WEBVTT - Major Problems in Macarthur Park and the Mission 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.280 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:08.880 The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Cairo Radio in Seattle, Washington. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.840 Mister Randy Waggings in Culver City. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 I'm so glad you said radio because some people are 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.840 going to have listen and think that you're doing the 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.720 show from Egypt. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:24.720 You know what's funny. My friend Valentina posts on Facebook 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.840 about three hundred times a day, and for whatever reason, 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.000 she tags me in every single one of those posts. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.479 And she's in Istanbul, Turkey right now. And I received 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.640 a number of messages this morning from people who thought 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:50.520 I was in Turkey with her. I guess it's a possibility. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.160 I've been on vacation for a week. Eight hundred two 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.400 two two five two two two is telephone number one. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:04.480 Eight hundred two two two two. When Donald Trump and 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.040 the federal government initially sent Ice into town, one of 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.959 the places they went to was MacArthur Park. Because we 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.520 know that MacArthur Park is a cesspool in Los Angeles 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.360 that's filled with all kinds of criminal activity, including people 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.040 who are in the country illegally. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.560 Many of home are. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.560 Members of street gangs that are based outside of the country. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.080 Anyone who lives in Los Angeles, has lived in Los 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.120 Angeles or been to that part of Los Angeles understands 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.600 that MacArthur Park is not exactly the park from Mary Poppins. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.720 It's the place you go to to buy something illegal. Well, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.120 when Galvenussiman Company decided that they were going to draw 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.920 a line in the sand and fight the federal government 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.960 on the deportations, they tried to characterize MacArthur Park as 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.240 the park from Mary Poppins. It's not a place where 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.760 illegal things happen. It's a place where people play softball. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.359 That's where you go for a picnic or play ring toss. Well, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.000 now that the federal government is no longer in MacArthur Park, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.200 and now that it's no longer a proxy battle between 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.920 Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump, we can go back to 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.880 all understanding that MacArthur Park is where the illegal stuff happens. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.919 And MacArthur Park is now losing bus benches because people 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.720 are using them not to wait for the bus, but 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:32.720 to smoke math. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.600 You don't say for more on this, We. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:42.000 Got a Fox eleven and the wonderful Matthew Seedorf bus. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.960 Stop bench is removed to MacArthur Park. After residents say 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.200 homeless people were using it to sleep and do drugs, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.800 a small part of a much bigger crisis gripping the area. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.840 Fox seven's Matthew Seedorf walked one of the most troubled 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.840 stretches in a story you'll see only on Fox eleven. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.480 We're on another location tonight just for safety reasons. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.839 Of course, he can't actually do the live hit at 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.440 night at MacArthur Park. The insurance for Fox eleven isn't 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:11.880 that good. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.520 We're on another location tonight and just for safety reasons. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.600 Start contrast to what's going on just a few miles away, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:32.120 the volatile sights and sounds of MacArthur Park. We're just 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.160 walking down this sidewalk and spark tension without ward. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:48.080 Whoa that escalated very quickly? See or if you're a 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.280 braver man than I, this man. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.200 In broad daylight beat to the ground. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.000 How do we not have I know, l a PDA stretch, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.120 But how do you not just have the police department 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.160 patrolling that park on a daily basis? Because if you 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.360 just did the Daniel Lurry strategy of find out who 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.200 has an active warrant, it would be every resident of 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:12.720 the park. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.839 I realize our union, the American Federation of Television and 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.040 Radio Artists, is a very weak union. But how can 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.440 they allow any of our members to go down to 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.720 that park on the clock. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.280 It probably advised him against it. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:39.640 This man in broad daylight beat to the ground what's 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.560 known as the fetinal fold, impossible to miss. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.360 I saw one of those when I was in San Francisco, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.120 And by the way I walked around San Francisco did 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.360 not see a tent. I wasn't in the ten Deloino 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.760 or the mission. But for the most part, the city 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.119 outside of the bad neighborhoods is looking a lot better. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.799 That being said, I walked around on a Sunday morning 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.560 in knob Hill. It was the first time I saw 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:06.080 somebody fentanyl folded up close. They look like they're in 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.560 the middle of a yoga studio. Uh oh, downward dog, Yes, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.320 but they're lying down and they do not look like 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.080 they are alive. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:15.920 It is wild the. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.120 Miss, the open drug use in plain sight and needles 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:21.280 scattered all over. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:22.839 They' never gonna fix the problem. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.280 Day with violent venom victim looking. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.400 Look at them. Hey, that's some alliteration right there. He 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.080 could do the news on Channel seven. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.159 Violent venom, victim. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:39.640 Look at venom, looking look into v vocabulary. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.800 It described how morono and seek. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.320 For William Howard Crumody's staying safe means staying ready. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.760 You gotta talk back, you can go talk back rough. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.159 He believes a drug epidemic has tightened its grip on 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:51.640 the area. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:52.800 You see what I thought. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.560 Homelessness is down and crime is down, and uh nope, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:57.800 Park is still a nightmare. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.280 Huh Yeah. The marriage just told us she's doing little 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:01.080 bang up job. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.000 You see them nod now, And I think that that's 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.320 going to be a stain. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.120 On the Olympics and the World Cup that's coming here. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.080 The drug problems. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.680 About a week ago, federal agents swarmed in DA officers 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.559 raiding businesses part of the massive drug operation. Then days 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.120 later LAPD here for more arrest seizing fetanyl pills and cash. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.159 Despite everything going on in this area, the bus stop 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.400 right here at six and Alli Verna was taken away. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.000 Apparently the homeless were using it as a shelter. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.520 So now have you actually live in that neighborhood and 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.960 you're dependent on the bus, You have to stand in 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:40.960 the sunshine. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.159 Many people sleep in there, jing drugs there sat especially for. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.720 Me when I was about six. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.840 By now where a bench used to be, Angela Robinson 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.000 now waits for the bus, standing six months pregnant. It 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.839 a bench now missing. In a community desperate for relief, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.400 looking and despite recent arround, many say, when the sun 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.040 goes down, the problems come right back. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:04.880 Yep. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.640 If she's six months pregnant, she could not raise that 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.520 kid in that neighborhood. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.240 Have you noticed a difference since then, No, because the 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.800 same rants come out at night. A spokesperson for Mayor 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.840 Karen Bass tells us one bench was removed for maintenance, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.760 another for public safety reasons. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.160 That we have to remove the bus bench. It's not 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:32.320 safe to have one. This isn't even we can't have 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.760 nice things. This is we can't have the most basic things. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.720 They say, this is one small example of the mayor's 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.320 broad and comprehensive approach to finally improving public safety. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:52.239 MacArthur Park. No, think about that for a second. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:57.880 The mayor had to remove a bench for public safety reasons. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.680 It's a great park. Take your kids this weekend. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:03.360 They say. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.080 This is one small example of the mayor's broad and 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.360 comprehensive approach to finally improving public safety. MacArthur Park a 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.240 problem that's been decades in the making. Matthew Sedo reporting 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.440 Fox eleven News. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.440 Yeah, this is Karen Bass's re election strategy. By the way, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.800 every problem in LA has been a big problem for 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.160 forty years. I'm just starting to change it for the better. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.360 You know who one of the people was who came 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.960 out and said that that's a great park where people 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:38.079 take their families for picnics and people lie on the grass. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.400 In the on the weekends. Who was that? 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:49.600 That was Eric Swollwell. I guess you should consider the sores. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.400 So that's what's going on in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, they're 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.439 having very similar problems in the Mission District in San Francisco. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.560 Since luriy is cracking down on the Tenderloin and since 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.760 Lurie is cracking down on SOMA, the open air drug 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:09.079 market is migrating to the Mission and business owners are 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.600 not happy about it. For more, here's KTVU Fox two 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:14.880 in the Bay First. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.280 Growing frustration for small business owners in San Francisco's Mission 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.559 District as they continue to work around issues surrounding their community. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.320 Open air drug use strug dealing A lot of your. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.319 Nation like uh I guess they're well hydrated. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.640 Open air drug use strug dealing a lot of your nation, 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.199 like the side of our building, which is our side entrance, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:36.800 just basically unusable. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.559 Tonight's small business owners in San Francisco's Mission districts say 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.800 they are fed up with worsening drug use, encampment, fires, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.920 and crime taking over their streets and sidewalks. Good Evening 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:47.600 on this Friday night. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.320 I'm Greg Lee and I'm Christina Rendon. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.480 They say, it's like almost the strategy as well. We 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.560 can keep most of the city clean, but we have 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.640 to push the entire problem to one neighborhood, and this 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.560 year that neighborhood is the Mission Edits anything goes. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:03.640 Good Evening on this Friday night. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.480 I'm Greg Lee and I'm Christina Rendon. They say, as 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.160 the city clears major hotspots, the problems are being pushed 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.199 into their small community. Ktv's Betty You joins us in 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:13.760 studio with. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.400 The story, Betty, Christina, we saw it firsthand tonight in 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.680 this pocket of the Mission, open drug use in broad daylight, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.200 people passed out on sidewalks, and frustrated business owners who 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:29.320 say conditions have spiraled in recent months. On side streets 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.000 tucked behind Valencia. Small business owners say they've reached a 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:33.880 breaking point. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.360 This is by the way near where they put that 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.800 insane bike lane where it was the center of the 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.760 road and they took away all the parking and all 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.800 the businesses were about to go out of business. The 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.440 reverse course on that. But then they brought in all 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:47.360 the drug addicts. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.160 Well, if you're going to ride a bike through. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.560 All of that, maybe we now know why Lance Armstrong 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:53.280 juiced up. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.480 You'd need to be on Royds to take these people on. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.640 They shared video burn debris from frequent and camp and fires, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.880 open drug use and trash sidewalks just steps from storefronts, 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.880 scenes they say have become part of their daily reality. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.599 Oh my god, it has gone worse lately in the 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.000 last few months. Has been extremely out of control. It 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.880 feels more violent. There's you see open drug dealing, you 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.000 see dog fighting, people injecting and people passing out. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.320 Daniel Agenow opened as used to. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.320 Just be a tenderloin. Things move to the mission people. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.800 They have dog fights down there too. Oh it's skid 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.800 row they do as well. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.040 What is Michael Vick homeless? 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:37.240 Daniel Agenow opened his chiropractic clinic in twenty nineteen. Now, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.440 he says safety concerns sometimes force him to close early. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.040 I have to clean it up around here. The smells 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.040 always lingers. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:49.440 He arrives early every Maybe I know the election's almost over, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.760 but may we get Katie up there to a video? 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.800 You can small, hey, that could be the next rite 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.640 of passage after the Tiawana River. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.720 He arrives early every morning to clean up outside his business. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.920 Other owners say they keep their doors closed during the day. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.600 I worked so hard to get to where I am, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.160 and then I get patients saying it's hard for me 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.520 to walk here anymore too, because I feel unsafe. It 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.360 breaks my heart. It's out of my control. I love 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.040 San Francisco. I moved here from Ethiopia. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.560 About a dozen business Yeah, it's not a good look 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.320 when you came here from Ethiopia and you're disgusted. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:32.560 Oh my. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.440 A dozen business owners on Clinton Park and Stevenson Street 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.600 have joined together, asking city leaders and SFPD for more 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.679 patrols and long term solutions. Race Cooper owns SF Square Gym. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.640 As cleanup crews were cleaning maybe Soma area, a lot 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.320 of different people started moving into this area, and what 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.439 happened from there is that drug dealers started moving as well, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.000 and then there started to be the cycle of criminality 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:58.880 that started happening. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.160 So, yeah, start enforcing the hondos, which is what they 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.600 call the honda and drug dealers, they're going to start 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.480 moving to another neighborhood. And wherever the hondos go, that's 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.400 where the zombies go to get their fix. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.840 You see, this is why the system needs to work 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:19.120 in tandem with one another, because just because the mayor 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.840 won't put up with it or tells the police department 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.480 not to put up with it, the DA has to 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.440 be on board, the juries have to be on board, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.160 the judges have to be on board, and everyone just 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.360 has to decide that they're not going to put up 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.840 with this anymore. If there's one element of the system 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.040 that consistently drops the ball, you're never going to fix 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.680 the problem. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:41.839 You're just going to move it. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.640 And then they're starting to be the cycle of criminality 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.480 that start happening. So I've seen not all instances of 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.760 arson where cars have exploded. I've seen instances of knife 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:53.760 fights that are on the street. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.920 How long has this knife fights? What is this? 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:01.320 The Michael Jackson beat it video. I wouldn't if there's 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:02.480 any crutch grabbing too. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.280 How long has this been here? 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.559 This broken glass has probably been here for the last 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:07.160 two weeks. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.880 Business owners point to this vacant property and alcoves they 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.600 say have become magnets for vandalism and drug activity. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.840 I want to see support for the fact that there's 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.800 a bunch of small business owners that have been trying 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.320 every avenue they can, you know, with the Mayor's office, SFGIDE, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.640 community meetings, small business liaisons and everything. Times out we 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.280 get ghosted and nothing happens. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.160 It's aggravating to be doing this for this long, like 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.640 for two years to go by, for me being here 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.480 and still not being heard. But I'm willing to work 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.880 with them and trying to find a solution because we 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.840 care so much about this street and for all the 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:45.840 businesses that are here. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.040 And business owners really wanted to emphasize that they love 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.280 San Francisco. They want to be a part of the solution. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.760 But they say enforcement alone isn't enough. They're calling for 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.800 faster police response times, more consistent patrols, and long term 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.280 action to keep this neighborhood inviting and safe. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.920 Greg Yeah, real concerns from all those neighbors tonight, Betty, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.840 you thank you. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.200 You know they keep pushing the problem westward. It's going 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.360 to the castro next. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.440 You notice none of those people said what we need 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:21.160 is more safety ambassadors. If only we had more social workers, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.520 this wouldn't be a problem. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.880 Oh, San Francisco's past that, la We're still into that. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.320 San Francisco rejected that when they decided that London Breed 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.119 was not getting a four year extension. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.920 Wow, this is really nice. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.920 And Karen Bass is still talking about the alternatives to policing. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.280 Alternative crisis response, social workers, mental health workers. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:47.760 Nine to one two. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.360 What evidence exists out there that says that any of 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.320 that works. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.200 Well, we know from London Breed's case it doesn't. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.600 People have been stabbed, earpen out to me, they've been shot, 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.520 they've been attacked, and they still show up every single 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.360 day as an alternative to policing for this community. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.760 Jer I wonder why she lost. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.680 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.160 a telephone number? 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Listen on 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.280 your home time, listen while you're walking through the Tenderloin 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.440 at one of those corner stores that says they don't 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.000 sell math. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.240 Math and We're gonna be live on Election. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:23.400 Night on Tuesday, June second, two weeks from tomorrow, John 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.040 and I are coming back for a special live event. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:32.160 It is happening from seven to nine pm on KABC, KSFO, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.840 and KMJ, all three stations at the same time. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.000 The polls close at eight o'clock. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.280 Will be there from seven to nine giving you all 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.719 the election results that will actually have when the polls close. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.399 So tune into us on election night. Let's go to 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.400 Mark in San Francisco. Mark Low, Oh, hi. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.040 I really like your show. I got a question about 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.520 the governor's race a couple weeks ago, and I haven't 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.280 voted yet. I'm holding out. A couple of weeks ago, 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.480 I was thinking of doing what you were talking about, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:11.200 the Bianco strategy of trying to get two Republicans in. Now, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.000 the polls have closed in the last few days and 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.160 it looks like Steier, the Sarah, and Hilton are very 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.320 closely clustered near the top. So I'm wondering, and Bianca 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.920 has Beyoncle's fallen off. Do you think a vote for 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:32.280 Banco could possibly take Hilton out and having those other 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.639 two get in. Does Hilton need all the votes he 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:35.359 can get now? 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.720 No, just wonder what you think, because if you look 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.280 at the poll that you just referenced, and you add 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.720 up Hilton's numbers with Bianco's numbers, you get thirty percent. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.760 As of right now, Republicans are making up thirty seven 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.520 percent of the electorate, and that's not counting any of 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.520 the nonpartisans who typically vote Republican. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:58.920 And according to. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.760 Other polls, Republicans the candidates were doing quite well with 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.520 the independence. So I do not think the pie is 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.080 at thirty percent for Republican candidates. I think the pie 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 is much higher than that. And if it's much higher 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.440 than that, there's no risk or minimal risk. I guess 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.720 I should say eight hundred two two two five two 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.080 two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:27.160 two two five two two two. Here with an update 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.760 the Tiajuana River, mister Randy Wang. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.359 They fixed a ruptured sewer that was leaking a bunch 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.080 of sewage into the Tiawana River. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:37.680 You can smell right here. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.720 When I flag these stories, I know it doesn't matter 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.240 what's going on in the news. If there's a Tijuana 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.520 River Valley story, John's gonna want to cover it for 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.119 the sole reason of playing that drop. You know, we 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:56.080 spend so much time talking about the Tiajuana River. I 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.400 think you and I should buy a boat for more 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.320 on the never ending crisis going on in the Tijuana 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.760 River Valley. Here is NBC seven in San Diego. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.800 Emergency repairs on a crosswater wastewater pipeline. They are now complete. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.080 Late Thursday, a leak in Tewana triggered increased sewage flows 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.840 to the wastewater plant in the South Bay. NBC seven's 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.760 MG Perez reports from the area hit hardest by pass 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.879 pollution and the ongoing problems. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.840 Abigail Castillo chops fresh fruit every weekend here at her 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.960 pop up stand at the entrance to the Tijuana River 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.119 Valley Regional Park. It's a hotspot for hikers to refresh 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.720 themselves with a juicy fruit cup unless the stench of 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.159 raw sewage ruins appetites and the atmosphere. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.359 What hiker out there goes? You know? What? What do 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:52.800 you say? 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.119 We head down to the Tiajuana River and do a 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:02.080 hike there and then celebrate with some papaya. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:02.000 Oh. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:04.160 No ramos. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.280 These pictures were provided by Mexican water authorities and show 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.800 repairs Friday to stop leaks in the parallel gravity line, 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:21.159 the huge pipes that carry wastewater through Tijuana. Leaks and 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.480 breaks and backed up raw sewage have flowed into the 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.920 river here and onto the Pacific Ocean for decades. 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.320 Oh boy, so I guess fixing this is progress. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.280 Besides polluting water here in the Tijuana River Valley, the 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:40.320 sewage stinks polluting the air too with hypen. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:41.080 And we do have evidence. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:42.800 You can smell it right here. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.160 Oh yeah, she's our resident scientist. 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.639 With hydrid And of course she wasn't the only one 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.880 who decided to have a little stint in the river. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.639 And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it. 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:00.000 Don't touch it. 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:05.680 With hydrogen sulfide that smells like rotten eggs, something residents 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.119 here are very familiar with. Not good for someone just 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:10.440 trying to breathe. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.320