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Good morning.

It's five o'clock straight up this Monday, December first.

This is your wake up call.

I'm Amy King.

December first.

You know what that means.

Three and a half weeks still Christmas.

You're on the downslope year and up.

Are you ready for it?

I'm not.

Did you do any shopping on Black Friday?

I didn't do, not even a lick, but apparently a lot of people did.

We're going to be finding more about that out with the Denise PELAGREENI with Bloomberg, just getting our getting in our business with us a little bit later.

I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving.

I had such a fun Thanksgiving.

I decided to stay in town.

I had dinner with my brother and his girlfriend and her family and they dubbed it Amy and the Armenians.

So it was me and a large family from Armenia, and they are so lovely and we had so much good food.

So we had traditional Turkey, but then we had some really cool Armenian dishes too.

It was my international Thanksgiving.

I loved I loved it.

And Cono, you survived two whole meals this Thanksgiving, didn't you?

I did?

It was delicious, delicious.

It's tough, though, when you got to go to both parents' houses and eat two full, big old meals.

Yeah, you have to try to not eat so much at the first one, just drink first the second one.

And did you do that successfully?

I think so.

I think I did good, good, good, good, good and great Thanksgiving.

I have awesome Thanksgiving.

And you didn't cook this year.

You went to your sisters time sister, so I did nothing.

That's always a fun Thanksgiving too.

All right, well, welcome back.

I hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving to Now let's ramp up and here's what's ahead.

On wake up call this Monday morning, five people have been hurt in a crash between an LA Fire ambulance and an SUV and Arlita.

The ambulance was transporting two elderly patients to the hospital last night around eight when the crash happened at Woodman Avenue and Chase Street.

The ambulance driver is in critical condition.

Two people from South la are expected to plead guilty today to a federal count of conspiracy.

Prosecutors say the twenty eight year old man and thirty four year old woman pulled in front of a government vehicle and blocked it at an intersection while the agents were performing immigration enforcement duties.

Thousands of line the streets of Hollywood as dozens of celebrities and local leaders rode the red carpet route along Hollywood below.

Yeah, it was the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade.

Actor Luke Wilson was the Grand Marshal.

Anthony Anderson was recognized as the parade's Humanitarian of the Year.

The TV air date for the parade hasn't been yet announced, but I'll believe it's going to be on the CW and we'll keep you up to date on that.

It's a fun one to watch.

Things are heating up between the US and Venezuela.

ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us at five point twenty to tell us the latest on that what led an Afghan national to shoot two National Guard members in Washington, d C.

While we're finding out more details about the shooter.

ABC.

Stephen Portnoy's going to join us with all the details on that coming up on wake Up Call.

And people are back to work after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend or are they?

Abcs Jim Ryan says, there are a lot of people at work, but some of them are not actually working.

He'll tell us all about that.

Let's get started some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Police in stocked and say, whoever shot up a family gathering and killed four people, including children, is still out there.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department tell us that they're looking for that suspect and they're trying to make sure they find that person or persons because it could be multiple people that are responsible for opening fire inside of a banquet hall.

That is where we're told that there was a party going on.

It was a family gathering.

Melissa Don says those killed Saturday night ranged in age from eight to twenty one.

Sheriff's officials say they were looking for one person, but now believe there may have been multiple shooters.

A married couple in their sixties has been shot and killed outside their home in Simi Valley.

The shooting was reported just before noon yesterday.

Police say they found the man and woman lying in the driveway with multiple gunshot wounds.

Detectives say the shooter walked up to the couple's open garage and open fire.

Police haven't released a motive, but they say the shooting was not random.

A neighbor says the shooter might have been the couple's step son.

A large bear has been found living under a home in Altadena.

It was really big.

The bear was discovered after the homeowner installed cameras near a crawl space.

He had noticed items around the area had been knocked over, damaged.

Some bricks were moved aside well.

Ken Johnson tells KTLA he had a close call with the bear last week when changing the camera's batteries.

So I went around there and I just glanced at the hole from standing up, and I heard this horrible growl like oh A hiss, I wo and I just ran.

He says he wants the bear gone, but got a recording.

The wildlife officials were off for the holiday weekend.

He says police have told him he should be safe inside.

I don't know if I don't know how comfortable i'd be with a bear living underneath the house.

Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan.

Good morning, Jim.

Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?

Very nymy?

No yours?

I had a great one, great one, ate way too much as always, but had a lovely time, and then spent the weekend at Disneyland.

So how does it get better than that?

Beautif I made my macaroni, Homemade macaroni cheese was a hit.

Homemade bread pudding was a disaster.

So really, you had a disaster dish too?

I did too.

Yeah, I never tried making it, and I thought, you know what, I can do this, and I couldn't.

It turns out I couldn't.

Okay, we'll swap recipes later.

I tried to make potato candy.

It did not work.

Oh okay, So we've moved past Thanksgiving, and then we had a Black Friday, and we're into now the big eat, Cyber Monday.

And the difficulty with Cyber Monday is that, unlike Black Friday, when most people had the day off, people are supposed to be working today.

Oh that was supposed to be you're right, but three and five say, yeah, I'll be working, but I'm going to do a little cyber Monday shopping as well.

About seventy six percent we'll glance down at their phones to do that.

They'll be you know, checking out their their deals, shopping with their thumbs.

Forty one percent we'll keep a tab open on their work computer and flip between work and whatever shopping they're doing.

And this one amy sixteen percent of shoppers, according to the survey by Coupon Follow, will have a second monitor set up just to watch deals.

So do they calculate, Jim like, what kind of effect that has on productivity?

Yes, and it's not good.

And even during the rest of the year.

It's not just a cyber Monday thing.

Full time employees spend or waste, if you want to call it that waste two point four hours per week shopping online at work.

That's sixteen full work days per year.

The worst our gen z they're averaging about three point two hours a week during the work week shopping for stuff.

That's twenty one.

Full workdays per year that they spend shopping work.

That's not just you know, and consider all the other distractions that are out there.

You've got to the final four.

You've got just general social media and people glancing at that all day long.

It's a wonder we get anything done work.

That's it.

Is there a way, I mean, can can bosses cracked down on that or is it just kind of the cost of doing business these days?

Well, it seems if not accepted it, they've sort of, you know, turned the other way.

The same survey show that at about one in four twenty four percent of workers have been caught shopping online by a coworker or a manager, and those folks still keep their jobs.

So I think that you're right there that manager bosses are just sort of if not looking the other way, then saying okay, fine, because you know why, Probably those managers are doing it too.

Well, that's what I was just going to ask here, the boss is doing the shop in too probably And do do we have any information on like how big this cyber Monday is expected to be?

Yes, and it's going to be a monster.

The expectation, according to Adobe Analytics, is that shoppers are going to spend fourteen billion dollars today alone.

That's up six percent from last year.

And that's on top of the nearly six and a half billion and that people spent on Thanksgiving nearly twelve billion spent in online shopping on Black Friday, so it's a huge phenomenon.

I think it's interesting that people spent that much money on Thanksgiving.

I don't really think I did a lot with technology on Thanksgiving.

Well, after being on doing the show here, but after I at home, it was kind of like phones down.

Well, yeah, that's kind of a nice policy.

You know, if you're coming to Thanksgiving dinner, leave your phone at the door, along with politics and religion and every other sensitive topic.

Well, I will wish you good luck on next year's recipe.

Glad the mac and cheese worked out well.

Sorry about the bread pudding.

I'm not even gonna try.

It just didn't work.

Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan will talk to you soon.

See Yea.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noame says officials are learning more about why an Afghan national allegedly shopped two National Guard members in Washington, d C.

One of them.

Noam spoke with NBC's Meet the Press about the guy.

We believe he was radicalized since he's been here in this country.

We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we're going to continue to talk to those who interacted with him.

Nome says the Biden administration is to blame for letting in thousands of unvetted people from Afghanistan in twenty twenty one.

The man was granted asylum this year.

Nomes suggested the Trump team was handled was handling flawed cases left by a broken system.

Lawyers for the man charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York want some of the evidence thrown out.

The judges ordered pre trial hearings in New York State's case against accus killer Luigi Manchioni.

Maggioni's lawyers are arguing that certain evidence collected by Pennsylvania police when they arrested him should be suppressed because they searched Mangioni's backpack without a warrant.

They also claim police failed to read him his Miranda rights.

I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Investigators in Hong Kong say some of the netting on that apartment building or those apartment buildings that caught fire last week, killing at least one hundred and fifty one people did not meet code for fire resistance.

The fire and Wednesday also left thousands of people without homes.

It burned for several days the buildings were being renovated.

Hong Kong's Anti corruption agency has arrested a total of fourteen people now.

Secretary of State Marco Rubios his progress is being made with Ukrainian officials in an effort to draw up a plan to end the war with Russia.

Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff met yesterday with the delegation in Florida.

There's more work to be done.

This is delicate, it's complicated.

There are a lot of moving parts, and obviously there's another party involved here that they''ll have to be a part of the equation.

And that'll continue later this week when mister Woodcoff travels to Moscow.

President Trump says he'll release the results of his MRI tests that he got in October.

He was speaking with reporters yesterday as he traveled back to Washington from Florida.

He said the results of the MRI were, in his words, perfect.

If I didn't think it was going to be good either, I would let you know negatively, I would run, I'd do something, But the doctor said some of the best reports for the age, some of the best reports they've ever seen.

The White House hasn't said why Trump had an MRI during his physical last month, or on what part of his body.

Long term cannabis use can be pretty painful.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago'say emergency room, visits for something called cannabinoid hyperreemesis syndrome are rising.

It's a condition seen in heavy, long term cannabis users, and it triggers waves of severe stomach cramps, nausea, and vomiting that can last up to two days.

Doctors say the pain can be so intense it's been nicknamed scrummating, screaming and vomiting at the same time.

Scientists still don't know exactly what causes it, but they say awareness is growing as more states expand access to cannabis.

Brigida degustino o k if I News scrummating.

Wow, that just sounds awful.

Screaming and vomiting at the same time.

Here's something to make you feel a little better.

We're just one day away from kfi's annual Pastathon.

Jeffrunos Arado and his team at Katarina's Club feed up to five thousand hungry kids and families every day in Socaw, reaching millions.

Since the charity, named after his mother, began in two thousand and five.

Real we defed over eleven million meals.

He says this is his way of giving back after he grew up poor, his mom serving up hot pasta to get through hard times.

I'll deal is still the same problem.

They cannot feed family kids, and I decide to help to never forget where I do come from.

He's urging listeners to stop by the White House in Anaheim, meet the KFI host and news team members, drop off a donation, and help make this year's pastathon the biggest yet.

Heather Broker, KFI News, thank you for including the news team members.

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You can go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash postathon can't believe it's tomorrow.

The family of the National Guard member fatally shot in Washington, d C.

Has been invited to the White House.

President Trump says he spoke with the parents of specialist Sarah Beckstrom and they are devastated.

Beckstrom and staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf were shot on Wednesday.

Wolf remains in critical condition.

Police are looking for the person who stabbed demand to death in downtown LA.

The guy was stabbed last night around five thirty at Wiltshire and Grand Avenue.

The stabber apparently approached the man standing all on the corner.

They exchanged words, and then the man stabbed the guys several times.

The powerball jackpot tonight is worth nearly three quarters of a billion dollars.

No one matched all six winning numbers for Saturday Nights drawing, so tonight's drawing is worth seven hundred and forty million dollars.

There have been fifty drawings since anyone won the jackpot at six oh five its handle on the news.

Lawmakers are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the strikes on a drug vote and speaking of the strikes on a drug boat let's say good morning too.

ABC's Karen Travers.

Karen, things are heating up between the US and Venezuela.

What's the latest.

Yeah.

The President over the weekend had seemingly threatened to expand the operation against Venezuela.

On Saturday, he warned all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers consider the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety.

The White House the President did not give more details about what he means by this, but the President was asked about it yesterday as he traveled back to Washington on Air Force One and was asked, does the warning mean and air strike is imminent?

Should we not.

Read it that way?

And he said to reporters, don't read anything into it, but of course it comes as the President has been sort of threatening to escalate operations.

It's two weeks ago.

He was asked about ruling out US troops on the ground and said he doesn't rule anything else.

Last week, the administration designated Nicholas Maduro, the president there and his government a foreign terrorist organization.

And last week we saw that warning from the FAA for pilot to exercise caution when flying over Venezuela due to what it said was a worsening security situation.

So certainly increasing the pressure by increasing the military presidence in the Caribbean, and now with this seeming warning from the President, even if he downplayed it yesterday in comments for reporters.

Okay and Karen, I was just going to ask, and you mentioned that the FAA is telling pilots to be careful, but they haven't like said don't fly over Venezuela.

Yeah, there wasn't something specific like that.

There were six airlines last week that suspended flights into Caracas.

But you know, we'll see if there's anything further this week after that response from the President or that statement in the president.

There's a White House briefing today that was just added with the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.

I think there'll be a lot of questions on this topic, especially that statement from the President since he wasn't very detailed in response to questions yesterday.

Okay, what do we know what the endgame is this on this?

I mean he said that they want to cut back the flow of illegal drugs, but is it bigger than that?

Right?

I mean, that's been what the administration has said, you know, when you ask questions about regime change and pushing out Maduro, they kind of dance around that a bit.

The President last week had even indicated there could be conversations with Maduro.

So we'll see what develops on that front in the coming weeks.

Okay, And the President Trump has kind of famously been against starting new wars and really said, hey, we didn't start any new wars while I've been in office.

And is this a departure for him or maybe just bosturing or do we know?

Well, I mean, you look at the military action that's been taking place in the Caribbean.

It's been incredibly aggressive with what they've been doing.

The total number at this point, it's been twenty one boats that have been hit, eighty three people have been killed.

The White House hasn't given any evidence of the crimes committed by those on board or identified those killed, and lawmakers from both parties now really clamoring for details.

There's been a lot of frustration on Capitol Hill.

Okay, ABC's Karen Travis, thanks so much as always for the info.

All Right, we'll talk to you soon.

World AIDS Day is today.

It's being marked with events in West Hollywood, and other organizations around southern California are also commemorating the day.

It's the thirty seventh annual event highlighting the fight against AIDS and HIV.

There were almost forty one million people living with HIV at the end of twenty twenty four, sixty five percent of them are in Africa.

An estimated six hundred thirty thousand people died from HIV related causes in twenty twenty four, and an estimated one point three million people acquired HIV.

Several people have been hurt in a crash in Arlita between an ambulance and an suv.

The Los Angeles Fire Department of Ambulance was transporting two elderly patients collided with an suv.

Has happened around eight pm at the intersection of Woodman Avenue and Chase Street.

The collision left the thirty four year old ambulance driver in critical condition, and all five people were taken to a local hospital, including the two elderly patients.

The crash remains under investigation.

Mark Mayfield Kofi News.

The man accused of causing a crash that killed an Alhambra police officer, is due in court scheduled for this morning at eight thirty.

Steven Zapotta was allegedly driving the stolen SUV that collided with Officer Alex Sanders police cruiser during a chase just over a week ago.

A woman in Zapotta's car was also killed.

A motorcycle crash in Chatsworth has sparked a small brush fire.

LA Fire put out the half acre brushfire yesterday afternoon on North red Mesa Drive, but the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority has remained on the scene overnight to make sure the fire doesn't flare up.

The motorcycle rider was taken to the hospital.

Airbus officials say flights are back on track now that a software glitch has been fixed.

Manufacturer announced Friday it was grounding six thousand of its A three to twenty jets because of a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers.

Francis Transport Minister said that thousands of software updates went very smoothly.

The recall game during one of the busiest travel periods of the year in the US.

Tammy Trio KFI News a lot.

Of Thanksgiving weekend flights were delayed, not because of remnants of the government shut down or even a software glitch, but because of a strong snowstorm in the Midwest.

The snow in the nation's midsection caused delays and cancelations at LAX over the weekend.

Delays into Chicago's O'Hare airport up to about five hours.

Federal health officials say today is the last day to safely gobble up those Thanksgiving leftovers.

The Department of Health and Human Services is they usually good through the Monday after the holiday, as long as they've been in the refrigerator.

Leftovers in the freezer can be safe to eat indefinitely, but then they get that nasty little freezer burn.

The quality might not is good.

The USDA says frozen leftover start to lose moisture and flavor within about two to four months.

Police are still looking for the shooter who killed four people, including three children, at a kid's birthday party in Stockton.

Eleven others were hurt in the shooting on Saturday night, a nine year old in critical condition.

Police say there may have been more than one shooter and the shooting was targeted.

Those killed were eight, nine, fourteen, and twenty one years old.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida.

As peace talks to end the war with Russia continue.

Work is still being done to iron out details of a twenty eight point US plan that has drawn a lot of criticism for proposing Ukraine give up territory and make other concessions to Russia.

An unbearable situation has developed in Altadena.

A homeowner says a bear is living in the crawl space under his home.

Ken Johnson set up a camera to watch the five hundred pound bear, which he says leaves the home during the day and then comes home at night.

Johnson says he wants the bear out of there, but he is waiting to hear back from the Fish and Wildlife Department to see if they'll come do it.

At six o five at Tandle on the News, President Trump says his MRI was perfect, one of the best ever.

Bill's gonna tell you more about that, as you've heard us talking about here on KFI.

The KFI Pastathon is here, and our live broadcast is happening tomorrow on Giving Tuesday.

It starts at five am with wake up call goes all the way through eight pm.

It's at the Anaheim White House.

The address is eight eight seven South Anaheim Boulevard.

Chef Bruno's charity, Katerinas Club, provides more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in southern California.

Your generosity is what makes it happen.

Couldn't do it without you, So we need your donations, and first we would love to invite you to join us at the Anaheim white House.

You can donate there, you can drop off pasta cash, whatever, or there are so many other ways that you can do this.

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Like Chef Bruno doesn't get anything but probably a very very warm heart and the knowledge that he's helping.

He's helped like millions, literally millions of kids since he's been doing this.

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And of course a private backyard barbecue with our very own Bill and Lindsay Handle and Neil Savedra And there's rumors that Bill is going to invite the rest of the Morning crew to join them, but that we don't officially have an invitation yet.

But like, really cool a private backyard barbecue at Bill and Lindsay's house, hosted by the one and only Neil Savadra.

It's going to happen on a Saturday afternoon during the FOURK reports, so it'll be from two to five pm and you can expect delicious bites catered by Anaheim White House.

More than questionable banter of course, because Bill's involved a cheap, crappy swag that you're going to regret taking, and selfie's to show your unimpressed friends that you've been to a radio celebrities house.

Actually, it sounds like it's going to be a really, really cool, fun time, So hopefully you can make a bid and join Bill and Lindsey for an intimate, ridiculous once in a lifetime and probably once it's enough experience in Bill's backyard.

Okay again, those items are all up on the website kfiam six forty dot com slash Postathon, and there's a lot of other stuff that you can bid on too.

If you don't want to make the big bids, there's several other smaller items.

There's some tailor swift stuff.

Ooh, and Christmas is coming might be very cool anyway, We hope you'll join us postathon.

I know we've been talking about it a lot, but because it means a lot to all of us here and again, we'd love to invite you to come out to the Anaheim White House tomorrow morning.

And if you wanted to come out for wake up call, I mean, why not get up in the middle of the night and come join me?

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Here's what's coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Strong winds and cold temperatures are headed into southern California.

Forecasters say a dry storm system is going to produce widespread gusty conditions, especially in the Anelo Valley, interior valleys, and mountains.

Overnight lows will fall near or below freezing across inland communities through Friday morning.

It was chili this morning.

I'd wear a jacket.

It's toasty warm in the studios, but don't forget your jacket as you head out the door if you're headed out early this morning.

A couple from South la are expected to plead guilty to causing a car chase in which they blocked and followed immigration agents who were on the job Gustavo Torres and Kiara Jamie Flores are due in federal court this morning.

They allegedly slammed on the brakes in front of a federal vehicle in February and aggressively followed the officers for about two miles.

The pair are charged with conspiracy to impede or injure officers.

They could get up into six years in prison for that.

A man who's been killed five others were hurt in a four car crash on the fourteen Freeway.

The crash happened about one am yesterday in the northbound lanes at the twentieth Street West exit.

The five people hurt were taken to the hospital.

A Democratic congressman from California is putting new pressure on President Trump over his time to Jeffrey Epstein.

Representative Robert Garcia says he and his team are the ones who uncovered three emails suggesting Trump knew more about Epstein's abuse than he claimed.

The Only Times reports.

Garcia's release of the emails pushed the White House to release its own Epstein files.

In the emails, Epstein wrote that Trump had quote spent hours at the late financier's house with one of his victims and that he quote knew about the girls.

Republicans accused Garcia of playing politics by forcing the release of the files, but he says he's focused on accountability and justice for survivors.

Other Brooker KFI news.

People traveling after Thanksgiving have seen hundreds of flights delayed or canceled in Chicago because of a winter storm in the Great Lakes region.

Utility crews in Wisconsin worked to restore power to thousands of people.

The airport in Des Moines, Iowa, reopened on the critical travel day after a Delta Connection flight slit off an icy runway.

Nobody was heard.

The National Weather Services a new storm is heading to the mid Atlantic and Northeast, with up to a foot of snow expected to fall by tomorrow.

Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegreene.

Good morning, Denise.

Hey, I hope you had a great holiday.

Oh wito, this one we did.

It was delicious and bountiful.

So now that when the holidays are over, Black Friday is done and today what a cyber Monday.

So tell us how big it could be and how's it going to affect stocks?

Well?

You remember last week we were talking about how one of the reasons cyber Monday turns out to be so big is that people.

Shop at work when their boss isn't looking right.

Well, that's one of the things that's expected to drive spending today to record highs.

Adobe Analytics estimating US shoppers will spend more than fourteen billion dollars online today, at six percent more than last year.

Shoppers are really out there today, expected to be out there on the perception of big deals after the recent price increases we've had.

Today we're just.

Seeing a huge number of deals on electronics apparel, thirty percent off, twenty six percent off, you know, very attractive, hard to resist, and people are afraid if they don't shop today, they're going to miss the deal, simple as that.

Yeah, but I heard that they're going to extend those sales because with all this economic uncertainty, they're going to say, well, we're not going to cut the deals and lose the money.

But they then they are, because if they don't get enough people buying today, those who are left with inventory are absolutely going to cut prices further.

So if you're one of those people who can hold out instead of taking one marshmallow.

Now you can wait for the two marshmallows.

If you wait a few more days, you probably get a better deal.

Okay, this is not a great deal if you've got bitcoin, because it is plunging again.

Oh my god, it's horrible.

It's down to five percent again this morning.

You look at what's happening here.

Right now, bitcoin is at eighty five eight hundred and twenty six dollars a bitcoin.

I mean we were at one hundred and twenty.

So just if you're one of.

Those people who was sitting there, just sitting there making a lot of money on bitcoin and using it to pay your student loans right now, just so regretful that you didn't sell.

But we do have people saying that it's going up to two hundred thousand dollars by the end of this year.

That would be miraculous and that would leave a lot of people really flush by the end of the plus.

I would think that people who are invested in bitcoin.

No, I mean, it's been volatile since the get go right, right, But it's so much fun, right.

It's cool when it's up to one, right, you can make it at home if you can string you know, three or four PCs together and you have a good contract for electricity supplier, you know, I mean it just it has that feeling of like you know, mining for gold, where it's yours for the taking.

Okay, well this has a little bit of a golden color, especially when you put lots of pop butter on it.

AMC's launching a popcorn.

Pass, yes, I mean, and this is great if you're somebody who just loves to munch on popcorn when you're at the movies AMC theaters, and this is a Cyber Monday deal for them rewards members obviously they want you to do.

And you can get a large popcorn at half price every day through December thirty, first Amy of twenty twenty six, so you're and three yeah with this popcorn pass.

It goes for under thirty bucks twenty nine to ninety nine plus tax though, and you make your money back according to you know if you do the calculation, and about seven or eight visits, so you know, what they want is for you to keep coming back and pay for that movie ticket, put your button the seat right and make them some money and enjoy yourself with this popcorn, which is just an amazing deal.

Okay, and then last, but not least, Coca Cola has some holiday flavors.

What are they?

Yeah, they do, and this is interesting.

You know they've offered these limited time holiday flavors, but not every year.

This year, not only did they release a limited time offer for the holiday season, but they have a new first time flavor.

They have this limited edition Coca Cola Holiday Creamy Vanilla and also a zero sugar version of Holiday Creamy Vanilla.

So pretty much something for everyone.

Okay, getting in your business as we do every morning with Bloomberg's Denise Pella Greeney, I think I'm gonna pass on the cream and illa flavor.

Pop Cornell Take pop Cornell take talk to you tomorrow.

Annalys say shoppers in the US spent big on Black Friday in stores and online.

That's despite economic uncertainty.

Adobe Analytics, which tracks e commerce, says online sales hit a record eleven point eight billion dollars I was up nine percent from last year.

Thanksgiving Day also set a record, was six point four billion dollars in online sales.

In Store traffic fell by a little more than three and a half percent, but that drop was smaller than expected.

A Glendale police cruisers overturned in a crash with another vehicle.

Glendale Police say the crash happened around one am yesterday on Brand Boulevard next to the one thirty four Freeway on ramp.

The officer wasn't hurt, but the driver of the other vehicle was taken to the hospital.

The animals have taken over the Witches Zoo.

Tooby had two took in one hundred and fifty six million dollars over the Thanksgiving weekend.

It's the second best opening for the holiday weekend ever.

Wicked for Good earned another ninety three million dollars for the same period after it opened with one hundred and fifty million dollars in just three days.

So actually, technically it sounds like Wicked kind of outpaced Utopia because Utopia got five whole days.

We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning, a missing dog in San Diego has been found swimming a half mile off shore.

Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen portnoy So.

Stephen d c still reeling from the shooting of a couple National Guard soldiers in the national capital.

Of course, we know that one of them has died the alleged shooter is in custody and we're finding out more about him.

Raman Ula Lackinwall, who worked for and with the CIA in Afghanistan for years as part of what was called the Zero Units, the elite counter terrorism strike force that went after town Laban targets in coordination with the CIA, brought to this country in twenty twenty one after the chaotic withdrawal as part of Operation Allies Welcome, and his whole family was moved here, including his wife and five children.

He had a brother also in the United States, and authorities are right now trying to dig into his social media, his electronic devices, trying to find some sort of evidence that would back up a charge that he was motivated by a linked to terrorist organizations or ideology.

So far, if they have found that, they haven't publicly shared it, and if they haven't found it, what they have uncovered is a picture of a man who was facing financial stress and a potential mental health crisis.

That he was unemployed, that he had a work permit that expired, was unable to provide for his family had recently this is new information this morning, been deeply impacted by the death of one of his Afghan commanders.

The sources say he'd been isolated, increasingly distant from family and friends and depressed.

So interesting because you know, I mean, if you spent all that time fighting against Talibar, are you know, helping fight against the Taliban?

I mean, he was fighting against a terrorist organization and then to turn to sort of a terrorist act as they're calling it.

They're describing it as a present described as an act of terror.

But to substantiate a terrorism charge in court, you have to provide evidence that there's a link to some sort of international organization or motivation.

Right.

It'd be easy to do that if you could find that he had said or written or shared something with someone that would indicate that he was motivated by an allegiance to some sort of movement.

But if he was angry over his particular circumstance, it's harder to prove.

That.

We don't know, and clearly there's no use at this point speculating, except to say that if authorities have information, they haven't shared it, which would indicate they don't have it.

But again that may be saying too much.

What we do know is for now, he's going to be charged when he's well enough to be charged, and he's not.

He's now in the hospital.

Under heavy guard.

But when he's well enough to be charged, he'll face first degree murder counts as well as one first degree murder count, as well as assault and firearms charges.

Under d C.

Law, you know, gets into the legality and the complications of exactly in what court he'll be charged, and we have we have two jurisdictions here in Washington.

DC's there's the local court under which you cannot bring a death penalty case, and there's a federal court, of course, in which under which you can.

The President has signed an executive order that directs the Attorney General to bring as many death penalty cases in DC as she can, something he signed earlier this year, and the Attorney General has vowed that this person, if found guilty, will be punished to the maximum extent allowed by law, which would be the death penalty.

But to bring a federal death penalty case in Washington, you have to tie it to the federal government.

And theseus from the National Guard who were shot.

This is really legally dense, but they were members of the West Virginia National Guard under state control.

Federally funded in sort of a hybrid federal state authorization or sorry, federal state status.

But one of the legal complications here is that just before the shooting, days before the shooting, a federal judge here in Washington, DC ruled at the deployment of out of state National Guard troops was unlawful, that authorities didn't have the statutory ability to do what they're doing, which could complicate a federal death penalty prosecution.

But I've gone way ahead of myself here.

Yeah, and it's best that we just wait, I think, to see what happens next.

Okay, So a couple quick questions before we let you go.

One, is he talking?

Do we know?

I have no information to indicate that he is sharing anything with authorities, and I don't know whether they've even tried to talk to Okay.

And then there's evidence that he he drove from Bellingham, Washington across the country.

Is there any indication that those specific National Guard members were targeted or was it just he was walking through the streets and they just happened to be there and those were the one se papers.

I've seen no indication that he had any idea who these people were prior to the ambush.

But and it gets at this idea that will be easier to prove that he was simply aiming to target the federal authorities in the United States, which would back up a federal death penalty charge if he's convicted a first degree murder under federal law.

The idea is that he saw them as an emblem of the federal government.

Okay, so interesting and so tragical at the same time.

ABC, Stephen Fort and I thanks so much for the information.

You bet all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

Cyber Monday could be one of the biggest online shopping holidays this year.

Adobe predicts that during the cyber week period stretching from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, Americans will spend nearly forty four million nope, not million, billion, billion dollars.

Communities across southern California are hosting events today to raise awareness for this World's AIDS Day.

West Hollywood is now displaying a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at City Hall through December fifteenth, and tonight it's hosting stories.

The AIDS Monument gathering followed by a herb Ritz exhibit at one gallery.

The LALGBT Center is also holding a rooftop reception at six pm.

The World Health Organization is urging action on health inequities, while the US State Department tells staff not to use federal funds for.

World AIDS Day events.

Bregidia Augustino KFI News.

Venezuela's accused the US of murder for the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez says, because there's no declared war between the two nations, it can't have been anything but murder.

The US is the goal of the strikes is to disrupt the flow of illegal drugs into the US.

The man accused of killing United Healthcare SCA O'Brien Thompson in Midtown Manhattan is doing court in the state case against him.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangioni planned to argue that several issues, or plan to argue several issues at today's hearing.

They say evidence collected by Pennsylvania police when they arrested Mangioni should be suppressed because they searched his backpack without a warrant that evidence includes a gun and a manifesto.

Attorneys also claimed police failed to read Mangioni his Miranda rights.

Manngioni is also facing federal charges.

Drivers using the four h five through the Supulvida Pass should expect major overnight lane closures starting tonight.

Cal transcrews are going to reduce lanes nightly from nine pm to six am all the way through Friday, with more closure scheduled from December twelfth to the fifteenth.

Parts of the freeway are being narrowed to three lanes in each direction, is part of a one hundred forty three million dollar pavement rehab project.

Ramp closures in traffic delayser likely.

Drivers are urged to use alternate routs like Suppulvida Boulevard restricting lanes.

Didn't they just spend like a grazillion dollars to add more lanes to the four or five.

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