WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.199 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:15.560 KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.800 It's time for your morning wake up call. 5 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:22.399 Here's Amy King. 6 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:26.320 It's five oh one. 7 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.920 This is your wake up call for Thursday, January twenty third. 8 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:33.600 Good morning, I'm Amy King. But we're waking up to 9 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:39.880 another fire. Actually two. The good news is it looks 10 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.719 like firefighters are really making some great progress. Although I 11 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:45.920 got to tell you, I was watching the fire last night, 12 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:49.600 the one in Castaic, the Hughes fire, and they're telling 13 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:53.359 us and we've, you know, we've got some lines around it, 14 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:57.039 and we're the fire's looking really good, and I'm looking 15 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.159 and seeing these massive flames and it looks like topping 16 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.000 the hillsides and they look towering, I mean, and it 17 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.359 looks a lot like what we were seeing with the 18 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.000 fire in Pacific Palisades and in Alta Dina. And they're 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.719 saying things look great. I was like, well, they must be. 20 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:16.799 They must be great from your vantage point. But it 21 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.280 does look like they really were, because the fire hasn't 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.000 really grown much overnight, and they even released the water 23 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:27.120 dropping helicopters, so they're not currently flying, or they were flying, 24 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:31.000 and the planes are dropping the fazchek or the fire retardant, 25 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.000 so man, they attack this one. 26 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:34.400 And that's great news. 27 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.239 As you get up and ready, we've got all the 28 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.159 information for you about the two new fires and the 29 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:43.120 ones that are getting closer and closer to containments. 30 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:44.680 So keep it right here on wake Up Call. 31 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.159 Plus, we've got a lot of other stuff going on today, 32 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:52.519 and I want to say thanks to Valentine from MYFM, who's. 33 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:53.719 Been great giving information. 34 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.480 You know, he's been on MYFM for I think eighteen 35 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.680 years now. He's been on our ear twice in the 36 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.879 last week. I'm thinking he's got the KFI bug. It 37 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.879 is a lot of fun. Here's what's ahead on Wake 38 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.479 Up Called. Firefighters have been working through the night to 39 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:13.879 keep the fire in Castaic from growing. It's burned about 40 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.199 ten two hundred acres. It's fourteen percent surrounded. 41 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:17.479 Now. 42 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:21.639 Thirty one thousand people remain under evacuation orders and another 43 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:26.759 twenty three thousand are under evacuation warnings. Four thousand firefighters 44 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:30.680 are working the fire on the ground and until just recently, 45 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:31.599 from the air as well. 46 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:32.639 A fire that. 47 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.280 Broke out in the Sepulvita Pass has been stopped. It 48 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.719 grew to forty acres along the four or five freeway 49 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.479 before firefighters stopped forward progress. Evacuation orders issued in the 50 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:45.159 area and warnings issued in the area have been lifted. 51 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.719 We are also on Oscar Watch this morning. Rachel Senne 52 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.080 and Bow and Yang will be announcing the nominees in 53 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.680 twenty three categories starting at five thirty at the Samuel 54 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.439 Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The ninety seventh Academy Awards 55 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:02.360 ceremony is happening March second, of course, at the Dolby 56 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.639 Theater in Hollywood. We'll let you know who's nominated for 57 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:09.879 what they're being announced this morning. During wake Up Call 58 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.719 the Business of Burglaries, ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad 59 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.280 Garrett says it is booming. 60 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.639 We're going to talk to him at five twenty and. 61 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.400 If you need a break from the fires, we have 62 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.840 found the perfect place you can go and for first 63 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:26.719 responders and those affected by the wildfires, a very special 64 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:28.960 offer for you. Let's get started with some of the 65 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.199 stories coming out of the KMFI twenty four hour newsroom. 66 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.080 More than fifty thousand people under evacuation orders or warnings 67 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.120 because of that fire that started near Lake Hughes in Castaic. 68 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.000 It's burned more than ten thousand acres. Cal Fire says 69 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.319 it was reported shortly before eleven yesterday in a remote 70 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.599 area east of the Lake. 71 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:47.479 La Kenny. 72 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.280 Sheriff Luna said yesterday that part of the jail in 73 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.840 Castaic also had to be evacuated, and discussing this. 74 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.840 With our partners from the fire department who are experts 75 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:02.080 in this area, they recommended we agreed that the one 76 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:07.639 facility PD Soeuth would be evacuated that had approximately four 77 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.680 hundred and seventy six inmates. 78 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.520 He says they were moved to another part of the campus. 79 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:16.839 Sheriff Lona said thousands of other inmates at two other 80 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.839 jails in the evacuation zone were sheltering in place. Firefighters 81 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.279 have stopped the fire in the Supulvida Base in the 82 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.160 burned forty acres in Brentwood, evacuation warnings were issued last night, 83 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.040 but they've been lifted. The fire was reported around eleven 84 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.279 pm near the northbound four or five in the Supulvida Pass. 85 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.839 CalFire says the wind was light and fire crews were 86 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.519 able to fight the flames from the ground and from 87 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:39.959 the air. 88 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.800 Let's say good morning. 89 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.079 To ABC's Stephen portnoy So, Stephen, the Lake and Riley 90 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.439 Act has passed both the House and the Senate. 91 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.839 Now tell us what it is and what's next. 92 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.199 Well, it's named for the young Georgia nursing student who 93 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.199 was killed last February. Lake and Riley authorities have charged 94 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.360 a Venezuelan man who was previously arrested for minor crimes 95 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.959 in New York and Georgia and released from both jurisdictions 96 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.120 prior to the killing. The measure requires the federal detention 97 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.759 of immigrants here illegally if they've been arrested for certain 98 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.120 low level crimes such as shoplifting and larceny, in addition 99 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.079 to more serious offenses. Now the question becomes, how do 100 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:20.439 you carry. 101 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:20.800 That ball forward? 102 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.360 This bill has now passed the Senate and the last 103 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.160 night the House, it's going to be signed into the 104 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.160 law by Donald Trump as the first bill enacted by 105 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.920 the new president. The complication becomes, you know, this is 106 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.439 a pretty big ask of immigration and Customs enforcement, which 107 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:39.319 would be charged with detaining these migrants who are charged 108 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.680 with crimes because this suspicions. The expectation is that they 109 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.319 will be turned over to federal authorities. ICE prior to 110 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.240 the turnover, and administrations warned that this mandate would cost 111 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.680 taxpayers twenty seven billion dollars in the. 112 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:53.560 First year alone. 113 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.639 So how it will be funded, how will they build 114 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.519 these detention facilities? That is a question for another day, 115 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.879 because there's no money attached to the Lincoln Riley Act. 116 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.399 But forty six Democrats got on board with it in 117 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.399 the House along with Republicans, as an emblem of how 118 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.000 Democrats view the politics of this issue. 119 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.639 Okay, And what you know, everything's so divided and to 120 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.279 get forty six votes is kind of a it's a 121 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:23.319 decent number. 122 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.920 Oh yeah, for a bill that touches on immigration and 123 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.439 as seen as a crackdown. It's a big deal. So 124 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.399 you had you know, it's bipartisan. 125 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:34.920 Okay. 126 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.519 And then let's move on to the January sixth pardons. 127 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.759 Some of the judges involved in convicting the j six 128 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.439 rioters are now speaking out. 129 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.519 What are they saying, Well, look, they're speaking out through 130 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.439 their filings, through the orders. I should say, the judges 131 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.199 want something of the last word for history. Here, the 132 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:59.519 absolute word is that they defendants, the convicts have been pardoned, 133 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.639 and except in the cases of fourteen people who have 134 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.319 their sentences commuted, what the judges are doing in this 135 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.959 case is they are in their orders dismissing the cases, 136 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.279 layering them with a pretty harsh rhetoric. For example, Judge 137 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:20.160 Tanya Chutkin of recent fame writes in one dismissal order 138 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.199 that no pardon can change the tragic truth, nor can 139 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.839 it quote whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the 140 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.120 mob left in its wake. One of her colleagues on 141 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.120 the Federal court bench here in Washington, Beryl Howell, said 142 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:38.199 no process of national reconciliation can begin when poor losers 143 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.319 whose preferred candidate loses an election are glorified. 144 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.680 Okay, so they're obviously not happy about this all happening. 145 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:53.199 President Trump did sort of defend his position on this. 146 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.519 Do you know what he's been saying about it. 147 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.839 Well, yeah, what he says is that these individuals. First 148 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.160 of all, he doesn't seem to have a full grasp 149 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:06.120 of all of the people he pardoned. He has been 150 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.360 asked about why he would grant partons to some of 151 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.519 the people who are most violent against police, and he 152 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.879 didn't seem to have all the full facts, But what 153 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.639 he says is that these people have been in jail 154 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.000 long enough and it's time for everyone in the country 155 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.319 to move on. That murderers are not treated as poorly. 156 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:24.639 That's his argument, Okay. 157 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.920 And there was talk that they were going to look 158 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.720 at the cases, because there's fifteen hundred, that they would 159 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.519 look at him sort of case by case, because it's 160 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:37.919 obviously that some people were not as involved, didn't do 161 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.519 the same kind of damage as others. But that obviously 162 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.879 didn't happen. Do we know why it was just a 163 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:51.519 blanket pardon nope? Okay, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much. 164 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:53.320 As always, we appreciate the information. 165 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.639 All right, Let's now check in with National Weather Service 166 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:01.960 meteorologist Aril Cohen. Let's get a check on what's going 167 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.679 to happen with the weather. We know it's been blustery. 168 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.679 Are we still expecting those winds to continue? 169 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:13.080 Ariel exactly. We have wind gusts now over seventy miles 170 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.279 per hour over the western San Gabriel Mountains. A lot 171 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.559 of other mountain spots are in the fifty to sixty 172 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.559 mile an hour range across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties 173 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.039 where we have bone dry conditions, single digit relative humidity 174 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.480 values combining with these strong winds to create very favorable 175 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:32.360 environment for fires to be spreading. We have the huge 176 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:36.399 fire ongoing right now. The suppul of the fire occurred overnight, 177 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.159 and so as we go through the daytime hours today 178 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.159 Thursday and into Friday morning, we could be looking at 179 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:47.559 the continued risk for any wildfires to grow rapidly and 180 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.200 explosively across the area. Very dramatic switch with the weather 181 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.279 this weekend as a cold storm system overtakes the area, 182 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.240 bringing much needed precipitation to many places, although a couple spots, 183 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.080 especially on scars, if they get a couple thunderstorms top 184 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.120 up over their areas, could experience debrief flows. 185 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.000 Okay, and is there what's the chance of the thunderstorms, 186 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.919 because we know that we've talked about rain, but it's 187 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.320 not supposed to be really heavy except in the event 188 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.720 of a thunderstorm, right, so. 189 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.600 Most places will be a beneficial rain on the order 190 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.240 of say a half inch to an inch. However, there 191 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.759 will be the potential for a few spots we're talking 192 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.320 about a ten to twenty percent chance for thunderstorm activity 193 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.720 to form. Even some of the locally heavy showers we 194 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.000 experience over the weekend will have the potential to produce 195 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.759 high enough rainfall rates that we could be looking at 196 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:44.840 a localized burned scar flooding, debrisflow, rockslide, mudslide situation. It's 197 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.279 a very low chance of that happening. The heaviest cell 198 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.360 would have to go over one of those very primed 199 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.960 regions from the fire activity. But it's not a situation 200 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.360 that's impossible. And so those that need extra time you 201 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.879 might want to start preparing for what you would do 202 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.480 and how you would get emergency information in case we 203 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.720 were to have those impacts, and we may not have 204 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.679 a whole lot of confidence in that particular outcome occurring 205 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.799 at any location until right before it happens. 206 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:21.200 Okay, and the thunderstorm characteristics Ariel, like you're talking, we're 207 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.720 talking about showers, then we talk about those cells of 208 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:24.879 thunderstorms in there. 209 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:29.000 What makes them unique to regular rainfall. 210 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.679 Well, this overall system, because it's a colder system, is 211 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.519 also going to be containing more showery activity. We're not 212 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.519 going to be having a steady light rain per se, 213 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.480 the overall totals won't be particularly significant, but it's going 214 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.879 to come more in impulses on and off. It's going 215 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.679 to be something that's not necessarily going to be steady, 216 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.159 as I said earlier, And so you know, when we 217 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.360 have a couple of the more intense showers set up, 218 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.480 can't rule out a couple of lightning strikes, and that 219 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.159 character of the precipitation would be what would be most 220 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.840 likely to produce flooding concerns and debris flows if it 221 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.679 sets up over the burn scars. Also, snow levels are 222 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.559 going to be very low for the system. Certainly some 223 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.279 of the lowest we've seen this winter so far, as 224 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.399 those two thousand feet, which could bring several inches of snow, 225 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.919 maybe even upwards of our foot in the San Gabriels 226 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.000 as we head through the weekend to early next week, 227 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:27.360 and is. 228 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.559 Where the fire is burning in Castaic. Is that high 229 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.279 enough an elevation to get snow. 230 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.039 Or No, It'll be a mix, certainly the portions of 231 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.399 the fire that are attecting those Some of the lower 232 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.240 elevations may be more on the lines of a cold rain, 233 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.240 but certainly the higher elevations will be susceptible to snow. 234 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:48.480 Okay, so be ready just in case. 235 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.799 But we're going to keep our fingers crossed that we 236 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.559 get those light showers and it's not going to affect 237 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:55.879 the burn scars. But as you said, we need to 238 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.559 be ready because, as we have found out in the 239 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.639 last couple of weeks, the weather can be very volatile 240 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.360 in southern California exactly. 241 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.600 And the additional work that you take now to be 242 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.240 prepared will help you from prevent you from being caught 243 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:14.440 off guard when the potentially destructive weather comes. Even it's 244 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.879 a low chance, you got to be ready ahead of time. 245 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:17.360 Okay. 246 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.639 Ariol Cohen with the National Weather Service, thank you so 247 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.279 much for your information this morning. 248 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:22.919 Thank you, Stacee. 249 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:23.480 All right. 250 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.519 Red flag warnings for Mostavelli and Ventura Counties have been 251 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.799 extended until ten tomorrow morning because of the Santa Ana wins. 252 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.679 Bone dry conditions and low humidity. Winds are expected to 253 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.039 gust up to fifty miles per hour today but should 254 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.000 start dying down this evening. Governor Newsom sending specialized debris 255 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.519 flow teams to southern California ahead of expected rain this weekend. 256 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.720 Teams and specialized equipment are being prepositioned to help protect 257 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:49.519 communities and natural resources in the burn areas of Pacific 258 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:53.480 Palisades and Alta. Dina and two men have pleaded guilty 259 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.960 to charges that they stole about three hundred thousand dollars 260 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.240 worth of shoes off a train in the Mohave Desert. 261 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.360 Men took the shoes into Anaheim after stealing them back 262 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.840 in November. They were sentenced to just four months in jail. 263 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.639 Police were able to find the guys because Nike had 264 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.639 placed a GPS tracker on boxes of shoes at six 265 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.559 so five its handle on the news, California may have 266 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:20.200 a problem getting money for wildfire relief. That problem, President Trump. 267 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.919 Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terrorism 268 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:26.559 analyst Brad Garrett. 269 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.240 So, Brad, most people travel to see the world, but 270 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:31.919 more and more we're seeing people who travel to the 271 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:32.519 US to. 272 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:37.600 Rob us commonly referred to as burglary tourists. 273 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.279 It's scary that it has a name. 274 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.200 I'm with you on that, and I think there's a 275 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.919 reason for that. Amy if you look at well, let's 276 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.320 go to the most recent one that's been in the news, 277 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:54.159 and it's the burglary of the home of the Cincinnati 278 00:14:54.240 --> 00:15:00.840 Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Sometime after that burglary, the Ohio 279 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.440 Highway Patrol stop the car for suspicious reasons found four 280 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.000 people from the country of Chile inside had fake id's, 281 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:13.039 apparently had items in the car that apparently came from 282 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:17.759 or may have come from Burrough's house. And you know, 283 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:21.159 it sets up the following scenario when you look at 284 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.279 other cases around the country where groups of people from 285 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.519 Chile from other places in South America come here, and 286 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:34.399 in particular, if the country a life, Chili have a 287 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.360 thing called the Visa Waiver program, which means they can 288 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.639 come to the US without a visa. Now, you know, 289 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:44.200 you and I can travel to Europe and we don't 290 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.480 need a visa. However, there are a lot of safeguards 291 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:51.519 of our names, social security numbers, etc. Go through computers, 292 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.480 go through all sorts of security checks. The problem is, 293 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.960 I don't think Chili does any of those, and so 294 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.240 people show up here. Now granted that they have some 295 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:03.000 record here or there's something in the system, but I 296 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:04.919 think most of these people don't. So they come to 297 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.840 the US, they use fake IDs. Once they get here, 298 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:14.519 and they end up burglarizing basically what I would call 299 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.000 the rich and the famous. Some we talk about, some 300 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:21.919 we don't. And what they do is they burglarize the 301 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.159 homes they have, you know this ninety day tourist visa. 302 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.159 They steal things that they can liquidate turn to cash. 303 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:33.000 They use a fake FastPort and go to a local bank, 304 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:38.519 let's say in Los Angeles, convert or basically take the 305 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.559 money that they've gotten from the stolen goods and send 306 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.960 it back to their home country and then go home. 307 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.879 And apparently there is a constant stream of these people 308 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:51.399 from various places. It's not just Chili to come in 309 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.960 and do this. And I think if you talk to 310 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.080 your friends to the LAPD, I think they would tell 311 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.240 you that obviously there's a lot of houses that are 312 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:04.720 burglarized in the Los Angeles area every night, but that 313 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.519 did some of those burglaries fall into the profile of 314 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.039 what I just described. 315 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:11.880 And haven't there It's gotten so bad in LA they've 316 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:13.559 set up a special task force. 317 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.279 Right, and I think they've got border and Customers protection people, 318 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.599 which you would need to help track people as they 319 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.480 come in. Uh, I mean, And of course I think 320 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.039 the real problem to me is that in I think 321 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.640 LAPD would tell you this that if you don't catch 322 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:35.240 them quickly, it makes it difficult because what's their real name? 323 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:38.240 You know, where are they? Did they you know, did 324 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.200 they come in or they have Los Angeles for a 325 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:44.480 period of time then they left? Uh, And so it 326 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:46.680 becomes a brill dilemma. And I think that's why you 327 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:52.279 need every aspect of the federal government, in particular customers, 328 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.079 border protection, ICE, et cetera, to help you track people. 329 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.160 Okay, I have a question for you, Brad. 330 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.799 Do we know, we know these are groups of people, 331 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.440 but are they just random bad actors or are they 332 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:09.599 tied to gangs or cartels or how are they? 333 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:10.599 Who are they? 334 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.240 Okay? So I think it's a combination because I've been 335 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:16.920 asked a number of times because they end up talking 336 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.240 about these high profile burglaries. It seems like quickly that 337 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.440 I don't see any indicators that there's like a you know, 338 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:29.480 a national overview in other words, like is there a 339 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.119 gang that's controlling all this? Are there gangs involved? I'm 340 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.000 sure there are. I mean, I think there's one group 341 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:42.000 of burglaries that they have linked to Venezuelan gangs. So 342 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:46.000 I think it's a combination, but it's hard for me 343 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.000 to believe. Amy. If you are a you know, somebody 344 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.039 from Merle Chili, you figure out how you can do 345 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.839 this and you end up in Los Angeles, how would 346 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.720 you even know where to go? And so there's God 347 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.680 to be the intermediaries, that is what I'm saying that 348 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.319 guide you along the way. They'd get a percent and 349 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.119 get a cut of whatever you steal. And they even 350 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.759 give you some intel of like oh yeah, that's football player. 351 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.720 That basketball player will be gone the next two days 352 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.000 because they're in you know, Cincinnati playing a game, and 353 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.640 that there won't be anybody or at least that person 354 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.240 won't be in their homes. And if you look at 355 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.599 these break in they're not sophisticated. I mean they smash 356 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:31.160 out windows, smash out doors, they do. Some of them 357 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.559 carry Wi Fi jammers because if you have a wireless 358 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:38.200 system on your house, if they cam the signals just 359 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.680 like jam and the cell phones around certain buildings here 360 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.640 where I live in DC, where your phone won't work 361 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.279 because they don't want to frequency being shot around that 362 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.680 particular location. But they take those are inexpensive. You can 363 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.240 buy those on Amazon, and so you jam the signal 364 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.920 if you know, that may affect the ability of your 365 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:01.240 security system to contact their their security company. It may 366 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:03.920 also affect the ability of your cameras to work, if 367 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:05.079 in fact they're wireless. 368 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:10.000 Yeah, which makes it harder to defend yourself. And it's 369 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.440 crazy that this thing has gotten so out of control. 370 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.519 Hopefully the task force will be able to figure some 371 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:16.880 stuff out and make some inroads. Brad Garrett, thank you 372 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.519 so much. Appreciate the information. Who knew it was this bad? 373 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:21.880 You welcome? Thank you right. 374 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:22.519 Take care. 375 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:25.400 The fire that's burned more than twenty three thousand acres 376 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:29.119 in the Pacific Palisades area is now seventy percent surrounded. 377 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:31.920 Some areas have been reopened to residents only, but dozens 378 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.759 of neighborhoods are still under mandatory evacuation orders. The fire 379 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.319 has destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings since it 380 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.839 started on January seventh. At least eleven have been killed. 381 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.920 The fourteen thousand acre fire that started in Eaton Canyon 382 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.319 above Alta Dina is ninety five percent surrounded. More than 383 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.880 eighteen hundred firefighters are working on it. Evacuation orders have 384 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:54.960 been lifted, but nearly six hundred people remain in shelters. 385 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:57.559 The fires destroyed more than nine thousand homes and other 386 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.680 buildings and killed at least seventeen people. The fire in 387 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.400 Pacific Palisades has cost the city of an out of 388 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.559 la and estimated three hundred eighty five thousand dollars. 389 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:09.640 City employees overtime was twenty four million dollars of that 390 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.680 initial estimate. The rest is damaged to city owned property 391 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:15.839 and infrastructure. City administrator Matt Zabo says the lot of 392 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:16.920 it may be reimbursed. 393 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:22.240 It is our tasks to identify funds that we may 394 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.880 ask this council to transfer on a short term basis. 395 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:28.720 The city lost twelve parks and two rec centers at 396 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:31.279 a cost of one hundred fifty five million dollars, while 397 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.279 the loss of the Palisades Library was estimated at fifty 398 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.359 five million dollars. Michael Monks KFI News. 399 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:38.960 Okay, it's too early. Did you hear that? 400 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.279 I said three hundred eighty five thousand. It was three 401 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.160