WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:07.320 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:12.480 In the break, I was listening to President Trump holding 5 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.919 I guess you'd say an Oval Office news conference. He 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:20.000 he's still got a giant poster next to him with 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:25.559 the Southern United States and the Gulf of America printed 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:30.039 on the golf Anyway, I don't know why that's still there, 9 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.280 other than he's very proud of that move. He did 10 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.840 double down on the push for more balanced trade. He 11 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.719 ordered today that agencies should investigate plans for new reciprocal 12 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.039 tariffs that could boost America's revenue. 13 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.359 There is a chance it could ignite. 14 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:47.840 A global trade war, of course, but stocks went up 15 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.399 after the announcement. Traders brushed off the two hotter than 16 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.640 expected inflation reports, and in fact, we have seen the 17 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.560 Dow Jones Industrial Average jump significantly since the announcement. The 18 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.719 Dow is up three hundred and fifty point points right now, 19 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:03.600 both the NASDAC and the S and P five hundred 20 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.319 are up just about a percentage point. As this All 21 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.879 of this is being played into the trading reciprocal tariffs 22 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.359 was one of the things that Trump talked about during 23 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.799 the campaign. He wants to even the score with these 24 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.840 foreign nations that would place taxes on American goods and 25 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:24.040 solve what he says are unfair trade practices. They're not 26 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.480 in effect yet, and as we saw with what happened 27 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.760 Mexico and Canada and the tariffs that were threatened with 28 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:31.519 those countries. 29 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:33.719 This is a negotiating tactic. 30 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:35.799 This is the first salvo and we'll see how it 31 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:39.040 goes before they do get put into place. So that 32 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.000 question answer session still going on right now in the 33 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:42.680 Oval Office. 34 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:49.079 What else is going on? Time for what's happening? 35 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.519 I mentioned earlier, just about every corner of the state 36 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.599 of California is getting rain today because of the storm 37 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.400 that is moving in here in La County, San Bernardino 38 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.400 river side, Orange County, San Diego County. We're expecting the 39 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.159 hardest rains to come in later this afternoon into this evening. 40 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.400 National Weather Service had a pretty wide window when we 41 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:13.560 first got up this morning, they said somewhere between two 42 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:16.479 and ten. Now they're saying they've closed that window just 43 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.280 a little bit and just said that between four and 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.000 nine o'clock in La County. That's when we expect to 45 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.159 see the heaviest rains come down. There are evacuation warnings 46 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:28.719 in all of the burn areas that we've seen, not 47 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.199 just in the last couple of weeks, but burn areas 48 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.520 that go back as far as two years in some cases, 49 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.080 because the potential for this rain to come down that fast, 50 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.159 that heavy. So this is going to be a pretty touchy, 51 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.159 touchy afternoon. Speaking of the fires, a report in the 52 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.039 La Times indicates that they may have been so cal 53 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:56.280 Edison's attempt to cut off power that started the Eaton fire. 54 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.680 Now, Edison had been warned. 55 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:00.479 They'd been warned years ago about the risk that a 56 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.879 power shutdown would actually overload other transmission lines and then 57 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.159 cause potentially dangerous overheating and sparks. According to public records, 58 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.960 fixes that some experts would have said mitigated the fire 59 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.919 risk were repeatedly delayed. The record show the scheduled work 60 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.439 was never completed. Of course, the Eaton fire began January seventh, 61 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:24.639 and at this point Edison has not taken responsibility for it. 62 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.560 They say they're still doing investigation to figure out if 63 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.479 their power lines were responsible for sparking the fire, but 64 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:36.520 it did spark near an area that does have Edison 65 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.319 transmission lines. Ours is not the only bad weather. A 66 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.159 winter storm has left tornado damage along the Gulf Coast, 67 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.560 piles of snow and the planes in the Midwest, residents 68 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.919 now preparing for a new storm moving in through the weekend. 69 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.759 The latest storm dropped about eleven inches of snow in Iowa, 70 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.680 ten inches in Illinois, another seven and a half inches 71 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.360 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Down on the southern end of the storm, 72 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.280 at least two tornadoes reported in all Obama and Mississippi, 73 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.520 and they saw gusts nearing about sixty miles an hour. 74 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.919 We saw the F eighteen, it was an eaaighteaen. 75 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.039 But the F eighteen that went down in near San 76 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:17.600 Diego yesterday, two crew members are fine. An aircraft carrier 77 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.040 was involved in a collision with a cargo ship last night. 78 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.160 This one is back in the Mediterranean, but the USS 79 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.839 Harry Truman collided with a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean. 80 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.399 See no reports of any injuries to any Navy personnel. 81 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.240 The carrier was never really in danger, but they said 82 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:41.720 it collided with the Besictas M just before midnight off 83 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:44.759 the coast of Port said no reports of flooding or 84 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.000 injuries on the USS Truman. The Navy said the ship's 85 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.480 propulsion plants, some of which are nuclear, they said they're safe, 86 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.160 They're in a stable condition. They still don't know what 87 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.519 caused it. They don't know the circumstances of the collision, 88 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.680 who might have been at fault in all of that. 89 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.680 We talked at the beginning about ten tariffs right the 90 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.639 beginning of this break about what's going on with Terraffs 91 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.079 and the Brewers Association, a trade group that represents small 92 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.240 breweries in California, is warning that the twenty five percent 93 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.920 tariff that Trump is imposing on steel and aluminum imports 94 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:19.439 could hit the craft brewery industry. Brewers need steel for 95 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.680 their equipment. Obviously, the giant brewing tanks are steel. They 96 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:27.480 also need the aluminum for their cans, and a lot 97 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:30.800 of these smaller breweries don't have very big profit margins. 98 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.800 According to this trade group, the Brewers Association, they're going 99 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.120 to get a direct hit from these tariffs and many 100 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.959 of them might not stay in business because they simply can't. 101 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.920 First of all, the pandemic caused a lot of them 102 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.800 to close, and those that survived ran into supply chain issues. 103 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:47.639 They weren't able to get the gear that they needed, 104 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.160 so rising prices for a bunch of those materials have 105 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.000 been a problem for a while now. With these tariffs, 106 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.480 those brewers that were able to survive are not going 107 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.920 to be able to withstand the terraffs. They say, between 108 00:05:57.959 --> 00:05:59.720 a rock and a hard place. They can't pass the 109 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.759 high costs under their customers because the customers will just 110 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.199 go buy cheap, crappy beer somewhere else. 111 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:09.560 I mean the cheaper beer. It's not the small beer anyway, 112 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:10.160 you know what I mean. 113 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.079 Closing arguments expected in the asap Rocky Hollywood a gun 114 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.879 assault trial today. The rap artist turned fashion mogul faces 115 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:20.680 a couple of felony counts of assault with the semi 116 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.959 automatic firearm two confrontations on the night of November sixth, 117 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.560 twenty twenty one with a former buddy of his, asap 118 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.199 Relly Terrell Ephron. Their friendship soured over the years because 119 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.879 asap Rocky started taking off. Turn of events that culminated 120 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:42.000 in this encounter and charges against asap Rocky. His longtime 121 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.639 partner is Rihanna. She showed up at court that made 122 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.160 some headlines. That was kind of that was interesting. Remember 123 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:52.000 that time, Remember that time that Aaron Rodgers caught a 124 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.360 pass that he threw. There was a moment. He's one 125 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.439 of the one of the NFL quarterbacks. Is that there's 126 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.519 a handful of them who have I had to throw 127 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.120 a pass, it got blocked. They caught it and made 128 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:04.639 it turn it into a touchdown. 129 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:09.199 Rogers in trouble. It's gonna get there. They turned thirty 130 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.439 two yesterday. There's a half a finish, tidy interview. Then 131 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:13.680 the inside. 132 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:15.680 For the wind. 133 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:22.720 Richard Rogers for the left off touchdown O came in 134 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.879 for the Packers. That was Rogers to Rodgers, but it 135 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.120 was Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers. It turns out Aaron 136 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.839 Rodgers will not be playing for the Jets next season. 137 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.720 Four time MVP, fifth player in NFL history to throw 138 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.920 five hundred touchdown passes in the regular season, has one 139 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.680 year of non guaranteed money left on his contract with 140 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.160 the Jets, and they told him last week, you will 141 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.759 not be playing in New York anymore. 142 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.600 Would you like your Jeopardy question? Let's do our jeopardy question. 143 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:52.720 But first I wanted to play this because somebody actually 144 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.199 had an interesting question then, Hi, Gary. 145 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.399 And Shannon, this is Michelle. I love your show. I 146 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.920 love the Laby question for you. Or if I would 147 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.680 ask if you'd be willing to go head to head 148 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:10.519 with Bill Handle doing the jeopardy because I think both 149 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.519 of you guys are very knowledgeable. But I'd wonder who 150 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.000 would come out on top. That would be awesome of 151 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:19.720 first Jeopardy Jeopardy show on the K. 152 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.519 He's got some pretty bizarre, weird knowledge that I've never 153 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:29.040 had in my life. So I don't know about the. 154 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:29.480 I don't know. 155 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.039 I don't know if I'll take that chance. All right? 156 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:38.519 So roses for four hundred roses. The natural defense mechanism 157 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.600 of the rose are commonly called this tea word, though 158 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:49.879 they are technically prickled. That's a really easy question, Cale, 159 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:54.080 I do what the calendar tells me. What is thorn? 160 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:59.000 Thorn's yes, all right, tea word. That's kind of that 161 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.679 that throws people because it's a th h word is 162 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.840 the way they think of it. Thorn is the word. 163 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.000 You know what else has thorns? That I found out 164 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.320 just the other day, Boginvilia, how do you say that? 165 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.639 Bogan? Bog and villa is beautiful, beautiful flew. 166 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.559 Beautiful vining flower plant that comes up. I found out 167 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:17.559 that it has thorns. 168 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.639 Does I know? I found out the hard way? Oh yeah, 169 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:21.519 did you get hurt? 170 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:25.759 I did get hurt buggers? My wife said, of course, 171 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.200 of course it has swords. It's Bogan v However, you say, I. 172 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:30.320 Think it's Bougainvillia. 173 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:30.639 Good. 174 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:31.320 I could be wrong. 175 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:32.919 Well, I'm going to correct her when I get home. 176 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.799 Jedra says, it's Bougainvillaya whatever it is. Never mind, all right, 177 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.519 coming back, we know we have a lot of work 178 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.240 to do when it comes to rebuilding from the Eating fire, 179 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.840 from the Palisades fire. What can we learn from other 180 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.519 recent fires that devastated certain areas of our country. 181 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:53.240 We'll talk about that. 182 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.399 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 183 00:09:58.639 --> 00:09:59.519 AM six forty. 184 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.960 Think of the devastating fires that we've seen in the 185 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.799 last several years, say six seven years. The Tubs fire 186 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.679 back in twenty seventeen up in Sonoma County, Lake County, 187 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:21.000 Mendocino County, and the campfire in Paradise up in Butte County, 188 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.960 and then the fires on Maui. 189 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.240 In twenty twenty three. 190 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:32.639 All of these are similar, at least in their scope 191 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:37.000 to the Palisades and Eaten fires, in that we've got 192 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:42.480 thousands of homes, dozens of deaths, and the rebuilding process 193 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.720 that faces not just those people who lost their homes, 194 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.240 but I mean the entire community, all of La County 195 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.480 is going to be impacted by this rebuilding process as 196 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.039 it comes. And there've been a couple of different I 197 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.200 don't want to use the word autopsy because it makes 198 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:01.279 it sound a little dire, but in lessons perhaps that 199 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.039 we can learn from the campfire in Paradise, the Tubs 200 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.879 fire in the North Bay area, and the Maui fire 201 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:12.759 in terms of how La County might be able to rebuild. 202 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.080 And I think some of the most important lessons are 203 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.919 not just for the people involved. It's for the politicians. 204 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.360 It's for those people who work at the county level, 205 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.279 or the city level, maybe even the state level. Of 206 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.639 here are the roadblocks that need to be taken out 207 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:31.320 of people's way. If you want to live by your 208 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.480 priority you have said, the rebuilding of the community, the 209 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.440 maintenance of the culture of that community is so important. 210 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.639 There are things that you have to do. 211 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.360 You politicians have to do to get out of the 212 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.639 damn way to allow them to have these things done. 213 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:49.960 And one of the things that I saw just is 214 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:52.919 my opinion, but of all the things that need to 215 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.720 be redone in these communities, one example out of the 216 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.559 Tubs fire in the Santa Rosa area is that you 217 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:05.039 have to put a priority on rebuilding the schools. In 218 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.360 the Tubs fire, they said that there were about eight 219 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:12.960 hundred students, one hundred staff members, and two school board 220 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:18.440 members that lost their homes in those fires, and the 221 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.840 impact of the fire on the school community was far reaching. 222 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.720 It may be slightly different in the Palisades area because 223 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.679 the demographics are slightly different there are fewer kids there, 224 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.120 but the damage to the schools is one of those 225 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:38.320 things that needs to be ameliorated first. And the district 226 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.320 itself up in Santa Rosa dispatched a bunch of councilors 227 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.720 out there to parents and students. Some of them came 228 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.559 from other parts of the state to lend a hand 229 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.720 that as the councilors did, they stayed on campuses for weeks. 230 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.639 One of the things they did was it showed the 231 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.919 people in those neighborhoods in the Fountain Head neighborhood and 232 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.519 other neighborhoods around Santa Rosa, that the schools themselves play 233 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:04.480 a massive part in stabilizing a community. It's not just education, 234 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:08.799 it's childcare, it's meals, it's the in person connections, not 235 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.519 just for the kids, but for the parents seeing other 236 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:20.600 parents from the neighborhood. The ten schools in the Santa 237 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.639 Rosa fire were either destroyed or heavily damaged, and what 238 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.480 they had to do was they had to relocate some 239 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.200 of the kids to satellite campuses, kind of spread them 240 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.480 out so that the other campuses could absorb some of 241 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.840 the kids. But one of their main priorities was rebuilding 242 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.759 or repairing the schools as soon as possible so that 243 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:41.639 those kids had a place to go back to because 244 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:43.679 a lot of these people, even though their homes weren't damaged, 245 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.120 they didn't move that far away necessarily. And one of 246 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:49.279 the great things that can help a kid recover from 247 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.879 that is they get a chance to be around their 248 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.960 friends once again. We come back, we'll talk more about 249 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.039 one of the some of the things that politicians can 250 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.360 do and prioritize that they've learned from not just the 251 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.440 tubs fire, but also that Maui fire in August of 252 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.799 twenty twenty three. Gary and Shannon will continue. Oh, Debrah, 253 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:10.120 have a quick message for you, and this is about 254 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:11.200 the bogan va. 255 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.480 From a nursery man. It's bogan via just for dead. Okay, 256 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.000 now you got it. I really screw that one up. 257 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.399 That's all right. Listen, you've had a rough fifteen minutes 258 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.120 of the brain. I don't know, the weather is just 259 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:24.919 messing up. 260 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.080 Well, I have full confidence in you. You're gonna nail 261 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.639 this one. Yeah, even if it does sound slightly familiar. 262 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.840 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 263 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:35.960 AM six forty. 264 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.240 The cabinet continues to flesh itself out. That's weird to 265 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.519 say it that way. The Senate has confirmed and now 266 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.360 he has been sworn in. RFK Junior is the new 267 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:53.120 Secretary of Health and Human Services. Brooke Rollins was elected 268 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.960 or i should say confirmed by the Senate votus seventy 269 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.200 two to twenty eight. Brook Rollins will be your new 270 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.200 Secretary of Agri Culture. Cash Battel made his way out 271 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.919 of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is advanced to the 272 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.440 floor of the Senate for confirmation as FBI Director, and 273 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.159 Lynda McMahon, President Trump's choice for Education Secretary, is made 274 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.720 her way through the confirmation hearing as her nomination continues 275 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.519 to move through the Senate. We're talking about recent fires 276 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.559 in the state of California and Hawaii. The Tubs fire 277 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.240 from October of twenty seventeen up in the Santa Rosa area, 278 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.720 the Campfire November of twenty eighteen in Paradise, and then 279 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.600 the Maui fires on the island of Maui in August 280 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.360 of twenty twenty three. And the things that we are 281 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.679 going to be able to learn from those fires. And again, 282 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.039 these are not necessarily lessons for the people whose homes 283 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.519 were burned or if you've lost somebody that as a 284 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:54.080 result of that fire. It's more for politicians and those 285 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.840 people in charge of what will be the cleanup effort. 286 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.039 And I mentioned one of the biggest issues is going 287 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.639 to be schools, adding schools back up and running, because 288 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.200 it's not just about the education for the kids, it 289 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.039 becomes a meeting place for the neighborhood. One of the 290 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.879 other issues is and this came from the Sheriff of 291 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:13.879 Sonoma County at the time of the fire. He said, 292 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:19.519 Calm is contagious, and so is the opposite, and even 293 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.879 in the face of chaos, it's important to keep your head. Now, 294 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.919 there has been some confusion. I'll point to the reopening 295 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.559 of pch a couple of weekends ago, where Karen bas 296 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:32.679 said that it was going to reopen, but then it wasn't, 297 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:34.639 and then she changed the date, and then the National 298 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:36.519 Guard came in and they were able to help out 299 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.519 to free up some of the LAPD resources. 300 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:40.440 That wasn't necessarily well. 301 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:43.120 That was confusion, and that was something that's an issue 302 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.600 that needs to be ironed out before you go public 303 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.039 with that, because the calm is contagious, but so is 304 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.120 the chaos if it turns out to be chaotic. We're 305 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.840 in a position now where and they've seen it in 306 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:01.720 all of these other fires. The d is over, the 307 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:05.119 emergency itself is over, and we're on the verge of 308 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.079 what will be a massive cleanup. I mean, the Tubs 309 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.359 fire in Santa Rosa at the time was the largest 310 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.680 wildfire cleanup in this history of the state and the 311 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.880 largest disaster cleanup since the nineteen oh six earthquake in 312 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:24.279 San Francisco. This one will eclipse that easily. The next 313 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.559 phase gets murkier. The next phase is when things start 314 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.440 to gum up. It's when the insurance payouts kind of 315 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.039 dribble out. It's when the scammers and the price gougers 316 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.160 promised these quick turnarounds. Local officials make decisions about what 317 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:42.880 to rebuild first, and then everybody gets impatient and everybody 318 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.240 thinks the process is not moving fast enough. 319 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:47.839 When you think about just the. 320 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.000 Removal of the debris from these burn sites, from these 321 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.960 neighborhoods that went down, ninety percent of it is going 322 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:55.079 to be gone very quickly. 323 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:56.039 Ninety percent of it. 324 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.519 The biggest stuff, the chimneys that are still standing that 325 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:01.240 are going to have to be knocked down and removed, 326 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:06.559 the big iron structures, whether it's a shed in the 327 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:11.839 backyard or the dishwasher or the washing the big pieces 328 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.480 can be moved relatively quickly, so ninety percent of it's 329 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.640 gone right away. It's that other ten percent that literally 330 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.440 has to be removed by hand in some cases. And then, 331 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:23.960 like we said in a couple hours ago, the six 332 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.359 inches of top soil to be removed to try to 333 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:28.920 get most of the contaminants that they can, and that 334 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:33.119 that's when the process really really slows down. Then comes 335 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.000 the permitting. One of the things that Rick Caruso had 336 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.519 said was he wants to implement AI as part of 337 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.039 that permitting process to shrink it down from weeks and 338 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.119 in cases months to hours, to make sure that some 339 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.559 of these permits get where they need to be approved 340 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.000 when they need to be so that people can begin 341 00:18:55.079 --> 00:19:00.680 the process of rebuilding. We've seen, if it's the Tubs Fire, campfire, 342 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:05.440 or the malifires, we've seen the timeline for this, and 343 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.559 they want to do better now. The Tubs fire in 344 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.359 October of twenty seventeen, they were able to rebuild and 345 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.519 get some homes back on those properties within about a year. 346 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.680 I mean rebuilt within about a year, only a couple, 347 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.839 but they know that that process can begin and get 348 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.599 finished within a year. The rebuilding of the entire neighborhood 349 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:36.440 took about five years. That was the Tub's fire up 350 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:39.559 in Sonoma County. The campfire is going to be different, 351 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:45.920 simply because of geography. There were eighteen thousand properties that 352 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.799 were destroyed by that fire or damaged severely, and some 353 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:55.079 people decided not to go back. The Mali fire very similar, 354 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:59.319 thousands of properties and dealing. I mean, it's got its 355 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.400 own sort of intricacies because it's an island in the 356 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.880 middle of the Pacific, so getting stuff there is not 357 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:06.799 as easy as. 358 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.200 It would be, you know, to the Pacific Palisades. 359 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.359 But the lessons of making sure that calm is contagious, 360 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.960 making sure that you get out of the way when 361 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:20.079 it comes to permitting for rebuilding, and putting an emphasis 362 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:23.640 on things like schools and those other places that can 363 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.960 define and become the anchors for those communities as they 364 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:28.240 do the rebuilding process. 365 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.359 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 366 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:34.440 AM six forty. 367 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.640 The rain will be the top story through the day 368 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:45.599 today and probably into tomorrow. Certain counties have already seen 369 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.400 the majority of their heaviest rain. San Luis, Obispo and 370 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.200 Santa Barbara Counties have been getting punched in the face 371 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.039 in the last couple of hours. We saw a pretty 372 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.640 good cell roll through Burbank here just a short time 373 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:58.920 ago and make its way through, But the National Weather 374 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:02.720 Services the heaviest for La County is expected between about 375 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:06.759 four o'clock and nine o'clock this afternoon. A car attack 376 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.279 in Munich injured at least twenty eight people, including kids. Today, 377 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.480 German anti terrorism officials say an asylum seeker from Afghanistan 378 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:19.079 was arrested for that attack. That is also the site 379 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.839 of the Munich Security Conference starts tomorrow. Vice President j 380 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.440 d Vance, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, Secretary of State Marco 381 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.440 Rubio are all expected to be there. Well, it's time 382 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.440 for some fun stories when it comes to science, but 383 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.920 I would say stream science. 384 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:47.000 Strange saience. It's like weird science, but strange. I'm a 385 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:50.319 big fan of I'm a big fan of naps. 386 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:52.880 And if you've ever wondered about the best time to 387 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:55.440 take a nap and you're a fan of this show, 388 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.799 well I got great news for you. The best time 389 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:03.319 to take a nap, acording to researchers, one forty two pm. 390 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:06.759 So you listen to this show, maybe grab a little 391 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:10.400 lunch afterwards, and then call it a day. This very 392 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:13.759 specific time emerged from a new nationwide survey that looked 393 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.680 at how we nap, what makes some people better nappers 394 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:18.519 than others. It was done by the Green of the 395 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.000 Avocado Mattress people, and they found that most people aim 396 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:25.240 for about a fifty one minute nap, which means if 397 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.000 you go to about a one forty two you wake 398 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:31.319 up at two thirty three. The problem is, most sleep 399 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.480 researchers say that that is too long of a nap. 400 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:38.000 You nap too long, it's going to leave you feeling 401 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:41.119