WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.519 An event of the White House right now, President Trump 5 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:15.800 is reversing the emission standards that were set by the 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.039 state of California and is now speaking to a room 7 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:24.000 full of people about all kinds of different forms of 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.480 alternative energy. So we'll cover a little bit of that 9 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.120 when he wraps up and we get into swamp Watch 10 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:30.559 later on. 11 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.439 When I first heard news of this plane crash from 12 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.479 India to Britain to London, I thought, my mind immediately 13 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.799 went to air traffic control? Is it air traffic control related? 14 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.560 And then I saw the footage after I read that 15 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:49.079 it was on takeoff and here is this Dreamliner never 16 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.200 had a catastrophic crash or a crash at all, as 17 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.399 I remember a Dreamliner coming out in twenty eleven for Boeing. 18 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:01.759 It's taking off and then it descends and then the ballifier. 19 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:05.560 This is an Air India jet caring about two hundred 20 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:09.159 and forty two people, is what they've said. No survivors likely, 21 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:09.680 there was a. 22 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:13.719 British There is one survivor. You haven't heard this yet, well, 23 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:14.920 I saw a headline. 24 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:16.879 I saw a picture that they think that there was 25 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.439 one guy who was able to walk away. 26 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.719 We've interviewed him. So this is a British father seated 27 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:26.760 in eleven A. Yeah, he walked away from the Air 28 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:31.120 India disaster. Again to forty four on board. As the 29 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.879 new estimate, they say he's forty years old. He did 30 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:39.439 an interview from his hospital bed hours after this. The 31 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.920 flane was headed to Gatwick and there is footage of 32 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:49.359 him visible injuries, hobbling away from the scene of the crash. 33 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.400 He sustained injuries to his chest, his eyes, his feet. 34 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.920 Police found the passenger in eleven A jet comes down 35 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.519 transferred him to a high hospital. He told local media this. 36 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.879 Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and 37 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.400 then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly. When 38 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.520 I got up, there were bodies all around me. I 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.840 was scared. I stood up and ran. There are pieces 40 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.400 of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed a hold 41 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.520 of me, put me in an ambulance and brought me 42 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:27.000 to the hospital. This guy, one survivor of two forty four, 43 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:30.479 lives in London with his wife and child. He was 44 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.680 traveling home from seeing family in India when the plane crashed. 45 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.039 Uh, At this point, all we have is that video 46 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.639 that you mentioned where you can see the plane never 47 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:47.280 really gaining altitude. Ken Christensen is a crash investigator and said, 48 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.080 obviously it's going to take some time to figure out 49 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.919 exactly what happened, but based on what he saw from 50 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:52.719 that video. 51 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.560 Something that I saw on one of the videos I 52 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.879 was concerning was that the gear were down, but the 53 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.120 flaps were not deployed. So when you take off, do 54 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.599 you need flaps or additional lift and the plane will 55 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.360 lift off the ground, but then shortly after that it 56 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.599 will settle in if the flaps aren't configured. That because 57 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.479 of a very modern airplane, the airplane would be talking 58 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.520 to you and giving you warnings that your flaps were 59 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.840 not configured. So I would have really imagined that a 60 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:23.199 crew wouldn't depart with the flaps not configured. 61 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.879 But maybe shortly after takeoff the. 62 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.599 Flaps retracted, or the crews retracted to flaps prematurely, or 63 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.879 there was a mechanical error. But it looks like whether 64 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.240 the plane lot was losing power and or the flaps 65 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:37.080 weren't deployed. 66 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:41.719 Yeah, aviation experts have said so far that this Bowing 67 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.319 seven eighty seven Dreamliner may have suddenly lost power at 68 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:49.319 the most critical phase of the flight after takeoff. And 69 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.479 one of my questions, as somebody who knows nothing about aviation, 70 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.159 is when you think about a catastrophic crash like this, 71 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:03.159 wiping out the whole plane and everybody on board save one, 72 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:07.000 you think about it falling from thirty thousand feet. This 73 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.599 looks to be at the at the level of elevation 74 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.960 where I'm not too worried if I'm on a plane 75 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.160 that I think if something goes wrong on takeoff, well 76 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.319 you just kind of glide Down's that's what I have 77 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.519 in my head when I'm thinking about the parts of 78 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.519 the flight that terrify me the most because I have 79 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.519 no control over the massive tin tube flying in the sky. 80 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.879 The only problem, obviously is they don't They're not lined 81 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.959 up with a runway or anything. They're not, you know, 82 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.199 right crashed into what I believe has been described as 83 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.160 a medical college campus. 84 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.560 Yeah, and there was a number of I believe the 85 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.040 death toll that I read most recently was two ninety 86 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.879 so two forty four on board, which leaves a number 87 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.439 of casualties there. So I'm looking at the configuration of 88 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:54.600 the Dreamliner eleven A. So you have in the Dreamliner, 89 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.000 you've got obviously the cockpit working from forward to back. 90 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.160 Then you've got the bathrooms, and you've got the area 91 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.279 where the flight attendants get the coffee or what have 92 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.800 you read galley, and then you've you've got the first 93 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.759 class seats there you've got three rows, so this is 94 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:17.560 a two two two configuration, So two seats in the window, 95 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.759 two seats in the center column, and two seats on 96 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.079 the other side of the window. So two two two, 97 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.040 and you've got three rows of that for first class 98 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.560 or business class, what have you, whatever it is. And 99 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.319 then it's a as you move into the back of 100 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.920 the plane after first class, there's another area where you've 101 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.639 got the galley for the flight gendants and then the 102 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.199 rest of the plane, and that's a three three three 103 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:45.720 configuration from rows eleven on down. He was the window 104 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.399 seat of the first row of what would be economy, 105 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.120 so right after first class and then the galley, he's 106 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.360 in that window seat on the left side of the plane. 107 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.920 Eleven A. If you're curious, if that turns out to 108 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:03.680 be real. That's incredible. What do you mean of what 109 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:04.240 turns out to me? 110 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:04.439 Right? 111 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.560 Well, I mean just that it seems unbelievable that a person, 112 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:13.759 that one person would be able to survive that crash. 113 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.639 And I'm not just survive it, but able to walk 114 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.920 away from walk away, run away from the crash site. 115 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.839 Yeah, it's really incredible. It's you can't explain it, can you. 116 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.439 Well, if if the Indian government or any sort of 117 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.199 transport ministry or anything has more information, we will bring 118 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.040 it to you. The vast majority of the people on 119 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.879 board the plane where Indian nationals. There were at least 120 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:43.120 fifty British nationals, a Canadian, a handful of Portuguese nationals 121 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:43.600 as well. 122 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:49.079 One of the local aviation experts there in India looked 123 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.399 at the footage that's been circulating and he says that 124 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.839 it looked like a case of a multiple bird hit 125 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.720 wherein both the engines lost power. He said, the takeoff 126 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.519 was perfect, and I just believe short of taking the 127 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.560 gear up, the aircraft started descending, which can happen only 128 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.720 in the case of the engine loses power the aircraft 129 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.600 stops developing lift. This was only eleven year old plane, 130 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.680 so unlikely to have underlying technical. 131 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.199 Issues, and like you said at the beginning, the first 132 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.480 time a seven eighty seven, the first time a Dreamliner 133 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.639 has ever been involved in an incident like this, Right, 134 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.600 all right, we come back to yet another day of protests, 135 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.720 several arrests last night, of course, after curfew in downtown LA. 136 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.800 We'll talk about these ice enforcement operations that are taking 137 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:38.079 place throughout La County. 138 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.879 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 139 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:44.000 AM six forty. 140 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.279 The President just is currently signing this bill that would 141 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.519 basically kill the EV mandate here in the state of California, 142 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:56.079 who says passed by the Senate, had to go through 143 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.639 that process, but he is signing that, and he says 144 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.360 he's going to restore the auto and truck industry in 145 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.079 the United States back to its glory. 146 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:05.600 Big deal today, and. 147 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.920 We'll explain a lot more, kind of a deep dive 148 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.319 at ten o'clock about the court case that's going to 149 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:15.560 be taking place between California and the administration over the 150 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.199 President's deployment of troops in LA. After the demonstrators again 151 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.839 took to the streets last night, not just here but 152 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:25.319 in other cities as well. Seven hundred marines are expected 153 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.680 to be on the streets of LA either by today 154 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.800 or tomorrow. They haven't gotten specific to support the National 155 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.080 Guard troops that are already here protecting federal property and 156 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:41.279 federal agents. There is a hearing going on in Congress today. 157 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.080 This was planned long before the events of the last 158 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.440 week or so. Republicans on the House Oversight and Government 159 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:53.879 Reform Committee are asking questions of governors of declared sanctuary states. 160 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.759 Governors Tim Walls of Minnesota, Kathy Hochel of New York, 161 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.320 and JB. Pritzker of Illinois over their staff that is 162 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.279 as sanctuary states for people. I mentioned the protests in 163 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:09.360 other cities. Eight NYPD vehicles attacked in an arson attack 164 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.919 very early this morning. I think eight of those vehicles, 165 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.080 six of them marked to unmarked, but nobody was hurt. 166 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.519 Dreamlinerer, a Boeing seven eighty seven, which is used all 167 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.639 the time in this country, has crashed for the first 168 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:25.080 time since it rolled out in twenty eleven. Air India 169 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.120 passenger plane bound for London. More than two hundred and 170 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.879 forty people on board, crashed into a medical college. People 171 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.120 on the grounds to say that there are still bodies 172 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.120 in the debris. This is, of course, one of India's 173 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:44.399 worst airline disasters in decades, and miraculously, at least one 174 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.159 person reportedly survived the crash. Speaking from his hospital bed, 175 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.360 this guy, forty years old, married father of at least 176 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.200 one saying that he was in seat eleven a, that 177 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.360 he heard a loud bang thirty second in when he 178 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.840 came to just bodies everywhere, and he took off running, 179 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.960 obviously still in shock. Someone grabbed him, put in an 180 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:12.759 ambulance and he is at the hospital there. But again, 181 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:16.120 the death toll will rise with the number of people 182 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:21.399 in that medical college still uncertain the medical college that 183 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.440 the plane crashed into. It looks like a lost power 184 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.200 on takeoff for whatever reason. So we'll stay on top 185 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:29.039 of all the information coming out of that story. 186 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:35.480 Well, the immigration enforcement actions continue in Los Angeles and 187 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:37.320 around southern California over the. 188 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:38.240 Last couple of days. 189 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.120 So I asked yesterday if you know of any specific 190 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.120 instances of somebody being rounded up by ice, and I'm 191 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.960 talking about somebody who's not a criminal illegal alien the 192 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.720 way that was described in the original warrant in the 193 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.960 garment district in Los Angeles, a business that had been 194 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.679 looking for mass money looking it looked at, i should say, 195 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:06.639 for racketeering, trafficking, money laundering. A vast criminal enterprise is 196 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.519 what the. 197 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.320 Inception of this was. Really. 198 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.840 That's how it all started on Friday, was this raid 199 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.159 at this business in downtown LA in the garment district 200 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:20.799 where federal law enforcement did have credible evidence that this 201 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.080 was a business where there was a rampant criminal enterprise 202 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:28.480 operating out of There have been reports that have spread 203 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.639 fears and rumors on all the apps that alert people 204 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.879 to ices whereabouts, and that was detailed in La Times 205 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.879 article that was printed this morning. And the fears and 206 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:44.679 the rumor mill is terrifying. And I understand that, and 207 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.559 I know it's very easy for me to say, but 208 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.679 it's just rumors and fears at this point. But that's 209 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.600 exactly what the La Times laid out. There was no 210 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:57.200 in that entire article. There was one instance of a 211 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:02.240 fourth grader in Torrance whose parents were arrested for criminal activity, 212 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.039 or at least father was arrested for criminal activity, and 213 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.559 that kid was taken out of class because that's what 214 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.919 you do when a child's parent is arrested and there's 215 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:15.879 no other parental person on the forums to come get 216 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:16.759 you right, And. 217 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.919 That's the responsibility of a reporter who's putting a story 218 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.080 like that together, especially when it comes to the point 219 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.440 of the article is rumors can spread a lot faster 220 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.080 than the truth can. And then tell that story, which 221 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.200 is just that a fourth grader was transferred to an 222 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.720 immigration facility in Texas. Federal officials have since deported the 223 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.519 nine year old and his father to Honduras. Okay, But 224 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.559 what they don't explain, and the question I would have 225 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:46.360 is if this nine year old exists in the United 226 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.639 States and is a citizen of the United I'm assuming, 227 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.480 just assuming some of the details here, the nine year 228 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.240 old is a citizen because they were born here. My 229 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.399 postulate the father then has the option of allowing the 230 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.440 kid to stay in the United States with family members. 231 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.080 That's the way that the policies have been laid out before. 232 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.399 There were stories a couple of weeks ago similar to this, 233 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:14.360 a kid of the same age was deported to Honduras 234 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.879 or whatever it was. And when you drill down on 235 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:21.639 some of the details and the actual policies that are followed, 236 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:26.080 it's because mom was the one who had several warrants 237 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.919 for her arrest here in the United States outside of 238 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.519 the fact that she was here illegally and chose to 239 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.240 take her kid with her when she's deported back to Honduras. Now, 240 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.080 I'm not saying that's great. I'm not saying that's good 241 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.759 or a good policy or anything. I'm just saying we 242 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.720 have to be able to have those full throated, completely 243 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:50.240 truthful discussions about what's actually happening before we can even 244 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.399 begin to try to tear down the rumor mill that 245 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:55.360 exists out there. 246 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.279 I like to believe that we deal in facts on 247 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.679 this show. Sure, I like to believe that when COVID happened, 248 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.840 we dealt in facts. There are fears, obviously around all 249 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.159 of these stories, and I understand why they exist. And 250 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.200 I understand that I have no understanding of not being 251 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.360 brought up the way that I was brought up, and 252 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.600 I don't have relatives who came to this country for 253 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.080 a better life for me. 254 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:23.440 I don't have any of that. 255 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.759 But I also understand that these fears are being used 256 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:32.360 by politicians on both sides. The fear works for the 257 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.679 Democrats because the more people that are in fear, the 258 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.120 more people join their cause to kill the Republicans in Washington. 259 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:39.960 You know what I mean When I say kill, I 260 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.080 don't really mean kill. 261 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:42.080 It works. 262 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.080 The fear works for the Republicans in Washington that want 263 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.799 all the illegal immigrants out of this country. Make them nervous. 264 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.240 That way more will stay where they are in their 265 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.720 countries of origin. It works for both political parties. And 266 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.360 I just want everyone to just think about that for 267 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.519 a minute. Why do they want you in fear? Whatever side? 268 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:03.879 Why do they want you in fear. 269 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:09.320 It's to it's to you. You're moresing forward their political cause. 270 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:12.960 You're more easily manipulated when you're afraid that to the 271 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:13.480 other side. 272 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:19.039 Yes, and for all the people who freaking send us 273 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:23.120 death threats and hate us for whatever we say about 274 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.960 whatever's going on, when we're trying to stick to just facts, 275 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.480 give us the facts and we'll give you them right back. 276 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.080 Does it feel good? Does it feel. 277 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:37.720 Good to hate insert party or insert president or insert 278 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:38.559 people here? 279 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:40.039 Does that feel good? 280 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:41.519 I don't think it feels good at the end of 281 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.879 the day, So feel good to hate all the people 282 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.039 who are here illegally, Probably not feel good to hate Trump. 283 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.799 Just just feeling that. 284 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.000 In your in your heart or your body probably doesn't 285 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.879 feel good. So why are we doing that? Why are 286 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.600 we so committed to that. I don't like that. If 287 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.200 I have a problem with somebody, I like to go 288 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:02.919 through it and deal with it in my head and 289 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.039 make sense of it and just squash it, because it 290 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.080 doesn't feel good walking around being pissed off all the time. 291 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:11.600 Just bile. It's just built up of bile. 292 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.399 Now, one of the unintended consequences, at least I hope 293 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:18.679 it's unintended, is that those businesses throughout downtown La I 294 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.080 mean that core that's now under curfew from eight pm 295 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.039 to six am, those businesses are getting kicked in the 296 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.399 teeth by these protesters. 297 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:27.799 We'll explain when we come back. 298 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.799 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 299 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:33.919 AM six forty. 300 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:39.000 Rameshould be Swash Kamar is a name that you are 301 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.080 going to hear more about because this is the loan 302 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:47.679 survivor of that crash that has killed everyone on board 303 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:52.159 that Boeing seven eight seven dreamliner headed from India to London. 304 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.639 Ramesh V Swash Kamar was seated. 305 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.080 In eleven A A doctor who has examined him from 306 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:04.279 the hospital said that Ramesh was disoriented with multiple injuries 307 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.640 all over his body, but he seems to be out 308 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.319 of danger. 309 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:12.000 What have you seen the image of his plane ticket? 310 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:17.119 No, I assume it was on his body at the time, 311 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.319 but it's got his name on it. It's got the 312 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:23.079 seat eleven A, the date, time of departure, all of 313 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.079 that stuff, and then a stamp from the immigration the 314 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:28.279 immigration office there. 315 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:28.920 Wow. 316 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.559 I mean, imagine going through all of that once. I 317 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.599 don't want to say any sort of thing that could 318 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:43.400 be construed as insensitive, but settling once everything is settled, 319 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.440 you know, weeks, months, years from now, knowing that you're 320 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.279 the lone survivor or something like that. 321 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.799 I mean, there are books written about stuff like this. 322 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.839 Sure because it does. 323 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.000 Sure because there was a streaming TV show about it, 324 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:58.640 except it was a child kid. 325 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.920 Yes that's right. Wait what was that show? Evan Evan 326 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.799 Dear Yeah, yeah, yeah right. I mean, just the weight 327 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:13.640 immediately on your shoulders for that kind of survival is incredible. 328 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.480 I read that he had a brother on board that 329 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.319 I haven't seen anywhere else confirmed that adds to it 330 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.039 as well. But just the idea that everyone two and 331 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.599 forty people at least on this plane. And you survived 332 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.559 the crash and you're walking away from it. 333 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.039 Uh yeah, And we get more information about rumsh this 334 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.480 swash Kumar, swash Kamar, bring it to you. We've been 335 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:46.119 telling you obviously. The curfew still in effect. Mayor Bass 336 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:48.559 has said that the curfew for downtown La will remain 337 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.319 in effect. Yesterday, she said it will remain in effect 338 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.799 until there are no arrests overnight for people who choose 339 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:59.079 to break curfew. There is a problem though. The downtown 340 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.119 core is about one point four percent of our geographic 341 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.680 area for the city, but it is twenty one percent 342 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.880 of the jobs in La City are downtown, twenty nine 343 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.039 percent of wages. This is all according to the DTLA Alliance, 344 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:17.480 the coalition and property owners down there. And if you 345 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.480 think of the smaller businesses that exist outside of the 346 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.640 Apple Store and stuff like that, maybe the flower shop 347 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:28.680 that's owned by Johnny Wong, who has since nineteen ninety 348 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:32.440 his Vietnamese American family has owned that flower shop. 349 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:33.920 His sales are down eighty percent. 350 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:37.039 There are restaurants that have to close at eight o'clock 351 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.640 when eight o'clock would have been prime time any other 352 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:41.920 day for them to be making money to try to 353 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:43.000 keep their doors open. 354 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:44.279 What about the. 355 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:50.200 Music and performance venues that exist in that downtown curfew 356 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.839 area that have had to shutter shows because of the 357 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:57.559 protests and then the rioters that come in afterwards. There 358 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:04.319 is a very wrong immigrant community of business owners in 359 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:08.799 downtown LA that are now being crushed because of the 360 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:13.000 ongoing protests. In all of this Swedish immigrant immigrant A 361 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:16.799 guy named Michael Backlinder says the windows of his coffee 362 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.640 shop had to be boarded up by members of the 363 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:20.720 Carpenters Union as part of a free service to some 364 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:23.200 of the downtown businesses. Think of I just want to 365 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.720 I want to rephrase that, because this is something that 366 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.319 I think if you're not in downtown you kind of forget. 367 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.799 There are people who will come to your business and 368 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:39.559 for free board up your windows for you because they 369 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:41.440 know that this is going to get out of hand 370 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:43.960 and the chances are that your business is going to 371 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.920 either be looted and or destroyed by some of these 372 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:52.799 people that come in. Blair Beston, is executive director of 373 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.119 the Historic Core Business Improvement District, said, a bunch of 374 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:58.559 these protests and the violence have occurred in the area, 375 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:03.559 that the FI graffiti or a cab or whatever, all 376 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.119 this graffiti isn't being cleaned up quickly enough off of 377 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.839 the historic buildings, and that they could be somewhat permanent 378 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:13.039 and become long lasting ice sores. For all of this, 379 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:18.759 she also said that the people who came in and 380 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.880 looted the Apple store, for example, were very well organized. 381 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.200 They had radios, they had. 382 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:28.279 A U haul the craps, and they said that it 383 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.960 all happened within five minutes. So the idea that these 384 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:37.079 are that you're only hurting, for example, the even if 385 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:42.240 you're your goal is to hurt law enforcement, you're doing 386 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:43.519 a whole lot more than that. 387 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:45.759 You're heard in the community. You're hurting the community, and 388 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:47.200 you're immigrant. 389 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.680 Community, and like we talked with Michael Monks, you're hurting 390 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:54.039 the future community. When you know Nike and Apple that 391 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:57.279 that didn't want to come to LA but did and 392 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:00.720 set up shop there, and now we'll you have big 393 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.079 companies come and make things nice downtown LA. Well, you've 394 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:06.440 got a big reason of why not. You've got a 395 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.440 big reason of why they'll go somewhere else like Carmel. Yeah, 396 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:16.759 money or Monterey, somewhere like that, just really anywhere. 397 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.240 While all this domestic issue continues to bubble up. There 398 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.519 is a very serious threat of Israel bombing Iran sometime 399 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.920 in the next couple. 400 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.440 Of stop threatening us with such good times. 401 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:33.440