Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: All right? Do I start with good morning?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so. I think because it was better than
Speaker 2: yesterday morning. The better morning here on a Thursday, January ninth,
Speaker 2: Bill Handle and the morning crew on KFI. And I
Speaker 2: want to tell you something in a minute. It just
Speaker 2: occurred to me, and as I was watching TV last night.
Speaker 4: First let me say.
Speaker 2: Hello, And there you are on a Thursday morning. Good morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Amy is still Thursday.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning Bill in your Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Sweatshirt.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a time.
Speaker 2: As much as I hate fires, but there's a time,
Speaker 2: you know, I sometimes wish that a fire would go
Speaker 2: through your closet.
Speaker 4: Wow, you know what I was.
Speaker 5: I was putting my go bag together last night.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was Disney memorabile. Allow.
Speaker 3: I understand Kelly was thinking about him, like what should
Speaker 3: I take? Should I take my Disney Spirit jerseys?
Speaker 2: Of course you should in them.
Speaker 4: And let's not to forget the mouse ears.
Speaker 3: I did not pack mouse ears anyway.
Speaker 4: So I wish this was TV.
Speaker 2: So every day we'll see a different outfit than Amy
Speaker 2: wears that has Disneyland or Disney you're mickey on it.
Speaker 5: I did not wear Disney yesterday.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right, you didn't.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf
Speaker 6: and Kno good morning.
Speaker 2: All right. So, as I just mentioned television, of course
Speaker 2: today we're going to talk about the fires, naturally, because
Speaker 2: that is the big news.
Speaker 4: You know, last night I watch ABC News.
Speaker 2: You know, ninety percent of the news coverage last night
Speaker 2: was the fires.
Speaker 4: It can a big deal, Bill it is.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a bigger deal than I thought it was,
Speaker 6: because you don't give a crap about anything that doesn't
Speaker 6: affect you personally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's besides the point, or maybe that is
Speaker 4: the point.
Speaker 6: Your pants would have to be on fire for you
Speaker 6: to go, let's cover this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably, But I was.
Speaker 2: And you know David Muir who is the host of ABC,
Speaker 2: they flew him in so he anchored.
Speaker 4: From the fire one of the fire areas, and.
Speaker 2: The reporters, the national reporters were there and I knew
Speaker 2: it was a big story. I knew it was covered internationally,
Speaker 2: but it was. It is a bigger story than I anticipated.
Speaker 2: The same thing. With the death of Kobe, I didn't
Speaker 2: quite get how big a story it was, And going
Speaker 2: way back the death of Frank Sinatra, it's much bigger.
Speaker 2: I was in Norway at the time. By the way,
Speaker 2: if you remember when Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 6: How could we remember that you were in Norway when
Speaker 6: Frank Sinatra died.
Speaker 2: Because it's all about me in this case, the dead
Speaker 2: Frank Sinatra. Because I was on vacation and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Frank Sinatra is about to die. And David Hall,
Speaker 2: our previous program director, said, get to a radio station.
Speaker 2: Your show is on. You're gonna host the show because
Speaker 2: it's such a big deal. So I went to their
Speaker 2: national radio station and it was these big Soviet blocks buildings,
Speaker 2: you know, those big staliness, solid concrete buildings. There was
Speaker 2: the radio one was built in the thirties, and then
Speaker 2: the television one that was built in the fifties looked
Speaker 2: just like it. And so I'm sitting there broadcasting just
Speaker 2: a quick story. I'm sitting there broadcasting and the engineer,
Speaker 2: this woman who they l speak perfect English, said do
Speaker 2: you know where you're sitting, big cavernous room, in this
Speaker 2: big desk with a microphone in front of it. Do
Speaker 2: you know where you're sitting? And I said, no, that
Speaker 2: is exactly the spot where Quizzling announced the puppet government
Speaker 2: under Nazi Germany at the start of World War One,
Speaker 2: I started World War Two. I went, whoa, you know
Speaker 2: how a history not? I am wow?
Speaker 4: And it was I went out of my mind. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's just where were you?
Speaker 2: Norway?
Speaker 4: Oh I see wow?
Speaker 2: All right, now a quick story about us our coverage,
Speaker 2: and I generally try not to blow our horn, as
Speaker 2: you know, saying oh, we're great, We're terrific. Oh, we're
Speaker 2: just bitching people here. But as I was watching television
Speaker 2: last night and I channeled surf, I go through all
Speaker 2: the local stations to see what's going on and how
Speaker 2: it's being covered. I noticed that the coverage was basically
Speaker 2: the same, you know, announcing the fier arey, here's a
Speaker 2: weather report, reporters out on the field, walking along, Look
Speaker 2: at the building behind me, look at this, look down
Speaker 2: the street, interviewing someone. I've lost everything and it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: I mean to see someone that's actually lost, but that's
Speaker 2: the coverage. And then I think in this often happens
Speaker 2: where I'm jealous of television because there's a lot of
Speaker 2: visual that we can't and don't use. I mean, the
Speaker 2: theater of the mind is a wonderful thing. And I
Speaker 2: like radio far more than I like television, not only
Speaker 2: having done television. It's a complete waste of time. In
Speaker 2: my opinion, it's not you. It's a producer talking in
Speaker 2: your IU D in the ear. You know where the ID.
Speaker 5: It's not an IUD in your ear?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so whatever the hell it is I FB yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I was close. So in any case, you're it's not you.
Speaker 2: It's some producer telling you what to say. And so
Speaker 2: I get jealous of the coverage because they have the visuals.
Speaker 2: And then I think of, here's what we do. For example,
Speaker 2: today we're going to have the PR communications officer at
Speaker 2: the pacaday in the Humane Society and get into not
Speaker 2: just you can donate, you can have your animal be
Speaker 2: dropped off, but get into the story.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: The same thing with Joel Larsguard. We're gonna have him
Speaker 2: today about insurance issues, what's going on. They don't do
Speaker 2: that on television. They do the quick, dirty story, Boom,
Speaker 2: you're done. But here's your visual. And that's what I
Speaker 2: love about what we do. And this one, this one,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna blow our horn and say that's what makes
Speaker 2: during times like this, that that's what makes it worth listening. Uh,
Speaker 2: today we're gonna get Jim Keiney on who is going
Speaker 2: to talk about the medical aspects of the pollutants.
Speaker 6: And uh, well they just call him Jim Kenney. You
Speaker 6: know he works for a living. Why don't you call
Speaker 6: him doctor Keeney.
Speaker 2: Oh, because we've been on such friend you know, basis
Speaker 2: of a friendship for so long. Okay, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to doctor Jim, the doctor Jim Keeney. Okay, he's
Speaker 2: a doctor, doctor, he's a doctor doctor. And uh, we're
Speaker 2: gonna have h Well, the pastor of Humane Society. We
Speaker 2: have a connection a big one here. Uh do you
Speaker 2: remember our previous aim JJL Amy plus about eighty pounds,
Speaker 2: was with us and she was well connected.
Speaker 4: By the way, JJL is fine with that. Okay, she lost.
Speaker 2: About eighty five and she's looking absolutely great and it's
Speaker 2: no longer going to be jj L. It's JJ you know.
Speaker 3: And we still have that connection to pass the passa
Speaker 3: humane because she has passed the leash to me and
Speaker 3: now I do the wiggle waggon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was about to say that, say so
Speaker 2: we maintain a very very good connection, and she started
Speaker 2: and Amy, thank you, Amy for beating me to the punch,
Speaker 2: but Amy continues it. So there is there's kind of
Speaker 2: a neat connection we have. And then we're going to
Speaker 2: spend a real long time ripping at least a segment
Speaker 2: ripping into Karen Bass, who was in Ghana while this
Speaker 2: was going on, and well, really, Mayor, what were you
Speaker 2: doing in Ghana? And she answered, she went, you know,
Speaker 2: that's uh they speak. That's one of the.
Speaker 6: She's fluent in that language. You know, I do you
Speaker 6: know what? I love the La Times. They were writing
Speaker 6: a story about that, which we'll get into. But they said,
Speaker 6: while ever present on social media, and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 6: she was in Ghana and I kept thinking, bull crap,
Speaker 6: that wasn't her on social media? Some lackey is posting
Speaker 6: general information on her you know, X account or whatever
Speaker 6: it was. And they were like, while ever present from
Speaker 6: far away, No, she wasn't.
Speaker 2: She Whiz people, let's go ahead and take a break,
Speaker 2: and we're going to get into unfortunately, the news and
Speaker 2: I guess it's relatively good that this massive explosion moving
Speaker 2: at eighty miles an hour, the fire is a little
Speaker 2: bit better. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one,
Speaker 2: but I think we're saying light at the end of
Speaker 2: the tunnel, too much light. But I think we're doing that. Amy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to throw it to you for the latest
Speaker 2: in terms of the hard facts, that is the number
Speaker 2: of acres burned, evacuations, and what's going.
Speaker 4: On beyond the last night.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we are expecting an update at eight o'clock,
Speaker 3: so we're expecting these numbers to change. But what we
Speaker 3: have is active fire zero percent surrounded in Palisades, still burning,
Speaker 3: more than seventeen thousand acres burned, over one hundred thousand evacuated,
Speaker 3: and about a thousand structures have burned.
Speaker 5: We're talking about.
Speaker 3: Homes, schools, businesses, restaurants, churches, you name it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm a little bit more optimistic because those numbers
Speaker 2: have not really changed very much in terms of the
Speaker 2: thousand structures that I was listening to last night. But
Speaker 2: it could be that we're going to get a big,
Speaker 2: big update.
Speaker 3: Exactly, we don't know until they give us an update,
Speaker 3: and again they haven't given updates on any of the
Speaker 3: fire since yesterday, So as you mentioned, when they do,
Speaker 3: because yesterday we went from dozens up to a thousand
Speaker 3: right for the Palisades fire, So that's that one. In
Speaker 3: the fire that's burning in Altadena near Pasadena, it's ten
Speaker 3: thoy six hundred acres, about seventy thousand people evacuated, and
Speaker 3: there are varying numbers, but the latest we've seen is
Speaker 3: nine hundred and seventy two structures destroyed. And in the
Speaker 3: Pasadena Water District they're seeing don't drink the water bottled
Speaker 3: water only. It's not even a boil order. It's bottled
Speaker 3: water only because of contamination from the fires. The Hurst
Speaker 3: fire in Silmar, that's the one that's burning north of
Speaker 3: the two ten and east of the just or south
Speaker 3: of the five fifty sorry five fourteen interchange. That one's
Speaker 3: burned about eight hundred and fifty five acres. There are
Speaker 3: evacuation orders, but no reports of any buildings home structures
Speaker 3: being burned at the point. And this is something we
Speaker 3: haven't seen on any of these fires that are raging
Speaker 3: out of control. Ten percent surrounded at this point, so
Speaker 3: firefighters are actually making some headway on that one in
Speaker 3: of course, the sunset fire that broke out last night
Speaker 3: about five point thirty. That's the one that was in
Speaker 3: the run In Canyon area and quickly spread to almost
Speaker 3: fifty acres. Lots of evacuations were ordered, people got out,
Speaker 3: clogged streets, it was a mess. But most of the
Speaker 3: evacuation orders have now been lifted and the water dropping
Speaker 3: helicopters really made a difference in that one and we're
Speaker 3: able to stop it from spreading into neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things. When we were on the
Speaker 2: air yesterday, we would have you during when daylight hours
Speaker 2: said we had no idea of the extent of the
Speaker 2: fire other than sort of a guess this is the
Speaker 2: fire department, because they really didn't know how many structures
Speaker 2: because the aircraft weren't in the air well yesterday, I
Speaker 2: think towards the end of the afternoon aircraft were able
Speaker 2: to go in the air and so we are going
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 4: A much better idea.
Speaker 2: Also, and yesterday looking at Instagram of high end or
Speaker 2: celebrities names that you recognize who have lost their homes,
Speaker 2: and that list is extraordinary and I can't tell you
Speaker 2: how many people who have contacted me, texted me, who
Speaker 2: in fact have evacuated? I had an hour with my
Speaker 2: shrink yesterday. I usually do a zoom call with my psychologist.
Speaker 2: What a shocker that have a therapist, right, Neil?
Speaker 4: Only an hour?
Speaker 2: Yeah? At only an hour? And Neil, I don't know
Speaker 2: if Neil and who have known probably for almost thirty years,
Speaker 2: there's ever been a moment that I didn't have a therapist,
Speaker 2: neurotic jew all that stuff. Anyway, she had evacuated and
Speaker 2: she really no place to go, so she went into
Speaker 2: a humane Seltzer shelter. So I was doing my therapy
Speaker 2: with her and there were horses in the background and
Speaker 2: dogs moving around. Let me tell you how pleasant that was.
Speaker 6: How could she not own her own island at this point?
Speaker 6: Being your shrink? Yeah, the amount of time and money spent.
Speaker 6: I mean, seriously, she should have a small country by now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's it's really very depressing, very depressing. I mean
Speaker 2: it's uh, it's and I do it twice a week
Speaker 2: Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays, I hate my mother when I
Speaker 2: have sex with the dog, and then on Thursday it's
Speaker 2: just the reverse. Okay, enough of that, fort there's something.
Speaker 5: About Oedipus Rex in there.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah with the dog literally, yeah, okay, Uh.
Speaker 2: In any case, Uh, we're gonna get somewhat of an idea.
Speaker 2: But amy based on what I said and what I
Speaker 2: have seen, and you guys have been at it all night,
Speaker 2: Neil and Cobalt and Conway and Moe did five hours
Speaker 2: last night. I mean, it's kind of crazy. Do I
Speaker 2: have it right where? It's sort of the the It
Speaker 2: has turned a corner, not so much containment, but in
Speaker 2: terms of the raging wildfires that were moving at one
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour down the hills.
Speaker 3: Well, not necessarily. Okay, the winds have died down considerably.
Speaker 3: We are still expecting some gusty winds. But if you
Speaker 3: saw a picture of the fire that's burning above Altadena,
Speaker 3: they Eaton Canyon fire. There was a whole hillside in
Speaker 3: the dark of night, and it looked like street lights
Speaker 3: dotting the hillside, but it wasn't. It was fires. I mean,
Speaker 3: so fire is still burning, actively burning, and houses are
Speaker 3: still being destroyed.
Speaker 2: I got a text yesterday today. I was supposed to
Speaker 2: have a meeting with a couple of management folks at
Speaker 2: KFI and got a text from one of them saying,
Speaker 2: I can't make it to the meeting. I lost my
Speaker 2: house in the Palisades and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: And it's, I mean, absolutely heartbreaking. We'll be getting a
Speaker 2: lot of that.
Speaker 4: There is.
Speaker 2: Lindsay's cousin who had built their dream house. She and
Speaker 2: her husband had built their dream house in Malibu. It
Speaker 2: burnt to the ground, so they built it again, and
Speaker 2: we don't know if it's around and do you build
Speaker 2: it a third time? And at some point you say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think so when do you walk away? And
Speaker 2: we're not talking about a shack on silts in the
Speaker 2: Louisiana Bayou that takes you three days to put together. Either.
Speaker 4: It's the devastation is it's tough, it really is to.
Speaker 5: See that, and the not knowing is really difficult.
Speaker 3: My brother's an architectural photographer and he's been working on
Speaker 3: a house that's in the Palisades for a year where
Speaker 3: they're documenting the construction because this is some really wall
Speaker 3: house and so he's been working on it. Actually it's
Speaker 3: been a couple of years that they go and they
Speaker 3: photograph it as it's being built, and they said, we
Speaker 3: don't know if it's even still there, and so it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see.
Speaker 6: You know, I think you have a false sense of
Speaker 6: it mellowing out right now because the winds are not
Speaker 6: as insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe you're right.
Speaker 6: I've got seven cameras in front or seven TVs in
Speaker 6: front of me, and there is no dearth of.
Speaker 4: Fire footage live right now.
Speaker 6: And you know all the la USD schools are closed,
Speaker 6: You've got smoke, horrible air quality.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's over. No, I know it's not over.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's granted, But as I'm here, I am
Speaker 2: an unusually optimistic and that I think we're at a
Speaker 2: different point than we were yesterday. We won't know. You
Speaker 2: may be right, Amy may be right, and when the
Speaker 2: press conference comes in at eight am this morning, we
Speaker 2: may just shake our heads and just wonder at how
Speaker 2: quickly and how much more devastation, how much more blittering
Speaker 2: of homes and businesses, there are we are in the
Speaker 2: midst of historical incident here in southern California. Last night
Speaker 2: I was watching national news in ABC specifically last night,
Speaker 2: ninety percent of the broadcast was of these fires. Extraordinary
Speaker 2: with US Fred Fielding, who is the LA Fire Department
Speaker 2: Public Service Public Information officer. Fred. Thanks for taking the
Speaker 2: time to talk to us. I would like you to
Speaker 2: comment on a couple of statements that were made yesterday
Speaker 2: through the various agents. Do I have that wrong? Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? What am I talking about? I'm already I'm
Speaker 2: already an hour and a half, an hour ahead of us.
Speaker 2: You know, here's the problem, And I'm not going to
Speaker 2: blame myself. You know, Chris Berry, who is our management
Speaker 2: interimped walked in the studio and he started talking to me,
Speaker 2: and he knows how easily I am distracted. So this
Speaker 2: is Chris's fault, not mine.
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, why don't we go back?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I was looking up at the rundown again.
Speaker 4: My fault. Cono, stop looking at me this way?
Speaker 2: Please? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: You don't look at me like a I'm a complete moron?
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And your paper that Anna prepares for you, you do nothing.
Speaker 4: You just have to read it and look pretty.
Speaker 2: Thursday, January ninth, twenty twenty five. Hi, I'm Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: This is KFI. He's actually reading athetic.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: When he jokes he has to read.
Speaker 2: Two Jews walk into a bar. Okay, let's uh just
Speaker 2: continue on.
Speaker 6: He has cute cards for when he's loved making ooh ah,
Speaker 6: Bobby baby.
Speaker 4: Sorry, misread that.
Speaker 2: All right, back we go more handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, everybody, Amy and me, Neil. So let's
Speaker 2: let's go through a couple of things that we still
Speaker 2: have to cover. One of those is the number of
Speaker 2: people that are without power in southern California. Hundreds of
Speaker 2: thousands people without power, Amy, do we have some geography
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 5: We do, and we have numbers for you.
Speaker 3: So three hundred and twelve thousand of those are so
Speaker 3: Cal Edison customers, nine LADWP customers, thirty six hundred Glendale
Speaker 3: Water and Power customers, and fifteen hundred of them are
Speaker 3: Pasadena Water and Power portions of the city like Pacific Palisades,
Speaker 3: Hollywood Hills. They had power intentionally turned off during the firefight.
Speaker 3: Other areas, including throughout the San Fernando Valley where a
Speaker 3: friend of mine has had her power out for like
Speaker 3: two full days at least, have also been affected.
Speaker 2: I tell you hundreds of thousands of people without power,
Speaker 2: and I have people that I know it's now what
Speaker 2: three days no power? My daughter, who is has no power,
Speaker 2: went to her roommate's cousin who is in Manhattan Beach,
Speaker 2: and she called me last night she said, I'm on
Speaker 2: my way, and she got there and she took her
Speaker 2: two dogs, the big Kendall and Vinnie. I mean those
Speaker 2: are two like seventy five pound dogs who went down there,
Speaker 2: and she says, now I can get some food because
Speaker 2: there's just there's been no power at my place. So
Speaker 2: whether they're not alone, and the problem is no one
Speaker 2: can of course tell us they have no power because
Speaker 2: there's no power, and they don't have any juice left
Speaker 2: on their phones because there's no power to charge their phones,
Speaker 2: and it is a mess.
Speaker 4: Backup batteries, do you know?
Speaker 6: There are and I can't remember the name right now,
Speaker 6: but it's about the size of a credit card. It
Speaker 6: could fit in your wallet. And there emergency chargers for
Speaker 6: your phone. They're in my go bag, they're in you
Speaker 6: know there. It really is not difficult to back yourself up.
Speaker 6: You can find other ones that will charge your phone
Speaker 6: with a double a battery.
Speaker 2: Huh See, I didn't know that. I just keep my
Speaker 2: phone charged. It makes sense. So if anybody just contact
Speaker 2: Neil and he'll tell you where to go on that.
Speaker 2: Oh by oh, I'm sorry you can't contact Neil because
Speaker 2: you have no power and you have no batteries.
Speaker 6: That's right, Well, then, who they're not listening to us?
Speaker 6: Then they are because they have their hand crank radios.
Speaker 4: Which you used growing up.
Speaker 2: Not even gonna go there, covered wagon, I am not
Speaker 2: even going to go there, all right.
Speaker 6: Cruise continued to battle of fires all over the south Land,
Speaker 6: including Hollywood Hills, and they knocked down the Studio City fire,
Speaker 6: thank god, that was a structure fire. And then we
Speaker 6: saw the solar drive there in Hollywood Hills shortly after
Speaker 6: five point thirty.
Speaker 4: You've been hearing Amy King talk.
Speaker 6: About that, that they had sixty acres or so, and
Speaker 6: the chaos that ensued in these very narrow streets that
Speaker 6: are throughout the Hollywood Hills was insane. And to see
Speaker 6: it completely blocked off, that's when we actually started getting
Speaker 6: the most. My wife and I started getting the most
Speaker 6: texts and people calling because they heard there was these
Speaker 6: massive traffic jams throughout Sunset and the like.
Speaker 4: Because of that.
Speaker 2: We heard, I mean, you can imagine the authorities driving
Speaker 2: down or moving down the side of a road and
Speaker 2: telling people get out of your cars, abandon your cars
Speaker 2: and start walking or running down the hill while they're
Speaker 2: trying to get first responders up and everything is blocked.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, a lot of this fire is unprecedented
Speaker 2: in terms of its size, scope, its effects.
Speaker 6: It's just it's Shannon Fairn referred to it as generational,
Speaker 6: and I think she's spot on there that this is
Speaker 6: not something that you're going to see again. This is
Speaker 6: a big generational event.
Speaker 2: It's described. We hear this on the news, we hear this,
Speaker 2: We hear us talking about the dystopian post apoc, post pop,
Speaker 2: post apoc elliptic. Oh see, it wasn't spelled correctly, and
Speaker 2: you didn't put that word right on my board.
Speaker 6: Watching your face try to defecate that word out of
Speaker 6: your mouth was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: It was a poke a to see you do it exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why I have a rough time being
Speaker 2: hired outside of the station.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Mayor Bass is back, and she's come back to a
Speaker 3: literal and political firestorm. She left on Saturday to head
Speaker 3: to Ghana part of a presidential delegation, and Saturday is
Speaker 3: when the National Weather Service really started ratcheting up its
Speaker 3: warnings about the windstorm and the potentially devastating, deadly windstorm
Speaker 3: that they were warning about. And on Tuesday, when the
Speaker 3: worst of the fires were starting, she was attending the
Speaker 3: inauguration of Ghana's new president. She returned to Lax got
Speaker 3: off the plane and there's a video of a sky
Speaker 3: News or border just peppering her with questions, Madam mayor,
Speaker 3: have you absolutely nothing to say about the citizens today
Speaker 3: who are dealing with this disaster? Madam Mayor should you
Speaker 3: have been here, Madam Mayor do you regret not being
Speaker 3: in La when this devastation was hitting?
Speaker 5: She didn't answer, she didn't look at him.
Speaker 2: She got real violent. She was going to get hit
Speaker 2: pretty hard by this one. You know, at seven o'clock
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about more about But keep in
Speaker 2: mind someone becomes mayor, they're on an airplane visiting, for example,
Speaker 2: sister cities. You know, LA has more sister cities of
Speaker 2: which the mayor travels all over the world than a
Speaker 2: fundamentalist Mormon family. It's all sister cities out there and inaugurations.
Speaker 4: And let me ask you, why would the mayor of Los.
Speaker 2: Angeles go to an inauguration of a Gananian or Ghanian president.
Speaker 2: Where is the connection?
Speaker 4: What does that have to do with our world?
Speaker 6: Stay here, fill the potholes, make it safe, and make
Speaker 6: sure that we have what we need for firefighters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to rip into her seven o'clock legitimately.
Speaker 4: And it's not so much.
Speaker 2: As she even going there, because that's just the political
Speaker 2: Those are just political.
Speaker 4: Fun junkets that elected officials get.
Speaker 5: So why should she get to have political fun junkets.
Speaker 4: Because that's what they do. Because that's what they do,
Speaker 4: she should way.
Speaker 2: Well, she was wrong in terms of not anticipating what
Speaker 2: was happening because it was called for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: She should have been an airplane two days.
Speaker 4: Before or a day before.
Speaker 2: But on top of that, she cut the funding of
Speaker 2: the fire department.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that.
Speaker 2: Is Boy, there's some answers that we're going to need
Speaker 2: on that one. All right, that's coming up at seven
Speaker 2: point fifty.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: Uber Lift, they are offering free rides to evacuated wildfire
Speaker 6: residents in southern California.
Speaker 4: Here, so.
Speaker 6: The shelter locations valid for free uber rides or the
Speaker 6: Pastina Civic Auditorium, Westwood Recreation Center, El Camino Real Charter
Speaker 6: High School and Richie Valence Recreation Center, and they are
Speaker 6: giving you the ability if you register to get a
Speaker 6: free Uber ride up to forty dollars by applying the
Speaker 6: promo code wild Fire twenty five in the wallet section
Speaker 6: of their Uber app.
Speaker 2: Yeah lift up to twenty five dollars. Both of them
Speaker 2: are giving free rides, which is neat good for them. Frankly,
Speaker 2: I would take Uber because it give you more money.
Speaker 4: You can stop off and pick some things up on
Speaker 4: the way, just.
Speaker 2: On the way, and it's good for them, good for
Speaker 2: them coming to the table.
Speaker 3: People can get themselves out right when an evacuation order comes,
Speaker 3: you know what to do. Pets are a different story
Speaker 3: and they need her help, our help, and Pasadena Humane
Speaker 3: is one of the shelters who's helping.
Speaker 5: They've opened up.
Speaker 3: They're one of the small animal shelters where people can
Speaker 3: take their animals. And we talked to Kevin McManus this
Speaker 3: morning and they have taken in three hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: animals and he said the animals that came in yesterday
Speaker 3: are the ones who may have been left behind, the
Speaker 3: ones who got lost and maybe they got scared and
Speaker 3: took off and they're coming in with burn injuries, but
Speaker 3: they're taking care of them and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 2: Does we have a connection, Amy who now leads the
Speaker 2: Wiggle Waggle Google Google Popolympicalypicic that we do every year
Speaker 2: for the Pasadena Humane Society. So we're going to be
Speaker 2: talking to Kevin McManus, who is the communications director.
Speaker 4: And that's at seven thirty.
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