1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. We've got so much to do now if 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna fit it in, I know there's a lot 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: of stories today. You're going to be smashing your head 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: against the windshield. We got big updates. The long beach 5 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: man that ran over the bicyclist, that you are a 6 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: doctor in Orange County. This something there you got to 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: hear about. And that public defender from Orange County who 8 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: traveled to Mexico with his wife, also a public defender, 9 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: to celebrate their wedding anniversary. He died and the Mexican 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: officials were saying that he fell off a balcony. The 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: wife not buying that, and she's been doing some interviews 12 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: and we have some new information on the case. That's 13 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: all ahead, But we begin with one of John's favorite 14 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: subjects the last two weeks, the Chinese spy balloon. Yeah, 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: it turns out that the Chinese spy balloon is part 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: of a network a fleet yea spy balloons that have 17 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: floated over forty different countries over the years, on most 18 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: of the continents. Damn. Apparently the whole program they have 19 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: somewhere and every minute of the day there's a Chinese 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: balloon and It may not come to anybody's surprise, but 21 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: they're giving us some information about what was found in 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: the wreckage of the Chinese by balloon was shot down 23 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: off of South Carolina. And it wasn't a bunch of 24 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: barometers and wind weather vanes and winds wind years. No, No, 25 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: they weren't looking for wind speeds in Idaho. It's a 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: surillance operation that they were carrying out. We're gonna go 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: for an update now. Oh and the House of Representatives 28 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: look at this. Who says you can't have bipartisanship four 29 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen zero to condemn China condemned the balloon. 30 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: That's what you can get everyone in Congress to agree 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: on to condemn a sad balloon. We don't have Justin 32 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: Finch yet, so I'm still awaiting him in a couple 33 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: of minutes, but we can talk a bit about what 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: they found in this Chinese balloon. It looks like they 35 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: did find equipment that indicates, yes, it was a surveillance operation. 36 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: These intelligence collection sensors were found from odd solar panels. 37 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: All right, justin fish, ABC News, how are you hi there? Good? 38 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: How are you welcome? We were just starting to list 39 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: some of the stuff that they think made up this 40 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: balloon and the spy equipment that was attached to it. 41 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: Can you give us more detail while we're hearing that, 42 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: based on the wreckage just being found off the coast 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 1: of South Carolina, that this was obviously not just a 44 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: weather balloon or civilian aircraft. At the innards of this 45 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: thing had all the makings of an overhead surveillance system 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: that was meant to travel over sensitive sites across the country. 47 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: So given this, we have seen across the board here 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: in Washington bipartisan support for doing something to call China 49 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: to the carpet. Today in the House, the resolution pass 50 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: to condemn this balloon incursion from China and also pressure 51 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: on the White House and diplomats here in us to 52 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: do something to show China that we're not going to 53 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: take this lying down. So today there wasn't all Senate, 54 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: all House member briefing about the latest on this balloon 55 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: what they've uncovered so far. We are hearing that the 56 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: goal here is to get all these remains of this balloon, 57 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: which will take some time, by the way, and try 58 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: to reconstruct them as much as possible to get a 59 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: better idea of how this was maneuvered from China, how 60 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: it transmitted information, and how it got communications be an image, 61 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: it's video or otherwise as it flew over the US, 62 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: do they, as they spoke on what the balloon could 63 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: give China that all the Chinese spy satellites that hover 64 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: overhead can't give them. Well, you know, there are a 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: few things here. One this balloon, as we now understand, 66 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: it was able to be high enough in the air 67 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: and just below space and kind of a sweet spot 68 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: if you will, that allow for it to not be 69 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: as easily tracked as a AD like or other devices, 70 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: So kind of like a diver satellite that could sit 71 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: over spaces a bit longer and linger and get valuable intelligence. 72 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: You know, this does not stopped many other ways of 73 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: gathering intelligence ways are probably in some ways more effective too, 74 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: through you know, apps, as many complain about TikTok or 75 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: human intelligence too. But this is one of many ways 76 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: a country can surveil another. But it appears to be 77 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: in many ways just how blatic this was and also 78 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: in some ways how sloppy it was too. Just to 79 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: blow over into another country's airspace and think it's okay, 80 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: or you won't be caught, even though in the past 81 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: they were not caught. Yeah, I was gonna say, as 82 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: they've been in discussion about how they can detect these 83 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: things sooner. Well they're they're saying now that they have 84 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: an idea of how this balloon worked. Again that was 85 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: pretty big about the size of three buses and how 86 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: it operated. They can now track similar devices better in 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: the future now given that we kind of know how 88 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: it works, you know, And from Capitol Hill they're saying, well, 89 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: now they'll just you know, change their strategy, which they 90 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: very likely will. But at least we now know that 91 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: they can't launch something similar again and have an ink 92 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,679 Speaker 1: by so easily, So that might be off the table 93 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: for them, but that could also push them to more 94 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 1: tried and true methods like you know, devices and like 95 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: human intelligence. But in many ways, this is just such 96 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: a public diplomatic blunder for China. It just does not 97 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: look good. What is the sense of what they should 98 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: have done to stop the balloon? Should they have shot 99 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: it down in Alaska or are the Congressman Center is 100 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: comfortable that it floated all the way across the country. 101 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: That's about a party line split right there. I can 102 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: tell you that from the Send the Appropriations hearing earlier 103 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: this morning that many of the Republican members on that 104 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: committee and some Democrats too, we're asking defense officials why 105 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: not just shut it down over Alaska in a sparsely 106 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: populated area. That's kind of why we have Alaska to 107 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: be a front lines defense station for the rest of 108 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: the country. It was just thought that, under the best advisement, 109 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: that it would be safer to get it over the water, 110 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: which has allowed us to get these pieces of it 111 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: and try to in many ways recreate the structure itself. 112 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: But the question has been what did we lose in 113 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: terms of security with this device over military basis and 114 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: since the sites for several days, that remains to be seen. 115 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: But they do believe as of right now that we're 116 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: getting more from this wreckage than they got from the 117 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: device in the sky. All Right, justin thank you very 118 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: much that report. All Right, Justin Finch with ABC News 119 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: reporting on because everybody got a classified briefing. Some of 120 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: the leadership in Congress gott yesterday and all the Senators 121 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: and all the Congress people got it today. The balloons manufacturer, 122 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: according to a senior official, has direct links to the 123 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: Chinese military and as an approved vendor of the People's 124 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: Liberation Army, and it says the company advertises balloon products 125 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: on its website, hosts videos from past flights which appeared 126 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 1: to have overflown at least US airspace and the airspace 127 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: of other countries. They actually advertise, Yeah, how they fly 128 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: over the US and look, America doesn't stop us. Here's 129 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: some more footage. They're trying to make you think we're 130 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: just a private balloons vendor. Don't worry about it. So 131 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: really they have a big intelligence operation in the High 132 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: Nine Province in China, which they think this is where 133 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: the balloon command is, so you know, to keep track 134 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: on the map. Wuhan sends us the deadly viruses, and 135 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: High Nine sends us, sends us the spy balloons. Now 136 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: we're starting to map it out. That's right. 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We're talking about the Chinese spy 145 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: balloon now officially, and of course John doesn't believe anything anymore. 146 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: Five balloons, three during the Trump administration and two now 147 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: with Biden as president, even though it's the first time 148 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: we heard about the balloons, the one that just got 149 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: shot down, they believe. In the last several years, five 150 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: balloons have made their way over some part of the 151 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: United States. Often it's Hawaii and Alaska. They stay in 152 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: the fringe places. But why balloons, Ah, this is a 153 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty good fact here. They do have advantages 154 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: over the satellites, because it sounds like a really antiquated 155 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: piece of spy equipment to use just float a balloon 156 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: over a country. Yeah, well, the stuff they have connected 157 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: to the balloon. Though they fly closer to Earth, they 158 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: drift with wind patterns which are not as predictable to 159 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: militaries and intelligence agencies as the fixed orbits of satellites, 160 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: and they can evade radar. They can also hover over areas, 161 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: while satellites are generally in constant motion, simple cameras on 162 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: balloons can actually produce clearer images than those on orbital satellites, 163 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: and other surveillance equipment on the balloon can pick up 164 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: signals that do not reach the altitude of satellites. So 165 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: maybe the Chinese were early onto something. Apparently this has 166 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: been a big deal for them. Some of the information 167 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: we're getting is that the People's Liberation Army and its 168 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: instructures have been telling some of their tech people to 169 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: focus on the balloons, that they think it's a very 170 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: valuable asset in spying at other countries. Well in the 171 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: way that the photo application on your camera has gotten 172 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: dramatically better over the last fifteen years now. I mean 173 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: you can make take incredibly clear photos with iPhone now 174 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: right right, And I imagine that the same technology advancements 175 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: are applying to these balloons where they can yet you know, 176 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: with zoom lenses and extreme clarity, they can read almost 177 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: anything they want on it. Now. It's not just like 178 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: those Google Map photos that you look at on your computer, 179 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: which are kind of blurry, indistinct, but this stuff is 180 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: probably as good as you know, human eyesight. Well, they 181 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: think they're also trying to intercept communications when they hud, yeah, 182 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: something funny. I saw. There were two funny things I saw. 183 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: They're funny. Now. They do believe that once the Chinese 184 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: realized that we picked up on the balloon, it began 185 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: to move faster. So I guess the remote whatever they 186 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: use to direct it, they just started to charge to 187 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: try to head to the ocean, just like a like 188 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: a highway chase. Yeah, yeah, I thought though, because it 189 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: was kind of a funny pattern. It took and went 190 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: from Alaska through Canada to Montana and then you know, 191 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: went on and suddenly a left turn and it's headed 192 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: for the Carolinas. So it looked like something that was 193 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: trying to escape. I know, but that would have been 194 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: a long way back to China heading in that direction, right, 195 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: I had written one of the stories. They think some 196 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: of the balloons had circumnavigated the entire globe, but I 197 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: imagine they could. They must have the technology to download 198 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: the data. Even if yeah, have the actual balloon back 199 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 1: in their hands, I would think they do. They could 200 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: bounce it off satellites and uh, you know, like the 201 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: Internet data, like the way cell phones work. There's a 202 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: lot of ways that you can you can transmit data. 203 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: There was a Chinese newspaper article in twenty twenty one 204 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: saying balloons are a powerful eye in the sky for 205 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: covering low altitude and surface targets. In the future, balloon 206 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: platforms may become like submarines in the depths of the ocean, 207 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: a chilling hidden killer, which makes you think, what if 208 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: it had weapons and we can't detect it, because well, yes, exactly. 209 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: And that's why they should be forced to explain why 210 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: they didn't shoot this thing down in Alaska, because I 211 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: find all their all their excuses kind of lame. Only 212 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: they didn't want it to fall on anybody. Well, there's 213 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: there's nobody for the debris to fall on in Alaska. Well, 214 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: we wanted to see what it was. Well, if it 215 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: had weapons, by time you saw what it was, it 216 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: might have killed someone, or nooke someone or gassed them. 217 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: They could have dropped more. Recovery in Alaska might have 218 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: been more difficult because of the cold weather and the terrain. 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: And oh, they got a million excuses, don't they. They're 220 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: freaking out that it happened. If they're freaking out, it 221 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: means they're really worried about what The Chinese are up 222 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: to but they weren't worried enough to destroy this thing 223 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: immediately because they didn't they didn't know, They didn't know 224 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: if there was something on board that that could really 225 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 1: do serious damage. No, I don't know. You just can't 226 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: get the truth out of it anybody. And the other 227 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: thing that dunderbluss is the president and he probably doesn't 228 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: even know what's going on. Another Chinese official apparently said 229 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: if you found something in the street, wouldn't you return 230 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: it to its owner? We want our balloon contents back, 231 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: which is laughable, but that'll be a no comparing it 232 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: to finding like a wattle on the street or something. Yeah, 233 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: we accidentally dropped our balloon over your airspace. Fell out 234 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: of our pocket. Worked up a bit where Alaskan officials 235 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: that Senator Lisa Murkowski was like, wait a minute, seems 236 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: like this balloon has been over Alaska. We've got apparently 237 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: they do have some military operations. There is some really 238 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: important stuff because they think that they're being just discounted. Oh, 239 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: the previous balloons just kind of floated over Alaska, not 240 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: a big Oh. You know, now that this one made 241 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: it to Montana, now it became a big deal, right, well, 242 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 1: like Justin Finch said, the reason Alaska and why he 243 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: became a state was to provide US with two Pacific 244 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: outposts to deal with all the Pacific enemies like Russia 245 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: and China and anybody else. So that that's the purpose. 246 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: I mean, Hawaii is a bunch of islands, like any 247 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: number of islands that are still US territories, like glam 248 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: for example, and Alaska could have been a territory as well. 249 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: They did. We didn't make them states in order to 250 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: be nice to the people of Alaska. We made them 251 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: states because Alaska is twelve miles away from Russia. Yeah. 252 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: So what is the response here then from the US government? 253 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: All right, so the House voted for nineteen to nothing 254 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: to condemn China, okay, for it's brazen violation of US sovereignty. 255 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: So what are you going to do? What's the payback here? 256 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: What's the response? I don't know. They might never. They 257 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: might never tell us. Oh, something sneaky like how Biden 258 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: may be exploded part of the pipeline. Because you know, 259 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: there's always a certain number of people in government, a 260 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: lot of people in government, or a bunch of wheenees 261 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: and they're fake. Well, I don't know. If we lash 262 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: back at them, then they're gonna lash back, and you 263 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: know they'll they'll hit us. It's like, you know, nobody 264 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: ever want to fight by being afraid to hit. I 265 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: can guarantee you every person who was afraid to take 266 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: hit someone in a fight lost the fight one percent 267 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: of the time. You gotta give the bully one good 268 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: clock in the nose, because if he's gonna beat you up, 269 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: well beat you up anyway. At least get one punch 270 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: in might scare him off, might make him back off 271 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: a bit. Story says. So far, they've only examined the balloon, 272 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: canopy and some wiring and a small amount of electronics, 273 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: but they're going to take the rest of it for 274 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: forensic examination, all the debris. They're going to look closely 275 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: at it to see exactly what they can find. They're 276 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: still waiting to process the largest part of the equipment 277 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: that was slung under the balloon that likely housed most 278 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: of the electronics, and the other items are being taken 279 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: to the FBI lab in Quantico. They have to remove 280 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: the salt water and then process them for further study, 281 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: so we might find out some good things about China's 282 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: surveillance programs and some of their technologies from grabbing that balloon. 283 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we're going to update 284 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: you on that horrible story recently out of Orange County. 285 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: We're an emergency room doctor was hit by a driver, 286 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: a man from Long Beach. The driver then got out 287 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: of the car and stabbed the doctor and he died. 288 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: I was thinking at the time, is this another crazed 289 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: drug person? Well, the first word looks like it's true. 290 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: We're now finding out that this Long Beach man had 291 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: had some severe mental health episodes. And here we go 292 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: again with that problem. We'll get into the details coming up. 293 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: Johnny ken k IF I am six forty Live Everywhere, 294 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Alec Baldwin's been sued again. He already 295 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: settled with the husband and son of the cinematographer Helena Hutchins, 296 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: who was, of course shot by Baldwin on the set 297 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: of that movie Rust. In twenty twenty one. Brand new 298 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: lawsuit from Hutchins parents and sister. Oh good, First, the 299 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: first lawsuit was settled. But this is a brand new lawsuit. 300 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 1: And guess who's representing the family members of Elena hutchins, 301 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: go glory, Alred. You're dancing partner, is that right? Yeah? 302 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: She is, Oh we should talk to her then. Yeah, 303 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't involve a sexual harassment or or some kind 304 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: of clean like that was sex. But it's it's a 305 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 1: good payday. Yeah, yes, she said with a co counsel, 306 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: and they did the press conference announcing that there is 307 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: another lawsuit against Alec Baldwin of course faces criminal charges. 308 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: So he's a lying, violent whack job, so only bad 309 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: things should happen. He may be broken in jail. How 310 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: many she has? Like ten kids? Right, so this is 311 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: kind of yeah, he had three more kids just last week. 312 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: Wife must be exhausted. She just gives birth every ten days. 313 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: The weird woman who does like a Spanish accent or 314 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: she walked her and talking to people in a Spanish accent, 315 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: which which is fake. It's entirely fake. Now can you 316 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: imagine what the inside of that house is like? Her 317 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: name Hilaria. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a fitting day. 318 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: So he's got a really bad temper. How many people 319 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: has he beat up over the years, right, photographers, He's 320 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: got a bad temper. She's speaking in a fake accent. 321 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: Seven screaming kids, Dad just murdered somebody. Yeah, it must 322 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: be a good time. And now two lass suits. They 323 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: settled the first one, but they may have to settle 324 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: this one too. He's gonna be pan handling on a 325 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: one on one freeway ramp soon. Yeah, short time ago. 326 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: Terrible story. We talked about a lot. Last week. An 327 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: Orange County bicyclist who was an emergency room doctor was 328 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: hit by a guy driving a car in Dana Point 329 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: on Pacific Coast Highway. What made this story really shocking 330 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: is that the driver of the car, van Roy Evans Smith, 331 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: got out and stabbed the bicyclists and doctor Momoney died. 332 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 1: So the update because at the time everyone was trying 333 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: to figure out this man and was an accountant at 334 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: his own business. He was not married anymore, but he 335 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: had two children, so it's not like this is a 336 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: vagrant or somebody, you know, really out there. So we're 337 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: trying to get answers, and you know, one of the 338 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: things I surmised was what he was. He drug tested 339 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,239 Speaker 1: at the scene, you know, alcohol tested. Was there some 340 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 1: reason that he was impaired or enraged? We now find 341 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: out that in December, in a petition to get custody. 342 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: They're two kids. His ex wife wrote that Van roy 343 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: Evans Smith was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, 344 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: and a family member spoke to the Elsagundo Times saying 345 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: the diagnosis came back. In twenty twenty, police came to 346 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: the home in Long Beach. He allegedly attacked his friend 347 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: who was trying to subdue him during a mental health episode. 348 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: Smith ended up hospitalized but was released after a few days. 349 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: And that's that's what's wrong. Because he can't be released. 350 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: He's got to be forced to take medication constantly for 351 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: the rest of his life. Now, otherwise you have bipolar disorder, 352 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: you can have very violent episodes. Uh. In fact, when 353 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: when the police were called in twenty twenty to his house, 354 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: it was reports of a violently mentally ill person and 355 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: he had smashed up property inside the house. He'd gotten 356 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: into adult, nailed adult who is trying to help him, 357 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: some sort of acquaintance. They put him in the hospital. 358 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: Seventy two hours later he's out again. Well, that hasn't 359 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: fixed the biological problem in his brain. His brain is 360 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: disrupted and disordered, and you can tamp down the symptoms 361 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: with with certain drugs. But he has to he has 362 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: to take the drugs. Oh you let him out. Look 363 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: what happens we have but we have this STU. Why 364 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: do we even have these seventy two hour holds? What 365 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: what's the point of it? Why even bothered? Just tell 366 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: them it was ever calling nine one to one. Hey, sorry, 367 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,239 Speaker 1: good luck. Maybe you ought to run because they can 368 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: determine in three days whether or not you're a danger 369 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: to yourself or others. Right, it's magic. No, you can't 370 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: because and I also examine you and try to get 371 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: a diagnosis, because it's episodic. When you have one of 372 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: these bipolar disorders. It happens and then it goes away. 373 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: Person looks normal, acts normal, and then you know, maybe 374 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: six days or six months later, boom, it explodes again. 375 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: Smith was actually born and raised in Jamaica. Moved to 376 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: the US around two thousand and eight after getting married. 377 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: He got divorced in twenty twelve, stayed in the Long 378 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,959 Speaker 1: beachary to look after a help look after his children, 379 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, at his own accounty business, and lived alone. 380 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: Now Alexander Solhaih, whose law firm is in the same 381 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: building as Smith's accounting business. Said Smith did his firm's 382 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: bookkeeping for at least two years, attended some of the 383 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: Christmas parties. He was a polite, nice guy. Yeah, he 384 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: didn't seem like a violent guy. But there were no 385 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: dangerous propensities that would stick out. That's how I was 386 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: shocked to see that he had done this. At that 387 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: but by late twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, he noticed that 388 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 1: Smith suddenly appeared increasingly strained. He looked stressed, not comfortable 389 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: in his own skin, right, and that, and he's also 390 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: got schizophrenia, and that can come and go. You can 391 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: have all the disturbing voices and hallucinations in your head 392 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: and paranoia. You know, there's it's brain chemicals, it's it's 393 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: electrical firings in the brain, and it comes and goes. So, yeah, 394 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: he looks absolutely normal. I really don't. I've never seen 395 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: it well because because you don't know what's going on 396 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: in the brain and it pops out periodically. Yeah, I think. 397 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: And he's driving along Pcates there and something in his 398 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: head triggered when he saw the bicycle and just decided 399 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: that I got to get this guy that must be 400 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: head for whatever whatever those thoughts were, it's it's it's 401 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: not something the guy can control. He's got a damaged brain, 402 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: and so you have to put him and his damaged 403 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: brain in lock him up inside somewhere, and you don't 404 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: let him out unless he took his pills, and then 405 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: he has to go back inside to take the new pills, 406 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: and then has to go on all day every day, 407 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: and you can't let him off his pills. You can't 408 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: let him roam free. It sounds like he lived alone. 409 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: I don't think there was anybody to check on him. 410 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: But he eventually moved out of that office and was 411 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: going to do all his accounting work from home. And 412 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: then apparently the family hadn't seen him since around Thanksgiving, 413 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: in two days before the doctors killing. They reached out 414 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: and he said, I'm okay, I'll let you guys know 415 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: if I need any help, and that was the end 416 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: of that. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorders difficult to treat because 417 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 1: one of the facets of these illnesses is the patient 418 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: doesn't know or doesn't believe that they're crazy, right. They 419 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: don't have any idea, so they reject medication, they reject 420 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: psychological therapy. It's part of the disease, and that's what 421 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 1: it is. It's brain disease. I know, well, I would 422 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: imagine that's going to be part of the defense. Sad 423 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: to say that while he faces twenty five years to life, 424 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: the defense will obviously call in this mental illness, some 425 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: sort of mental break while he was driving along. Then 426 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: you know why you got to put him mental institution 427 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: for life. If you're not going to do a prison, 428 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: you got to do an institution because it doesn't matter 429 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: why he's doing it. If he was evil or mentally ill, 430 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: or just a bad move, that doesn't matter. It's what 431 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: he did that matters. And he's got to be locked 432 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: up because you knew this went further than just road rage, 433 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: because he gets out of the car, runs over and 434 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: stabs the bicyclist in the back. Yeah, numerous times before 435 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: everybody was able to grab him. I remember our guests 436 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 1: last week, the man that was on the scene a 437 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: little bit later but got there and said it was 438 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: like mumbling and murmuring, right, he was like noises and 439 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: kind of not making any sense. There's a lot of 440 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: bad brains out there. He had some sort of break 441 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: with reality. A lot of bit brains. Yeah, Yeah, psychotic 442 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: break where he doesn't he doesn't even know what's going on. 443 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: He doesn't understand what he's doing. Sometimes they don't even 444 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: remember what they've done. Well, speaking of psychotic breaks. After 445 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: two o'clock, our guest doesn't have one, but we'll be 446 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: talking to the city councilwoman Tracy Park, who's gonna update 447 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: us on our favorite subject, Mayor Karen Bassetti's Inside Safe 448 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: plan to get the homeless off the streets. And we 449 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: had asked about a particular encampment because a listener reached 450 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: out to us a few weeks ago. This is in 451 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: the del Ray neighborhood of La Culver Boulevard. It's kind 452 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: of like a median between the two directions of the road, 453 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,239 Speaker 1: which people enjoyed to walk jog. It's almost like a 454 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: very wide medium with grass and well, it's just got 455 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: overtaken by the homeless encampment and supposedly they've made a 456 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: move there to clean it up. She has an update 457 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: for us right after the news at two oh five. 458 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: She'll be on John and Ken KF I AM six 459 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app But we're now 460 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: on from one to four, which means if you're not 461 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: listening live, you're listening to the podcast. Go to KFI 462 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: AM sixty dot com John and Ken page to access 463 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: the podcast. After four o'clock the full show, or use 464 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. You could pick it up there as well. 465 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, John's Councilwoman's coming on the 466 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: air again, Tracy Park. So far as she's been pretty 467 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: responsive when we wanted to reach out and talk to her, 468 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: and of course this is about the homeless, and she 469 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: seems to be on board with the Mayor Bassetti's Inside 470 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: Safe program, which is targeting certain troubled encampments to begin 471 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: with those to get the homeless somewhere inside and off 472 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: the streets. And as we learned yesterday, the hardship is 473 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: they have to give up their tent. Yeah, and they 474 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: can only bring a couple of bags of belongings. Everything 475 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,479 Speaker 1: else is destroyed. Yeah. That apparently led some of them 476 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: to really at their wits end. So every every new story, 477 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: the reporters give time to the homeless complaining about one 478 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: thing or another. We're giving them a roof over their heads. 479 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: They're they're out of the cold weather, they're out of 480 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: the rain still not enough. No, no, some of the 481 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: motels apparently weren't up to snuff. The vagrants were complaining 482 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: about then. But we'll see what's going on. Because in 483 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: a particular there's a section in the Tracy's district council district, 484 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: the Delray neighborhood Culver Boulevard. Apparently it has been overrun 485 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: with vagrants and encampments, and again part of that goes 486 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: into Culver City. But according to our guests, who is 487 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: a man that lives in the neighborhood, it's fine over there. 488 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: But in this La part of this culver A Boulevard 489 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: section not so nice. It's like a really wide median 490 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: or the homeless have rolled out all this stuff. And 491 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: I actually know several people that commute through there who 492 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 1: told me about that. That is really it really became 493 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: in the last couple of years unbelievably overrun with junk, junk, 494 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: disgusting junk. So there is an effort to get those 495 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: people out of there and somewhere inside. We'll talk to 496 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: Tracy after the news two o'clock. Another place where there's 497 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: plenty of homeless is San Francisco. We're a billionaire venture 498 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: capitalist and a partner at Sequoyak Capital by the name 499 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: of Michael Moritz has written a piece for the Financial 500 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: Times and it begins like this, It's a strange city 501 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: that bands plastic straws but permits plastic needles. That's San 502 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: Francisco today. Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, one thousand, 503 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty five people have died from drug overdoses, 504 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: compared to one thousand, one hundred and forty three from 505 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Say they conquered COVID. John all sorts of 506 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: lockdown and masking and people leaving the city. Actually mostly 507 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: people leaving the city. People have population numbers yesterday the 508 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: Bay Area in San Francisco in particular, once again hemorrhaging people. 509 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're down. They're downtown area, and he writes 510 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: about it in his piece is deserted. It's empty. Oh, 511 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: I've been there a couple of times in the last year. 512 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: That is absolutely correct. And I was asking people, is 513 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: it just because it's the weekend. They said, no, it's 514 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: really All the restaurants are just shut up, and there's 515 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 1: office buildings nothing. It's the highest commercial office they can 516 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: see rate of any big city in the United States. Now, 517 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: part that is because tech people can often work remotely, 518 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: and a lot of them chose to do that, And 519 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: part but why did they choose to do that? Well, 520 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: they're doing that in a lot of a lot of 521 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: places they live like gas. But but a lot of 522 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: them they've had so much in Silicon Valley. It might 523 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: be right, but in New York too, because the criminals 524 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: are running a mock, The vagrants and the drug addicts 525 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: are running a mock. Yeah, people have not returned to 526 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: offices in New York City. John's right, it's scary. It's 527 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: right the street it's less than a third. So the 528 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: restaurants and retail shops that depended on office workers eating 529 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: all day, buying stuff, going out for drinks at night, 530 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: those businesses are gone, or they will be soon. They 531 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: that San Francisco left wing progressive, that all of them 532 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: have managed to destroy the city. They really have destroyed 533 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: the city. So he wrote this column because I guess 534 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: London Breed's giving her State of the City address, and 535 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: he said, tackling San Francisco problems will mean nothing without 536 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: going after the open air drug markets, on the homeless encampments. Fentanyl, 537 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: the synthetic drug that is fifty times more powerful than 538 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: in a fraction of the cost of heroin, has turned 539 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: many blocks of the city into zombie zones, stalking waste 540 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: of potential. The drug use on homeless tense consume an 541 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: enormous part of San Francisco's annual fourteen billion dollar budget. Well, 542 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: they have spent six hundred eighty million dollars this year. 543 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: They spent only two hundred million twenty sixteen on the 544 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: home right, and so that's five hundred million dollars a 545 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: half a billion dollars that didn't go to something else, 546 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: and it got worse. They spent four hundred million dollars more, 547 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: and the problem is worse. Anybody that goes there says 548 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: it's unbelievable certain neighborhood to just overrun with zombies and 549 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: very few people votes. They have a boordist supervisors that 550 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: govern the city. There's eleven of them, and less than 551 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: nine thousand votes can be enough for a super advisor 552 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: to win. There's a half a million registered voters in 553 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: San Francisco. If you find nine thousand in your district, 554 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: you have a seat. Wow, that's pretty and I mean, 555 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: it's it's it's a terrible way to govern. It's a 556 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: terrible government. And they finally hit a like like a 557 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: critical mass where between their COVID restrictions and there their 558 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: tolerance of crime. Tolerance is almost an embrace of crime, 559 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,239 Speaker 1: the embrace of drug addicted vagrance. They started handing out 560 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: drugs to the vagrants. They had injection sites that they 561 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: set up, which were a disasters, garbage everywhere, there's crazy 562 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: people running everywhere. And finally people businesses moved out, Restaurants 563 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: and bars and retail shops moved out or shut down. 564 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: Anybody who can work at home now works from home. 565 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: So what do you got there? You got a ghost town, 566 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: you got a skeleton of a city. And keep this 567 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: in mind, he writes, none of this happened overnight. It's 568 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: a situation that's been built up over decades. Well, who 569 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: was mayor there back in the early two thousands, anybody 570 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: of a guess, yeah, Gavin News. Gavin News, Yeah, presided 571 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: over this mess, which only got worse after his tenure. 572 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: Ideological people are stupid people. People who embrace crazy ideologies, 573 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: whether it's progressives, progressivism or any other kind of ism, 574 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: are generally stupid because they don't think, they don't look 575 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,959 Speaker 1: at pros and cons, they don't weigh different options. They 576 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: got some kind of political religion in their head and 577 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: they just follow the tenets of the religion and it 578 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: leads them off a cliff, right, And that's why people 579 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: who are ideologues, I think are just awful. You don't 580 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: want their brains. So he finished this by saying, we've 581 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: got to have public shelters, commitment to treatment for those 582 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: who are danger to themselves and others, visible policing, judiciary 583 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: that enforces the law, and a change and the armature 584 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: of government. One thing you mentioned, though it's a little 585 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: troubling is Amsterdam. It almost seems like he's maybe making 586 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: a case because they were pretty big on having those 587 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: injection sites where you can just go and shoot up 588 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: and we'll stand by and revive you if you The 589 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: point of that isn't a stupid way to live. Well, 590 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: it's acceptance that these people aren't going to change. We 591 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: just want them to live. So no stand there and 592 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: trying to say, why don't you just get rid of them, 593 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: tell them to get out of the city. Well, what 594 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: is it if we want him to live. We want 595 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: them to stand there every day, create a disgusting environment 596 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: and keep injecting their stupid drugs where you're going to 597 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,719 Speaker 1: kill them anyway. One day they're going to overdose. They 598 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: all do. So what are we? What are we? What 599 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: are we keeping them around for? Here? Why? Ah, why 600 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: are you spending so much more? Why are we worrying 601 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: about them? Get rid of them? We learned recently about 602 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: like these drugs like Narcan, they don't work as well 603 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: on some of the more powerful pills that are getting 604 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: out there. Now it's I'm telling you all this fentonel 605 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: I think is part of the Chinese plot. You know, 606 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: they gave us one punch in the gut with covid 607 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: because they could have told us the minute that that 608 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 1: virus got loose in the lab, and they didn't. They 609 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 1: didn't talk about it for weeks and weeks. They allowed 610 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: air traffic for weeks and weeks to come out of Chinese. 611 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: Here fentanyl is all the ingredients are coming from China. 612 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: They send it to Mexico. It comes over the border, 613 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 1: unstopped at the border. Now we got we got the 614 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 1: balloons flying overhead. What do you think they're doing there? 615 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: If they're killing our kids with fentanyl, if they're killing 616 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: older people with the coronavirus, if they've got balloons up 617 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: in the air trying to figure out our military and 618 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: our nuclear weapon capabilities. What do you think they're doing? 619 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next, Councilwoman Tracy Park returns to 620 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 1: the John and Ken's show. She replaced Mike Bonning. She's 621 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: actually the council member for John Colbelt. But we're going 622 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: to talk specifically about a story coming out of the 623 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: del Ray neighboring of Los Angeles. Culver Boulevard. A big 624 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: median there that people enjoyed for all sorts of activities 625 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: got overtaken by the vagrants, and there's been a big 626 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 1: move to clear them out. Shut up dates John and 627 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: Ken kf I AM six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio 628 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: app