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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: jellphone number one? Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. Well, the bums lit another freeway on fire.
Speaker 2: This time it was the one ten Freeway near San Pedro.
Speaker 2: A pedestrian tunnel was lit on fire last night, shutting
Speaker 2: down the northbound and the southbound lanes overnight. For more
Speaker 2: on this, here's a report this morning from Fox eleven
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, the breaking.
Speaker 4: News out of Wilmington to tell you about. Right now,
Speaker 4: firefighters are working to knock out a fire inside of
Speaker 4: a tunnel under the one ten freeway.
Speaker 2: Rachel Aragon Live with an update.
Speaker 3: Rachel, Hey, Bob, Jacob Marie.
Speaker 4: The biggest impact by far will be for commuters right
Speaker 4: here this morning in the sam Pedro Wilmington area. But
Speaker 4: take a look here.
Speaker 2: Commuters are screwed. Anyone getting on a cruise ship is screwed.
Speaker 1: Can't Trump come in and just put all of these
Speaker 1: encampments down, because if you think about it, that's the
Speaker 1: busiest port in the entire United States of America. All
Speaker 1: the cheap crap that comes in from China comes through
Speaker 1: that port. If we can't unload the containers from those
Speaker 1: ships and put them on trains and trucks and ship
Speaker 1: them to the rest of the country, no cheap crap
Speaker 1: for any of us. Can't They make the argument that
Speaker 1: Karen Bass not doing her job directly impacts interstate commerce
Speaker 1: and if you take down the freeway right next to
Speaker 1: the portal Los Angeles, you're in violation of the interstate
Speaker 1: commerce clause.
Speaker 4: Take a look here. Firefighter is still on scene this
Speaker 4: morning trying to make sure all flames are completely out,
Speaker 4: but there's been some challenges throughout this morning. We'll take
Speaker 4: a look here at some aerials from last night, shortly
Speaker 4: after the fire broke out, LAFD is, say a.
Speaker 5: Spokesperson, the crews responded.
Speaker 4: Around eight o'clock last night to the northbound freeway, where
Speaker 4: they found a remnants of a fire believed to have
Speaker 4: been started by people living in a homeless encampment.
Speaker 2: Of course, and they're not people living in a homeless encampment,
Speaker 2: they're bums. You know, this does make me remember, because
Speaker 2: it was almost three years ago, we still never caught
Speaker 2: that arsonist that melted the ten freeway.
Speaker 1: Did we No, we didn't, because my guess is we're
Speaker 1: not looking too hard because it was on tape.
Speaker 2: Kevin was so sure it was an arsonist. No arrest
Speaker 2: was ever made, and it was definitely not the homeless
Speaker 2: who were encamped under that freeway for years and years
Speaker 2: and years.
Speaker 4: Fire believed it been started by people living in a
Speaker 4: homeless encampment.
Speaker 2: Karen Bass is gonna have to update her new campaign
Speaker 2: ads when she talks about the percentage of homeless that
Speaker 2: she's decreased. We have two fewer freeways that we did
Speaker 2: when I started.
Speaker 3: Living in a homeless encampment.
Speaker 4: LAFD confirming this morning that the one ten is closed
Speaker 4: and will likely be closed throughout most of the day.
Speaker 4: Just you know that closure is on the one ten
Speaker 4: from Harry Bridges Boulevard through Channel Street.
Speaker 3: Now, while much of this is under control, cruiser.
Speaker 4: Are still trying to fully distinguished the flames, but there
Speaker 4: have been some challenges.
Speaker 2: How about that it took over nine hours to put
Speaker 2: out this fire.
Speaker 1: And are you sure the structural integrity of that freeway
Speaker 1: is fine after it has been lit on fire, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of usage that goes on over there,
Speaker 1: with really heavy vehicles coming out of the Port of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles carrying all the stuff off the ships. In
Speaker 1: addition to that, we're a region with earthquakes. Are they
Speaker 1: sure that this freeway won't collapse. Oh, they're not sure
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 4: But there have been some challenges in this confined space.
Speaker 4: They say the large amount of material inside the tunnel
Speaker 4: and surrounding.
Speaker 1: Area has been an issue.
Speaker 4: A material inside they found also includes some wooden structures.
Speaker 4: Take a listen into what the fire department had to say.
Speaker 6: It's really just a fire that we have to be
Speaker 6: patient with. It's too dangerous to put firefighters in the
Speaker 6: tunnel you're going, you'd be going into an enviire where
Speaker 6: it's actually venting, so the conditions are.
Speaker 1: Just she would be like straight up back draft. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could go in there either.
Speaker 6: Smoke called banked all the way down to the ground.
Speaker 6: We believe that not only are the contents in there
Speaker 6: are burning, but heavy lumber that was used to form
Speaker 6: the tunnel is all still in there, and we believe
Speaker 6: that that material is burning as well.
Speaker 4: I'll about Kara live at this in you can see
Speaker 4: so many fire crews still out there trying to make
Speaker 4: sure it's completely out. The assistant chief on scene also
Speaker 4: told me they want to make sure it is safe
Speaker 4: enough for their men and women to tackle this blaze
Speaker 4: as well, that as of course a priority. I also
Speaker 4: want to mention that cal Tran's engineers are also on
Speaker 4: sin this morning assessing the structure integrity of the freeway.
Speaker 4: Of course, so, Bob Jen we know for a fact
Speaker 4: that until they deem it safe, they're not going to
Speaker 4: reopen it.
Speaker 1: But I also know this could be a disaster. Imagine
Speaker 1: if no one can get their stuff off of Amazon,
Speaker 1: because these idiots that can try the city won't boast
Speaker 1: up the encampments that they knew or fire risks.
Speaker 4: They're not going to reopen it. But I also know
Speaker 4: Stundel right now up there in skyplass this morning with
Speaker 4: even a better view of what's going on.
Speaker 7: Heystu, Hey, good morning, Rachel, good morning everybody. Yeah, that's
Speaker 7: what you've been talking about right there. Cal Trant's definitely
Speaker 7: out here. We got the orange van and those workers.
Speaker 7: We've been watching them as they've been checking stuff out.
Speaker 7: We haven't seen any fancy equipment.
Speaker 2: As an in typical child trans fashion. They've got about
Speaker 2: five guys inspecting the tunnel and about thirty guys watching
Speaker 2: those guys work.
Speaker 7: We haven't seen any fancy equipment as of yet, but
Speaker 7: they are definitely out there waiting for the fire department
Speaker 7: to be done with the fire portion of it so
Speaker 7: they can start checking that out. What's going on right now, Well,
Speaker 7: you said it, and it is so, it is definitely fact.
Speaker 7: They've got the northbound and the southbound One ten closed
Speaker 7: through the Wilmington area.
Speaker 8: They're ticketing.
Speaker 2: So under Karen Bess, we lost the ten freeway. Now
Speaker 2: we've lost the one ten freeway.
Speaker 1: How many more? And she regards her project Inside Safe
Speaker 1: as a smashing success.
Speaker 2: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get
Speaker 2: help for you.
Speaker 1: Kamala endorsed her. What was that about, Well, it's on brand,
Speaker 1: I can say that much. It's not a Namsey Pamsy thing.
Speaker 1: One train wreckondorsing another.
Speaker 2: So there you go, Johnny, yet another freeway melted under
Speaker 2: Karen Bass's watch.
Speaker 1: We also have an update on the most polluted river
Speaker 1: in the state of California, the Teawanna River.
Speaker 9: You can smell right here.
Speaker 2: Signatures are being collected for a ballot measure in San
Speaker 2: Diego County that could help out some of those residents.
Speaker 2: For more, here's NBC seven in San Diego.
Speaker 10: A group of San Diego's I've heard more than one
Speaker 10: hundred and fifty thousand signatures to get a new measure
Speaker 10: on the November ballot. The measure promise is a number
Speaker 10: of things for San Diegans, including fixes for the sewage
Speaker 10: crisis along our border. NBC sevens Joe Little explained.
Speaker 1: We have to do a ballot proposition for this. Okay,
Speaker 1: we can vote all we want, we can give as
Speaker 1: many tours as we want, unless and until the country
Speaker 1: of Mexico stops dumping raw sewage directly into the river.
Speaker 1: It's going to be polluted.
Speaker 10: NBC sevens Joe Little explains how much it would cost
Speaker 10: you and how you could benefit.
Speaker 8: Sandeaggans are frustrated by a lot of things, including the
Speaker 8: polluted Tewanna River down here along the border. This measure
Speaker 8: looks to alleviate some of those frustrations. The Teawanna River
Speaker 8: continues delivering millions of gallons of raw sewage from Mexico every.
Speaker 1: Day, just wave after wave of it. Does that make
Speaker 1: you want to go bodyboarding?
Speaker 3: You can smart right here.
Speaker 8: Destroying the environment, crushing businesses, and threatening the health for
Speaker 8: thousands of people thirty minutes up the road.
Speaker 11: Good morning.
Speaker 8: Another group of people discussed a broad new ballot measure that.
Speaker 12: Could help the San Diego County Health and Safety Act
Speaker 12: is an opportunity for San Diego.
Speaker 8: Corny Boltiski is with Children's First San Diego. She joined firefighters, scientists,
Speaker 8: union leaders, and activists outside the Registrar Voters Monday to
Speaker 8: discuss the measure, promising to protect healthcare, pushing for affordable childcare,
Speaker 8: preventing wildfire.
Speaker 2: Wait, what does the childcare have to do? With the
Speaker 2: stinky river. Now, this is what they do.
Speaker 1: It's like what Biden did with the quote unquote infrastructure bill.
Speaker 1: They wanted to make childcare part of the infrastructure bill. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what childcare isn't something that bums can light on fire.
Speaker 1: The stuff that bums can light on fire, that's infrastructure.
Speaker 8: Pushing for affordable childcare, preventing wildfires, and stopping the sewage.
Speaker 1: That would be the most important part of it. So
Speaker 1: they're just going to raise taxes because everyone understands that
Speaker 1: that river is a disaster and the money is not
Speaker 1: going to go to clean up the river.
Speaker 13: Everything in this measure comes down to the health and
Speaker 13: safety of folks in San Diego County.
Speaker 8: The group delivered more than one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 8: signatures to qualify the measure for the nov and.
Speaker 2: I'm sure many of them were going outside of the
Speaker 2: routs of the safeway and they heard sign this to
Speaker 2: clean up the Tijuana River and didn't realize that there's
Speaker 2: all kinds of other stuff in there.
Speaker 1: And then they wonder why we don't believe them on anything,
Speaker 1: because from the outset, this is a scam.
Speaker 8: Thousand signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot,
Speaker 8: while Tiske says it would give San Diego's a way
Speaker 8: to pay for things that federal government is either cutting
Speaker 8: or not funding at all.
Speaker 14: So it is a half cent sales tax across here
Speaker 14: we go.
Speaker 1: They just never stop, do they.
Speaker 2: They found a way to get a sales tax initiative
Speaker 2: and people would be behind it because they said it
Speaker 2: was to clean up the damn river.
Speaker 15: Sales tax across the County of San Diego.
Speaker 8: She says, some of the half sent sales tax proceeds
Speaker 8: could be used to maintain the South Bay International Wastewater
Speaker 8: Treatment Plant.
Speaker 1: Or could be.
Speaker 8: Or even used to divert the river altogether.
Speaker 10: This would be the first sustainable fund for this and
Speaker 10: apparently many more things at the.
Speaker 2: Same Yeah, can we build a little canal so everything
Speaker 2: that goes out of that treatment plant goes right back
Speaker 2: into Mexico.
Speaker 1: That would be fantastic. Give them a little taste of
Speaker 1: their own medicine.
Speaker 11: This would be the first sustainable fund for this and
Speaker 11: apparently many more things.
Speaker 8: If the San Diego Help and Safety Act makes the
Speaker 8: ballot and voters decide it's worth it.
Speaker 11: In this dynamic, everybody pays a little, and San Diego wins.
Speaker 1: All that sewage.
Speaker 2: This is audio and I'm shuddering when I hear that sound.
Speaker 1: Everyone pays a little and San Diego gains a lot.
Speaker 1: What a lie?
Speaker 8: Do you want? A river valley? Joe Little, NBC seven.
Speaker 10: If the measure is eventually approved by voters, organizers say
Speaker 10: a local committee would determine how the money is eventually
Speaker 10: spent in San Diego County.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something tells me none of that money is actually
Speaker 2: going towards cleaning up the river.
Speaker 1: Nope, there's going to be no change in scent Imperial Beach.
Speaker 9: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1: And Randy, we have an update on all of the
Speaker 1: suspicions out there that State Farm and other insurance companies
Speaker 1: weren't abiding by the language in the contracts that they
Speaker 1: had with homeowners when homes burned down in fires.
Speaker 2: It sure seems like they could have wrapped up this
Speaker 2: investigation over a year ago. But the Department of Insurance,
Speaker 2: I'm very kind of sketch, has alleged that State Farm
Speaker 2: has broken the law by denying and slow walking claims
Speaker 2: of the Pacific Palisades and the Alta Dina area, and
Speaker 2: they could be fined as much as four million dollars. Oh,
Speaker 2: come on, and they could be banned from writing new
Speaker 2: policies for a year, which they're already not doing.
Speaker 1: Wait, you're just giving them what they want.
Speaker 2: Yes, for more, here's ABC seven Eyewitness News.
Speaker 13: An insurance giant State Farm may temporarily lose their California
Speaker 13: license after an investigation foundly broke the law on claims
Speaker 13: from the twenty twenty five LA wildfires.
Speaker 2: If those are the punishments that you have for screwing
Speaker 2: over fire victims, prop One O three don't gar far enough.
Speaker 6: The investigative reporter from Wyewitness News, Kevin Ozebek, joining US
Speaker 6: now with what one eaten fire victim and State Farm
Speaker 6: had to say in response to these allegations.
Speaker 16: Kevin well Mark and Michelle those who track California's insurance
Speaker 16: market are calling this an absolute bombshell. If the California
Speaker 16: Department of Insurance gets its way, State Farm will be
Speaker 16: shelling out millions of dollars in penalties.
Speaker 1: And if it was a literal bombshell, State Farm wouldn't
Speaker 1: cover it. Okay, but think about this for a minute.
Speaker 1: If you were on the hook for literally billions of
Speaker 1: dollars and you just say no to everyone, and the
Speaker 1: fine is that kind of slap on the wrist. It's
Speaker 1: totally worth it.
Speaker 2: It's like in LA and in Oakland, where the fine
Speaker 2: for getting caught illegal dumping is cheaper than going to
Speaker 2: the dump.
Speaker 17: It's really hard being back here, you know, even more
Speaker 17: than a year later, well past three year later.
Speaker 5: And that's because Jesse Albert's lot has been remediated, but
Speaker 5: that's it. Construction on his neighbor's home is well underway.
Speaker 5: But Jesse is in a standoff with State Farm, who
Speaker 5: he sued after the fire, claiming the company deliberately under
Speaker 5: insured him.
Speaker 1: Many of us have lodge complaints with a Department of
Speaker 1: Insurance and felt unheard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the insurance department wasn't even returning most of those calls.
Speaker 1: Gee, I wonder why.
Speaker 5: But Jesse says now he does feel heard. The California
Speaker 5: Department of Insurance says its investigation is State Farm shows
Speaker 5: the company did not adequately investigate all claims.
Speaker 1: We could have told you that a year ago. I
Speaker 1: love that this is some kind of revelation to them.
Speaker 5: The state also Legistate Farm underpaid some claims and misclassified
Speaker 5: testing costs connected to smoke and ash for mediation.
Speaker 1: I would say that this is a good first step.
Speaker 5: But State Farm is firing back at the State saying,
Speaker 5: we reject any suggestion State Farm engaged in a general
Speaker 5: practice of mishandling or intentionally underpaying wild fire claims.
Speaker 1: That's your whole business model. This is so stupid. Then
Speaker 1: we have contracts, contracts, that's like English law. It goes
Speaker 1: all the way back to then probably goes back to
Speaker 1: the Bible. You're supposed to abide by what's in the contract,
Speaker 1: and the government is here to make sure that parties
Speaker 1: do that. And when parties don't do that, especially in
Speaker 1: a heavily regulated worldlike insurance, the government's supposed to come
Speaker 1: down on them like a ton of bricks. We're not
Speaker 1: asking for anything special. What these people are asking for
Speaker 1: is for State Farm to pay what they're obligating to
Speaker 1: pay in the contract. And the insurance companies are just
Speaker 1: saying no, and the State's not forcing them to do it.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: Instead, the state is going to slap them on the
Speaker 2: wrist with a teeny tiny little fine. And we for
Speaker 2: a company as big as State Farm, four million dollars
Speaker 2: is nothing.
Speaker 5: And we will respond through the process. Wildfire survivors deserve
Speaker 5: real solutions, not a distorted picture of State Farm's response.
Speaker 5: State Farm also is accusing the Department of Insurance of adding.
Speaker 2: Their pr people must be paid really, really, really well.
Speaker 2: Because it is hard to say that stuff without cracking up.
Speaker 1: They do it.
Speaker 5: State Farm also is accusing the Department of Insurance of
Speaker 5: adding uncertainty into California's dysfunctional insurance market.
Speaker 2: Oh that's rich, coming from the company that colluded with
Speaker 2: Ricardo Laura to get every single thing that they wanted
Speaker 2: and incentivized them to drop people. If I am this
Speaker 2: is the illusion of regulation.
Speaker 17: If I am a State Farm policyholder not impacted by
Speaker 17: these fires, do I need to be worried that this
Speaker 17: maybe increases the likelihood of State Farm pulling out of
Speaker 17: business in the state.
Speaker 18: It certainly could happen, But they have a lot invested here.
Speaker 18: I mean, they ensure one out of every five homes,
Speaker 18: so this is a big market for them.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 18: I think the message is to State Farm, taking shortcuts
Speaker 18: on claims is not the way to make up for
Speaker 18: the fact that you have not been allowed to charge
Speaker 18: what you think you should be charging.
Speaker 16: This CDI investigation will eventually be laid out in a
Speaker 16: public hearing before an administrative law judge. On top of
Speaker 16: pushing for these huge financial finds, the CDI could also
Speaker 16: push to have State Farm's ability to write new policies
Speaker 16: in California temporarily suspended.
Speaker 2: They're already not writing new policies, and that's after Ricardo
Speaker 2: Laura gave them everything they ever asked for and more.
Speaker 1: And his whole claim is that he's doing everything he
Speaker 1: can to bring these companies back.
Speaker 16: Governor Gavin Newsom said today that this should be a
Speaker 16: warning to all insurance companies not to wrongfully delay or
Speaker 16: deny any claims. Live in the studio Kevin nos Back
Speaker 16: ABC seven Eye Witness News.
Speaker 2: This is Laura and Newsome in the entire Department of Surreance.
Speaker 2: That making it look like they're doing something about this,
Speaker 2: but they're not.
Speaker 1: And neew some benefits from the fact that all he
Speaker 1: talks about is Trump and all he talks about is
Speaker 1: ice and federal issues, because if he was in California
Speaker 1: and he was talking about California issues, he would have
Speaker 1: to answer these questions as to why the State of
Speaker 1: California is not requiring these companies to fulfill their obligations
Speaker 1: they agreed to in the contract with these homeowners whose
Speaker 1: homes went down in a fire that was caused, by
Speaker 1: the way, by a nut who apparently looked up to
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni and he thought he was going to be
Speaker 1: accepted as some kind of left wing hero. Well, the
Speaker 1: other one was so cal Edison. That's true. We have
Speaker 1: to differentiate the two fires. Altadena Edison, Pacific Palisades. Uber
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Speaker 1: Here with an update on naked Man, mister Randy Wang.
Speaker 2: Naked Man's story in Resita has been getting a lot
Speaker 2: of people's attention, which is interesting because the residents have
Speaker 2: been complaining about naked Man for over three years. They
Speaker 2: have made over one hundred calls to LAPD and to
Speaker 2: La City councilwoman and mayoral candidate Nythia Ramen. But Nythia
Speaker 2: Ramen tells NBCLA, this is the first she's ever heard
Speaker 2: about naked Man, and she's gonna look into naked Man
Speaker 2: and figure out what she can do about naked Man.
Speaker 1: Is sheathological liar or stupid.
Speaker 2: Great question. For more, here's NBCLA now at eleven.
Speaker 15: It's not a site you'd expect to see next door.
Speaker 15: One man often maked and exposing himself from his home
Speaker 15: in the valley.
Speaker 1: How many times did residents say they called? Nine to
Speaker 1: one to one over a hundred and the council from
Speaker 1: that district claims she's never heard of this before.
Speaker 15: Yep, tonight we're hearing from neighbors who say it goes
Speaker 15: far beyond just unwanted nudity. Those neighbors say their calls
Speaker 15: for help are going unanswered, good evening, everything.
Speaker 2: This is why we've said it before and we will
Speaker 2: say it again. If the city is not responding to you,
Speaker 2: you have to embarrass them on the local news. And
Speaker 2: this is an easy one. As soon as somebody finally
Speaker 2: called the local news, we've had cameras from every single
Speaker 2: station covering naked man.
Speaker 1: By the way, that shows you how bad she is
Speaker 1: at her job, because it's a sign of respect to
Speaker 1: go through the chain of command. Whenever people go outside
Speaker 1: the chain of command, you're not being a nice person
Speaker 1: to the organization. But if the organization refuses to act
Speaker 1: when you do the right thing, then you have to
Speaker 1: go outside the chain of command. You have to go
Speaker 1: to the local news because it's the only way you're
Speaker 1: going to get any kind of action at all.
Speaker 15: Good evening, everyone, I'm Caroline Johnson. That neighborhood in Rosita
Speaker 15: is where NBC four Starshah Phillips is tonight.
Speaker 1: It's been a really great couple of months of the valley.
Speaker 1: Huh boy, just every day it's a new humdinger.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna download Zilla during the break. It's
Speaker 2: time to get out.
Speaker 13: People who live here on Guarding Grove Avenue in Rosita
Speaker 13: say they've been terrorized by their neighbor for years, calling
Speaker 13: his behavior vile, violent and threatening, and say calls to
Speaker 13: the point and none.
Speaker 1: Of that's illegal, I guess.
Speaker 13: Not in the valley, and say calls to the police
Speaker 13: and the city have gone nowhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I keep bitty over and you've cut down.
Speaker 1: Whoa this guy sounds like a real peach.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I keep being over.
Speaker 5: And you've cut down.
Speaker 1: You ain't footing nobody?
Speaker 3: Rants?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Yeah, imagine living next to that.
Speaker 3: Rants, taunts, threats.
Speaker 19: Come on, come on, somebody.
Speaker 2: And somebody knows that nothing can happen to him.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if they're emboldened.
Speaker 13: And plain lude and violent behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a madman. We allow this. This guy
Speaker 2: belongs in an institution. People who live on Garden Grove
Speaker 2: if we can't take care of this, well, I guess
Speaker 2: it makes sense how the city became the way it did.
Speaker 1: Well. This just goes to show you how important it
Speaker 1: is to get Spencer Pratt into the runoff. Because Karen
Speaker 1: Bass is the mayor that is responsible for this, and
Speaker 1: Nitthia Rahman is the council member of this district who's
Speaker 1: responsible for this. We can't have a choice between two
Speaker 1: bad actors. We need to have a real choice and
Speaker 1: have a fresh voice, a new voice on that stage
Speaker 1: in November.
Speaker 13: People who live on Garden Grove Avenue in Resita and
Speaker 13: surrounding stret.
Speaker 2: You must love that they keep referring to this street
Speaker 2: as Garden Grove Avenue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 13: People who live on Garden Grove Avenue in Resita and
Speaker 13: surrounding streets say they hear and see this from the
Speaker 13: neighbor several times a week, and it's been going on
Speaker 13: for years.
Speaker 3: I hear him sometimes at two in the morning, three
Speaker 3: in the morning, and it just doesn't stop.
Speaker 13: People we spoke to say they feel terrorized, even too
Speaker 13: afraid to show their faces on camera.
Speaker 3: It's like it feels scary when he's looking at you
Speaker 3: and saying he says you're all gonna die. He says
Speaker 3: you're evil.
Speaker 2: Neighbors just like to point out in case people forget
Speaker 2: recent history. When La County elected George Gascon to be
Speaker 2: the DA, we.
Speaker 1: Got some Bolanese allies.
Speaker 2: He put out a series of mandates that included several
Speaker 2: categories of misdemeanors. He would refuse to file, one of them,
Speaker 2: making criminal threats.
Speaker 1: The whole point of George Gascon in company was to
Speaker 1: allow people like this to continue doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to criminalize this behavior.
Speaker 3: He says you're all gonna die. He says you're evil.
Speaker 12: Neighbors say he often is completely nude. Well, what about
Speaker 12: when it gets cold, exposing himself to people from an
Speaker 12: open window. One woman told us her seven year old
Speaker 12: granddaughter will no longer visit because of this neighbor.
Speaker 9: She was out there playing when he started to scream
Speaker 9: vulgar words, and so she won't come. She doesn't want
Speaker 9: to come.
Speaker 2: Well, the seven year old didn't say that. Your daughter said,
Speaker 2: unless you move to Orange County, we're never visiting you again.
Speaker 1: I think you just hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 13: Neighbors shared these pictures with this of his backyard and
Speaker 13: says he rents out these sheds to transience.
Speaker 1: So he's a hobo, slumlord, naked man. It's not just
Speaker 1: that he gets to act crazy and the streets naked
Speaker 1: in this neighborhood. He's importing more crazy into the backyard.
Speaker 1: People were emailing us yesterday. How does this guy make
Speaker 1: a living?
Speaker 2: He's renting out sheds on his property to the bumbs.
Speaker 1: He's more of a slub lord than Donald sterling.
Speaker 13: Yard and says he rents out these sheds to transience,
Speaker 13: and says he has no power in the home and
Speaker 13: lights fires inside at night.
Speaker 1: There's no fire danger in southern California, is there. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that we're an extreme fire risk all
Speaker 1: the time now, and we just allow encampments to light
Speaker 1: freeways on fire, and we allow nuts like this to
Speaker 1: light his house on fire anytime he wants to warm up.
Speaker 2: Look, this is private property. Although I can't imagine this
Speaker 2: guy pays his property taxes. But I don't think it's
Speaker 2: legal for you to just start a straight up fire,
Speaker 2: even on your own property. And would you really want
Speaker 2: to start a fire when naked. I think something got
Speaker 2: singed off.
Speaker 20: Maybe if something needs to be done, it definitely has
Speaker 20: to come to And.
Speaker 13: Then neighbors are fed up saying they're held hostage in
Speaker 13: their own homes.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to take my trash out.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's like if you're trying to
Speaker 1: sell a house. Oh, I'm sure the realtors have a
Speaker 1: real fun time moving property in that neighborhood. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of those companies out there that will
Speaker 1: you know, they advertise that they buy your home, no
Speaker 1: question to ask. I wonder how many people approach those
Speaker 1: companies because they live in a neighborhood with a total
Speaker 1: psychopath and they know they would never get through an
Speaker 1: open house.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to take my trash out.
Speaker 9: Sometimes make it more safe to walk with my grandson
Speaker 9: outside walk the dogs.
Speaker 2: Oh your grandson also, your kid said, we're never visiting
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 1: You have to visit us or you have to move.
Speaker 2: Santa Clarita is not that far and it's about the
Speaker 2: same amount of money.
Speaker 1: Grandma lives next to a nuthouse.
Speaker 13: People say there've been over one hundred and fifty calls
Speaker 13: to police over the years.
Speaker 2: That is an indictment of everybody in charge, and.
Speaker 1: The councilwoman claims she's never heard of it before.
Speaker 13: People say there've been over one hundred and fifty calls
Speaker 13: to police over the years and the city, but they've
Speaker 13: seen no action.
Speaker 20: Sh'd be able to open your door and not have
Speaker 20: to listen to the rantiness of a person who needs
Speaker 20: some serious psychological help.
Speaker 2: I'm done psychological help. That guy needs to be in
Speaker 2: prison one hundred percent.
Speaker 13: NBC four reached out to council member Nitia Rahman, who
Speaker 13: represents this district. She responded saying her office was just
Speaker 13: made aware of the situation.
Speaker 1: BS she's a liar.
Speaker 13: She responded saying her office was just made aware of
Speaker 13: the situation and that quote. We will be in contact
Speaker 13: with relevant city departments to ensure this matter receives the
Speaker 13: attention it warrants, and we will be reached. She's out
Speaker 13: to residents involved and working to identify the appropriate next steps.
Speaker 2: I would love if I had the time to do
Speaker 2: a public records request on the council district for office,
Speaker 2: and just see how many emails came to them about
Speaker 2: this situation, and they didn't do a damn thing until
Speaker 2: the news came a knocking.
Speaker 1: She is the absolute worst because she's smart, unlike the others,
Speaker 1: Unlike the other DSA members on that council. She knows better,
Speaker 1: or she should know better. But she's such an ideological extremist.
Speaker 1: She wants this kind of chaos in Los Angeles.
Speaker 13: And again, people who live here say that they have
Speaker 13: reached out to the councilwoman's office several times before, but now.
Speaker 2: So either of the constituents who have been suffering under
Speaker 2: the rule of naked Man for years are lying or
Speaker 2: Nithia is lying about not knowing about this.
Speaker 1: We have confirmation that she's a liar. Why is it
Speaker 1: that multiple members of the neighborhood would tell the same
Speaker 1: exact lie to the news media.
Speaker 13: And again, people who live here say that they have
Speaker 13: reached out to the councilwoman's office several times before, but
Speaker 13: now they are cautiously optimistic that something will finally be
Speaker 13: done in Risita. I'm darkshah Phillips NBC four News.
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Speaker 1: on the chaos that went on in Oakland at the
Speaker 1: First Friday celebration last week.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just a woman running over a bunch of people.
Speaker 2: It was a whole bunch of young people beating the
Speaker 2: crap out of each other. And apparently it is a
Speaker 2: regular occurrence. After First Fridays things get a little wild.
Speaker 2: For more, here is kpix in the Bay. Some folks,
Speaker 2: we had a listener email us, by the way, who
Speaker 2: has been to First Fridays and says, yeah, as soon
Speaker 2: as the event is over, that's when all the ref
Speaker 2: raft comes out.
Speaker 1: Uh oh.
Speaker 21: Some folks in Oakland are calling for an end to
Speaker 21: a popular street party over safety concerns. Video on social
Speaker 21: media shows a huge brawl breaking out downtown on Friday.
Speaker 21: Some neighbors claim late arriving crowds at First Fridays are
Speaker 21: creating chaos a Kenny CHOI spoke to organizers who have
Speaker 21: a different perspective on what's happening here.
Speaker 2: Sounds like such a fun festival, Oh yes, family friendly.
Speaker 22: To Video posted on social media shows a massive fight
Speaker 22: breaking out in downtown Oakland Friday night, with groups of
Speaker 22: young people brawling in front of the Fox Theater on
Speaker 22: Telegraph Avenue.
Speaker 1: Come to maybe they should just rename it from First
Speaker 1: Friday to Fists Friday.
Speaker 22: As police try to control the crowds.
Speaker 21: Between nine point thirty and ten o'clock on Friday night,
Speaker 21: police officers encountered a pretty chaotic scene in the downtown area.
Speaker 22: Another clip from that night was the chaos from inside
Speaker 22: of business people try to fight them stilling inside.
Speaker 2: There was fights breaking out inside businesses too, and this
Speaker 2: is what's going on here. Much like the street takeovers,
Speaker 2: this is a whole bunch of people organizing on social
Speaker 2: media to literally descend upon an event and beat the
Speaker 2: crap out of each other. In film it It's Fight Club.
Speaker 2: There was an estimated five hundred to two thousand people
Speaker 2: in the area, were several fights occurring simultaneously throughout the downtown.
Speaker 1: Area and doesn't Barbara Lee think this program is a
Speaker 1: smashing success.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, particularly in between eighteenth Street and Telegraph.
Speaker 22: The posters saying First Friday events are drawing unruly crowds
Speaker 22: and need to be shut down, questioning why the event
Speaker 22: can't be held in a more controlled environment. But Vanessa McGee,
Speaker 22: the organizer of Oakland First Fridays, says her event is
Speaker 22: not in the downtown area and several blocks away in
Speaker 22: the Kono Koreatown Northgate district. She said their event is
Speaker 22: family friendly and runs between five and nine to thirty
Speaker 22: pm between twenty second and twenty seventh on Telegraph, bringing
Speaker 22: in a much older crowd hoping to support businesses, vendors
Speaker 22: and food trucks early.
Speaker 1: In the evening.
Speaker 2: Yes, but apparently because OPD has stretched so thin all
Speaker 2: the resources they have to dedicate to that they can't
Speaker 2: be dedicating to the riff raff.
Speaker 22: The problem is the young crowd that gather in the
Speaker 22: surrounding area as the event is ending and stay well
Speaker 22: into the night.
Speaker 2: John, what do you think the chances are the people
Speaker 2: that descend upon Oakland First Friday to engage in fistfights
Speaker 2: are the same kind of people that are really upset
Speaker 2: that Spirit Airlines went out of business.
Speaker 1: My guess is there's some overlap.
Speaker 3: We believe that.
Speaker 14: The city really needs to step up and figure out
Speaker 14: a way to create some type of programming or structure
Speaker 14: or a place for these kids to hang out and
Speaker 14: commune like in a positive way.
Speaker 1: No, isn't that what First Friday is.
Speaker 2: The answer is not, we need more after school programs
Speaker 2: and we need more youth programming.
Speaker 1: Stop it.
Speaker 2: It is a very small portion of the population that
Speaker 2: engages in this behavior, and.
Speaker 1: It happens at night. What are we supposed to do
Speaker 1: have arts and crafts classes at two in the morning, hang.
Speaker 14: Out and commune like in a positive way.
Speaker 11: I've seen social media pages where they're coming specifically to fight.
Speaker 2: So yeah, after school programs aren't going to stop. As
Speaker 2: long as there is a way to make money on this.
Speaker 2: On TikTok, they're going to do it.
Speaker 1: No, they're just going to do the graphics for the
Speaker 1: fight at the after school program.
Speaker 11: So that is a huge problem that we're trying to
Speaker 11: figure out how to address.
Speaker 22: Oakland City Council Member Carol Fife supports the First Friday
Speaker 22: event and says it's needed to boost local businesses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then how much money are we spending fixing
Speaker 2: all the other businesses that got destroyed during the aftermath.
Speaker 2: Do you think that this kind of attention helps to
Speaker 2: rehabilitate your reputation?
Speaker 22: Adding, there's a crowd control problem every Friday and the
Speaker 22: uptown and downtown Oakland areas.
Speaker 11: Essentially, what we have is a festival every Friday, not
Speaker 11: just First Friday, but every Friday in the uptown downtown area,
Speaker 11: and we've got to figure out how we create plans
Speaker 11: for crowd control.
Speaker 22: Small businesses on Telegraph in the Kono district have survived
Speaker 22: because of more foot traffic.
Speaker 19: You know, it brings more awareness to our business, more
Speaker 19: awareness to our location that we have. We get a
Speaker 19: lot of repeat customers because they actually just end up
Speaker 19: finding us here randomly walking through the street because they're
Speaker 19: on their way to First Friday.
Speaker 22: They say, the earlier evening crowds are older and out
Speaker 22: to support businesses. The challenge what happens once the sun
Speaker 22: goes down, when young crowds looking to start trouble shine
Speaker 22: a negative light on what's supposed to be a positive
Speaker 22: event for Oakland.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's why we can't have nice things,
Speaker 2: And when the sun goes down, that's when the carriage
Speaker 2: turns into a pumpkin.