WEBVTT - Another Freeway gets shutdown in LA because of homeless fires 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.360 And we continue at two o five in the afternoon 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.760 on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wags in Culver City. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.440 John, we get requests at Johnny don't like show at 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.080 gmail dot com, and I try to fulfill them whenever 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.720 I can. During the commercial breaks, Brian listening online and 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.000 Cedar Rapids. Iowa wants to know what it would sound 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:26.960 like if the Daily Departed Queen Elizabeth could recite Katie 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.000 Porter's latest drop, Why do you have to watch porn 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.080 in the living room? 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.519 Oh dear? Like that one could be directed at Andrew. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.840 I think you might be right. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.160 Why do you have to watch porn in the living room? 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.239 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.680 jellphone number one? Eight hundred two two two five two 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.200 two two. Well, the bums lit another freeway on fire. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:03.000 This time it was the one ten Freeway near San Pedro. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.120 A pedestrian tunnel was lit on fire last night, shutting 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.640 down the northbound and the southbound lanes overnight. For more 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.840 on this, here's a report this morning from Fox eleven 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.200 in Los Angeles, the breaking. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.720 News out of Wilmington to tell you about. Right now, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.360 firefighters are working to knock out a fire inside of 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.399 a tunnel under the one ten freeway. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.520 Rachel Aragon Live with an update. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.080 Rachel, Hey, Bob, Jacob Marie. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.759 The biggest impact by far will be for commuters right 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.679 here this morning in the sam Pedro Wilmington area. But 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:35.400 take a look here. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.760 Commuters are screwed. Anyone getting on a cruise ship is screwed. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.240 Can't Trump come in and just put all of these 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.400 encampments down, because if you think about it, that's the 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.560 busiest port in the entire United States of America. All 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.320 the cheap crap that comes in from China comes through 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.880 that port. If we can't unload the containers from those 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.520 ships and put them on trains and trucks and ship 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.320 them to the rest of the country, no cheap crap 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.240 for any of us. Can't They make the argument that 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.600 Karen Bass not doing her job directly impacts interstate commerce 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.640 and if you take down the freeway right next to 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.480 the portal Los Angeles, you're in violation of the interstate 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:23.360 commerce clause. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.680 Take a look here. Firefighter is still on scene this 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.919 morning trying to make sure all flames are completely out, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.800 but there's been some challenges throughout this morning. We'll take 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.160 a look here at some aerials from last night, shortly 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.200 after the fire broke out, LAFD is, say a. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.200 Spokesperson, the crews responded. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.919 Around eight o'clock last night to the northbound freeway, where 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.919 they found a remnants of a fire believed to have 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.359 been started by people living in a homeless encampment. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.760 Of course, and they're not people living in a homeless encampment, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.519 they're bums. You know, this does make me remember, because 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.840 it was almost three years ago, we still never caught 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.760 that arsonist that melted the ten freeway. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.160 Did we No, we didn't, because my guess is we're 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.679 not looking too hard because it was on tape. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.760 Kevin was so sure it was an arsonist. No arrest 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.960 was ever made, and it was definitely not the homeless 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.720 who were encamped under that freeway for years and years 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.119 and years. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.680 Fire believed it been started by people living in a 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:30.800 homeless encampment. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.400 Karen Bass is gonna have to update her new campaign 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.240 ads when she talks about the percentage of homeless that 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.640 she's decreased. We have two fewer freeways that we did 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.040 when I started. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.360 Living in a homeless encampment. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.240 LAFD confirming this morning that the one ten is closed 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.640 and will likely be closed throughout most of the day. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.040 Just you know that closure is on the one ten 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.920 from Harry Bridges Boulevard through Channel Street. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.280 Now, while much of this is under control, cruiser. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.600 Are still trying to fully distinguished the flames, but there 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.720 have been some challenges. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.360 How about that it took over nine hours to put 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.160 out this fire. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.280 And are you sure the structural integrity of that freeway 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.960 is fine after it has been lit on fire, because 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.920 there's a lot of usage that goes on over there, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.080 with really heavy vehicles coming out of the Port of 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.080 Los Angeles carrying all the stuff off the ships. In 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.440 addition to that, we're a region with earthquakes. Are they 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.920 sure that this freeway won't collapse. Oh, they're not sure 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:34.320 at all. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.440 But there have been some challenges in this confined space. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.640 They say the large amount of material inside the tunnel 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:41.680 and surrounding. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.279 Area has been an issue. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.040 A material inside they found also includes some wooden structures. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.839 Take a listen into what the fire department had to say. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.120 It's really just a fire that we have to be 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.400 patient with. It's too dangerous to put firefighters in the 0:04:55.400 --> 0:05:00.479 tunnel you're going, you'd be going into an enviire where 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.440 it's actually venting, so the conditions are. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.159 Just she would be like straight up back draft. Yeah. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.799 I don't know if I could go in there either. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.239 Smoke called banked all the way down to the ground. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.960 We believe that not only are the contents in there 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.800 are burning, but heavy lumber that was used to form 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.880 the tunnel is all still in there, and we believe 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.080 that that material is burning as well. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.280 I'll about Kara live at this in you can see 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.360 so many fire crews still out there trying to make 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.080 sure it's completely out. The assistant chief on scene also 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:32.640 told me they want to make sure it is safe 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.279 enough for their men and women to tackle this blaze 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.560 as well, that as of course a priority. I also 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.920 want to mention that cal Tran's engineers are also on 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.520 sin this morning assessing the structure integrity of the freeway. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.880 Of course, so, Bob Jen we know for a fact 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.320 that until they deem it safe, they're not going to 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:48.720 reopen it. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.760 But I also know this could be a disaster. Imagine 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.880 if no one can get their stuff off of Amazon, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.839 because these idiots that can try the city won't boast 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.479 up the encampments that they knew or fire risks. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.039 They're not going to reopen it. But I also know 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.240 Stundel right now up there in skyplass this morning with 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.440 even a better view of what's going on. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.960 Heystu, Hey, good morning, Rachel, good morning everybody. Yeah, that's 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.719 what you've been talking about right there. Cal Trant's definitely 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.560 out here. We got the orange van and those workers. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.640 We've been watching them as they've been checking stuff out. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.280 We haven't seen any fancy equipment. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.599 As an in typical child trans fashion. They've got about 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.640 five guys inspecting the tunnel and about thirty guys watching 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:32.520 those guys work. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.440 We haven't seen any fancy equipment as of yet, but 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.960 they are definitely out there waiting for the fire department 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.160 to be done with the fire portion of it so 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.080 they can start checking that out. What's going on right now, Well, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.960 you said it, and it is so, it is definitely fact. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.119 They've got the northbound and the southbound One ten closed 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.240 through the Wilmington area. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:53.919 They're ticketing. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.000 So under Karen Bess, we lost the ten freeway. Now 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.800 we've lost the one ten freeway. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:04.160 How many more? And she regards her project Inside Safe 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.880 as a smashing success. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.680 If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:11.360 help for you. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.480 Kamala endorsed her. What was that about, Well, it's on brand, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.320 I can say that much. It's not a Namsey Pamsy thing. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.040 One train wreckondorsing another. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:37.200 So there you go, Johnny, yet another freeway melted under 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.400 Karen Bass's watch. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.840 We also have an update on the most polluted river 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.840 in the state of California, the Teawanna River. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.480 You can smell right here. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.720 Signatures are being collected for a ballot measure in San 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.720 Diego County that could help out some of those residents. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.080 For more, here's NBC seven in San Diego. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.160 A group of San Diego's I've heard more than one 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.640 hundred and fifty thousand signatures to get a new measure 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.000 on the November ballot. The measure promise is a number 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.160 of things for San Diegans, including fixes for the sewage 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.800 crisis along our border. NBC sevens Joe Little explained. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.680 We have to do a ballot proposition for this. Okay, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.520 we can vote all we want, we can give as 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.200 many tours as we want, unless and until the country 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:31.160 of Mexico stops dumping raw sewage directly into the river. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.199 It's going to be polluted. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.079 NBC sevens Joe Little explains how much it would cost 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.400 you and how you could benefit. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.480 Sandeaggans are frustrated by a lot of things, including the 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.040 polluted Tewanna River down here along the border. This measure 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.040 looks to alleviate some of those frustrations. The Teawanna River 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.280 continues delivering millions of gallons of raw sewage from Mexico every. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:00.880 Day, just wave after wave of it. Does that make 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.560 you want to go bodyboarding? 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.199 You can smart right here. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:10.160 Destroying the environment, crushing businesses, and threatening the health for 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.079 thousands of people thirty minutes up the road. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:13.880 Good morning. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.480 Another group of people discussed a broad new ballot measure that. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.160 Could help the San Diego County Health and Safety Act 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.360 is an opportunity for San Diego. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.479 Corny Boltiski is with Children's First San Diego. She joined firefighters, scientists, 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.480 union leaders, and activists outside the Registrar Voters Monday to 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.200 discuss the measure, promising to protect healthcare, pushing for affordable childcare, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.559 preventing wildfire. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.480 Wait, what does the childcare have to do? With the 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.920 stinky river. Now, this is what they do. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.160 It's like what Biden did with the quote unquote infrastructure bill. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.080 They wanted to make childcare part of the infrastructure bill. Well, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.760 guess what childcare isn't something that bums can light on fire. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.040 The stuff that bums can light on fire, that's infrastructure. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:04.000 Pushing for affordable childcare, preventing wildfires, and stopping the sewage. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.720 That would be the most important part of it. So 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.280 they're just going to raise taxes because everyone understands that 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.880 that river is a disaster and the money is not 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.240 going to go to clean up the river. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.000 Everything in this measure comes down to the health and 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.200 safety of folks in San Diego County. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.400 The group delivered more than one hundred and fifty thousand 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.680 signatures to qualify the measure for the nov and. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.760 I'm sure many of them were going outside of the 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.520 routs of the safeway and they heard sign this to 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.319 clean up the Tijuana River and didn't realize that there's 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.480 all kinds of other stuff in there. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.120 And then they wonder why we don't believe them on anything, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.400 because from the outset, this is a scam. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.480 Thousand signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot, 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.559 while Tiske says it would give San Diego's a way 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.199 to pay for things that federal government is either cutting 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:53.520 or not funding at all. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.360 So it is a half cent sales tax across here 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:57.760 we go. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.560 They just never stop, do they. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.120 They found a way to get a sales tax initiative 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.200 and people would be behind it because they said it 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.960 was to clean up the damn river. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.199 Sales tax across the County of San Diego. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.920 She says, some of the half sent sales tax proceeds 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.119 could be used to maintain the South Bay International Wastewater 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.240 Treatment Plant. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:23.959 Or could be. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.119 Or even used to divert the river altogether. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.760 This would be the first sustainable fund for this and 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.600 apparently many more things at the. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.400 Same Yeah, can we build a little canal so everything 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.280 that goes out of that treatment plant goes right back 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:41.160 into Mexico. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.719 That would be fantastic. Give them a little taste of 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:46.760 their own medicine. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.760 This would be the first sustainable fund for this and 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.280 apparently many more things. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.880 If the San Diego Help and Safety Act makes the 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.680 ballot and voters decide it's worth it. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.040 In this dynamic, everybody pays a little, and San Diego wins. 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.840 All that sewage. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.080 This is audio and I'm shuddering when I hear that sound. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.360 Everyone pays a little and San Diego gains a lot. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:12.559 What a lie? 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.319 Do you want? A river valley? Joe Little, NBC seven. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.760 If the measure is eventually approved by voters, organizers say 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.679 a local committee would determine how the money is eventually 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.440 spent in San Diego County. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.000 Yeah, something tells me none of that money is actually 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.480 going towards cleaning up the river. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.559 Nope, there's going to be no change in scent Imperial Beach. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.160 You can smell it right here. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.240 And Randy, we have an update on all of the 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.559 suspicions out there that State Farm and other insurance companies 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.679 weren't abiding by the language in the contracts that they 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:54.160 had with homeowners when homes burned down in fires. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.800 It sure seems like they could have wrapped up this 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.960 investigation over a year ago. But the Department of Insurance, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.160 I'm very kind of sketch, has alleged that State Farm 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.960 has broken the law by denying and slow walking claims 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.679 of the Pacific Palisades and the Alta Dina area, and 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.600 they could be fined as much as four million dollars. Oh, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.959 come on, and they could be banned from writing new 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.600 policies for a year, which they're already not doing. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.600 Wait, you're just giving them what they want. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.920 Yes, for more, here's ABC seven Eyewitness News. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.120 An insurance giant State Farm may temporarily lose their California 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.480 license after an investigation foundly broke the law on claims 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.359 from the twenty twenty five LA wildfires. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.199 If those are the punishments that you have for screwing 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.839 over fire victims, prop One O three don't gar far enough. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.640 The investigative reporter from Wyewitness News, Kevin Ozebek, joining US 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.320 now with what one eaten fire victim and State Farm 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.520 had to say in response to these allegations. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.600 Kevin well Mark and Michelle those who track California's insurance 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.559 market are calling this an absolute bombshell. If the California 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.480 Department of Insurance gets its way, State Farm will be 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.760 shelling out millions of dollars in penalties. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.480 And if it was a literal bombshell, State Farm wouldn't 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.240 cover it. Okay, but think about this for a minute. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.280 If you were on the hook for literally billions of 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.120 dollars and you just say no to everyone, and the 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.840 fine is that kind of slap on the wrist. It's 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.240 totally worth it. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.680 It's like in LA and in Oakland, where the fine 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.480 for getting caught illegal dumping is cheaper than going to 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:40.960 the dump. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:47.480 It's really hard being back here, you know, even more 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.560 than a year later, well past three year later. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.560 And that's because Jesse Albert's lot has been remediated, but 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.480 that's it. Construction on his neighbor's home is well underway. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.080 But Jesse is in a standoff with State Farm, who 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.080 he sued after the fire, claiming the company deliberately under 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:06.840 insured him. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.200 Many of us have lodge complaints with a Department of 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.840 Insurance and felt unheard. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.600 Yeah, the insurance department wasn't even returning most of those calls. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.280 Gee, I wonder why. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.000 But Jesse says now he does feel heard. The California 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.280 Department of Insurance says its investigation is State Farm shows 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.080 the company did not adequately investigate all claims. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.240 We could have told you that a year ago. I 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.240 love that this is some kind of revelation to them. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.760 The state also Legistate Farm underpaid some claims and misclassified 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.240 testing costs connected to smoke and ash for mediation. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.320 I would say that this is a good first step. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.160 But State Farm is firing back at the State saying, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.120 we reject any suggestion State Farm engaged in a general 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.840 practice of mishandling or intentionally underpaying wild fire claims. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:08.920 That's your whole business model. This is so stupid. Then 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.760 we have contracts, contracts, that's like English law. It goes 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.280 all the way back to then probably goes back to 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.359 the Bible. You're supposed to abide by what's in the contract, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.240 and the government is here to make sure that parties 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.440 do that. And when parties don't do that, especially in 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.520 a heavily regulated worldlike insurance, the government's supposed to come 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.840 down on them like a ton of bricks. We're not 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.200 asking for anything special. What these people are asking for 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.760 is for State Farm to pay what they're obligating to 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.200 pay in the contract. And the insurance companies are just 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.280 saying no, and the State's not forcing them to do it. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:48.880 No. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.160 Instead, the state is going to slap them on the 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.160 wrist with a teeny tiny little fine. And we for 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.400 a company as big as State Farm, four million dollars 0:16:58.480 --> 0:16:59.360 is nothing. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:04.639 And we will respond through the process. Wildfire survivors deserve 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.120 real solutions, not a distorted picture of State Farm's response. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.440 State Farm also is accusing the Department of Insurance of adding. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.919 Their pr people must be paid really, really, really well. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.720 Because it is hard to say that stuff without cracking up. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:25.639 They do it. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.800 State Farm also is accusing the Department of Insurance of 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.760 adding uncertainty into California's dysfunctional insurance market. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.639 Oh that's rich, coming from the company that colluded with 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.439 Ricardo Laura to get every single thing that they wanted 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:44.840 and incentivized them to drop people. If I am this 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:46.959 is the illusion of regulation. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.120 If I am a State Farm policyholder not impacted by 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.040 these fires, do I need to be worried that this 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.600 maybe increases the likelihood of State Farm pulling out of 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:02.520 business in the state. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.880 It certainly could happen, But they have a lot invested here. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.080 I mean, they ensure one out of every five homes, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.840 so this is a big market for them. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:11.960 I think. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:17.400 I think the message is to State Farm, taking shortcuts 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.679 on claims is not the way to make up for 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.080 the fact that you have not been allowed to charge 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.479 what you think you should be charging. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.439 This CDI investigation will eventually be laid out in a 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.600 public hearing before an administrative law judge. On top of 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.399 pushing for these huge financial finds, the CDI could also 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.399 push to have State Farm's ability to write new policies 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.920 in California temporarily suspended. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.440 They're already not writing new policies, and that's after Ricardo 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.040 Laura gave them everything they ever asked for and more. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.240 And his whole claim is that he's doing everything he 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.040 can to bring these companies back. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.040 Governor Gavin Newsom said today that this should be a 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.879 warning to all insurance companies not to wrongfully delay or 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.640 deny any claims. Live in the studio Kevin nos Back 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.440 ABC seven Eye Witness News. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.200 This is Laura and Newsome in the entire Department of Surreance. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.880 That making it look like they're doing something about this, 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:12.760 but they're not. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.040 And neew some benefits from the fact that all he 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.040 talks about is Trump and all he talks about is 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.439 ice and federal issues, because if he was in California 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.199 and he was talking about California issues, he would have 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.359 to answer these questions as to why the State of 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.160 California is not requiring these companies to fulfill their obligations 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.359 they agreed to in the contract with these homeowners whose 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.720 homes went down in a fire that was caused, by 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.399 the way, by a nut who apparently looked up to 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.600 Luigi Mangioni and he thought he was going to be 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.600 accepted as some kind of left wing hero. 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