WEBVTT - Terror Attack Thwarted 0:00:00.700 --> 0:00:04.680 You're listening to KFI AM 640 Wake Up Call with me, 0:00:04.860 --> 0:00:11.110 Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning. 0:00:12.289 --> 0:00:17.470 Very happy camper today. How about them Dodgers? Of course, 0:00:17.489 --> 0:00:19.689 I'm also a sad camper because there is no game five, 0:00:19.710 --> 0:00:21.250 which means I don't get to go to a playoff 0:00:21.290 --> 0:00:24.140 game this season. I had tickets for Friday night. 0:00:24.210 --> 0:00:24.840 That's okay. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.900 The boys in blue advanced to the National League Championship Series. Unfortunately, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.980 you know, the The Padres Brewers series was so good, 0:00:34.220 --> 0:00:36.479 and I was so hoping that they were going to 0:00:37.060 --> 0:00:41.080 come back and make it to the next round, but 0:00:41.100 --> 0:00:43.580 they lost 3-1 last night, so they're knocked out. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.440 I don't see Ann anywhere. 0:00:46.020 --> 0:00:46.620 She's in mourning. 0:00:47.100 --> 0:00:47.419 Oh, dear. 0:00:47.500 --> 0:00:48.300 She'll be back tomorrow. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:48.620 Okay. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.980 Okay, here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. Four additional 0:00:52.050 --> 0:00:55.450 sandbag distribution sites are opening up today in Long Beach. 0:00:56.130 --> 0:00:59.110 as residents are being urged to get ready for possible 0:00:59.190 --> 0:01:02.310 coastal flooding, high surf, and rain from the remnants of 0:01:02.390 --> 0:01:08.890 Hurricane Rachel. Residents in low-lying areas, particularly the Alamitos Peninsula 0:01:09.110 --> 0:01:12.340 and Alamitos Bay, are being urged to take precautions against 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.660 potential flooding this weekend. Of course, the Dodgers headed back 0:01:15.700 --> 0:01:18.500 to the National League Championship Series. The Boys in Blue 0:01:18.580 --> 0:01:22.820 beat Atlanta 3-1 in Game 4 to win the best-of-five 0:01:22.860 --> 0:01:26.750 series three games to one. They'll face the Brewers, who 0:01:26.850 --> 0:01:30.030 knocked out San Diego last night in Milwaukee for Game 0:01:30.030 --> 0:01:34.770 1 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday. President 0:01:34.790 --> 0:01:39.570 Trump says Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton is possibly the 0:01:39.630 --> 0:01:43.729 best attorney general in the history of Texas. Appearing alongside 0:01:43.790 --> 0:01:48.190 Paxton in San Antonio last night, Trump urged his supporters 0:01:48.230 --> 0:01:50.630 to get out to vote in the midterms and pretend 0:01:50.670 --> 0:01:53.190 he's on the ballot. Trump went on to warn that 0:01:53.230 --> 0:01:56.950 Texas will be destroyed if Democratic candidate James Tallarico wins. 0:01:57.370 --> 0:01:59.990 We're going to find out more about why Trump is 0:02:00.110 --> 0:02:03.610 backing Paxton in spite of some negative comments that have 0:02:03.650 --> 0:02:07.030 come to light. ABC's Karen Travers is going to join 0:02:07.070 --> 0:02:10.910 us in about 15 minutes or so. An 18-year-old has 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.780 been arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Mall 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.660 of America. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad Garrett is 0:02:18.700 --> 0:02:20.500 going to join us to tell us how he was 0:02:20.580 --> 0:02:23.540 caught and how bad it could have been. That's coming 0:02:23.580 --> 0:02:25.600 up in just a couple of minutes. And we were 0:02:25.620 --> 0:02:29.400 supposed to connect yesterday with author Jasmine Guillory, but there 0:02:29.419 --> 0:02:31.540 was a scheduling mix-up. So we're going to try it 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.970 again today because I think you're going to love hearing 0:02:33.990 --> 0:02:38.340 about her new book. It's called It's Only Dancing. Let's 0:02:38.380 --> 0:02:39.859 get started with some of the stories coming out of 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:44.250 the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning 0:02:44.350 --> 0:02:48.489 home to San Diego. It's expected to arrive around noon 0:02:48.710 --> 0:02:52.250 after being at sea since November. The carrier left port 0:02:52.290 --> 0:02:55.250 as part of normal naval operations with the original plan 0:02:55.270 --> 0:02:57.590 to return in May, but then the war in Iran started. 0:02:58.350 --> 0:03:01.840 War Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the ship yesterday 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.619 to visit with sailors and Marines deployed to the Middle East. 0:03:04.740 --> 0:03:09.779 I would like to award to you. The presidential unit citation. 0:03:14.430 --> 0:03:17.170 The award is the highest honor a unit can receive 0:03:17.230 --> 0:03:22.410 that is typically reserved for significant achievement in combat. Four 0:03:22.460 --> 0:03:24.700 firefighters and a civilian have been hurt in a house 0:03:24.740 --> 0:03:27.000 fire near the Silver Lake Reservoir. 0:03:27.260 --> 0:03:30.540 It started around 1045 in the morning on North Lakewood Avenue. 0:03:30.980 --> 0:03:33.060 Of the five people sent to the hospital, two of 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.930 the firefighters were released later in the day. Arson investigators 0:03:36.950 --> 0:03:39.120 were sent to the scene, but so far the cause 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.200 of the fire has not been determined. Mark Mayfield, KFI News. 0:03:43.860 --> 0:03:46.800 The head of an L.A. community action group says he 0:03:46.940 --> 0:03:51.220 agrees with Councilwoman Nithya Raman's plan to fire LAPD Chief 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.660 Jim McDonald if she wins the race to be mayor. 0:03:54.340 --> 0:04:00.190 Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Afari Hutchison says the LAPD 0:04:00.230 --> 0:04:03.150 has the worst track record in the U.S. for overuse 0:04:03.190 --> 0:04:08.360 of deadly force. Hutchinson says that's McDonald's fault. So Rahman's 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.710 plan to fire him is a long-needed step to overhauling 0:04:12.730 --> 0:04:14.690 the LAPD's use of deadly force. 0:04:15.490 --> 0:04:15.570 L.A. 0:04:15.590 --> 0:04:18.510 Mayor Bass and City Council Member Nithya Rahman are set 0:04:18.550 --> 0:04:21.850 to answer questions from members of the city's Hispanic community 0:04:21.990 --> 0:04:24.110 in the race for mayor. They're taking part in a 0:04:24.170 --> 0:04:29.760 televised forum focusing on homelessness, housing affordability, public safety, and 0:04:29.779 --> 0:04:33.839 other issues. It airs tonight. At 7 on Univision, each 0:04:33.900 --> 0:04:39.360 candidate participating will be separately interviewed for 30 minutes. It's 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.710 5.07 on your wake-up call this Thursday morning. Let's say 0:04:42.750 --> 0:04:47.830 good morning now to ABC's crime and terror analyst, Brad Garrett. So, Brad, 0:04:48.230 --> 0:04:50.690 I want to find out details on this. It's a 0:04:51.089 --> 0:04:56.060 Mall of America planned mass shooting, and the feds have 0:04:56.100 --> 0:05:01.229 arrested an 18-year-old person who apparently had been planning this 0:05:01.270 --> 0:05:02.130 for quite some time. 0:05:03.970 --> 0:05:08.470 So according to the complaint, Amy, the FBI in an 0:05:08.589 --> 0:05:15.180 undercover capacity started interacting with this 18-year-old in December of 2024. Now, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.980 that's almost two years ago. Some would say, why did 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.360 it take this long to arrest him? Well, when you 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.700 look at these undercover cases, you kind of are driven 0:05:24.740 --> 0:05:27.880 by the speed of the person who wants to commit 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.670 the crime. And obviously, you have to have certain elements 0:05:31.890 --> 0:05:34.890 to be able to charge them. So eventually what happened 0:05:35.970 --> 0:05:39.470 in the last few days is that he said, I 0:05:40.500 --> 0:05:44.720 need an AK-47, I need ammunition, and I'm going to 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.480 go to the Mall of America in Minneapolis and kill 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:48.059 30 to 60 people. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:48.180 Right. 0:05:51.170 --> 0:05:56.150 They, in an undercover capacity, sold him an AK-47. Obviously, 0:05:56.170 --> 0:05:59.390 it wouldn't be functional, but be that what it may, 0:05:59.910 --> 0:06:04.110 with 200 rounds of ammunition, he paid them, and then 0:06:04.130 --> 0:06:07.770 they arrested him. So it's another example of getting in 0:06:07.890 --> 0:06:12.250 front of somebody that wants to do mass harm. You know, 0:06:12.290 --> 0:06:14.630 the big question, as you well know, is how many 0:06:14.690 --> 0:06:17.470 people like this kid are out there that are sort 0:06:17.510 --> 0:06:21.680 of at the crossroads of of committing some potentially committing 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.020 some super violent act. It's, I think the number is 0:06:25.260 --> 0:06:28.710 higher than you might think, but obviously I don't know 0:06:28.730 --> 0:06:29.710 what that number is. 0:06:31.270 --> 0:06:31.409 Yeah. 0:06:31.450 --> 0:06:33.170 I think it's, I was just going to ask you how, 0:06:33.330 --> 0:06:35.789 I wonder how many of these cases are out there. 0:06:36.110 --> 0:06:38.630 I think it's interesting because we've talked before, uh, you 0:06:38.690 --> 0:06:42.070 and I about, you know, when do they jump in? 0:06:42.170 --> 0:06:44.490 When does law enforcement put a stop to it? Because 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.960 You have to give evidence, but you also have to 0:06:48.020 --> 0:06:51.900 allow them to get pretty close to acting on those 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.900 threats and then hope that you can stop them before 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.020 they actually carry it out. 0:06:57.990 --> 0:07:02.230 Right. Well, you know, and that's all clearly a judgment call. 0:07:03.089 --> 0:07:06.650 And the people who do these type of cases, generally speaking, 0:07:07.370 --> 0:07:11.060 sort of know that they go at a certain pace 0:07:11.270 --> 0:07:14.720 and you need certain elements because you I mean every 0:07:14.740 --> 0:07:19.020 day they're talking to the U.S. attorney's office about this 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.080 is how we got– this is how far we got 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.090 last night or whatever it might be until you get 0:07:24.150 --> 0:07:26.930 up to the certain elements. And you are correct. You 0:07:27.070 --> 0:07:29.770 ideally want them to walk up to the line, but 0:07:29.810 --> 0:07:34.440 you also have to feel comfortable enough that this is 0:07:34.540 --> 0:07:38.520 not going to occur with him going to anybody else. 0:07:39.530 --> 0:07:41.730 to help him along because, you know, they build a 0:07:41.770 --> 0:07:46.500 relationship with these kids who then trust the person they're 0:07:46.540 --> 0:07:50.980 talking to. But, yeah, I mean, could this have gone sideways? 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.720 Did he get another way of getting a weapon? Sure. 0:07:55.180 --> 0:07:58.580 But these are things that you have to do to 0:07:58.620 --> 0:08:02.760 catch kids that are about to go do a really violent, 0:08:02.860 --> 0:08:03.460 awful act. 0:08:04.060 --> 0:08:05.740 Okay, so let's talk a little bit about who this 0:08:05.820 --> 0:08:08.710 guy is. He's 18 years old. Who is he? 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.570 Okay, so his parents are from Somalia, but he was 0:08:13.630 --> 0:08:14.190 born here. 0:08:14.210 --> 0:08:15.690 All right. 0:08:16.450 --> 0:08:20.870 There's some information out that in months past, the FBI 0:08:20.930 --> 0:08:25.770 actually went to his parents to talk to them, presumably, 0:08:25.790 --> 0:08:31.030 about what he was doing online. That apparently didn't have 0:08:31.230 --> 0:08:34.390 any effect. And, you know, since I don't know what 0:08:34.610 --> 0:08:38.540 occurred in that conversation, I will just tell you There 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:43.120 are certain immigrant populations that are very leery of the 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.220 police and law enforcement because of where they grew up. 0:08:48.510 --> 0:08:51.510 So did they not trust the FBI? Did they not 0:08:51.550 --> 0:08:54.970 do anything? I have no idea, of course. All I'm 0:08:55.010 --> 0:09:00.210 suggesting is it's another challenge in these cases because clearly 0:09:00.630 --> 0:09:04.440 you need a community's help. You need parents' help. to 0:09:04.460 --> 0:09:06.960 come forward and say, you know, somebody needs to take 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:08.160 a look at what my kid's doing. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.960 Yeah, and he wanted to go into the Mall of 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.120 America and shoot a lot of people. Did he have 0:09:16.179 --> 0:09:17.140 particular targets? 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.990 No, I mean, his comment was that the Mall of 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:27.090 America is owned by folks of the Jewish faith. And 0:09:27.130 --> 0:09:30.910 that was his motivator, apparently. And that, you know, killing 0:09:30.970 --> 0:09:34.190 anybody there would have been in his mind, sort of 0:09:34.230 --> 0:09:36.190 a Jewish sympathizer. 0:09:36.270 --> 0:09:38.980 All right. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.000 So interesting. I'm 18 years old and his goal in 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.839 life is to go and do a mass killing. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.520 It's amazing how far down the rabbit hole of darkness 0:09:52.130 --> 0:09:53.170 some of these kids will go. 0:09:53.330 --> 0:09:56.390 Well, thank goodness we caught this one and hopefully we'll 0:09:56.410 --> 0:09:59.590 catch the next one as well. ABC's Brad Garrett, thank 0:09:59.610 --> 0:10:01.660 you so much for your information this morning. 0:10:02.500 --> 0:10:02.819 You're welcome. 0:10:02.980 --> 0:10:03.520 Take care, Amy. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:05.620 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.250 of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. President Trump has clarified his 0:10:09.309 --> 0:10:13.369 comments about Iran possibly striking L.A. or San Diego. He 0:10:13.390 --> 0:10:16.810 brought it up again yesterday during a political rally in Texas. 0:10:17.030 --> 0:10:18.630 You want to see a horror show? You want to 0:10:18.650 --> 0:10:22.890 see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit 0:10:22.950 --> 0:10:25.610 Los Angeles and you want to see some bad things happen. 0:10:25.650 --> 0:10:27.230 You want to see a country that would be in 0:10:27.530 --> 0:10:30.330 free fall. We're not going to let that happen. We 0:10:30.370 --> 0:10:33.069 protect our cities. We protect our country. We're not letting 0:10:33.110 --> 0:10:33.470 that happen. 0:10:34.110 --> 0:10:36.449 Critics argued earlier this week that Trump was calling on 0:10:36.490 --> 0:10:39.870 Iran to strike the West Coast cities. The president was 0:10:39.929 --> 0:10:43.250 talking about higher gas prices at the time. which he 0:10:43.290 --> 0:10:45.950 said was a small price to pay to keep Iran 0:10:46.030 --> 0:10:49.690 from having a nuclear weapon. A review of voting records 0:10:49.929 --> 0:10:53.610 shows two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive U.S. House and 0:10:53.650 --> 0:10:56.730 Senate races have either broken with President Trump on policy 0:10:57.210 --> 0:11:00.030 or played down ties with him. The review by Reuters 0:11:00.090 --> 0:11:04.970 finds candidates in 41 of 62 competitive congressional races are 0:11:05.110 --> 0:11:10.730 distancing themselves from Trump ahead of the midterms. The candidates 0:11:10.770 --> 0:11:14.500 have criticized him or widened the gap on certain issues. 0:11:15.050 --> 0:11:18.200 President Trump's golf club in Florida could be used as 0:11:18.300 --> 0:11:20.860 a Camp David-style presidential retreat. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.540 The president says the military and Secret Service presented him 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.780 with this idea. The Palm Beach Post reported Trump International 0:11:27.820 --> 0:11:30.380 Golf Course's lawyer sent a letter to Palm Beach County 0:11:30.420 --> 0:11:33.059 commissioners about the offer. He said the golf course would 0:11:33.100 --> 0:11:35.920 be designated as a U.S. presidential golf course and be 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.920 made available to all past, current, and future presidents, as 0:11:38.980 --> 0:11:41.160 well as foreign heads of state to use. The letter 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.960 went on to say the golf course would pay for 0:11:42.980 --> 0:11:45.580 the presidential lodging facility to be built and would be 0:11:45.620 --> 0:11:48.420 a gift to Trump's successors since it would not be 0:11:48.470 --> 0:11:52.190 done until he's out of office. Debra Mark, KFI News. 0:11:53.330 --> 0:11:55.650 A judge in Tennessee has ordered the state's Department of 0:11:55.710 --> 0:12:00.590 Correction to preserve evidence related to Krista Pike's botched execution. 0:12:01.110 --> 0:12:05.890 ABC's Faith Abubay says Pike's attorney says she is conscious 0:12:06.010 --> 0:12:07.729 and getting critical medical care. 0:12:07.809 --> 0:12:11.190 Pike's lawyers say doctors believed she was brain dead and 0:12:11.230 --> 0:12:14.640 were making final preparations to take her off life support 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.300 Tuesday when she regained consciousness. 0:12:17.380 --> 0:12:19.820 The lawyers say Pike is still shackled to her bed 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.219 in the hospital. A tropical storm off the coast of 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.300 Mexico is expected to create hazardous weather in Southern California. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.600 The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday extended the forecast cone 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.179 for Rachel, which now shows the system hitting the American Southwest. 0:12:32.700 --> 0:12:35.880 Rachel's been a Category 1 hurricane, but forecasters predict it 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.190 will be a tropical cyclone by the time it reaches 0:12:38.210 --> 0:12:41.530 the U.S., although still producing heavy rain, strong winds and 0:12:41.630 --> 0:12:44.429 other hazards. The remnants of Rachel are expected to make 0:12:44.490 --> 0:12:47.810 landfall in Southern California by early Sunday. and could create 0:12:47.830 --> 0:12:52.160 some rainy conditions across the southwest through next Tuesday. Tammy Trujillo, 0:12:52.460 --> 0:12:53.620 KFI News. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.020 A tortoise born before the Civil War may hold clues 0:12:58.100 --> 0:13:04.390 to slowing human aging. Vanderbilt Health researchers have been studying Jonathan, 0:13:04.630 --> 0:13:09.250 the world's oldest known living land animal. He's 194 years old, 0:13:09.330 --> 0:13:12.579 believed to have hatched in 1832. He lives on an 0:13:12.740 --> 0:13:16.300 island in the South Pacific. He's blind. He weighs 450 pounds. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.280 But researchers say they've tested his DNA and it shows 0:13:20.340 --> 0:13:24.840 that his cellular energy production is remarkably youthful, behaving much 0:13:24.980 --> 0:13:28.220 like that of a five-year-old tortoise. What they don't know 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.280 exactly is why, but they say they hope this discovery 0:13:31.350 --> 0:13:34.610 of the young DNA will eventually lead to treatments that 0:13:34.650 --> 0:13:37.650 bring people closer to the so-called eternal spring. 0:13:38.390 --> 0:13:38.870 He's cool. 0:13:38.890 --> 0:13:40.189 Have you seen videos of Jonathan? 0:13:40.809 --> 0:13:42.890 I have not seen Jonathan, but when we went to 0:13:42.929 --> 0:13:45.349 the Galapagos, we got to see a lot of tortoises. 0:13:45.570 --> 0:13:46.230 They're old, too. 0:13:46.330 --> 0:13:48.840 Yeah, they're very cool. When we come back, President Trump 0:13:48.860 --> 0:13:51.480 doing some modern day barnstorming. His latest stop ahead of 0:13:51.500 --> 0:13:54.260 the midterms is Texas, trying to drum up support for 0:13:54.300 --> 0:13:58.180 Senate candidate Ken Paxton. ABC's Karen Travers has the latest 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.679 on that coming up next. The remnants of Hurricane Rachel 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.470 expected move across Southern California this weekend. Forecasters say the 0:14:05.510 --> 0:14:09.010 storm will bring downpours and strong winds. Flash flood watches 0:14:09.070 --> 0:14:12.430 and warnings along with wind watches could be issued by 0:14:12.470 --> 0:14:15.770 the end of the weekend. Drivers in L.A. could soon 0:14:15.830 --> 0:14:19.790 face fines for parking within 20 feet of marked or 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.620 unmarked crosswalks. A city council committee has approved a draft 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.540 ordinance to Established fines of $ 63 is part of efforts 0:14:27.590 --> 0:14:30.890 to bolster compliance with a state law that prohibits stopping, 0:14:30.950 --> 0:14:34.730 standing or parking vehicles within 20 feet of the approach 0:14:34.910 --> 0:14:37.870 to the side of a crosswalk or within 15 feet 0:14:37.930 --> 0:14:41.790 of the approach side of any crosswalk with a curb extension. 0:14:46.660 --> 0:14:50.420 Don't have to dream on anymore. Aerosmith is going to 0:14:50.460 --> 0:14:53.790 be performing again. And it's the Hollywood Bowl. The band 0:14:53.870 --> 0:14:56.190 announced that Aerosmith and Friends will be at the Bowl 0:14:56.690 --> 0:15:01.380 October 29th and November 2nd. The Friends include the Black Crows, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.300 Run DMC, Alice in Chains, Sammy Hagar, Slash and others. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.160 Pre-sale tickets for CityCard members start today and then the 0:15:09.220 --> 0:15:13.240 general on sale is Saturday at 10 a.m. Let's say 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.920 good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. So Karen, President 0:15:17.950 --> 0:15:20.810 Trump basically barnstorming ahead of the midterms to try to 0:15:21.390 --> 0:15:25.570 rally support for Republican candidates. His latest stop is in 0:15:25.690 --> 0:15:29.600 Texas to support Ken Paxton, who's kind of a tough 0:15:29.620 --> 0:15:31.780 sell for a lot of folks, but could be a 0:15:31.820 --> 0:15:36.020 make or break on whether the Republicans retain control of 0:15:36.060 --> 0:15:39.440 the Senate. So what's he saying about Paxton? Because Paxton 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.670 has said some things that don't quite line up with 0:15:41.710 --> 0:15:42.570 the president recently. 0:15:43.460 --> 0:15:45.580 Yeah, I mean, Paxton's making it a little difficult for 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.350 the president, but the president is still standing by him. 0:15:48.650 --> 0:15:51.610 There have been audio recordings that have come out through 0:15:51.650 --> 0:15:55.130 media outlets of Paxton at a fundraiser where he has 0:15:55.190 --> 0:15:58.960 heard distancing himself from the president, indicating that he thought 0:15:58.980 --> 0:16:02.180 that the midterm convention that the president held in Texas 0:16:02.220 --> 0:16:06.070 last month actually hurt Republican candidates. He said you can 0:16:06.110 --> 0:16:08.370 hear him on the audio saying that numbers went down 0:16:08.410 --> 0:16:11.250 for him and others after that. And then in another 0:16:11.330 --> 0:16:14.030 one this week that was released, Paxton is heard saying 0:16:14.050 --> 0:16:18.430 that the war in Iran causing gas prices and food 0:16:18.450 --> 0:16:21.300 prices to go up is the biggest problem for his 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.360 campaign right now. The president yesterday was asked if he 0:16:24.420 --> 0:16:27.200 regrets endorsing Paxton. He says, no, no, he was a 0:16:27.220 --> 0:16:29.729 great attorney general. He'll be a good senator. And he 0:16:29.750 --> 0:16:33.110 was asked if he agrees with Paxton's assessment that the 0:16:33.230 --> 0:16:35.870 war with Iran and the spike in prices is the 0:16:35.910 --> 0:16:38.510 biggest hurdle right now for Republicans and He didn't answer 0:16:38.550 --> 0:16:40.590 that part of the question, but again, kind of talked 0:16:40.630 --> 0:16:43.460 about what he's doing to end the war with Iran 0:16:43.630 --> 0:16:47.400 and bring gas prices down. But it is a challenging 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.420 race for Republicans right now. The polls show that the Democrat, 0:16:50.460 --> 0:16:53.900 James Palo Rico, is leading at this point. The fact 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.380 that the president's been there twice in a week, three 0:16:56.420 --> 0:16:59.750 times in a month, certainly indicates that Republicans are concerned 0:16:59.780 --> 0:17:01.450 with how Paxton is doing at this point. 0:17:01.690 --> 0:17:02.030 Yeah. 0:17:02.330 --> 0:17:03.770 And so it's really. 0:17:05.650 --> 0:17:08.300 It's out of character for Trump to support somebody who's 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:09.639 openly criticizing him. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:11.560 Yeah. 0:17:11.780 --> 0:17:15.260 I mean, you know, there's always a way to like support, 0:17:15.380 --> 0:17:17.800 but also make some jabs, which we've heard him do 0:17:18.140 --> 0:17:20.889 talking about Paxton's clothes and things like that. But I 0:17:20.910 --> 0:17:23.750 think there's a recognition that this is a very important race. 0:17:23.990 --> 0:17:26.290 This is a state that's reliably red. The president has 0:17:26.310 --> 0:17:28.930 won there all three times. I mean, this is not 0:17:28.970 --> 0:17:31.920 supposed to be in play. As you noted, Paxton has 0:17:31.940 --> 0:17:34.320 had his issues. You know, many Republicans would say he's 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.620 a flawed candidate. They are pouring money into this race 0:17:37.940 --> 0:17:39.540 to try to keep it in the red column. 0:17:39.830 --> 0:17:42.230 Yeah. And isn't the money that's being poured in, isn't 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.880 that sort of recent where Tallarico has had strong financial 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.100 support for a very long time? And it's sort of 0:17:49.140 --> 0:17:52.679 like the Republicans didn't start pumping money in until they 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.580 realized that Paxman was really in trouble. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:54.899 Yeah. 0:17:55.609 --> 0:17:56.970 Yeah, like, you know, a bit of a five alarm 0:17:57.010 --> 0:17:58.850 fire and saying we need to put money in here. 0:17:58.930 --> 0:18:01.030 And then that shifts it from other races, too. And 0:18:01.109 --> 0:18:03.609 it's always like the line in politics, especially in the 0:18:03.650 --> 0:18:06.310 final four weeks, you know, where the money is going 0:18:06.369 --> 0:18:10.629 and where the big surrogates are going, whether that's President Trump, J.D. 0:18:10.670 --> 0:18:13.190 Vance on the other side, President Obama out on the 0:18:13.210 --> 0:18:17.020 campaign trail, where those people are going indicates where they 0:18:17.060 --> 0:18:20.120 think the support is needed, where they're concerned about, especially 0:18:20.180 --> 0:18:22.080 the money when they start shifting it around. 0:18:22.100 --> 0:18:22.560 Yeah. 0:18:22.780 --> 0:18:23.060 OK. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.859 And then where's he headed to next? Do we know? 0:18:26.270 --> 0:18:28.760 Going to upstate New York tomorrow, the Syracuse area, then 0:18:28.820 --> 0:18:31.639 Tennessee and Alabama on Saturday. But of course, Alabama is 0:18:31.660 --> 0:18:34.220 going to be getting that hurricane spreading into Saturday. So 0:18:34.290 --> 0:18:36.270 some questions about what will happen with that trip. 0:18:36.609 --> 0:18:39.030 All right. ABC's Karen Travers. Thanks so much for the info. 0:18:40.310 --> 0:18:40.530 Thanks. 0:18:40.790 --> 0:18:41.130 All right. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.180 So if you hate the heat. You're going to like this. 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.280 We are on our last day of extreme heat warning. 0:18:48.420 --> 0:18:50.800 The extreme heat warning ends at 8 tonight, says National 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.800 Weather Service meteorologist Kristen Lund. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:53.879 And rain is coming. 0:18:53.900 --> 0:18:57.300 We might see some rain as early as Saturday morning, 0:18:57.540 --> 0:19:00.400 but we could see it continuing until as late as Tuesday, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:00.620 10 p.m. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:02.510 It won't be a lot of rain, but she says 0:19:02.530 --> 0:19:04.170 all of SoCal should get a taste. 0:19:04.210 --> 0:19:07.149 Literally anywhere, we'll be seeing several hours of light to 0:19:07.290 --> 0:19:09.270 moderate rain through these four days. 0:19:09.350 --> 0:19:11.710 And some strong surf could do more damage to already 0:19:11.730 --> 0:19:14.250 eroded beaches. Jason Aithenson, KFI News. 0:19:14.630 --> 0:19:16.389 Well, I certainly hope there's no flooding. I know that 0:19:16.410 --> 0:19:19.400 they're warning about that, but I'm really looking forward to 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:20.619 some rain showers. 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:21.300 So happy. 0:19:21.420 --> 0:19:23.659 I know, right? It's been so hot. And yesterday I 0:19:23.700 --> 0:19:27.040 walked home. And I thought, oh, it's supposed to be cooler. 0:19:27.180 --> 0:19:30.090 But like when that sun is just pounding down on 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.810 you right around noon, you're like, oh, my gosh. 0:19:33.630 --> 0:19:33.869 All right. 0:19:33.910 --> 0:19:35.189 Well, it's going away. It's going away. 0:19:35.210 --> 0:19:37.850 It's all right. This is an absolute scandal. 0:19:38.430 --> 0:19:41.550 Sentencing has been pushed back to December for a former 0:19:41.670 --> 0:19:45.909 aide to Governor Newsom and campaign manager to Javier Becerra, 0:19:46.310 --> 0:19:50.630 who was convicted of stealing $ 225, 000 from Becerra's inactivity. political 0:19:50.690 --> 0:19:54.860 campaign account. Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton says it's 0:19:54.940 --> 0:19:58.480 outrageous that sentencing isn't going to happen until after the election. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.760 It's the Javier Becerra corruption scandal, where he took money 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.910 from his California campaign account, breaking federal and state law 0:20:06.290 --> 0:20:09.750 in order to top up the salary of his former 0:20:09.770 --> 0:20:12.840 chief of staff, Sean McCluskey. so that he could go 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:13.740 with him to Washington. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:18.010 McCluskey pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to commit bank 0:20:18.369 --> 0:20:22.710 and wire fraud. The LAPD says the investigation so far 0:20:22.950 --> 0:20:26.210 into the fatal fall of a 17-year-old at Franklin High 0:20:26.250 --> 0:20:30.109 School in Highland Park has not found evidence linking allegations 0:20:30.150 --> 0:20:32.869 of bullying to the student's death, but officials say the 0:20:32.910 --> 0:20:36.850 investigation is ongoing. Video shows the boy going over a 0:20:36.930 --> 0:20:39.600 railing last week after a fight with another boy. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:40.399 The L.A. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:45.379 County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a suicide. California 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.070 may soon become the first state to ban most man-made 0:20:49.180 --> 0:20:50.310 quartz countertops. 0:20:50.630 --> 0:20:53.970 Officials want to ban countertops with high levels of crystalline silica, 0:20:54.250 --> 0:20:57.850 which can be dangerous to workers. The main concern is silicosis, 0:20:58.090 --> 0:21:01.890 a deadly lung disease caused by silica dust. Since 2019, 0:21:01.890 --> 0:21:05.450 over 650 cases and 35 deaths from silicosis have been 0:21:05.490 --> 0:21:09.270 reported in California. Manufacturers say the countertops are safe if 0:21:09.310 --> 0:21:12.420 proper safety steps are taken. Officials, though, say current safety 0:21:12.460 --> 0:21:16.920 rules aren't enough. Australia has already banned quartz countertops. Tammy Trujillo, 0:21:17.220 --> 0:21:21.020 KFI News. Home foreclosures have jumped dramatically. 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:27.540 New data says filings for foreclosures, including default notices, scheduled auctions, 0:21:27.619 --> 0:21:30.600 or bank repossessions, were up 13% in August from the 0:21:30.619 --> 0:21:33.840