Philip Teresi

As China prepares to welcome athletes, media and more for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, authorities say they are testing more than 2 million residents for COVID. Derricke Dennis of ABC News joins to discuss preparations and concerns regarding the upcoming games. With an eye on pulling off a successful Winter Olympics, there are concerns on behalf of Chinese authorities that Putin's aggression towards Ukraine could be a distraction. A NAS Lemoore Navy fighter jet on the USS Carl Vinson suffered a "landing mishap," resulting in a lost F-35C. Although seven sailors were injured and the pilot ejected, miraculously there were no fatalities. Listeners comment. Krispy Kreme is offering blood donors a dozen free doughnuts for donations now through 1/31 as the nation struggles with record low supplies of whole blood. 

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Kicking off the show with a question about which CA team is going to win the NFC championship game this Sunday. On the streets of Bakersfield, specifically Stoner Drive, CHP performed a routine traffic stop to find a driver with hundreds of pounds of processed pot. A party at an online rental in Clovis ended with gunfire and cops on the scene. Brian Wiley, Real Money Pros, joins the show to discuss today's tumultuous Monday on the stock market. 

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Trending Topics at 5 o'clock. Meatloaf has died. Listeners comment on what they won't do for love. SNL backs up Pete Davidson.  

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Meatloaf has died. A discussion on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. A guy dressed as Spider-Man scaled a skyscraper in downtown LA in an attempt to get Marvel's attention. No word on if he's successful but he did get the attention of police. The new Batman movie is nearly 3 hours long. The FBI has issued a warning to be careful scanning QR codes after reports of fraudulent codes being placed on parking meters in Austin. 

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After another death involving a cyclist near Woodward Park, critics argue that Fresno is failing to protect the safety of cyclists and pedestrians in the area. Following his acquittal, Kyle Rittenhouse, has filed documents with the court to get the firearm that was used in the Kenosha shooting back so he can destroy it. A woman on Tiktok claims she was mistreated by a barista who refused to let her use her boyfriend's card to pay for her drink. 

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Grammy award winning musician and actor Meatloaf has died at the age of 74. A cause of death has not been released. The FBI has closed the Gabby Petito case and have disclosed that her fiancé Brian Laundrie, and the prime suspect in her murder, admitted to his role in her death by strangulation in the notebook found with his body. Mitch McConnell is under Twitter fire after he appeared to imply a difference between Black voters and "Americans" while discussing his decision not to support voting rights legislation proposed by Democrats. 

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Trending Topics at 5 o'clock. A word on weird food. A judge mocked a female lawyer and accidentially forgot he was on YouTube. Adele has postponed her shows. 

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CA State Senator Andres Borgeas joins the show to discuss his decision not to seek re-election in November. 

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A moment on parents subbing. At Wharton, the business school second only to Stanford, a professor tweeted the result of her question to students--what does the average American worker make per year? 25% of them said over six figures. One thought it was $800k. The real number is closer to $53k. Gov. Newsom has announced a new program that would allow students to subsidize tuition to 45 colleges and universities if they're willing to do community service while studying. Three high school students in Lodi have been hospitalized after trying the popular social media trend, "One Chip Challenge." The chip is a combination of Carolina Reaper and Scorpion peppers.

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The Supreme Court has voted 8-1 to deny former President Trump's request to block release of 750 pages of records that the National Archivist determined relevant to the Jan. 6 probe. The committee has asked for testimony from former presidential advisor and daughter, Ivanka. In COVID news, VCH has postponed some non-emergency procedures due to staff shortage. The omicron surge is exacerbating teacher shortages, causing some schools in CA to close and locally, the positivity rate is up from 3% in December to about 30% last week according to VCH. 

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