Speaker 1: And we continue at two five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, if everyone's really, really, really good at the end
Speaker 2: of this hour, you might get an ed Lasco's crime
Speaker 2: blodder story.
Speaker 1: Enough already, oh, Randy, we all watch the gooblnatorial debate
Speaker 1: this week. We've eaten our vegetables, we've brushed our teeth
Speaker 1: before bed I think we're all deserving.
Speaker 3: It's a man all set up. He's posing as a
Speaker 3: child online, lures in the suspected child predator. That predator
Speaker 3: shows up thinking he's going to have a date with
Speaker 3: a fifteen year old.
Speaker 1: It's a date, all right.
Speaker 2: With a law that's my favorite.
Speaker 4: One eight hundred two two two five two two two
Speaker 4: is telephone number one eight hundred two two two five
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Speaker 1: Well, just when you think the high speed Rail is
Speaker 1: about as screwed up as it can get, you find
Speaker 1: new wrinkles to the story that lets you know we
Speaker 1: haven't hit rock bottom yard.
Speaker 2: A new business plan by the High speed Rail Authority
Speaker 2: isn't even legal and is completely changing the parameters about
Speaker 2: what people voted on all the way back in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight. From more on this, we go to
Speaker 2: KCRA three and of course they're political director though wonderful
Speaker 2: Ashley Zavalla.
Speaker 5: Listen, a lot to unpack here, as you said, we're
Speaker 5: talking about the.
Speaker 2: Hut, they cut off, or sang Golston.
Speaker 5: Listen, a lot to unpack here, As you said, we're
Speaker 5: talking about the High Speed Rail Authorities twenty twenty six
Speaker 5: business plan. This is required under state law to provide
Speaker 5: specific information about the project and money moving forward.
Speaker 2: And they put this out every single year, and every
Speaker 2: single year it just has the greatest projections that never
Speaker 2: come true.
Speaker 6: But some state officials task if.
Speaker 1: We keep doing it, rinse and repeat over and over.
Speaker 5: But some state officials tasked with independent oh sight of
Speaker 5: the project, say.
Speaker 6: This plan falls short.
Speaker 5: The plan claims the Baker's Field to Merced line will
Speaker 5: cost thirty six billion dollars, with the goal of completing
Speaker 5: that segment of the track by twenty thirty three.
Speaker 2: And remember it's not really Bakersfield, it's Wasco, which is
Speaker 2: about thirty miles outside of Bakersfield. So how do you
Speaker 2: get to Baker's Field?
Speaker 1: And keep in mind that Gavin Newsom and the Theater Kids
Speaker 1: that portray him on the internet. All regard this as
Speaker 1: a smashing success.
Speaker 5: But this plan does not say how exactly the state
Speaker 5: plans to pay for that line in full, as it
Speaker 5: is expected to be short billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: We're only getting a billion dollars a year of funding
Speaker 2: from cap and Invest. So how exactly are you going
Speaker 2: to raise thirty three billion dollars in the next eight
Speaker 2: years to just complete a portion of the train that
Speaker 2: very few people would actually use.
Speaker 1: I think what they're relying on is a Democrat to
Speaker 1: be elected president next time around. Who's going to go
Speaker 1: all in on the high speed rail project?
Speaker 2: Well, the only way that's happening is if they vote
Speaker 2: another eighty year old in.
Speaker 5: It also says the original plan for a bullet train
Speaker 5: between San Francisco to Los Angeles could cost between one
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty six billion dollars to two hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty one billion dollars, with no money identified for that.
Speaker 2: What was the original cost estimate on Prop one A
Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight? Wasn't it like thirty billion
Speaker 2: dollars for the entire thing from LA to San Francisco?
Speaker 2: A little more to go from Sacramento to San Diego
Speaker 2: and it was supposed to be completed in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: How is this even legal when the finished project isn't
Speaker 1: even remotely similar to what voters passed when they went
Speaker 1: to the ballot box in two thousand and eight, and
Speaker 1: they're continuing to move forward with this as if there's
Speaker 1: no guardrails at all.
Speaker 2: I feel like we could get a class action suit
Speaker 2: going for false advertising. Voters were sold in La to
Speaker 2: San Francisco train and we're not getting that ever.
Speaker 6: No money identified for that.
Speaker 5: So the specific problems pointed out by the state's Inspector
Speaker 5: General this week.
Speaker 6: The plan does not provide clear.
Speaker 5: Details required under state law related to the costs and timeline.
Speaker 5: The plan also assumes California lawmakers and the governor will
Speaker 5: make big changes to state law when it comes to
Speaker 5: permitting and regulations.
Speaker 2: It also, well, it hasn't done it yet, so why
Speaker 2: would they do it now? You think of all the
Speaker 2: things they would dismantle SEQUA for. They would have dismantled
Speaker 2: it for the high speed rail, and they didn't. And
Speaker 2: part of what held this project up for over a
Speaker 2: decade is they didn't own any of the land. They
Speaker 2: were trying to go through Eminent Domain and they got
Speaker 2: sued over Siqua every single go parcel they were going after.
Speaker 1: And it's one thing to try to psycho analyze someone
Speaker 1: who's in the office now as to what they'll do.
Speaker 1: But Gavin is a lame duck. We're going to have
Speaker 1: a new governor coming up next year and we don't
Speaker 1: even know who that person will be.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's Bakaia, Bakaia loves the rail, he says,
Speaker 2: don't you worry, We're gonna build it better.
Speaker 5: It also states there could be significant changes to the
Speaker 5: project that have not been authorized. Those changes include a
Speaker 5: plan to move the location of one of the very
Speaker 5: first bullet train stations from downtown Merced to the suburbs
Speaker 5: of Merced.
Speaker 6: This could shave off.
Speaker 5: Nine miles from the project, but place the line in
Speaker 5: a more suburban part and let instead of a busier downtown.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't even really go to Mercedes.
Speaker 1: Boy, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: What is the estimated writer? Like, who is the demographic
Speaker 2: of somebody that lives in the suburbs of said that
Speaker 2: wants to stop in Fresno and end up in wasco what.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's people going from the county jail
Speaker 1: in Merced to the prison INSCO.
Speaker 5: The plan also changes the project from a double track
Speaker 5: high speed rail system to a single track system, which
Speaker 5: some lawmakers worry may not actually make this train high speed.
Speaker 2: So it's now we're just building a regular train.
Speaker 1: Talk about a bait and switch.
Speaker 2: We already have that, we already have Amtrak. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: doesn't go all the way to San Francisco, but what
Speaker 2: are we doing?
Speaker 6: Overall?
Speaker 5: State officials say the plan lacks transparency around these big
Speaker 5: changes that I just laid out.
Speaker 6: And that could end up meaning less track for more money.
Speaker 5: The California High Speed Rail Authority Board was expected to
Speaker 5: approve this draft business plan today. They had it on
Speaker 5: their agenda for the meeting in Sacramento. The board chairman
Speaker 5: Tom Richards announced at the start of the meeting that
Speaker 5: they delay that vote and move it to their meeting
Speaker 5: in May.
Speaker 2: That's because the plan leaked and the plan is obscene.
Speaker 1: But they don't seem to care though nothing really slows
Speaker 1: their role.
Speaker 2: Well, everyone on that authority is getting paid. A lot
Speaker 2: of them ex legislators that are termed out. All of
Speaker 2: the unions that are sitting around doing nothing, waiting for
Speaker 2: the project to start, or still getting paid. They've created
Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of jobs, and what exactly do we
Speaker 2: have to show for any of it outside of we
Speaker 2: created thousands and thousands of jobs.
Speaker 5: At this meeting today, the board did get a lot
Speaker 5: of public comment and opposition of that plan.
Speaker 6: Wlailemaker's from both sides.
Speaker 5: Of the aisle and the State Senate also had big
Speaker 5: issues with the plan, airing out frustration during a hearing
Speaker 5: at the state capitol earlier this week. I checked in
Speaker 5: with Republican State Senator Tony Strickland about the board's decision
Speaker 5: to hold.
Speaker 2: Off strict I'm gonna guess he's not for the project.
Speaker 1: I would hope not.
Speaker 5: Strickland is the vice chairman of the Senates Transportation Committee.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm not surprised. After we have the informational hearing
Speaker 7: on Monday. Clearly this plan is unrealistic. There's many facets
Speaker 7: we can tackle, from the shortage of cash flow to
Speaker 7: the lack of financing.
Speaker 2: And they keep saying that they're going to get private investment.
Speaker 2: What private investment firm is going to put a dollar
Speaker 2: towards this thing. They're going to sell advertising on the
Speaker 2: non existent train cars. What's the plan here?
Speaker 1: Here's my prediction, Nancy Pelosi won't be investing in this
Speaker 1: to the.
Speaker 7: Lack of financing, the lack of thought process, to just
Speaker 7: totally ignoring bills and legislation that we put here in
Speaker 7: the legislature that they just totally ignored going from a
Speaker 7: double track to single track. So now you have to
Speaker 7: share that train with freight and also metrolink. How does
Speaker 7: that become high speed rail? There's more questions that came
Speaker 7: out of this informational hearing.
Speaker 2: Then answers time to point out, as you have to
Speaker 2: do every single time that this story comes up, Japan
Speaker 2: built one of these things in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: Who was it? It was somewhat associated with the high
Speaker 1: speed rail project said, and I'm not kidding, and you
Speaker 1: can look this up. I forget who it was that
Speaker 1: said it, so I'm not going to attribute it to
Speaker 1: anyone in particular. But they said that Japan had an
Speaker 1: advantage because they just had the bomb dropped on them.
Speaker 1: And that is the first time I've ever heard of
Speaker 1: anyone saying that you have an advantage if there is
Speaker 1: a bomb that's dropped on your country.
Speaker 2: I mean, sure you could say that. But part of
Speaker 2: the thing was they created a pathway to go through
Speaker 2: the Central Valley because the Obama administration said, we want
Speaker 2: you to do something about the asthma. So if you
Speaker 2: want our federal dollars, have this train go through Fresno.
Speaker 2: And you know how many the cases have gone down
Speaker 2: since they started this thing. At the same time that
Speaker 2: they were doing that, they could have done a very
Speaker 2: simple line on land they already own, where the five
Speaker 2: Freeway is connecting a bunch of parts of California where
Speaker 2: there's absolutely nothing. You drive up the five Freeway to
Speaker 2: get out of the San Fernando Valley up towards Sacramento,
Speaker 2: then eventually to the Bay Area, there's nothing there. You
Speaker 2: wouldn't have had to do a whole bunch of viaducts
Speaker 2: and land rights and easements. This thing has been a
Speaker 2: disaster from the beginning California.
Speaker 1: And as bad as the state people are, you're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right. A lot of the blame lies on
Speaker 1: the shoulders of Barack Obama.
Speaker 5: California's high Speed Rail CEO Ian Chldre told lawmakers this
Speaker 5: week he's working to be more transparent. We tried to
Speaker 5: interview him today, but through his spokesperson, Chldre, tried to
Speaker 5: limit the questions that we and other journalists could ask.
Speaker 5: He did not want a asking about personal issues that
Speaker 5: we reported on back in February.
Speaker 2: He didn't want to answer questions about whatever the heck
Speaker 2: was going on with that domestic.
Speaker 1: I love the Party of Democracy once again telling the
Speaker 1: press that they're only allowed to ask and report on
Speaker 1: certain things. Ask questions and report on certain things.
Speaker 5: That forced him to go on administrative leave and launched
Speaker 5: a state investigation into him. He has obviously been cleared
Speaker 5: since he's back to work, but we would not agree
Speaker 5: to those terms to limit questions, so the interview did
Speaker 5: not happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm open to an interview, but don't ask anything
Speaker 2: about that really bizarre situation that I'm trying to keep secret.
Speaker 1: In what sane world is that appropriate? Like, I get it.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be a guest on a program,
Speaker 1: if I'm going on CNN or I'm going on Fox
Speaker 1: News to comment on whatever, I can ask them what
Speaker 1: the topic is. So I show up prepared, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go on and go, well, you can't
Speaker 1: ask me about I don't know issue X, but I'll
Speaker 1: talk about everything, but that the moment you say that
Speaker 1: there's a red flag and guess what they're going to
Speaker 1: ask you about immediately.
Speaker 8: Well, those questions aren't going to go away, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So what are the next steps here?
Speaker 5: So at this point, the Authority expects the board to
Speaker 5: consider the plan and probably vote on it at their
Speaker 5: next meeting on May twentieth. Official say this gives them
Speaker 5: time to make adjustments based on the feedback, but they're
Speaker 5: working up against a budget deadline that's coming up in
Speaker 5: late June, so a lot to unpack, a lot more
Speaker 5: questions than answers today on the high speed rail.
Speaker 8: I was just thinking too, I remember when I first
Speaker 8: got here in two thousand and eight, that's when voters
Speaker 8: approve high speed rail, and we're here's where we are
Speaker 8: today in.
Speaker 9: Twenty twenty six and back to Shadri.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you're working with it has been a
Speaker 2: very I mean, we're going to be coming up in
Speaker 2: just a couple of years on the twentieth anniversary of
Speaker 2: the high speed rail vote and there's going to be
Speaker 2: no train to show for it.
Speaker 1: And this is one of these issues where if California
Speaker 1: was still a two party state, there would have been
Speaker 1: oversight hearings on this. There would have been certainly very
Speaker 1: direct questions that would have been asked to the people
Speaker 1: in charge of the project. There would have been a
Speaker 1: more unified, structured opposition. But given the fact that we're
Speaker 1: a one party state, it's just been allowed to go
Speaker 1: on like this for since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 6: And back to Shadri.
Speaker 10: I mean, when you're working with public funds and there
Speaker 10: it may be have been a personal situation that caused
Speaker 10: you go on administrative leave.
Speaker 6: We definitely have the right to ask questions. Well, right,
Speaker 6: because there's you.
Speaker 5: Know, and he'd be a conflict of ent sure, and
Speaker 5: he has the right to say no comment. But mister
Speaker 5: Chadry makes more than half a million dollars a year
Speaker 5: on the California taxpayer time.
Speaker 2: Of of course he does.
Speaker 1: It seems like everyone does.
Speaker 2: By the way, the director of the high speed rail
Speaker 2: project still makes less than Barbara Ferrair.
Speaker 5: Next side, public officials are expected to answer questions from
Speaker 5: journalists who are working on behalf of taxpayers.
Speaker 11: Yeah, especially because it was about a potential conflict of interest, right,
Speaker 11: would be very concerning to taxpayers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, Ash, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It wasn't just the fact that there
Speaker 2: was a domestic going on, but apparently the girlfriend is
Speaker 2: serving on the board of a company that has contracts
Speaker 2: with high speed rail. But no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 2: you can't ask about that.
Speaker 1: Of course, because that's the California Way.
Speaker 2: There you go. That is the latest on the never ever, ever, never,
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California
Speaker 1: Crime Blodder.
Speaker 9: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 1: Nice see time for the California crime blodder. And we
Speaker 1: promised Ed Laskos and Randy We're going to deliver.
Speaker 2: Ed Laskos on the scene at a Hermosa Beach restaurant
Speaker 2: that got trashed by a dining dasher that wanted revenge
Speaker 2: after he got arrested for dining and dashing. Here is
Speaker 2: Fox eleven and Ed Lasko's.
Speaker 3: Popular Amosa Beach Peer restaurant is closed after an accused
Speaker 3: dine and dasher return for revenge and smash the place up.
Speaker 6: Fox Alaskos has a story.
Speaker 12: Start to grabbing here and just started try I think
Speaker 12: the third one. I think he finally.
Speaker 1: Broke it, broke out the window. Maybe he had indigestion, broke.
Speaker 3: Out the window and broke in plywood now covering up
Speaker 3: the door. But there is no covering up this. Look
Speaker 3: at it, huh.
Speaker 2: So you know a lot of people break a window
Speaker 2: to enter a business with a rock or a crowbar.
Speaker 2: He went Wwe style and threw a chair at it.
Speaker 1: Oh my, look at it. Huh.
Speaker 12: The sea of beer and bottles and dismay, what a mess.
Speaker 1: It's just really kind of tragic. It's hard to deal with.
Speaker 12: So he got in. He did a lot of damage.
Speaker 12: He was only here about nine ten minutes. He got
Speaker 12: tons of video footage.
Speaker 2: Upstairs, not related to the story, but the owner of
Speaker 2: this business, and I feel for him. How many packs
Speaker 2: a day.
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 12: We got tons of video footage upstairs and it's kind
Speaker 12: of Harden crazy to see what he did.
Speaker 3: It has to ply a Hermosa Fish and Oyster Company.
Speaker 3: Popular restaurant here on the homosap here closed for now
Speaker 3: after the dirty work by this man, a diner and
Speaker 3: dasher as they call him. He ate here a week ago,
Speaker 3: ran out without paying, is arrested, and now he's back
Speaker 3: for revenge.
Speaker 1: He's like Pamela Price, out for revenge, tearing up the joint.
Speaker 3: Huh, first the patio and wait until you see what
Speaker 3: he does once he gets inside, guzzling whiskey and throwing
Speaker 3: the bottles everywhere.
Speaker 2: He takes a little sample first and then he chucks
Speaker 2: it at the wall.
Speaker 12: He just opened the wine fridge, was just taking bottle
Speaker 12: after bottle. I kind of like thirty one bottles he
Speaker 12: tossed like he was at the fair, just mowing down
Speaker 12: My backbar has suddenly, you know, on my back top
Speaker 12: rail clap stz her.
Speaker 1: Shadows the back bar. Look at it.
Speaker 3: No happy hour here, the unhappy hour after just broken bottles,
Speaker 3: booze beer all over the floor. And then you have
Speaker 3: the glasses, the shelves, the mirror all smashed up.
Speaker 1: Do you resist.
Speaker 12: Sometimes even like grabbing it and like with two hands, like.
Speaker 1: Moving it around.
Speaker 3: Damage. You're probably one hundred thousand dollars or more. It's
Speaker 3: all replaceable except for this.
Speaker 1: And now I don't feel safe.
Speaker 12: And I have a family, have a young daughter and wife.
Speaker 1: And I just you know, I don't feel safe.
Speaker 12: They if they're causing these problems, especially down here in Hermosa, like,
Speaker 12: they need to be incarcerated, and they need to stay
Speaker 12: incarcerated for now.
Speaker 2: Ed Lasco's fucks eleven yus so guy dined to dash,
Speaker 2: got arrested. When he got out, decided to get revenge
Speaker 2: by breaking into the same restaurant and trashing the place,
Speaker 2: including destroying all of those beautiful bottles of bows. I
Speaker 2: kind of drinking that bowze.
Speaker 1: What I'm not. If you'd like to email the show,
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Speaker 1: the cruise ships are back in the news, and for once,
Speaker 1: it doesn't involve neurovirus, binge drinking or girl brawls for
Speaker 1: mediocre pizza. This time, Randy, it's very different.
Speaker 2: Well, that's because this isn't a carnival story. Now. This
Speaker 2: is a cruise ship that was going around the Panama Corral,
Speaker 2: a twenty one day cruise that started in Florida went
Speaker 2: through the Panama Canal. When Up California was supposed to
Speaker 2: end in Seattle, they were stopping off for a day
Speaker 2: and a half in San Francisco, and I'm sure the
Speaker 2: cruise passengers wanted to go to Fisherman's War for the
Speaker 2: Embarcadero or get some pizza in North Beach. And it
Speaker 2: took them nine hours to go through customs to get
Speaker 2: off the ship.
Speaker 1: Nine hours.
Speaker 2: What's the longest you've ever had to wait to go
Speaker 2: through customs as you're getting off the cruise ship.
Speaker 1: I have global entry and they typically have facial recognition,
Speaker 1: so normally I don't even break stride.
Speaker 2: I got to imagine you'd be pretty irritated if you're
Speaker 2: sitting in line for nine hours to get off the ship.
Speaker 1: Oh, to say the least.
Speaker 2: For more on this, we go to NBC in the bay.
Speaker 9: No sight seeing, just waiting. Passengers on board a Norwegian
Speaker 9: cruise ship at dockt in San Francisco this morning say
Speaker 9: they endured a nightmare today.
Speaker 11: Instead of spending the day during the city, they were
Speaker 11: stuck on the ship waiting for hours.
Speaker 9: To go through custom screenings. NBC barries Jodie Hernandez is
Speaker 9: live at Peer twenty seven. Jody, why so long when you're.
Speaker 2: On a twenty one day cruise? Do you get sick
Speaker 2: of the shrimp at some point?
Speaker 1: No, you never get sick of the shrimp, or the
Speaker 1: alcohol or the gambling.
Speaker 2: Jess.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you there are a lot of unhappy customers
Speaker 11: passengers tonight. This ship arrived here to San Francisco from
Speaker 11: Cabo San Lucas at seven point thirty this morning, but
Speaker 11: it took nearly nine hours for some of them to
Speaker 11: process through customs before they could come ashore.
Speaker 2: I love that this cruise doesn't even think about stopping
Speaker 2: in La There's nothing fun there.
Speaker 1: So what they can get robbed?
Speaker 9: You're looking at the line.
Speaker 11: Hundreds of people aboard the Norwegian cruise ship Encore had
Speaker 11: to stand in for hours today.
Speaker 9: So it was.
Speaker 12: Supposed to be a wonderful if in San Francisco has
Speaker 12: turned into a nightmare.
Speaker 11: We spoke to passenger Ginger Rolf as she and her
Speaker 11: husband waited. She says, all thirty one hundred passengers and
Speaker 11: seventeen hundred crew members had to disembark and get screened
Speaker 11: by Customs and Border Protection.
Speaker 2: Probably that is a long, long line.
Speaker 1: Typically though if they staff it properly, it doesn't take
Speaker 1: long at all.
Speaker 11: Problem is the process took all day.
Speaker 13: Tinkle today canty go in to San Francisco to do
Speaker 13: excursions or visit the city because they're basically being held
Speaker 13: hostage by the migration.
Speaker 14: I've been on five cuises and I never had a problem.
Speaker 2: And because it's not parked in international waters, John, I
Speaker 2: got to imagine the casino is not even open.
Speaker 14: Nope, I've been on five cuises and I never had
Speaker 14: a problem. Eva, I've now gone through this and anyway.
Speaker 14: I've been to Italy, France, Portugal, I've been to the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: Passenger say, I'm really trying to nail that accent. It's
Speaker 2: either Chicago or East Coast.
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely East Coast.
Speaker 11: I went to a Caribbean passenger say, some we're stuck
Speaker 11: on the ship the entire day, and those who did
Speaker 11: get off couldn't get back on until the screening was complete.
Speaker 9: The problem is is their procedure, They said.
Speaker 15: The US Department of Homeland Security and Customs require everyone
Speaker 15: to have a face to face immigration to get off
Speaker 15: the boat, and everyone has to get off.
Speaker 2: The You know, CBP really worked a lot better when
Speaker 2: Nome was in charge because if they didn't do stuff timely,
Speaker 2: they were worried that she was going to shoot their dog.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you could end up like old Yeller too,
Speaker 1: and everyone has to get off.
Speaker 11: The most Norwegian cruise Line acknowledged passengers were delayed from
Speaker 11: going ashore. In a statement, they said, as per federal regulation,
Speaker 11: all passengers are required to go through an immigration screening
Speaker 11: at the first US port when returning from an international destination.
Speaker 11: But experienced cruisers say.
Speaker 2: Which is funny too, because the crew started in Florida,
Speaker 2: so most of the people obviously on the cruise are American.
Speaker 2: But sure, let's do this.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the problem is. I've been on
Speaker 1: a million cruises too, including cruises that require you to
Speaker 1: go through immigration in the state of California, and I
Speaker 1: have never had a problem like this ever.
Speaker 11: But experienced cruisers say the level of screening was something
Speaker 11: they've never experienced before. They say most passengers were fingerprinted, photographed,
Speaker 11: and interviewed before being allowed to disembark.
Speaker 8: They ask you question, I showed on my driver's life
Speaker 8: with my veterans car and my what.
Speaker 2: Is your purpose of visiting I'm on a cruise.
Speaker 1: You know what had to have happened. There was someone
Speaker 1: up to no good on that ship and they were
Speaker 1: told to go through it with a fine tooth comb.
Speaker 1: They may not publicize whoever it was that they were
Speaker 1: looking for, but it had to be something like that,
Speaker 1: because I have done this so many times in my
Speaker 1: life all over the place, and this is so atypical
Speaker 1: of how it normally works. There had to be an
Speaker 1: extraordinary circumstance showed them everything turned the cruisers and all
Speaker 1: over the world.
Speaker 9: This is absolute.
Speaker 1: I've never ever seen this ever.
Speaker 9: We had a lot of things planned, but we're going
Speaker 9: to cut them short now.
Speaker 11: This passenger says he and his family waited six and
Speaker 11: a half hours to get through the screening.
Speaker 9: Sad that we miss San Francisco.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're standing in a line for six
Speaker 2: hours and the only thing you can do is flip
Speaker 2: through your phone, your phone dies.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just get back on the ship.
Speaker 9: That we missed.
Speaker 10: San Francisco is a beautiful day, but we'll enjoy what
Speaker 10: we've got left.
Speaker 11: Unfortunately, the Encore will be here in San Francisco until
Speaker 11: six pm tomorrow, so people we'll have some time tomorrow
Speaker 11: morning and afternoon to explore the city. Now, we did
Speaker 11: reach out to Customs and Border Protection. They said they're
Speaker 11: working on a response, but we have not yet heard
Speaker 11: back from them.
Speaker 2: So that was earlier in the day. And then when
Speaker 2: CBP did give a response, they gave a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of excuses that nobody is buying. So we have an
Speaker 2: up date to that story. Let's go back to NBC
Speaker 2: in the Bay.
Speaker 16: Not that cruise that they were expecting yesterday. We told
Speaker 16: you about the passengers on that cruise ship delayed for
Speaker 16: hours as they tried to get off the ship to
Speaker 16: visit San Francisco.
Speaker 2: A long and if you're standing in a six hour
Speaker 2: line and you have to use the bathroom, will they
Speaker 2: hold your place or you got to go all the
Speaker 2: way back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: Well, over the course of six hours, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to have to use the bathroom a couple of times.
Speaker 16: A long and complicated customs process with fingerprinting and interviews.
Speaker 15: Tonight, Customs and Border Patrol says it has an explanation.
Speaker 10: NBC by Ariasarhio Cantana joins US Live from the San
Speaker 10: Francisco Cruise Port terminal with all the new details. Sirho, Well,
Speaker 10: you know, the Norwegian Encore is scheduled to leave San
Speaker 10: Francisco in about a half an hour, and unfortunately, it
Speaker 10: is pretty likely that a lot of those passengers are
Speaker 10: a little bit disappointed with their visit to San Francisco
Speaker 10: because of that massive delay yesterday in actually getting off
Speaker 10: of the ship. Now today, as you mentioned, the Customs
Speaker 10: and Border Protection is giving an explanation, actually several explanations
Speaker 10: as to what was behind that delay. But I talked
Speaker 10: to some passengers today and they say that that doesn't
Speaker 10: fully line up with what they experienced today. The three
Speaker 10: thousand passengers aboard the Norwegian Encore woke up to a
Speaker 10: bright and sunny San Francisco morning. Many made their way
Speaker 10: around the city doing the things tourists loved, but they
Speaker 10: say the hours long delays yesterday have left them with
Speaker 10: the very unfortunate impression. It's bad news for a city
Speaker 10: that thrives on tourism. Today, Mayor Daniel Lurie encouraged visitors
Speaker 10: to come back to the city for a longer visit.
Speaker 2: We want our tourists and those coming by boat to
Speaker 2: have every single hour available to them to visit the
Speaker 2: greatest city in the world. They didn't even have time
Speaker 2: to tour the drug addicts in the Tenderloin.
Speaker 1: No, they didn't, and.
Speaker 2: So we'll look into that matter.
Speaker 10: A spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection tells US
Speaker 10: there were a number of reasons for yesterday's major delay.
Speaker 10: Among them, he says, the Norwegian Encore was three hours
Speaker 10: late docking, meaning CBP agents were delayed getting a board.
Speaker 10: The passenger say, that doesn't line.
Speaker 2: Up, nick true, we are actually like forty five minutes early.
Speaker 2: So CBP says, well, that boat was three hours late,
Speaker 2: and every single person on the boat says, no, we
Speaker 2: were early.
Speaker 1: Okay. So here's the thing. When they go through the
Speaker 1: Panama Canal, so that's what you call a repositioning in
Speaker 1: cruise terminology where you start at one port and end
Speaker 1: at a different port, because most cruises you start in
Speaker 1: LA and in La. But they're moving that ship from
Speaker 1: the Caribbean because that season is ending and they're probably
Speaker 1: moving it, I would assume, to Alaska because that season's
Speaker 1: about to start. And when you move it through the
Speaker 1: Panama Canal, you stop in places like Cartagenia, Columbia, and
Speaker 1: you stop in Panama, and sometimes you stop in some
Speaker 1: of those Central American countries, countries where there's a lot
Speaker 1: of drugs, there's a lot of contraband that is knuck
Speaker 1: into the United States. Maybe there are people who are stowaways,
Speaker 1: who are caterers or who are putting booze or whatever
Speaker 1: it is on the ship, and sometimes they're trying to
Speaker 1: get out of whatever country they're in and get to
Speaker 1: the United States. I wonder if there's some issue that
Speaker 1: was flat from one of those countries, particularly with what's
Speaker 1: going on in Venezuela right now, where they can't fully
Speaker 1: be honest because it's an ongoing investigation which they never
Speaker 1: comment on, or I don't know, maybe the story is
Speaker 1: even hotter than that, and that's what they're looking for,
Speaker 1: and that's why they were taking the step that they
Speaker 1: normally don't take.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Ronald and Martina Bode say they were delayed by
Speaker 10: the customs process for hours. Another passage told me off
Speaker 10: camera they believe the ship arrived earlier than scheduled as
Speaker 10: well Customs and Border protect Of course.
Speaker 2: That could be a situation like when you land early
Speaker 2: at LAX and you're like, hey, great, I get to
Speaker 2: start my day early, and then you're like, well, we
Speaker 2: have to find a gate for you, so now you're
Speaker 2: gonna sit on the tarmac and you can't get up
Speaker 2: for another forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Or if you're coming back from Australia and this
Speaker 1: has happened to me, before you get in early, but
Speaker 1: the shift for immigration and customs enforcement they haven't started yet,
Speaker 1: so you just have to stand in line, or you
Speaker 1: just have to sit there and wait for that shift
Speaker 1: to start.
Speaker 2: That's what happened when I flew back from me from
Speaker 2: Spain to DFW. We landed early at four point thirty.
Speaker 2: Customs didn't start their shift until five.
Speaker 1: It wasn't six.
Speaker 10: Customs and Border Protection says there were other issues too,
Speaker 10: For example, because the Encore arrived here from Mexico. Foreign
Speaker 10: passengers had to go through a rigorous arrival process, which
Speaker 10: includes a biometric screening, interview, and fingerprinting.
Speaker 2: How rigorous of an interview is that? Do they go
Speaker 2: all TSA on your orifices?
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's not true. I have taken that
Speaker 1: cruise to the Mexican Rivira or to Ensenada probably, and
Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating forty times in my life, and not
Speaker 1: once have I ever had to go through any of that.
Speaker 10: The agency also says the facial recognition tech used to
Speaker 10: verify US citizens wasn't working.
Speaker 2: Oh so even if you had Global Entry, you were screwed.
Speaker 1: That's no Blano.
Speaker 10: So everyone had to go through the biometric screening Earlier today, Hallan.
Speaker 2: I love that Global Entry. By the way, when I
Speaker 2: flew back into DFW, that Kai who is at customs
Speaker 2: waved me through, knew my name and said you're good.
Speaker 1: It's the best hundred bucks you'll ever spend.
Speaker 2: And if you have an American Express card or a
Speaker 2: Chase Sapphire card, they literally reimburse you for it.
Speaker 10: Earlier today, Hall in America's Connings Dam cruise ship also
Speaker 10: ride in port Her passengers went through their CBP screening
Speaker 10: in San Diego earlier this week pointed arrivee from Mexico
Speaker 10: and customs was.
Speaker 5: A bit delayed getting on the ship, so we got
Speaker 5: off about an hour and a half later than we expected,
Speaker 5: but not a big deal.
Speaker 1: When we went through, it was not an issue at all.
Speaker 12: But we waited until the line greatly subsided, and.
Speaker 2: We did that guy wait until the line went down,
Speaker 2: so he sat at the buffet and stuffed his face
Speaker 2: until it was over.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this I think adds a little
Speaker 1: meat to my allegation that if there is another ship
Speaker 1: that was there and they had no problem, there was
Speaker 1: something going on on that particular Norwegian ship that they
Speaker 1: were looking at, and.
Speaker 9: We did not have an issue.
Speaker 10: Many of the passengers on the Norwegian Encore are part
Speaker 10: of a twenty one day cruise that started in Miami,
Speaker 10: went through the Panama Canal Wealth and will end in Seattle.
Speaker 2: Would you do a twenty one day of course.
Speaker 10: Despite yesterday's late most of the passengers we've talked with
Speaker 10: say they enjoyed their time in the city by the Bay. Now,
Speaker 10: the CPDB spokesperson we talk with say that they actually
Speaker 10: had another challenge. There was an elderly passenger that passed
Speaker 10: away on the ship, and so they had to wait
Speaker 10: until the medical examiners came aboard.
Speaker 2: That's what did it. That's what happened now we know.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there was suspected foul play and they
Speaker 1: didn't want to let anyone off until they figured out
Speaker 1: just exactly why that person died.
Speaker 2: But when you have these really long cruises, the month long,
Speaker 2: the six month long, there's even the year ones that
Speaker 2: go around the world. A lot of people that take
Speaker 2: these things are retirees. You probably just assumed that one
Speaker 2: or two of them are going to pass away overseas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a fair assumption. But there's also
Speaker 1: a and Doug Parker over at Cruise Radio was reporting
Speaker 1: on it where there was a murder that took place
Speaker 1: on one of these cruise ships where it was a
Speaker 1: sibling I believe, who killed another sibling and put the
Speaker 1: body underneath the bed on the cruise ship and it
Speaker 1: became a big deal. So, yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: desks due to natural causes that go on, but there's
Speaker 1: also foul play, and you want to make sure that
Speaker 1: if there is foul play involved, you don't let the
Speaker 1: person escape into a big city like San Francisco.
Speaker 10: Take custody of that body before they could actually start
Speaker 10: processing their passengers so that they could to board them.
Speaker 9: I have reached out to the Office of the.
Speaker 10: Medical Examiner for further details on that, but I haven't
Speaker 10: gotten a response yet. Reporting live in San Francisco, I'm
Speaker 10: SETI koking Dona, NBC.
Speaker 2: There, So there, the mystery is kind of solved. The
Speaker 2: facial recognition technology was broken and there was a dead
Speaker 2: body on board.
Speaker 1: And Randy, I think we have time for one more
Speaker 1: addition to the California crime blodder.
Speaker 9: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 2: This whoa, whoa, what's not you?
Speaker 6: Dun dumb dumb dunk dun dun dumb dumb dumb.
Speaker 1: Reads the Califonia crime blodder.
Speaker 3: With Jump.
Speaker 1: And Randy. This one takes us back to the seven
Speaker 1: eleven if dumby.
Speaker 2: Now they're just straight up stealing the cash registers at
Speaker 2: seven elevens for more here as NBC LA.
Speaker 15: This morning, thieves are targeting seven eleven stores. So take
Speaker 15: a look at this video. This is a new video
Speaker 15: from just a few hours ago. One of the crooks
Speaker 15: jumped over the counter and stole the whole cash register.
Speaker 15: It took us seconds and then they ran off. NBC
Speaker 15: fors Lauren Cornado is live.
Speaker 2: What are they gonna do with that besides dump it
Speaker 2: on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: Isn't there one spot in La County where all the
Speaker 1: stolen cash registers and ATMs get dumped.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's off the side of a bridge near the
Speaker 2: one eighteen freeway and Chatsworth.
Speaker 6: And then they ran off.
Speaker 15: NBC fors Lauren Cornado is live at Estel where this happened. So, Lauren,
Speaker 15: they got.
Speaker 6: Away with a lot of cash, they did, Lynette, good morning.
Speaker 13: I just got off the phone with an officer with
Speaker 13: the LAPD who tells me they got away with that
Speaker 13: least nine.
Speaker 6: Hundred dollars in cash.
Speaker 13: In fact, they're treating it as a grand theft for
Speaker 13: that very reason. And you'll see in that video, which
Speaker 13: will show you again in just a moment, the two
Speaker 13: thieves they walk right into the seven eleven.
Speaker 6: Thankfully they were caught on camera. And notice how quiet
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 13: Seventeen seconds, that's how quickly the thieves took off with two.
Speaker 2: Cash There's no way to do a response for seventeen seconds.
Speaker 1: No, they had the precision of a surgeon.
Speaker 6: Two cash registers.
Speaker 13: We blurred one man's face because he appears to be
Speaker 13: an innocent customer. This was around twelve thirty early this morning.
Speaker 13: The two masked thieves ran off toward Olympic in the office.
Speaker 2: This kind of behavior is going to leave all the
Speaker 2: seven elevens to close at seven pm.
Speaker 1: None of us are going to be able to get
Speaker 1: a TwixT bar at eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 13: It's the direction of Arizona, the closest cross street. Thankfully,
Speaker 13: the worker was not hurt, and this wasn't the only
Speaker 13: seven to eleven hit this week. We covered a robbery
Speaker 13: in Westlake around eleven forty late Monday night. Please say
Speaker 13: the robber jumped over the counter in that case two
Speaker 13: and got away with two cash registers as well.
Speaker 2: Sounds like the same guy to me.