WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.400 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:05.280 six forty. 3 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:16.359 And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.879 Bill Handle KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. 5 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:25.160 Here. 6 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:30.359 It is a Friday morning, January tenth, and usually we're 7 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.560 really thrilled about Fridays. Actually, you know what, waking up 8 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.359 this morning, even while in the midst of one of 9 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:41.159 the most horrific incidentss that we have experienced here in 10 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:46.679 southern California, wildfires that are almost beyond comprehension, we actually 11 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.439 woke up to some pretty good news in terms of 12 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.399 the containment factor. And now we're just trying to figure 13 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:58.039 out what, how, maybe why these fires started. Is there 14 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.880 anybody involved? And first let me say hello to one 15 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:03.679 and all. 16 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.079 Neil. 17 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.719 Good morning, sleepy sleepy time. 18 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.840 Yeah it is people've been up. 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.480 That's right, you were up. You started early this morning, 20 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.519 coming in three am. 21 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:19.200 I actually this is one of three times in my 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.799 thirty five plus year. 23 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.799 Years in talk radio that I overslept. 24 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:30.480 Oh, I turned off three alarms and do not recall it. 25 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.159 Well, you've been up doing early early morning shifts for 26 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.040 a couple of days, so yeah, you're doing more. You're 27 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.719 doing a yeoman's job. Whatever the hell a yeoman is. 28 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.040 Actually I know what a yeoman is, but that's besides 29 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:44.439 the point. 30 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:45.200 What is it. 31 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:47.640 A yeoman is part of the Queen's guard. 32 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.159 If you look at if you go over to go 33 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.239 to the Tower of London, you will see the uniformed 34 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.280 guards there and those are traditional guards. 35 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:57.680 Those are yeomen. 36 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.799 Go yo yo, they do, they go no over here 37 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.680 and they now have turned into actually tour guides is 38 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:07.079 what they are. You go in there and you get 39 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.879 a tour and one of the yeomen give you the tour. 40 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.199 Okay, you can look that up if you want. Amy. 41 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.680 Good morning, Hi, how are you hi? I notice you 42 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:18.919 don't have a Disney shirt on. 43 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:21.120 I got my California strong shirt on. 44 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.080 Oh yeah, that's what was that small print? California the 45 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.520 home of Disneyland, right. 46 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:32.680 Is not just California today, okay, California the home of 47 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:34.080 the Dodgers in Disneyland. 48 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:39.719 Yeah. And and good morning, good morning Bill. Putting everybody together, 49 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.120 we have a show today. 50 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.120 We have Nathan Hawkman coming on the show this morning 51 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.840 at seven o'clock. The DA of Orange of Valet County, 52 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.719 Todd is the DA of Orange County. But Nathan Hawkman 53 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:54.639 was in on the press conference yesterday, and you rarely 54 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.680 see a DA when you're dealing with a natural disaster. 55 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.000 There was a reason he won and it was really important. 56 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.240 And he's going to be our guest coming up at 57 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.919 seven o'clock, thank god. 58 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.319 And poor And didn't you get alerts this morning? Anne 59 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.039 as well? And oh yeah, oh you've been NonStop this week. 60 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.520 Oh yeah, no, it's been interesting. 61 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:18.919 Yeah. 62 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.879 The only person out there that has sort of not 63 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.280 had to work extra overtimes meet. 64 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:26.080 Yeah, no, no, we know that. 65 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.719 Yeah, I thought I pulled them out together. You guys 66 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.960 are up all that long, you know. 67 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.800 I'm watching some stuff on Netflix, you know, like Squid 68 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:37.319 Game two. 69 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.520 All right, you finish Wicked? 70 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:41.439 No? 71 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:42.919 I still haven't finished wickeed. 72 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:44.599 Have you finished Wicked? 73 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.800 Because first of all, it's a nine hour movie. 74 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.759 Second of all, you can The only reason I am 75 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.919 finishing it because I paid thirty dollars for it because 76 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.400 we have a guest here who is a Wicked fanatic. 77 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.840 We did it for her and big mistake, biggest mistake 78 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:01.479 of my life. 79 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.919 So I have to finish watching it. Musicals, I love musicals. 80 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.000 I don't think it's that good. I mean the musical 81 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:08.919 musical part of Wicked I thought was great. 82 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.199 All right, Kono, good morning. All right, there we go. 83 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.120 Everybody is there, So let's get right to it. Man. 84 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:17.639 We've got news, of. 85 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.839 Course we do, and most of it relating to the 86 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.240 fire this morning, but there's some other stuff happening too, 87 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:23.839 big stuff. 88 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:24.959 So let's do. 89 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.519 It's time for handle on the news, Amy King, Neil 90 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:34.519 and me, and we start with the news of the 91 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:38.759 death toll in the wildfires, now officially to ten. But 92 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:40.680 as Anna and I were talking about it, it is 93 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.959 going to climb like crazy because the cadaver dogs are 94 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.759 going to be out there in force, and. 95 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.720 People are going to be reporting. 96 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.399 My uncle was still in the house, he didn't evacuate, 97 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.279 and I'm willing to bet that other than those people 98 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.519 that had some real physical issu shoes and couldn't get out. 99 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.879 The majority are going to be people. 100 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.720 Who didn't get out and could have because a lot 101 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:13.000 of people tend to ignore mandatory of action orders and 102 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.959 it costs, obviously a costs not only in their lives 103 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.959 but just screwing everything up. So we're going to see 104 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.759 now the shot I've been watching this morning KTLA woke 105 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.560 up to that and last night going to be by 106 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.519 the way, I wasn't watching Wicked last night, I. 107 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:31.360 Was glued to the TV. 108 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:36.319 There's that one shot where you see, as far as 109 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.759 the eye can see, just these buildings on foundations, right, 110 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.040 and that's all. You see, foundations with a little bit 111 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.199 of debris on them and occasionally a chimney. It reminds 112 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:49.399 me of if you've ever seen Gone with the Wind 113 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.279 or Raiders of Loss Art Gone with the Wind, where 114 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.319 they do one of the last scenes, a civil war 115 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:59.120 scene where the camera is concentrating on a civil war 116 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.519 victim and someone is tending to him, and the camera 117 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.439 pulls back and it goes back and then you see 118 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.639 as far as the eye can see people on the 119 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.279 ground that have been mahimed or killed. And in the 120 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.600 Raiders of Lost Art, the last scene where the box 121 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.519 that crate which theoretically has the covenant, so you see 122 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.560 the worker moving down and then the camera pulls back 123 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:29.160 and you see hundreds of thousands of these boxes on shelves. 124 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.879 That's what that looked like. It looked like a movie 125 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.720 that did that, and every one of those were a 126 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:40.680 home and they're saying how many nine thousand home structures? Amy, 127 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.639 we don't know yet the delineation between homes and structures, We. 128 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:50.079 Do not, but it's over fifty three hundred in the 129 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.600 Palisades fire alone, and they're saying between four and five 130 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.399 thousand in the fire in the Altadena. 131 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:03.240 It's completely insane. It is now. Losing a business is horrific. 132 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.079 I mean, there is to not. 133 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.879 Be able to go to work even if you own 134 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:13.519 a business, all right, that is one issue that is horrible. 135 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.680 Losing your home is on a whole different level. 136 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:23.399 Because everything you own, your things that you bought, let's say, 137 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.600 during a honeymoon, and this is just before you got divorced. 138 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:32.680 Things that you had as a child, memorabilia you kept, 139 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.040 i mean all gone. And then the other thing is 140 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.439 And then we're going to take a break and then 141 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.519 go to news. This morning, at the end of wake 142 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.800 up Call, Amy was talking to Karen Travers, reported for ABC, 143 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.160 and we now know that the Feds are going to 144 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:52.279 cover one hundred percent of firefighting salaries. For example, extraordinary expenses, 145 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:57.439 the cost of the planes flying overhead, debris removal, temporary shelter, 146 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.959 all the expenses related to this. For six months, not rebuilding. 147 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.079 There will be other federal programs where money can be 148 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:12.680 borrowed at either zero or incredibly low rates interest rates, 149 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.439 and that's what happened during the earthquake in nineteen ninety four. 150 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:19.360 That program came into being. So this is one of 151 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.800 those things for those people that hate the government being 152 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.600 involved in our lives. 153 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:28.560 This is what government is for. This is why we 154 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:29.399 pay our taxes. 155 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.120 And this is government not only at its best, but 156 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.399 is at its necessary. It's not foreign policy, it's not Ukraine, 157 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:41.600 it's not Israel as important that those must be. 158 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:42.559 This is home. 159 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.120 This is us helping family and helping neighbors welcome. 160 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.519 I imagine if they put the money from a homeless 161 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.679 issue and the money from that crap high speed train 162 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.399 to bury our power lines, how we wouldn't have to 163 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.000 do all That may mean. 164 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:05.919 Yeah, priorities, but this things like this bring the priority level. 165 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.879 They go right to the top. All right, guys, we. 166 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:13.120 Got updated numbers. We're actually expecting to get more updated numbers. 167 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.200 They're doing another news conference today that's happening at eight. 168 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.320 But here's what we've got right now. The fire and 169 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:24.919 Pacific Palisades just under twenty thousand acres burned, but on 170 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:27.799 a little tiny bit of a bright side, they're saying 171 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.320 six percent surrounded, which means they're starting to get lines 172 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:34.080 around the fire. The fire burning in the Altadena area 173 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.480 thirteen thousand, six hundred and ninety acres, it is zero 174 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.399 percent surrounded. The fire that broke out yesterday afternoon in 175 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.519 West Hills, Calabasas area one thousand acres burned very quickly, 176 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.360 thirty five percent surrounded. That was another case of those 177 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.519 water dropping helicopters really coming to the rescue and stopping 178 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.639 them from getting into neighborhoods. The Hurst Fire in Silmar 179 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:00.240 seven hundred and seventy one acres, it's thirty seven percent surround. 180 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.720 And then there's a small fire burning in Tahunga it's 181 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.480 called the Creek Fire three acres. It's flared up a bit, 182 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.440 so that's why they put it on their fire map. 183 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.679 It's zero percent surrounded. 184 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:12.879 Now, when we talk. 185 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:18.679 About the percent surrounded, usually that means okay, the fire 186 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:20.919 has been contained. It's not going to go beyond that, 187 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.679 and now they're working their way inwards to put out 188 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:29.480 the fire. With these winds, containment means almost nothing when 189 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:33.240 you think about it, because the embers start flying, and 190 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.200 a fire can be zero one hundred percent contained, which 191 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.200 means it is surrounded or fire breaks have been have 192 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:45.879 surrounded the entire fire, and an ember flies over the 193 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.960 fire break or flies over the road and it just ignites. 194 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:51.440 Three miles away. 195 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.559 Which was the horrific part of the Palisades fire what 196 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:59.399 we saw in addition to just this thing going through 197 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:06.639 the Palisades like well, wildfire. It's pretty depressing. But now 198 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.879 the good news, if there is any good news, the 199 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:10.720 winds die down. 200 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:12.559 If the winds die down, they can deal with it. 201 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.519 If we weren't dealing with enough, the. 202 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.759 Likelihood of some wingnut trying to add more problems. A 203 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.559 suspect in custody now after he allegedly tried to start 204 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.159 a fire in the San Fernando Valley community of Woodland Hills. 205 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:32.840 This is a guy that was on. 206 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:38.559 Galindo Street while riding a motorbike of some kind and 207 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:43.159 carrying a lit torch. Three residents tackle demand held him 208 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.919 until the LAPD officers arrived. And this is a developing 209 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.679 story that's still going on. But that was as a 210 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:51.679 last night. 211 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.399 They should have lit his hair on fire and pretended 212 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:57.840 that he was a tiki torch. 213 00:11:59.600 --> 00:11:59.840 Yeah. 214 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.960 Yeah, it's well, we're gonna We're gonna. 215 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:09.039 Have Nathan Hawkman on the Lada and talk about what's 216 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.720 going on on the crime side of this fire. And 217 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.960 it's not fun stuff and it's more serious than even 218 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.600 the crime itself. And I'll explain that and ask Nathan 219 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:21.399 Hawkman about that. 220 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:25.320 We'll find out if Nathan Hopman has something to say 221 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.440 about this guy too, who may need to be scooped up. 222 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.679 Somebody was flying a drone in restricted airspace yesterday and 223 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:36.200 it crashed into one of the Super Scoopers and damaged 224 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.919 one of its wings, so that grounded that one. It's 225 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.759 sitting there instead of scooping up fifteen hundred gallons at 226 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:43.480 a time out of the ocean and dumping it on 227 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:44.320 the fires. 228 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:45.000 It's grounded. 229 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.480 Yeah, great, so there's only two of them out there. 230 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.120 The whole story of the Super Scoopers is really interesting. 231 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.759 They've been twenty years they've been on lease to La 232 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.080 County and during fire season they come down from Quebec. 233 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.440 It's Canadian company, and there was a should do it 234 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:00.840 buy them? 235 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:01.240 Do we not? 236 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:04.080 But the program is leasing them. They come down those 237 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.000 yellow airplanes that have those really interesting wings, and literally 238 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.440 they can they call super Scoopers because they fly at 239 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.000 at water level and scoop up water and then go 240 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:19.519 and dump it and it's far not only quicker, but 241 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:23.080 more effective than any other aircraft in terms of water drops. 242 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:26.360 Helicopters have to go back to their landing area. The 243 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.960 baskets have to be filled, the same thing with those 244 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:30.919 giant planes. 245 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:33.039 They both fixed wing and. 246 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.240 The jets, you know, the propeller planes as well as 247 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.240 the jets that they have. They have to land, they 248 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.480 have to be refilled. Super Scoopers boom in and out, 249 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:45.240 in and out, and to take half of those off 250 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.440 of the off of the attack plan. 251 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:51.960 Is horrible. This whoever it. 252 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.000 Was, I don't know if they're going to catch them. 253 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:57.639 That should be twenty five to life right there for 254 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:58.200 doing that. 255 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:02.200 Do you know what it is? It is if you 256 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.360 get caught flying a drone? 257 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.240 I believe it's like up to twelve months in jail 258 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.320 and up to seventy five thousand dollars. 259 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.759 Can you imagine that compared to the damage that it's done. 260 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:15.919 Yeah, or the opportunity costs. 261 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.080 Oh, here's a lie, here's a little fact about the 262 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.480 super scooper. You think of it going down and then 263 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.000 a scoop comes down, some kind of a ramp comes down, 264 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.279 and then the water is put into the water scooped up. 265 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:35.759 Actually it's a four inch pipe that faces backwards, and 266 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:37.519 that's what scoops up the water. 267 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.679 Really, And let's do it in lakes or can it 268 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:41.320 be both? 269 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.000 But for use lakes or better, because if you've got 270 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.399 the ocean out there and the ocean. 271 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:49.039 In their waves, it can't do it. So it needs 272 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.679 a fairly flat body of water. And usually it's lakes 273 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:52.440 or reservoirs. 274 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.519 Have you seen what the helicopters what they do? They 275 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.320 go dip into the reservose because there was a fire 276 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:00.360 a couple of years ago on your silver. 277 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.399 No, I haven't seen that. 278 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.360 And I was watching it and they dropped down a 279 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.559 tube and they suck the water up out of it. 280 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:07.879 It's fascinating to watch. 281 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:15.120 Already, we need a OOPS button for La County because 282 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.799 they keep making mistakes. Yesterday it was the emergency alert 283 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.120 issuing an evacuation warning for all of Los Angeles County 284 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:25.840 sent out by accident. 285 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.759 I received it. I'm sure a lot of you did. 286 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.759 As well, and then it came out what twenty eight 287 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.200 thirty minutes afterwards that it was like due to a 288 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:41.120 technical error. So maybe that was the same technical error 289 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.120 that sent it out again this morning at four am, or. 290 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.480 Yeah, it had to be. 291 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.519 That's I didn't get it other people in the room 292 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.519 that I was at last night, I was having dinner 293 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:58.120 with some folks and it was now half of us 294 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.159 got it and the other half didn't, and I was 295 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.519 one of those that didn't get it. Also, have you 296 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.519 seen on social media which is going like wildfire? I 297 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.519 keep on using that phrase that the fault of these fires, 298 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:17.240 Gavin Newsom is at fault, And now I'm waiting for 299 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:23.720 actual video footage of him igniting fire with a barbecue lighter. 300 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.200 He doesn't need to have done that to have some 301 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.919 hands in the problem. They are still you know, whether 302 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.639 they took out foliage and stuff like that. 303 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.360 He's a problem. 304 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:38.759 Oo. 305 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.480 Okay, So there's this guy. He has a lot of money. 306 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.120 He lived or lives in Pacific Palisades, depending on whether 307 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.320 his house survived. But he has deleted his X account 308 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.559 now because he got a lot of backlash for going 309 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:02.240 on to X and basically pleading for private firefighters to 310 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:06.440 come and save his house. His name is Keith Wasserman, 311 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.519 and he said, does anyone have access to private firefighters 312 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:14.279 to protect our homes in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast? 313 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.720 Here all neighbors houses burning will pay any amount thank you. 314 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.519 To see is the video of him going up to 315 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.880 firefighters are burning house to say, hey. 316 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:31.160 I want to make some money. No, he didn't do that. Now, Oh, 317 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:31.880 I get it. 318 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.480 It's tacky and all of that, but they're desperate. Their 319 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.160 homes are about to burn down and they can't do 320 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:38.000 what about it? 321 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:39.720 And what do he started doing? If you're a private 322 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:44.160 firefighter start negotiating? That's I got to tell you. There's 323 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.279 a whole world to that. 324 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.200 That is a visual U the price is going up. 325 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.839 But I mean what this happened to the Kardashians I 326 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.759 think too when there was a fire in their neighborhood. 327 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:01.119 They were hiring private firefighters or something and people complaint. 328 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:01.960 I get it, but. 329 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.680 Who are private By the way, who are private firefighters? 330 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.559 Is there a national association. 331 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.799 Of private firefighters? And where do they get the equipment? 332 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.000 Arm retired? And they probably this is a business, it's right. 333 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:16.400 And then so where do they get the water? 334 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:20.920 They go up to city fire hydrants and it's a business. 335 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:21.799 Oh that would work. 336 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:24.759 Maybe maybe they bring their own trucks of water. 337 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.680 Yeah, we still have to go, right, your own trucks 338 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.680 are water comes out like pumps. 339 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.920 Yeah, they have the old you know, fire brigade handing park. 340 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.160 I don't yeah, with their own buckets out with. 341 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.599 Only put it out with Fiji. I don't want the bad. 342 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.160 Stuff, all right, Trump to be sentenced today, What a 343 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.640 weird time we are living in. President elect Donald Trump 344 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.759 is scheduled to be sentenced this morning on felony charges. 345 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.799 This is his history making for better or for worse. 346 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:54.599 Right. Uh. 347 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.000 He tried desperately with his legal team to make sure 348 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:03.440 this wouldn't happen before inauguration ten days from now. So 349 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.000 the scenting is scheduled for nine thirty eight m Eastern time, 350 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.079 So just right about now. 351 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:12.920 You know, I'm a little confused about his position, and 352 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:14.720 I'll tell you why. First of all, he's gonna get 353 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:19.079 that absolutely no no jail time, but it's an unconditional discharge. 354 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:20.240 Doesn't have to talk to anybody. 355 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.799 There'll be no probation officer, there's no phone calls to 356 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.240 make here's what I'm doing, Here's where I am. 357 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.559 It'll simply be a conviction on the record. 358 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:31.839 Why he's fighting it so hard when part of it 359 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:35.880 he's wearing it as a badge of honor. This shows 360 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.480 you what the Department of Justice has done? Or this 361 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.200 I think is yeah, Department of Justice or is this a. 362 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.839 State court. 363 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:52.039 New York criminal courts, a state court and the weaponization 364 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.039 of the system against me? This is Trump talking, And 365 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.240 this proves it. I would wear it as badge of honor. 366 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:00.920 And he's gone back and fourth on that. 367 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:05.480 Well, he may want the attention of it too. 368 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.319 No, no, but I think it proves it in the 369 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:10.559 news and telling his base that hey, look I'm still 370 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:11.799 being persecuted. 371 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:13.200 Yes, that's exactly the point. 372 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.160 And prosecuted, Yeah. 373 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:16.000 That's exactly the point. 374 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.440 And he's going to be And when the sentencing happens, 375 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:21.000 and it will today, he'll of course appeal it, which 376 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.240 is kind of fun because appealing the sentence is not 377 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:27.640 the same as saying you're not guilty, because that's not 378 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:30.720 going to happen. He'll be the first president in history 379 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.240 to go into the presidency. 380 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.039 As a convicted felon. 381 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.839 This is just one more notch with the argument that 382 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:41.920 this is probably going to be He is going to 383 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.519 be the most unique president we have had. 384 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.440 Or ever will have in the history of this country. 385 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.599 The nice thing is the next convicted felon that goes 386 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:52.559 into the presidency. 387 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:54.079 No, but he's going to really talk about it. 388 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:57.240 But done, it's not even going to be it's going 389 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:57.759 to be news. 390 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:01.039 It's not unprecedented or anything. It's just like, oh yeah, just. 391 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.920 Another Yeah, here's another huge story in front of the 392 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:05.839 Supreme Court. 393 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.799 And it has to do with President elect Trump. A 394 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:14.240 federal appeals court has ruled that special counsel Jacksmith's report 395 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:21.240 on Trump's attempts to overturn the election and the January 396 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:25.440 twenty twenty January sixth, twenty twenty one investigation can be 397 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:29.160 made public. Actually it's not about hold on, it's not 398 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.079 about the overturning the election. 399 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:32.519 Yeah. 400 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:36.079 No, I conflated the two stories with the next story. 401 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.920