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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to a special edition of the News Blitz

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Speaker 1: with Randy Wang on not Talk Radio seven ninety KABC.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm preempted for UCLA basketball, but i enjoy doing

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Speaker 1: the California Report so much that I thought, why not

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Speaker 1: feed when I get time. Now with that, let's get

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Speaker 1: into today's California Report. And we got to start with

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Speaker 1: this story that's been brewing on the La City Council.

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Speaker 1: Marquise Harris Dawson was on the ad hoc committee to

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Speaker 1: change what are called what are called specific kinds of

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Speaker 1: traffic stops pre contextual traffic stops, where they say lapd

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Speaker 1: find chicken as things to pull people over because they

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Speaker 1: think they might be criminals, and they think that policy

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Speaker 1: is super racist. So we can't have that. So at

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Speaker 1: the hearing, Marquis talks about how the fact that he

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Speaker 1: was just pulled over the other day and he made

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Speaker 1: which this is La. Nobody knows who their member of

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Speaker 1: the city council is, even members of the police. But

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Speaker 1: apparently the LA Police Protective Union is pushing back against

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Speaker 1: Marquis's story because they say he wasn't pulled over for

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Speaker 1: just you know, any like broken tailight or just suspicion.

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Speaker 1: He was pulled over apparently for doing an illegal U

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Speaker 1: into his claims that he was being racially profiled when

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Speaker 1: be watching that story. I've been waiting to see the

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Speaker 1: evolution of it going from just some of the other

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Speaker 1: sites that were reporting it. The California Reports had it,

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Speaker 1: but now CBS News has it. We'll see what goes

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Speaker 1: on with that. But yeah, Marquis's story is not adding up.

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Speaker 1: And anytime you hear one of these ad hoc committee

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Speaker 1: meetings on trying to get rid of pretextual stops, it

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Speaker 1: is just they don't want you to get pulled over

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, if you have expired registration, you might have

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Speaker 1: a suspended license, doesn't matter. Broken tail lightes doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We can find other ways to fix those problems, because,

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Speaker 1: of course, ticketing people is traumatizing. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: privilege to drive right, not a right now. Fox eleven's

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Speaker 1: Matthew Seedorf went along with the FBI yesterday morning for

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Speaker 1: a big bust, a seventeen million dollar mortgage sting with

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Speaker 1: people that were arrested here in la other people in Canada.

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Speaker 1: This is a huge scheme that was targeting the elderly,

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Speaker 1: stealing their identities and writing i believe second mortgages on

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Speaker 1: their paid off homes, or writing new mortgages on their

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Speaker 1: paid off home and cashing the money. It's always good

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Speaker 1: to see when the people behind the scenes are at

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Speaker 1: work taking down these massive fraud rings, because there's plenty

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Speaker 1: of defrauding the government, but there's also just defrauding hardworking

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Speaker 1: and more often than not, the elderly. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to see what that was about, Fox eleven has

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Speaker 1: a great piece on that. Of course, all throughout California,

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Speaker 1: everyone's still reacting to the allegations that were made about

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Speaker 1: bizarre story. And there's just that's why you're seeing such

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Speaker 1: starting wildfires. And look, there's been a lot of news

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Speaker 1: they've started painting the streets a different color to cool

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Speaker 1: the other one I'm totally not. But Southwest has made

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Speaker 1: They devalued their points immensely. I used to be able

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Speaker 1: It's just I have twenty eight thousand Southwest points and

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Speaker 1: does that affect the broader economy with all the people

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Speaker 1: state of California, is the people it was supposed to help,

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Speaker 1: it's not helping that much because you saw layoffs, and

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Speaker 1: ultimately you got to also remember, you start bringing more

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Speaker 1: I understand it's really expensive to live here. I don't

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Speaker 1: not a great idea either. And let's stay in Oakland

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Speaker 1: where And this just irritates me. I know Oakland has

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Speaker 1: they've been under receivership, but you know every school district

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Speaker 1: But they should figure out some kind of compromise because

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Speaker 1: And here's a story close to my heart. KPIX, CBS

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Speaker 1: wine producers are adapting to a major industry downturn. And

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Speaker 1: this downturn is for a few different reasons. The tariff

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Speaker 1: war certainly didn't help with California wine being exported to

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Speaker 1: But also generational shifts are happening. The youngest people don't

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