WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.879 You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:15.199 AM six forty and now Handle on the news. 3 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.120 Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. 4 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.679 Good morning, everybody, go handle here, morning crowd. It is 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:31.640 a Tuesday, January fourteen, as we look at. 6 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:36.479 The fires hopefully yeah, we've got another fire weather. 7 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:38.719 Event. 8 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:43.280 Unfortunately it's happening today through tomorrow, so we'll be talking 9 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.240 a little bit about that and hopefully we'll be talking 10 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.200 about how it's not happening. So in the meantime, let 11 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.200 me say hello, Amy, good morning. 12 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:52.039 Good morning. 13 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:52.280 Bill. 14 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.200 And Neil is back today. Good morning, Neil, Hey buddy, 15 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.920 and they're god good, good, good good. I don't care. 16 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:04.799 Cono there you are. And and producer extraordinaire Hello Bill. 17 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.560 Hello Chris Berry. I don't know if you guys know 18 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:13.000 who is one of the senior senior people here at 19 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.799 iHeart who's with us for a while. And he came 20 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.840 into the studio just before we went on the air 21 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:25.319 and said, Bill, I'd like to take the Morning crew 22 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.599 to lunch or brunch after the show on Thursday to 23 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.879 thank you guys for the great work you're doing. And 24 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:35.719 I said, why would I want to have lunch with 25 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.920 these people. I see them every day. Now, don't do 26 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.680 that to me. So there's a very good chance. 27 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.519 That will be going without you. 28 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:46.400 Yeah, pretty much. 29 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you're going to order something to 30 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.519 go and drop it off. 31 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.799 So you picked the place, Neil. Yeah, who the hell 32 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:56.959 wants to hang out with the handle? 33 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.239 Yes, exactly. 34 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.319 So anyway, and this has been here like twenty four 35 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.280 to seven dealing with this with the news. 36 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.240 So and he runs. I'm trying to remember what he does. 37 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.080 Chris, You like you run all the kiosks in the 38 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.240 office buildings that iHeart is in, right, Yeah. 39 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.280 And I counted the coffee. Yeah, I keep the coffee 40 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:19.199 yeah machine going. 41 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:20.759 I would like another cup please? 42 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:24.039 Yeah. 43 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:24.759 Yeah. 44 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.360 You know what I'll do Next time Pittman comes into 45 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.879 the studio, which he does on occasion, I'm going to 46 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.759 ask him that question. Do you mind getting me a 47 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:33.599 cup of coffee? 48 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.680 Chris? You work with pittnamit send Berry over to get it. 49 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.280 He probably will. All right, hello to everybody. 50 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.280 We're gonna do some offshoots of the fire story, the fire, 51 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.800 of course, being by far the biggest story of well 52 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.560 in terms of fires in the last I don't know decade. 53 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.479 Here the worst fire in Southern California history. And we 54 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.400 don't have to go through talking about the big and 55 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.280 we're gonna have to go through talking about the complete 56 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.719 decimation of Southern California. I mean, we've gone through that, 57 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:11.759 So we're gonna do is at seven o'clock talk about 58 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.400 how one of the problems with the fire is insurance 59 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.240 is not expensive enough. And I know that sounds counterintuitive, 60 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.360 but I'm gonna tell you explain that to you. And 61 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.800 then someone from the National Weather Service is gonna explain 62 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.680 how this Santa Anna is very different from other Santa 63 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:36.199 Anna wins and I think we're gonna grab someone, and 64 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.879 I know you're grabbing someone, and but I want it 65 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.599 to be someone of the Jewish faith. Why is this 66 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:48.360 Santa Anna different than other Santa ANDAs that's a passover resference, 67 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.560 nobody's gonna get that. Yeah, I know, why is this 68 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.639 night different another night's? Okay, you're right, no one is. 69 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.319 That's a little obscure. And then there's an organization that 70 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:03.520 actually is flying pets out of Southern California to other shelters. 71 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.120 It's an airline that flies pets out to make room 72 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.000 for him it's a lot of stuff going on, and 73 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.120 then I know I'm giving you the highlight of the show, 74 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:13.800 but I'm going to lay out what we're going to have. 75 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:19.879 My friend Chuck Lovers, who is or was with La 76 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.920 County Fire for thirty something years. You know the story 77 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.879 about the incarcerated firefighters, the prisoners who are fighting the fires. 78 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:29.720 There's some six. 79 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.959 Hundred of them or nine hundred of them out on 80 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:37.040 the fire line. He ran those crews for decades, that's 81 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.879 what he did. So we're going to get an inside 82 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:44.839 view of how that prison program works and the controversy. 83 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:46.839 And there are people that, oh my god, you can't 84 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.160 do that to prisoners, leave me alone. They don't make 85 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:54.439 enough money. They're prisoners. So that's what's going on. So 86 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.000 lots and lots of stuff. So in the meantime, let's 87 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.439 do it, guys. Let's start with handle on the news 88 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:07.399 on this twonesday morning with Amy Neil and me lead. Sorry, well, 89 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.439 we've got two days of winds again, life threatening winds, 90 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:15.439 gusts up to seventy eighty miles an hour coming in. Amy, 91 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.079 let me defer to you because you're covering this more 92 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:19.480 so than I am. Because you're in front of that 93 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.240 computer in the news, What are we looking at in 94 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.279 terms of wind speed and when. 95 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:29.199 The strongest of the winds are expected between now and 96 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:33.720 tomorrow at noon. The highest danger for winds this time 97 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.240 have shifted a little bit. It's not for the Malibu area, 98 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:42.040 but it's in western Los Angeles County and Ventura County, 99 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.519 eastern Ventura County, So like the Santa Clarita area and 100 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.759 that I five and fourteen corridors, those are going to 101 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:53.000 be particularly hard hit by the winds expected to gust 102 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.199 fifty five to seventy miles per hour. 103 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.439 Yeah, it's to be tough, that is absolutely. 104 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.439 If a fire starts and you have seventy mile an 105 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.360 hour winds, you're back to We're back to where we 106 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:07.240 were where the firefighters just have no chance, zero chance 107 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.959 of containing a fire like that once it ignites. And 108 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.560 so hopefully after this point. There was one fire that 109 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.240 came out that started, but the firefighters were able to 110 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.600 tackle that and bring it down, and that's the only chance. 111 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.079 Now firefighters have a chance. The only chance they have 112 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.839 to put out the fire is getting it very early. 113 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.399 And that's the policy change that has happened over the 114 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:34.160 last few years is the firefighting teams and I'm talking 115 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.319 about aircraft two small fires, they go out and attack 116 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.240 it instantly, and that's to be the change. 117 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:43.560 And the good news is that unlike when the fire 118 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.920 started last week, there's about ten thousand firefighters hanging out 119 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.560 just waiting for those fires to start. 120 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.759 Yeah, And that is the question that I have, and 121 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.720 that is we didn't anticipate these fires. We didn't anticipate 122 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.680 the extent and the ferocity of these fires. And the 123 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:05.399 only answer is to have thousands of firefighters waiting in 124 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:11.600 the wings, hundreds of airplanes waiting in the wings. What 125 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.560 was in an interview yesterday with I think it was 126 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.519 on the national news I think it was ABC, where 127 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:22.399 the chief LA Fire Department was asked about how these 128 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.920 fires got out of control and how much equipment be needed, 129 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:31.240 and he said, in your normal fire, normal single single 130 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.000 home or business fire, right one building, they send out 131 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:36.079 three fire engines. 132 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:39.160 Typically in order to make this have. 133 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.560 Gone away, they would need twenty six thousand pieces of 134 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:43.680 firefighting equipment. 135 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.040 That's how you control this fire. And it still wouldn't 136 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:47.360 have happened. 137 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.480 And he said, we still would have no chance to 138 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.000 do it because the fire was moving at such a 139 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:52.560 rapid rate. 140 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.639 You couldn't out run the fire. You couldn't go at speed. 141 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.240 And outrun this fire. It was going so quickly with 142 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.720 one hundred mile an hour winds. But to make a 143 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.839 good road, we need twenty six thousand pieces of equipment, 144 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.600 and we need thousands of firefighters waiting by the wings. 145 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.560 Okay, how reasonable is that. We're going to talk a. 146 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.240 Little bit more about one of the reasons we have 147 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.839 so many fires and how we're so fire prone. Is 148 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:21.079 I'm going to tell you later on, actually at seven 149 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:26.279 o'clock why insurance is not expensive enough. That's our downfall. 150 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:30.720 I know, I love this, I love this topic all right, making. 151 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.840 Fast work of a fire cruise rapidly got a handle 152 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.759 on it. Had another fire that broke out just last night. 153 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.440 It broke it started an Oxnard near the River Ridge 154 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:47.600 golf Course. Throughout eight o'clock there was an evacuation order listed, 155 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.000 but they said that no homes were in danger of 156 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:55.080 being destroyed. But the fire has been confined to a 157 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:59.159 river bet and it was stopped at about fifty six acres, 158 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.840 still not showing atainment, but they've stopped the forward progress 159 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:02.080 of it. 160 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.639 All right, what a difference DA makes? Hey, Los Angeles, 161 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.279 see what I did there? Well, Angels County District Attorney 162 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:15.879 Nathan Hawkman, God bless him, announced a number of charges 163 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:20.600 against nine suspected looters and an alleged arsonist who isn't 164 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.240 tied to any of these fires. But this was just 165 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.919 over the past week as these wildfires raged throughout our 166 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:32.639 beloved city here. So the charges for the alleged looters 167 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:37.399 are mostly residential Burgley, including I guess one of them 168 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.559 walked away with an Emmy Award from one of the 169 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.960 residents who lived in Pacivic Palisades. Several of those rested 170 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.480 have previous felony convictions. 171 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:52.240 Oh my, I'm so suprised. 172 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:55.279 Hey, then Emmy's worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 173 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.000 Is it really? Yeah? 174 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:57.679 You can't. 175 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:58.759 Oh wait, no, it's not. 176 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:00.840 It costs a few h undred dollars to make, but 177 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.480 if it were made of solid gold, it would be 178 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:03.159 worth one hundred and. 179 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.799 Fifty that's yeah, But some of them are. 180 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.240 When you look at some of the Academy awards that 181 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.759 have been sold, they've gone for millions of dollars for 182 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.360 iconic films, iconic scripts, they have literally gone for a 183 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:17.320 zillion dollars. 184 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.200 That's what I was going to say, that it's continued 185 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:23.600 upon what it was and where. But they're illegal to reproduce. 186 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.159 So oh yeah, I'm sure they're copyrighted. 187 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.320 By the way, his defense is going to be best 188 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.240 performance for someone impersonating a burglar. 189 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:38.879 On television. Okay, So yeah, it was covered on TV, 190 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:39.840 you know. Okay. 191 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.360 Governor Newsom wants to jump start recovery efforts for the 192 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:47.720 wildfires with two and a half billion dollars. He expanded 193 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:53.200 his legislative session agenda that is focused on Trump proofing 194 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:57.639 California to include the response and recovery funding for the fires. 195 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:00.759 Yesterday, who was it that said yes to amy one 196 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:04.720 of the new Trump folks coming in saying that we 197 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.039 will go ahead and give federal money. Adam Schiff was 198 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:13.440 being interviewed and he said that the Trump administration said 199 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.519 they will give federal money to California if certain conditions 200 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:22.240 are met. And he said, there's never been another time 201 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.200 where Fed's have said, sure, we'll give disaster relief, but 202 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.399 here are the conditions that we want for disaster relief. So, 203 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.559 I mean, the war has already been declared between California 204 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:34.080 and Trump. 205 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.000 I mean, that's going to be a four year battle. 206 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:36.600 We know that. 207 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.039 And usually the vast amount of money that comes in 208 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.759 for these kinds of disasters is federal money. 209 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.720 So there, yeah, okay, all right. 210 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.799 Homeowners and renters who lost their homes in the EAT 211 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:58.879 and fire are now suing Southern California. 212 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.679 Edison saw this coming, So you had at. 213 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.519 Least five lawsuits were filed just yesterday alleging that the 214 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.440 company failed to de energize all of its electrical equipment 215 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:14.159 despite red flag warnings issued by the National Weather Service. 216 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:18.039 So well, see that video that was taken early early 217 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.960 on in the Palisades fire, just when it started, and 218 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.559 a couple of homeowners took a video where it looks 219 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.440 like a fire was starting at the base of a 220 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:32.360 transmission tower. Yeah, and we don't know yet if the 221 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.279 fire had gone there or started there, and whether it 222 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.679 did have anything to do with the power grid. But 223 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:40.879 already the lawsuits have been filed even before we know, 224 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:42.799 even before the investigation. 225 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.279 Is even begun. So we'll see if PG and E 226 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:47.240 gets nailed for this. 227 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:49.440 Or no. 228 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.240 Southern California Edison, I think that was the utility, which 229 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:56.440 was not touched by the PG and E settlement. You know, 230 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.759 PG and E ended up paying billions of dollars and 231 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:05.960 was convicted. The corporation was convicted of criminal activity because 232 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:12.399 his power lines went down and sparked what was the 233 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.919 last big fire? Whatever it was sparked that maybe it 234 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.679 was the was it the campfire that it sparked? 235 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:18.440 And I don't know. 236 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.799 A very lucky man's luck has run out. The guy 237 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.720 who won the largest ever powerball jackpot is Edwin Castro. 238 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.159 He won the two billion dollar jackpot in twenty twenty 239 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.840 three and promptly used some of his money to buy homes. 240 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.519 He bought a home in Malibu, won an Altadena, and 241 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.399 another one in the Hollywood Hills. Two of those homes 242 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.519 were in evacuation zones. The third in Palisades burned to 243 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:44.000 the ground. 244 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.519 I want to point something out as I read this story, 245 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.360 and that is it's so. 246 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.399 Surprised that he would buy three homes. 247 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.480 Kind of interesting that one in Palisades, what an Altadena, 248 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.960 and then a third in the Hollywood Hills. 249 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.440 Or fires started, Yeah, there was the fire in the 250 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:04.440 Hollywood Hills last week. 251 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.200 Yeah, that's right. He must have burned the place down right. 252 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.879 But I want you to notice, usually when someone buys 253 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.440 a home. Remember one of the Powerball winners bought a 254 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:17.639 home in Malibu for thirty twenty three or twenty five 255 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:18.360 million dollars. 256 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:19.919 Look at the cost of these homes. 257 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:27.080 One is three point eight million dollars, another one is 258 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.799 what two points something million dollars. Considering someone won a 259 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.120 billion dollars, these are very modest homes. 260 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.320 It just occurred to me. 261 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.279 If I want a billion dollars, I wouldn't be built. 262 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.840 I would buy a four million dollar home. I'd buy 263 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:43.279 a forty million dollar home, which is what everybody does. 264 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.559 He has a twenty five point five million dollar mansion. 265 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.679 Well, yeah, that's besides the point. That's the one he 266 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:51.919 lives in. So maybe these were rentals. 267 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:54.240 Those were for his help. 268 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:00.559 Could be, but I just noticed that he I brought 269 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.399 fairly modest homes, so he's living under his means with 270 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:05.879 a twenty five million dollar home. 271 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.279 Tom Hanks lost his house, didn't he do? I have 272 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:12.720 that right. 273 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:14.320 I'm not sure if he lost it or if it 274 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:15.200 was in the fire. 275 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:19.039 Was noted that twenty six million dollar home, so he 276 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:20.200 gets paid more than scale. 277 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.840 I assume for his pictures. 278 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:24.559 He does, okay, all right. 279 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:31.840 Vladimir Zelenski said that he may send Ukrainian firefighters if needed, 280 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.840 to help battle the blazes going on here in California. 281 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:40.000 This was after Donald Trump Junior dragged the LA of 282 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.240 Los Angeles County Fire Department for donating some supplies to 283 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:44.320 Ukraine's defense. 284 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:49.840 So just on Sunday. 285 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.879 During the war, Yeah, when the war in Ukraine broke out, 286 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.600 they had obviously firefighters there to put out the fires 287 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:00.480 because artillery drones were hitting parts of Ukraine, and fire 288 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:07.000 department donated hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor, personal protective 289 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.120 equipment to help Ukraine. 290 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:10.600 And they're getting nailed for it. 291 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.399 Gee, if they'd been here, if that equipment had been here, 292 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:17.799 the fires would have either been stopped or certainly would 293 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:18.840 have done as much damage. 294 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.240 I mean, complete crap all. We're hearing a lot of that. 295 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:25.480 If Karen Vass had been on site, the fires wouldn't 296 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:26.120 be as bad. 297 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.440 You think everything's been done right with these. 298 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.519 Fires, No, but what I think is happening. If everything 299 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.799 had been done right, it wouldn't have helped. 300 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.799 That's all. These fires were so extraordinary, were. 301 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:46.720 So so vicious, so all encompassing, it did not matter. 302 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.639 So you have one more reservoir, right that should have 303 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.200 been full. It would have done nothing. 304 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:52.399 Nothing. 305 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.080 You're high that many gallons. 306 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:55.679 That is. 307 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.879 There was no water pressure up at the top of 308 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:01.919 some of these hills. 309 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:02.879 That's what caused that. 310 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.680 You there was two people on the planet to think 311 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.000 that nothing could be done. 312 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:09.079 Nothing could be done. 313 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.200 And by the way, you're right, there's only three of us, 314 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.359 one being the chief of the LA Fire Department. 315 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:15.240 No, that's not what was said. 316 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.160 You also have the chief saying that money would have 317 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.319 helped that other resources. 318 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:22.799 Really pull out, Yeah, pull that out. 319 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.480 I'd love to see that because from what I understand, Neil, 320 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.920 it's nothing would have helped this fire. 321 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.200 What we should do now, we can't fight them. 322 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.519 They did let those homes burn because they couldn't stop them. 323 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.440 They sat and watched those homes burn. They couldn't stop it. 324 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:41.920 They couldn't now run the fire before. 325 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.119 There's so much that could have been done differently, like 326 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.559 what and the firefighters doing an amazing john like what Neil. 327 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.440 Resources one. 328 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:55.039 We didn't even have uh, we didn't even have traffic 329 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.799 cops showing where people were to go during the. 330 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:00.440 Time, Bring traffic everybody. 331 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.400 The traffic cops would have been part of the group 332 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.480 that was just getting the hell out of Dodge as 333 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:06.960 quickly as possible. 334 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:09.519 No one could stay in those areas. 335 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:13.079 Area for decades, and I have seen them controlled traffic 336 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.559 for the Not in. 337 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:19.400 A fire like this, Neil, Not in this kind of fire. 338 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.799 I'm telling you, Neil, for everything I have read and 339 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:28.799 heard and saw, this fire was so intense, moving at 340 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:30.200 such a rapid pace. 341 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.240 These were one. 342 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.119 Hundred mile an hour wins Neil, How do you stop it? 343 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.599 The fire chief said, Based on what I said earlier, 344 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:42.559 three fire units per house fire is typically what happens. 345 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.720 We would have needed twenty six thousand of these fire units. 346 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.359 And even then, the fire moves too quickly that. 347 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:50.960 At its peak blaze. 348 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:55.480 That's assuming that it would have gotten to its peak blaze. 349 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:59.200 It was untenable. It was you're right, you're right. 350 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.920 Had had we had you're right, had we had twenty thousand, 351 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.279 had we had twenty thousand pieces of equipment at exactly 352 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.279 those places where we needed, we probably could have stopped it. 353 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.319 Had we had several hundred more airplanes. Oh no, you 354 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.440 couldn't have airplanes because the winds were too high. Well, 355 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.960 had we invented airplanes that could fly in one hundred 356 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.920 mile an hour wins, that would have helped Neil, You're 357 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:25.519 out of your mind. Communail, you're out of your mind. 358 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:26.759 Go back to your facility. 359 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:28.240 Nothing short of criminal. 360 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.640 Jack Smith's report on his investigation into President elect Trump 361 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:36.559 and his efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election has 362 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:41.240 been released. Smith's team states, in no uncertain terms they 363 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.880 believed Trump criminally attempted to subvert the will of the 364 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.839 people and overturn election results. And I believe Jack Smith 365 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:50.640 said he thinks he would have got a conviction. 366 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:54.200 Oh yeah, he cited a bunch of stuff. 367 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.720 Pressure on state officials, We know that who he called, 368 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.720 We have that, we have that phone call, the fraudigal 369 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.519 elect plan, the pressure on Vice President Mike Spence not 370 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:08.920 to certify the riot on January sixth, and Jack Smiths 371 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:12.039 said that this is all criminal, which a lot of 372 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.559 us thought it was, and trying to subvert the election. 373 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:18.720 What I don't understand is why President Trump try to 374 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:23.000 stop this from being released so much because it proves to. 375 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:25.640 Him and his followers that all this was a witch hunt. 376 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:28.279 You think he would just wear it as a badge 377 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:32.559 of honor instead of fighting fighting, fighting fighting to release 378 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.160 the report, so it was released a week before he 379 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:37.920 takes office. 380 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:43.599 Weird times. Let's hope this goes through. 381 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:47.839 Hamas is expected to release thirty three hostages during the 382 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:53.200 first phase of an emerging ceasefire agreement to be finalized 383 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:58.119 by negotiators there in Doha. To Israeli officials are the 384 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:03.640 ones backing this the statement first positive sign we've seen 385 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:06.799 in a long time, months and months that a truce 386 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.039 between Israel and themas war may be in sight. 387 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.759 I have a question about this because Donald Trump has 388 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.720 said if a deal is not cut before I take office, 389 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:21.480 all hell is going to break loose in the Middle East. 390 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:23.160 How much of that. 391 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:29.039 Influenced Hamas and Israel because we know that happened before 392 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.200 with Ronald Reagan and the return of the American hostages 393 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.559 before Ronald Reagan took office at the end of the 394 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:41.039 Carter administration, and Ronald Reagan was rightly given credit for 395 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.039 speeding the process up because the Iranians were frightened of 396 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:47.359 what was happening or what would happen if the hostages 397 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:52.599 weren't returned, I wonder if Hamas was at all influenced 398 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.599 by Donald Trump. 399 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:57.839 I think yes, I think he would have something to 400 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.440 do with it. If Trump. 401 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:01.720