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Speaker 1: the podcast. Just after four o'clock, the hours are posted up.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a headline. Vaccine makers are standing by

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Speaker 1: for a human bird flu pandemic MADERNA, GSK and snofie

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Speaker 1: as fears mount about a zoonotic spillover. I though you

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Speaker 1: like the word zoonotic. As fears mount, yes, one Cambodian

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Speaker 1: girl died of the bird flu. It's the only story

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Speaker 1: So they're thinking it's possible that it could mutate, and

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Speaker 1: it's the hype machine. We could all go down like

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Speaker 1: kill them. I'm I'm for some calling in the species.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this one's got picture of tens of thousands

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Speaker 1: of birds died in coastal Peru and throughout the Americas.

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Speaker 1: I guess they were felled by the bird flu. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for a while. That one jumps. That's just just our

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Speaker 1: for this story that the defund the police people just

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Speaker 1: and so what what you have now is like like

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Speaker 1: a college newspaper attitude, because if you read this stuff,

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Speaker 1: college newspapers always kind of read like that, right. It

427
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Speaker 1: was the most liberal, most progressive students who would get

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Speaker 1: into journalism. Now they've all infiltrated the regular papers, and

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Speaker 1: now the La Times is a very tiny readership compared

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Speaker 1: to most other major newspapers because it is too left

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Speaker 1: wing for any normal person to read for very long. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it's all we've got. Unfortunately, the evidence presented by federal

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Speaker 1: prosecutors in the case against Mark Ridley Thomas, the suspended

434
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Speaker 1: La City councilman, is done. The trial began last week

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Speaker 1: and they finished presenting their case to the jury. If

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Speaker 1: you don't remember when Ridley Thomas was on the La

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Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors, these prosecutors, and again this is

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Speaker 1: a federal case, which means they usually know what they're

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Speaker 1: doing and they don't lose very off. I think ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of the time they get either a guilty plea

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Speaker 1: or a guilty deal or a guilty verdict. They allege

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Speaker 1: that Ridley Thomas was working on behalf of USC School

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Speaker 1: of Social Work to get them contracts big bucks to

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Speaker 1: the school in exchange for benefits to his son, a

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Speaker 1: former State assembly member by the name of Sebastian Ridley Thomas.

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Speaker 1: They heard detailed testimony the inner workings of USC's social

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Speaker 1: work program, along of course with the efforts by this

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Speaker 1: former dean, Marilyn Flynn to get Ridley Thomas to go

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Speaker 1: to work for her. And of course Marilyn Flynn has

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Speaker 1: already pled guilty in the case, which is another big

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like she got on the stand John, from

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Speaker 1: what I read. If they're done presenting evidence, I don't

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Speaker 1: think she appeared. But all her emails involving Ridley Thomas,

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Speaker 1: who presented as an evidence, and he wrote a bunch

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Speaker 1: of emails to her subordinates and her colleagues. Here's one

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Speaker 1: I'm holding my breath. Mrt is really trying to deliver here.

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Speaker 1: She was talking about a vote before the Board of

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Speaker 1: Supervisors for a probation training program. She was after regarding

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Speaker 1: a vote before the supervisors on a facility near USC.

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Speaker 1: She wrote, I met with the supervisor recently. We discussed

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Speaker 1: the school's interest and involvement. This is exactly what I

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Speaker 1: had hoped would happen. And when Flynn wanted to accelerate

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Speaker 1: the hiring of the sun Sebastian Thomas. She wrote to

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Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Jack Not, the then

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Speaker 1: dean of USC's Public Policy School. I think in the

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Speaker 1: interests of showing MRT that we can deliver, it would

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Speaker 1: be provident to get the offered letter out before the holidays.

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Speaker 1: That one seems really damning to me, that we can deliver.

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Speaker 1: This is our side of the bribe. We got to

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Speaker 1: come through here. Well, I mean it's pretty clear because

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Speaker 1: the deal is straightforward. You know, Flynn was losing money

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Speaker 1: as dean of the Social work school. Yes, they were

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Speaker 1: in big financial She had some business as she was

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Speaker 1: running the business end of things for the school, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of the deals she had involving online schooling

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Speaker 1: went bad. They were losing money. And you can't lose

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Speaker 1: money at USC. You not only have to make money

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Speaker 1: with your department, you also have to raise a tremendous

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Speaker 1: amount of money. And she was failing at all this.

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Speaker 1: So she needed a lifeline or you know, she was

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Speaker 1: going to be out on a rear end in disgrace.

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Speaker 1: So Ridley Thomas came to the rescue. Because Ridley Thomas

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Speaker 1: needed something. He had an embarrassing dud slob of a

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Speaker 1: son who was getting bad headlines or being a sexual

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Speaker 1: harasser in the Assembly and basically got kicked out of

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Speaker 1: the Assembly for that. And he had nowhere to go,

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Speaker 1: nowhere to land, so he had he had. You know,

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Speaker 1: she needed something badly, he needed something badly. They were

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Speaker 1: a perfect couple. There's another memo where she outlined a

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Speaker 1: wish list of sorts involving business between USC and the county.

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Speaker 1: One request was to address a stalled movement of a

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Speaker 1: contract between USC and the county's mental health department and

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Speaker 1: for involvement in a parole office near the university. So

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Speaker 1: these were the contracts and the deals she was looking

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Speaker 1: for Ridley Thomas to secure for her from the county

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Speaker 1: by supervisors. Sebastia Thomas was admitted to the School of

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Speaker 1: Social Work, did get a scholarship, did get a professor's

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Speaker 1: ship at USC Social Work department, and did get one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars that was rooted from Mark Ridley Thomas's

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Speaker 1: political account to USC and then forwarded on It was

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Speaker 1: a money laundering thing forwarded onto Sebastian. So he she

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Speaker 1: did everything that Mark Ridley Thomas wanted and in return

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Speaker 1: he get these contracts he got. He came through it

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Speaker 1: the contracts, so it probably lobbied very hard. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he has to get the votes to the other supervisors.

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Speaker 1: But you know, these guys often have their way. They're

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Speaker 1: very powerful. The five members of the Alley County Board

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Speaker 1: of Supervisor thing I mentioned, they would often want to

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Speaker 1: step on each other because it's like, well, if I

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Speaker 1: step on him, he'll step on me when I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to push something through. I was told by an insider.

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Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas was the big bully of the La County supervisors.

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Speaker 1: All the other supervisors and they were have always been

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Speaker 1: mostly women years. They've been intimidated by him. He's he's

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Speaker 1: he's loud, he's bullying, he's got that big, rumbling voice.

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Speaker 1: He's got a like a large physical presence. And when

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Speaker 1: he wanted something, you scurried and did it. All right.

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Speaker 1: We got more coming up. Johnny Ken k I AM

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Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to John and Ken on demand from kf I AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch is getting married again at ninety two years old. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what marriage numbers this? I was trying to find this

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Speaker 1: in the story. It's going to marry a sixty six

525
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Speaker 1: year old former San Francisco police Chaplain's got to be

526
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Speaker 1: at least four because I guess he married Jerry Hall

527
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Speaker 1: remember her? Oh right, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend or wifer? Yeah,

528
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Speaker 1: I don't remember if it was a girlfriend or wife.

529
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Speaker 1: And then there was an Asian woman he was married

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Speaker 1: to for a number of years, Wendy Dang I think

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Speaker 1: was there? No, yes, I do remember seeing Why do

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Speaker 1: I know Rupert Murdoch's wives? I don't know. I know

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Speaker 1: why because he's always looked like he's ninety years old

534
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Speaker 1: for decades. Now he's well, he is ninety. Now what

535
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Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of women does a ninety

536
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Speaker 1: year old billionaire look like? This is number five? Five?

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Speaker 1: This will be number five, Okay, ninety two? You spread

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Speaker 1: that out over the end. That's a true believer. What

539
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Speaker 1: did Larry King have like seven marriages and he died

540
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Speaker 1: much younger and so yeah, that's right, it's he. It's

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Speaker 1: las Urdos got quite a bit of wealth. I just

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Speaker 1: don't it. I don't get that I don't get the

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Speaker 1: the seven wife thing or the five wife thing. I

544
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Speaker 1: think Larry was married to the same woman twice, right,

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this video went viral over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: I could be half responsible. I probably watched it fifteen times.

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Speaker 1: O the weather. Yeah, meteorologist Elisa Carlson on the k

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Speaker 1: CAL CBS, who I think they now have news all

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Speaker 1: day long pretty much. This was on Saturday. And when

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Speaker 1: I saw the clip, as like the anchors this is

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Speaker 1: on KCAL, Nichelle Medina and Rachel Kim were just introducing her,

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Speaker 1: so they had like the I think it was like

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Speaker 1: a split screen or maybe she was just off to

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Speaker 1: the side at her meteorologist desk and she suddenly she's smiling,

555
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Speaker 1: waiting for her moment to come to talk about the weather,

556
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Speaker 1: and then just her eyes roll back on her head

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Speaker 1: and she slumps forward and then falls back out of

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Speaker 1: sight onto the floor. She apparently suffered a head injury,

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Speaker 1: and she's sending out messages on Twitter today that she's

560
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Speaker 1: feeling much better, but she had to be treated for

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Speaker 1: the head injury because I guess when she fell back,

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Speaker 1: she must have hit her head on the floor. Here's

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Speaker 1: what happened in the audio, Welcome to k CAL. He's

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Speaker 1: at seven. I'm CBS streaming. I'm CBS News Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rachel Kim and I'm the show Medina in for Shiva,

566
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Speaker 1: who is ready for some sunshine? I know my Let's

567
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Speaker 1: start off with the check over your next weather with

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Speaker 1: meteorologists Alissa Carlson. She joins us live in the studio. Alyssa,

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Speaker 1: this really is the calm before thee Now, oh you

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna go ahead and go to break right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well that was the noise was her hitting the floor.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, she's okay, but the anchors. I kept

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Speaker 1: watching this because her whole her whole head goes woozy

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Speaker 1: and it was that spooky looks like something out of

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Speaker 1: a horror movie, where her eyes rolled around in her head,

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Speaker 1: and the timing of it exactly as she's introduced, Yeah,

577
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: is just weird. Now. She had an episode before working

578
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Speaker 1: in Baker's Field back in twenty fourteen. She threw up

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Speaker 1: on the air and found out later that she had

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Speaker 1: a leaky heart valve. She's now saying that what happened

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Speaker 1: Saturday has nothing to do with that, and I guess

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Speaker 1: she had the heart val fixed, but she doesn't say

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Speaker 1: what caused her to faint like that. But that's sound

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Speaker 1: that the anchor made after she fell. That's her all

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Speaker 1: the backwards. Yeah, yeah, I have. I watched it a

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Speaker 1: few times. But she yes, that sound that the anchor, Oh,

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Speaker 1: the anchor, that's that's what made me like it does

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Speaker 1: think they were caught off guard. I know that's something

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Speaker 1: I thought of you right away. Yeah, and you know

590
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Speaker 1: what it's like for news anchors, Debora Marcus notorious when

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Speaker 1: you're about to hand off a story and then it's

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Speaker 1: not there. Holy crap, what do I do now? My

593
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Speaker 1: computer froze. My weather woman just fell on the floor.

594
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: But we got to a break. We go to a break.

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Speaker 1: We cannot add lab we cannot fake our way through this.

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Speaker 1: Let's just find the eggs. Yeah, nobody on a TV

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Speaker 1: knows what to say when something unplanned happens. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: she could think of was to kind of squeak a

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Speaker 1: bit um. She apparently, Uh, she was interviewed after what

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Speaker 1: happened in twenty fourteen. They're still not saying what happened

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Speaker 1: on Saturday that caused her to faint, But in twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: she had this heart leaky valve that had to be

603
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Speaker 1: replaced eventually, and then she ended up having a child

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Speaker 1: and then you know, rebooting her careers. Actually got from

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Speaker 1: Bakersfield to Los Angeles. I mean, yeah, that's probably looked

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Speaker 1: her up. She also was missus California one year. I

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Speaker 1: was that right, Yeah, like a beauty pageant winner. She

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Speaker 1: sent out a message thanks for all the kind wishes

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Speaker 1: as I recover from my head injury. I'm out of

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Speaker 1: the hospital. I'm doing okay, lots of sleeping and even

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Speaker 1: some pizza. And she's put out a picture, I guess

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Speaker 1: of the pizza slices from some place. There could be

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons you faint. You could be dehydrated, overheated.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's just tough when it happens at then,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it could be. She's in the back office

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Speaker 1: right preparing for the newscast, not on the camera, but there.

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Speaker 1: She was kind of smiling as they were introducing the

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Speaker 1: news and then suddenly she just pitches over and then back.

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Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, our guests will be Steve Gregory.

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Speaker 1: We need to talk about this anti police activist group

621
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Speaker 1: which has decided to take their whole battle to another level.

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Speaker 1: They've launched a website with a database of a lot

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Speaker 1: of information on every LAPD officer. This is really nutty.

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Speaker 1: And then I think they caused somebody ease if I

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Speaker 1: was a police officer. So they've declared war on the police.

626
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Speaker 1: They're inviting every whack job in the world to know

627
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Speaker 1: who these police specifically are, so they could be tracked down,

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Speaker 1: they could be targeted exactly because well, did you see

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Speaker 1: that Times poll over the weekend that came out that

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Speaker 1: half the people, younger people think police are just simply racist. Half.

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Speaker 1: I'm like half because somebody taught them that. Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: you think any of them had an experience where that

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Speaker 1: really happened? I doubt no, No, no, again, that's what

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Speaker 1: they teach in a lot of the schools down all right,

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Speaker 1: he'll come on next Johnny Ken caf I AM six forty.

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