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Speaker 2: Well, that is because we're gonna give you an update,
Speaker 2: or at least Randy is on what's going on in
Speaker 2: Boil Heights.
Speaker 3: The tragedy that is going on every single day, and
Speaker 3: Boil Heights is getting worse and worse and worse, and
Speaker 3: it has made the attention of the national news. This
Speaker 3: next piece aired on NBC Nightly News, and Karen Bass
Speaker 3: doesn't look good at all.
Speaker 4: She's not gonna like that for more here is and BC.
Speaker 1: People are sick right now. If something isn't done the
Speaker 1: right way, what happens.
Speaker 5: People are gonna die.
Speaker 1: Morgan, It's been six weeks now since the black smoke
Speaker 1: billowed over Ellie's boil Heights.
Speaker 4: You know that smoke that was totally safe to breathe in.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Bab's told us, Karen Bass told us, just
Speaker 2: open up your front door, take a deep breath and
Speaker 2: smile and look at the blackness.
Speaker 4: Forreer's full of good advice.
Speaker 5: Wash your hands often, and Oway's before eating and after toileting.
Speaker 1: The fire burned for more than a week.
Speaker 3: And why did the fire burn for more than a week.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about a wildfire. We're talking about a
Speaker 3: very concentrate area. It's a big warehouse, but it's just
Speaker 3: a warehouse. But one of the things that does not
Speaker 3: get talked about enough in this story by our politicians
Speaker 3: is that they don't want you to remember that it
Speaker 3: was a solar panel farm that caught fire that burned
Speaker 3: down the warehouse that led to the rotting meat. Because
Speaker 3: while Karen Bass makes all kinds of grandstanding about how
Speaker 3: we don't want these kinds of cold storage facilities in
Speaker 3: our neighborhoods because refrigerators are dangerous, the truth is they're
Speaker 3: not going to say a damn thing about the fact
Speaker 3: that the solar panels started the fire, because there are
Speaker 3: solar panel and solar panel farms everywhere, including probably the
Speaker 3: parking lot of your kids school.
Speaker 2: And they would never say anything bad about green energy.
Speaker 1: Four crews could even contain it.
Speaker 4: Now, those who oh this poor guy, oh god.
Speaker 1: Who live next door to the charred warehouse say they
Speaker 1: can't catch their breath.
Speaker 6: When I get the coffin fits and I can't pull okay,
Speaker 6: can get air in that said, I need to just
Speaker 6: take a hit to reassure myself.
Speaker 3: Ok this guy's got to walk around with a floating
Speaker 3: oxygen tank because of this.
Speaker 2: And keep in mind, Farrer told him that this was
Speaker 2: perfectly safe.
Speaker 4: Not just for Rare, but the mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: It's not a namsy pamsy thing who said shelter in place,
Speaker 4: you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: The fire tour through a massive warehouse owned by cold
Speaker 1: storage company Lineage left behind more than eighty million tons
Speaker 1: of rocky.
Speaker 4: There it is again.
Speaker 1: Oh god, chicken, fish and beef.
Speaker 3: I just had to get away from the shot. But
Speaker 3: whenever anyone's putting this story together, whether it's for the
Speaker 3: local news on Fox eleven, CBSLA or the national news,
Speaker 3: you gotta get that shot of the rotten pigfoot so gross.
Speaker 1: All of it rotting next door to hundreds of homes
Speaker 1: on the day we drove in the timp, already topping ninety.
Speaker 3: You get that it's been hot, and it's been hot
Speaker 3: and humid, which is real bad for the stinking air.
Speaker 2: You can smell it right there, right.
Speaker 4: Hold on, you can smell it right here. I'm a
Speaker 4: prop comic.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Summer heat combined with that contaminated food bringing the flies.
Speaker 1: It's like this gross, melting chemical nightmare.
Speaker 3: This is, I bet not the story he thought he'd
Speaker 3: get picked to do.
Speaker 4: Nope, guess what you're going to Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What am I gonna do? Cover the Oscars, cover
Speaker 2: the Emmys, cover some kind of celebrity event. No, you're
Speaker 2: going to Boil Heights where you can smell it right there.
Speaker 3: Well, and this is a national correspondent this guy's probably
Speaker 3: used to going to like an earthquake in Haiti and
Speaker 3: it's not as bad as this.
Speaker 1: Now in this working class, predominantly Latino neighborhood. As if
Speaker 1: the smell and the flies weren't.
Speaker 3: Bad enough, the flies that spread diseases to anyone that
Speaker 3: has an open wound, and apparently it's worse than that.
Speaker 2: How is it that it's not obvious to everyone that
Speaker 2: these people are all gonna get cancer.
Speaker 1: The Salmon Diego family are all battling different symptoms they
Speaker 1: say stem from the fire.
Speaker 6: Last time, I had to go to the hospital because
Speaker 6: I was having a lot of breathing issues. They had
Speaker 6: determined that due to the environmental factors, that my respiratory
Speaker 6: issues were most likely caused by the pollution in the air.
Speaker 4: You don't say.
Speaker 7: Nose please, started around roughly a week after the fire.
Speaker 7: To the doctor, they told me that it was because
Speaker 7: of the air.
Speaker 6: The air was bad.
Speaker 8: I've seen him with the noose bleed and the bathroom
Speaker 8: seeing filled with blood.
Speaker 4: It's like, holy.
Speaker 2: Come, Okay. Keep in mind, they all go to real
Speaker 2: doctors who tell them it's because of the air that
Speaker 2: they're breathing in and the environmental disaster that they live
Speaker 2: next to, and the fake doctor tells them it's safe.
Speaker 4: Well, just take a little tile in all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is not right.
Speaker 4: It's any seman.
Speaker 1: Just a few blocks away, registered nurse Alexander Panis is
Speaker 1: seeing the fall on firsthand.
Speaker 4: Panis, just get that right, everybody.
Speaker 1: He's now treating up to fifteen patients a day with
Speaker 1: symptoms that he says are strikingly simil.
Speaker 7: Headaches, I irritation. Knows irritation, they sell congestion, throat pain,
Speaker 7: and cop Some of them are big vomiting from the smell.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, well that one guy was dry heaving.
Speaker 2: Remember that.
Speaker 3: Oh on Matthew Sedar's report, the guy who owns the
Speaker 3: car repair shop that's across the street from Leneage that
Speaker 3: got all of his cars towed during the fire, and
Speaker 3: then the city of la send him a bill.
Speaker 1: Treatment helps, but Pennis says, only go so far when
Speaker 1: the very home's patience.
Speaker 4: Even doctor Panis says, this is not enough.
Speaker 2: What do you think Junior high was like for him?
Speaker 4: Well, I feel his pain.
Speaker 1: They're living in our next door to the rotting remnants
Speaker 1: still inside the warehouse.
Speaker 7: If there's not a significant group of people complaining for
Speaker 7: the same thing, like over and over, like you know
Speaker 7: that that is a cost for a.
Speaker 1: Concern that concerns in this group of residents to the
Speaker 1: county Board of Supervisors this week to infrustrations about the
Speaker 1: impacts of the fire.
Speaker 9: Just because this is a private company, they can't take.
Speaker 8: Their own sweet time to removing this.
Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, it's America's worst. Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 1: Many of them were angry with La Mayor Karen Bass,
Speaker 1: who didn't issue an evacuation order after the fire. Instead,
Speaker 1: she declared a state of emergency and told residents to
Speaker 1: shelter in place.
Speaker 10: It is not necessary for mandatory evacuation.
Speaker 2: Yes it was.
Speaker 3: If Nythia's people know what they're doing, that will be
Speaker 3: in every single attack ad.
Speaker 2: But Nythia's on the council. Nythia didn't call for an evacuation. Well,
Speaker 2: she could say, not her district. There's Isabel Isabel DSA.
Speaker 2: By the way, she didn't call for an evacuation either,
Speaker 2: if they.
Speaker 8: Are dangerous, No, the air is not dangerous.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, this is what she said when she
Speaker 3: was telling residents they did not need to evacuate, who
Speaker 3: now have all kinds of health complications. She can blame
Speaker 3: the cold storage facility all she wants.
Speaker 4: This was all on her.
Speaker 3: She could have sounded the alarm evacuated the neighborhood the
Speaker 3: same way that Orange County evacuated Garden Grove, And they
Speaker 3: thought the bomb was going to go off a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago, but they decided not to do that.
Speaker 2: That guy who lives next to the fire looked like
Speaker 2: he was going to die in the middle of that interview.
Speaker 9: They need to be evacuated.
Speaker 5: If people continue to breathe this air, they're literally going
Speaker 5: to be sick.
Speaker 9: At some point, something's got to give.
Speaker 1: But evacuating requires money. Airbnb has already pledged more than
Speaker 1: a million dollars in temporary stays for residents.
Speaker 3: And some of that has to go back to Airbnb
Speaker 3: when you don't pick up the towels on the floor.
Speaker 1: And Lineage is offered hotel vouchers, but residents told us
Speaker 1: that it's only a band aid type solution. As of
Speaker 1: last weekend, about half the debris had been cleared, according
Speaker 1: to Lineage. Now many want to leave until the entire
Speaker 1: mess is cleaned up.
Speaker 8: We don't have either the resources, the funds, or the
Speaker 8: capacity to do so.
Speaker 7: As a mother.
Speaker 6: I feel defeated because there's so much that are only
Speaker 6: I can do and provide for Rosa's family.
Speaker 1: Their first week away was at a shelter. Then vouchers
Speaker 1: covered a hotel, Airbnb house the family for the next
Speaker 1: ten days.
Speaker 3: But now this is such a pathetic response in the
Speaker 3: middle of an emergency.
Speaker 2: It seems like a complete nightmare.
Speaker 1: They're back home with no health insurance, frightened for what
Speaker 1: comes next.
Speaker 3: So these people who are suffering all kinds of severe
Speaker 3: health problems from the smoke that they inhaled that Karen
Speaker 3: Bass said was safe. Even with everything that's being offered,
Speaker 3: it's not nearly enough. And now they're back in their
Speaker 3: house because the voucher out.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'll go back to the hospital.
Speaker 6: I don't think I want to leave my family with
Speaker 6: any medical dat I would much rather prefer to die
Speaker 6: than to leave them with a deadly cut that is dark.
Speaker 2: Oh god, how old do you think he is? I
Speaker 2: can't tell because of the mask.
Speaker 4: Do you believe he looks like a pretty young guy.
Speaker 3: If you will be okay, if you stay in your home, no.
Speaker 6: No, no no.
Speaker 5: If in such a short period of time, we're getting sick.
Speaker 9: Now, who wait for a longer time?
Speaker 7: How much sicker are you going to get? No?
Speaker 1: Earlier today we did hear from the office of La
Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass, who stressed that the city's launched mobile
Speaker 1: health connects throughout the impacted areas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the ones that Barbara for air runs
Speaker 3: that are giving people tile and all. Seriously, it cannot
Speaker 3: get any worse than this. As bad as the COVID
Speaker 3: response was, imagine if if Best was mayor.
Speaker 2: Then oh good lord.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know she's a better rhymer than Garcetti,
Speaker 3: and Garcetti was a joke.
Speaker 2: I received things on both ends.
Speaker 3: But she is so unbelievably incompetent and it is way
Speaker 3: beyond anything that La has ever seen.
Speaker 2: Well, part of this is her fault, because she should
Speaker 2: have never run for this job because she doesn't have
Speaker 2: the skill set. But part of this is on the
Speaker 2: voters because they had an opportunity to vote for Rick
Speaker 2: Caruso over her, but they chose her over Caruso. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: that's your choice, but there are consequences to that. If
Speaker 2: competence is something that's not relevant to you as a voter,
Speaker 2: you just want to vote for someone who believes like you,
Speaker 2: then fine, don't expect them to competently handle an emergency.
Speaker 2: Then if and when one pops up, And that's what
Speaker 2: happened here. This is a genuine public health and environmental emergency.
Speaker 2: And you have someone who's not capable of running a
Speaker 2: city the size of Los Angeles in charge, what do
Speaker 2: you expect her to do? This is her level of competence.
Speaker 2: It's not getting any better. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: was her level of competence when she was elected the
Speaker 2: first time around. What did you expect to have happened?
Speaker 1: And regarding Leneage's permit to rebuild filed recently, the mayor said,
Speaker 1: this corporation has devastated Boyle Hikes and East LA. I
Speaker 1: can't believe they would even think about starting the rebuilding
Speaker 1: process while they haven't cleaned up the mess they've created. Lineage.
Speaker 3: One of the things that we found out in that
Speaker 3: press conference on Friday that we played for you is
Speaker 3: that one of the reasons this cleanup is taking longer
Speaker 3: is they can't get enough landfills to take all the
Speaker 3: stuff because the county is not being helpful.
Speaker 4: So where is it all supposed to go?
Speaker 3: Because if they're only taking it all to El Sabronte
Speaker 3: and Corona, just the backup on the ninety one freeway.
Speaker 4: Alone is going to slow down. This cleanup, for.
Speaker 1: Its part, told us they've removed more than you imagine.
Speaker 3: If you're on the freeway behind one of those trucks,
Speaker 3: you better pass them.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent of the food waste, adding they continue to
Speaker 1: use aggressive odor and pest control measures, monitor air quality conditions,
Speaker 1: and are committed to doing everything we can for this
Speaker 1: community as part of the recovery until that cleanup is completed. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for so.
Speaker 3: There you go national coverage of the disaster that we're
Speaker 3: dealing with on a daily basis in Los Angeles. In
Speaker 3: Boyle Heids at this warehouse facility, people have run out
Speaker 3: of their limited time at the Airbnb and the hotel.
Speaker 3: They're suffering all kinds of health consequences, and the mayor
Speaker 3: doesn't give a damn. The Bord of Supervisors for all
Speaker 3: of East La Hill does. Salise doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 3: Barbara Ferrara doesn't give a damn. Gavin Newsom doesn't give
Speaker 3: a damn. He hasn't even shown up. These people are
Speaker 3: left on their own.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and Javier Bessera have not shown up to
Speaker 2: ground zero, and I know I mentioned that before we
Speaker 2: talked about that with John Fleischmann. I think it's really
Speaker 2: important to point out because these are people who pat
Speaker 2: themselves on the back and talk about what environmentalists they are.
Speaker 2: These are people who pat themselves on the back and
Speaker 2: say that they're the ones that follow the science, and
Speaker 2: anyone who disagrees with them, particularly during COVID, was not
Speaker 2: following the science. They're the ones who see racial discrimination
Speaker 2: in literally everything. And you have an environmental disaster in
Speaker 2: a poor Latino neighborhood where everyone was told to continue
Speaker 2: breathing in the smoky air and it would be fine.
Speaker 2: How could you not look at this and go Everything
Speaker 2: that Gavin Newsom claims to be is a fraud, Everything
Speaker 2: that Javierarbasera claims to be is a fraud. Because if
Speaker 2: they really genuinely believe those things, this is their opportunity
Speaker 2: to show it. This is their opportunity to prove it.
Speaker 2: This is their opportunity to say we're not going to
Speaker 2: let this happen in this neighborhood to these people, because
Speaker 2: it offends me to my core. They had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to do that, and they chose to ignore it because
Speaker 2: they do not want the pictures of themselves at ground
Speaker 2: zero getting screamed at in English and Spanish by the residents,
Speaker 2: being shown all of the physical deformities that these people
Speaker 2: now have because of the environmental situation in that neighborhood
Speaker 2: and having to wear a mask or plug their nose
Speaker 2: because of the smell or whatever. They don't want those
Speaker 2: images to exist. So if they just ignore it, then
Speaker 2: they figure they can get beyond it, and they figure
Speaker 2: that people are so caught up in the partisan knife
Speaker 2: fight that exists on a daily basis in Washington, DC,
Speaker 2: where competence or allowing this to happen is something that's
Speaker 2: just not regarded as being particularly relevant.
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Speaker 3: really don't want to have to do every day, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately we do, because here we are over a month
Speaker 3: and a half later, and you can still you can smell.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get an update on Proposition forty three.
Speaker 3: Proposition forty three, also known as the Save Prop thirteen Act,
Speaker 3: is going to be on the ballot. It's a little
Speaker 3: different than what was being passed around in the signature
Speaker 3: gathering phase because HGATA had to make a deal to
Speaker 3: make sure that there were no poison pills and no
Speaker 3: bills to try to kill this thing. But what is
Speaker 3: on the ballot seems to have widespread support. So let's
Speaker 3: find out how you this November can help save and
Speaker 3: strengthen Prop thirteen with Prop forty three. Here's a report
Speaker 3: from Ashley's Evalla KSE or A three In California politics,
Speaker 3: three sixty.
Speaker 11: California voters in November will decide whether to make it
Speaker 11: harder to pass new taxes in cities and counties.
Speaker 3: Also, I can't wait to see who's going to oppose
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 11: Borders of Proposition forty three say this will protect communities
Speaker 11: from higher taxes. Critics worry about the future of key services.
Speaker 10: It will close a loophole that was created by the Court.
Speaker 8: On capol with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is the
Speaker 8: reason why Prop forty three is on the ballot.
Speaker 10: We're on a crane wreck path right now, and the
Speaker 10: last thing we need to do is start raising taxes.
Speaker 10: Will make it easier to raise taxes.
Speaker 8: Proposition forty three makes it harder to pass special local
Speaker 8: taxes that are proposed by citizens or special interest groups.
Speaker 3: See there was a court decision a few years ago
Speaker 3: that allowed not the government, but any kind of special
Speaker 3: citizens initiative, which could be a union via the government,
Speaker 3: to put a tax proposal on the ballot. And because
Speaker 3: it was a citizens initiative, it only needed a fifty
Speaker 3: one percent support, not the Prop thirteen mandated two thirds support.
Speaker 3: And that's how we've snuck in a lot of tax
Speaker 3: increases over the years. If this passes, it goes back
Speaker 3: to two thirds for all of it, which makes a
Speaker 3: lot of these a heck of a lot harder to pass.
Speaker 2: And it would provide all kinds of protection for California
Speaker 2: homeowners and taxpayers because we know what the California electorate
Speaker 2: is like.
Speaker 8: Special taxes are dedicated to a specific purpose instead of
Speaker 8: general government use. Right now, local governments like your city
Speaker 8: council or county supervisors can propose a special tax, but
Speaker 8: voters must pass it by a two thirds vote. But
Speaker 8: if a citizen or special interest group gets a special
Speaker 8: tax on the city or county ballot, it only needs
Speaker 8: to pass by a simple majority vote.
Speaker 3: This happened, and by the way, this is something that
Speaker 3: happened in San Diego.
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: San Diego City and San Diego County put forth tax
Speaker 3: increases that both failed. So they figured, well, how about
Speaker 3: this time around we get a union to put it
Speaker 3: on the ballot instead of the government, and then we
Speaker 3: go down from a two thirds to a fifty one percenter.
Speaker 8: Recently, in Los Angeles, voters approved a citizen led mansion
Speaker 8: tax to help with a four housing and homelessness programs.
Speaker 4: How's that working out?
Speaker 2: You know, just when you think the City of Los
Speaker 2: Angeles the voters can't hit rock bottom, boy, we just
Speaker 2: keep going lower and lower.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: And this was the so called Measure Ula mansion tax.
Speaker 3: What turned out it was a real estate transfer tax
Speaker 3: that affected any property worth more than five million dollars,
Speaker 3: which was every apartment building pretty much in the city
Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, and in a housing crisis, has completely
Speaker 3: killed development in the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: And they know it.
Speaker 3: And even when the politicians like Nitia Rahman tried to
Speaker 3: amend it, they got shouted down by the DSA people
Speaker 3: that said, no, we need it. We need this money.
Speaker 3: And you want to know where that money goes. It
Speaker 3: goes towards nonprofit eviction defense law firms like bet Zeek
Speaker 3: that sue the City of Los Angeles to make sure
Speaker 3: nobody gets evicted. We're paying people to no sue us.
Speaker 3: Just awful passed with fifteen I've said it before, I'll
Speaker 3: say it again. Oakland is a terribly run city. LA
Speaker 3: is worse.
Speaker 8: Eight percent of the vote. Under Proposition forty three, that
Speaker 8: tax would not have passed.
Speaker 10: Proposition forty three, at its core, makes it harder to
Speaker 10: raise taxes. It restores the original intent and language of
Speaker 10: Proposition thirteen, and it may be one of the few
Speaker 10: things that will prevent higher taxes.
Speaker 8: Capaul is talking about the state's nearly fifty year old
Speaker 8: real estate rules that are part of the state constitution.
Speaker 8: He says, in twenty seventeen, the state Supreme Court undermined
Speaker 8: some of those rules by lowering the threshold for citizens
Speaker 8: groups to get special taxes passed. Since then, there have
Speaker 8: been about thirty new special local taxes across the state,
Speaker 8: on top of other cost of living increases in California.
Speaker 10: Government is a growth industry in the state of California,
Speaker 10: and unfortunately it is resulting in California having a very
Speaker 10: hostile reputation nationally.
Speaker 3: Also, it's never enough. The California state budget is one
Speaker 3: and a half times larger than it was seven years ago.
Speaker 3: Every department says they're broke and nobody's happy.
Speaker 2: No, and are your services that much better than where
Speaker 2: they used to be when taxes were less. The answer
Speaker 2: is no. The services that you receive are worse today
Speaker 2: than they were in the nineteen eighties. Yet the cost
Speaker 2: to run the government has shot through the.
Speaker 12: Roof firefighter and someone who serves the community Proposition forty
Speaker 12: three is is written, it actually takes control away from
Speaker 12: the communities we serve.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: They're going to try to put the firefighters in front
Speaker 3: of this thing because there is a firefighter special tax
Speaker 3: that's going to be on the ballot of the City
Speaker 3: of Los Angeles. It's not on the voters to have
Speaker 3: a special tax to fund the fire department. That's what
Speaker 3: the basic general fund is supposed to be for. If
Speaker 3: they don't want to fully fund the fire department, then
Speaker 3: we need new politicians that will.
Speaker 8: Docrimental Area firefighter Trevor Jamison says Prop forty three could
Speaker 8: put the future of local key services at risk.
Speaker 12: Right now, the majority of voters have the ability to
Speaker 12: direct the way their local resources are used through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you vote for a special tax for
Speaker 3: the fire department and a special tax for the police department,
Speaker 3: what do you think that tells the politicians, Oh, I
Speaker 3: can defund all my general fund money now.
Speaker 2: California voters also overwhelmingly approve Proposition thirteen. And this is
Speaker 2: fixing something and making it consistent with what voters passed
Speaker 2: when they approve Proposition third thirteen. Voters could be schizophrenic
Speaker 2: at times as to what they believe.
Speaker 12: In citizens' initiatives. You know, the Supreme Court found that
Speaker 12: to be legal. I think what this is trying to
Speaker 12: do is undermine the Supreme Court and take away local
Speaker 12: citizens ability to serve their have the community to be served.
Speaker 3: Now, this guy's obviously a firefighter union guy. When we
Speaker 3: talk about these tax initiatives, tax hikes to fund the
Speaker 3: fire department, how much goes towards fire trucks, fire engines, firefighters,
Speaker 3: and how much goes towards the pensions.
Speaker 2: That's a very good question. And also you need to
Speaker 2: look at the overall budget of the city. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna look be in the eye and tell me there's
Speaker 2: no fat in the city of Los Angeles that you
Speaker 2: can cut to give more money to the fire department,
Speaker 2: you're nuts. None of those ambassadors should be employed. These
Speaker 2: NGOs that are being supported by taxpayer dollars that are
Speaker 2: supposed to help the homeless, and the number of people
Speaker 2: living on the streets goes up and not down, that
Speaker 2: money should be taken away. These NGOs that exist to
Speaker 2: stop section harassment on the Metro should not receive any
Speaker 2: government dollars. Take all that money from them and give
Speaker 2: it to the firefighters.
Speaker 8: Jamison and other opponents say it could impact future money
Speaker 8: not just for firefighters, but other emergency responders, schools, healthcare,
Speaker 8: and the response.
Speaker 4: To homelessness good.
Speaker 3: The homeless problem was not this bad when we didn't
Speaker 3: spend so much money on it. We raised our own
Speaker 3: taxes in the city and County of Los Angeles, and
Speaker 3: the problem got worse. Gavin loves to toubt how the
Speaker 3: state used to spend zero dollars on homelessness. Well, now
Speaker 3: he spends so much money that we don't know where
Speaker 3: any of it goes, and the problem gets worse.
Speaker 2: I don't think we would have a worse situation if
Speaker 2: we spend zero dollars on the homeless.
Speaker 3: Let's try that, and then we have plenty of money
Speaker 3: for the fire department.
Speaker 8: Prop forty three faces fierce opposition from powerful labor unions.
Speaker 12: They say, take a look at the opponents of the
Speaker 12: Yes campaign. I believe those are driven by special interests,
Speaker 12: big money groups that are not really looking out for
Speaker 12: working families.
Speaker 4: I think this guy's real nervous on camera. He is
Speaker 4: because he knows he's shovel and manure well. And you're
Speaker 4: a union guy. That's what you got to do sometimes.
Speaker 12: Looking out for their own interests.
Speaker 11: If past that higher vote threshold of two thirds vote
Speaker 11: proposed in Prop. Forty three would apply to proposals after
Speaker 11: January of twenty twenty seven, the legislative.
Speaker 3: Am Now what was originally but they had to negotiate
Speaker 3: it away because all the cities and counties were freaking out,
Speaker 3: was that it would undo all those special taxes that
Speaker 3: we voted on over the last seven years. That's not
Speaker 3: going to happen, but this is still something that is
Speaker 3: very necessary going forward. Did oh yeah, because the City
Speaker 3: of la would have been on the hook for all
Speaker 3: the money they promised all those eviction defense attorneys for.
Speaker 4: Measure ULA, and then the well would have run dry.
Speaker 11: This does not impact current local government budgets, but it
Speaker 11: could prevent their revenues from increasing. It's not clear by
Speaker 11: exactly how much.
Speaker 4: There's how you sell it.
Speaker 3: Make sure that we don't give your local government any
Speaker 3: more money.
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Speaker 2: All right here with an update for us between the
Speaker 2: rent dispute involving the Oakland Roots in the Oakland Alameda
Speaker 2: County Coliseum. Mister Randy Wayne.
Speaker 3: We've got dead beats for a soccer team in the
Speaker 3: city of Oakland.
Speaker 9: And we still got our Oakland a'sbaby.
Speaker 4: No, you don't.
Speaker 3: For more on the homeless soccer team that is really
Speaker 3: getting close to getting evicted. Here is kpix.
Speaker 1: Has so much history.
Speaker 10: We've had Steph Curry here, Jamon Green.
Speaker 3: As a long time ago. Isn't it sad that when
Speaker 3: the Warriors got good they moved away?
Speaker 2: Hey, they played in Oakland during the Chris Mullen years.
Speaker 1: We'll see him.
Speaker 13: Has always been where the city's biggest sports memories were made.
Speaker 13: But now one of the last professional teams to call
Speaker 13: the venue home is facing an uncertain future. Soccer team.
Speaker 13: The Oakland Roots took on the Pittsburgh River Hounds at
Speaker 13: the Coliseum tonight, but it came after a heated meeting
Speaker 13: over nearly one and a half million dollars in unpaid rent.
Speaker 3: They'll pay you someday. First they got to sell some tickets.
Speaker 2: Don't count on that happening anytime soon.
Speaker 13: Maddy White's got the story from Oakland.
Speaker 14: Even if the Oakland Roots have only called it home
Speaker 14: for a short time, for many fans, the team is
Speaker 14: rooted right where it belongs.
Speaker 3: They're ripping out the roots. Guys, I'm sorry at.
Speaker 9: The Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 6: I've been going here since I was like five years old.
Speaker 10: So it's like.
Speaker 6: My dad and it's just like, I don't know, so
Speaker 6: I get emotional sometimes.
Speaker 3: Imagine taking your kids there now. I used to see
Speaker 3: the A's and the Raiders play there and the Warriors.
Speaker 4: What happened to all those teams?
Speaker 2: Dad, well Son, It's about to happen again.
Speaker 4: This is my this is my roots.
Speaker 14: Many fans say they don't want to see the Roots
Speaker 14: leave the Colisseum because of all the history and culture
Speaker 14: that this place represents.
Speaker 3: And if you're the colisseum, what are you going to
Speaker 3: put in there? They have no teams.
Speaker 2: They didn't even know who their owners were gonna be
Speaker 2: for a long time.
Speaker 4: They still don't like we just saw they were having it.
Speaker 4: Maybe there's a rodeo going on.
Speaker 2: She looks like she got attacked by a stapler.
Speaker 4: As a big old bull horn.
Speaker 2: Well, I know why. She's a fan of the Roots.
Speaker 9: Dance battle, and that's just that's only something I feel
Speaker 9: like you'd get an Oakley.
Speaker 3: It's hard to see what the lighting. But her boyfriend
Speaker 3: also has about seventeen earrings. These guys are fun.
Speaker 2: What kind of children do you think they're gonna make?
Speaker 4: Hopefully none.
Speaker 14: Dan celebrated ahead of the game this weekend, just one
Speaker 14: day prior.
Speaker 6: I got a.
Speaker 2: Problem with you.
Speaker 6: Well, I have a problem with your statement.
Speaker 9: The conversation at the coliseum off three.
Speaker 3: Can I see more of that meaning? It seems like
Speaker 3: Ken Houston was about to pop off.
Speaker 2: It sounds like he did.
Speaker 9: Ortie's meeting was far less festive.
Speaker 1: Some of the members of this board felt blind sided.
Speaker 2: I have felt.
Speaker 14: Executives overseeing the Colisseum's budgets say the Oakland Roots are
Speaker 14: behind in rent and own nearly one point four million dollars.
Speaker 3: I mean, look how empty those stands are. How are
Speaker 3: they supposed to pay the bill? The problem is you're
Speaker 3: a team that has a fan base of two to
Speaker 3: three thousand people and you're renting out a fifty thousand
Speaker 3: seat stadium.
Speaker 2: It's some point you are going to get evicted. That's
Speaker 2: how it works. First payment was due by noon two
Speaker 2: days ago.
Speaker 14: Eventually, both sides reached a temporary agreement allowing the Roots
Speaker 14: to stay on the field while negotiations continued.
Speaker 1: Looking for it here.
Speaker 3: I mean you're in a bad position if you're the Roots,
Speaker 3: because you owe the money and where else are you
Speaker 3: going to go? But I think you're also in a
Speaker 3: bad position if you're the Colisseum because this is literally
Speaker 3: the only game in town.
Speaker 2: No, there's no one else who's going to rent out
Speaker 2: that building.
Speaker 14: But the club has also said this is expected to
Speaker 14: be its final year playing at the Coliseum, citing the
Speaker 14: high cost of operating the aging stadium.
Speaker 9: It's really nice for us all come together.
Speaker 4: I cannot get over that nose ring.
Speaker 2: Who thinks that's attractive?
Speaker 4: Steers?
Speaker 9: It's ending now for supporters. We are rooted in Oakland, keeping.
Speaker 4: Not much longer.
Speaker 3: Have the fun what you can, they're going to replant
Speaker 3: you in vallejoeping.
Speaker 14: The club in Oakland matters just as much as keeping
Speaker 14: it in the coliseum.
Speaker 6: We've always got to have an Oakland team here.
Speaker 1: I feel like it brings an inspiration to everyone here,
Speaker 1: whether the.
Speaker 14: Roots ultimately stay at the Coliseum or find another home.
Speaker 14: Fans say the city of Oakland has already lost too
Speaker 14: many teams.
Speaker 3: They're hoping this, I mean, unfortunately, this is the thing
Speaker 3: that Oakland is known for.
Speaker 2: Losing sports teams well, and RVs being on fire that too.
Speaker 4: Well, there is that.
Speaker 14: You may be frightened, and I know how you feel.
Speaker 9: It's roots where they believe they belong.
Speaker 13: That is Maddy White reporting. The Roots say that they've
Speaker 13: paid for this weekend's game and plan to pay off
Speaker 13: what they owe by the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't trust that.
Speaker 2: Not they will.
Speaker 3: We plan to now Johnny real quick before we get
Speaker 3: out of here. We also have an update on the
Speaker 3: only other sports team in Oakland, Oakland Bees. They changed
Speaker 3: their name for a pot event.
Speaker 5: To be an Oakland sports fan is to know the
Speaker 5: highest of highs and the lowest of low's. First, the Low's,
Speaker 5: the A's, the Raiders, the Dubs. They have all ditched
Speaker 5: the town so sad.
Speaker 2: Who are the Doves?
Speaker 3: The Dubs, the Warriors, oh the Okay, I see greener pastures.
Speaker 4: The A's unless they had a look cross team that
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 5: About, partically gave Oakland the finger when they opted to
Speaker 5: play in Sacramento.
Speaker 9: Also true, they waited for their ballpark in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Screw you, We're not going back to the Coliseum. We're
Speaker 3: going to the River CAATs Stadium and West Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Hey, I saw three games there this summer. It was nice.
Speaker 4: Did the Angels win any of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 5: Do you know the one that is still being built
Speaker 5: on the strip. Instead, Oakland has their own, smaller but
Speaker 5: beloved local teams. You've got the Roots, the soccer team
Speaker 5: that has been playing in the coliseum it is not
Speaker 5: much longer searching for its new home. And then you've
Speaker 5: got the Oakland Ballers. The independent baseball team made its
Speaker 5: debut two years ago in the Pioneer League and last.
Speaker 3: Year Pioneer League, which mostly is comprised of teams from
Speaker 3: Idaho and Montana Oakland Bees.
Speaker 2: Are there more Pioneer League teams or more Pioneer Chickens left?
Speaker 5: And just their second season, the Ballers won the league champion.
Speaker 5: And let's just say they've been willing to take some risks.
Speaker 5: They temporarily let Ai take over for their manager, and
Speaker 5: then on April's fools Day, they posted this their weed
Speaker 5: themed uniform. Parly a joke until people demand and the
Speaker 5: team make it a thing, which brings us to our
Speaker 5: highest of highs because the team actually did it.
Speaker 3: Now they're the Oakland Blazers, all right, Well, good for them,