Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Here Tuesday morning, December tenth.
Speaker 2: We woke up this morning to news of a fire
Speaker 2: in Malibu that we've been covering all morning. Tim Conway
Speaker 2: came in about two o'clock this morning and stayed basically
Speaker 2: until we came on the air at six, and he'll
Speaker 2: be back again this afternoon four to seven. What a
Speaker 2: yeoman's job he did, so thank you to Timmy really
Speaker 2: did a great job. And if he didn't do a
Speaker 2: good job, believe me, I would tell you he did
Speaker 2: a rotten job. So we have been paying attention to
Speaker 2: this Malibu fire. It's not enormous relative to other fires
Speaker 2: here in California, but it is newsworthy in that it's
Speaker 2: Malibu again, and that seems every other fire happens in
Speaker 2: Malay and the homes. There are homes that have gone
Speaker 2: up and some of these homes and I'm guessing now
Speaker 2: as to which ones, because we don't know exactly which homes.
Speaker 2: We have some kind of aerial view. I'm watching KTLA,
Speaker 2: which here we goes behind me screen and its a lot.
Speaker 3: Of smoke, a lot of fire still continuing.
Speaker 2: It is uncontained as of right now, and this is
Speaker 2: the time where it's going to be particularly rough because
Speaker 2: the strongest wins are going to be with us until
Speaker 2: about nine thirty ten o'clock. We are waiting for a
Speaker 2: press conference from the fire authorities that was scheduled to
Speaker 2: start at eight o'clock. And Michael Monks, KFI reporter has
Speaker 2: been to a couple of places in southern California or
Speaker 2: in the Malibu region. The fire is overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 2: It's a very tough way to live in Malibu. Lindsay
Speaker 2: has her cousin living there who had lost a home
Speaker 2: in the previous fire. Is right in the middle of
Speaker 2: the area where the fires are burning and we.
Speaker 3: Can't reach them.
Speaker 2: There is no internet, there are no phones, and everybody
Speaker 2: is scrambling to see how they're doing. And if you
Speaker 2: know anybody in Malibu, it's going to be tough. We
Speaker 2: talked to the Red Cross, Mimi Teller, who is the
Speaker 2: spokesperson for the Red Cross. Amy, I know.
Speaker 4: They're actually they're getting started right now.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, let's go to the presser.
Speaker 5: Last night at ten fifty pm, LA County Fire units
Speaker 5: were responded to a report of a brushfire at Malibu
Speaker 5: Canyon Road and the tunnel units reported five acres of
Speaker 5: heavy brush burning and being spread by strong Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 5: The fire is currently estimated at over two thousand, two
Speaker 5: hundred acres and we have seven hundred.
Speaker 6: Of the firefighters that we're on SCEEN.
Speaker 5: We have only a minimal number of homes destroyed, However,
Speaker 5: I do not have the exact number to give your viewers. Thankfully,
Speaker 5: we have no reports of serious injuries or fatalities, and
Speaker 5: this fire is not contained and we remain under an
Speaker 5: immediate threat because of the red flag conditions. The current
Speaker 5: red flag alert is projected to continue through Wednesday evening
Speaker 5: at eight pm for strong winds and low humidities and
Speaker 5: the cause of the fire is unknown at this time,
Speaker 5: but it is under act of investigation by the Los
Speaker 5: Angeles County Fire and Sheriffs Arson investigators. Lastly, I'd like
Speaker 5: to acknowledge and thank our partners, both fire and law enforcement,
Speaker 5: for their assistance this morning.
Speaker 6: We certainly couldn't do it without them.
Speaker 5: And one request from water Works District twenty nine and
Speaker 5: the Department of Public Works is to ask residents that
Speaker 5: are not in the immediate fire area to police turn
Speaker 5: off their sprinklers. We are currently monitoring our water pressure.
Speaker 5: We do have personnel on scene that water should be
Speaker 5: used for firefighting and not to sprinkle or irrigate your lawns,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be of little use from starting
Speaker 5: from having a brush fire start near your home. Next up,
Speaker 5: I'd like to ask our Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert
Speaker 5: Lunat to come up and give the law enforcement update.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you, Chief, and good morning to all
Speaker 7: of you, and thank you for covering this very important event.
Speaker 7: The Sheriff's Department has been coordinating with our local state
Speaker 7: and fire partners, and the County Office of Emergency Management
Speaker 7: to monitor the Franklin fire, which started in Malibu Canyon Road,
Speaker 7: north of Malibu Cress Road and south of Francisco Ranch Road.
Speaker 7: We currently have well over one hundred and fifty personnel,
Speaker 7: including our Malibu Search and Rescue that are assisting with
Speaker 7: this fire incident. We currently have eighteen operations that include evacuations,
Speaker 7: road closures, and security patrols. Nine of those missions are
Speaker 7: completed and nine of them are still ongoing. For current closures,
Speaker 7: there are several road closures in effected in the affected area.
Speaker 7: There is a soft closure on Los Virginis Road at
Speaker 7: Loss Hills Road, hard closures at Los Virginis and Molhulland Highway,
Speaker 7: and on Pacific Coast Highway between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and
Speaker 7: Canyon Doom Road. Regarding evacuations, a little after midnight, we
Speaker 7: started multiple evacuation orders and warnings in between Trancas Canyon
Speaker 7: and the west to Tapega Canyon Boulevard and everything south
Speaker 7: of Mount Hulland Highway to Pacific Coast Highway. There are
Speaker 7: approximately eighteen thousand people and eight thousand, one hundred structures
Speaker 7: in the affected area. Of the eight thousand, one hundred structures,
Speaker 7: two thousand and forty three structures are under evacuation orders
Speaker 7: and six thousand, forty six are under evacuation warnings. And
Speaker 7: I just want to throw something out to our residents
Speaker 7: that's critical. I cannot tell you how much we appreciate
Speaker 7: when a deputy or another official comes to your door
Speaker 7: or you get a notification that there is a warning
Speaker 7: or specifically an order you need to evacuate. It saves
Speaker 7: lives and it actually impacts the lives of our first responders,
Speaker 7: because if they have to come in to save a life,
Speaker 7: they're putting their own lives at risk, which we're willing
Speaker 7: to do. But please, just the residents are doing an
Speaker 7: amazing job this far, and I just want to say thank.
Speaker 6: You to all of them.
Speaker 7: With evacuations continuing, Pepperdine University has a shelter and place
Speaker 7: order for approximately eight hundred students. Fires can be extremely
Speaker 7: unpredictable and we highly encourage residents in the fire areas
Speaker 7: to be prepared to heat our evacuation warnings, gather all
Speaker 7: important items, documents, medications, and in case you need in
Speaker 7: case you need to leave your residence immediately.
Speaker 6: Very important.
Speaker 7: The safety of our community members is our number one priority,
Speaker 7: and we will continue to assist all impacted residents as
Speaker 7: they are waking up this.
Speaker 6: Morning and whether they're.
Speaker 7: They're in need of any kind of assistance, even directions,
Speaker 7: we're there.
Speaker 6: We're here to help you.
Speaker 7: In regards to shelters that we're using, we have several
Speaker 7: shelters that have been established for.
Speaker 6: The residents that are displaced.
Speaker 7: Pacific Palisades Recreation Center at eight fifty one Alma Real
Speaker 7: Drive and Pacific Palisades for small animals, the Agora Animal
Speaker 7: Shelter on a two nine five two five Agora Road
Speaker 7: in Agora Hills for large animals, Pierce College at six
Speaker 7: ' two zero one. Whenetka Avenue in Woodland Hills, the
Speaker 7: fire chief talked about damage. Unfortunately, we did have one
Speaker 7: black and white patrol car from our Santa Clarita Sheriff
Speaker 7: station that was damaged in the fire. Thank god, the
Speaker 7: deputy was not injured. We are very appreciative of the
Speaker 7: collaborative efforts. If you look around me, this is a
Speaker 7: team effort, whether it's all the different agencies on the fireside,
Speaker 7: the different agencies on the police side.
Speaker 6: I can't thank the California.
Speaker 7: I have patrol enough for a lot of the road closures
Speaker 7: that are taking place. But again, as I close here,
Speaker 7: I do urge our residents to stay informed. Stay informed
Speaker 7: by watching or following credible news sources. Like most of you,
Speaker 7: visit our Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department social media or
Speaker 7: Lacounty dot gov slash emergency for updated information.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Now I'm going to introduce Kevin McGowan, our Director of
Speaker 7: Office of Emergency Services Services for Los Angeles County.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Seff.
Speaker 8: Our heart goes out to all those that have been
Speaker 8: impacted by this wildline fire. I also want to say
Speaker 8: thank you to the residents, as the sheriff said, but
Speaker 8: also to all of our field responders and our emergency
Speaker 8: operations Center responders. The county's emergency organization went into its
Speaker 8: full activation at the onset of the forecast, well before
Speaker 8: the fire actually started. We saw the significance from the
Speaker 8: National Weather Service, another great partner during this incident, describing
Speaker 8: this as a particularly dangerous situation that warranted a really
Speaker 8: sizable preparedness campaign across the entire county that continues.
Speaker 3: Still at this moment.
Speaker 8: We still have a lot of risk and threat throughout
Speaker 8: the county beyond just just what's occurring at the Franklin fire.
Speaker 8: We activated our Emergency Operations Center yesterday at seven am,
Speaker 8: and it's been activated twenty four to seven since it
Speaker 8: assisted with the Sheriff's Department and the Fire Department, along
Speaker 8: with our partners at the City of Malibu, with all
Speaker 8: of our alert and warning emergency notifications. I really want
Speaker 8: to express my gratitude and thanks to the residents for
Speaker 8: complying with all those emergency notifications. It takes a team
Speaker 8: effort for us to do effective evacuations, especially when it's nighttime. Lastly,
Speaker 8: just to echo what the sheriff said, real time information
Speaker 8: can be found by visiting our website LA County dot
Speaker 8: gov slash emergency. And with that, I have the pleasure
Speaker 8: of introducing the mayor for Malibu, Marann Riggins.
Speaker 2: Sire to hear the mayor talk, because now we're into
Speaker 2: the politicians, and we're going to have the mayor, and
Speaker 2: then we'd like to introduce the council person for our district,
Speaker 2: then the assembly person for our district to talk about
Speaker 2: how terrific that person is. And then the head of
Speaker 2: the mosquito abatement district to talk about how they're dealing
Speaker 2: with mosquitos in the area. And let's talk about the
Speaker 2: water district person.
Speaker 3: Now we have to talk about that.
Speaker 2: Up to that point, this was a terrific press conference.
Speaker 2: I mean it was right from the beginning. Here's the information,
Speaker 2: here's what we need, here's what we're doing. Here are
Speaker 2: the centers, here's where you go. Here's how many people
Speaker 2: are out there. Here are the teams that we have
Speaker 2: out We have eighteen teams and this is what they're doing,
Speaker 2: all solid, good information.
Speaker 3: The good news is they didn't start.
Speaker 2: With let's talk to every politician who is up here
Speaker 2: just trying to get re elected. So I have to
Speaker 2: give big kudos to the fire department, the Sheriff's department,
Speaker 2: the emergency center. They actually did a very good job.
Speaker 2: And now they're into the crapple. I'm sure, and I'm
Speaker 2: willing to bet Kno. If we come back fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: from now, we'll be hearing politician number twelve talking about
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 4: They did say Bill that the mayor spoke and said
Speaker 4: that the city Hall is one of the buildings under
Speaker 4: the evacuation order, so they are not operating out of
Speaker 4: city Hall this morning. They are operating their emergency center
Speaker 4: remotely from another place, and also asked residents to have
Speaker 4: their Genesis apps ready to serve.
Speaker 2: How many let me ask you this, and maybe I
Speaker 2: jumped out of there too quickly.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think, because now Lindsay Horvath is talking.
Speaker 2: Now, of course, and how many thank yous are going around.
Speaker 2: I'd like to thank our partners for doing this, and
Speaker 2: I'd like to thank this organization I'd like, it's just
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's going on. And you know, Amy,
Speaker 2: you're looking at this, I'd love to hear how much
Speaker 2: or how long this thing is going to go. And
Speaker 2: at this point, I want to take guesses we're going
Speaker 2: to do a football pool.
Speaker 3: I'm saying till.
Speaker 2: Two minutes before we walk out, we'll be hearing these
Speaker 2: people talk, maybe maybe half an hour later.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: So, one of the things that both and I think
Speaker 2: it was the both the sheriff and the fire chief
Speaker 2: said that he thanks everybody for actually paying attention to
Speaker 2: evacuation orders and staying. Ignoring evacuation orders are a terrible thing,
Speaker 2: and he.
Speaker 3: Said, we're there to rescue lives.
Speaker 2: When you talk about the floods and the hurricanes, the
Speaker 2: rescue people said, real simple, you're not out.
Speaker 3: If you think we're going to come.
Speaker 2: And rescue you, you're nuts. We're just leaving you alone
Speaker 2: and you deal with it. And I would think the
Speaker 2: same thing here, would you put first responders at risk?
Speaker 2: And the fire chief even said that our first responders
Speaker 2: put their.
Speaker 3: Lives on the line.
Speaker 2: Why if people don't want to evacuate or they ignore
Speaker 2: evacuation orders, and how many people do ignore evacuation evacuation
Speaker 2: orders constantly and inevitably the news goes up to these
Speaker 2: folks after the fact and said, yes, I heard the
Speaker 2: evacuation order. Yes, I understood that it was mandatory, but
Speaker 2: I decided to write it out and here I am.
Speaker 2: And then there are places where the reporters go up
Speaker 2: to someone and say, hey, I noticed you didn't go,
Speaker 2: You didn't mandate, you didn't didn't follow the mandate for
Speaker 2: evacuation orders. Why, oh you're dead? Oh I'm sorry. Let
Speaker 2: me go to the next person, Michael Monks. Is he
Speaker 2: available as to what's happened? And do we have Michael
Speaker 2: coming out?
Speaker 6: I'm here?
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Michael.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: Last year were at on PCH this KFI reporter Michael
Speaker 2: at where are you now and what is happening in
Speaker 2: your world?
Speaker 9: I've returned to the evacuation center in the Palisades because
Speaker 9: there really is such limited mobile and antenna service in
Speaker 9: Malibu right now, So in order to talk to you all,
Speaker 9: I've come back to the Palisades outside the evacuation center.
Speaker 9: But what I did observe there was a lot of
Speaker 9: smoke You could definitely smell and taste the fire there,
Speaker 9: and it was a crazy scene to see pch empty.
Speaker 9: You know, rarely do you get the chance to drive
Speaker 9: on that highway alone. So that was it was neat
Speaker 9: obviously a tragic set of circumstances, but you've got you know,
Speaker 9: everything else looks so normal. It was business as usual
Speaker 9: driving in towards Malibu before the road is closed, where
Speaker 9: they did let the media go by, food trucks, people
Speaker 9: hanging out, and then you cross into the Malibu city
Speaker 9: limit and it becomes a city of tumbleweeds because of
Speaker 9: all of the closures, and you've got the beauty of
Speaker 9: Malibu and then a mountain on fire behind it.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at some of the television coverage the monitors
Speaker 2: behind me.
Speaker 3: So if I sound a little echoe, forgive me.
Speaker 2: And we're looking at this is KTLA that does a
Speaker 2: phenomenal job of covering local news like this, and the
Speaker 2: coverage they're showing.
Speaker 3: There isn't much fire. What I do see is a
Speaker 3: lot of smoke. I don't know if there's much fire there.
Speaker 3: You've been following this a lot more.
Speaker 6: That's what I saw.
Speaker 9: Primarily by the time the sun came up and they
Speaker 9: were able to start attacking this thing.
Speaker 6: From the air.
Speaker 9: It was a lot more smoke that was visible, and
Speaker 9: I saw a lot of choppers. I forgive me for
Speaker 9: not knowing the terms, but it was those specialty choppers
Speaker 9: that have like two propellers on top and the front
Speaker 9: and the back that are sent in to help bat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're known as specialty I helicopters with two roaders
Speaker 2: on top is what they're called.
Speaker 9: And I think they are managed by the Department of
Speaker 9: Mosquito Abatement.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, hopefully now the camera.
Speaker 2: Has now it's come into a view of there actually
Speaker 2: is fire along the ridges, but not a huge amount.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about massive blazes that are going up
Speaker 2: thirty forty eighty feet.
Speaker 6: Well, there's a couple.
Speaker 2: There, but they it doesn't look like even with this
Speaker 2: wind that is supposed to be here, the fires are
Speaker 2: burning straight up, and that usually indicates there are but
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of wind. When the fire goes sideways,
Speaker 2: then you're looking at this thing moving very very quickly.
Speaker 2: How many people are This is the story we've been
Speaker 2: covering this morning. There seems to be a We talked
Speaker 2: to the Red Cross lady Mimi Teller, there was virtually
Speaker 2: nobody at the evacuation center, and you had mentioned that
Speaker 2: when you first went there before going on PCH there
Speaker 2: was nobody there.
Speaker 3: What's happening now.
Speaker 6: It's sort of the same.
Speaker 9: I had talked to Mimi as well earlier this morning,
Speaker 9: and there were people parked here, and like I had
Speaker 9: mentioned on the earlier broadcast, it seemed that people were
Speaker 9: here hanging out in their vehicles that they must have
Speaker 9: found some comfort in that for now instead of going
Speaker 9: inside and sitting on one of these cots at the
Speaker 9: recreation center. So the situation is the parking lot is
Speaker 9: still full. The difference now is that there are a
Speaker 9: lot more people who are coming here to use this
Speaker 9: place as it is intended. It's a recreation center, so
Speaker 9: I'm seeing a lot of pickleball rackets go in. So
Speaker 9: it's hard to discern between people who have evacuated any
Speaker 9: type of birding neighborhood in Malibu and folks who are
Speaker 9: just out for a little Tuesday recreation.
Speaker 3: A lot of dogs are running around now.
Speaker 9: But we have stood by here with the hoping to
Speaker 9: talk to some folks who left the scene of the fire,
Speaker 9: and that hasn't worked out yet. Folks have pretty much
Speaker 9: either remained in their car or they've driven on I'll
Speaker 9: tell you, And this is me making a deduction.
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure, but driving on PCH before you got
Speaker 9: to the Malibu City limit sign, I saw.
Speaker 3: A lot of cars just parked.
Speaker 9: Alongside the beach, and I'm wondering if folks also just
Speaker 9: evacuated down to the side of the road to wait
Speaker 9: it out until they could go back.
Speaker 3: And that's what I was guessing was happening.
Speaker 2: And that's very interesting, as you pointed out, because this
Speaker 2: is very southern California, because as your house is burning
Speaker 2: to the ground, let's go out and play some pickleball.
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine any place else in the country
Speaker 2: where that would be happening. I'm also assuming, since this
Speaker 2: is Malibu and there aren't very many poor areas of Malibu,
Speaker 2: as Mini pointed out, a lot of people where they
Speaker 2: are under mandatory evacuations and paying attention to it, which
Speaker 2: is the vast, vast majority. They're going to hotels. Who
Speaker 2: the hell wants to sit in a Red Cross center?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, with ramen for breakfast, That's what she
Speaker 2: told me ramen. Who the hell has ramen for breakfast?
Speaker 9: Certainly not anybody with a better appetite, I suppose. But
Speaker 9: I don't like to make assumptions as a reporter, but
Speaker 9: I will tell you my observations, Bill, and it's there's
Speaker 9: some pretty nice cars in this parking lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And so as she pointed out, people have friends,
Speaker 2: they go to hotels and there's enough money there where.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just don't want to do that.
Speaker 9: And I don't know if you noticed, Bill, but there
Speaker 9: was an update from Pepperdine that contradicted what was said
Speaker 9: at that press conference. The press conference owned that Pepperdine
Speaker 9: was still on a shelter in place thing. The university
Speaker 9: has since put out a message that they've lifted that
Speaker 9: and that students are now allowed to go back to
Speaker 9: their residential homes, although they're encouraged to kind of stay
Speaker 9: off the Malibu city streets.
Speaker 3: So they're maintaining the pickleball.
Speaker 9: Tournament there, always playing pickleball up up up there at
Speaker 9: the school as well.
Speaker 2: I'll get it all right, Michael, thank you all these
Speaker 2: good stuff. Michael Monks, KFI reporter. We were told by
Speaker 2: the fire chief I think it was like count because
Speaker 2: it's Malibu is not a city onto itself as part
Speaker 2: of Ali County. And we didn't get a whole lot
Speaker 2: of information twenty two hundred acres. But a couple of
Speaker 2: things that make this particularly newsworthy. One it's Malibu, and
Speaker 2: Malibu has gone through these fires of a couple of times.
Speaker 3: And we pay particular attention.
Speaker 2: And the other thing, which and I don't want to
Speaker 2: say that to the fire department, a fifteen million dollar
Speaker 2: home is more important than an eight hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: home because it's still property. But I think a fifteen
Speaker 2: million dollar home is more important than an eight hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars home.
Speaker 3: Just you know, I'm just putting myself as a fireman.
Speaker 3: That's all. They don't care, Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: The other very I think interesting part of this is
Speaker 2: the Red Cross.
Speaker 3: And I had a good time.
Speaker 2: With Mimi Teller or spokesperson for the Red Cross, making
Speaker 2: fun of the food, etc. They are an extraordinary organization.
Speaker 2: When you talk about any kind of natural disaster, many
Speaker 2: times they're out before the first responders. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is and it's all donation, no government grants, and so
Speaker 2: they're out there immediately. They set up at various evacuation centers.
Speaker 2: I think there's one no one showed up. Versuly fifteen
Speaker 2: people showed up, and Mimi was saying they're set for
Speaker 2: eight hundred people at that evacuation center, and a couple
Speaker 2: of times we talked, well, once we talked to her,
Speaker 2: and a couple times we talked to Michael Monks who
Speaker 2: was at the evacuation center.
Speaker 3: Maybe a dozen people showed up.
Speaker 2: But then again, that's another aspect of Malibu that makes
Speaker 2: this place unique because these people have expensive homes, and
Speaker 2: real expensive homes mean these people have money. So what
Speaker 2: Mimi pointed out is that the vast majority of people
Speaker 2: that are in the evacuate evacuation area mandatory of action area,
Speaker 2: which they're.
Speaker 3: Paying attention to and leaving, they're not going to go
Speaker 3: to a Red Cross center. They're going to go to
Speaker 3: a hotel. They're going to go to a friend or
Speaker 3: a family member's house.
Speaker 2: So the Red Cross set up and in this case,
Speaker 2: the good news is it's not really necessary there. But
Speaker 2: you know, if you saw what they did, and we
Speaker 2: always see when they are major flooding or hurricanes or
Speaker 2: massive wildfires in which thousands of people are affected there.
Speaker 3: They are just extraordinary and they feed people.
Speaker 2: I asked Mimi what they were feeding people at the
Speaker 2: evacuation centers and it wasn't very impressive. So this time around,
Speaker 2: I'm going to suggest you go to.
Speaker 6: Dan at Ory.
Speaker 3: It's true. Did you hear the menu that she came
Speaker 3: up with.
Speaker 1: It's got a menu. It's food for people who are evacuating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you still want it to be you
Speaker 2: still want it to be tasty.
Speaker 6: Oh, to moves boush and.
Speaker 3: Then to move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know the price fixed the menu which
Speaker 2: you get for free.
Speaker 1: You're what they call it a moves douche.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for that. So we're gonna
Speaker 3: continue on. Amy, I'm gonna come back to you.
Speaker 2: And so far we've had that press conference with the
Speaker 2: fire chief and the sheriff and extra I thought they
Speaker 2: did a great job. And again you look at the
Speaker 2: Red Cross, but you also look at what the authorities
Speaker 2: are doing and the planning that they have everything in place,
Speaker 2: and just they become very very good. Chuck Lovers earlier
Speaker 2: with us at seven thirty, and it's worth going to.
Speaker 3: The where are you gonna listen?
Speaker 2: To on demand. I listened to it on demand. It's
Speaker 2: worth it and you get a good a good view
Speaker 2: of what the fire department does, the inside baseball part
Speaker 2: of that. It is our last segment. We've been covering
Speaker 2: the Malibu fire all morning long. Amy's going to give
Speaker 2: you the latest. Also a couple of things that we missed,
Speaker 2: which I would love to talk about. There's a story
Speaker 2: out there and I don't even know if the hoax,
Speaker 2: because it's so extraordinary that President elect Trump is now
Speaker 2: selling cologne.
Speaker 3: Amy, have you seen that story.
Speaker 4: I saw something about it, but it was sort of offhand.
Speaker 4: I haven't had a chance to look into it, and
Speaker 4: I will apport a joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I thought. It was reported on the Hill.
Speaker 2: But still it seems so ludicrous. It's like waking up
Speaker 2: Sunday morning listening to the Jesus Show and Jesus selling
Speaker 2: fish sticks.
Speaker 3: I mean, it just is. It's weird.
Speaker 2: Also, I want to remind you before we get the latest,
Speaker 2: I am taking phone calls after the show for handle
Speaker 2: on the law, marginal legal advice, so we move away
Speaker 2: from the fire for a while. If you have a
Speaker 2: marginal legal question, just call me. The numbers eight seven, seven,
Speaker 2: five to zero, eleven fifty. I'll do it off the air,
Speaker 2: and I'll start right after I lock out, so amy.
Speaker 3: Before we do finish the show.
Speaker 2: Other than President Lex selling cologne, and I hear it's
Speaker 2: called fight, Fight, Fight, and he has his.
Speaker 3: Fist up in the air.
Speaker 2: I think it's a photo of what happened during the
Speaker 2: assassination attempt.
Speaker 4: It says it's a truth Social post that Trump shared
Speaker 4: a picture of his exchange with Jill Biden, which they
Speaker 4: you know, they talk to each other when they were
Speaker 4: both in France for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral,
Speaker 4: and it had a tongue in cheek comment that said
Speaker 4: the fragrance your enemies can't resist. Okay, So that sounds
Speaker 4: like a joke to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does sound like a joke.
Speaker 2: You never know, Yeah, you never know, because the tennis
Speaker 2: shoes were real at some point, the ties were real,
Speaker 2: the steak was real, the Bibles were real.
Speaker 3: When he sold the bibles, So why the hell not?
Speaker 2: But okay, we'll unless it's confirmed, we'll call it a joke.
Speaker 3: And he does do stuff like that, I mean, he.
Speaker 2: Does use truth Social for jokes, and he.
Speaker 3: Actually some of this stuff is very very funny.
Speaker 4: All right, Amy, Wait there apparently really is. I'm on
Speaker 4: the page now it really is. Globe we get Trump
Speaker 4: Fragrances dot Com. Let's shop now Trump for Women, Trump
Speaker 4: for pre order Victory forty seven, Trump Perfume for Women.
Speaker 4: The Fight Fight Fight is sold out?
Speaker 2: And how what this one hundred and ninety for how
Speaker 2: much cologne?
Speaker 4: I mean, it looks like a decent size. It doesn't
Speaker 4: say buy now for Christmas. And the one another one
Speaker 4: of the Victory cologne by President Trump that's sold out.
Speaker 4: It's a bottle of cologne. And then it's got like
Speaker 4: a little gold head of Trump on the as the cap.
Speaker 2: Do you know that when I say we are going
Speaker 2: to have a presidency that is unlike any presidency we
Speaker 2: have ever had in the history of the United States
Speaker 2: or will ever have, It's uh, I'll tell you if
Speaker 2: nothing else, forget about the politics, and forget about the
Speaker 2: nominees or the tariff serenia that the next four years
Speaker 2: are going to be entertaining with a capital E.
Speaker 4: That I guarantee, and we should mention that the Trump fragrance,
Speaker 4: that fragrances are not designed manufacturer distributed or sold by
Speaker 4: Donald J. Trump. Oh so it's a Trump organization or okay,
Speaker 4: fair enough?
Speaker 3: So but what was it on true social about?
Speaker 4: Well? Trump posted about it because he's probably founded and
Speaker 4: when how cool is that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Got it all right, Trump fragrances dot com.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that helps.
Speaker 2: It is not an official Trump fragrance. So like the shoes, Uh, no,
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. Okay, So that straightens
Speaker 2: it out. I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 3: Now. Amy.
Speaker 2: Let's uh, there is other news out there you want
Speaker 2: to other than the Malibu fire. We'll give you the
Speaker 2: latest just before we lock out. But what else is
Speaker 2: happening in the world?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Just it's actually a relatively quiet day in the news world,
Speaker 4: which doesn't happen very often, but one the man arrested
Speaker 4: in connection with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian
Speaker 4: Thompson has now been charged with murder. Yesterday. They picked
Speaker 4: him up at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Somebody at
Speaker 4: the McDonald's recognized him and called and went to an
Speaker 4: employee and said, I think that's the guy. The employee
Speaker 4: called police, and police when got him.
Speaker 3: And what a weird story.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who came comes from a family,
Speaker 2: very very wealthy family. There are real estate people they
Speaker 2: own I think they own a shopping centers and they
Speaker 2: own nursing homes.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of money there.
Speaker 2: He went to a very high end private boys' school. Valedictorian,
Speaker 2: University of Pennsylvania, undergrad master's degree in computing engineering. No
Speaker 2: background in terms of crime, no criminal background, but clearly
Speaker 2: really angry at.
Speaker 3: The insurance industry.
Speaker 2: I mean that is coming out with statements that he's
Speaker 2: made and things are on the internet, and what happened
Speaker 2: on the casings, the bullet casings where he wrote delay, deny, Yeah, deny, depose.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting, Bill is they have said, not
Speaker 1: in detail, but they have said that he is upset
Speaker 1: at corporations as a whole, and he was found at
Speaker 1: a McDonald's.
Speaker 3: He's got a weakness with his computer. Good point.
Speaker 2: And in a very weird sidebar story that is connected
Speaker 2: to this, he has become a hero to a huge
Speaker 2: population because everybody hates the insurance industry so much that
Speaker 2: he had the balls to go ahead and kill a.
Speaker 3: Ceo.
Speaker 2: Now having the balls to kill a CEO. You know,
Speaker 2: to me, it's just a straight out vicious crime. Shooting
Speaker 2: someone in the back of the head execution style to
Speaker 2: me is not particularly a good thing.
Speaker 3: But to a huge population, this guy's a hero.
Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, I think he wrote
Speaker 2: something that you know, I'm sorry that I did it,
Speaker 2: but somebody had to do it.
Speaker 3: I think that's out there. I mean, it is crazy.
Speaker 2: Also, the Trump nominees are let's just say, I don't
Speaker 2: won't say they're in trouble, but they're gonna have a
Speaker 2: hard time getting through the Senate. Tulci, Gobbard, Gabbert particularly,
Speaker 2: she's going to be head of all the intelligence agencies,
Speaker 2: and she has said that the intelligence agencies are basically
Speaker 2: a croc. And let's not forget the two secret meetings
Speaker 2: she had with Bashar Asad and backed him up, which
Speaker 2: is kind of interesting. And Cash Patel, who is head
Speaker 2: of the FBI, the nominee who's made it very clear
Speaker 2: his job as head of the FBI is twofold. One,
Speaker 2: put Trump's enemies in prison, go after them, and two
Speaker 2: dismantle the FBI and put in the people who will
Speaker 2: uphold the law.
Speaker 3: Okay, does he go through I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are plenty of Republicans, the vast majority,
Speaker 2: that say it doesn't matter what nominee Donald Trump puts forward,
Speaker 2: whether their experience, whether they have credentials, nothing, nothing, it's
Speaker 2: just he puts them forward, we vote for them. And others,
Speaker 2: even Republican can say, hang on a minute, do we
Speaker 2: really want someone who's head of the Defense Department, for example,
Speaker 2: who has all kinds of problems and has zero managerial
Speaker 2: experiencing And this is a eight hundred billion dollar agency
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be run by a guy who was
Speaker 2: in combat, and that's it, decorated, terrific job. But you know,
Speaker 2: what do you do with that? Okay, we have a
Speaker 2: lot more to cover. We'll be doing it throughout the week.
Speaker 3: We're done.
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