1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four after four o'clock. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 2: If you missed anything, shame, shame, but you can hear 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: it again on the podcast John Cobel's Show on demand, 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 2: also on the iHeart app. And we have to wish 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark happy anniversary. This week is eight years since 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: she joined the show permanently, full. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: Time, full time, every day. 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: Yes, she was on with us as a filling newscaster 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 2: going way. 12 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: Back, yeah, and then twenty years ago. 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: Twenty years ago, and then she bounced back here and 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: filled in for a while and eventually she was so 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 2: overwhelmingly charming yeah, and brilliant thing. So she's been with 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 2: us now since February twenty seventeen, every day. 17 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 3: Yes, all right, going on nine years now officially. 18 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: That's right. 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: We're starting the ninth year together, so no coincidence. Ken 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: left shortly after I know anyway, congratulations, thank you, uh. 21 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: And today we are going to dedicate the program to 22 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, who you know. You do this long enough, 23 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: you stop being like shocked or surprised by things. But 24 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: this morning when I saw this, I thought, no, you've 25 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: got to be kidding me, that this can't be real. 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson, who's the anchor at Fox eleven, did an 27 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: interview with Karen Bass. He posted a number of the 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 2: clips online and he actually actually texted me this morning 29 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: and he says, I think you'd be interested in this, 30 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 2: And yeah, we got a lot of cuts to play, 31 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 2: but the first one I want you really you might 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: want to pull your car over to the side of 33 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 2: the road. 34 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 4: Uh. 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: And if I don't know, if you're in the kitchen, 36 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: maybe you're preparing lunch for yourself, put down any sharp objects. 37 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 2: If you're carrying a small baby, put the baby down 38 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: in the crib. 39 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: I don't want you know, you. 40 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 2: May start dropping things, stabbing yourself, running into trees or 41 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: phone poles. Alex asked Karen Bass about why she went 42 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: to Ghana even though we had these extreme fire warnings 43 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: from the National Weather Service. 44 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: Play cut number one to. 45 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 4: Go to Ghana, which I know you've said was a 46 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 4: mistake now, but I just am curious on the thought 47 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 4: process behind it. Well, because we know that there was 48 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 4: warnings about the weather before you went, and you still went. 49 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 4: What was the thought process behind going to Ghana. So 50 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 4: let me just tell you a couple of things. 51 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 5: First of all, when the White House called and asked 52 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 5: me if I would represent the president, I said yes. 53 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 5: It was going to be a very very short trip 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 5: over a weekend and two business days. We need to 55 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 5: look at everything about the preparation and all of that 56 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 5: for the fires, because I think when we evaluate that, 57 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 5: we will fund you stop it. 58 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: The question was, let's go through the thought process with 59 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 2: the extreme fire warnings. 60 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: Why did you go to Ghana? That was the question. 61 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: And she goes off on two different tangents, two different 62 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: off ramps. First, she starts talking about how well it 63 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 2: was a short trip, it was just a weekend and 64 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: two business days, trying to leave you with the impression 65 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: she was only gone two days. When you're the mayor 66 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: of a big city, you're working seven days a week. 67 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: You're on duty. 68 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 2: So you left, you left for Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 69 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: and the only reason you came back and landed here 70 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 2: on Wednesday was because of the fire. So you were 71 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: gone five days, not two days. That sounds like a 72 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: staff member or a lawyer or some public relations crisis 73 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: control Council wrote the thing for her. It's like, I 74 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 2: think it sound like it was just two days, you know, 75 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: two business days, two business days, like fires don't start 76 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: on weekends. That really annoyed me. And then she starts 77 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 2: talking about all the investigations. It's been six weeks. What's 78 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 2: to investigate? The warning from the National Weather Service was clear. 79 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: You went to Africa. There, that doesn't have to be 80 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: an investigation. I'm assuming you have a record of buying 81 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 2: the plane ticket, and we certainly have a record of 82 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: the warning. And so to reiterate the question and then 83 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: we'll see if she gets to an answer. What Alex 84 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 2: Michaelson was asking is, let's go through the thought process. 85 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: We had these fire warnings, and then you went to Africa. 86 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: Let's see if she gets there. 87 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 5: We will find that although there were warnings that I 88 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 5: frankly wasn't aware of. 89 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: All right, stop, all right, roll that back so we 90 00:04:58,480 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: get the full sentence here. 91 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 5: We will find that although there were warnings that I 92 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 5: frankly wasn't aware of. 93 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Stop, she was not aware of the warnings, the warnings. 94 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: I look this up. 95 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 2: See these incompetent, arrogant political hacks can't lie as easily 96 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: as they used to. I mean, they can try, but 97 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 2: they're not going to get away with it because with 98 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: the Internet, there's a public record of everything. So I 99 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: listened to that clip this morning, and I went to 100 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: the National Weather Service Twitter account, the x account, and 101 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: it was very easy to find. National Weather Service Los Angeles, 102 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: January second. That's the Thursday at six twenty six pm. 103 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 2: Here is the whole. I'm going to read you the post, 104 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 2: and I'm going to read you the graphic. They had 105 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 2: a very colorful, bold graphic. There is a potential from 106 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 2: moderate to strong Santa Ana wins and extreme fire weather 107 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 2: conditions next Tuesday through Thursday. That would be January seventh 108 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: through ninth. Fire started on January seventh, so they were 109 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 2: warning that's January seventh, eighth, and ninth extreme fire weather conditions. 110 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 2: This is six twenty six on the second. She wasn't 111 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 2: aware of the warnings. How big is her staff? Did 112 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: any of them watch the news listen to the news? 113 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 2: I mean, Deborah read the warnings back on Thursday, January second. 114 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 3: We all knew that this was a very unusual event. 115 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: I imagine, I mean, there is practically twenty four hour 116 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 2: local news now nearly all the hours are covered by 117 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 2: one station or another. I imagine every hour for every 118 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 2: newscast in Los Angeles, starting with Thursday night, Friday, Saturday. 119 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: There was com mean, it was, it was, it was obvious. 120 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: You could not escape it, especially somebody who's the mayor 121 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. 122 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: Wow. 123 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: So then the graphic it says at the top, potential 124 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 2: fire weather risk next Tuesday through Thursday, January seventh through ninth. 125 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: Chance of moderate destroying sant Ana winds combined with dry 126 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 2: air and vegetation impacts. Extreme fire growth and behavior possible 127 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: if a fire starts and power outages. Use extra caution 128 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: in bold with potential fire sources. National Weather Service, issued Thursday, 129 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 2: January second, twenty twenty five, six twenty six pm. 130 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: How is it now? 131 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: Is she lying she wasn't aware of it? That that's 132 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: that's incomprehensible. In fact, maybe you know, Thursday evening she 133 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: was at another party. I don't know, other diplomatic parties. 134 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 2: She's had a couple of drakes, went to bed early. 135 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 2: But Friday morning she's in La the whole day on Friday, 136 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 2: So what happened there? Nobody on her staff, nobody on 137 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: the City Council and their staff. I'm going to look 138 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: up and see how many people work in the office 139 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: of the Mayor of Los Angeles. Nobody turned on a 140 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 2: radio or television. Nobody read the internet. Nobody and said 141 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: and said, hey, Karen, big firestorm possible next week. 142 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: Are you sure you want to go? Nobody play some more. 143 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 5: Although there were warnings that I frankly wasn't aware of. 144 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 5: Although there were warnings, I think our preparation it wasn't 145 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 5: what it is typically is, meaning that before there's a 146 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 5: major weather event. For example, last week, when we knew 147 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 5: we were going to get into the rains, you saw 148 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 5: us come together and us talk about, you know, get 149 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 5: your sandbags, bring the krik stopping it. 150 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: You're in charge of the preparations. You're the mayor. 151 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: And we even noted how different it was before the 152 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: rains because she was on all the newscasts. We were 153 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 2: playing audio of her giving out the warnings and the 154 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 2: you know, the fire chief too. And that's why on 155 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: January second, the evening of January second, there should have 156 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: been an immediate meeting between Karen Bass and Kristin Crowley, 157 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: and there should have been a whole checklist Okay, starting 158 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, how many firefighters do we have available? 159 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: All right? 160 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: Are you going to keep this? Are you going to 161 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 2: keep the overnight shift over into the daytime? Right because 162 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 2: there's an extra thousand firefighters there and there's forty engines 163 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 2: that you could use. Are we going to do that? 164 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 2: And okay, what are resources? Does she even know that 165 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,359 Speaker 2: there was a reservoir in the Palisades? 166 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: That she know what exists? John? 167 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 6: Didn't she say I know? There were warnings that I 168 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 6: wasn't aware of them. 169 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 3: Didn't she say that? 170 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you play that again. I wanted to play 171 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 2: this like five hundred times. Today you have the mayor 172 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles actually saying this. She's she's not aware 173 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 2: of them. You might want to put that out like 174 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: on a separate clip, going to chase her to political 175 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: grave with that. 176 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 5: Although there were warnings that I frankly wasn't aware of. 177 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 5: Although there were warnings. 178 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: How can you? 179 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 6: I mean, seriously, it was all over the news and 180 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 6: you're telling me the mayor of Los Angeles, Yeah, doesn't 181 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 6: watch or listen or read the news, and no one 182 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 6: made her aware of this huge wind slash potential fire event. 183 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: Obviously not a Cafi fan. 184 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 3: Obviously not, because we were all. 185 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: Over that she's not tuning into the Deborah Mark News. 186 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's not cool, Maribith. 187 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 2: See what happens. Yeah, you don't listen to Deborah next day? Yeah, 188 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 2: there's no nothing. 189 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: Your city burns. Wow, that is stunning. 190 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: I saw it this morning, and I'm playing it all 191 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 2: over and over again, just in front of you. Didn't 192 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: really say that. That's really not really possible. And I'm thinking, 193 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: all right, could she be lying? It's like, all right, well, 194 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 2: what's the upside of lying? I mean, she said this is, 195 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 2: this is, this is you should not be there anymore. 196 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: There's no upside in saying I wasn't aware. 197 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 6: Because everybody, people that don't even often listen or don't 198 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 6: listen as much as you know, certain people do. Everybody 199 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 6: knew that it was going to be crazy windy, and 200 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 6: people were worried about fires. 201 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: We have so much more. What do we get through 202 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: about there's still a minute forty two. 203 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 2: I was just about to say, yeah, I know, and 204 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: I have a half a dozen other clips too. All right, 205 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: we will get to this. This is astonishing. I don't 206 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 2: know how we can move on another day with her 207 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: as the mayor after she admits she wasn't aware of 208 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: the fire worn mornicom Deborah Mark. Listen to Deborah when 209 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: there are fire warnings, she tells you that's height Well. 210 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 2: At NIF twenty four hour News sent you're. 211 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 7: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 212 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: We are playing clips from Karen Bass getting interviewed by 213 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: Fox Lemons Alex Michaelson. And if you're just joining us, 214 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: we discovered Alex discovered that Karen Bass decided to go 215 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: to Africa after the fire warnings, and he asked why, 216 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: what was the thought process? She said she wasn't aware 217 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: of the fire warnings at the time. And as I said, 218 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: it's on the National Weather Service Los Angeles X twitter 219 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 2: site six twenty six pm, January second, potential fire weather risk, 220 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: extreme fire growth behavior possible if a fire starts, and 221 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 2: we broadcast that probably you know, every half hour, every 222 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes, maybe here on the station. And so did 223 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 2: I imagine every other television station two, four, five, seven, 224 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 2: nine eleven, all of them right, Spectrum news BBS, mean, 225 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 2: everybody had the fire warnings. It was in the newspapers, 226 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 2: and that was on Thursday the second, and the fire 227 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: started on Tuesday the seventh, the seventh, and she left 228 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: for Africa on Saturday of the fourth. Anyway, let's pick 229 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: up from there and we'll play out the rest of 230 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 2: this or it's going to take me an hour to 231 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: get through two minutes of her, Karen Bass and Alex. 232 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 5: Michaelson bring the k rails out. That type of preparation 233 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 5: didn't happen. If that had, I will tell you, Alex, 234 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 5: I wouldn't have even gone to San Diego, let alone 235 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 5: leave the country. 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 4: But what do you mean there were warnings you weren't 237 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 4: aware of, because I know we were talking about it 238 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 4: on the news. A lot of people were talking about 239 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 4: the problems at warning that this was going to be 240 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 4: a huge thing. 241 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 5: So when I talked about it with the fire chief, 242 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 5: what she said is is that we have warnings of 243 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 5: Santa Anna wins a lot, but predicting this, and you 244 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 5: saw from the city, from the county, that level of 245 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 5: preparation really didn't happen. So it didn't reach that level. 246 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: To me, stop, to stop, stop, what is it? What 247 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: does that mean? I didn't know. 248 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: I don't understand what she's what she's talking about He said, 249 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: what do you mean he didn't know about the warnings? 250 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: And then she goes, well, we didn't have the preparation both. Yeah, 251 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: but you're the mayor and how did you not know 252 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 2: about the warnings from Thursday to Saturday? And she starts 253 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 2: saying the fire department wasn't prepared, and it wasn't prepared Kris, 254 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 2: Kristen Crowley's another one that needs to get the boat, clearly, 255 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 2: but she just starts, it's word salad time continue. 256 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 5: So it didn't reach that level to me to say 257 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 5: something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone 258 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 5: on the trip. 259 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 4: But to me, I don't know. 260 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 5: I mean I think that that's one of the things 261 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 5: we need to look at all stop. 262 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 2: So she's blaming Kristin Crowley in the fire department for 263 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: not warning her. Karen bass that there was an extreme 264 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 2: fire warning. 265 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 6: By basically saying, well, we always have Santa Anna wind warnings. 266 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 3: It's no big deal. This is this is the same 267 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 3: that we always talk about, which it wasn't. 268 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: No, this is the word extreme was used. 269 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 6: I never say extreme. I say Santa Anna wins are coming. 270 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 6: That's what we all do. We never This is the 271 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 6: first time in many years that US news anchors and 272 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 6: talk show hosts that extreme. 273 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: Well, because that's a specific You're right, that's a specific 274 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 2: designate designation in that the National Weather Service uses for 275 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 2: these special events. And they hadn't had I think they've 276 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 2: only issued maybe four or five of these warnings over 277 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: the years, exactly. I believe we had two this year. 278 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: But it is unusual, and that's the whole point. She 279 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 2: should have heard the word extreme first of all. As mayor, 280 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 2: she should know what all these phrases mean. You're running 281 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: a city that is prone to wildfires, right, they're always 282 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 2: prattling about climate change making fires worse. We're now in 283 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: a year round fire season. How many times have you 284 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 2: heard that nonsense? So they preach all this and then 285 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 2: she goes, WHOA, there wasn't any preparation. 286 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: How could there not be preparation. What's the Weather Service 287 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: supposed to do? 288 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 2: How could the fire chief not be aware of the 289 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: weather forecast when it's being broadcast almost continuously on radio 290 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 2: and television. And it was all, I don't understand this. Well, 291 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 2: we always get Santa Ana wins. Yeah, and every Santa 292 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 2: Ana win can bring a catastrophic fire, especially when the 293 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 2: winds get up to eighty or one hundred miles an hour. 294 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 2: What do they do all day there? What goes on 295 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 2: in the mayor's office all day? What goes on in 296 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: the fire chief's office? Your top priority, top priority as 297 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 2: mayor is to keep the public safe. And of course 298 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 2: she fails miserably at that. You've seen all the crime, 299 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 2: and you've seen all the mental patients and drug addicts 300 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 2: stumbling around the city. The top thing the fire chief 301 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 2: has to do is prevent fires, be aware of extreme 302 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: fire danger because that can kill the most people, and 303 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 2: that can destroy the most homes. Instead, they spend about 304 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: they spend more than half their time putting out homeless fires. 305 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: Do people realize how eft up this city is. 306 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 2: The fire department is half funded by Karen Bass, and 307 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 2: they spend more than half their time on homeless fires 308 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: because Karen Bass will not remove the homeless like virtually 309 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 2: every other city in America has been able to do. 310 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: I was just in Manhattan Beach over the weekend. Well 311 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: that is a revelation. Went to Manhattan Beach, just. 312 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 2: Walked around a few hours, walked along the walked along 313 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 2: the beach, on the strand, there had lunch shopped a little. 314 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 2: Not one homeless person, not one homeless person. I mean, 315 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 2: they're ain'tal there to the point where you know, they 316 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: hired a guy to rub chalk on the tires of 317 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 2: everybody parked in the parking spaces to make sure you 318 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 2: didn't stay longer than two hours. But the place was clean. 319 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 2: There's no garbage on the ground in Manhattan Beach. There 320 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 2: were no homeless people there, and I know there's very 321 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: little crime. Well, why can't you do this in LA 322 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 2: I don't understand that you don't have to worry about 323 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 2: fire danger in Manhattan Beach. I realized the mayor is 324 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 2: very busy, not doing anything about the crime, and not 325 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 2: doing anything about the homeless, and not picking up the garbage. 326 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: And it's a crowded plate she has. And if you're 327 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 2: the mayor of a big city, should you be taking 328 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,959 Speaker 2: five days off for any reason during high fire season 329 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 2: after you've gotten the warning to go to Africa for 330 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 2: the inauguration of the President of Ghana. 331 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: It is staggering that she's still in office. She wasn't 332 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: aware of the warnings. All right, we come back. 333 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 2: Alex asks her about the Sky News reporter who got 334 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: her at the airport when she finally landed, and whether 335 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 2: she failed the residence of the Palisades See if we 336 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 2: get any direct answers. 337 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 338 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 7: six forty. 339 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four eight seven seven Moist 340 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 2: eighty six Voice line eight seven seven Moist eighty six 341 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 2: coming back this Friday, or the talkback feature on the 342 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,719 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. And we're going to continue playing clips of 343 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: Fox eleven the anchor Alex Michaelson interviewing Karen Bass. It's 344 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 2: about about a half an hour on the revelation that 345 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 2: she wasn't aware of the fire warnings for the two 346 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 2: days before she went on a plane to Africa, which 347 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 2: everybody's stunn. I can't imagine if you're a Palisades homeowner 348 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 2: who lost everything you own in the fire and you're listening, 349 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 2: you're driving right now and you're listening to the mayor 350 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 2: said she wasn't aware of the fire warnings. 351 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: It's just astonishing. And let's go to cut too. 352 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 2: Alex asks the mayor about that Sky News reporter who 353 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: accosted Bass coming out of the airport. 354 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 4: On the way back, there's this Sky News reporter that 355 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 4: comes up to you sort of ambushes you, or I 356 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 4: see it with the phone in your face, and that 357 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 4: clip has gone megaviral and we know you didn't respond 358 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 4: to him in the time. What was going through your 359 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 4: mind and why the decision not to respond? 360 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 5: Well, I will tell you, Yes, it was an ambush, 361 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 5: and I wasn't sure who he was. 362 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 4: And that is unfortunate. 363 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,959 Speaker 5: Because I see the way that looks as though I 364 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 5: was avoiding. But when you're getting off a plane and 365 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 5: you've been on a plane seventeen hours and somebody hits 366 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 5: you with a camera, I wish, in hindsight, my response 367 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 5: had been better. 368 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was. 369 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: He's holding a microphone and there's a guy holding a 370 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: camera behind him. Palisades burning. Who would you think he was? 371 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 2: He was a reporter. What's wrong she got all exiled? Yes, 372 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 2: it was an ambus, Yes I was. It's not the report. 373 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 2: The reporter is doing his job. Los Angeles is burning. 374 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 2: You worried here, and so he wanted to know why 375 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 2: he did exactly the right thing. What the hell's wrong 376 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,959 Speaker 2: with her? Yes, she's the victim. You hear that She's 377 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 2: the victim. Boy, she's a classic progressive. She is the victim. 378 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: She was asked the question and she didn't have She 379 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 2: didn't She wished she'd done better around that one too, 380 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 2: So it's like two for two two questions. Yes, I 381 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 2: shouldn't have gone to Africa. Yes, I should have answered 382 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: that reporter better, and still hasn't explained how she could 383 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 2: possibly not know about the fire warnings. 384 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: It's gonna cut three. 385 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson asking Karen Bass if the city failed the 386 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,479 Speaker 2: Palisades residents. 387 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 4: The city's preparation. As you mentioned, the La Times had 388 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 4: a story out just this week saying that there could 389 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 4: have been ten more fire engines in the Palisades. Did 390 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 4: the city fail the residents of the Palisades? 391 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 5: Well, again, all of that has to be examined with experts. 392 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: You know. 393 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 4: There's also a. 394 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 5: Report that there were firefighters that were sent home. The 395 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 5: shift was sent home, right, Why were they sent home? 396 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 4: All of that needs were to be examined. 397 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 5: That's why we're going to have the investigations because it's 398 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 5: very important to get to the bottom of it. 399 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 4: What does accountability look like to you? And is it 400 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 4: time that somebody be fired for this. 401 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 5: Well again, I mean, I think it's premature to say now, 402 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 5: but I do think that we have to examine everything, 403 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 5: and that is going to take place very soon. 404 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: What is with this? We have to have an investigation. 405 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 2: Kristen Crowley had a thousand fire fighters available, she sent 406 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: them home from the overnight shift. What else do you 407 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 2: need to know? What's the investigation? She had forty engines, 408 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 2: they weren't deployed. And if you read that Times article 409 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 2: that Alex mentioned, these were former assistant through deputy chiefs 410 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 2: saying well, no, that absolutely should have been done. That 411 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: standard practice and it's what we did in previous of 412 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 2: fire threats in the Palisades. I think there were three 413 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 2: others in the last decade, in twenty eleven, twenty thirteen, 414 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 2: and twenty nineteen. And I know they had a fire 415 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one that my friends in the Palisades 416 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 2: said the firefighters responded to very quickly. So I don't 417 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: under what constantly they answered, everything's the investigation. 418 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: Well, I really I'm baffled by this. 419 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 2: What's the different conclusion that we're going to come up with. 420 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley really screwed up in the worst way possible. 421 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 2: She had one thousand firefighters and another forty engines, and 422 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 2: she didn't put any of them in the Palisades or 423 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 2: any of the other areas that were under threat, which 424 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 2: reminds me that's the other. 425 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: That's the other. 426 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,959 Speaker 2: National Weather Service warning on Twitter that they put out 427 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 2: eleven am on January sixth. 428 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: Well, all right, that's Monday. This is twenty four. 429 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 2: Hours before the fire, and this one's on Crowley because 430 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: bass was already in Africa. She wasn't gonna leave until 431 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 2: the next day, the next evening. 432 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 1: Okay, so she's in Africa. 433 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 2: Although you know, did anybody call Bass an Africa and say, boy, 434 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 2: wait wait to. 435 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: Hear this morning. 436 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 2: I'm gonna read to you, boy, Ashy Weather Service is 437 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 2: putting out the most severe warning anybody has ever seen. 438 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: Maybe you ought to come back now. 439 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 2: And if she was on the phone all the time 440 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 2: with Kristin Crowley, she should have been on the phone 441 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 2: on Monday, Sunday, Saturday, Friday, and they should have devised 442 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 2: a plan. What happens if the fire breaks out in 443 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 2: the Palisades, what happens if it breaks out in Hollywood, 444 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 2: what happens if it breaks out in bel Air or 445 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 2: Encino or Tarzana or all those places. All right, listen 446 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 2: to this National Weather Service eleven am, January sixth. That's 447 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 2: the Monday heads up in capital letters and one, two, 448 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 2: three exclamation points, they are. 449 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: Shouting heads up. 450 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 2: Also in capital letters a life threatening destructive and then 451 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 2: in small letters widespread windstorm, a life threatening destructive. Widespring 452 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 2: windstorm is expected Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning across much 453 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 2: of Ventura La County. Areas not that are not typically 454 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 2: windy that will be impacted see graphic for areas of 455 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 2: greatest concern. Stay indoors, away from windows, Expect power outages. 456 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: What else could they say? Now? 457 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley at eleven o'clock in the morning on Monday 458 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 2: didn't read any of this. 459 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 5: Well. 460 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 6: Also, the weather forecasters were talking about, I know, we've 461 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 6: talked about this numerous times, the very low humidity and 462 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 6: the fact that we have not had rain in nine 463 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 6: months or whatever. 464 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: It was. 465 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, single digit humidity. I saw some humidity readings at 466 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 2: three percent. I didn't know that was possible. 467 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 6: No, it was such a recipe for disasters. So you 468 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 6: have that and you have this extreme wind event, so. 469 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,239 Speaker 2: Then they have a graphic, and I guess it's in 470 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 2: red because I have a black and white print out 471 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 2: here life threatening and destructive windstorm in big bold letters 472 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 2: with three exclamation points and underlined. So it's in big 473 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 2: bold letters, underlined exclamation points, and underneath that it says 474 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: extreme risk. 475 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: Take immediate action. 476 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 2: Now you are a fire chief and you see that 477 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 2: extremists take a media act. And then the Weather Service 478 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 2: points out where you should be sending the fire engines 479 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 2: areas within the magenta outlined area. Yes, they have a map, 480 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 2: and they had a magenta line in circling around the 481 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 2: high risk areas, including the Highway one, eighteen and two 482 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: ten corridors. San Gabriel, Santa Susanna, Santa Monica Mountains and Foothills. Okay, 483 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: that's Pallisades, San Grabriy and San Fernando Valleys, Pasadena, Burbank, 484 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 2: San Fernando, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Simi Valley, silmoar Porta Ranch 485 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: out to Outa Dina Locra sent up Malibu, which is 486 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 2: right next door to the Palisades. But the Santa Monica 487 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 2: Mountains and Foothills is the mountain range that cuts through 488 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: the city from the Palisades, you know, out east past Hollywood, 489 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: and then on the northern side it is Woodland Hills 490 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: out east all the way to Studio City. And even 491 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: at the bottom it says important we three asterisks, damaging 492 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 2: winds also expected outside. 493 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: Of magenta outlined areas expect power outages. 494 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: They even have a little graph that that shows you 495 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: the different levels of risk and the graph shows, you know, 496 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 2: the extreme bar was highlighted. I've been on this one 497 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 2: post five different ways. They tried to make it clear 498 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 2: this may be the worst firestorm ever in Los Angeles 499 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 2: since the city was settled. 500 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 6: Our officials they didn't they didn't catch that, they didn't 501 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 6: see that, they didn't have any knowledge of this extreme 502 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 6: wind fire event. 503 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 2: I'm just all right, we got to take a break. 504 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 2: You know, We're going to have on Carl Demyo after 505 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 2: two o'clock. He discovered in a hearing that the News 506 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 2: of Administration was claiming they were spending about six and 507 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 2: a half billion dollars on illegal alien healthcare. Well turns 508 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 2: out it's forty six percent higher. We're going to play 509 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 2: a little clip of the hearing and we're gonna have 510 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: Carl on the show to talk about it, and when 511 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: we come back, more of Karen Besk. 512 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,959 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 513 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 7: six forty. 514 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 2: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 515 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 2: We're going to have Carl Demyo coming on. The Republican 516 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: Assemblyman from San Diego. He had a hearing yesterday and 517 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 2: he got somebody from the governor's office to admit that 518 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 2: the illegal alien healthcare bill, which is supposed to be 519 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 2: six and a half billion dollars, is actually forty six 520 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: percent higher. Nine and a half billion. That's the amount 521 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 2: of money that the state of California, that California taxpayers 522 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 2: are spending on a legal alien healthcare nine and a 523 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 2: half billion dollars a year, and we have a half 524 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: funded fire department here in Los Angeles. All right, let's 525 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: get to more clips of Alex Michaelson Fox eleven interviewing 526 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 2: Karen Bass. The big story is Karen Bass wasn't aware 527 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,239 Speaker 2: of all the extreme fire warnings, even though they were 528 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 2: out two days before she went to Africa. Didn't know 529 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 2: about it. Nobody told her. This is just impossible to believe. 530 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 2: Let's play cut number four. This is Alex Michaelson asking 531 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 2: Bass how she assesses the LA fire chief Kristen Crowley, 532 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 2: How do. 533 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 4: You assess the job performance of the chief of fire department. Well, 534 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 4: I think. 535 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 5: That that's something that has to be assessed. I need 536 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 5: to understand why things were handled differently this time than 537 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 5: they've been handled before. 538 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 4: I think that is I'm not sure. 539 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, to be honest with you, I'm not sure. I 540 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 5: think you know as when I spoke with her again 541 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 5: Santa Anna's happened all the time, and not being able 542 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 5: to predict the seriousness of this, and I think, again, 543 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 5: it's not just the city. We have to look at 544 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 5: the entire area. 545 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: That was only thirty seconds. My blood is boiling. 546 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 2: First of all, it's six weeks that has to be assessed. 547 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 2: You didn't assess by now it's six weeks the fires 548 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 2: put out. Kristian Crowley's available. I don't know what we 549 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 2: have to find out. What is we have to find out? 550 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 2: It's February the what here? Twentieth Nineteenthwe feels like the 551 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 2: twentieth February the nineteenth. Oh oh, we have to I mean, 552 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: if you were the mayor, I'd be banging in Kristin 553 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 2: Crowley's door on January eighth. 554 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 6: If I was the mayor, I would hope that I 555 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 6: would get in front of everybody and say I screwed 556 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 6: up big time. Everybody screwed up. All of us city 557 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 6: officials screwed up. You're right, we should have done this 558 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 6: and this and this. 559 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: We weren't aware. 560 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 3: I don't know why. It's it's all on us, and 561 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 3: that'd be the truth. 562 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's not about just taking blame for 563 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 2: the sake of taking blame. 564 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: It's it's they It's all true. 565 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 3: But no one wants to say that. 566 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 2: Why don't they? It's so obvious. This is what's infuriating. 567 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 6: Because not everybody is listening to the John Cobelt Show 568 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 6: and hearing all of this. 569 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 2: Well, if everybody was, they would have heard you worn 570 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 2: on January second. 571 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 6: And then she just said in that clip that she 572 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 6: didn't No one thought it was that. You know, basically, 573 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 6: I'm paraphrasing that big of a deal. 574 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's the what you read. 575 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 3: On Twitter from the National Weather Service and the you know, 576 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 3: highlighted in the capital letters. 577 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: And all of that. 578 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 2: Why what don't you understand about life threatening and destructive windstorm. 579 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 3: That's way different than what we use extreme risk. 580 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 2: I let me work one more in here. Alex Michaelson 581 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 2: asked Bass about getting Steve sober Off to be in 582 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 2: charge of the recovery effort. 583 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 5: I was very happy to ask Steve to come and participate. 584 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 5: And let me just tell you, it took a lot 585 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 5: of arm twisting to get him to come, which is 586 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 5: why he agreed to come for ninety days. His contributions 587 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 5: to our city, building playa vista in the Staples Center, 588 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 5: and the fact that he was from the Palisades. So 589 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 5: I was very happy when he did reconsider and decided 590 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 5: that he would be willing to do this for free. 591 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 4: When you say it took a lot of arm twisting, 592 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 4: he didn't really want to help it, well, I mean 593 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 4: you know how this sounds. 594 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 5: Well, I mean you know, he was involved in a 595 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 5: lot of different projects. 596 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was asking him to walk. 597 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 5: Away from everything and to come and to help his city. 598 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 5: That was the arm twisting. 599 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: No, was it armed twisting? You're off for him a 600 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: half a million dollars. What a load of crap? That 601 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: is a steaming pile of feces. 602 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 2: He offered him five hundred thousand dollars, and then he agreed, 603 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 2: and then he offered two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 604 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 2: for his buddy and he only had to work ninety days. 605 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 2: That's what got him. What are you? 606 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: Is she crazy? I guess she thinks. 607 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 2: I guess they're all used to people believe in her nonsense. 608 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 2: Look how far she got seventy one years old and 609 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 2: she's the mayor of la I guess you just be 610 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 2: people believe all this political nonsense. It's bull crap. I 611 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 2: had to do arm twisting. Give me a half million 612 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 2: dollars for three months work. You don't have to touch 613 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 2: my arm on. 614 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 1: What's he doing? He's making phone calls all day. 615 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,359 Speaker 2: Trying to get Ralph Stowe open up a pop up 616 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 2: store or something. 617 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,319 Speaker 1: He's really sweating. We come back. 618 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,400 Speaker 2: We'll return to this because we have more. We didn't play, 619 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 2: and I think everybody in the world ought to know 620 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 2: what we got here running the city because we have 621 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 2: many years of recovery still to come. When we return, 622 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 2: we're going to have another scandal. Carl Demyo, he's now 623 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 2: he was at a budget hearing California Assembly. He's an 624 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 2: assemblyman from San Diego and you'll hear a little clip. 625 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,919 Speaker 2: Instead of illegal alien healthcare costing six and a half 626 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 2: billion dollars, it's going to cost nine and a half billion. 627 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,879 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark Live the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 628 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,759 Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You 629 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 630 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 631 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.