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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. Well, there is a battle going on
Speaker 1: right now in San Francisco that I am loving. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of what you'd see on some of those
Speaker 1: trashy reality shows on Bravo.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, which you have consumed many of.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, I'm a big fan of those programs.
Speaker 1: In fact, when we did the Morning Show, I would
Speaker 1: come home from work tired and wanting a nab, but
Speaker 1: Bravo would have a marathon going on of Below Deck
Speaker 1: or one of the others, and I would just get
Speaker 1: sucked right in and I'd spend my day watching it.
Speaker 1: But what's going on right now in San Francisco is
Speaker 1: that longtime Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has decided to call it quits.
Speaker 1: After being elected as the congresswoman from San Francisco following
Speaker 1: the death of Salim Burton, and then working your way
Speaker 1: up through the food chain to become Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: and then sticking around after the Republicans took the majority
Speaker 1: and she was no longer Speaker of the House, in fact,
Speaker 1: she was no longer in leadership at all. She was
Speaker 1: just a rank and file Democrat who I guess they
Speaker 1: would go to as an older sage for advice when
Speaker 1: they needed it. But Nancy Pelosi has been in the
Speaker 1: Congress for decades and is now leaving. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that politicians like to do is they like
Speaker 1: to pick their success. You don't like to have some
Speaker 1: random person take over your seat after you leave, because
Speaker 1: you spent all of this time with your staff, with
Speaker 1: your constituents, with the businesses and unions and different entities
Speaker 1: in your district that rely on you to deliver for them.
Speaker 1: So you want to make sure that everyone's in good hands.
Speaker 1: And what happened with Nancy Pelosi was she stuck around
Speaker 1: so long that people stopped being polite who were waiting
Speaker 1: in line to take over for her. And one of
Speaker 1: them who stopped being polite was Scott Wiener. Scott Wiener
Speaker 1: was the state senator from San Francisco who developed, let's say,
Speaker 1: a national profile, mostly through negative attention on Fox News
Speaker 1: and other conservative outlets, but he did develop a national
Speaker 1: profile file and because there's so many Democratic politicians in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, he was worried that if he didn't act first,
Speaker 1: that someone else would be able to outorganize him and
Speaker 1: eat his lunch and then win the election to replace
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. So he decided, no one's going to get
Speaker 1: ahead of me. I'm going to start before everyone else,
Speaker 1: and I don't care if it upsets her. So what
Speaker 1: he decided to do was start raising money, opening up
Speaker 1: campaign accounts, and announcing that he was going to run
Speaker 1: for Congress before she announced that she was retiring. So,
Speaker 1: from her point of view, he crossed her. He was
Speaker 1: embarrassing her. He was not treating her with the respect
Speaker 1: that she deserves, frankly, and because of that, she now
Speaker 1: has it in for him. At one point in time,
Speaker 1: her daughter wanted to replace her, and he started so early,
Speaker 1: and he started building up such a war chest, and
Speaker 1: he started collecting so many endorsements that the daughter wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to beat him. So not only did he
Speaker 1: upstage Nancy Pelosi by announcing that he was running before
Speaker 1: she said she was calling it quits, he made it
Speaker 1: so that her daughter, who's now running for state Senate,
Speaker 1: couldn't replace her. So that pissed her off squared So
Speaker 1: she needed a candidate to run against him, So she
Speaker 1: picked Connie Chan off the Board of Supervisors, who was
Speaker 1: decidedly not ready for prime time. So what you now
Speaker 1: have is you now have a race between Wiener and Chan.
Speaker 1: And because Chan is remedial, Nancy Pelosi has to do
Speaker 1: all the heavy lifting. She had to put together the
Speaker 1: staff for her, she has to put together the fundraisers
Speaker 1: for her, She has to make sure that she's taking
Speaker 1: the right positions on the right issues. She is the
Speaker 1: warm body Connie Chan, but it's Pelosi and her team
Speaker 1: that's calling the shots. Well, everyone in San Francisco is
Speaker 1: aware of this, including Scott Wiener, so he put together
Speaker 1: some AI chatbot to make fun of her because she
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything original in her own head, it's all
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's words coming out of her mouth. Well, Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi didn't like that AI chatbot, so she said that
Speaker 1: that chatbot is sexist and it's making fun of Connie
Speaker 1: for being Chinese. Now what her being Chinese has to
Speaker 1: do with the chat bot, I don't know. But if
Speaker 1: she's called Scott Wiener sexist and racist, that's what you know.
Speaker 1: The temperatures getting high in that race.
Speaker 3: We love everybody for more on the now aborted Connie
Speaker 3: Chan AI chat bot scheme. In the race to replace Pelosi,
Speaker 3: here is kron four.
Speaker 4: Controversy continues tonight in the race to replace Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 4: in California's eleventh district. This after State Senator Scott Wiener
Speaker 4: launched an AI chatbot of his opponent San Francisco Supervisor
Speaker 4: Connie Chan and that tops the news at ten. Welcome everyone,
Speaker 4: I'm Katherine Heenan.
Speaker 3: So now even the political billboards are nothing but advertising AI.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Katherine Heenan no relation to Bobby
Speaker 1: the Breen.
Speaker 4: Senator Wiener has since taken the bot down. He's apologized,
Speaker 4: but Supervisor Chance says too little, too late. Crown Force
Speaker 4: Lindsay Ford has the story.
Speaker 3: Washington, just say what you really want to say? F
Speaker 3: you Wiener?
Speaker 5: Did you ready for us?
Speaker 1: Oh? Boy? Remember that interview we played that she gave.
Speaker 1: That was just crash and burn.
Speaker 3: She's a special one.
Speaker 6: A political fight over artificial intelligence is now playing a
Speaker 6: major role in the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress.
Speaker 6: State Senator Scott Wiener is removing an AI chatbot.
Speaker 3: That see this is the problem all the people that
Speaker 3: were messaging the AI chatbot didn't want to ask her
Speaker 3: about blocking housing in her district. They wanted to ask
Speaker 3: about her race and her accent. So I guess that's
Speaker 3: I don't know, and so this is a strange story.
Speaker 1: What's weird here is they're very different on subjects at
Speaker 1: the local level, particularly on the subject of housing. But
Speaker 1: should either one of them get elected to Congress, they're
Speaker 1: going to have virtually the entire an identical voting record
Speaker 1: because they're going to be voting on subjects like abortion
Speaker 1: and budgets and whether or not we go to war,
Speaker 1: all of those things. And I don't see any daylight
Speaker 1: between the two of them.
Speaker 6: Targeted his opponent, San Francisco's Supervisor, Connie Chan, but on
Speaker 6: Saturday in San Francisco's Mission District at Supervisor Chans campaign,
Speaker 6: Chan says the damage has already been done.
Speaker 7: Not just how I reacted personally or our campaign team,
Speaker 7: is how people reacted in San Francisco should actually give
Speaker 7: us a lot of hope about San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Okay, someone wowed way too loud for a Connie Chan
Speaker 3: rally at her little office in the Mission.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it, but Pelosi's daughter
Speaker 1: was one of the people who was sitting in there.
Speaker 3: Oh really.
Speaker 6: State Senator Scott Wiener's campaign created the website Connie Chan
Speaker 6: dot Ai, a parody chatbot designed to criticize San Francisco
Speaker 6: Supervisor Connie Chan's record on housing, public transit, and other
Speaker 6: issues in a joint.
Speaker 3: Someone just had to be creative, didn't they.
Speaker 6: Statement attributed to Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 3: Although it is very San Francisco. If you drive around
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, all you will see is billboards for PI
Speaker 3: Lawyers in English and Spanish. If you driver walk around
Speaker 3: the city of San Francisco, every billboard is for some
Speaker 3: other AI company you've never heard of. So Scott Wiener
Speaker 3: wanted to add it to the mix with Connie Chan
Speaker 3: dot Ai.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that Nancy Pelosi knows what AI is, because remember,
Speaker 1: I think we played an interview of Jim Clyburn where
Speaker 1: the subject of chat GPT came up and he had
Speaker 1: no clue what they were talking about.
Speaker 3: I don't know if she knows, but the daughter probably
Speaker 3: gave her a primer.
Speaker 6: He several members of Congress, San Francisco supervisors, and local
Speaker 6: Democratic clubs. The group said women have spent generations fighting
Speaker 6: to have our voices heard in the halls of power.
Speaker 6: We should not have to now fight against artificial intelligence
Speaker 6: putting words in our mouths.
Speaker 3: I am confused about how creating the chatbot is sexist
Speaker 3: and racist.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But to me, this is like Iran
Speaker 1: going and going to war with Iraq. I'm just rooting
Speaker 1: for casualties.
Speaker 8: We believe a woman, a woman of colors, boy matter.
Speaker 3: And we believe that they're so inspired.
Speaker 7: Communities from Chinatown, from the most marginalized, can be leaders
Speaker 7: of our city.
Speaker 6: Saturday morning, a Crown for producer got this video of
Speaker 6: a billboard in the Richmond neighbor.
Speaker 1: Wha, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you see what it said
Speaker 1: on that billboard?
Speaker 3: Yes, let me let me freeze frame it on the
Speaker 3: billboard for a second.
Speaker 7: Can be leaders of our city.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the billboard in question, Let's do nothing together.
Speaker 3: Connie Chan dot ai got vandalized and it says Scott
Speaker 3: Wiener is a white devil. Connie Chan for Congress, but
Speaker 3: white is misspelled, and Congress is misspelled. White is spelled
Speaker 3: w i te and Congress is spelled c n g RSS.
Speaker 3: How did they spell Wiener correctly, but not white. It's
Speaker 3: a very good question. This is why you gotta watch
Speaker 3: the video. If you can't watch it live right now,
Speaker 3: it's on demand at Johnny Don't Like dot Com.
Speaker 6: Saturday morning, a Kronfor producer got this video of a
Speaker 6: billboard in the Richmond neighborhood advertising the chatbotten I.
Speaker 3: Am here for Scott Wiener being called a white devil.
Speaker 3: The ab La Blanco.
Speaker 6: Tine was also vandalized with a message reading, quote Scott
Speaker 6: Wiener is a white devil. Oh boy, Connie chan for
Speaker 6: Congress end quote. Kronford did reach out to Senator Scott
Speaker 6: Wiener's campaign on Saturday, but did not hear back in
Speaker 6: time for our deadline.
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, what is the white have that
Speaker 1: going on that's so important where he couldn't return the call.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's authoring new legislation that will make it even
Speaker 3: harder to criminally charge somebody for knowingly giving them AIDS,
Speaker 3: which is a thing he actually did.
Speaker 6: Friday, Wiener said he had apologized to those who were
Speaker 6: offended by the AI chatbot and that his campaign was
Speaker 6: taking down the website.
Speaker 3: Okay, so who got fired over this one?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it sounds like it wasn't a
Speaker 1: fun weekend over at the Diablos Place.
Speaker 6: Statement from Senator Wiener Reid's I heard from many people
Speaker 6: who loved the idea, and I appreciate their support, but
Speaker 6: many others were offended, and I apologize for causing that offense.
Speaker 8: He made the right decision to take the site down,
Speaker 8: but what happened there is that it should not re
Speaker 8: raise what actually happened that the first place that he
Speaker 8: actually put it up, it was offensive, sexist and racist, and.
Speaker 3: It I'm still not sure how, but Okay, she is
Speaker 3: an awful candidate, and I hate saying that because I
Speaker 3: do not want him to win, but this woman is
Speaker 3: remedial from top to bottom. Yeah, I mean, but thinking
Speaker 3: of this, if Pelosi doesn't step in and endorse Connie Chan,
Speaker 3: it would have been Scott Weener versus the DSA guy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna screw up his name, Sykart Chakwabody.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try.
Speaker 3: I didn't think you would.
Speaker 8: It was a poor judgment and poor character and unbecoming
Speaker 8: of a congressional.
Speaker 6: Candidate reporting in San Francis.
Speaker 1: That's the Dons right there.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 9: For me.
Speaker 3: So there you go. The controversy over the Connie chan
Speaker 3: dot AI chat bot that apparently was very racist and
Speaker 3: sexist that somebody decided to vandalize the billboard calling Scott
Speaker 3: Wainer a white devil.
Speaker 1: Well, up until now they've been going after him for
Speaker 1: being Jewish. Oh my, remember that they chased him down
Speaker 1: at the transgendered parade.
Speaker 3: So far, the general election campaign hasn't been going very
Speaker 3: well for Wiener.
Speaker 1: How is it racist to have an AI chat bot
Speaker 1: that says no to everything as Connie Chan, But it's
Speaker 1: not racist to vandalize a billboard saying Scott Wiener is
Speaker 1: a white devil. Connie Chan for Congress.
Speaker 3: My guess is, if you really wanted to like understand
Speaker 3: why someone would say it's racist, it's if you ask
Speaker 3: the chatbot a racist question, how does it respond? But again,
Speaker 3: I don't understand. This is a We're entering a weird
Speaker 3: new territory in political mudslinging.
Speaker 1: I wonder why she's not going after him for decriminalizing
Speaker 1: given someone aids.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He also is the godfather of decriminalizing prostitution in the
Speaker 3: state of California, which is why you have street walkers
Speaker 3: on capstreet Boy.
Speaker 1: He's just full of great ideas, isn't he?
Speaker 3: And he wants to go to Congress.
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Speaker 3: your friends about this show anyway. A restaurant got burglarized
Speaker 3: in Imperial Beach. For more, here is Fox five is
Speaker 3: in thief.
Speaker 10: Caught on camera breaking into a South Bay restaurant. This
Speaker 10: happened at Las Rica's Tortas number two, and now the
Speaker 10: victim is hoping others.
Speaker 1: Whosh, whoa whoa Las Breese's Tortoise number two. Yes, I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's any relation to Yum Yum number two.
Speaker 3: I knew exactly where you were gone with that the
Speaker 3: second I heard it.
Speaker 10: All business owners will take extra precautions. Tony Shen is
Speaker 10: live in Imperial Beach and Tony the thief caused a
Speaker 10: lot of damage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, Christina, we're not talking about hundreds of
Speaker 5: dollars in damage. We are talking about thousands of dollars
Speaker 5: in damage. And as you're about to see, the burglar
Speaker 5: got in and out within just seconds.
Speaker 1: Eddy A.
Speaker 5: Giddy and his wife Isabelle have owned Los Rica's Tortas
Speaker 5: number two for just over a year.
Speaker 11: It's actually my wife's dream of owning a small, littld
Speaker 11: mom and pop shop.
Speaker 5: Like most new businesses, it can be a financial struggle
Speaker 5: just to make ends.
Speaker 2: Meet, especially nowadays. It's just very very tough.
Speaker 11: You know, everything's so expensive, and then we have to
Speaker 11: be here one hundred and ten percent over time.
Speaker 3: There's the sound.
Speaker 1: Apparently someone was hungry.
Speaker 5: And around three o'clock Wednesday morning, things got really tough.
Speaker 5: That's when a burglar smashed the front door with a crowbar.
Speaker 5: The suspect headed directly to the cash register and yanked
Speaker 5: it from the front counter.
Speaker 3: That's not very nice, No it's not.
Speaker 1: And I bet you there was nothing in there, but
Speaker 1: they left thousands and thousands of dollars in damage.
Speaker 5: Before calmly walking away with it all. Within about thirty seconds,
Speaker 5: Andy got an alert on his phone which woke came up.
Speaker 5: He couldn't believe his eyes.
Speaker 2: And I'm just looking at it like and shot, Like
Speaker 2: am I dreaming? Or you know? This is a nice
Speaker 2: what's going on? And just watching our dreams just get shattered?
Speaker 5: Andy says he felt helpless. All he could do was
Speaker 5: call the Sheriff's office. Deputies arrived with guns drawn and
Speaker 5: a canine ready to react.
Speaker 3: Many hours later, it was three in the morning, and
Speaker 3: now it is very obviously daylight.
Speaker 1: What are they gonna do? Shoot the coke machine?
Speaker 5: They searched the shot, but the burglar was already gone.
Speaker 3: You know, if we want to really silence the Francis
Speaker 3: Gills who want to defund and get rid of police
Speaker 3: in prisons, what have you. Our current system of policing
Speaker 3: needs to be a little more effective at their jobs.
Speaker 5: And all that was left was thousands of dollars in damage.
Speaker 2: It was fifteen dollars just the glass, and they install
Speaker 2: for the door for the.
Speaker 5: Door at another four thousand dollars for the cash register
Speaker 5: and damage to the point of sale system.
Speaker 3: Four thousand dollars. Holy cow.
Speaker 1: And they haven't said if there was anything in that
Speaker 1: cash register, but my guess is no.
Speaker 3: This is why so many restaurants, even though people don't
Speaker 3: want them to go to, we only accept credit cards.
Speaker 3: Having a cash or even the ability to take cash
Speaker 3: is a liability. Also, if you're just doing it with
Speaker 3: credit cards, that point of sale system costs you way
Speaker 3: less because you just need an iPad.
Speaker 1: And frequently what they'll do is they'll just open up
Speaker 1: the cash register with the money all gone, so you
Speaker 1: can see that there's nothing in there.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the famous barbecue joint in Oakland that
Speaker 3: got burglarized and someone went to steal the cash register.
Speaker 3: And they don't keep any money in the cash register,
Speaker 3: but they do put a job application in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think they found that funny though.
Speaker 5: Plus a three hundred dollars in cash.
Speaker 3: It has completely changed your life.
Speaker 2: Heartbroken.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for now, this is what they're using as a
Speaker 5: cash register.
Speaker 3: That's so sad.
Speaker 1: Oh God, they're going to get hit again.
Speaker 5: Until they can get a new one. Andy says he
Speaker 5: and his wife aren't letting this crime stop them from
Speaker 5: working hard to keep this business afloat.
Speaker 3: I mean, those tortas do look excellente.
Speaker 1: It is making me hungry.
Speaker 5: He has this message for the heartless thief.
Speaker 11: Hopefully they think about it next time, because they did shattered,
Speaker 11: especially my wife's dream.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: Andy believes that the burglar may have actually come into
Speaker 5: his business prior to the burglary, posing as a customer
Speaker 5: to check things out.
Speaker 3: He was casing the joint while eating at Tarta apparently.
Speaker 5: So if you have any information about this case, call
Speaker 5: crime stoppers. We're putting live in Imperial Beach. I'm Tony's chen.
Speaker 5: Christina will send them back.
Speaker 10: To you, all right, Tony, thank you so much for
Speaker 10: that report.
Speaker 3: So there you go. A restaurant burglary an Imperial Beach,
Speaker 3: shattered the glass, stole the cash register. Did they actually
Speaker 3: get anything, No, but they caused so much damage.
Speaker 1: And wrecked this couple's life, at least for the time being.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that three plus hours later the
Speaker 3: Sheriff's department comes with the canine guns drawn, like, come on,
Speaker 3: why even show up.
Speaker 1: We've got this covered. We're here. So that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: In Imperial Beach in Los Angeles County in southern California,
Speaker 1: there have been Verizon outages all over the place because of.
Speaker 3: Vandalism, because people think that they're stealing copper wire and
Speaker 3: it's just fiber optic cable that is not worth what
Speaker 3: copper's worth. But it knocked out cell service for the
Speaker 3: entire valley. If you're on Verizon. For more, here's a
Speaker 3: report from KTLA five.
Speaker 6: Rising customers across a large swath of southern California outraged
Speaker 6: over service outages today.
Speaker 7: The cause vandals.
Speaker 12: Yeah, The company says that somebody cut several fiber lines
Speaker 12: and that damage impacted wireless and internet service.
Speaker 3: You know, I currently have AT and T installing fiber
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood, and this is one of the reasons
Speaker 3: I have decided to stick with Starlink because I know
Speaker 3: that just because they're putting fiber in the ground doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that the Internet will work when some jackass goes
Speaker 3: to cut the cable.
Speaker 1: Well, this is so unbelievably disruptive for so many people
Speaker 1: because post COVID, I would imagine more people work from
Speaker 1: home now than ever before. I would imagine that a
Speaker 1: lot of students are now taking classes entirely online, more
Speaker 1: so than ever before. And if the Internet goes out
Speaker 1: in these neighborhoods, suddenly you have people who can't work,
Speaker 1: they can't go to school, they can't fulfill any of
Speaker 1: their obligations.
Speaker 11: This is.
Speaker 12: Unbelievably disruptive throughout the San Fernando Valley and beyond. Lindsay
Speaker 12: Penya joining us live in Studio City tonight. She's got
Speaker 12: more on that, Lindsay.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Hi there, Rick and Karen. So last update from
Speaker 13: Verizon is that repairs are underway and they hope to
Speaker 13: have service completely restored within the next couple of hours. Meanwhile,
Speaker 13: this outage is just one of many we've seen recently
Speaker 13: connected to vandalism, soos it's what Verizon customers all over
Speaker 13: parts of Los Angeles and southern California started seeing on
Speaker 13: their phone Sunday morning, all.
Speaker 9: Of a sudden, I couldn't call out, Nobody could call me.
Speaker 14: Kind of feels like you're naked.
Speaker 1: You know what, that's a new spin.
Speaker 3: It kind of feels like you're naked.
Speaker 14: Okay, We've gotten so used to phones being a part
Speaker 14: of our life, so it just kind of felt like
Speaker 14: you walk up the house, love hants on or something.
Speaker 1: All Right, I don't want to cast any aspersions on him,
Speaker 1: but can you imagine what's in his search history?
Speaker 3: In case anyone ever wonders why I choose the KTLI
Speaker 3: rap or the Fox eleven rap because every station did
Speaker 3: this story yesterday, Why would I choose this one? It
Speaker 3: was for that guy and that very strange comment about
Speaker 3: how not having cell service is like dropping your pants.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 13: Company alerting customers on its app and social media.
Speaker 3: Wait, they can't read the social media, the internets.
Speaker 1: You want to communicate with them, you better send a carrier.
Speaker 13: Pigeon that the outage was due to multiple fiber cuts,
Speaker 13: and confirming to KTLA that those cuts were related to vandalism.
Speaker 3: And when they say vandalism, they mean people stealing copper wire.
Speaker 3: And the thing is people might steal fiber optic cable
Speaker 3: thinking that it's copper wire. Regardless, this is so unbelievably destructive,
Speaker 3: and LA seems to have zero answer for what to
Speaker 3: do about it, because we don't want to go after
Speaker 3: the people stealing it, and we don't want to go
Speaker 3: after the junkers and the smelters that are buying it.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, it's a bunch of crackheads who
Speaker 1: are looking to make money for drugs.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's that. Sometimes at this point, it's very organized
Speaker 3: as to what's going on.
Speaker 13: A statement reading in part quote. These are not simple
Speaker 13: property crimes. They are dangerous disruptions that vital lifelines for
Speaker 13: our first responders and public safety officials who rely on
Speaker 13: constant connectivity.
Speaker 14: I'm not surprised because I guess there's been a nationwide
Speaker 14: theft of fiber optics cables and just copper cables in general,
Speaker 14: so makes sense.
Speaker 3: They were just trying to see if they get them
Speaker 3: to say naked one more time.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't.
Speaker 13: Just a few days ago, Spectrum reported some of its
Speaker 13: fiber lines in Los Angeles were intentionally cut.
Speaker 3: Okay, now I really made the right decision in shutting
Speaker 3: off Spectrum, which I kept having reliability issues, and that's
Speaker 3: why now I'm on starlink. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: that happened to do with cables getting cut or just
Speaker 3: Spectrum being Spectrum, but I got to have my internet work.
Speaker 13: In criminal attack causing an outage for customers in several
Speaker 13: parts of the city.
Speaker 3: Co oh gosh. And then especially if you don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on and you're just doing that blank stare
Speaker 3: that we've all had to do at the modem after
Speaker 3: you've unplugged it and plugged it back in for the
Speaker 3: fifteen time and waiting for all the lights to turn on,
Speaker 3: and then they don't, and all of a sudden, you've
Speaker 3: wasted half of your Sunday and you don't know what
Speaker 3: to do with yourself.
Speaker 13: Company saying these types of attacks are on the rise.
Speaker 13: Quote the broader telecommunications industry experience fifteen five hundred and
Speaker 13: forty attacks between June twenty twenty four and June twenty
Speaker 13: twenty five, affecting more than nine point five million customers
Speaker 13: across the country.
Speaker 3: That is, this is a bad number. This is why
Speaker 3: do we live like this? Other places don't have these problems. No, no,
Speaker 3: just here in the insane asylum.
Speaker 13: Spectrum says they filed a police report and are offering
Speaker 13: a reward for information leading to an arrest. They also
Speaker 13: point out that their fiber optic cable doesn't contain copper,
Speaker 13: a prime target for thieves when it comes to vandalism
Speaker 13: related outages. Customers say they're simply frustrated. This just really
Speaker 13: sucks because when you need it, you don't have it.
Speaker 3: You know, she's got a real throaty voice.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, at least she still has her cigarettes.
Speaker 13: Now again. Verizon says that it expects to have service
Speaker 13: restored within the next couple of hours. It's telling customers
Speaker 13: to go to its website.
Speaker 3: They can't go to the website.
Speaker 1: You think they're just trying to play a.
Speaker 13: Joke to check the status of service in their area.
Speaker 13: We're reporting live here in Studio City, Lindsay Benye knat
Speaker 13: tell a five News Rick kareem back to you.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, unless we can figure out
Speaker 3: how to really knock this off, the damage to our
Speaker 3: infrastructure is getting so massive on a daily basis, where
Speaker 3: you're having so many of these things happening, and it
Speaker 3: is knocking out very expensive operations to put high speed
Speaker 3: internet throughout the entire state, let alone the country. If
Speaker 3: we can't figure out a way to knock this down,
Speaker 3: it's time to invest in SpaceX because everyone's going to
Speaker 3: get starlink.
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Speaker 1: of three hundred. Let's get it over three hundred before
Speaker 1: we sign off at three. All right, there are new
Speaker 1: e bike laws that are now in effect in San Diego.
Speaker 3: And this is as tough as you can get on
Speaker 3: e bike laws in a local municipality. You can ban
Speaker 3: them for kids under twelve. Great state law says you
Speaker 3: cannot go any further than that. So thanks Gavin for more.
Speaker 3: Here is CBS eight And the new.
Speaker 15: Law was passed by the city council in June. A
Speaker 15: city leaders wanting to give parents some times to get
Speaker 15: used to this new law to teach their kids about it.
Speaker 3: And if you bought your an eleven year old and
Speaker 3: e bike, you should be going to family services.
Speaker 15: The biggest change is that you're now going to have
Speaker 15: to be at least twelve years old to ride an
Speaker 15: e bike.
Speaker 3: Mind you, most of the little bastards out there are
Speaker 3: between twelve and seventeen causing all the destruction.
Speaker 5: It's no secret that e bike safety has become a
Speaker 5: growing concern in neighborhoods across our city, with young children
Speaker 5: doing wheelies on busy streets and it's demanded our action.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they call themselves the bumper boys, where they film
Speaker 3: themselves crashing into people.
Speaker 1: What is it that parents are doing that's so important
Speaker 1: where they're willing to buy their kids an e bike
Speaker 1: where they know their kid might kill themselves and someone
Speaker 1: else just to get them out of their hair.
Speaker 3: Rules, Well, if they don't do that, they might have
Speaker 3: to actually talk to them.
Speaker 15: It's for e bikes in San Diego will take effect Thursday.
Speaker 15: All e bike riders must be at least twelve years old.
Speaker 15: To run a Class three e bike, one of the
Speaker 15: faster ones, you have to be at least sixteen.
Speaker 3: Our goal is safety, and the question is who's actually
Speaker 3: going to enforce that?
Speaker 1: How would you like to be the cops? And you
Speaker 1: have people who live in the community who are going
Speaker 1: nuts over these things because they're getting run over right
Speaker 1: and left. And you don't know how old a kid is.
Speaker 1: I mean, some kids look like they're eighteen by the
Speaker 1: time they're fourteen, and some kids when I was eighteen,
Speaker 1: I still looked like I was twelve.
Speaker 3: You didn't have the facial hair. People would still think
Speaker 3: you're underage.
Speaker 11: Education and protecting our kids, it's not about writing tickets.
Speaker 3: The popularity of e bikes has continued to increase over
Speaker 3: the past few years, and we get it. They're fun,
Speaker 3: but yeah, so's cocaine. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Safety is more important than having fun.
Speaker 15: Passengers are not allowed on e bikes unless the bike
Speaker 15: has a permanent manufacturer installed second seat. Kids are also
Speaker 15: required to wear a helmet. Law comes at a.
Speaker 3: Time, and this is another thing that really needs to
Speaker 3: be more discussed because the injuries of these things are
Speaker 3: getting so gruesome. Children's hospitals have seen a massive spike
Speaker 3: in er visits because of this. The standard helmet that
Speaker 3: you buy for like a regular Shwin bicycle is not
Speaker 3: going to do a damn thing when you get into
Speaker 3: an accident. At thirty forty to fifty miles an hour,
Speaker 3: you need to mandate motorcycle helmets. Of course, most of
Speaker 3: these dumbasses aren't even riding regular helmets.
Speaker 15: And when Rady Children's Hospital says it sees a growing
Speaker 15: number of kids suffering serious traumatic injuries from e bike crashes.
Speaker 9: Last year, we had two hundred and sixty two e
Speaker 9: bike injuries elevated to the trauma level. There's many, many
Speaker 9: more that went to our emergency room. And then this year,
Speaker 9: up until May, we've already had ninety six.
Speaker 15: Flri lynn is an injury.
Speaker 1: It's growing, Yeah, because if you're going fifty miles an hour,
Speaker 1: you are more akin to a motorcycle than you are
Speaker 1: to an actual normal bike.
Speaker 15: Reprevention manager at Rady's, she says eighty seven percent of
Speaker 15: patients are boys, usually between the ages of nine and thirteen.
Speaker 5: She says speed is.
Speaker 15: A big issue.
Speaker 9: We see a lot of jaws being broken because they
Speaker 9: hit their faces, and then a lot of TBI is
Speaker 9: because they're not wearing the right helmet.
Speaker 5: She warns.
Speaker 15: Social media may also be feeled.
Speaker 3: See, we don't even need youth football anymore. All the
Speaker 3: kids are going to get brain dead just from this.
Speaker 1: Well, how many videos have they shown in this report
Speaker 1: of them on freeways or city streets, not in bike lanes.
Speaker 15: Yepling risky e bike behavior among kids.
Speaker 9: I do think there's a huge social media aspect to this.
Speaker 9: There you do it, you get lots of bikes, you
Speaker 9: get lots of attention, and that's what kids, that's what
Speaker 9: student young people crave. They crave that respect and attention.
Speaker 2: Right I should.
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