Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, the United Educators of San Francisco say, if they
Speaker 2: don't get a deal with SFUSD by February ninth, they're
Speaker 2: going on strike.
Speaker 3: Get that money.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what life would be like if Cecily
Speaker 1: my art cruise could multiply and she could be in
Speaker 1: charge of all of the teachers unions all over the
Speaker 1: state of California.
Speaker 2: And I want you to be all the way.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this et cetern would sell a
Speaker 1: lot that is fantastic. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred
Speaker 1: two two two five two two two. Well, we spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time on this program talking about Proposition fifty.
Speaker 1: That's what we voted on late last year. It was
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's initiative that would jerrymander the state's congressional districts
Speaker 1: up in a way that would met the Democrats up
Speaker 1: to five more congressional seats. Newsom said that we had
Speaker 1: to do it because Texas was redrawing their congressional lines
Speaker 1: and other states followed California's lead Republican states, Democratic states
Speaker 1: and redrawing their own congressional district lines. Mid decade, it
Speaker 1: was being challenged in the courts. We had Assemblymen David
Speaker 1: Togipa on this program who was one of the plaintiffs.
Speaker 1: He represents Fresno in the California State Legislature. He was
Speaker 1: saying that proponents who Prop fifty broke the law and
Speaker 1: they used race as one of the measures on how
Speaker 1: they would draw these districts, and you can't do that
Speaker 1: according to the law. Well, the Supreme Court heard them
Speaker 1: and came back with a verdict and Randy.
Speaker 4: Prop fifty is here to stay.
Speaker 2: The Prop fifty maps will the in effect for this election.
Speaker 2: There's not going to be anything that changes that. For more.
Speaker 2: Here's Fox forty in Sacramento.
Speaker 5: Or I'm not surprised by the outcome.
Speaker 6: But first, a major victory for Governor Newsimmon Democrats. After
Speaker 6: the US Supreme Court officially allowed California's new Prop fifty
Speaker 6: congressional maps to move forward.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Texas maps were also challenged.
Speaker 2: They also went to the Supreme Court and the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court said, yeah, those can stay. Too.
Speaker 4: It seems like the.
Speaker 1: Courts are allowing the states to do what they want
Speaker 1: to do in.
Speaker 6: The upcoming midterm elections. It comes after state Republicans and
Speaker 6: the Trump administration tried to block the maps maps from
Speaker 6: taking effect. Thanks for joining us tonight for Fox forty
Speaker 6: News at six. IM Niki Lorenzo and.
Speaker 2: I'm Eric Caerryman.
Speaker 7: Fox forty Capital reporter Aton Wallace has reaction tonight from
Speaker 7: the state Capitol.
Speaker 8: It's a US Supreme Court decision that could have major
Speaker 8: ramifications for the balance of power in the US House
Speaker 8: of Representatives. The nation's high court wednesday unanimously allowing California's
Speaker 8: voter approved Prompt fifty jerrymandered congressional maps aimed at helping
Speaker 8: Democrats gain at least five US House states statewide, to
Speaker 8: be used in the upcoming midterm election. State Republicans and
Speaker 8: the Trump administration's the US Department of Justice sued to
Speaker 8: block the maps, arguing they were illegally racially drawn to
Speaker 8: favorite Latinos over other racial groups, but in the end,
Speaker 8: the court denied that GOP backed legal challenge.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not surprised by the outcome.
Speaker 8: Victor's School of Law adjunct Professor Chris mccayley says that's
Speaker 8: because the court recently allowed Texas to move forward with
Speaker 8: its new maps.
Speaker 2: Everybody can cheat.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, I know that courts are not
Speaker 1: supposed to be political, but they're human beings like the
Speaker 1: rest of us. They have their own particular ideologies, but
Speaker 1: also they're human. And if you are a judge and
Speaker 1: you know that the will of the people in a
Speaker 1: particular state is to do something as it was in Texas,
Speaker 1: as it is in California, as is the case in
Speaker 1: other states, do you want to be the person that
Speaker 1: stands in the way of the people and the popular will.
Speaker 1: It seems like most judges, or at least in this
Speaker 1: particular case.
Speaker 8: Don't designed to help Republicans pick up five US House
Speaker 8: seats there. The majority opinion in that case dismissed claims
Speaker 8: of racial jerrymannering in the new Texas maps and hinted
Speaker 8: a similar ruling could be coming for California's Prop fifty maps.
Speaker 2: If you're doing it for political reasons, that's fine, that
Speaker 2: is what the courts have said.
Speaker 1: Well, what's wild is in each state the dynamic is
Speaker 1: going to be different because with COVID. What happened was
Speaker 1: the snow globe was shaken and you saw a lot
Speaker 1: of populations changing. You saw some states like Florida and
Speaker 1: Texas and Arizona gain population, and you saw other states
Speaker 1: like New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts lose population.
Speaker 1: California with Prop fifty, drew five more seats in for
Speaker 1: the Democrats. But if the census is as bad as
Speaker 1: people are assuming for California, we could lose between three
Speaker 1: and five seats. So even though they're gaining five seats now,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to turn around and give them all
Speaker 1: back when the census. New census numbers come in at
Speaker 1: the end of the decade.
Speaker 2: And those fights as to who gets to run in
Speaker 2: those seats is going to be ugly.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's gonna be super ugly because the fights are
Speaker 1: going to be over two different things. Primarily, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be over race. Different racial groups think that they're entitled
Speaker 1: to certain seats and they don't want people from other
Speaker 1: races coming in and taking it away from them. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is age. And this is really accelerated
Speaker 1: since Biden was forced out of the race in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, where there is I don't know how to
Speaker 1: put this. There is a sense of I don't know.
Speaker 1: People are angry, and people hold resentment for the older
Speaker 1: members who stick around too long. And if you are
Speaker 1: someone who's in your eighties and you're in a very
Speaker 1: safe seat and you have people underneath you who are
Speaker 1: turning out of office and there's no place for them
Speaker 1: to go, and you stick around because you're comfortable and
Speaker 1: because you can, my guess is those people are going
Speaker 1: to be targeted. Think about Maxine Waters, who's what eighty
Speaker 1: seven years old? Doris matt Sewey up in Sacramento, she's
Speaker 1: eighty something years old. How long do these people plan
Speaker 1: on sticking around? And if you're going to target someone,
Speaker 1: you're redrawing these lines. It's a nice convenient way to
Speaker 1: just nudge these people out.
Speaker 5: Essentially, they said, those political reasons overrode the potential legal
Speaker 5: challenges under the Federal Voting Rights Act and the Federal
Speaker 5: Constant And they even referenced California's subsequent adoption of its
Speaker 5: politically drawn maps and so applying the same logic to both,
Speaker 5: it's not a surprising outcome.
Speaker 8: Governor Gavin Newsom's press office, calling the decision a massive
Speaker 8: win for Californians. The governor of.
Speaker 2: How his press office is down person, Now.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, that press office.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about an off the rails department
Speaker 1: in California government. Putting the cast of Glee in charge
Speaker 1: of his Twitter account was a real great decision.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's worked out for him so far.
Speaker 1: It's worked out so far, but I'm telling you it's
Speaker 1: also going to be the downfall the governor.
Speaker 8: Writing this quote, Donald Trump said he was entitled to
Speaker 8: five more congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war.
Speaker 8: He lost, and he'll lose again in November. GOP Clovis,
Speaker 8: a Summing member, David Togipot was among the plaintiff challenging
Speaker 8: the Prop fifty maps.
Speaker 4: It's frustrating.
Speaker 2: We're going to turn our attention to the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six election.
Speaker 8: It all comes in a state that before Prop fifty
Speaker 8: had just nine of its fifty two congressional seats held
Speaker 8: by Republicans. With the new maps taking effect to this election,
Speaker 8: that number of GOP held House seats stayedwide is expected
Speaker 8: to drop. With Rockland Republican congress Member Kevin Kylie potentially impacted.
Speaker 10: I'm obviously not happy that my district has been sliced
Speaker 10: into six different pieces.
Speaker 2: I do think jerry mandering is bad. And have you've
Speaker 2: seen what's going on with Kylie now, is he's deciding
Speaker 2: which one of these six districts he's going to run in,
Speaker 2: and so he's ruling one out week by week.
Speaker 1: And there's really no good answer because these aren't communities
Speaker 1: of interest. I mean, go back to Doug LaMalfa seat,
Speaker 1: the guy that just died, the congressman from I think
Speaker 1: it's lass In County. Instead of having a rural North
Speaker 1: state district that produces a member that looks out for
Speaker 1: rural North State interests, what they did was they drew
Speaker 1: this district that looks like a phallic shaped object that
Speaker 1: goes all the way from the North State to Marin
Speaker 1: County and the population center in that district is Marin County.
Speaker 4: Well, guess what that means.
Speaker 1: Marin County is going to be able to choose the representative,
Speaker 1: and the people in the North State will have no
Speaker 1: representation at all in Congress.
Speaker 2: And to make that whole matter even shadier, Mike McGuire
Speaker 2: is now running for that seat. The former state Senate
Speaker 2: pro Tem who voted on these maps.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was the payoff, because there was no
Speaker 1: way Prop fifty was going to get through the legislature
Speaker 1: without him and Assembly Speaker Revis signing off on it.
Speaker 1: And both of them now have districts to run in.
Speaker 2: There's been some hogwash. Apparently Kylie is looking at the
Speaker 2: only seat where he might be able to win, as
Speaker 2: if he runs against Tom McClintock. Oh boy, And then
Speaker 2: you have that fight in Orange County now between Ken
Speaker 2: Calvert and Young Kim. It's it's going to be an
Speaker 2: ugly twenty twenty six for the surviving Republican seats.
Speaker 1: It is, But then just give it four years and
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to deal with the same thing
Speaker 1: because we're going to lose four or five seats.
Speaker 10: I do think jerry mandering is bad for democracy, and
Speaker 10: I think that's true wherever it happens, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: And he put his money where his mouth is. He
Speaker 2: wrote a bill that would abandoned this practice nationwide. Never
Speaker 2: made it to the House floor.
Speaker 1: No, and that put him on the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the Speaker because the will in Washington, d C. Among
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans is this. In California, it costs a
Speaker 1: fortune to protect these seats. In New York, it costs
Speaker 1: a fortune to protect these seats. So if you just
Speaker 1: make all of the seats in California and New York
Speaker 1: and places where it's expensive just one party or another,
Speaker 1: the seat just belongs to someone and you just don't
Speaker 1: play in that race at all, well you save a
Speaker 1: ton of money. Because if you can spend money on
Speaker 1: a Congression district, and let's say rural Indiana or rural Texas,
Speaker 1: the media markets there if you're buying time in Abilene
Speaker 1: is very different than if you're buying time in La
Speaker 1: or San.
Speaker 4: Diego or San Francisco.
Speaker 1: So from the point of view of both the national
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the state, the National Democratic and
Speaker 1: the National Republican parties, this was a good deal because
Speaker 1: it saves them a ton of money.
Speaker 3: I think that's true wherever it happens.
Speaker 10: It doesn't really make sense to have politicians drawing their
Speaker 10: own district clients picking their own voters.
Speaker 2: It should be voters who picked the politicians.
Speaker 8: Now, the timing for all of this is significant because
Speaker 8: the window for candidates to officially declare which districts they're
Speaker 8: running in opens Monday, reporting at the state capitol, covering
Speaker 8: local news that matters Atah Wallace, Fox forty News.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Prop fifty is here to stay.
Speaker 2: Those maps will be in effect for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six midterms.
Speaker 1: And Gavin Newsom of course counts this as a big
Speaker 1: political win for him back in twenty twenty five, feels
Speaker 1: that the wind is at his sales right now in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, Well, that thing.
Speaker 2: Did pass by over sixty percent in almost every county
Speaker 2: they did.
Speaker 4: It did.
Speaker 1: Now that leads us to where we are right now,
Speaker 1: which is Gavin Newsom is trying to make sure he
Speaker 1: lines up all his ducks in a row before he
Speaker 1: launches his campaign for the presidency. He comes from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: The dominant industry in California is the tech industry. He
Speaker 1: expects the tech industry to line up behind him and
Speaker 1: finance his campaign as they have in the past. However,
Speaker 1: you can't be a Democratic candidate for president and not
Speaker 1: have support among labor two. So what happens when the
Speaker 1: tech industry and labor are at odds with one another well,
Speaker 1: what happens is Gavin Newsom he hits the thumbs and
Speaker 1: right now he's getting pressure from both.
Speaker 2: Sides, including from his old buddy Loreina Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Who is now threatening Gavin Newsom that if he doesn't
Speaker 1: crack down on AI, labor will not support him for more.
Speaker 2: Here's KCA three and Ashley Savalla.
Speaker 7: They and national labor leaders we're in Sacramentol today pushing
Speaker 7: for protections against artificial intelligence. They want Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 7: to do more to make sure AI does not cost
Speaker 7: people their jobs.
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us here.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's happening. I don't think there's much Gavin
Speaker 2: can do about it.
Speaker 1: No, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Speaker 1: It's here, It's here to stay. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: This has been true for a very long time, but
Speaker 2: it's accelerating even faster. Technology evolves way quicker than anyone
Speaker 2: will ever be able to regulate it.
Speaker 1: And go back to the discussion that we just had
Speaker 1: about our members in Congress. These people are in their eighties.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to change the channel on their television.
Speaker 1: You think they can be one step ahead of the
Speaker 1: tech industry.
Speaker 4: And regulate AI.
Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us here at seven.
Speaker 11: I'm Curtis May and I'm media Lambert KSERI three political
Speaker 11: director Ashley Zavala shares their message.
Speaker 12: Labor leaders were trying to send a message to Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 12: not justice California governor, but as likely presidential candidate. Lourena Gonzalez,
Speaker 12: the leader of the California Labor Federation, hosted a press
Speaker 12: conference with other labor leaders from key presidential primary states
Speaker 12: like Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, and Georgia, all urging Newsom
Speaker 12: to do more to protect workers from being replaced by
Speaker 12: artificial intelligence. Gonzale has made it clear she can.
Speaker 2: By the way, you know what really drove the acceleration
Speaker 2: of this was a little thing called AB five that
Speaker 2: Loraina Gonzalez authored and got through the legislature that was
Speaker 2: signed that made it a lot harder to be an
Speaker 2: independent contractor in this state, which has accelerated the job
Speaker 2: losses for a whole lot of different categories.
Speaker 4: It's almost as if she didn't think it through.
Speaker 12: Gonzale has made it clear she feels like the governor
Speaker 12: is doing more to protect the tech industry than workers
Speaker 12: right now now, other leaders from other states suggested the
Speaker 12: nation's leader needs to be at the forefront of the problem.
Speaker 13: I'm very frustrated with the calculus of the governor that
Speaker 13: he may be more interested in his big tech billionaire
Speaker 13: friends than he is with working people.
Speaker 2: This is a trend now between Lorena with her federation
Speaker 2: and then the SCIU going after Gavin for not supporting
Speaker 2: the wealth text. The unions are all making a lot
Speaker 2: of threats based on his political ambitions.
Speaker 1: Well, they think that they call the shots and the
Speaker 1: governor doesn't. The governor thinks that he calls the shots
Speaker 1: and they don't. And right now they're bumping heads.
Speaker 13: I'm very frustrated with the calculus of the governor that
Speaker 13: he may be more interested in his big tech billionaire
Speaker 13: friends than he is with working people, I guess. And
Speaker 13: I'm more frustrated, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Don't you miss that voice, not one bit.
Speaker 13: And I'm more frustrated, to be honest that it's like,
Speaker 13: sit down and engage. And we know this in California,
Speaker 13: right we always say this on big shoes, sit down
Speaker 13: and let's have a discussion.
Speaker 2: Yes, because us, the unelected members of these union boards,
Speaker 2: we're the ones in charge here.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine breaking bread with her?
Speaker 14: I welcome, Governor Newsom. Come on down to North Carolina.
Speaker 14: Get you some barbecue with some sweet tea. Oh okay,
Speaker 14: come come experience the mountains of West and North Carolina
Speaker 14: to the beaches of the outer Banks. But rest assure
Speaker 14: that if you come to North Carolina, you are going
Speaker 14: to have to meet and reckon with workers.
Speaker 12: Officials with the California Labor Federation say later this month
Speaker 12: they will release a set of proposals they want state
Speaker 12: lawmakers and the governor to pass this year to protect
Speaker 12: workers from AI. Reporting of the state capital, Ashley Zaballa
Speaker 12: case Harry three News.
Speaker 11: In a statement, a spokesperson for Governor Newsom said, quote,
Speaker 11: no governor has done more than Governor Gavin Newsom to
Speaker 11: regulate AI in a way that protects workers without killing
Speaker 11: jobs or innovation. Under his leadership, California has taken the
Speaker 11: most comprehensive worker centered approach to AI in the country.
Speaker 11: They continued, Well, the Trump administration has abandoned working people.
Speaker 11: Governor knew some delivers, raising the minimum wage for millions
Speaker 11: and expanding sick leave, paid family leave, and life saving
Speaker 11: worker protections.
Speaker 2: You Havevin new some statement says, hey, I've already done
Speaker 2: a lot for these union overlords.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting to me is when he bumps
Speaker 1: heads with a Republican or some talking head or whomever,
Speaker 1: a Republican celebrity, they get real bitchy with their statements.
Speaker 1: But did you notice how when he bumps heads with
Speaker 1: labor how that's a very traditional political statement that you
Speaker 1: would expect to hear from a politician.
Speaker 2: You don't want to piss off the rann Againzales.
Speaker 1: They're afraid of her, and I'm telling you, one of
Speaker 1: these young kids working in his press office isn't going
Speaker 1: to know who she is. They're just going to know
Speaker 1: that they're being attacked by someone on the outside, and
Speaker 1: they're going to go after her, and then the carrot
Speaker 1: inside her is going to be unleashed. It'll be a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing to see. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two East telephone number one, eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five to two two two.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Morris in La Morris.
Speaker 9: Hello, Yes, good afternoon. Karen Bass is going to get
Speaker 9: re elected ninety five percent because many of the voters
Speaker 9: that go out and vote for her have a real,
Speaker 9: real low iq. Even if the city went into bankruptcy,
Speaker 9: she'd get reelected. So if people don't know what they're
Speaker 9: voting for, and Rick Caruso should be a true Republican.
Speaker 9: All right. It's this drastic change is going to be
Speaker 9: made up for the city of la and Karen Vass
Speaker 9: is not the lady to make the changes falls. She
Speaker 9: is for socialism, sanctuary city, the homeless, and the registered voter,
Speaker 9: the taxpayer actually supports the city getting and unfortunately many
Speaker 9: of the people who live in the residents.
Speaker 4: All right, I think we just lost you there, but
Speaker 4: thank you for the call. Morris. We're up against a
Speaker 4: heartbreak anyway.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two East
Speaker 1: telphone number one eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. If you'd like to email the show, you
Speaker 1: can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail
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Speaker 1: And Colter coming up after the news at two and Randy.
Speaker 1: On Friday, you can see us live and in person.
Speaker 2: It's tomorrow, people, How exciting is this? Friday, February sixth,
Speaker 2: from noon to three, Johnny and I are going to
Speaker 2: be broadcasting live at Gladstone's in Long Beach, and you're
Speaker 2: invited come enjoy the great food. The fish is so good, there,
Speaker 2: great vibes, good drinks and a fun afternoon by the water.
Speaker 2: John saying, meister is gonna take care of you. It's
Speaker 2: so much fun. At Gladstone's in Long Beach. Susan Shelley
Speaker 2: from the Howard Jarvis Taxpay Association will join us. She'll
Speaker 2: tell you more about your taxpair rights and protecting Prop thirteen.
Speaker 2: As we have been telling you, the courts have made
Speaker 2: it easier to raise your taxes. We need you to
Speaker 2: come by and sign the petition to save Prop thirteen.
Speaker 2: That deadline is coming very fast February seventeenth. Susan needs
Speaker 2: those signatures to get this thing on the ballot. To
Speaker 2: make it so, you need once again a two thirds majority,
Speaker 2: no matter who puts a tax increase on the ballot.
Speaker 2: So if you haven't done it already, Saveprop thirteen dot com.
Speaker 2: That Saveprop thirteen dot com, but regardless, come hang out
Speaker 2: with us, grab a bite and be part of the broadcast.
Speaker 2: The John Phillips Show live at Gladstone's in Long Beach
Speaker 2: tomorrow from noon to three. Let's go to Bill and
Speaker 2: seebe Valley Bill.
Speaker 15: Hello, John, Hey, I got a question for oh Mayor
Speaker 15: Beth SETI what's the status quo of the fire department
Speaker 15: maintenance yard that was full of broken down fire trucks
Speaker 15: a year ago that one of the TV stations flew
Speaker 15: over and broadcast. Has anybody done anything about it to
Speaker 15: put these units back on the streets. And I don't
Speaker 15: see any newspapers or any TV reporters out there knocking
Speaker 15: on the door and say, we want to look at
Speaker 15: the yard. Let's see what the status quo of all
Speaker 15: the just broken down units were. Because the city council
Speaker 15: wakes up every morning and does nothing but spend a
Speaker 15: billion dollars on anything and everything. But so somebody's got
Speaker 15: to put her feet to the fire when it comes
Speaker 15: time to these mayor trust conferences and stuff. But they
Speaker 15: don't seem to be able to do that.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you for the call, sir and Randy.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, we did an update on this
Speaker 1: not long ago that said that there really hasn't been
Speaker 1: much progress made.
Speaker 2: There are less fire trucks in service now than before
Speaker 2: the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1: Yet another reason why Mayor Karen Bass should not be
Speaker 1: re elected.
Speaker 2: Well, ultimately that is up to the Los Angeles voter.
Speaker 2: Let's check in with them.
Speaker 6: No, I don't know enough to give you any good information,
Speaker 6: but good luck finding someone who does.
Speaker 1: And that's why we can't have nice things. All right, Randy,
Speaker 1: it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 4: This is wow, Wow, what's up here?
Speaker 9: Dun dun dun dun dun dun dunk reached.
Speaker 3: The Califonia Crime Blodder with.
Speaker 4: Jung and Randy.
Speaker 1: The first edition of today's Blodder takes us to the
Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: Woodland Hills is getting burglarized again more here's KTLA.
Speaker 12: Five cars full of burglary suspects try to escape in
Speaker 12: Woodland Hills early this morning, but they didn't get far.
Speaker 16: Officers took them into custody.
Speaker 2: After Hey, that's rare.
Speaker 4: Yeah, usually you only hear about that Orange County.
Speaker 17: After a short pursuit came to a crushing end.
Speaker 13: Police a five burglary suspects were ultimately arrested.
Speaker 10: The victim says he was watching as not one, but
Speaker 10: two groups of suspected thieves showed up to his home
Speaker 10: in just one.
Speaker 2: Night where they're competing crews going after the same block.
Speaker 1: Imagine being hit twice in one night, and you live
Speaker 1: in suburbia and pay a fortune to live there.
Speaker 10: Carlos sossetto live in Woodland Hillston night. He's got the
Speaker 10: latest on this, Carlos.
Speaker 3: At Kareem.
Speaker 18: We know at least five people were arrested in connection
Speaker 18: with a home burglary that occurred overnight. The home apparently
Speaker 18: targeted multiple times, and as the thieves were attempting to
Speaker 18: get away, they struck it to several parked vehicles, including
Speaker 18: this one.
Speaker 2: So just a whole lot of damage.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a rough night.
Speaker 19: A wild scene in this Woodland Hills neighborhood as LAPD
Speaker 19: initiates a short pursuit after officers shine a flashlight into
Speaker 19: a tesla and foreheads pop up inside.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, what do you think it is? Burglars or
Speaker 1: horny teenagers?
Speaker 2: Well, teenagers usually can't afford the tesla's.
Speaker 4: But their parents can.
Speaker 19: The driver then tries to bolt out, going in reverse,
Speaker 19: hitting several parked vehicles along the way.
Speaker 2: Some dudes, and no, they were not on ambient.
Speaker 4: Do they do? Morning? Somewhere in town.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I shouldn't have even brought it up.
Speaker 3: Some dudes smash my car trying to get away from
Speaker 3: the police. People can't have nothing nice, dude.
Speaker 2: That is a valley bro if I've ever heard one.
Speaker 2: So let me just save him right now because I
Speaker 2: need him in the future. Valley bro.
Speaker 3: People can't have nothing nice, dude.
Speaker 1: He sounds like Malibu the old American Gladiator. People can't
Speaker 1: have nothing nice, dude.
Speaker 19: At least five people were taken into custody as the
Speaker 19: suspected vehicle had nowhere to go. Police say burglary.
Speaker 3: Tools were found inside.
Speaker 19: The suspects are believed to have been connected to a
Speaker 19: home burglary and the fifty one hundred block of Campbell wrote.
Speaker 20: I think they were just trying to grab and go.
Speaker 20: They took like my money counter. They took just random
Speaker 20: things around the house.
Speaker 2: Who has a money counter?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: This guy got a little little card room going on
Speaker 2: in the back.
Speaker 4: What do you work for a bank and you bring
Speaker 4: some of the equipment home with you?
Speaker 20: My money counter? They took just random things around the house.
Speaker 19: Chris Romo says the house he's staying at was targeted
Speaker 19: while he and his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: We're out to dinner the night before.
Speaker 19: Surveillance video shows a man and woman going through several
Speaker 19: boxes outside before allegedly breaking in. He says, afterwards, another
Speaker 19: group of would be thieves showed up.
Speaker 20: We seen it on the camera, so we came back
Speaker 20: and you know, we called the police and everything. We
Speaker 20: told them what was going on, and then they came
Speaker 20: back again while we were here.
Speaker 2: Hey, look at this. To Penga Division, you're doing it.
Speaker 2: You're doing the thing.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I don't know. They're just trying to grab more
Speaker 20: stuff or trying to scare us.
Speaker 19: That's when the suspects attempted to leave, but police were
Speaker 19: already in the area.
Speaker 17: I heard all the sirens and then they had helicopters
Speaker 17: and the flashlights.
Speaker 19: It's believe about five to six thousand dollars worth of
Speaker 19: items were taken from the property.
Speaker 18: And police are still looking for additional suspects. Anyone with
Speaker 18: any information should contact the LAPD or putting Live Tonight
Speaker 18: from Woodland Hills, Carlos Aalseto Kay telling five News so.
Speaker 2: A story you don't hear often. Burglary suspects in La
Speaker 2: County are rested Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cast any aspersions here, but there's
Speaker 1: a few things in this story that don't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah. First of all, why would a single
Speaker 1: family home in the San Fernando Valley have a money counter?
Speaker 1: Isn't that something that's usually associated with commerce? You would
Speaker 1: think so, yes, Okay, So if you have a tool
Speaker 1: of commerce in a single family home, why is that there.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, and you know, you don't know what this
Speaker 1: could be. It could be that maybe they take one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars bills, they get them into the bank, they
Speaker 1: cash them into all ones, and then they put them
Speaker 1: in the money counter to make sure that they have
Speaker 1: one hundred ones, and then they go to the strip club. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you have horny teenagers in the car and horny
Speaker 1: homeowners in the house.
Speaker 3: People can have nothing nice, dude.
Speaker 1: And then the burglars came back a second time, as
Speaker 1: if there was unfinished business.
Speaker 2: Well, that could have been a second crew. Like you've
Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of different people that all want
Speaker 2: to rob this one house.
Speaker 4: So you think they just got randomly hit twice.
Speaker 2: There could be more to this story.
Speaker 1: Or they were looking for something very specific in this
Speaker 1: house with the money counter. And then the third thing
Speaker 1: that makes no sense to me is something you brought up.
Speaker 1: Usually when these things happen, the bad guys are in
Speaker 1: stolen Kias, they're in a Tesla. They were in a
Speaker 1: Tesla and there was four of them. That seems like
Speaker 1: not your average burglar or upscale burglar. If you will,
Speaker 1: You've worked your way up in the world.
Speaker 2: You started with a stolen Kia, then you upgraded to
Speaker 2: a stolen Hyundai, and now you stole enough off that
Speaker 2: you've probably got your own Tesla.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to make any allegations here because
Speaker 1: I know basically what you know what we just heard
Speaker 1: from that report, but it seems like salient information is
Speaker 1: being left out here. People can have nothing nice, dude,
Speaker 1: and right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Bladder.
Speaker 2: If the dummy, we shouldn't make this stuff up.
Speaker 14: If we tried, I said, hell no, many boy, Let
Speaker 14: me get up one out of here.
Speaker 3: It's the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 4: And Randy. This edition takes us to the state capitol.
Speaker 2: Sacramento apparently is in competition with Oakland about one embarrassing feature.
Speaker 17: You know this has really been an issue for the city.
Speaker 1: You mispronounced the name Oakland, and I think you were
Speaker 1: just going to clarify with that clip.
Speaker 2: That's the thing I was gonna do. We both had
Speaker 2: the same idea.
Speaker 17: You know, this has really been an issue for the
Speaker 17: city of Dumpy.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, there you go.
Speaker 2: Sacramento has a big illegal dumping program. For more, Let's
Speaker 2: go to Fox forty in Sacramento, aka Dumpy two.
Speaker 21: This, of course is a load of trash in a
Speaker 21: dumpster where it belongs.
Speaker 22: But unfortunately we see.
Speaker 2: See they realized that we were going to play this
Speaker 2: on the radio and they needed to describe that people
Speaker 2: were staring at a dumpster.
Speaker 1: Now, Randy, I'm from Garden Grove, which is right next
Speaker 1: to Disneyland, So I'm embarrassed to say I don't know
Speaker 1: the answer to this, but was Dumpy one of the
Speaker 1: seven Dwarfs?
Speaker 2: I think that's the eighth one.
Speaker 21: Fortunately, we see piles like this along streets throughout the city.
Speaker 21: So yes, the city has launched a new effort with
Speaker 21: the goal of making some tangible changes.
Speaker 23: We're trying to revitalize areas of our community, of our
Speaker 23: city district.
Speaker 22: To council member Roger Dickinson acknowledges illegal dumping is a
Speaker 22: problem in Sacramento. He refers to it as an insult
Speaker 22: to the residents and businesses in the areas where it happens.
Speaker 23: It doesn't help their property values, it doesn't help their
Speaker 23: image both there.
Speaker 2: No, it's a complete failure of government that we allow
Speaker 2: piles and piles and piles of garbage to just accumulate.
Speaker 2: You look at Los Angeles where in the produce district
Speaker 2: you have pallets and palettes of rotting fruit. You know
Speaker 2: where they're coming from.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't want to take any of the blame
Speaker 1: off of the person who's doing the dumping, but the
Speaker 1: city deserves a certain amount of the blame too, because
Speaker 1: we know that a lot of these companies that own
Speaker 1: the dumps or campaign contributors and certainly supporters of these
Speaker 1: various campaigns. However, one are the things it happens when
Speaker 1: the politicians are in bed with people like that, is
Speaker 1: that the fees when you go to dump something can
Speaker 1: frequently be so high that it's cheaper to just pay
Speaker 1: the fine if you get caught dumping it than to
Speaker 1: dispose of it properly. If you're a stity, and you
Speaker 1: want to do want people to do the right thing,
Speaker 1: you should make it easier to do the right thing
Speaker 1: than to do the wrong.
Speaker 23: Thing, both their self image and their image to the
Speaker 23: broader community of what their neighborhood is like.
Speaker 22: Some residents we spoke with are indeed fed up over
Speaker 22: the ice sores.
Speaker 24: Washer dryers, all sorts of stalk furniture beds.
Speaker 2: Just a washer and a dryer sitting on a curb.
Speaker 4: Oh, that neighborhood has to look real classy.
Speaker 24: Washer dryers, all sorts of stalk furniture beds.
Speaker 3: It's pretty sad. I also wondered who picked it up.
Speaker 22: Some say they want more done to prevent illegal dumping.
Speaker 24: Sometimes define is not enough because some people have a
Speaker 24: lot of money and there's no problem just to pay
Speaker 24: a five hundred dollars fine.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting who does a lot of this illegal dumping.
Speaker 2: When we started seeing these NonStop fires in the Subpulvita
Speaker 2: basin in the San Fernando Valley that were caused by
Speaker 2: all the homeless and investigative news reporters started to go
Speaker 2: into the Subpulvita basin. What they found inside the basin
Speaker 2: was a whole lot of dumped materials from contractors who
Speaker 2: didn't want to pay to go use the dump. And
Speaker 2: as you said, the fees for getting caught illegal dumping
Speaker 2: are less than the fees for properly dumping.
Speaker 4: A lot of this is commercial.
Speaker 1: Certainly that has to be the case with the rotting
Speaker 1: produce in Los Angeles. It has to be the case
Speaker 1: with the rotting pork in that one neighborhood and Lenox
Speaker 1: that people keep finding rotting pork on the street.
Speaker 4: But it's also crime.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't forget that one story that we did
Speaker 1: where there's one spot in Los Angeles where people who
Speaker 1: steal ATMs dump the ATM after they've taken all the
Speaker 1: money out of it, and there's just a gazillion and
Speaker 1: ATMs dumped on the side of the freeway.
Speaker 24: There's no problem just to pay a five hundred dollars fine.
Speaker 22: One person suggested providing more options for people to take
Speaker 22: large loads to a dump without fees.
Speaker 12: If they don't have many to pay rent, how do
Speaker 12: you have many to go dump somewhere that you're legally
Speaker 12: supposed to dump it at.
Speaker 22: The City of Sacramento has identified areas that are hotspots
Speaker 22: for illegal dumping. Dickinson is on the city's Budget and
Speaker 22: Audit Committee, and at a meeting this week, the committee
Speaker 22: launched a new effort to address the problem and come
Speaker 22: up with solutions to more effectively and efficiently curb illegal dumping.
Speaker 23: Right now, if there's illegal dumping in the street, the
Speaker 23: way the Solid Waste Department responds to that is just
Speaker 23: if there's a truck, a refuse truck in the vicinity
Speaker 23: that has time, they go by and pick it up. Well,
Speaker 23: I would like to see that become much more intentional
Speaker 23: that when we get a report of illegal dumping, that
Speaker 23: there is actually a vehicle that's assigned to respond to
Speaker 23: that report in a relatively brief pa time.
Speaker 22: Dickinson says, the new effort, you have to do two things.
Speaker 1: You have to remove these items when they're dumped on
Speaker 1: the side of the road, otherwise it becomes blight and
Speaker 1: the neighborhood looks like it's completely trashed. And if the
Speaker 1: neighborhood looks like it's trashed, guess what. One thing leads
Speaker 1: to another and the crimes go from small to severe.
Speaker 1: We know this through the broken windows theory of James Q. Wilson.
Speaker 1: But the other thing is you have to crack down
Speaker 1: on it. You have to make it so that it's
Speaker 1: easier to do the right thing than the wrong thing,
Speaker 1: and if you do the wrong thing, the city's going
Speaker 1: to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 22: Dickinson says the new effort also includes plans to educate
Speaker 22: and engage the public on the issue, and he suggests
Speaker 22: more aggressive enforcement, including the use of cameras and drones,
Speaker 22: and amending an ordinance to allow the city to send
Speaker 22: out citations in the mail based on license plates of
Speaker 22: cars associated with illegal dumping.
Speaker 2: When you would think that'd be the first thing we
Speaker 2: do with all these license per readers. Consider that it's
Speaker 2: a lot of work trucks that are doing a lot
Speaker 2: of this dumping.
Speaker 1: But how often do we do these blotder stories where
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to find the person, you have
Speaker 1: the relevant information to find them, they just don't want
Speaker 1: to find them because they know that the DA and
Speaker 1: the court system won't do anything with it.
Speaker 2: We've got to I mean, we don't have room in
Speaker 2: the jails for actual crime. This is such a low
Speaker 2: level quality of life crime that it is barely even enforced.
Speaker 23: We've got to respond efficiently and effectively if we're going
Speaker 23: to really successfully reduce the amount of illegal dumping that
Speaker 23: goes on.
Speaker 21: And Dickerson says we can expect to see some changes
Speaker 21: in effect within six months, and he says not all
Speaker 21: of these are going to require votes of the city council.
Speaker 21: Is just changing the way the city does business when
Speaker 21: it comes to picking up the trash and getting people
Speaker 21: to get that message to not dump the trash. Live
Speaker 21: in Sacramento covering local news that matters, Dennis Shanahan, Fox
Speaker 21: forty News.
Speaker 2: So there you go, the Meadow City Council trying to
Speaker 2: do something so they don't become the next City of Dumpy.
Speaker 17: You know, this has really been an issue for the
Speaker 17: City of Dumpy.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, let's go to Cheryl. Cheryl, Hello, Hello, Hey.
Speaker 16: In nineteen seventy nine, I was the first and only
Speaker 16: garbage woman they ever had into Wolomie County. That's my
Speaker 16: one claim to fame. But what I called to talk
Speaker 16: about is we also had the very last free dump
Speaker 16: in the state of California. And the solution it was
Speaker 16: a wonderful solution because I was also a college student
Speaker 16: there at Columbia JC and on the weekend, you just
Speaker 16: you know, did your trash together something to do. You
Speaker 16: were allowed to salvage what you wanted. But in addition
Speaker 16: to that, someone was salvaging and had they had a
Speaker 16: big yard there like a big outdoor sale the things
Speaker 16: that you could sell, and there was no trash on
Speaker 16: the side of the roads. So it's something. I know
Speaker 16: it's socialism to have, you know, free garbage service, but
Speaker 16: maybe it's a time we revisit that instead of giving
Speaker 16: all the money for the illegals and everything else.
Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I bet it was a lot cleaner back then in
Speaker 1: the state of California too,