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Speaker 2: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 2: a telephone number. One eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two. Well, we now know who started the
Speaker 2: eaton fire, and you can't blame this one on the bumbs.
Speaker 3: Even though we knew this for a very very very
Speaker 3: long time. I guess it's good to know that it's official.
Speaker 3: La County and CalFire have determined that yes, so cal
Speaker 3: Edison and their faulty equipment were to blame for the
Speaker 3: Eton fire that got destroyed nearly six thousand homes and
Speaker 3: killed nineteen people. And apparently there are possible criminal charges
Speaker 3: related to this. Now that's not saying much, John, As
Speaker 3: we know, PG and E was convicted of killing people
Speaker 3: in the campfire, and they saw very little punishment for
Speaker 3: that conviction.
Speaker 2: That's right. One of the local das in northern California
Speaker 2: actually took the case to trial and won a conviction
Speaker 2: against that corporation. Nobody went to prison, but he wanted
Speaker 2: the world to know that this wasn't just some kind
Speaker 2: of accident, that this was something that was done by
Speaker 2: the company because they didn't want to spend the money
Speaker 2: to fix equipment that they knew that was dangerous.
Speaker 3: And despite that, Gavin Newsom bailed out this company. And
Speaker 3: you remember that press conference early on in Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 3: governorship when Brandon Rediman of ABC ten asked him why
Speaker 3: are you bailing out a convicted felon? And he looked
Speaker 3: like he had a short circuit in his brain broke
Speaker 3: and he tried to not answer the question whatsoever. But
Speaker 3: let's find out exactly what happened here with so Cal Edison, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, just paid a massive settlement to all
Speaker 3: the people's homes that they burned down in the Woolsey
Speaker 3: fire and then got approval from the CPUC to pass
Speaker 3: on that cost to rate payers. Let's see it all
Speaker 3: happen all over again. Here is NBCLA and their great
Speaker 3: investigative reporter Eric Leonard.
Speaker 4: They on the Eton fire disaster investigator. They've concluded that
Speaker 4: electrical equipment in the hills above alted in a cause
Speaker 4: eating fire. NBC four Investigations was a first to show you.
Speaker 1: More than a year ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that video started coming out in like March of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, we've had the money shot for a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 3: Video of the Once again, I'm going to do you
Speaker 3: a favor because I feel like I have your back.
Speaker 3: I'm not turning that into a drop either.
Speaker 4: Fire spreading from below, power lines above, and now.
Speaker 5: The official report confirms with many fire victims and their
Speaker 5: lawyers have long been saying for more than a year.
Speaker 5: NBC four investigative reporter Eric Leonard joins us live now
Speaker 5: from our newsroom with more on today's findings. Eric we're
Speaker 5: talking eighteen months now to confirm the cause.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, and this comes from both the La County.
Speaker 3: You know, it made sense that he made the jump
Speaker 3: from radio to TV. He's way too good looking to
Speaker 3: be on radio.
Speaker 1: Fire Department and cal Fire. They work together to pinpoint
Speaker 1: what's caused. What's called the origin and cause of the
Speaker 1: Eaton Fire. And no surprise here they say it ignited
Speaker 1: in the brush right below this Southern California Edison Tower.
Speaker 1: For the attorneys who are representing thousands of Eaton Fire
Speaker 1: victims who are suing Edison, they say this finding doesn't
Speaker 1: change much.
Speaker 6: That report simply confirms what we all knew from pretty
Speaker 6: much day one. Our investigators at that time confirmed that
Speaker 6: it was most likely an see line that caused this fire.
Speaker 1: The new official findings made public today.
Speaker 2: And remember Randy, when they first started louring up and
Speaker 2: they first started fingering Southern California Edison, you and I
Speaker 2: had the conversation they wouldn't be doing this unless they
Speaker 2: felt that they had the smoking gun, and it looks
Speaker 2: like they have the smoking gun.
Speaker 3: The attorneys knew early on because you're not going to
Speaker 3: file that many lawsuits when it's just a possibility. Let's
Speaker 3: not forget They're going all the way back to I
Speaker 3: believe May of last year. In a regulatory filing, so
Speaker 3: Cal Edison themselves said, yeah, it was probably us.
Speaker 1: Say that the sparks that ignited the brush on the
Speaker 1: night of January seventh, twenty twenty five fell to the
Speaker 1: ground because of electrical arking on one of three Southern
Speaker 1: California Edison towers on a hill above Altadena. The report
Speaker 1: says these arcing events ejected hot metal particles that fell
Speaker 1: to the receptive fuel beds consisting of dry vegetation below
Speaker 1: the towers.
Speaker 3: Wait, you know what this is extra frustrating for any
Speaker 3: rate pair of Sokal Edison or PG and E or
Speaker 3: SDG and E because they all do the same thing.
Speaker 3: How many times whenever it's just a little windy, do
Speaker 3: they have a public safety power shut off and shut
Speaker 3: off your power and this is the one time where
Speaker 3: we're having historic winds they don't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it doesn't matter which way you
Speaker 2: look at it, the result is they punish us. They
Speaker 2: shut off the power. They shut off the electricity out
Speaker 2: of an abundance of caution because they don't want the
Speaker 2: lines to go down in a fire to start, okay,
Speaker 2: so we all have to sit in the dark. And
Speaker 2: then when they do start a fire, and they do
Speaker 2: kill people, and they do burn down homes and burn
Speaker 2: animals alive, they then have to pay out huge sums
Speaker 2: of money to the victims. But how do they raise
Speaker 2: the money to pay the victims? They raise your raids.
Speaker 3: And because the CPUC is made up of appointees of
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom that are mostly former executives from so Cal
Speaker 3: Edison and PG and E, they get a rubber stamp
Speaker 3: on everything, including last week when PG and E a
Speaker 3: pride for a rate hike specifically just to pay off shareholders.
Speaker 3: And I do get to point out there's a lot
Speaker 3: of warranted criticism at so Cal Edison and PG and
Speaker 3: E for the fires they cause, but we want to
Speaker 3: make sure because I got a message in my DMS
Speaker 3: last week about this. We're not blaming the linemen. We're
Speaker 3: not blaming the trench diggers or the guys that work there.
Speaker 3: These are failures of management. So the guy who's just
Speaker 3: working on the power lines, he's not the villain here.
Speaker 3: The companies are, and the governor who allows this behavior
Speaker 3: is and the legislature that is mostly bought and paid
Speaker 3: for by them as well.
Speaker 2: And let's just be clear how this works. If you
Speaker 2: are Southern California, Edison or PG and E and your
Speaker 2: people come to you and they go, we have a
Speaker 2: lot of faulty equipment that we need to replace, and
Speaker 2: if we don't replace that equipment, it could potentially cause
Speaker 2: a fire and kill people and burn down homes and
Speaker 2: the like. What they do is they look at the
Speaker 2: number of what it would cost to fix the equipment,
Speaker 2: and they look at the number of what it would
Speaker 2: cost to pay out in lawsuits should a fire happen,
Speaker 2: and whichever number is lower is the one that they
Speaker 2: go with. They're just looking to save costs, save money.
Speaker 2: What happens to the people who are impacted by the
Speaker 2: fires is not material to them.
Speaker 3: Well, and there are specific things when you're going through
Speaker 3: one of these rate hike requests, there are specific things
Speaker 3: that you can use that money for. Like part of
Speaker 3: the rate approvals that PG and E and so Cal
Speaker 3: Edison get are specifically for wildfire mitigation improving their infrastructure.
Speaker 3: And what did we find out a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: PG and E was using money that was supposed to
Speaker 3: go towards wildfire prevention to pay for ad time on
Speaker 3: local TV to tell you what a great job PG
Speaker 3: and E is doing on preventing wildfires.
Speaker 2: And go back to the fire that burned down Paradise, California,
Speaker 2: when those people were saying, Okay, how are you going
Speaker 2: to make us whole? PG and E paid them in
Speaker 2: PG and E stock, not in cash. And believe me,
Speaker 2: if Newsom would let PG and E pay them in
Speaker 2: confederate money, that's what they would have paid them with.
Speaker 1: Resulted in ignition, causing the e eat and fire. Cell
Speaker 1: phone and security video recorded at that moment and first
Speaker 1: shared publicly by NBC four investigates more than a year ago,
Speaker 1: showed the first flames of the Eaton fire spreading from
Speaker 1: below that tower.
Speaker 2: And what was just a theory before.
Speaker 1: About how all of that happened is also confirmed in
Speaker 1: the report.
Speaker 3: And this is, by the way, what they call a
Speaker 3: zombie tower, an old piece of infrastructure that they hadn't
Speaker 3: used in decades that they were supposed to remove and
Speaker 3: they didn't because all that would cost money.
Speaker 1: It found an idle or unused line with no electricity
Speaker 1: that ended in the tower shown in this photo as
Speaker 1: Tower three, that ran parallel to live lines, somehow became
Speaker 1: energized that night, causing the arking. Nineteen people died as
Speaker 1: a result of the fire, and it destroyed more than
Speaker 1: nine thousand homes and businesses. Edison first flagged the idle
Speaker 1: line issue in filings with state regulators shortly after the fire.
Speaker 1: The suspect tower was removed and examined, and the new
Speaker 1: fire report says that in inspection and lab work confirmed
Speaker 1: how it happened.
Speaker 7: Took them eighteen months to do this.
Speaker 2: Boy, nothing happens fast here, not counting the votes, not
Speaker 2: figuring out what's burning us alive.
Speaker 3: Well, you could have done the shortcut route that Karen
Speaker 3: Bass did for the Palisades fire and just doctor up
Speaker 3: a report that says it's not her fault.
Speaker 1: Edison also told regulators and investors last year it suspected
Speaker 1: its equipment was related to the cause of the fire.
Speaker 8: We did receive the La County Fire Department's report this
Speaker 8: morning and we continue to review it. We have taken
Speaker 8: our potential role in the start of the fire seriously.
Speaker 3: From the beginning, You guys, glasses were just a little
Speaker 3: too big if.
Speaker 2: You're Southern California, Edison, there's no excuse to get rid
Speaker 2: of the zombie towers. You're leaving something up that belongs
Speaker 2: to you, that has liability associated with it, that you're
Speaker 2: not going to remove because you just don't want to
Speaker 2: incur the cost for removing it.
Speaker 3: That's how these private energy monopoli have operated for years
Speaker 3: and years and years.
Speaker 7: How did the campfire start?
Speaker 3: Old equipment from PG and E that was rusted and
Speaker 3: broke when there was a little bit of win that
Speaker 3: started that devastating fire that wiped out a whole town.
Speaker 3: It's the same story over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: They do not want to invest in their own infrastructure.
Speaker 1: La County Fire Department told me it can't discuss any
Speaker 1: of these findings in more detail because there is a
Speaker 1: potential criminal case being evaluated by prosecutors and because of
Speaker 1: all of the ongoing lawsuits that also involve the county.
Speaker 1: I'm investigative reporter Eric Leonard NBC four.
Speaker 3: News, and that could be a local criminal charge, that
Speaker 3: could also be a federal criminal charge. We'll see what
Speaker 3: happens from that, but so cal Leedison potentially could be
Speaker 3: facing criminal charges for this not that that really means anything, because,
Speaker 3: to use everybody's favorite word, that means nothing. At the
Speaker 3: end of the day, so Cal Edison is not going
Speaker 3: to be held accountable.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand why you wouldn't get rid of
Speaker 2: something that you have that you have no use for.
Speaker 2: Just ask Bruce Jenner, now Johnny to add insult to injury.
Speaker 2: The California utility monopolies, whether we're talking about so Cal Edison,
Speaker 2: or PG and E or San Diego Gas and Electric,
Speaker 2: they're on Capitol Hill and they are looking to lobby
Speaker 2: in Sacramento to get new laws passed that would limit
Speaker 2: their liability when they start wildfires, because of course why not,
Speaker 2: Because of.
Speaker 3: Course it's it's the lawyer's fault that they're getting sued.
Speaker 3: That's the same argument that Uber tried to make when
Speaker 3: every eight second someone is getting sexually assaulted in the
Speaker 3: back of an Uber. For more here at CBSLA, A high.
Speaker 9: Stakes battle is brewing in Sacramento tonight.
Speaker 10: Yes, California's biggest utility companies, which are are raking in
Speaker 10: billions of dollars and profits, want new laws to protect
Speaker 10: themselves after wildfires. And CBSLA political reporter Tom Wait is
Speaker 10: here to explain what could this mean to you?
Speaker 11: Right, So, there's a few different issues at play here,
Speaker 11: and we'll get into all of them because it is
Speaker 11: a bit much. So state lawmakers went backward to work
Speaker 11: today they've been They have one month before their session ends,
Speaker 11: and there are reports that behind closed doors they're discussing
Speaker 11: new laws that could protect electric companies from massive lawsuits.
Speaker 3: Boy, that doesn't sound like a representative government that represents
Speaker 3: the people. That sounds like a representative government that represents
Speaker 3: their donors.
Speaker 2: And if you're getting all ginned up about southern California,
Speaker 2: Edison and PG and E don't because they have a
Speaker 2: monopoly and it's not like you can cancel your service
Speaker 2: and sign up with a different company.
Speaker 11: After wildfires, fire victims, consumer watchdogs, and even the insurance
Speaker 11: companies are banding.
Speaker 2: Together to stop all of this.
Speaker 11: A showdown in Sacramento over wildfires and California's biggest for
Speaker 11: profit electric companies. With just weeks to go until this
Speaker 11: year's legislative session ends, electric companies are spending a record
Speaker 11: amount on lobbying to get new laws passed that would
Speaker 11: limit their liability.
Speaker 3: I wonder how much lower your rates could be for
Speaker 3: PGN and SoCal Edison if they weren't spending millions of
Speaker 3: dollars every year on bribing politicians.
Speaker 2: Just imagine if any other industry did this. If this
Speaker 2: was the tobacco industry, or this was the gun industry
Speaker 2: that wanted a special carve out for liability, people would
Speaker 2: go nuts. But when utilities do it, it's like, why not.
Speaker 11: In future fires? Fire victims and consumer watchdog groups are
Speaker 11: sounding an alarm this year.
Speaker 12: All three utilities are doing just fine. They're making big profits,
Speaker 12: they have big rate hikes, They got a lot of
Speaker 12: money in the bank.
Speaker 3: Pg and E got six rate hikes last year.
Speaker 7: Six.
Speaker 12: So they have to spend this money on lobbying to
Speaker 12: convince legislators they're in trouble. Because they're not in trouble.
Speaker 2: You do what PGNE stands for. What's that pillage gouge
Speaker 2: and exterminate.
Speaker 12: Accurate, protect us eating fire survivors, not the perpetrators of
Speaker 12: catastrophic fires.
Speaker 1: You don't have to lose your home to be hurt
Speaker 1: by wildfire.
Speaker 11: The electric companies also launched this public campaign called Wildfire
Speaker 11: Victims First.
Speaker 3: Okay, this might be the most insulting thing to all
Speaker 3: this is that the electric companies have created a fake
Speaker 3: political action committee that's supposed to be helping wildfire victims,
Speaker 3: but really they're an advocacy group for PG and E
Speaker 3: and so cal Edison.
Speaker 11: Trying to convince the public that California.
Speaker 3: Needs Like, if you want any more evidence that politics
Speaker 3: in California is disgusting, here you go.
Speaker 11: These new laws that limit how much attorneys can sue
Speaker 11: for after fires.
Speaker 12: The worst part is in public. They're not even talking
Speaker 12: publicly to the media. They're talking through this group called
Speaker 12: Wildfire Victims First, which is funded one hundred percent by
Speaker 12: the utilities.
Speaker 11: A spokesperson for Wildfire Victims First, in a statement said
Speaker 11: this about Consumer Watchdog, it should come as no surprise
Speaker 11: that they are trying to protect a system that prioritizes
Speaker 11: trial attorneys over wildfe Okay, victim.
Speaker 2: Nathan Klick, he's the spokesman for the Wildfire Victims First organization.
Speaker 2: Correct that name rings a bell that is fully funded
Speaker 2: by the utilities. Correct, Yes, Okay, he was a spokesman
Speaker 2: for Newsom. Yep, it all goes together. And let's just
Speaker 2: remind you one last time, Gavin Newsom, when he was
Speaker 2: caught drinking twelve thousand dollars worth of wine and not
Speaker 2: wearing a mask at the French laundry. Was there to
Speaker 2: celebrate his buddy's birthday. His buddy is the lobbyist for
Speaker 2: PG and E. Would you see PG and E and
Speaker 2: you see Southern California, Edison understand their appendages of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 11: Fire survivors were lawmakers and the governor are meeting behind
Speaker 11: closed doors to discuss protections for the utilities. But no
Speaker 11: one in Sacramento will confirm that on the record.
Speaker 7: I have not been subject to a quote unquote lobbying campaign.
Speaker 11: Democratic Assemblyman John Harbetian represents Altadena. He says he's not
Speaker 11: aware of any pending legislation that would provide bailouts or
Speaker 11: any other new protection.
Speaker 3: Well, they don't go for the guy that's in the
Speaker 3: district that has the fire that's affected. They know how
Speaker 3: he's going to vote. But Johnny wasn't it Chad Mays
Speaker 3: that helped bail out PG and E and he was
Speaker 3: in southern California, nowhere near PG.
Speaker 7: And e'es rat area.
Speaker 2: That's right. He was the Republican leader who did exactly
Speaker 2: the same thing that the current leader did, which is
Speaker 2: sell out the Republicans to do the bidding of the Democrats.
Speaker 2: Then he switched parties and authored legislation that would bail
Speaker 2: out PG and E even though he represented Yuka Valley,
Speaker 2: which is in San Bernardino County the legislature, an area
Speaker 2: that PG and E did not service. And then he
Speaker 2: went to work for a firm that handled the lobbying
Speaker 2: for PG and E once he got out of the legislature.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 3: It's official. So Cal Edison started the eaton fire, and
Speaker 3: Sokel Edison and PG and E are trying to lobby
Speaker 3: Sacramento politicians right now to limit their liability when they
Speaker 3: start fires.
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Speaker 2: In Alameda County, they're kicking the minimum wage and Randy,
Speaker 2: I guess you could call that hazard pay at least
Speaker 2: if you're in the city of Oakland.
Speaker 3: So in Alameda County, there was an effort to collect
Speaker 3: signatures to put a thirty dollars minimum wage on the
Speaker 3: November ballot, and they got the amount of signatures that
Speaker 3: they needed, and the bord of Supervisors had a meeting
Speaker 3: to decide what they were going to call the measure,
Speaker 3: and the Border Supervisors voted to not put it on
Speaker 3: the November ballot, which has a lot of Alameda County
Speaker 3: people very very very pissed off.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, I bet your Luigi Mangioni is particularly upset
Speaker 2: in his prison cell.
Speaker 3: For more on this, here is NBC in the Bay.
Speaker 2: Look at that large woman with pink hair at this meeting.
Speaker 2: You think the curtains matched the carpet.
Speaker 7: I had a feeling you would point that out.
Speaker 13: They are yelling shame right now.
Speaker 7: Why did she bring flowers?
Speaker 2: I know a guy didn't give them to her.
Speaker 13: Nice out eleven o'clock angry protests, A sharp reversal and
Speaker 13: a controversial plan is in limbo. Tonight. The proposed thirty
Speaker 13: dollars an hour minimum wage in Alameda County is on hold,
Speaker 13: meaning it won't be on the upcoming November ballot.
Speaker 9: It is a no for now.
Speaker 14: That decision tonight, though, didn't happen without a loud debate.
Speaker 14: Nbcbara's Giva is live in Alameda County to break it down,
Speaker 14: and GIA a lot of people were paying attention to
Speaker 14: this one, a lot of back and forth.
Speaker 15: Jessamrage, They really were, so it will know.
Speaker 3: These people are probably pissed thirty dollars an hour when
Speaker 3: Barbara Lee was running for Senate, they wanted fifty.
Speaker 2: Well, think about what this would do to the restaurant industry.
Speaker 2: Think about what this would do to businesses that rely
Speaker 2: on people a lot of labor, human labor to get
Speaker 2: their product to their customers. It would absolutely kill them.
Speaker 2: This happened in West Hollywood, didn't West Hollywood put together
Speaker 2: a minimum wage that was totally ridiculous and it's driving
Speaker 2: all the restaurants out of the city.
Speaker 3: If you're paying restaurant workers thirty dollars an hour, probably
Speaker 3: shouldn't expect the tip. And by the way, there are
Speaker 3: some restaurants in San Francisco that do that. They're like,
Speaker 3: do not give us tips. We pay our people like
Speaker 3: thirty forty dollars an hour.
Speaker 9: Out a month.
Speaker 15: Which way the board goes on this tonight, though, supervisors
Speaker 15: say they wanted to slow down and try to figure
Speaker 15: out if there are any unintended consequences.
Speaker 7: There She is again, Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 15: Was the reaction from a large group of the public
Speaker 15: inside the Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting tonight in Oakland.
Speaker 9: They were briefly.
Speaker 15: Kicked out of the room, unhappy with a vote that
Speaker 15: just happened.
Speaker 3: So I do wonder how you can do this though.
Speaker 3: If they collected the signatures and the signatures were verified,
Speaker 3: how can the Board of Supervisors then decide, Oh, it's
Speaker 3: not going on the ballot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see the crowd that supports the minimum wage increase,
Speaker 2: they usually benefit from these sorts of things. It's not
Speaker 2: very often that these tricks that they pull to screw
Speaker 2: the voters over are screwing these voters over.
Speaker 5: No super residuum, Yes, super resume, Yes, super reciportion of
Speaker 5: the bus now doesn't helper?
Speaker 15: I wrote yes in a three to two vote. The
Speaker 15: board is pumping the brakes on sending a proposal to
Speaker 15: the November ballot that would raise the minimum wage to
Speaker 15: thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 8: Well, it's something that needed to be done.
Speaker 12: It goes without saying, because you can't make a rush
Speaker 12: to judgment on something that's going to have severe impact
Speaker 12: on many communities across the board.
Speaker 15: The measure would nearly double Alameda County's minimum wage compared
Speaker 15: to California state rate. In unincorporated areas. Using a phased approach,
Speaker 15: larger employers would reach that level by twenty thirty.
Speaker 3: Wait, so this would only affect unincorporated Alameda County. So
Speaker 3: if you're in between Oakland and San Leandro, then you
Speaker 3: have to pay this.
Speaker 7: That's a little confusing.
Speaker 2: They're going to make this so confusing. Even if you
Speaker 2: want to comply, you can't comply. Remember going back to
Speaker 2: the fast food minimum wage when Gavin raised that and
Speaker 2: there were people that owned I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was an ice cream shop or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an ice cream shop. It handles ice
Speaker 3: cream shop that just wanted clarification as to does this
Speaker 3: law apply to me? And two years later, nobody from
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom's Fast Food Council has even gotten back to.
Speaker 15: Her size businesses by twenty thirty five and the smallest
Speaker 15: ones by twenty thirty seven. Opponents say, even with the time,
Speaker 15: many won't be able to hang on.
Speaker 4: I urge you to move forward with the economic impact study.
Speaker 15: That's what supervisors are now doing, saying they'll study the
Speaker 15: measures potential impacts. The supporters of the proposal also showed
Speaker 15: up passionately today.
Speaker 10: I'm a resident of a corn project, the most notorious
Speaker 10: place in Oakland right now, if we just had.
Speaker 7: Enough, if we just had enough, then she can move out.
Speaker 2: So wait a minute. She lives in the most notorious
Speaker 2: project in Oakland, and she thinks that's not a nice
Speaker 2: place to live because the minimum wage is not high enough.
Speaker 7: That is what she is saying.
Speaker 2: You see, I think it's not a nice place to
Speaker 2: live because people like shooting at each other.
Speaker 3: Well, there's also that who chose salmon as the color
Speaker 3: for the activist shirts.
Speaker 2: Interesting choice.
Speaker 15: Proponents are calling this a delay tactic since the county
Speaker 15: has already certified the group has collected enough signatures about
Speaker 15: one hundred and seventeen thousand to get it.
Speaker 9: On a ballot.
Speaker 3: Isn't this how our direct democracy system is supposed to work.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how weird the initiative is. If you
Speaker 3: get the signatures, people get to vote on it.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, give me an honest
Speaker 2: answer here, knowing the politics of Alameda County, if they
Speaker 2: put an initiative on the ballot that mandated a one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars an hour minimum wage, do you think it
Speaker 2: would pass.
Speaker 7: Yes, I do too.
Speaker 4: The only thing they can do is delay it.
Speaker 14: And so we already won. It's going to be on
Speaker 14: the ballot, it's polling above seventy one percent. It's gonna pass.
Speaker 14: The only question is when.
Speaker 3: So no history, by the way, this is a trend
Speaker 3: going up and down the state of trying to walk
Speaker 3: back these proposals. Let's not forget that. In Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: the LA City Council went ahead with this proposal to
Speaker 3: increase the minimum wage for tourism workers to thirty dollars
Speaker 3: an hour by twenty twenty eight. If you're wondering what
Speaker 3: is a tourism worker. It's not the guy who drives
Speaker 3: the TMZ bus in Hollywood. It's not the guy at Ripley's,
Speaker 3: believe it or not. It's hotel workers, including restaurant workers
Speaker 3: at hotels and people that work concessions at the airport.
Speaker 3: And there we was so much negative outlook on how
Speaker 3: this was going to impact the hotel industry, that places
Speaker 3: that we're going to expand were going to move out
Speaker 3: of the city of Los Angeles, that now they have decided, okay,
Speaker 3: maybe instead of by twenty twenty eight, maybe we'll do
Speaker 3: it by twenty thirty. There's a whole big fight going
Speaker 3: on right now, and the fight for thirty. People down
Speaker 3: there feel like they've been betrayed by the La City Council. Well,
Speaker 3: had they passed that, Tom Bodett would turn the light
Speaker 3: off for us.
Speaker 7: And this is the funny thing about this.
Speaker 3: Even with a thirty dollar an hour minimum wage, you
Speaker 3: can't get by on that.
Speaker 7: No, it's never enough.
Speaker 3: The cost of living is way higher than what they're
Speaker 3: even asking for. So you know they're going to have
Speaker 3: to go back again and raise it again. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was only what seven years ago where we were
Speaker 3: talking about fight for fifteen. I know there's been a
Speaker 3: lot of inflation, but that's double what the big ask
Speaker 3: for was just a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Look at what Klaus just put in the chat, all right,
Speaker 2: class roll that pink is more pepto bismol than salmon.
Speaker 2: Like there it is, Klausmeister one three to three. See.
Speaker 3: The thing is, there's so much going on in the
Speaker 3: chat sometimes I have a hard time following it while
Speaker 3: we're playing a news story. But we're glad everyone's having
Speaker 3: a good time in there tonight.
Speaker 15: With what would become the highest minimum wage in the
Speaker 15: country if pass but voters will have to pick a side.
Speaker 3: Barbara Lay wanted fifty. Is there a natural hair color
Speaker 3: in that room? Who's wearing the bonnet?
Speaker 7: Also? Is that a guy.
Speaker 1: Soon enough?
Speaker 16: The important thing to keep in mind here, though this
Speaker 16: is unincorporated Alameda County. You look at the cities within
Speaker 16: the county, Oakland, Berkeley, they already have their own minimum wages.
Speaker 16: This would not override that, but this would be really
Speaker 16: impactful for workers who are working in the unincorporated parts
Speaker 16: of the county.
Speaker 3: In Alameda County, they're going to be so many people
Speaker 3: if this passes that think this applies to them, and
Speaker 3: then they find out that it doesn't apply to Fremont,
Speaker 3: it doesn't apply to Walnut Creek, it doesn't apply to Oakland,
Speaker 3: and they're going to bring the pitchforks to the border supervisors.
Speaker 2: Imagine if that woman with pink hair finds out it
Speaker 2: doesn't apply to her.
Speaker 3: It was a guy wearing the bonnet, You're right, like, wait,
Speaker 3: his neck was too big news, So there you go.
Speaker 3: The fight for thirty continues in Alameda County. They collected
Speaker 3: enough signatures to get it on the ballot. But the
Speaker 3: Border Supervisors knows that it would be an economic disaster
Speaker 3: pushing all kinds of businesses outside of at least the
Speaker 3: unincorporated parts of the county that they'd like to study
Speaker 3: it for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't apply to that ro Ton woman with
Speaker 2: the pink hair, my guess is she's going to break
Speaker 2: every glass in her house. On Phillips Show. If you'd
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Speaker 2: The high cost of living in the state of California
Speaker 2: may prevent you from getting the office you've always wanted,
Speaker 2: or the gym that you've always wanted, or the Christmas
Speaker 2: wrapping room you've always wanted because your adult children are
Speaker 2: never moving out.
Speaker 3: It has gotten so expensive to live in California that
Speaker 3: more and more young people are moving back in with
Speaker 3: mom and dad. They call it the Costanza effect. For more,
Speaker 3: here is CBS eight.
Speaker 4: With Housing and Consumer prices sky high.
Speaker 14: Millions of adults are moving back home.
Speaker 4: Jarika Dongan has more on the trend.
Speaker 3: And get the guest room ready. Hope you didn't throw
Speaker 3: out any of my old sheets.
Speaker 4: Talks with one woman now living with her parents.
Speaker 9: Thirty four year old Carly Gudrow appears to be in
Speaker 9: great shape physically, but financially it's been a struggle. This
Speaker 9: one is just super relatable. The business coach and content creator.
Speaker 7: She can't make a living doing that.
Speaker 2: She should be able to do fine if she's a
Speaker 2: successful content creator. Either that or Mary, a Japanese businessman.
Speaker 9: In documenting the ups and downs, I am thirty four
Speaker 9: years old.
Speaker 3: I just moved back in with my parents for a
Speaker 3: few months with my two Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 9: So this is the room. This is the room, and
Speaker 9: then this is the workspace. This is my office. It
Speaker 9: looks terrible right now.
Speaker 7: He at least she's got a standing desk. I have
Speaker 7: one of those.
Speaker 9: When you think about what you imagined for your life
Speaker 9: at thirty four, was it this?
Speaker 2: No? Definitely not.
Speaker 16: What do you do it?
Speaker 9: Before moving back home, Carly says she was living with
Speaker 9: her boyfriend in South Carolina on a sixty thousand dollars
Speaker 9: a year salary.
Speaker 3: Something you can do in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: That's right, not here.
Speaker 9: But after they broke up, she couldn't afford to pay
Speaker 9: rent alone.
Speaker 11: To be able to afford that on top of your
Speaker 11: student loans, a car payment, it's really hard to function.
Speaker 7: Jeeps ain't cheap.
Speaker 2: No, it's all working out for her, But now her
Speaker 2: parents can't walk around on the nude.
Speaker 1: Off of anything.
Speaker 8: I believe like less than eighty five.
Speaker 9: K according to realtor dot com.
Speaker 7: I don't think you can do okay on eighty five
Speaker 7: k here.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Especially San Diego. San Diego is expensive. By the way,
Speaker 3: the number five market that watches this show is San Diego,
Speaker 3: La San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego. You listening, cogo.
Speaker 9: A record twenty five point two million adults under thirty
Speaker 9: five we're living with their parents in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9: That's more than any point on record, including the COVID
Speaker 9: nineteen pandemic peak.
Speaker 7: Think about that.
Speaker 3: There are more adult children living at home now than
Speaker 3: during the lockdown.
Speaker 14: Society as a whole has to respond.
Speaker 9: Wharton School of Business professor Susan Walkker has been studying
Speaker 9: this trend.
Speaker 7: This affordability across the board. It's not just the price
Speaker 7: of home in the mortgage you rease for me.
Speaker 9: Carly's parents say they welcome the full house.
Speaker 7: For well, that's what they say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they're irritated with her being back at home,
Speaker 2: they're not going to say that to the news.
Speaker 3: You're excited to have the house guest for May definitely
Speaker 3: the first week, maybe the second week. Then everything they
Speaker 3: do gets real old, real fast.
Speaker 2: Well, if those two go on the news and say
Speaker 2: that their daughter's a free loader and getting on their
Speaker 2: last nur, they're going to have to sleep in shifts
Speaker 2: for adults.
Speaker 9: Four dogs crossing paths once again.
Speaker 7: So there you go.
Speaker 3: More and more adult children are moving back home because well,
Speaker 3: it's real expensive to make a living as a single
Speaker 3: person nowadays.
Speaker 2: You want a prediction, Yes, she's going to end up
Speaker 2: with that Japanese businessman.
Speaker 3: You know the fact that she moved in with mommy
Speaker 3: and Daddy tells you that she doesn't want to end
Speaker 3: up with the Japanese businessman. She is definitely attractive enough
Speaker 3: to attract any kind of sugar daddy. Steve Klupek single
Speaker 3: right now. She could go after him, but she's trying
Speaker 3: to do it the right way.
Speaker 2: Well, how long do you give it before they have
Speaker 2: a falling out? Because you can't have that many adults
Speaker 2: living under the same roof without a whole lot of
Speaker 2: fighting going on. Didn't you watch The Golden Girls.
Speaker 7: That is a good point.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be at each other's throats almost immediately. People
Speaker 2: need space. If I don't have my space, if people
Speaker 2: are staying over house guests for too long, I'm crawling
Speaker 2: the walls because house guests are like fish. After three
Speaker 2: days they start to stink. They stick around longer than that.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you, you're at each other's throats.
Speaker 2: And if they're your adult children and you're used to
Speaker 2: telling them what to do, they're gonna hate you too.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna end well for anybody in this family,
Speaker 3: is it.
Speaker 2: No? No, If you have adult children moving back in
Speaker 2: with mom and dad, it's gonna end in a nine
Speaker 2: to one to one call for many of them.
Speaker 3: Maybe someone watching CBS eight or someone watching this broadcast
Speaker 3: right now will see her story be like I want
Speaker 3: her to be my whenever she is influencer, coach and Uh,
Speaker 3: maybe she'll get enough business to move out on her own.
Speaker 3: Probably not in San Diego, but you'll have to go
Speaker 3: up to fifteen to Riverside.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, some guy is watching this thinking, I
Speaker 2: got plenty of our room for her at my house.
Speaker 7: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Everybody looks like more and more people are starting to
Speaker 3: move back in with their parents. That is not a
Speaker 3: good trend for the economy, but that's where we are
Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 2: with Steve Hilton, which we did for this week's Accountability Podcast.
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