Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on The John Phillip Show, mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: Well, John, it's happened yet again. A sewage pipe ruptured
Speaker 2: in Tijuana. So you know what that means for the
Speaker 2: river valley in San Diego County.
Speaker 3: You can right here.
Speaker 1: Do those poor people ever get good news?
Speaker 2: No, you are living in what seems like a third
Speaker 2: world country if you are living right on the border
Speaker 2: with Tijuana. My favorite part of this story is that
Speaker 2: everyone's willing to do everything to fix this problem except
Speaker 2: ask Mexico to stop dumping raw sewage directly into the river.
Speaker 2: Apparently their sewage treatment plant was built when Tijuana was
Speaker 2: a third the size that it is today. Maybe we
Speaker 2: got to buy them a new plant. Why do we
Speaker 2: have to buy Mexico infrastructure? They're a country, they collect taxes.
Speaker 1: Why can't they do it because they're not gonna What
Speaker 1: what leverage do we have for Tiwana to clean up
Speaker 1: that river?
Speaker 2: What? What exactly can we do to them? I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be ways we can threaten them and punish
Speaker 1: them if we want to.
Speaker 2: Well, doesn't seem like we're even trying. And this has
Speaker 2: been a failure of several different administrations, including the current
Speaker 2: federal one, the last federal one, the wonderful this has
Speaker 2: been going on for forty years?
Speaker 1: When was it? Didn't We have Mike Netterer on the
Speaker 1: program and he said that he used to live at
Speaker 1: Imperial Beach a long time ago, and he said it
Speaker 1: was unbearable back then.
Speaker 4: You can smart right here.
Speaker 1: It covers a lot of geography too. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two is a telephone number?
Speaker 1: What a one hundred two to two five two two two. Well,
Speaker 1: this week everyone has been focused on the election here
Speaker 1: in California. However, that doesn't mean that other things have
Speaker 1: just gone by the wayside. Right now in Sacramento, there
Speaker 1: was a big change that took place over at the
Speaker 1: high speed Rail that not a lot of people know
Speaker 1: about because they've been focused on the governor's race and
Speaker 1: the mayor's race and everything else.
Speaker 2: For the latest shakeup in management at California's high speed
Speaker 2: rail authority, here is case a three.
Speaker 5: Leadership shake up at the California High Speed Rail Board
Speaker 5: of Directors. Now, the board voted unanimously today for a
Speaker 5: new board chairman Steve Kawa.
Speaker 2: Ger, I wonder how much they're all getting paid.
Speaker 1: Good question.
Speaker 5: We've been working to figure out what happened to the
Speaker 5: board's previous leader, Tom Richards.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: He hadn't been on the board since twenty ten and
Speaker 6: was board chairman since twenty twenty. Our case here, THR
Speaker 6: political director ash Zavala was there for the vote, and
Speaker 6: you tried to speak with the board's new leader. Are
Speaker 6: they talking to you? What did he have to say?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm going to guess they're not talking
Speaker 2: to Ashley.
Speaker 1: I think that's a safe bet.
Speaker 2: The number one qualification to be on the board of
Speaker 2: directors for high speed Rail it doesn't matter if you
Speaker 2: have an engineering background, you know how to procure government contracts.
Speaker 2: Your one qualification is you do not talk to Ashley Savalla.
Speaker 7: King to you.
Speaker 8: What did you have to say, Well, I mean, so,
Speaker 8: for the second time in about a month, board leaders,
Speaker 8: project leaders, I should say, are dodging interviews with US
Speaker 8: Governor Gavin Newsom abruptly appointed Steve Kawa to the board
Speaker 8: last month to replace Fresno developer Tom Richards as its leader.
Speaker 8: Kawa's career has been mainly in politics, in San Francisco.
Speaker 8: He has worked in the San Francisco Mayor's office under
Speaker 8: a few different leaders, including Gavin Newsom. He has worked
Speaker 8: with Newsom for decades.
Speaker 1: Oh great, it's another news So it's a political crony.
Speaker 1: It's a political patronage job for someone who doesn't know
Speaker 1: anything about trains.
Speaker 2: That's what that board is. It is a place for
Speaker 2: people to land who are termed out and who are
Speaker 2: not electable.
Speaker 8: The board unanimously voted for him as the leader of
Speaker 8: the High Speed Rail Authorities Board of Directors, and Kawa
Speaker 8: there vowed to move this embattled bullet train project forward.
Speaker 8: And the meeting today the board specifically approved a three
Speaker 8: point five billion dollar contract for tracking systems to try
Speaker 8: to start laying down track this year.
Speaker 2: They haven't even procured a contract. Who laid down the track,
Speaker 2: And there's already questions about who got this contract because
Speaker 2: that's a whole lot of money.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid that we're even fooling around with
Speaker 1: this still.
Speaker 8: And the meeting today, the board specifically approved a three
Speaker 8: point five billion dollar contract for tracking systems to try
Speaker 8: to start laying down track this year. The board also
Speaker 8: approved a controversial business plan that will be in effect
Speaker 8: for the next two years. It includes proposals that would
Speaker 8: allow the state to take over land and tax money
Speaker 8: from local governments.
Speaker 2: It also proposed Yeah, the cities like Bakersfield, like Merced,
Speaker 2: like Fresno, they were up in arms about this. The
Speaker 2: high speed Rail Authority says through their new business plan
Speaker 2: that Hey, any tax money that comes from the economic
Speaker 2: development that we're creating from this rail, we're taking that
Speaker 2: tax money. You're not getting that tax money. How is
Speaker 2: that even legal? Good question.
Speaker 8: It also proposes to allow the construction of data centers
Speaker 8: and battery storage facilities to help pay for the project.
Speaker 2: Well, again, that's how we're going to pay for this thing.
Speaker 2: Amazon's going to build a bunch of server farms all
Speaker 2: along the rail trail. And by the way, just think
Speaker 2: about how liberal that language is there for a second.
Speaker 2: If they think that they're entitled to tax dollars because
Speaker 2: they're bringing work into the region, then what are they
Speaker 2: entitled to If there's a McDonald's that's selling big macs,
Speaker 2: they get a cut of that. Because the guys working
Speaker 2: on the train are buying the big mas, so they
Speaker 2: should be able to get a cut of the tax
Speaker 2: dollars from the McDonald's. There is no proper funding plan
Speaker 2: for this train, So this is the latest idea shake
Speaker 2: down all the local governments that are along the initial segment.
Speaker 2: And you're talking about a bunch of local governments that
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of money to begin with.
Speaker 1: No, and I would imagine that this project is unbelievably
Speaker 1: disruptive to so many of those communities because you have
Speaker 1: a lot of construction trucks, and you have a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are there, but you don't have a
Speaker 1: product the public can use.
Speaker 2: You remember the story we did a couple of years
Speaker 2: ago about the tattoo artist in downtown Fresno who had
Speaker 2: a shop that's right across the street from the future
Speaker 2: Downtown Fresno high speed rail station. And not only did
Speaker 2: all the construction crews take over his parking spaces, but
Speaker 2: he has to close up shop and cannot do any
Speaker 2: tattoo and in the middle of the day because there
Speaker 2: is so much dust in the air, it could get
Speaker 2: into somebody's blood.
Speaker 1: People think because there's something that is famous or something
Speaker 1: that is people are talking about that's going on in
Speaker 1: your community, that it's always a good thing for example,
Speaker 1: I live very close to Barack Obama. When he left
Speaker 1: the White House, he spends some of his time here
Speaker 1: in California, and he lives very, very very close to me. Now,
Speaker 1: when you say Barack Obama, do you mean the former
Speaker 1: president or the guy who changed his name to Barack
Speaker 1: Obama to run for governor. The former president. And when
Speaker 1: he first moved out here, every time he would go someplace,
Speaker 1: it was a massive pain in the ass where they
Speaker 1: would shut down the roads, and they would shut down
Speaker 1: the roads that led to the road that he was
Speaker 1: going to be driving on. And if he went to
Speaker 1: the gym, they shut down the gym, they shut down
Speaker 1: the golf course, they took all the cards. It's a
Speaker 1: massive pain in the ass. And you go, well, you know,
Speaker 1: he put your city on the map because the president
Speaker 1: moved there. Yeah, maybe it sounds cool to someone who's
Speaker 1: not here, but if you're here, it's unbelievably disruptive.
Speaker 8: Well, again, these are just proposals. During the meeting, Kawa said,
Speaker 8: it's important to be transparent about all of this.
Speaker 9: I actually love this theme about communication. I've talked to
Speaker 9: a lot of you, and I've said in my thirty
Speaker 9: five years in public service. A lot of issues and
Speaker 9: problems are a result of two things.
Speaker 2: It's this guy from Boston. It sounds like it sounds
Speaker 2: like Jim McDonell.
Speaker 9: Miscommunication and a lack of communication. So I know the
Speaker 9: Authority and ian and the whole staff as well as
Speaker 9: this Board of Directors wants to make sure that we
Speaker 9: double down and triple down on communicating to aipatns throughout
Speaker 9: the state of California.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we got Cliff Claven run on the High
Speaker 1: speed rail.
Speaker 8: Okay. So then we followed up on that. We asked
Speaker 8: High Speed Rail Authority staff before the meeting started for
Speaker 8: an interview with Kawa. I also waited for Kawa after
Speaker 8: the meeting to talk.
Speaker 10: Here's what happened, mister.
Speaker 8: Chair, mister chair, do you have time to speak with
Speaker 8: us on camera?
Speaker 2: What was that about communication and transparency?
Speaker 1: And then the reporters are chasing him down because he
Speaker 1: won't talk to him and he doesn't open his mouth
Speaker 1: when he walks by the reporters. Yep.
Speaker 8: In that Cliff Kauwa is seen walking away with the
Speaker 8: High Speed Rail Authorities chief spokesman Peter Whippy.
Speaker 2: As we reported, there's a name Peter Whippy, the spokesperson
Speaker 2: for the High Speed Rail's name is Whippy.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's ever hired a dominatrix.
Speaker 8: In that clip, Kawa is seen walking away with the
Speaker 8: High Speed Rail Authorities chief spokesman Peter Whippy. As we
Speaker 8: reported last month, Whippy on behalf of California's High speed
Speaker 8: Rail CEO, Ian Chowdry. Whippy tried to limit the questions
Speaker 8: we could ask the CEO in an interview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so in Chawdre, the CEO of high speed Rail,
Speaker 2: the guy they brought in from Europe that was supposed
Speaker 2: to fix this thing, who had the weird domestic incident,
Speaker 2: was all set to do an interview with Ashley Zabala,
Speaker 2: but Whippy said, if you're going to interview our boy,
Speaker 2: Ian Chawdrey, you do not get to ask any questions
Speaker 2: about his fiance who works at the contractor that is
Speaker 2: getting paid by the High Speed Rail.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they wanted to know about the
Speaker 1: nine to one one call either.
Speaker 8: We would not agree, so that interview didn't happen last month. Meanwhile,
Speaker 8: we have reached out to Tom Richards repeatedly. He is
Speaker 8: the ex chairman of the board. We've asked him for comment.
Speaker 8: We are still waiting to hear BACKT.
Speaker 1: Cospiracy.
Speaker 2: Okay, how much do you think Tom Richards, who's been
Speaker 2: on this board since twenty ten, has made on a
Speaker 2: project that still does not exist.
Speaker 1: And Gavin Newsom regards this as a massive win, as
Speaker 1: a success story because people are making money off of it.
Speaker 1: No one can use the train. The train will never
Speaker 1: actually be completed. No one will ever ride this thing.
Speaker 1: It's just a figment of our imagination. But if you
Speaker 1: say that it's a failure, they'll snap at you on
Speaker 1: social media. They'll come after you viciously because they think
Speaker 1: it's a huge success.
Speaker 2: It's a big jobs program and it will lead to
Speaker 2: economic development. And the high speed rail. Just authorize themselves
Speaker 2: to steal all that tax money to continue to fund
Speaker 2: the high speed rail.
Speaker 1: Add this to the list of things this state just
Speaker 1: cannot do right. Everyone else can count the votes in
Speaker 1: one night, it takes us a month and a half.
Speaker 1: Everyone else can send a black and white to a
Speaker 1: seven eleven when someone drives a stolen Kia through it. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: in most places that doesn't happen. Just here in the
Speaker 1: insane asylum.
Speaker 8: We've asked him for comment. We are still waiting to hear.
Speaker 2: Back t conspiracy.
Speaker 6: The Governor's talked a lot about transparency, So.
Speaker 4: What's he saying?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I've reached out to his office about the situation,
Speaker 8: laying out what happened with the new board chairman. What
Speaker 8: does the governor make of this new leadership so far,
Speaker 8: the handling of transparency so far the Governor's office at
Speaker 8: this point is it commenting?
Speaker 2: Boy?
Speaker 7: Is he?
Speaker 2: And Gang? We'll talk about anything in everything except anything
Speaker 2: pertaining to what's actually going on in the state of California.
Speaker 1: All they want to talk about is Washington, d C. Trump, Florida, Texas.
Speaker 1: They're really, really, really quiet when it comes to their
Speaker 1: own massive failures.
Speaker 8: And I essentially just what I've the feedback that I
Speaker 8: have received just basically is that, you know, this is
Speaker 8: call's first day. Peter Whippy did send me a statement
Speaker 8: saying that he was focused on getting this board activity
Speaker 8: done and so hopefully we can hear from at least
Speaker 8: mister kwas.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: You go, that's the latest on Zavala getting stone walled
Speaker 2: by Whippy.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Cindy and coast to Mesa Cindy.
Speaker 4: Hello, Yeah, just a comment about the border. Maybe the US,
Speaker 4: until Mexico costs up some money for their own infrastructure,
Speaker 4: can limit the number of people coming in and going
Speaker 4: across the border in Tijuana.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then where are people going to buy their medication?
Speaker 4: Very true, they'll have to go through Tikati, but it
Speaker 4: will but it will impede Tijuana for the time being.
Speaker 4: And I don't think that the people doing business in
Speaker 4: Tijuana on either side is going to like that.
Speaker 1: Well, how about this, You really want to put pressure
Speaker 1: on them. Ban the banks from allowing remittances to Mexico
Speaker 1: until they stop polluting that river.
Speaker 4: Just shut off the money line at the Walmart, at
Speaker 4: the Walmart customer service, all the money going back and
Speaker 4: forth out of the country.
Speaker 1: That's right. Shut that down until they figure out how
Speaker 1: to put a sewage treatment facility that works into Juana
Speaker 1: so they stop polluting that river. And what's wild to
Speaker 1: me is you have so many of these politicians who
Speaker 1: are all about the environment. All they want to talk
Speaker 1: about is global warming and the fishies and why we
Speaker 1: all need to get out of our SUVs and we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to barbecue in the backyard all that stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: how come you're not offended when there is a river
Speaker 1: in your state that is polluted for no good reason
Speaker 1: other than Mexico doesn't want to upgrade their infrastructure and
Speaker 1: people have to breathe in those toxic fumes and get
Speaker 1: sick because you know, people are going to get cancer
Speaker 1: from this, because it's not just the raw sewage that
Speaker 1: Mexico's jumping in there. They're also putting chemicals and other
Speaker 1: things that should be dealt with in different ways directly
Speaker 1: into that river, and so people are going to deal
Speaker 1: with long term health consequences as a result of that,
Speaker 1: and nobody seems to care.
Speaker 4: And you have all those beautiful commercials about San Diego,
Speaker 4: but they don't talk about that.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah. I mean we talk about a lack of
Speaker 1: housing here and how we don't have enough units for
Speaker 1: people to live in. Well, that's a whole area that
Speaker 1: no one is willing to live in that can avoid
Speaker 1: it because of that nasty smell. But if all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you make Imperial Beach smell like the rest
Speaker 1: of the beaches in California, that would be a highly
Speaker 1: desirable place for people to live. People would be flocked
Speaker 1: into that community and want to live in Imperial Beach.
Speaker 1: But no one's going to want to live there if
Speaker 1: it smells like an outhouse.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you could say the same for Tujuana. If the
Speaker 4: coast off of Tujuana were clean, then they might have,
Speaker 4: you know, people coming and building things there too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. But can you imagine being a
Speaker 1: realtor down there, come to Imperial Beach where your entire
Speaker 1: city is going to smell like a porta potty and
Speaker 1: the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
Speaker 1: is you're gonna get cancer?
Speaker 4: Yike, not good. I'm not going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Thank you for the call. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 13: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 1: This Wow, Wow, what's up here?
Speaker 14: Dundun Dundun Dunk rereads the Califonia Crime Bladder.
Speaker 13: With John.
Speaker 1: And this edition takes us to the land of John
Speaker 1: Wooden and Bill Walton.
Speaker 2: A homeless man has been arrested and is currently being
Speaker 2: held without bail after trying to break into the dorms
Speaker 2: and attack UCLA students, mostly females. More on this, we
Speaker 2: go to NBCLA.
Speaker 11: A sex assault sausage is in jail with al bail
Speaker 11: after he allegedly.
Speaker 1: That rhymed maybe she could be there.
Speaker 11: A sex assault sauspage is in jail with al bail
Speaker 11: after he allegedly attacked several women on UCLA's campus.
Speaker 4: NBC fours Macy isn't.
Speaker 2: The UCLA campus where they're planning to have the Olympic
Speaker 2: Village in two years.
Speaker 1: That's the plan.
Speaker 11: NBC four is Macy Jenkins live in Westwood tonight with
Speaker 11: more details. Macy Hi Kathy Well.
Speaker 10: Campus police say that a twenty year old man is
Speaker 10: responsible for at least four assaults on female students. He's
Speaker 10: now behind bars, but the school says it's increasing patrols
Speaker 10: and warned students to stay alert when walking at night.
Speaker 2: Even on the campus of one of the most famous
Speaker 2: schools in California.
Speaker 1: You would expect this kind of thing at USC but
Speaker 1: not UCLA. Yeah, this is supposed to be the one
Speaker 1: that's in the good part of town.
Speaker 10: UCLA is a bustling campus home to more than forty
Speaker 10: five thousand students, but lurking in the dark, targeting women,
Speaker 10: police say has been.
Speaker 2: A I remember the first time I went to a
Speaker 2: Rams game when they came back to USC for those
Speaker 2: few years before they built so far, and boy, oh boy,
Speaker 2: was I not prepared for the neighborhood that surrounds USC.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's an experience.
Speaker 10: Ucla is a bustling campus home to more than forty
Speaker 10: five thousand students, but lurking in the dark targeting women.
Speaker 10: Police say has been a homeless man with no connection
Speaker 10: to the university.
Speaker 2: He's not a dropout, has been a homeless man.
Speaker 10: With no connection to the university.
Speaker 15: It obviously makes me really nervous.
Speaker 12: I think that's.
Speaker 13: Definitely like concerning.
Speaker 10: On Friday, UCLA Police Department arrested twenty nine year old
Speaker 10: Olamu yee wah a kinda nusie.
Speaker 1: For a series, John, you want to give it a try,
Speaker 1: not even going to try.
Speaker 10: Twenty nine year old Olamu yee wah a kinda nusie
Speaker 10: for a series of assault?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: How many names? Is that?
Speaker 1: It sounds like someone who probably we can deport.
Speaker 10: Twenty nine year old Olamu yee wah a kinda.
Speaker 2: Nusie for us. It sounds like that CBS reporter Serene
Speaker 2: Branson when she had the stroke on the air.
Speaker 1: It kind of does.
Speaker 10: Twenty nine year old Olamu yee wah a kinda nusie
Speaker 10: for a series of assaults during which he allegedly approached women,
Speaker 10: physically attacked them, and attempted to restrain or sexually assault them.
Speaker 2: That's just one of our unhoused in's. John.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, let's spend more money on programs for him
Speaker 1: thirty years.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he's got a motel and inside safe.
Speaker 10: Thirty year student mikey Chen says, the man is well
Speaker 10: known for hanging around with a clipboard.
Speaker 2: Who he's definitely a clipboard.
Speaker 1: What is he collecting signatures for a kidney bill? Kidney dialysis?
Speaker 9: Who?
Speaker 13: We definitely see him on campus on Brunwalk.
Speaker 16: He just kind of stands out there trying to ask
Speaker 16: you questions and then get you to sign like some
Speaker 16: form he has, like some petition or something like that.
Speaker 2: I think you called it. I think this is an
Speaker 2: almeless paid signature gatherer.
Speaker 13: Like some form he has, like some petition or something
Speaker 13: like that. I think most I mean, what.
Speaker 2: Is his move Here he hands you the clipboard, You say, wait,
Speaker 2: I don't have a pen, and he says, I get
Speaker 2: a pen right here, It's in my pocket. Why don't
Speaker 2: you just grab it?
Speaker 1: Who's going to fall for that?
Speaker 16: I think most students, yes, definitely run into him because
Speaker 16: he's like always out.
Speaker 13: There like pretty much every day and stuff.
Speaker 16: Yeah, he's like very adamant about about having you come
Speaker 16: over and talking to him and stuff.
Speaker 2: See, here is the problem with the way that our
Speaker 2: system works. This guy is loitering around a campus that
Speaker 2: he has no business in, and we can't do anything
Speaker 2: to remove him from the place he's not supposed to
Speaker 2: be until he attempts to sexually assault for students. You know,
Speaker 2: I would love, for just a moment to bring back
Speaker 2: someone from the World War Two generation and let them
Speaker 2: listen to this and get their reaction, because I can
Speaker 2: tell you that ninety nine out of one hundred would
Speaker 2: just look at you and go So, there's a pervert
Speaker 2: with a clipboard on a school campus. Why did someone
Speaker 2: beat the living hell out of them? Back in the day,
Speaker 2: The way you took care of this problem was with
Speaker 2: a neighborhood full of baseball bats.
Speaker 1: Those guys would have taken care of it.
Speaker 10: Around eleven to thirty last Thursday night, officers responded to
Speaker 10: a report of a robbery on Brewin Walk, not far
Speaker 10: from Drake Stadium. Polissey A Kendanoussi approached a female student
Speaker 10: from behind, forcefully stole her cell phone, and took off.
Speaker 10: About thirty minutes later, officers learned of another assault in
Speaker 10: progress at nearby Cedar Hall. A bystander called for help
Speaker 10: and chased off the attacker. Officers found him near a
Speaker 10: campus parking garage and took him into custody. Investigators say
Speaker 10: they received additional reports of assaults at other residence halls
Speaker 10: and recovered zip ties, duct tape, and paracord.
Speaker 1: Whoa okay in any other market, Well maybe not New
Speaker 1: York and Chicago, But if this was going on right
Speaker 1: now in Florida, or in Texas, or in Idaho or whatever,
Speaker 1: we would know if this guy was here in legally
Speaker 1: right now in this report. I bet you that never
Speaker 1: gets mentioned. His immigration status is just not something that's
Speaker 1: regarded as relevant here.
Speaker 10: They believe the man used during his attacks.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't like that. It's a little sad.
Speaker 2: Now now police are warning, may we get a little
Speaker 2: more energy out of you man on the street.
Speaker 1: That was a bizarre reaction.
Speaker 2: So four of your classmates almost got raped.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't like that. It's a little sad.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 2: What is this next generation going to be.
Speaker 1: Veal?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 10: Police are warning students to report suspicious activity and use
Speaker 10: the Evening Escort program when walking alone at night.
Speaker 15: I usually feel safe because there's a lot of people nearby,
Speaker 15: Like everybody's going up in there.
Speaker 2: This is supposed to be the crown jewel of the
Speaker 2: UC system and you can't walk alone night. I love
Speaker 2: the fact that instead of them saying, look, we're going
Speaker 2: to send the cops out there and we're going to
Speaker 2: find guys like this and we're going to make life
Speaker 2: real difficult for them, and we're going to make sure
Speaker 2: they don't bother any girls on this campus ever again.
Speaker 2: Instead of that, what's the reaction, Well, walk with a buddy,
Speaker 2: because you never know more guys like this could be
Speaker 2: lurking in the shadows. It's just like with the copper
Speaker 2: wire that's being stolen. We don't want to crack down
Speaker 2: on the people stealing it, so we're just going to
Speaker 2: make it out of make them solar instead of making
Speaker 2: them out of copper wire.
Speaker 15: I usually feel safe because there's a lot of people nearby,
Speaker 15: Like everybody's going up and down the hill, so I
Speaker 15: feel like safe, secure, But yeah, you never know what
Speaker 15: could happen around here.
Speaker 1: You see, La is still la. It is one of
Speaker 1: the toniest parts of Los Angeles. Westwood is very expensive
Speaker 1: to live in and they have to deal with this.
Speaker 10: The twenty nine year old is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault,
Speaker 10: sexual battery, that is assault and robbery. Now he faced
Speaker 10: a judge today. He's being held without bail. His next
Speaker 10: court date is June seventeenth. Reporting live at UCLA tonight,
Speaker 10: Macy Jenkins, NBC four News.
Speaker 2: So there you go, the prowler arrested. The homeless man
Speaker 2: who's been wandering around UCLA for quite some time finally
Speaker 2: gets busted after attempting to sexually assault several different students.
Speaker 1: How is it that they just allowed a creepy bum
Speaker 1: to just exist on a college campus like that?
Speaker 2: Unreal?
Speaker 1: And right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 13: Is Cash's dummy.
Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. I said,
Speaker 1: hell no, very boy, Let me get up on out
Speaker 1: of it. It's the California Crime Bloater. And this one
Speaker 1: takes us to the Castro.
Speaker 2: Somebody slammed into a restaurant with their car in the
Speaker 2: Castro and just decided to walk out of the car
Speaker 2: and run away.
Speaker 1: Just left the car right there. Huh yep.
Speaker 2: For more on this, we got a KPIX in the Bay.
Speaker 7: San Francisco police are searching for the driver who was
Speaker 7: captured on security camera. Footage he drove his car right
Speaker 7: into two local businesses in the Castro early this morning.
Speaker 17: In the video, the driver can be seen casually walking
Speaker 17: away from the crash moments after it happened. Nobody on
Speaker 17: the street was injured, but the businesses are certainly hurting
Speaker 17: and Soji no, i'm's got the details.
Speaker 12: Hours after a car plowed into Cafe Mystique and Castro
Speaker 12: Indian restaurant and bar early Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: This isn't even like a smash and grab. This is
Speaker 2: just a smash.
Speaker 1: Well, how smash do you think the driver was when
Speaker 1: he did this?
Speaker 12: Staff we're boarding up, cleaning up the debris.
Speaker 15: Driving death pass on a Castro street, It's it's insane.
Speaker 12: Dramatic surveillance video shows this driver crashing his car along
Speaker 12: the four hundred bloc of Castro Street to San Francisco.
Speaker 12: Moments after, you can see him walking away before people
Speaker 12: nearby come to check if anybody else was in the car.
Speaker 2: He opens the door like wait, is anybody in this car?
Speaker 2: Has anybody hurt? And this guy just like nothing to
Speaker 2: see here, that's not my car.
Speaker 1: There's tika masala everywhere.
Speaker 13: He opens the.
Speaker 15: Door and he starts to walk away, So basically it's
Speaker 15: a head and run.
Speaker 12: Narmela Cordions is a manager of Cafe Mystique who was
Speaker 12: woken up by a call shortly before two am.
Speaker 9: The boss believe the.
Speaker 2: Fire departments that we're trying to figure.
Speaker 12: Out what's going on here.
Speaker 2: Just ma'am, there's a giant hole in your restaurant.
Speaker 1: But here's the good news. You now have a drive
Speaker 1: through just next door.
Speaker 12: Aj Kotka, the owner of Castro Indian Restaurant and bar,
Speaker 12: is also in disbelief.
Speaker 3: The car came through that and tour apart of this
Speaker 3: parklate in a half and hit this.
Speaker 2: Just two Indian restaurants next to each other. It has
Speaker 2: to be fierce competition. I guess we found the Indian district. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm not against it. I love me Sumtika.
Speaker 3: Hear this post here and then from here went to
Speaker 3: that wall to my neighbors.
Speaker 12: He said. The car damaged everything in its outdoor parklet
Speaker 12: before ramming into Cafe Mastique. He had put up a
Speaker 12: fence to keep his business open.
Speaker 3: If it would cost me twenty thousand plus because all
Speaker 3: of the most of the tables and the chairs got
Speaker 3: broken and also my heaters and all the means the
Speaker 3: San France, all.
Speaker 2: Of that beautiful infrastructure. The parklets that some people don't
Speaker 2: like because they took away parking, but I love because
Speaker 2: now so many restaurants in San Francisco have patio seating.
Speaker 2: It got destroyed.
Speaker 3: Rooken and also my haters and all the armamos.
Speaker 2: Before the parklets, it was like, you have a restaurant
Speaker 2: in San Francisco and there's like two tables out front
Speaker 2: and that's it. The rest is inside, even if it's
Speaker 2: a lovely day, which is rare for San Francisco. But
Speaker 2: the parklets made it that you could eat outside all
Speaker 2: the time anywhere.
Speaker 3: I'm broken, and also my haters and all arnas.
Speaker 12: The San Francisco Fire Department said. Fortunately there were no
Speaker 12: reports of any injuries.
Speaker 14: This is a busy time when usually the night life
Speaker 14: is clothing down. That's when this happened. And the car
Speaker 14: from the looks of it.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying is alcohol and or drugs was involved.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think everyone listening to this radio program could
Speaker 1: figure that one out.
Speaker 14: And the car, from the looks of it, came into
Speaker 14: a high rate of speed. Based on the surveillance book footage.
Speaker 12: Lieutenant Mariano Elias Junior said they received calls that the
Speaker 12: driver may have been under the influence. When fire crews
Speaker 12: responded to the scene, they were not able to locate
Speaker 12: him at the time.
Speaker 14: Did evaluate the building and requested to froment Building Inspection
Speaker 14: for further investigation on the structural integrity of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about some old buildings where one
Speaker 2: giant slam at fifty miles an hour could take out
Speaker 2: an entire building and make it unsound well, and you're.
Speaker 1: Also talking about a portion of town where a bunch
Speaker 1: of bars are in that neighborhood. So my guess is
Speaker 1: that guy was there for a long time. People in
Speaker 1: that neighborhood know who he is, and he got lit
Speaker 1: and left the car. It shouldn't take him long to
Speaker 1: figure out who it was.
Speaker 14: The building has been tagged. It is safe, but it
Speaker 14: has some structural damage to it around the windows.
Speaker 1: And we'll have to be repaired.
Speaker 12: Meanwhile, for courgions, we lost business.
Speaker 17: We have so many people coming to have breakfast.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, that's you know, if you're hungover and
Speaker 2: you need a nice breakfast, maybe an Indian spot to
Speaker 2: really wake you up and you hear the sound of jackhammer.
Speaker 2: You're not eating there?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this morning, this morning, not at my house,
Speaker 1: but someone near me had the gardeners over just before
Speaker 1: six am.
Speaker 2: How is that allowed?
Speaker 1: It's not I was already awake, so I didn't care.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have it going off then than when I'm
Speaker 1: doing the radio show. But I can only imagine what
Speaker 1: everyone else thought.
Speaker 2: What's the point of an hoa if they're not cracking
Speaker 2: down at six am leaf blowing?
Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't my hoa, it was the one on
Speaker 1: the other side of the fence. Different hoa.
Speaker 2: Now, is this like just a precautionary thing where they've
Speaker 2: got to have the gardeners come out at six am
Speaker 2: because it's summertime now and as soon as the sun
Speaker 2: gets up, the gardeners will physically melt.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess.
Speaker 12: So say that she is picking up the pieces and
Speaker 12: says more should be done to keep the streets safer.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know what you do about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how'd you vote, lady?
Speaker 2: So there you go, the hit and run that demolished
Speaker 2: two restaurants in the Castro.
Speaker 1: And if you're that woman, my guess is that you
Speaker 1: probably have between what thirty and fifty thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: damage if you had a car come through your wall.
Speaker 2: Hopefully she's got insurance.
Speaker 1: When did that become a thing, because it seems like
Speaker 1: stories where people drive through walls make the blotter all
Speaker 1: the time, well specifically when they're done on purpose to
Speaker 1: break into a seven eleven. We see a lot of
Speaker 1: that in Oakland all the time. What has just been
Speaker 1: a thing that will happen is terrible driver, busy street
Speaker 1: misses the turn, drives into a business. That's true. Drunk
Speaker 1: driving has been going on since the beginning of the automobile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to imagine although they couldn't do as
Speaker 2: much damage that there are plenty of people drinking and
Speaker 2: driving those model ts.
Speaker 1: Well back then it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, even fifty years ago, you could have
Speaker 2: bottles of you got have cans of beer rolling around
Speaker 2: your front seat, and the officers just like, well, just
Speaker 2: make sure you get home safely.
Speaker 1: Now, untel mothers against drunk driving. Getting a DUI was
Speaker 1: like getting a speeding ticket. They just gave you the
Speaker 1: ticket and usually they'd follow you home or maybe they'd
Speaker 1: give you a ride home and tell you to come
Speaker 1: pick up your car the next day. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: that big of a deal.
Speaker 2: And I think it's something where you got to take
Speaker 2: it way more seriously because there's no excuses anymore. Especially
Speaker 2: in a city like San Francisco. Call the WAIM to
Speaker 2: take you to the clubs.
Speaker 1: You know where I bet you they have a ton
Speaker 1: of drunk drivers is Seattle, because they have a minimum
Speaker 1: wage for Uber drivers of thirty dollars an hour. So
Speaker 1: if you go a short distance let's just say the
Speaker 1: airport to the port where you pick up the cruise ships,
Speaker 1: it's like an eighty or ninety dollars Uber ride. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: They're going to need the robots up there because the
Speaker 2: robots don't get thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's going to be the end to
Speaker 1: Uber and the waymos are going to take over. All
Speaker 1: of those jobs are going to be gone if cities
Speaker 1: continue to do things like that, because it just becomes
Speaker 1: cost prohibitive to use Uber or lyft or even the
Speaker 1: taxi cabs.
Speaker 2: Well we're not there yet. Let me just say I
Speaker 2: was in Dallas a couple of weeks ago and Dallas
Speaker 2: has been testing uber I, testing weaymos, but they had
Speaker 2: to pause the testing and put all the vehicles out
Speaker 2: of service because there was so much rain and flooding
Speaker 2: in Dallas. These robocars were getting stranded all over the place.