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Speaker 2: There was an absolutely tragic, awful story out of Baldwin
Speaker 2: Park just this weekend. A young Baldwin Park police officer
Speaker 2: was killed in a shooting late Saturday, also left a
Speaker 2: civilian dead another officer injured. Sheriff Luna gave the basics
Speaker 2: of what we knew later that night in a very
Speaker 2: late night news conference.
Speaker 3: Officers from the Baldwin Park Police Department responded to a
Speaker 3: calls for service of gunshots and a person down, and
Speaker 3: as the chief said, for these officers, they didn't hesitate.
Speaker 3: They get a dispatch, somebody may need help, their shots fired,
Speaker 3: they go right over there without hesitation. That's what these
Speaker 3: men and women do every day.
Speaker 2: Sheriff thus said that other officers then came in to help.
Speaker 4: After the shots were fired at the original.
Speaker 3: Other officers immediately went to their assistance. An officer involved
Speaker 3: shooting did occur at that time. I can't tell you
Speaker 3: how many officers fired at this time. That's still being investigated.
Speaker 3: How many shots were fired, that's all still being investigated.
Speaker 3: But the suspect was struck with gunfire and he was
Speaker 3: transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
Speaker 2: So again, Originally, when the call came in the nine
Speaker 2: one one, callers said, it didn't appear that this guy
Speaker 2: was shooting in any specific direction. He wasn't aiming at
Speaker 2: anyone or anything in particular. He's just peeling off shots.
Speaker 2: One of the neighbors across the street said he initially
Speaker 2: thought he was here in firecrackers. We hear that pretty commonly,
Speaker 2: but then saw this guy with a rifle still. The
Speaker 2: neighbor across the street called the man's grandmother she was
Speaker 2: apparently inside the house, and warned her to hide under
Speaker 2: a bed to not let her grandson back inside. The
Speaker 2: neighbor said grandma told grandma before going inside. His own home,
Speaker 2: he said he couldn't see any other part of what happened,
Speaker 2: but was obviously shaken up. This happened right next to
Speaker 2: his house. When the officers did show up, Officer Samuel
Speaker 2: Riveros and another officer, and they immediately traded shots with
Speaker 2: this guy. There was another person who was apparently shot.
Speaker 2: They just don't know the timeline of all of it.
Speaker 2: That other person hasn't been identified. Who was shot and
Speaker 2: dead on the street. In fact, this other neighbor said
Speaker 2: she came out after the shooting and saw the body.
Speaker 5: I came outside and then I saw a body playing
Speaker 5: on the floor and he didn't move.
Speaker 4: Robert Lopez is the chief of police there in Baldwin Park.
Speaker 6: It's extremely tragic. You have to deal with this. I
Speaker 6: asked for your prayers. I asked for the community to
Speaker 6: remember the officers and the deputies said go out there
Speaker 6: every day pushing a black and white making it safe
Speaker 6: for all of our families, our residents, and the community
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 2: So the tributes to Officer Riveros are pouring in. We've
Speaker 2: been seeing law enforcement officers from different agencies around southern
Speaker 2: California who have shown up to Baldwin Park Police headquarters
Speaker 2: for what has become sort of a growing memorial there
Speaker 2: for Samuel Riveros. In terms of the people who have
Speaker 2: talked about him, they said that he loved the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They said he was an avid snowboarder. He became a
Speaker 2: law enforcement officer after he got a degree in criminology,
Speaker 2: Law and Society U c. Irvine, played lacrosse there. He
Speaker 2: mentored youth in Orange County as part of the Criminology
Speaker 2: outreach program, survived by a mother and a sister. Some
Speaker 2: of the co workers and neighbors by the way talked
Speaker 2: to a couple of different TV stations about this guy.
Speaker 7: I remember always seeing him smile and just loving to
Speaker 7: show up to work and just give it us all.
Speaker 5: As soon as I heard that there was a police
Speaker 5: officer that got shot at Walden Park, you know, me
Speaker 5: and my like friends that worked with him or worked
Speaker 5: together were like, Oh my gosh, I just I hope
Speaker 5: it's not Sam.
Speaker 4: I hope it's not Sam, because he was one of
Speaker 4: our favorites.
Speaker 5: You know, he's just so sweet and just just a
Speaker 5: great person.
Speaker 7: To see one of our own, you know, hear.
Speaker 4: The tragedy is just heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: So at this point, they haven't said the specifics of
Speaker 2: a memorial, although there were reports this morning that memorial
Speaker 2: for Officer Riveros will probably be held some time late
Speaker 2: this week Friday.
Speaker 4: It's kind of what they're looking for.
Speaker 2: We'll definitely bring you details about that, because this is,
Speaker 2: you know, a thirty five year old officer was still
Speaker 2: way too young. Any officers too young to be killed
Speaker 2: in the line of duty like that. This suspect. By
Speaker 2: the way we did Mention was shot and is recovering.
Speaker 2: Suffered some min wounds after being shot by officers before
Speaker 2: they were able to take him into custody. There is
Speaker 2: a brand new computer program that should make you bang
Speaker 2: your head against a wall.
Speaker 4: Summers around the corner.
Speaker 2: The California Department of Office of Emergency Services has put
Speaker 2: out a new map. I will tell you how much
Speaker 2: money this map costs, and it will make you bang
Speaker 2: your head against the wall even more. Why we need
Speaker 2: a new heat ranking tool for our warm summers in California.
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Speaker 7: So this comment is to you, Jerry, I don't hear you.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, did he say, Jerry.
Speaker 7: Well, this comment is to you, Jerry, I don't hear
Speaker 7: you condemning Ukraine on attacking Russia and taking things to
Speaker 7: new levels now and continuing the war, extending it further
Speaker 7: and further. But I guess we know now where you stand.
Speaker 4: Oh, got me? I guess Jerry?
Speaker 2: Why I don't understand that mentality that Ukraine doesn't have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to defend itself. That's something I don't quite
Speaker 2: understand about that whole argument, But anyway, Gavin Newsom made
Speaker 2: a big announcement on Friday. Gavin Newsom has announced the
Speaker 2: launch of col Heat Score. The Office of Emergency Services
Speaker 2: says that this is a cutting edge tool to forecast
Speaker 2: and rank heat severity risks in the state of California. Yes,
Speaker 2: a couple couple of weeks before summer actually officially starts
Speaker 2: here in California and everywhere, But this breathless announcement doesn't
Speaker 2: make a whole lot of sense to make just.
Speaker 8: Launched a new ranking system, first in the nation, to
Speaker 8: deal with extreme heat, similar to what we do in
Speaker 8: categories with hurricanes and tropical storms. California's new Heat Score
Speaker 8: will be a six code level heat map to prepare
Speaker 8: to deal with the impacts of extreme heat, to provide
Speaker 8: resources and have a resourceful mindset to keep people safe.
Speaker 8: The number one cause of weather related death is extreme heat.
Speaker 8: So please take it serious and please take a look
Speaker 8: at the Heat score website.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a website, it's not necessarily an app, but
Speaker 2: it is used in the same way. And they say
Speaker 2: that this cal Heat Score identifies groups most susceptible to
Speaker 2: extreme heat. Do you know who that is, Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the oldest people and the youngest people, and who
Speaker 2: are the least likely to go onto a website to
Speaker 2: check how warm it's going to be exactly the oldest
Speaker 2: people and the youngest people. All so, it says the tool,
Speaker 2: and I hate the way that people write this. There's
Speaker 2: got to be a complete retooling of press release writing quote.
Speaker 2: The tool additionally integrates other important data sets like locations
Speaker 2: for the nearest cooling centers. We make fun we hear
Speaker 2: on the show, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: make fun of local television listen.
Speaker 4: I will say there are radio stations who do it too.
Speaker 2: When the heat is going to be triple digits, well,
Speaker 2: guess what. In the twenty years that I've lived here
Speaker 2: in southern California, the valley always hits triple digits in
Speaker 2: the summer, always, and we always do stories about stay
Speaker 2: in the shade, make sure you wear light clothing. Maybe
Speaker 2: you'd take a time to go see a movie in
Speaker 2: the heat of the day, go to a pool, stay hydrated, check.
Speaker 4: On your older neighbors.
Speaker 2: Those are the it's lazy, lazy reporting when people do that.
Speaker 2: If you need to tell people that it's going to
Speaker 2: be triple digit temperatures. Tell people it's going to be
Speaker 2: triple digit temperatures. Don't give them, in this case, this
Speaker 2: cow heat score thing. Don't give them a one to
Speaker 2: four scale of how hot it's going to be, because
Speaker 2: that's not going to change anybody's behavior. How much, oh
Speaker 2: how much is what you're at? How much did it cost?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Approximately thirty million dollars. Now there
Speaker 2: are discrepancies. I've seen one that it was twenty three
Speaker 2: million just for the col Heat Score, but the Office
Speaker 2: of Emergency Services release also says that there was an
Speaker 2: additional thirty two point four million dollars to support several
Speaker 2: different California communities in life saving extreme heat mitigation efforts.
Speaker 2: There is a program called the Extreme Heat and Community
Speaker 2: Resilience Program to combat dangerous heat exposure by building long
Speaker 2: lasting infrastructure solutions. I can't get through this. I just
Speaker 2: can't read through this. And they refer to this as
Speaker 2: a first in the nation heat ranking tool. Well, since
Speaker 2: I started in the business of news twenty five thirty
Speaker 2: years ago, I've constantly kept up on weather.
Speaker 4: For some reason.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody wants to ask about they think I
Speaker 2: know the answer to it.
Speaker 4: I'm flattered that you think I know.
Speaker 2: And I do make a habit of keeping an eye
Speaker 2: on what the weather's going to be like, but more
Speaker 2: out of curiosity than anything.
Speaker 4: And you know how I do that.
Speaker 2: One of three different weather apps I have on my phone,
Speaker 2: or a couple of different websites that you can go
Speaker 2: to very quickly, or the television station or the actual
Speaker 2: thermometer that's outside your house. You can do all of
Speaker 2: those things. You don't need a thirty two million dollar
Speaker 2: program to tell you that it's going to be hot
Speaker 2: in California. The Director of the Office of Emergency Services says,
Speaker 2: this helps increase our readiness for heat events and protect
Speaker 2: those at greatest risk. Or it was a way to
Speaker 2: spend thirty two million dollars that wasn't your money.
Speaker 4: There's also that.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where, yes, we talk about
Speaker 2: government waste, and we talk about fraud, and we talk
Speaker 2: about abuse, but we also talk about things that the
Speaker 2: government is not great at. The government is now replicating
Speaker 2: something that has existed in the private sector for decades,
Speaker 2: and that is weather forecasting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, there are huge the.
Speaker 2: Backbone of weather forecasting is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Speaker 2: Association and the National Weather Service. Yes they're required, Yes
Speaker 2: they're important. But the idea that somehow California is going
Speaker 2: to shed some light on how hot it's going to
Speaker 2: be in July and that they believe that that thirty
Speaker 2: two million dollars is going to save someone's life is
Speaker 2: a stretch to me, to put it easily, to put
Speaker 2: it lightly, it's a stretch. We've talked about Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: and this decision upcoming whether or not she's going to
Speaker 2: run for governor. Spoiler alert, She's totally going to run
Speaker 2: for governor, but there are people who say, yeah, do that,
Speaker 2: run for governor. Stay out of the national spotlight. We'll
Speaker 2: explain sort of this ongoing discussion about her future in
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party coming up next.
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Speaker 2: Sad Death as well. Emmy winning composer whose music was
Speaker 2: absolutely essential for the TV show The Simpsons for twenty
Speaker 2: seven years, has died. Alf Clawson if you remember the
Speaker 2: name from the credits, of course, he died after a
Speaker 2: pretty lengthy deal with Parkinson's.
Speaker 4: He was eighty four years old.
Speaker 2: He also scored a bunch of different TV series Moonlighting
Speaker 2: alf he used to say no relation. He was nominated
Speaker 2: for thirty Emmy Awards. One of those nominations came while
Speaker 2: he was working for The Simpsons h and he won.
Speaker 2: He won two Emmys during his lifetime.
Speaker 9: Hey, Jerry and Sharon, it's crazy to me that that
Speaker 9: one guy called up almost defending the illegal guy from Egypt,
Speaker 9: and then the other guy that just took the view
Speaker 9: that Ukraine doesn't have a right to defend himself. It's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4: It's a crazy Monday. Perhaps that's Gary.
Speaker 8: For some reason.
Speaker 4: Today it seems like the idiots are out in force
Speaker 4: and they're all calling your station, your show. Hopefully I'm
Speaker 4: not one of them. Well, have a good rest to
Speaker 4: your show.
Speaker 1: Bye.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that, Gary, I mean Gary, I mean Gary,
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: Crack.
Speaker 7: You know, because he's not the only one that has
Speaker 7: called you Jerry.
Speaker 4: Don't you remember when you had Robert Kennedy jr Arry too.
Speaker 8: A good day?
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We did have RFK Junior on during the campaign and
Speaker 2: he called me Jerry. That's a you know, I guess
Speaker 2: it's a badge of honor, if you will. So this
Speaker 2: weekend in Anaheim, Democrats got together for their state convention,
Speaker 2: and about a half a dozen different candidates for governor,
Speaker 2: at least the ones who have announced, kind of went
Speaker 2: from room to room, glad handing, talking with each other,
Speaker 2: talking with the potential supporters. We're talking Katie Porter, the congresswoman,
Speaker 2: former congresswoman, former mayor Via Ragosa, former Health and Human
Speaker 2: Services secretary, but Sarah a handful of others of Lady
Speaker 2: Cunelacis and Tony Atkins and Betty Yee, all of them
Speaker 2: out there kind of shaking hands, kissing babies, that sort
Speaker 2: of thing, getting ready for what will be a pretty contentious,
Speaker 2: especially on the Democrat side, a pretty contentious campaign for
Speaker 2: governor next year. The one person missing, I mean, she
Speaker 2: did make an appearance in a video, but the one
Speaker 2: person missing from that whole team was Kamala Harris. The
Speaker 2: people who are closest to her continue to say that
Speaker 2: she'll decide if she's going to run for governor by
Speaker 2: late summer, and I keep telling you the spoiler alert
Speaker 2: is she is going to run.
Speaker 4: For governor, because what else is she going to do.
Speaker 2: She has been very low key though, and some Democrats
Speaker 2: are happy about that, some are not happy about that.
Speaker 2: And if you Washington posted series of did a series
Speaker 2: of interviews with people that were at the party convention
Speaker 2: this weekend in Anaheim and asked specifically about sort of
Speaker 2: the elephant that wasn't in the room. Pardon the bad pun,
Speaker 2: because I know the elephant. The donkey doesn't matter, but
Speaker 2: she wasn't there. She did, in a video message on
Speaker 2: Saturday encourage people to keep fighting Republicans, fight their efforts
Speaker 2: to cut healthcare, fight to cut education or all of
Speaker 2: that stuff. And a lot of people cheered, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean that they support whatever she's got going on. Next,
Speaker 2: to make that point, there was a woman who canvassed
Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris in Reno and Las Vegas during the
Speaker 2: campaign and says in the answer to the question of
Speaker 2: whether she would be a good governor, this woman said,
Speaker 2: I think she'd be fine. That's not a rousing endorsement
Speaker 2: by anyway. I think she'd be fine, and then asks
Speaker 2: she's already been a state leader, right, well, yeah, because
Speaker 2: she was an attorney general. She said, it's just that
Speaker 2: she lost the presidential race, and she's been almost gone.
Speaker 4: We don't hear from her, we don't see her.
Speaker 2: And this woman describes herself as a sixty three year
Speaker 2: old professor, and again she canvassed for Kamala Harris, she said,
Speaker 2: and she wants to see a more quote unapologetically progressive
Speaker 2: nominee for governor in the state of California, which is
Speaker 2: crazy considering how progressive each of these candidates is going
Speaker 2: to claim to be in order to get to the
Speaker 2: top of the primary. This sixty three year old professor says,
Speaker 2: if Kamala Harris runs, she hopes she's gonna get some
Speaker 2: fire outside the trappings of a presidential campaign, because she
Speaker 2: really just needs to be herself. There are different people
Speaker 2: who had suggested that even if she wasn't the perfect
Speaker 2: presidential candidate. There was another one who said that obviously
Speaker 2: she expects to see some fresh scrutiny on a. Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris's record as attorney general. She did say coming back
Speaker 2: to California as a whole other story. She has history here,
Speaker 2: and the expectation, at least spot from that voter potential
Speaker 2: supporter is she would blow the other six or so
Speaker 2: Democrats out of the water. Now that's the California version.
Speaker 2: There was something else that was going on in South
Speaker 2: Carolina this weekend as well, because the South Carolina Party
Speaker 2: convention was this weekend and she also played a role
Speaker 2: in that one. We'll explain what happened in South Carolina
Speaker 2: when we come back.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned that this weekend there were two separate state
Speaker 2: Democrat conventions, one in Anaheim for California Democrats and one
Speaker 2: in Columbia, South Carolina for Democrats in that state. And
Speaker 2: one of the big names that was not present at
Speaker 2: either one of them, but was talked about plenty was
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and what she's going to be doing going forward.
Speaker 2: A lot of people, a lot of money, I think
Speaker 2: is probably the more important way to put it. A
Speaker 2: lot of money is on the sidelines right now in
Speaker 2: the California governor's race, because you've got a handful of
Speaker 2: people on the Demo's side who have announced that they
Speaker 2: are going to be running for governor. A couple of them,
Speaker 2: think Javier Bursera Antonio vir Ragosa have said they will
Speaker 2: not get out if Kamala Harris jumps in, even though
Speaker 2: it's pretty likely that she would. But the fundraisers, the
Speaker 2: money behind those campaigns, they have been keeping pretty quiet.
Speaker 2: They're not making big splashes with giant donations to anyone
Speaker 2: yet because I think they are all waiting for an
Speaker 2: official announcement from Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: One person who was at both of those conventions because
Speaker 2: of a very long travel day, was Kamala Harris's running mate,
Speaker 2: Governor Tim Walls, and he tries to be this guy
Speaker 2: who pulls no punches when it comes to explaining what's
Speaker 2: wrong with the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: We for some reason are like super cautious that we
Speaker 1: might say something that offends somebody. We might say something
Speaker 1: that offends the Republicans.
Speaker 3: Because of the way they're acting. You can't appease dictators.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people, at least in California, as
Speaker 2: I mentioned in the last segment, who are kind of
Speaker 2: on the fence about Kamala Harris. And I thought the
Speaker 2: one point I didn't make in the first one segment
Speaker 2: was some people believe that if she does run for governor,
Speaker 2: she's then immediately going to turn around and run for president.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty eight get back up on that ticket,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that she did historically underperform against Donald
Speaker 2: Trump in California. I think she listen, she beat him.
Speaker 2: She beat Trump in California, that's obvious. But she only
Speaker 2: beat him by twenty points. Joe Biden beat him by
Speaker 2: thirty points.
Speaker 7: Though.
Speaker 2: Was it her candidacy, was it the Biden presidency? What
Speaker 2: was it that caused that to happen? And is she
Speaker 2: able to recover from that and get back on the
Speaker 2: top of the ticket. Not everybody believes that that's the case.
Speaker 2: In South Carolina, there was an interesting attitude of you
Speaker 2: did your job as vice president, you took over the
Speaker 2: Democratic ticket when Biden's step down, and you lost, so
Speaker 2: you had your shot. And again, this is what some
Speaker 2: people in South Carolina are saying. They want her to
Speaker 2: run for governor in South Carolina. I mean they want
Speaker 2: her in South Carolina to run for governor in California because,
Speaker 2: and this is the way one Democratic strategist put it,
Speaker 2: I think she should run for governor and be the
Speaker 2: best governor California has ever had, because they wanted to
Speaker 2: be a graceful exit from the national stage that there
Speaker 2: are some Democrats who are willing to come out and
Speaker 2: publicly say thank you for your service. It's someone else's
Speaker 2: turn that you historically underperformed, even what Joe Biden perhaps
Speaker 2: might have had if you were to have stayed in
Speaker 2: the race. I don't know if that's the case. You
Speaker 2: can never you know, you can't prove a negative like that.
Speaker 2: You can't prove something that's super unknown. But I thought
Speaker 2: that was interesting that in the different states, South Carolina
Speaker 2: and California, there are similar attitudes about what they're going
Speaker 2: to do going forward with Kamala Harris, what do you
Speaker 2: do with a problem like Kamala? All right, coming up,
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