WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.960 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Marla and Neil are here 4 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.359 with you. Marla, tay Is, Neil Savedra. 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.679 Good to be back. Nice to have you, Nice to 6 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:14.080 see you. 7 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:16.960 I wish it was under different circumstances in that I 8 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.239 wish that we had a whole lot of better news 9 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:22.039 to report, although we did get some good news nuggets 10 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:23.239 out of the press that we just listened to. 11 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.800 Slowly, things are getting better, of course, even today. Schools 12 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.679 were opening. My son's been out for the past week, 13 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.640 and I'm sure many others have. This is great news. 14 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.320 The campuses are reopening, those located in severely impacted areas 15 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:46.960 or not so. Canyon Charter Elementary School, Kenter Canyon Charter 16 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:53.719 Elementary School, Palisades Charter, Marquez Charter to Panga Charter, Lenai 17 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.840 Road Elementary School, and Paul Revere Middle School still closed. 18 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.920 But the greater part of LAUSD, which they announced yesterday 19 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:04.400 that is back open today on this Monday. 20 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.719 So they were closed Thursday Friday. 21 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.879 They waited throughout the weekend, of course, to make a decision, 22 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.599 So most of those schools are back in play today, 23 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.280 which is great news. And then what's really pretty remarkable 24 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:18.799 is sad news. Of course, out of the Palisades fires, 25 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.959 at the Palisades Charter Elementary that was completely destroyed, well, 26 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.760 they found a second site to put those kids. So 27 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.400 now those kids who lost their school, they are back 28 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.159 in the classroom today in Brentwood at a magnet school there, 29 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.760 so that school is now serving as essentially two schools. 30 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:40.400 But to think about the fact that the logistics involved 31 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.079 of having to get all that done in just a 32 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.120 matter of days to move an entire school to another 33 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:45.400 school campus, don't no. 34 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:46.280 I'd go to Brentwood. 35 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.799 Yeah, well it's like, yeah, okay, you make a good point. 36 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.040 But for right now in LA to find a place 37 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.120 where you're going, okay, this is safe. 38 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:55.680 Right. 39 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.680 But the news that we just got out is most 40 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.840 of the evacuations, the evacuation orders and. 41 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.200 Warnings that were in place for Santa. 42 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:10.639 Monica of course Brentwood adjacent, those have been downgraded, so 43 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.800 there are no more evacuation orders. 44 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:13.719 That is great news. 45 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.639 And then in Brentwood, most of those have been downgraded 46 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.879 as well, So things are looking so much better than. 47 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:20.520 They were Friday. 48 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.400 Saturday was precarious all over again, but then they really 49 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.120 did stop the forward progress as those flames made their 50 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.280 way into Brentwood and Meneville Canyon. 51 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.039 I'm glad to hear these things that we see the 52 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.000 changes day to day, sometimes hour to hour on the 53 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.879 lifting of these evacuations. I don't want to see anybody hurt, 54 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.879 and I don't want anybody into the stress of having 55 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:49.479 to evacuate. Save for one situation, nothing funnier than seeing 56 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.800 John Cobalt leave his house with a bearded dragon in tow. 57 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:54.360 Two of them. 58 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:59.319 Yeah, that's now, that's a personal joy. But I'm glad 59 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:00.599 everybody's say so far. 60 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:01.039 Well. 61 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:05.039 So, I was working at Fox eleven on Saturday providing 62 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.199 the coverage and John came on the show. 63 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:09.479 Yeah. I pushed it out as well, you did, Yeah, 64 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:10.319 thank you, thank you. 65 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:10.680 Yes. 66 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.000 But one of the first things if you didn't hear it, 67 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 it's on social of course, you can find it there. 68 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.000 But for the folks who didn't get to hear it, 69 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:18.840 one of the first things that he said was, you know, 70 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.960 here I am going, You're essentially in an evacuation zone 71 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:22.319 right now. 72 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:23.960 What is that like? And he says, well, I had 73 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.520 to get my two lizards out. 74 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.800 Yeah, he said, they're now safe, so that was sort 75 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.000 of top priority for him. 76 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.199 They weren't even his originally there were his sons that 77 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.479 they left them when they went off to. 78 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.240 Call with get that backstory. 79 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.039 But he's safe and his wife Deborah, which is great. 80 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.039 Yeah, and this continues to shift all over the place. 81 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.840 You know, even hearing the DA today come on and 82 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:51.560 say listen, people are evacuating and then he paused and 83 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:52.039 he's like. 84 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:53.039 I'm one of them. 85 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.520 You know, it's like, yeah, this is one of those 86 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.400 things that takes me back. And as a journalist, you 87 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.400 know this that oftentimes reporting on the news and the 88 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:04.840 things at hand that are going on to other people. 89 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:10.680 COVID and this are the two big situations where you're 90 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.960 living and experiencing at the same time you're reporting on. 91 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:21.160 It, Amen, and it's impacting everybody right in that. You know, 92 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:24.680 our coverage on Fox eleven obviously same right here at 93 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:30.560 KFI is people need the information right now. So typically 94 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.519 you know, we we provide local news twenty four seven, 95 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:36.959 three sixty five, right, but that's just you know, pocket 96 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.519 news here and there that doesn't really affect me. This 97 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.000 is impacting everybody. And of course if you're thinking, well, 98 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.680 I'm in Orange County and I'm you know, it doesn't 99 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.079 matter because people want to help too. 100 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.040 Right, Buyers won't dare to go to Orange Country. 101 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.399 Well, and that's the other thing, and I'll get a risk. 102 00:04:54.480 --> 00:05:00.000 I'm gonna get serious again because tomorrow is what we're 103 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.439 worried about. So while we're able to report this relief 104 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.920 and this reprieve right now, tomorrow, the National Weather Service 105 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.120 is issuing another what they call a PDS. 106 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.279 But this is you know, all the initials in the world, sure, 107 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:16.800 politicians and professionals, but. 108 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.000 This is big time. 109 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:24.240 This is a serious, serious warning and one of the 110 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.199 most more serious ones we've gotten during all of this. 111 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.800 Yes, and this is the highest it goes. 112 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:34.120 So PDS stands for a particularly dangerous situation. And they 113 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.199 issued this last Tuesday when the fire broke out, and 114 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.160 so we know what happened then. So another one is 115 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.759 coming tomorrow. And they've only issued this two times prior 116 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.279 in our area and Neil. Those two times were for 117 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.680 the Mountain fire Inventory County where hundreds of structures were lost. 118 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.600 That was in November, and then again for the Malibu fire, 119 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.920 the frame than fire, structures lost there, and now here 120 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.839 we go again. So this will be the I'm losing 121 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.000 track third or fourth time, but they've all proven to 122 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:13.199 be very detrimental. 123 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.839 So we got to get through Tomorrow through Wednesday. 124 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.639 Gus could range from forty five miles per hour to 125 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.160 a whopping seventy miles per hour. Air is going to 126 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:27.920 be very dry. This combination is that awe inspiring spectacle 127 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:34.199 that we saw Tuesday night Wednesday. Wednesday was so insane. 128 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.800 You know, you had trees at thirty degree angles in 129 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.439 the wind or more. 130 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:43.040 Those that didn't get ripped out from the roots. 131 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:43.319 You know. 132 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.879 This is something interesting too, is that my wife and 133 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.319 I have a place in a Big Bear and we 134 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:52.279 went up there recently during the New Year to see 135 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:57.199 what the fire damage was from the gosh, I don't 136 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.319 even remember remember the name of the fire now, but 137 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.199 it came back on the back side of the hill 138 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:07.040 towards Running Spring. It's bizarre to see that trees still 139 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:12.879 stand when burned. Oh yeah, often so. It's and I 140 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:14.879 know there's a lot of talk about that because people 141 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.439 are going, well, all these houses burned, but trees around 142 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:22.680 them maybe didn't. It's a bizarre thing to see trees 143 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.720 that are burned just still. 144 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.879 Standing the skeleton, if you will, of the charge. 145 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.600 You think they just turned to ash. And it's not 146 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.560 the same way as a home back. This no longer 147 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:37.319 living wood that just turns to ash instantaneously. But it 148 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:41.360 was really bizarre to see hills spotted with trees still 149 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:43.279 standing but completely torched. 150 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.399 Well, I saw that up in the Bay Area. 151 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.360 The other deadly fire, of course, one of the most 152 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.800 deadly in California history was the Tubs fire up in 153 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.800 Santa Rosa. And this personal for me because some of 154 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:56.120 our friends lost their homes. 155 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.279 This is where I'm from. My mom lives there. 156 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.120 But still now they're still building a lot of those 157 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:02.360 areas are still rebuilding. 158 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.439 But I've seen you know exactly what you're and I'm. 159 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.199 Sure a lot of our listeners have as well, just 160 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:10.000 those charred remains of the trees that are still standing. 161 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.319 One quick note about the PDS. It does start tomorrow. 162 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.240 The particularly dangerous situation the winds, as Neil pointed out, 163 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.079 forty five to seventy miles per hour, but last week 164 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.720 they exceeded eighty miles per hour, so it's not going 165 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.120 to be as bad, but I mean, don't get me wrong, 166 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.279 fifty mile per hour winds dangerous. 167 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.519 Yeah, and they moved that fire along handily. 168 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.679 Oh god, which is what we were seeing experiencing. 169 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:36.320 All right. 170 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.480 If you were joining the Bill Handle show, you know 171 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.399 that just wrapped was a presser. Each day there's been 172 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:48.440 a presser with all of the local dignitaries to update 173 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.080 us on the horrific fires that overcome our area. 174 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:53.919 And I just want to point out a couple of 175 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.440 the good. 176 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.279 News nuggets because I think that's important because we've been 177 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.399 inundated with such bad news what we learned. There has 178 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.480 been some more containment overnight, you know, bit by bit 179 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.200 it's getting contained. So the I'll start with the Eating fire. 180 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.440 I haven't talked about that one, of course, that's the 181 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.039 second largest one that's burning in Altadena Pasadena. That one 182 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.679 is just over fourteen thousand acres and thirty three percent contained, 183 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.639 so that earlier it was I believe in the seventeen 184 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:25.600 percent area. So they have grown. 185 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:26.720 It's a nice jump. 186 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.600 It is a good jump. Palisades not as big of 187 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.399 a jump. It was eleven percent contained. Now that's fourteen 188 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:38.240 percent contained. Almost twenty four thousand acres burned there good 189 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.720 news the super Scoopy, I dare you leave that? I'll 190 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.039 leave that to you. It was hit by a drone. 191 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:50.039 I believe it was last Thursday, and that Superscooper has 192 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.840 been grounded. Ever since, it's been fixed and today the 193 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.639 La County Fire chief said it will be up in 194 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:57.960 the air again tomorrow. 195 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:59.720 So these we only have two of them. 196 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.480 They carry more than fifteen hundred gallons of water where 197 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.679 they can just go and they can go into the Pacific, 198 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.799 for instance, and. 199 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.879 Load up and then you know, blast the water. 200 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.960 It's amazing. Have you watched them, Yes, in the ocean, 201 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:16.279 it's awesome. You know, we. 202 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.639 Kind of lease them from Quebec. You know what their 203 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.679 names are. It's very great marketing. 204 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.480 I should know. I don't know Quebec one in Quebec two. 205 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.399 It's like, okay, well I guess that makes it. 206 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.320 Well that's my favorite. 207 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.559 Is the VLAT. 208 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:37.679 Do you know? 209 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:38.120 No? 210 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:42.000 So the v LAT those were out and about flying, 211 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:47.720 thank goodness on Saturday, huge huge aircraft and they're known 212 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.600 as a VLAT stands for a very large air tanker. 213 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.200 Oh wow, legitimately, I mean that's legit. 214 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.799 See I like that better than like vortex this and 215 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:00.960 all these you know. 216 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.919 Right, fancy, it's like just be literal. 217 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.440 And they are very large air tanker. 218 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.240 So so as if tomorrow we'll have both super Scoopers 219 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.039 back in the air, which is key because again the 220 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.600 winds are expected to really pick up tomorrow. So that 221 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.799 is great news as it relates to help, and so 222 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.759 many of you need help and asking about Hey, I've 223 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.639 been you know, living at a hotel for the last week. 224 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.159 Am I going to get reimbursed for this? What about 225 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.960 my food? You know, all of the expenses that come 226 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:39.080 with losing your home, being evacuated, et cetera. That was 227 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.960 asked of the officials yesterday and it was basically, well, 228 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:44.759 for reimbursement, you're going to have to. 229 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:47.799 Go through FEMA. They'll help you in that. 230 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.279 Well, there will be two Catherine Barger Elle County Board 231 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:57.320 Chair of Supervisors. She announced today there are two FEMA 232 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:03.039 Disaster Resources centers will open tomorrow locally, ones at UCLA 233 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:09.480 and one is at the Pasadena Community College. So at 234 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.440 least those resources are there now. And this is all 235 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:15.320 you know, if this is all too much to take in, 236 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:19.559 there is a website, and that website is Recovery dot 237 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:23.279 La County dot gov for all of this information. 238 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:30.000 That's the same website that has that housing map correct 239 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.000 where you can look and. 240 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:32.639 See if your home has been. 241 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.720 Have you gone through that? I has it is? 242 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.279 I know we are using these words over and over 243 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.000 because there aren't any other words. 244 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.000 I'm proud of, no heartbreaking. Just have to look. 245 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.320 Imagine going through a map to see whether your house 246 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:49.279 is standing or not. 247 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:49.799 Well. 248 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.120 The chief address that today too, because obviously people have 249 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:56.120 gone on there to see and some of their addresses 250 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.080 haven't are there, not there? And he said, if your 251 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.440 address isn't there, we haven't been able to get to 252 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:00.960 your homework. 253 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.679 Verify it one way there right. 254 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.879 I mean the task of doing so, because again, if 255 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.000 you've been out there to Palisades, Alta Dina and you 256 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.039 just see it, does you've heard this a lot. 257 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.559 It does look like a war zone. 258 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.200 I will tell you something. 259 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.960 Mentioning Supervisor Catherine Barger, she comforts me, I think the 260 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:26.279 part of a politician or a face of a city 261 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.919 of any kind is to put you at peace, to 262 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.080 make me feel like somebody's doing something. 263 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:37.200 And God, I like her in this situation. 264 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.399 I know it's a crap situation for anybody to be in, 265 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.000 but she strikes me, and I know bass is taking 266 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.960 it on the chin in every direction. But the man 267 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.879 she strikes me is more in charge of more mayoral 268 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:48.799 than our own mayor. 269 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.360 Because she talks to you like a person. Yeah, and 270 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:52.639 she doesn't make excuses. 271 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.759 No, And it doesn't seem like she's worried about herself. 272 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:57.240 Well, no, she's not. 273 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:04.159 She admits when there's an error she had and she says, look, 274 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:08.759 I know that is terrible. We messed up. We don't 275 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:13.600 know the answer. The even admitting we don't know is comforting. 276 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.639 It's comforting because, okay, because you know, when her mouth 277 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.240 is open, she's telling you the stuff she does know, right. 278 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:23.000 I mean that she was out front on the La 279 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:28.399 County false alerts that were going out, absolutely and most 280 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.519 everyone was you know, it's you know, kind of danced 281 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.559 around it. And she said, this is terrible. We don't 282 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.440 know what's going on, you know. And then and she 283 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:38.679 said I have to learn why this is happening. And 284 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.039 you know, she came back and then said, we are 285 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:42.720 working on it. 286 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:44.039 This is unacceptable. 287 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:45.000 You know. 288 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.279 She calls a Spade of Spade. 289 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:52.080 There's something about that that that does comfort me. So 290 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.960 when she speaks. You were kind enough to help us 291 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.720 out get her on Saturday with me when I was 292 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.440 doing coverage, and. 293 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:04.440 I just like her and I trust her, and I'm like, 294 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:05.159 thank God. 295 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.279 Well, that's one of the things that officials are dealing 296 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:10.559 with right now is distrust. 297 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.200 Yeah, and she's not tap dancing, right, and that's all 298 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:14.559 I need. 299 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.000 Yeah, Just I don't be a straight shooter. 300 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:18.960 No one has all the answers be a straight shooter. 301 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.120 Yeah, so I don't expect you to have all the answers. 302 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:25.759 But you know, it's been very comforting. So my hat's 303 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.799 off to supervisor Catherine Barker, who to me, has been, 304 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.360 unfortunately in an ugly situation, a rising star of strength. 305 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.639 Yeah, I mean for us here in Los Angeles. 306 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.559 Her district is the fifth district, which is alsadin O Pasadena. 307 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.320 So she's been out front there, you know, trying to 308 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:47.799 get answers for her constituents, and she means business. 309 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.120 She strikes me as someone that would be bothered if 310 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.919 somebody wanted a photo op, like like, don't I'm doing something. 311 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.320 I'm working that So you know, God bless her and 312 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.679 the work she's doing because she has been a point 313 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.639 person to me that makes me feel secure when she 314 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.559 tells when she says something, it's not trying to steal 315 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.559 this spotlish, but she's trying to get in front of 316 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:08.559 that mic and out of that mic. 317 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.840 In the second she's done talking. I'm glad. 318 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.000 I'm glad you got her on on Saturday. 319 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.320 She was very kind to take the time. We have 320 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.240 a large audience and for her to take the time 321 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.799 to make sure that they're hearing strength coming out of 322 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.159 counting offices and the like is important. So what's your 323 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:27.919 schedule today? 324 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.440 Well, if we are not in continuous coverage five to 325 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:35.399 seven and ten to eleven thirty tonight, but all of 326 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.120 last week, since the fire broke out almost a week 327 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.919 ago Tuesday ten thirty am, we've been basically commercial free 328 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:42.639 around the clock. 329 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.320 It's a different animal. 330 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.480 I don't which people which part that when you're doing 331 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.240 that kind of coverage and there's commercial and it's commercial free, 332 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.519 it changes everything. 333 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:01.240 Well, it's a whole lot of teamwork involved, right because 334 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:05.079 you are tied to the desk in a good way 335 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.160 in that you are providing valuable information and hopefully life 336 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:13.319 saving information to everybody. But yes, you don't people ask, 337 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:15.920 you know, how do you go to the bathroom? 338 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:16.680 What do you eat? 339 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.400 Because Elex and I were there from ten to twelve 340 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:20.720 hours straight. 341 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:24.000 And so you Elex is eight feet tall. He could 342 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:25.519 literally be in the bathroom and on the. 343 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:30.519 Air at the same time. Yeah, yeah, just turn the 344 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.000 mic off. Yeah, you just got to switch out. You know, 345 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.839 I'm going to go right now. You handle it. Again, 346 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.400 This is not for sympathy. This is no zero what 347 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.000 we're dealing with, zero what most people are dealing with 348 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.319 out there. So but yeah, it's a it's just a 349 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.119 great privilege though that we are able to do this 350 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.400 and honor in that this is such vital information for 351 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:54.200 people at such a crisis time. 352 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.480 Yeah, but I I feel the same way, yes, And. 353 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:01.000 The time goes by so quickly because what when we're 354 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:05.480 in it for you and seeing it happened live, you know, 355 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:09.880 this is all it's so fluid, and it's so many unknowns, 356 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.440 so much devastation, and our viewers are reaching out to 357 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.119 us with great information. We're trying to, you know, put 358 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.319 it all together. It's just it's an amazing thing that 359 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:20.119 happens and. 360 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:21.480 The questions and everything else. 361 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:23.440 And one of the ones that I've been seeing quite 362 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.799 a bit that's come over and over is about the 363 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:30.160 safety of water. So you have two different water entities 364 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.440 dealing with the fire areas. So you have Pasadena Water 365 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:37.759 and Power in the Altadena Pasadena area and then you 366 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:44.319 have LADWP there in the Pacific Palisades area. So if 367 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:46.480 you are in these zip codes, the zip codes that 368 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:53.680 they are giving currently with LADWP are any of the 369 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.119 zip codes in the nine zero two seven to two 370 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:02.759 community and adjacent communities. Keeping in mind, you know, you 371 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.720 need to look into this and find out if you're 372 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.519 in these areas because they keep changing and it's interesting 373 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.440 how they're building these maps. But what we can tell 374 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.039 you that if you are in these areas, you're in 375 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.240 the surrounding areas, you know you are wrestling with the 376 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:24.440 same air conditioning, air quality, and all of these things 377 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.200 as well. They don't want you drinking the tap water. 378 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:31.519 Find out in your local area. DWP established two bottled 379 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:38.200 water distribution locations, Westwood Recreation Recreation Center on Supulvita Boulevard 380 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:44.119 and then adjacent to the Brentwood Country Club there on 381 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:50.839 Gretna Green way is where you can go for bottled 382 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.920 water service. There's also because of the chemicals and the 383 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:58.960 like that gets into the water that hot showers, long 384 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.920 hot showers, even using you know, hot tub. Don't know 385 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:04.799 why you'd necessarily be doing that or polls can be 386 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.079 problematic and the hot of the water the worst it 387 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.359 can be for you. And so they don't want you 388 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:11.559 to take long showers things like that. They don't want 389 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.319 you to try and purify the water yourself by boiling it. 390 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:16.559 This is beyond that. 391 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:21.279 And if you're in those areas, take heed because you're 392 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.680 talking about water that's been poisoned essentially. 393 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.680 I mean, they literally say, don't take a hot bath, 394 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:28.759 do not do it. 395 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.200 No cooking, even you know, with cooking, I know a 396 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:35.519 lot of people think, well, once you heat things up, 397 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.640 it's getting rid of stuff, and that is true with bacteria, 398 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.000 but other chemicals and the like sometimes can become like 399 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.960 I said, more problematic when they are hot. And this 400 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:50.039 means ice and stuff too, because your ice on your 401 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:54.480