thinks.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Just
getting word into the KFI newsroom that Hurricane Eric has
made landfall in western Wahaka, Mexico. It's now turned up
to a Category four storm and just to like an
hour or two ago, it was a category three. It's
packing one hundred and forty miles per hour wins. Israeli
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Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has condemned the Iranian strike on
the main hospital in southern Israel. He says Israel will
exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran. The
hospital said the strike caused extensive damage. The IDFs Brigadier
General Fi Defrin says dozens of people were hurt.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
This hospital serves over one million Israelis, including Bedwins, Jews, Christians,
and Arabs alike.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The hospital was closed after the strike except for life
threatening cases. Iran's Foreign minister is said to meet with
his European counterparts in Geneva as Israeli airstrikes continue to
target Iran. The country's state run news agency says that
the foreign minister will travel to Switzerland for meetings tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
US Capitol police say.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Pizzas are being sent anonymously to lawmakers across the country.
ABC's Stephen Portnoys's authorities are trying to figure out who's
sending them.
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Pizzas have been anonymously sent to the homes of lawmakers
both Republicans and Democrats in the House, as well as
the current and former leadership of the US Capitol Police.
In the wake of the Minnesota state lawmaker shootings, the
pizza deliveries are now being viewed as a more alarming
tacit threat that the anonymous center knows where an official lives.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Capitol Police call the unsolicited pizza deliveries troubling.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, that would be pretty freaky, very strange. Although if
you're hungry, I would eat them. I'm just saying you
to eat a pizza from an anonymous person.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Heck, yeah, okay, Well we have to have a talk
off the air, okay. The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's
ban on gender affirming care for transgender children. ABC's Devin
Dwyer says Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative
majority that the law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments
for transmners does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
Speaker 14 (11:59):
Just as Sonya sotam I origined by the Liberals, really
dissented in sadness.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was her word.
Speaker 14 (12:04):
She read her descent aloud from the bench, which is
something that rarely happens. At the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
She said the decision will open the door to more
state discrimination against trans teens. An ACLU lawyer called the
decision a devastating loss for transgender people. The Federal Reserve
has left interest rates right where they are. This was
the fourth straight time interest rates have been left alone.
Rates are hovering between four and a quarter and four
(12:30):
and a half percent. President Trump has been pressuring FED
chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. He called Powell's rate
decision not to cut them stupid. New guidelines for alcohol
consumption could be a big change.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The US reportedly is about to change guidance on that
Reuters reporting the updated dietary guidelines for Americans will no
longer recommend limiting alcohol to one or two drinks a day. Instead,
it will suggest we simply drink in moderation.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
ABC's Wing Habit says Canada has adopted a more cautious stance,
warning that health risks begin to increase after just two
drinks per week. Tomorrow will be the longest day of
the year.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The summer solstice falls on June twentieth in the US
and on the twenty first in Europe. On that day,
the earth will achieve its maximum tilt toward the sun,
allowing for more hours of sunlight in the northern Hemisphere
and kicking off the summer months. The closer you get
to the north Pole, the more extra sunlight you'll enjoy.
Residents in Fairbanks, Alaska, for instance, will see nearly twenty
two hours of daylight, and the southern hemisphere, meanwhile, Friday
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will mark the winter solstice, making it the shortest day
of the year. Mark ronnor KFI News.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
My brother and his girlfriend went up to Norway was
for the winter solstice, and they said it was the
most bizarre thing because I think they went north of
Norway and they said the sun never quite came up.
It got light, but it was always sort of that
twilight and they never actually saw the sun.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Even Alaska, it's fascinating in deep summer or the deep winter.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Just bizarre. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, and some sunshine all the time. I mean, I
like me, I like some sunshine, but twenty two hours
a day, that's too much. The latest ice raids in
the Southland have targeted the Pasadena area. Congresswoman Judy Chu
says multiple operations were carried out in her district and
some residents may be being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
(14:22):
Witnesses say they saw about a half dozen people being
taken into custody at a bus stop near an elementary school.
City officials say Pasadena police are not involved and do
not enforce federal immigration laws. Wildfire season could be a
tough one this year. Forecasters say high temperatures are expected,
the snowpack is melting quickly, and the landscape is drying out,
(14:42):
which increases the risk of fires. Forecasters say even small
fires could grow quickly. Fires are a threat pretty much
year round now in California, but peak fire season is
still June to October. Banks are closed, there's no mail,
the stock market is dark, and federal offices are closed.
For June teenth, national holiday marks the day June nineteenth,
eighteen sixty five that word finally reached to Texas that
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the slaves had been freed. Word got to Texas more
than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Events
marking the holiday will be held in Alta, Dina, Palmdale, Pacoima,
and Manhattan Beach six oh five. It's handle on the news.
You can bet he'll be weighing in on what's happening
in Israel and Iran. Apparently the President has approved an
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attack plan but hasn't said whether we're going to do
it or not. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So, Brad, we just got.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Word yesterday that Karen Reid was found not guilty of
driving her car over her boyfriend and basically leaving her
for dead. In the first trial, it was a hung jury.
What was the difference in this trial?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I think the real key in me here is the
term beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury is told
that of times of if you have doubt, if you
have reasonable doubt, then you have to quote the person.
And I think in this case, and there's a lot
of facts and pieces of information that we don't have
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time to go through, but I'm going to jump through
some of them for you as to why the jury
had some reasonable doubt. You go from how the crime
scene where o'keith that's the Boston p D police officer,
boyfriend of Karen Reid, where he was found. Apparently they
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used Dixie cups to collect snow that had blooded them,
that didn't store it properly. The uh, this is a
party that I think presumably is just made up of
cops primarily that they send all sorts between each other
inappropriate text messages about Karen Reid. Two of the officers well,
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I think was an ATF agent. They got their phones
to pen and they got rid of their phones. Now
and it goes on and on, these little things that
make the caves tarnished. And there were enough of them
in this case, including a Flarensi expert who contended that
Karen Reid's car did not the injuries to O'Keefe, the
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victim in this case, are not consistent with the car
being driven over him and to give him severe head injuries. Now,
obviously the prosecution had somebody that said the opposite of that.
But the point being, all of these things were a
build up to the jury. That keep in mind, maybe
in the first trial that was a hung jury, the
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jury said that they had already excluded murder in the
case and they were only hung up on manslaughter and
that's why they hung. So this is another great example
of did she do it? I think it's quite possible
she did do it, but it doesn't matter right because
the jury founder not guilty. She's acquitted, she's und free,
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and that's why we have the system we have. You know,
if the system doesn't do what it's supposed to do,
things like this, unfortunately can happen.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So the jury might think, yeah, we think she did it,
but there were not one hundred percent sure, and so
then they can't come back with the guilty verdict.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Is just all right, I mean if the key is
beyond a reasonable doubt, I mean there is some there
is some reasonable doubt here between what forensic guests vers
are saying through. You know, what they found apparently on
the bumper of Karen's car was hair of who keeps
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the boyfriend? Now I think they lived together. He probably
drove that car, so I have to know more context
about where it was found out it was found, what
part of his body, the hair probably came from all
those things that we don't know at this point. But
it's you know, and that's what you have the system.
I mean, you don't want people convicted of if there's
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a possibility they didn't do it. But you know, in
this case, I you know, I don't know. I mean,
if it had all been done properly and you didn't
have all the shenanigans by the police. You know, she
may well have been found guilty.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So interesting, so interesting, and like stuff like picking up
the blood in the snow with a dixie cup. I mean,
did they come back and say, why didn't we wait
for the forensics people to get there? Were they worried
that this that the snow was going to melt and
they wouldn't have the evidence?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I mean what, I.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Don't clearly the snow wasn't going to melt. I mean
you're talking boss in the middle. Yeah, the idea that
that's going to melt any time since. So, I don't know.
I'd love to know the backstory. And my guess is
one of these cool investigative reporters that have followed this case,
we'll write a book about this and then we'll know more.
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But it's it is a fascinating case, and it's, let's
face it, this is not the kind of murder case
that typically you and I would talk about. But because
it has so many twists and turns, and because of
a snake a little little national and I think international
interest in the case, here we are talking about it.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, and just real quick, you mentioned the texts that
were not favorable toward Karen Reid. So do the the
other officers just didn't like their didn't like her, didn't
like their relationship, or were some of those.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Yeah, I mean, I think they believe that she clearly
did drive over him. You know. Another discrepancy is that, yes,
she had a broken tail light, she did go back.
What happened is when he didn't come home. Obviously he's
not coming home, but he didn't come home. She starts
frantically texting him, calling girlfriends, and they go back at
like five thirty six in the morning to the house
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and they start searching the grounds and they Karen actually
finds them, you know, which some people thought was interesting
how she know where to look because he was covered
with snow. But you know, be that what it made.
There's a real debate about her tail light that when
her car was finally seized, and it wasn't seized by
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the police for a period of time days maybe weeks,
certainly days that the officer deceives that says her tail
light actually was cracked but not broken. So you get
into then why are there pieces of a tail light
at the scene, So again, more reasonable doubt stuff, I suppose, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay, So is she done I mean, or can can
they retry her on anything or else?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:37):
So she's und free, she's down free. I mean once
you're once you're found that guilty, you it's all about
double jeopardy, right, you can't be retried for something despite
the fact that you know people may well believe that
she did it. It doesn't matter legally. Now she does
face just like an O. J. Simpson faced a civil
trial a wrongful death. A civil trial though not may
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come up with diver verdict. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We'll be watching that. ABC's crime ter analyst Brad Garrett,
thanks so much as.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Always, welcome to take care of him.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
All right, I talked to you soon.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
A twelve year old boy has been killed when the
car he was riding in crashed into a parked box
truck in Sherman Oaks. The crash happened yesterday morning on
North Woodman Avenue near moor Park Avenue. Three others were
taken to hospitals. Leaders in Pico Rivera have condemned immigration
raids at stores like Food for Less and Lows. The
number of people detained is not known. Protests have followed,
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stretching from city Hall to Washington Boulevard. The mayor of
Santa Anna is facing calls for her to step down.
People who live in the city say they want the
mayor to stand up for the immigrants who live there.
Speaker 15 (22:41):
Instead of notifying your city of ice presence, you chose
to remain silent, and you scolded your reps that told
you to apply pressure. Instead of showing support to peaceful protesters,
you chose to paint them as rioters.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Mayor Valerie Amescua recently condemned the violence that happened during
the protests against ice raids. Hundreds of people showed up
to city Hall at a meeting this week, and when
Mayor Mmesco walked in, the crowd greeted her with booze.
A military contractor in San Diego has pleaded guilty to
hiring illegal immigrants. John Washburn admitted to employing at least
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ten of them at San Diego Powder and protective coatings.
Prosecutors say some of them lived in a warehouse that
stores Navy submarine parts. The illegal workers apparently were kept
away from military bases to avoid screening. Amazon is trying
to challenge way Mo.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Amazon is gearing up to make ten thousand robotaxis annually
at a plant near Silicon Valley. Amazon started looking at
the robo taxi market five years ago when it shelled
out one point two billion dollars for a self driving
startup called Zeus. This is the brand behind a ride
hailing service the plans to charge for rides in Las
Vegas late this year. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also
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vying to join the autonomous race.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Deporah mark kof I News.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm still way too nervous to get into a rivorless
carbon Maybe that's just me. SpaceX rocket being tested in
Texas has exploded at the launch site.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
In preparation for its tenth spaceflight. Starship was sitting on
a test stand at the SpaceX facility on the South
Texas coast. Just after eleven PM, a small plume of
smoke spat from an upper section of the rocket.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
ABC's Jim Ryan says moments later it exploded. SpaceX put
out a statement saying all personnel are safe and accounted
for and that there are no hazards to nearby communities.
The Bus family has agreed to sell its majority stake
in the Lakers to Mark Walter and TWG Global for
a record ten billion dollars. Walter holds stakes in several
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sports organizations, including the Dodgers, the La Sparks, the Billy
Jean King Cup, Cadillac Formula One team, and the Professional
Women's Hockey League. Hurricane Eric has made landfall in Mexico's
western state of Wahaka. The Nation Hurricane Center in Miami
says maximum sustained winds or clocked at one hundred and
twenty five miles per hour, with gusts higher than that.
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The storm was downgraded just a little bit before it
made land call for a landfall, from a Category four
to a Category three. Long Beach has become the latest
city in SoCal to approve drinking on the street. The
Long Beach City Council is okay the establishment of entertainment
zones along Ocean Boulevard and around the Long Beach Arena, Terrace,
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Theater and Pacific Ballroom. It's expected to be open this summer.
Santa Monica just opened it's entertainment zone along the Third
Street Promenade last week at six oh five. It is
handle on the news, and of course we're going to
be talking more about the sale of the Lakers to
the co owner of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I mean, if you can have one sports team, why
not have ten?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, today is June teenth For most of us, it's
just you know, it's not just federal holiday, so offices
are closed, federal offices are closed, no mail, that kind
of thing. But it's obviously a much bigger holiday than that,
and it's going to be marked around the Southland this
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They're starting out in Pacoima with Ople's Walk for Freedom
and it starts at six o'clock, so if you're not there,
it's a little too late. But I was fascinated by
it because I'm like, who is Opel and why what's
her walk for freedom? So the walk actually start, that's
the walk will start at seven am. Da da da
d oh. Registration is at six. If you want to
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run down there, you've got time, okay.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So Ople is Opel Lee. She is now ninety eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
She campaigned for decades to get June teenth made into
a federal holiday, and of course that came to fruition
on June seventeenth, twenty twenty one, when President Biden signed
the juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Lee was there for the signing. Ceremony.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Can't imagine that must have been so such a huge
thing because he'd been campaigning for it for so long.
She's known as the Grandmother of June teenth for the
walking campaign she started when she was eighty nine years
old to get the day declared a national holiday.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And she walks two and a half miles.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And so I'm guessing that Ople's Walk for Freedom this
morning is going to be two and a half miles.
It honors the two and a half years it took
to inform the enslaved people in Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Of course, that was issued by President Lincoln on September
twenty second, eighteen sixty two. He declared all slaves were
free as of January first, eighteen sixty three. Okay, So
(27:37):
June teenth marks the anniversary of when Union Army General
Gordon Granger rode into town and read General Order number
three in Galveston, Texas. It happened on June nineteenth, eighteen
sixty five, and it began with the people of Texas
are informed that, in accordance with the proclamation from the
Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So it was like two.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And a half years before they got word that they
were free.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
There was probably a lot all of stubbornness and resistance
and back in that day that took the caused it
to take that long to get there, because yeah, I
mean things did go faster than that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, it didn't take two and a half years. Yeah,
it would be interesting to dive into why it took
so long. Did they prevent them, did they forget that
there were still slaves in Galveston? I mean, who knows?
But anyway, so that's why they're doing Opal's Walk for Freedom.
And then Alta Dina Historical Society is marking Juneteenth with
the luncheon Faces of Resilience, the African American cultural legacy
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before and after the Eaton Canyon fire still affecting people
so much. The luncheon is noon to one thirty at
Loma Alta Park and you can still buy tickets either
in advance or at the door. A Juneteene celebration, including
live music, a classic car show, food vendors, and other
fly friendly activities is being held.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
At Pons Lawn Square.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I'm not sure how to say that in Palmdale from
eleven to three. Also, there's a ceremony for June teenth
in Manhattan Beach at Bruce's Beach from ten to eleven.
Of course, that's the one that was recently given back
to the family that it was taken from. And then
also in honor of Juneteenth. Admission to the Natural History
(29:27):
Museum of La County and La the Librea tar Pits
from three to five this afternoon is complimentary.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Have you been to the tar Pits lately? I don't.
I think it's a weird correlation with Juneteenth, but they're
really cool. Also, the ferris wheel at Pacific Park.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
On the Santa Monica Pier will be illuminated in red, white,
and blue patterns representing the Juneteenth flag, along with green,
red and gold animations inspired by the Pan African flag.
So celebrate Juneteenth. I just think it's so two and.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
A half years and a half years no Internet.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The State
Department says foreign citizens who apply for student visas will
have their social media accounts screened. Department officials said Wednesday
that new student visa applicants will be asked to make
their social media accounts public so they can be reviewed,
and that officers at US consulates will be looking for
(30:23):
any indication of hostility towards the citizens, culture, government institutions,
or founding principles of the United States and Iranian missile
has hit the main hospital in southern Israel. Officials at
the hospital said it did extensive damage, but there were
no serious injuries. At least forty people were hurt. At
the same time, Israel has carried out strikes on Iran's
(30:45):
Aaric heavy water reactor in its latest attack on Iran's
sprawling nuclear program. Iranian State TV said the facility had
been evacuated before the attack. Iran's Supreme leader is not
backing down despite talk of US involvement in the Iran
Israel conflict well.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The Ayatola, saying surrender to what the Iranian nation cannot
be surrendered. We will not accept any kind of submission.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
He warned. The US would suffer irreparable consequences if it
intervenes militarily.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
ABC's Jarine Shaw says non essential US diplomatic staff and
their families have been evacuated in Israel. Downey is offering
online ice rate information for residents and businesses. The site
has comprehensive information about recent immigration enforcement activity and explains
what the city can and can't do. The mayor and
council members say they want residents to be aware of
(31:40):
their rights. They're also looking into offering webinars and workshops
to businesses that are affected by the raids. The website
is downyca dot org Slash your Rights. An assembly member
from the Farms of California says he supports immigration, but
people do want law and order.
Speaker 17 (31:56):
We can't incentivize criminal activity by allowing people or even
allowing farmers or different individuals to take advantage of those
that have committed a crime coming into this country.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Fresno assembly Member David Tangapa says guest worker programs or
farm worker programs don't work unless there is some sort
of blanket amnesty. Says people need to become citizens to
stay here. He recently sponsored his mother becoming a legal
citizen and says people need to follow the rules and
have trust in the system. A brushfire near Paris in
(32:29):
Riverside County has been stopped at about fifty acres. All
evacuation orders have been lifted. The fire was reported late
yesterday afternoon in Mead Valley. Firefighters from multiple agencies were
sent to put it out. The response included four CalFire
air tankers and two water dropping helicopters. Jaws turns fifty
(32:54):
this weekend. The Killer Shark movie instill the sense of
fear and people for years, but biologist Great Schoemal says
people have softened on sharks over the decades.
Speaker 18 (33:03):
Don't be afraid of them, you know, understand them. Maybe
you'll even see one, which is kind of cool. You know,
they're fascinating animals and they're very, very important to a
healthy ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I would only like to see one at the Aquarium
of the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Even fed the sharks.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No no, No, no, no No. Jaws was released in
nineteen seventy five. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it won three,
including one for that suspenseful score.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The city of Santa Ana's dropped a proposal that would
have required police to post warnings of ice sweeps. The
idea was scrapped after city leaders got a letter from
US Attorney Bill Asale that such a policy would endanger officers,
disrupt criminal investigations, and could expose city leaders and staff
to possible federal charges and prosecution. Israeli strikes on Iran
(33:56):
have killed at least six hundred and thirty nine people.
Human rights groups more than thirteen hundred others have been
injured since the bombing started a week ago. Most of
Iran's missiles launched on Israel have been intercepted by Israel's
Iron Dome, but some did get through, including a missile
that landed on a hospital in southern Israel overnight. Someone
(34:16):
just missed out on one and a half million dollars.
The California Lottery says a winning powerball ticket from December
was never claimed. Winners have six months to claim a prize,
and Monday was the deadline. The money will now go
into funds that will support local public schools. The lottery
says over a billion dollars in latt of winnings have
gone unclaimed a billion dollars. The largest was a sixty
(34:37):
two million dollars Super Lotto Plus jackpot back in twenty fifteen.
We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Israel says it will intensify its attacks against Iran after
a missile hit a hospital that we just told you
about in Southern Iran. Bill's going to be talking about
that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, so, Jim, we have to go back a couple
of weeks. The guy who escaped.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
From a prison in Arkansas and was on the loose
for a couple of weeks is now back in custody.
But so we want to talk a little bit about
how he got out and then how he was able
to escape and how he was able to get away
from law enforcement for so long.
Speaker 16 (35:19):
I wish the Coen Brothers would get a hold of
this story and do something with it, because it is
like a movie script.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There's so many escapes, and that other one from Louisiana
in New Orleans where ten people got out, I'm like,
that's got to be a movie at some point.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 16 (35:32):
This one is really something though, and very cinematic. The guy, Okay,
Grant Harden is the guy. He's fifty six years old.
He used to be a police chief in a small
town in Arkansas. He's had police jobs over the years
and trusted law enforce her until twenty seventeen, when he
got fired from a city police force. Took it out
on an employee by shooting and killing the guy. He's
(35:54):
taken it to custody. They run a DNA check and
find a perfect match his DNA to a rape that
happened twenty years earlier. He was convicted of the rape,
convicted of the murder, sent to prison for eighty years.
Was doing time at the Calico Rock Medium Security prison
in Arkansas and biding his time and watching and looking
and building trust among the jail staff, the prison staff there.
(36:17):
Eventually got a job in the prison kitchen, and that
really was the key to his ability to escape amy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Okay, so how well, okay.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
So he takes an old prison a prison jumpsuit. They're white, right,
unless you're high risk than when they're in, which case
they're orange. But his was white, and so he in
the kitchen. Of course, what do they have there. They've
got tea and coffee, spices and things that can be
used to dye clothing, right, you soak something white in
(36:49):
coffee and tea or potentially or he also had access
to felt depens because they used them to mark mark,
you know, the containers for food. And he may have
just sat there over the months and years really and
colored the white jumpsuit to look black anyway, he made
it look enough like a jail or a prison guard's
(37:10):
uniform that on May twenty fifth, he put the thing on.
He had sort of a makeshift vest and a ball cap,
and in surveillance video you can see him pushing a cart.
He pushes it very casually over toward an access point
and he's buzzed on through and walks away. That was
it so just And of course he was captured what
(37:31):
twelve days later, He was only a mile and a
half away, So you apparently had no help. There's no
indication he had help from inside or from outside.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So this so reminds me too of like Shawshank Redemption,
because there was a line in it where they say
that it takes pressure and time, and he had the time,
Like you said, he could have been doing this for
months and months and months.
Speaker 16 (37:54):
Right well, and building up that trust. You know, only
trustees are allowed to work in the prison kitchen, and
he apparently was trusted enough. This was a medium security prison,
and I suspect that prison operators around the country are
reading this case very carefully to see what should we
be doing to prevent this kind of thing. Where we are.
He now, by the way, has added charges on his
(38:15):
rap sheet, and he's been moved to the maximum security
prison in Arkansas, from which no one has ever escaped.
He's locked in his cell twenty three hours a day
with only this small slit in the door to look through. Ye,
his little twelve days of freedom are costing him quite dearly.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, and I would imagine he'll be wearing orange, no
longer white?
Speaker 16 (38:36):
Probably So. Did I even name the gads as Grant
Harden is his name? Did I say that? I might
not have named him the whole time.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
But I think we all know what you're talking about
because it captured our interest in our imagination. And I
think you're right it should be a movie because it's
just it's so fascinating Coen Brothers.
Speaker 16 (38:53):
If you're listening, by the rights exactly.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information. That's
really really interesting.
Speaker 16 (39:00):
See avey.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
The longtime owners of the La Lakers are selling their
majority stake in the team. Klac's Matt money Smith says
it was probably an easy decision for the bus family.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
They know. They probably just looked at the number and said,
we can still be involved, but we're no longer calling
the shots, but they'll still be part of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
The buses are selling to Dodgers call owner Mark Walter.
The sale still needs final approval from the NBA. Jerry
Buss purchased the La Lakers, along with the La Kings
and the Forum for sixty seven and a half million
dollars in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
This ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The La City Council's approved a five million dollar loan
to the LAPD to cover overtime. Officers have been kept
on for extra hours in recent weeks as demonstrations against
federal immigration enforcement have spread around the city. The council's
decision takes the money from the city's reserves and asks
the city administrator to come up with a plan for
the police department to pay it back. It's estimated the
(39:59):
total cost to the city in the wake of the
protest has been about twenty million dollars, which includes damage
to city property and clean up efforts. More employees are
sending workers shopping for their own health insurance.
Speaker 9 (40:13):
Companies are giving employees money to buy their own coverage
in what's known as individual coverage reimbursement arrangements instead of
offering a plan through work. Advocates say this approach provides
small companies that could not afford insurance a chance to
offer something that also caps a growing expense for employers
and fits conservative goals of giving people more purchasing power
(40:34):
over their coverage. But this approach places the risk for
finding the right coverage on the employee depor Mark Koffi news.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, the Dodgers are dominating the Padres and just left
the room, winning their third straight against San Diego last
night thanks to Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Allowed and long strike for Suarez. Now the O two pitch,
Smith pushes a fly ball.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Right center field.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Tatis on their own at the warning track at.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
The law it's gone, it's gone, and this game is over.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
Over.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Just got be all the reach of.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
For no no tatist Junior.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Will Smith comes.
Speaker 12 (41:17):
Home and now we go home.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
They celebrate in front of the play.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
Oh walk up home wrong for Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
The Dodgers win in the ninth, four to three.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And I love La playing in the background. That's my
favorite favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Well, Tonight, in celebration of June teenth, It's Black Heritage
Night and the Dodgers take on the Padres one more
time at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
First pitch goes out at seven.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
You can listen to all Dodger games all season long
on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from the
Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream all Dodgers games in
HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles or County.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
This has been your wake up call, and don't forget
if you missed any of wake Up Call. You can
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with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up
call for Thursday, June nineteenth. I'm Amy King live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's juneteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hopefully that means will we're gonna have light traffic today
because that's stuff clothes.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
It's looking that way.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Good, yeah, good, nice, easy. Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
There's actually lots of cool June teen celebrations going on
around the south Land. And I ask producer, and you
really understand what June teenth that's all about?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And she was like that not super clear. So we're
going to dig into that a little bit at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's fascinating, fascinating and tragic at the same time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, yes, you're looking at me like I'm not awaken.
I'm sorry. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The Bus family has reportedly agreed to sell its majority
ownership of the Lakers to Dodgers Call owner Mark Walter
for ten billion dollars. ESPN says Genie Buss is going
to remain team governor to the NBA, so she'll still
have a place on the team.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
If it does go through.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The deal will be the highest priced sale of a
pro pro sport franchise in the world. The Dodgers are
going to announce plans to assist LA's immigrant communities. The
team's been taking some heat on social media for not
taking a stance on the ongoing immigration enforcement around LA.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says Iran will pay a
(01:57):
heavy price after a missile hit a hospital in southern Israel.
Dozens of people, including children, were injured. Israel and Iran
have been hitting each other with missiles for nearly a week.
Hundreds have been killed in Iran, dozens have been killed
in Israel. Is the US going to get involved in
the conflict. Well, we'll get the latest from ABC's Karen
Travers at the White House that's coming up in about
three minutes. The jury has come back with a not
(02:20):
guilty verdict for Karen Reid. She was accused of running
over her police officer boyfriend and then leaving him to
die in the Snow. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad
Garrett is going to join us at five twenty to
tell us how lawyers convinced the jury that she didn't
kill him, and ABC's Jim Ryan joins us right before
the top of the hour a five point fifty about
how that former police chief in Arkansas got out and
(02:43):
stayed out of prison for so long before he was recaptured.
A man on the lamb, those escape stories are always
so fascinating to me. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A controlling stake of the LA Lakers is being sold
for a record setting ten billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
The Bus family is handing over majority ownerships to billionaire
Mark Walter, already a key figure in LA Sports as
co owner of the Dodgers. Genie Buss will stay on
as team governor, preserving a link to her family's legacy.
Matt money Smith, from kfi's sister station AM five to
seventy LA Sports, says Walter's deep pockets will only help
the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
And Mark Walter. You're talking about the Guggenheim Group and
tens of billions of dollars worth of just straight cash
that they can pump into the team Money.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Says, that's good news for fans.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Yeah, I think you'll see that the fan base of
each recognized, Oh wow, this is going to kind of
put us more on the same level as opposed to
the Lakers being a step behind the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The Blockbuster deal marks the biggest sale in US sports history.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Heather Brooker KFI News, that's a lot of dope. Lakers legend.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Magic Johnson has praised the news of the Lakers sale,
calling Mark Walter the perfect choice to carry on the
bus legacy. Johnson cited his shared success with Walter and
the Dodgers, saying that Genie Buss made the right call
and can now comfortably pass the baton to a trusted
friend and business partner. LA City Hall has agreed to
lend millions to the LAPD to cover recent overtime costs.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Emergency Move takes five million dollars out of the city's
reserves and offers it to the police as a loan.
Kelslman John Lee says the recent demonstrations against immigration enforcement
have stretched the LAPD's resources, forcing many to work overtime.
This is going to allow us to pay for the
overtime that was again unexpected by LPD, but unfortunately it
had to be spent. The city administrator has been tasked
(04:27):
with the payback plan to get that money back in
the reserves. It's estimated the protest have so far cost
the city in total close to twenty million dollars. Michael
Monks KFI News, the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Los Angeles Press Club, and two news organizations have sued
La County, claiming the County Sheriff's Department targeted members of
the media with non lethal but dangerous munitions and used
excessive force against its members covering the anti ICE protests.
A similar suit was filed earlier in the week against LAPD.
(04:59):
Hell By, the woman who sang the national anthem in
Spanish at a Dodgers game over the weekend, has been
honored at La City Hall. Nesa says the team asked
her not to sing the Spanish version. La City Councilwoman
Monica Rodriguez has Nessa took a courageous stand for Latinos
in the wake of widespread immigration enforcement.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
We are the majority of faces in the city of
Los Angeles. We are what keeps this economy moving across
this country.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We are what makes Los Angeles strong.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Nesa said she was banned from Dodgers Stadium after the performance.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The Dodgers have disputed that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at
the White House. Good morning, Karen, So, Israel is continuing
to pound Iran. Iran is firing back missiles at Israel.
They just hit a hospital in southern Israel. President Trump
has met with his national security team. So where does
the US stand on possibly getting involved?
Speaker 10 (06:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (06:01):
The President said yesterday that he said I haven't made
the final and I'd like to make.
Speaker 12 (06:06):
The final decision one second before it's due, because he
said things change, especially with war. Sources tell us that
the President has approved attack plans for Iran, but he
has not decided yet whether to move forward with them.
He is said to be waiting to see if Iran
would be willing to discuss ending its nuclear program.
Speaker 11 (06:27):
That's according to sources familiar with the matter.
Speaker 12 (06:30):
Yesterday, when he was asked about the possibility of taking
military action against Iran, the President said, I may do it,
I may not do it.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
Nobody knows what I'm going to do, but he said
I can tell you this. Iran's got a lot of trouble.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
The President's been under a lot of pressure from Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu to get more involved in this
military effort. The United States is the only country that
has that thirty thousand pound bunker buster bomb that has
the capability of getting deep into Iran's underground new enrichment facility.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
It's inside a.
Speaker 12 (07:02):
Mountain, it's protected by thick concrete, and that's what the
President said to be considering as an.
Speaker 11 (07:06):
Option to take that out to really hamper to their.
Speaker 12 (07:12):
Possibility of building and sustaining a nuclear program.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So when when they talk about the US getting involved in,
President which is sort of the hallmark of his presidency,
I might, I might not, And nobody's going to know
until I make the decision. Could it be, or do
you hear any rumblings that it? Could it be that
it's just like a one time thing. We're sending in
the bomber with the with the bunker buster and it's
(07:39):
a one time thing and then we're out again.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Could be?
Speaker 12 (07:43):
I mean, that depends I think on what Iran does.
They certainly promised retaliation, saying you know that the Americans
should know that Iran will not surrender and any intervention
by the US would be met with a forceful response
and irreparable damage. That was a message from the supremem leader.
So you know, that is the next potential stage. Then
(08:04):
if the Iranians target US personnel in the region, US assets,
whether it's bases or embassies, things like that, then what
happens next? And is the United States drawn into this?
Speaker 11 (08:16):
That is a big question.
Speaker 12 (08:17):
It's a big unknown, and it's certainly something that many
within the president's own party are very concerned about right now.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, and so there are because we may forget that
we've got is it thousands of troops over very close
to where all.
Speaker 11 (08:32):
Of this is, forty thousand in the region.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, so Iran wouldn't have to come here. They could
attack troops there. And what about like diplomats, people at
embassies and that kind of thing that there would they
become targets as well?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Possibly they could be.
Speaker 12 (08:49):
I mean that's not for me to either say, but
some American diplomats and family members who are authorized to
leave in Israel are now being thrown out of the
country by the US military as part of the concern
of what could potentially happen.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, and then I know you've got about ten seconds.
What's the vibe on Capitol Hill? Is it support for
intervention or kind of a hands off attitude?
Speaker 12 (09:12):
You know, I think that there are some within the
President's party who are concerned. This is a president who
ran against new wars, against foreign engagement. There are Democrats
who are concerned about this too. I think the interesting
thing to see too is that beyond Capitol Hill and lawmakers,
but just a divide within, like the MAGA Coalition, some
(09:33):
very vocal against this.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
The President seemed to brush this off yesterday, saying, you
know that this isn't his choice to do this either,
but if it's a choice between fighting and Iran having
a nuclear weapon, he said, you have to do what
you have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay. ABC's Karen Travis at the White House. Thanks so much.
Have a great day, you two thinks.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Just
getting word into the KFI newsroom that Hurricane Eric has
made landfall in western Wahaka, Mexico. It's now turned up
to a Category four storm and just to like an
hour or two ago, it was a category three. It's
packing one hundred and forty miles per hour wins. Israeli
(10:13):
Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has condemned the Iranian strike on
the main hospital in southern Israel. He says Israel will
exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran. The
hospital said the strike caused extensive damage. The IDFs Brigadier
General Fi Defrin says dozens of people were hurt.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
This hospital serves over one million Israelis, including Bedwins, Jews, Christians,
and Arabs alike.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The hospital was closed after the strike except for life
threatening cases. Iran's Foreign minister is said to meet with
his European counterparts in Geneva as Israeli airstrikes continue to
target Iran. The country's state run news agency says that
the foreign minister will travel to Switzerland for meetings tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
US Capitol police say.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Pizzas are being sent anonymously to lawmakers across the country.
ABC's Stephen Portnoys's authorities are trying to figure out who's
sending them.
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Pizzas have been anonymously sent to the homes of lawmakers
both Republicans and Democrats in the House, as well as
the current and former leadership of the US Capitol Police.
In the wake of the Minnesota state lawmaker shootings, the
pizza deliveries are now being viewed as a more alarming
tacit threat that the anonymous center knows where an official lives.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Capitol Police call the unsolicited pizza deliveries troubling.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, that would be pretty freaky, very strange. Although if
you're hungry, I would eat them. I'm just saying you
to eat a pizza from an anonymous person.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Heck, yeah, okay, Well we have to have a talk
off the air, okay. The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's
ban on gender affirming care for transgender children. ABC's Devin
Dwyer says Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative
majority that the law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments
for transmners does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
Speaker 14 (11:59):
Just as Sonya sotam I origined by the Liberals, really
dissented in sadness.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was her word.
Speaker 14 (12:04):
She read her descent aloud from the bench, which is
something that rarely happens. At the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
She said the decision will open the door to more
state discrimination against trans teens. An ACLU lawyer called the
decision a devastating loss for transgender people. The Federal Reserve
has left interest rates right where they are. This was
the fourth straight time interest rates have been left alone.
Rates are hovering between four and a quarter and four
(12:30):
and a half percent. President Trump has been pressuring FED
chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. He called Powell's rate
decision not to cut them stupid. New guidelines for alcohol
consumption could be a big change.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The US reportedly is about to change guidance on that
Reuters reporting the updated dietary guidelines for Americans will no
longer recommend limiting alcohol to one or two drinks a day. Instead,
it will suggest we simply drink in moderation.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
ABC's Wing Habit says Canada has adopted a more cautious stance,
warning that health risks begin to increase after just two
drinks per week. Tomorrow will be the longest day of
the year.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The summer solstice falls on June twentieth in the US
and on the twenty first in Europe. On that day,
the earth will achieve its maximum tilt toward the sun,
allowing for more hours of sunlight in the northern Hemisphere
and kicking off the summer months. The closer you get
to the north Pole, the more extra sunlight you'll enjoy.
Residents in Fairbanks, Alaska, for instance, will see nearly twenty
two hours of daylight, and the southern hemisphere, meanwhile, Friday
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will mark the winter solstice, making it the shortest day
of the year. Mark ronnor KFI News.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
My brother and his girlfriend went up to Norway was
for the winter solstice, and they said it was the
most bizarre thing because I think they went north of
Norway and they said the sun never quite came up.
It got light, but it was always sort of that
twilight and they never actually saw the sun.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Even Alaska, it's fascinating in deep summer or the deep winter.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Just bizarre. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, and some sunshine all the time. I mean, I
like me, I like some sunshine, but twenty two hours
a day, that's too much. The latest ice raids in
the Southland have targeted the Pasadena area. Congresswoman Judy Chu
says multiple operations were carried out in her district and
some residents may be being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
(14:22):
Witnesses say they saw about a half dozen people being
taken into custody at a bus stop near an elementary school.
City officials say Pasadena police are not involved and do
not enforce federal immigration laws. Wildfire season could be a
tough one this year. Forecasters say high temperatures are expected,
the snowpack is melting quickly, and the landscape is drying out,
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which increases the risk of fires. Forecasters say even small
fires could grow quickly. Fires are a threat pretty much
year round now in California, but peak fire season is
still June to October. Banks are closed, there's no mail,
the stock market is dark, and federal offices are closed.
For June teenth, national holiday marks the day June nineteenth,
eighteen sixty five that word finally reached to Texas that
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the slaves had been freed. Word got to Texas more
than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Events
marking the holiday will be held in Alta, Dina, Palmdale, Pacoima,
and Manhattan Beach six oh five. It's handle on the news.
You can bet he'll be weighing in on what's happening
in Israel and Iran. Apparently the President has approved an
(15:29):
attack plan but hasn't said whether we're going to do
it or not. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So, Brad, we just got.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Word yesterday that Karen Reid was found not guilty of
driving her car over her boyfriend and basically leaving her
for dead. In the first trial, it was a hung jury.
What was the difference in this trial?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I think the real key in me here is the
term beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury is told
that of times of if you have doubt, if you
have reasonable doubt, then you have to quote the person.
And I think in this case, and there's a lot
of facts and pieces of information that we don't have
(16:15):
time to go through, but I'm going to jump through
some of them for you as to why the jury
had some reasonable doubt. You go from how the crime
scene where o'keith that's the Boston p D police officer,
boyfriend of Karen Reid, where he was found. Apparently they
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used Dixie cups to collect snow that had blooded them,
that didn't store it properly. The uh, this is a
party that I think presumably is just made up of
cops primarily that they send all sorts between each other
inappropriate text messages about Karen Reid. Two of the officers well,
(16:56):
I think was an ATF agent. They got their phones
to pen and they got rid of their phones. Now
and it goes on and on, these little things that
make the caves tarnished. And there were enough of them
in this case, including a Flarensi expert who contended that
Karen Reid's car did not the injuries to O'Keefe, the
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victim in this case, are not consistent with the car
being driven over him and to give him severe head injuries. Now,
obviously the prosecution had somebody that said the opposite of that.
But the point being, all of these things were a
build up to the jury. That keep in mind, maybe
in the first trial that was a hung jury, the
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jury said that they had already excluded murder in the
case and they were only hung up on manslaughter and
that's why they hung. So this is another great example
of did she do it? I think it's quite possible
she did do it, but it doesn't matter right because
the jury founder not guilty. She's acquitted, she's und free,
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and that's why we have the system we have. You know,
if the system doesn't do what it's supposed to do,
things like this, unfortunately can happen.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So the jury might think, yeah, we think she did it,
but there were not one hundred percent sure, and so
then they can't come back with the guilty verdict.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Is just all right, I mean if the key is
beyond a reasonable doubt, I mean there is some there
is some reasonable doubt here between what forensic guests vers
are saying through. You know, what they found apparently on
the bumper of Karen's car was hair of who keeps
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the boyfriend? Now I think they lived together. He probably
drove that car, so I have to know more context
about where it was found out it was found, what
part of his body, the hair probably came from all
those things that we don't know at this point. But
it's you know, and that's what you have the system.
I mean, you don't want people convicted of if there's
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a possibility they didn't do it. But you know, in
this case, I you know, I don't know. I mean,
if it had all been done properly and you didn't
have all the shenanigans by the police. You know, she
may well have been found guilty.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So interesting, so interesting, and like stuff like picking up
the blood in the snow with a dixie cup. I mean,
did they come back and say, why didn't we wait
for the forensics people to get there? Were they worried
that this that the snow was going to melt and
they wouldn't have the evidence?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I mean what, I.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Don't clearly the snow wasn't going to melt. I mean
you're talking boss in the middle. Yeah, the idea that
that's going to melt any time since. So, I don't know.
I'd love to know the backstory. And my guess is
one of these cool investigative reporters that have followed this case,
we'll write a book about this and then we'll know more.
(19:57):
But it's it is a fascinating case, and it's, let's
face it, this is not the kind of murder case
that typically you and I would talk about. But because
it has so many twists and turns, and because of
a snake a little little national and I think international
interest in the case, here we are talking about it.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, and just real quick, you mentioned the texts that
were not favorable toward Karen Reid. So do the the
other officers just didn't like their didn't like her, didn't
like their relationship, or were some of those.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Yeah, I mean, I think they believe that she clearly
did drive over him. You know. Another discrepancy is that, yes,
she had a broken tail light, she did go back.
What happened is when he didn't come home. Obviously he's
not coming home, but he didn't come home. She starts
frantically texting him, calling girlfriends, and they go back at
like five thirty six in the morning to the house
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and they start searching the grounds and they Karen actually
finds them, you know, which some people thought was interesting
how she know where to look because he was covered
with snow. But you know, be that what it made.
There's a real debate about her tail light that when
her car was finally seized, and it wasn't seized by
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the police for a period of time days maybe weeks,
certainly days that the officer deceives that says her tail
light actually was cracked but not broken. So you get
into then why are there pieces of a tail light
at the scene, So again, more reasonable doubt stuff, I suppose, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay, So is she done I mean, or can can
they retry her on anything or else?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:37):
So she's und free, she's down free. I mean once
you're once you're found that guilty, you it's all about
double jeopardy, right, you can't be retried for something despite
the fact that you know people may well believe that
she did it. It doesn't matter legally. Now she does
face just like an O. J. Simpson faced a civil
trial a wrongful death. A civil trial though not may
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come up with diver verdict. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We'll be watching that. ABC's crime ter analyst Brad Garrett,
thanks so much as.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Always, welcome to take care of him.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
All right, I talked to you soon.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
A twelve year old boy has been killed when the
car he was riding in crashed into a parked box
truck in Sherman Oaks. The crash happened yesterday morning on
North Woodman Avenue near moor Park Avenue. Three others were
taken to hospitals. Leaders in Pico Rivera have condemned immigration
raids at stores like Food for Less and Lows. The
number of people detained is not known. Protests have followed,
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stretching from city Hall to Washington Boulevard. The mayor of
Santa Anna is facing calls for her to step down.
People who live in the city say they want the
mayor to stand up for the immigrants who live there.
Speaker 15 (22:41):
Instead of notifying your city of ice presence, you chose
to remain silent, and you scolded your reps that told
you to apply pressure. Instead of showing support to peaceful protesters,
you chose to paint them as rioters.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Mayor Valerie Amescua recently condemned the violence that happened during
the protests against ice raids. Hundreds of people showed up
to city Hall at a meeting this week, and when
Mayor Mmesco walked in, the crowd greeted her with booze.
A military contractor in San Diego has pleaded guilty to
hiring illegal immigrants. John Washburn admitted to employing at least
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ten of them at San Diego Powder and protective coatings.
Prosecutors say some of them lived in a warehouse that
stores Navy submarine parts. The illegal workers apparently were kept
away from military bases to avoid screening. Amazon is trying
to challenge way Mo.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Amazon is gearing up to make ten thousand robotaxis annually
at a plant near Silicon Valley. Amazon started looking at
the robo taxi market five years ago when it shelled
out one point two billion dollars for a self driving
startup called Zeus. This is the brand behind a ride
hailing service the plans to charge for rides in Las
Vegas late this year. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also
(23:53):
vying to join the autonomous race.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Deporah mark kof I News.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm still way too nervous to get into a rivorless
carbon Maybe that's just me. SpaceX rocket being tested in
Texas has exploded at the launch site.
Speaker 16 (24:09):
In preparation for its tenth spaceflight. Starship was sitting on
a test stand at the SpaceX facility on the South
Texas coast. Just after eleven PM, a small plume of
smoke spat from an upper section of the rocket.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
ABC's Jim Ryan says moments later it exploded. SpaceX put
out a statement saying all personnel are safe and accounted
for and that there are no hazards to nearby communities.
The Bus family has agreed to sell its majority stake
in the Lakers to Mark Walter and TWG Global for
a record ten billion dollars. Walter holds stakes in several
(24:44):
sports organizations, including the Dodgers, the La Sparks, the Billy
Jean King Cup, Cadillac Formula One team, and the Professional
Women's Hockey League. Hurricane Eric has made landfall in Mexico's
western state of Wahaka. The Nation Hurricane Center in Miami
says maximum sustained winds or clocked at one hundred and
twenty five miles per hour, with gusts higher than that.
(25:06):
The storm was downgraded just a little bit before it
made land call for a landfall, from a Category four
to a Category three. Long Beach has become the latest
city in SoCal to approve drinking on the street. The
Long Beach City Council is okay the establishment of entertainment
zones along Ocean Boulevard and around the Long Beach Arena, Terrace,
(25:27):
Theater and Pacific Ballroom. It's expected to be open this summer.
Santa Monica just opened it's entertainment zone along the Third
Street Promenade last week at six oh five. It is
handle on the news, and of course we're going to
be talking more about the sale of the Lakers to
the co owner of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I mean, if you can have one sports team, why
not have ten?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, today is June teenth For most of us, it's
just you know, it's not just federal holiday, so offices
are closed, federal offices are closed, no mail, that kind
of thing. But it's obviously a much bigger holiday than that,
and it's going to be marked around the Southland this
(26:12):
They're starting out in Pacoima with Ople's Walk for Freedom
and it starts at six o'clock, so if you're not there,
it's a little too late. But I was fascinated by
it because I'm like, who is Opel and why what's
her walk for freedom? So the walk actually start, that's
the walk will start at seven am. Da da da
d oh. Registration is at six. If you want to
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run down there, you've got time, okay.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
So Ople is Opel Lee. She is now ninety eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
She campaigned for decades to get June teenth made into
a federal holiday, and of course that came to fruition
on June seventeenth, twenty twenty one, when President Biden signed
the juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Lee was there for the signing. Ceremony.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Can't imagine that must have been so such a huge
thing because he'd been campaigning for it for so long.
She's known as the Grandmother of June teenth for the
walking campaign she started when she was eighty nine years
old to get the day declared a national holiday.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And she walks two and a half miles.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And so I'm guessing that Ople's Walk for Freedom this
morning is going to be two and a half miles.
It honors the two and a half years it took
to inform the enslaved people in Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Of course, that was issued by President Lincoln on September
twenty second, eighteen sixty two. He declared all slaves were
free as of January first, eighteen sixty three. Okay, So
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June teenth marks the anniversary of when Union Army General
Gordon Granger rode into town and read General Order number
three in Galveston, Texas. It happened on June nineteenth, eighteen
sixty five, and it began with the people of Texas
are informed that, in accordance with the proclamation from the
Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So it was like two.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And a half years before they got word that they
were free.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
There was probably a lot all of stubbornness and resistance
and back in that day that took the caused it
to take that long to get there, because yeah, I
mean things did go faster than that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, it didn't take two and a half years. Yeah,
it would be interesting to dive into why it took
so long. Did they prevent them, did they forget that
there were still slaves in Galveston? I mean, who knows?
But anyway, so that's why they're doing Opal's Walk for Freedom.
And then Alta Dina Historical Society is marking Juneteenth with
the luncheon Faces of Resilience, the African American cultural legacy
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before and after the Eaton Canyon fire still affecting people
so much. The luncheon is noon to one thirty at
Loma Alta Park and you can still buy tickets either
in advance or at the door. A Juneteene celebration, including
live music, a classic car show, food vendors, and other
fly friendly activities is being held.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
At Pons Lawn Square.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I'm not sure how to say that in Palmdale from
eleven to three. Also, there's a ceremony for June teenth
in Manhattan Beach at Bruce's Beach from ten to eleven.
Of course, that's the one that was recently given back
to the family that it was taken from. And then
also in honor of Juneteenth. Admission to the Natural History
(29:27):
Museum of La County and La the Librea tar Pits
from three to five this afternoon is complimentary.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Have you been to the tar Pits lately? I don't.
I think it's a weird correlation with Juneteenth, but they're
really cool. Also, the ferris wheel at Pacific Park.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
On the Santa Monica Pier will be illuminated in red, white,
and blue patterns representing the Juneteenth flag, along with green,
red and gold animations inspired by the Pan African flag.
So celebrate Juneteenth. I just think it's so two and.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
A half years and a half years no Internet.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The State
Department says foreign citizens who apply for student visas will
have their social media accounts screened. Department officials said Wednesday
that new student visa applicants will be asked to make
their social media accounts public so they can be reviewed,
and that officers at US consulates will be looking for
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any indication of hostility towards the citizens, culture, government institutions,
or founding principles of the United States and Iranian missile
has hit the main hospital in southern Israel. Officials at
the hospital said it did extensive damage, but there were
no serious injuries. At least forty people were hurt. At
the same time, Israel has carried out strikes on Iran's
(30:45):
Aaric heavy water reactor in its latest attack on Iran's
sprawling nuclear program. Iranian State TV said the facility had
been evacuated before the attack. Iran's Supreme leader is not
backing down despite talk of US involvement in the Iran
Israel conflict well.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The Ayatola, saying surrender to what the Iranian nation cannot
be surrendered. We will not accept any kind of submission.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
He warned. The US would suffer irreparable consequences if it
intervenes militarily.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
ABC's Jarine Shaw says non essential US diplomatic staff and
their families have been evacuated in Israel. Downey is offering
online ice rate information for residents and businesses. The site
has comprehensive information about recent immigration enforcement activity and explains
what the city can and can't do. The mayor and
council members say they want residents to be aware of
(31:40):
their rights. They're also looking into offering webinars and workshops
to businesses that are affected by the raids. The website
is downyca dot org Slash your Rights. An assembly member
from the Farms of California says he supports immigration, but
people do want law and order.
Speaker 17 (31:56):
We can't incentivize criminal activity by allowing people or even
allowing farmers or different individuals to take advantage of those
that have committed a crime coming into this country.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Fresno assembly Member David Tangapa says guest worker programs or
farm worker programs don't work unless there is some sort
of blanket amnesty. Says people need to become citizens to
stay here. He recently sponsored his mother becoming a legal
citizen and says people need to follow the rules and
have trust in the system. A brushfire near Paris in
(32:29):
Riverside County has been stopped at about fifty acres. All
evacuation orders have been lifted. The fire was reported late
yesterday afternoon in Mead Valley. Firefighters from multiple agencies were
sent to put it out. The response included four CalFire
air tankers and two water dropping helicopters. Jaws turns fifty
(32:54):
this weekend. The Killer Shark movie instill the sense of
fear and people for years, but biologist Great Schoemal says
people have softened on sharks over the decades.
Speaker 18 (33:03):
Don't be afraid of them, you know, understand them. Maybe
you'll even see one, which is kind of cool. You know,
they're fascinating animals and they're very, very important to a
healthy ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I would only like to see one at the Aquarium
of the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Even fed the sharks.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No no, No, no, no No. Jaws was released in
nineteen seventy five. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it won three,
including one for that suspenseful score.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The city of Santa Ana's dropped a proposal that would
have required police to post warnings of ice sweeps. The
idea was scrapped after city leaders got a letter from
US Attorney Bill Asale that such a policy would endanger officers,
disrupt criminal investigations, and could expose city leaders and staff
to possible federal charges and prosecution. Israeli strikes on Iran
(33:56):
have killed at least six hundred and thirty nine people.
Human rights groups more than thirteen hundred others have been
injured since the bombing started a week ago. Most of
Iran's missiles launched on Israel have been intercepted by Israel's
Iron Dome, but some did get through, including a missile
that landed on a hospital in southern Israel overnight. Someone
(34:16):
just missed out on one and a half million dollars.
The California Lottery says a winning powerball ticket from December
was never claimed. Winners have six months to claim a prize,
and Monday was the deadline. The money will now go
into funds that will support local public schools. The lottery
says over a billion dollars in latt of winnings have
gone unclaimed a billion dollars. The largest was a sixty
(34:37):
two million dollars Super Lotto Plus jackpot back in twenty fifteen.
We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Israel says it will intensify its attacks against Iran after
a missile hit a hospital that we just told you
about in Southern Iran. Bill's going to be talking about
that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, so, Jim, we have to go back a couple
of weeks. The guy who escaped.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
From a prison in Arkansas and was on the loose
for a couple of weeks is now back in custody.
But so we want to talk a little bit about
how he got out and then how he was able
to escape and how he was able to get away
from law enforcement for so long.
Speaker 16 (35:19):
I wish the Coen Brothers would get a hold of
this story and do something with it, because it is
like a movie script.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There's so many escapes, and that other one from Louisiana
in New Orleans where ten people got out, I'm like,
that's got to be a movie at some point.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 16 (35:32):
This one is really something though, and very cinematic. The guy, Okay,
Grant Harden is the guy. He's fifty six years old.
He used to be a police chief in a small
town in Arkansas. He's had police jobs over the years
and trusted law enforce her until twenty seventeen, when he
got fired from a city police force. Took it out
on an employee by shooting and killing the guy. He's
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taken it to custody. They run a DNA check and
find a perfect match his DNA to a rape that
happened twenty years earlier. He was convicted of the rape,
convicted of the murder, sent to prison for eighty years.
Was doing time at the Calico Rock Medium Security prison
in Arkansas and biding his time and watching and looking
and building trust among the jail staff, the prison staff there.
(36:17):
Eventually got a job in the prison kitchen, and that
really was the key to his ability to escape amy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Okay, so how well, okay.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
So he takes an old prison a prison jumpsuit. They're white, right,
unless you're high risk than when they're in, which case
they're orange. But his was white, and so he in
the kitchen. Of course, what do they have there. They've
got tea and coffee, spices and things that can be
used to dye clothing, right, you soak something white in
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coffee and tea or potentially or he also had access
to felt depens because they used them to mark mark,
you know, the containers for food. And he may have
just sat there over the months and years really and
colored the white jumpsuit to look black anyway, he made
it look enough like a jail or a prison guard's
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uniform that on May twenty fifth, he put the thing on.
He had sort of a makeshift vest and a ball cap,
and in surveillance video you can see him pushing a cart.
He pushes it very casually over toward an access point
and he's buzzed on through and walks away. That was
it so just And of course he was captured what
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twelve days later, He was only a mile and a
half away, So you apparently had no help. There's no
indication he had help from inside or from outside.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So this so reminds me too of like Shawshank Redemption,
because there was a line in it where they say
that it takes pressure and time, and he had the time,
Like you said, he could have been doing this for
months and months and months.
Speaker 16 (37:54):
Right well, and building up that trust. You know, only
trustees are allowed to work in the prison kitchen, and
he apparently was trusted enough. This was a medium security prison,
and I suspect that prison operators around the country are
reading this case very carefully to see what should we
be doing to prevent this kind of thing. Where we are.
He now, by the way, has added charges on his
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rap sheet, and he's been moved to the maximum security
prison in Arkansas, from which no one has ever escaped.
He's locked in his cell twenty three hours a day
with only this small slit in the door to look through. Ye,
his little twelve days of freedom are costing him quite dearly.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, and I would imagine he'll be wearing orange, no
longer white?
Speaker 16 (38:36):
Probably So. Did I even name the gads as Grant
Harden is his name? Did I say that? I might
not have named him the whole time.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
But I think we all know what you're talking about
because it captured our interest in our imagination. And I
think you're right it should be a movie because it's
just it's so fascinating Coen Brothers.
Speaker 16 (38:53):
If you're listening, by the rights exactly.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information. That's
really really interesting.
Speaker 16 (39:00):
See avey.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
The longtime owners of the La Lakers are selling their
majority stake in the team. Klac's Matt money Smith says
it was probably an easy decision for the bus family.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
They know. They probably just looked at the number and said,
we can still be involved, but we're no longer calling
the shots, but they'll still be part of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
The buses are selling to Dodgers call owner Mark Walter.
The sale still needs final approval from the NBA. Jerry
Buss purchased the La Lakers, along with the La Kings
and the Forum for sixty seven and a half million
dollars in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
This ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The La City Council's approved a five million dollar loan
to the LAPD to cover overtime. Officers have been kept
on for extra hours in recent weeks as demonstrations against
federal immigration enforcement have spread around the city. The council's
decision takes the money from the city's reserves and asks
the city administrator to come up with a plan for
the police department to pay it back. It's estimated the
(39:59):
total cost to the city in the wake of the
protest has been about twenty million dollars, which includes damage
to city property and clean up efforts. More employees are
sending workers shopping for their own health insurance.
Speaker 9 (40:13):
Companies are giving employees money to buy their own coverage
in what's known as individual coverage reimbursement arrangements instead of
offering a plan through work. Advocates say this approach provides
small companies that could not afford insurance a chance to
offer something that also caps a growing expense for employers
and fits conservative goals of giving people more purchasing power
(40:34):
over their coverage. But this approach places the risk for
finding the right coverage on the employee depor Mark Koffi news.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, the Dodgers are dominating the Padres and just left
the room, winning their third straight against San Diego last
night thanks to Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Allowed and long strike for Suarez. Now the O two pitch,
Smith pushes a fly ball.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Right center field.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Tatis on their own at the warning track at.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
The law it's gone, it's gone, and this game is over.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
Over.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Just got be all the reach of.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
For no no tatist Junior.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Will Smith comes.
Speaker 12 (41:17):
Home and now we go home.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
They celebrate in front of the play.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
Oh walk up home wrong for Will Smith.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
The Dodgers win in the ninth, four to three.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And I love La playing in the background. That's my
favorite favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Well, Tonight, in celebration of June teenth, It's Black Heritage
Night and the Dodgers take on the Padres one more
time at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
First pitch goes out at seven.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
You can listen to all Dodger games all season long
on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from the
Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream all Dodgers games in
HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles or County.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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This has been your wake up call, and don't forget
if you missed any of wake Up Call. You can
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