1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four and after four o'clock 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Coming 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: up in the next segment, we are going to turn 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 2: over the segment to said the Kashani. We have him 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: appearing at the LEDWP board meeting. He is a Palisades 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: residence who got burned out and he spent six minutes 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: calling for Johnnie Konz to resign. She is the idiot 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 2: CEO at LEDWP who did not fill the one hundred 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 2: and seventeen million gallon water reservoir it was empty for 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: the fire. And there's there's been a clip of what 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 2: he told the led LEDWP board, including Kens and she 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: had to just sit there and take it. And we're 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: going to play that coming up after the next segment. 16 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: In Debora's News and all that. All right, let's get now, 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: there's so many disasters going on. Let's turn to the 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: Altadena fire known as the Eaton Fire, which burned thousands 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: of homes and killed about seventeen people. And boy, there's 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: a lot of bad stories around that. Nobody explained still 21 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 2: why so many of the residents didn't get an evacuation 22 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: warning for nine hours. All the residents that lived in 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 2: the black neighborhoods got nothing from the county government. And 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: I'm just reading a story from people who told New 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 2: York Magazine what their experiences were, and they didn't have 26 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: any La County firefighters in there in their neighborhoods for 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: three days. And that was even acknowledged by some of 28 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 2: the La County firefighters, like, Yeah, you're right, nobody's been here. 29 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: Why, Oh, I don't know. 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to unravel and uncover because 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: we don't have a functioning media anymore. 32 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: But we'll keep doing our part. Here. 33 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: Let's talk now with Aarry Friedman. He's a partner at 34 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: Wisner Bound, the law firm's attorney who's leaving a lawsuit 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: on behalf of hundreds of families. Well, in the past, 36 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: he led lawsuits from those families in the twenty eighteen campfire, 37 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen Woolsey fire, and now he's filing against 38 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 2: so Cal Edison substantially blaming them for the Eaton Altadena fire. 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: It's been filed in La County Court. Let's get arie 40 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 2: on Ry Friedman. 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: Welcome, Sewan, Thank you for having me. 42 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: Well, explain the nature of the lawsuit here. What are 43 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: you alleging against something California Edison. 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: Essentially that they negligently maintained their grid and their equipment. 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 3: I think we've all seen the videos and the photos 46 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 3: of the fire starting underneath one of its high transmission towers, 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: and as the days of past, more and more evidence 48 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 3: has come out that that tower apparently was not de 49 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 3: energized and during the wind event was being impacted by debris, 50 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: causing sparks to start the initial flames. So we want 51 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 3: to we want to do everything we can to dig 52 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: down and get to the bottom of exactly why this 53 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 3: fire started and how it could have happened in light 54 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 3: of everything that was going on at the time. 55 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 2: Just like in the Palisades case, the National Weather Service 56 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 2: put out extreme fire warnings. It was their highest level 57 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: of a blarning they could possibly issue, and it was 58 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: several five days in advance of these fires. I don't 59 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: understand why didn't Edison de energize the lines. 60 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 3: You know, that's a great question. One of the things 61 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 3: we're going to be zeroing in on in this lawsuit. 62 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 3: There was some early indication from Edison. You know, their 63 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 3: line has shifted a little bit in these last weeks 64 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: from the tower being de energized to then the tower 65 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 3: not being de energized, to then saying that their wind 66 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 3: measurements near this tower didn't cross the threshold which would 67 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 3: necessitate a shut off. So that's why it was and 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 3: de energize at the time. Again, we're going to have 69 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 3: to really drill down during the litigation to find out 70 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 3: whether or not these policies and procedures were sufficient and 71 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 3: whether or not the winds near this power were actually 72 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 3: what Edison said they were. But regardless, I think we 73 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 3: can all agree whatever was in place at the time 74 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 3: was not sufficient. 75 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, whether it met their criteria or not. 76 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 2: If it didn't, their criteria is screwed up, because clearly 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: the winds were strong enough to create a huge disaster. 78 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And that's one of the things that's 79 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 3: really maddening about this was in an event such as 80 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: we had, you know, in early January, why are we 81 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 3: even in the first instance, parsing things out so specifically 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 3: and not just taking preemptive measures to ensure the community's safety. 83 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: Were they claiming that they're threshold was sixty miles an hour, 84 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: but the wind speeds only hit fifty nine. 85 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: Was that this particular case, I. 86 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: Don't have the publication in front of but I believe 87 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: it was something just like that, John. It was that, 88 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 3: you know, they have a certain threshold and the winds 89 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 3: didn't cross it, and I believe it was just a 90 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 3: matter of a few degrees. 91 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, well at fifty nine instead of sixty, because I 92 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: heard that repeated several times in various newscasts, and I 93 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 2: thought that that's insane. 94 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: But of course all of this is insane. 95 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: This have you Was Edison involved in these other lawsuits 96 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 2: that you filed years ago? 97 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, so Edison was involved in both the Thomas and 98 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 3: Woolsey fires because Edison, as some people may not be 99 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 3: aware of, Edison essentially has a monopoly over a certain 100 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 3: geographic territory to sell their utilities. So you know up 101 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: North for example, that would have been PG and e's territory. 102 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 3: But no, Edison was involved in Thomas and Wolsey in 103 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 3: twenty seventeen and eighteen. 104 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 2: Those fires they had not maintained their electrical infrastructure. This 105 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 2: according to your lawsuits, aging equipment, overgrown vegetation, inadequate safeguards 106 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: during high risk weather. We've got this all over again 107 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 2: now in the eat and fire. Now to Dina, why 108 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 2: won't these companies do the basics here? I mean, I've 109 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: never seen such stubborn executives. They make the same deadly 110 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 2: mistakes over and over again. 111 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of reasons that go into that. John, 112 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 3: I think people are surprised to learn that Edison is 113 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: a for profit company that might have an incentive to 114 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 3: run their equipment to failure and maybe not keep up 115 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 3: to date on the most efficient methods of delivering power 116 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: if it can cut into profits. That's part of what 117 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 3: the lawsuit is going to be looking at the extent 118 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 3: that Edison made these decisions to put the profits over 119 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 3: the safety of the community. 120 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: But in the end, these companies get bankrupted for all 121 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: the liability they created. 122 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 3: Well, you know, bankruptcy, you know is not necessarily what 123 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 3: a lot of people understand bankruptcy to mean in the 124 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 3: corporate sense, because if their liabilities exceed their assets or 125 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 3: potential to earn income, then they can essentially restructure themselves 126 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: to provide some compensation to the victims while continuing to 127 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 3: go go on and do business, which is what we 128 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 3: saw happen coming out of the North Bay and campfires 129 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 3: with PG and E. But again, you know, at the 130 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 3: end of the day, the first step is to make 131 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: sure that companies are protecting our communities before they decide 132 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 3: how much profit they're going to make in their efforts 133 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 3: to do so. 134 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: Is there any way to force them to because I mean, 135 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 2: this has been going on for most of the last decade, 136 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: and the fires seem to be getting more disastrous, more deadly, 137 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: more homes being burned, and so for all the sanctions 138 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: against these companies and lawsuits won and charges filed and 139 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: some times executives cleaned out, if you keep getting the 140 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 2: same result in the end, something more drastic has to 141 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: be done here. 142 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 3: That's right, And unfortunately there's only so much we can 143 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 3: do on the litigation front, being the lawyers pushing back 144 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: against this type of behavior. It really needs to be 145 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 3: a much more coordinated effort, both at the legislative level 146 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: and the grassroots level of people in the community putting 147 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: pressure on the representatives to ensure that changes are actually 148 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 3: impacting the situations that people are facing, especially in these 149 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: shoulder communities that brush up against nature like we have 150 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 3: over Pasadena. 151 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: All right, well, ariy keep in touch with us. Is 152 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: this progressive? 153 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: Because I don't I want any of these stories to 154 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 2: get lost in the memory hall. 155 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 3: I agree, John, and thank you for having me. I 156 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 3: appreciate it. 157 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 2: Aary Friedman with the Wisnerbaum and this law firm is 158 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: filed a suit in La County Superior Court against so 159 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 2: Cal Edison again neglect Misma management. They did not de 160 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: energize the electrics, the electrical lines in the Altadena area, 161 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 2: And just another sad, sick chapter with executives who don't 162 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: care how many people they kill, how many thousands of 163 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 2: homes are burned. They never change any of their policies. 164 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: God forbid. They put these power lines below ground like 165 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 2: they should be. It's just incredible that we're doing the 166 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 2: same story year after year after year, and the same 167 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 2: companies are causing all this massive damage. When we come back, 168 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: we're going to turn over the next segment we have 169 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 2: audio of when we get his name right, Sayid Kashani. 170 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 2: He's a burned out Palisades resident. He showed up at 171 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 2: the LADWP board meeting, not a whole lot of people 172 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 2: do this, but he did. Gi Konias was there. She's 173 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 2: the CEO, so is the LADWP board. And Kashani told 174 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: kenona Is what he thought of her policies, including not 175 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: filling the reservoir with one hundred seventeen million gallons. 176 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 177 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 178 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: All right, spend a few minutes now with said Kashani. 179 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 2: He's a burned out Palisades resident and he did what 180 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 2: everybody ought to do. He showed up at the LADWP 181 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: board meeting and he dressed. Genie Kinonyez, the CEO. She 182 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 2: was sitting there and she listened to said Kashani, go off. 183 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 2: We've got about six minutes, and it's about the horrific 184 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: response by the LADWP in preparation for the fire season 185 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 2: and not filling the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir. 186 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 2: So turn it over here in atic, said Kashani. 187 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 5: My name is, said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived 188 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 5: in the. 189 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 6: Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my house burned down. 190 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 5: I apologize. I come to you dressed like this. 191 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 6: I'm not used to going on the public dress like this, 192 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 6: but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize. 193 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 6: I would I would like to remind the commissioners of 194 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 6: a little history. When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director, 195 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 6: William Mulholland, immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader 196 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 6: of this organization. And I'm addressing Miss Quinonas. I call 197 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 6: on this board to ask Miss Quinonas also to resign 198 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 6: now to honor the history of this organization and resign 199 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 6: for her culpability in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades. 200 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 5: Why, as we know, the. 201 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 6: Santienez Reservoir is I believe one hundred and fifteen million 202 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 6: gallons and as the principal source of water for that area, 203 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 6: that reservoir was trained by the Department about a year ago. 204 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 6: In all the meetings since then, the Department CEO never 205 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 6: reported to this commission regarding either the reservoir, its status 206 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 6: or any effort to repair. 207 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 5: What did you report on? 208 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 6: Well, I have here per comments made to this board 209 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 6: in November, and what happened to report? 210 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 7: We're about Kismanic and the organization, and so that's a 211 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 7: huge number for our diversity metrics is about forty eight 212 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 7: percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the communities 213 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 7: that we're serving. 214 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 6: So forty nine days later, the city burned out. Your 215 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 6: director is more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs, 216 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 6: and that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now, 217 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 6: what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you will 218 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 6: pointed when you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to 219 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 6: direct the Department of Water and Power, you had not 220 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 6: completed her background check. 221 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 5: What would that check have shown. 222 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 6: Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge 223 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 6: of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria. 224 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 6: One year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was 225 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 6: still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts 226 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 6: electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of miss 227 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 6: Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which 228 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 6: we all know is a bankrupt utility that burned down 229 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 6: half the state, and you appointed her as the director 230 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 6: of the Department of Water and Power at double the 231 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 6: prior director's salary and a housing allowance without completing any 232 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 6: background check. Now, let's talk about the reservoir I've looked 233 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 6: at your agendas since miss was appointed. The reservoir never 234 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 6: came up once. You never discussed it, even though it's 235 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 6: a critical piece of infrastructure. 236 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 5: Let's look at history. 237 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 6: In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush 238 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 6: fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time 239 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,479 Speaker 6: was full. It provided water, and the fire was controlled. 240 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 6: There was very little structural damage. Why because there was 241 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 6: water this time there was no water without the reservoir. 242 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 6: The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I 243 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 6: believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons 244 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 6: each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one 245 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 6: hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir 246 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 6: in order to supply the area that was drained. It 247 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 6: was empty, there was no water, and your director never 248 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 6: reported to you this situation or its urgency. Instead again 249 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 6: filling racial quotas, instead of filling the restid. 250 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 5: Let's look at money. 251 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 6: The excuse given was that you needed some kind of 252 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 6: delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever 253 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 6: to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir. 254 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 6: That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars you 255 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 6: drained the reservoir in February, didn't. 256 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 5: Even approve the contract. 257 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 6: Not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not 258 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 6: even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a 259 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 6: gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time. 260 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 6: Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars. 261 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 5: That is less than one. 262 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 6: Fifth of ms Krnona's salary, and you wouldn't pay it 263 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 6: to repair the reservoir. I get the water back online. 264 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 6: What did you spend money on during that time? Well, 265 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 6: one of the things you spent money on is you 266 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 6: approved five million dollars due was a board you approved 267 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 6: five million dollars to pay to out of state colleges 268 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 6: to transfer students from California universities to out of state's colleges, 269 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 6: including the alma mater of one of your commissioners. Why 270 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 6: are you paying five million dollars to out of state 271 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 6: colleges and you won't pay one hundred thousand dollars to 272 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 6: fix our reservoir. 273 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 5: These questions have to be answered. 274 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 6: So until the satisfactory explanation is provided for these things, 275 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 6: I suggest and I call on this board to at 276 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 6: the very least, put miss cornonas on leave, unpaid leave, 277 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 6: take away her house that you're paying for, and let 278 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 6: her prove herself. And she can start by refulling to reservoir, which, 279 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 6: as I understand, is so empty. 280 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 5: So what is the explanation for this? 281 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,479 Speaker 6: There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades 282 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 6: whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street 283 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 6: was fighting to save his house four o'clock that afternoon 284 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 6: when the water shut off. Why again, because the reservoir 285 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 6: was a thank you, your time has expired. 286 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: That's it. 287 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 2: That's it, thank you, your time has expired, and then 288 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 2: they're going to move on. This is the way the 289 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: city has run, the Southern County's run. That was absolutely devastating, 290 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 2: and geneez Cononias are sitting there the whole time. 291 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: She should have responded. She should have responded by saying, 292 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm quitting. 293 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 2: Actually, she ought to be sentenced by a court to 294 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: stand at the edge of the reservoir with a hose 295 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 2: and stand there until she's filled up the whole reservoir 296 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 2: with the one hundred and seventeen million gallons. 297 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: That should be your sentence. This should be criminal. 298 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 2: And you heard her babbling about her stupid diversity program. 299 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: God, is that a plague on society, isn't it? So 300 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: that's what she's been doing all year? And what a resume. 301 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 2: She was leading the effort to rebuild the electrical system 302 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico. Any year later, eighty percent of the 303 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 2: people were still without and then she's connected to PG 304 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 2: and E that disaster. And how many millions of dollars 305 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 2: has she made along the way? What is going on? 306 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm insane. I really feel like I'm insane. 307 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 2: And that poor guy I'm looking at the at the video. 308 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 2: It's on YouTube, by the way, you can see this 309 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 2: on YouTube. Break we should, or Eric, we should put 310 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,439 Speaker 2: a link like maybe a link on x and have 311 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: people go to this video and watch him standing there 312 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 2: and he's it's only pair of clothes that he's got. 313 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,239 Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with I really don't know 314 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 2: what's going on. And they look at all these these 315 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 2: heads just staring at him. All they have a U 316 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 2: shaped desk, all these all these dead brains staring at him, 317 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 2: all this cattle. 318 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 8: What's the point of people talking to them if they're 319 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 8: not going to respond. They're not going to answer any 320 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 8: questions or say anything. 321 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: They just tell you your time is up. 322 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 8: I know, but you deserve an explanation. 323 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: You deserve something that. 324 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 2: Deserves a house, but they don't give an explanation. Kenonyas 325 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 2: is still not spoken publicly on this. What a disaster 326 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: that woman is all right getting over time. 327 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty. 328 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on all 329 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: social media and we have posted on X a link 330 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: and you should watch this. It's six minutes of a 331 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 2: Palisades resident telling the Los Angeles Department of Water and 332 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 2: Power building the case really why Janice Keonas ought to 333 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: resign as the CEO of the LADWP, going through all 334 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 2: these sins that she has committed not having that reservoir 335 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 2: filled and among other things, and and playing audio of 336 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: her at the meeting bragging about reaching all sorts of 337 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: diversity goals regarding Hispanic employment. She never mentioned anything in 338 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: for a whole year about what happened to the reservoir, 339 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 2: that it was drained, that it was never refilled. There 340 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 2: was no discussion about the UH about the repairs. She 341 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 2: had nothing to say on any of that. But she 342 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 2: is prattling on about all the diversity goals that she met. 343 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 2: And she's sitting there listening to said Kashani's his name. 344 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 345 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 2: We just posted it. It's about six minutes. It's worth it. 346 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 2: It's quite the case he makes. Now does he say 347 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 2: this and all the stone faces nod, tell him his 348 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 2: time's up, and then everybody goes home. 349 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 1: And that's it. That's what the whole world is now. 350 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 2: There's nobody in charge, nobody taking responsibility. They've cost dozens 351 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 2: of lives and thousands and thousands of homes and none 352 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 2: of these people have any shame. There is no shame 353 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 2: at all, no responsibility at all. Here's another angle to this. 354 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 2: There's so much of this stuff, can't fit it into 355 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: the show anymore. La Times has a story today, Who 356 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 2: what or who started the Palisades fire? Two leading theories, 357 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 2: and it's still the same two leading theories. Now it's 358 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 2: been three weeks and there's been very little information about 359 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 2: what started the fire. There has been a team from 360 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 2: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They've had 361 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 2: command post up in the Highlands neighborhood of the Palisades. 362 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: That's where ten thirty in the morning January seventh, that Tuesday, 363 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 2: it's where the fire began. The investigators have examined two 364 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty leads. They have ninety hours of video, 365 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 2: fifty interviews, fifteen team members across the country with various 366 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: science backgrounds. They've used high tech mapping drones, a portable lab, 367 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 2: but the ATF won't talk about what they found now. 368 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 2: The Padalisades fire twenty three four hundred acres, destroyed six 369 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 2: eight hundred structures, many of them homes. One theory is 370 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 2: there was an eight acre fire early morning hours of 371 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 2: the first of January. This was set off with fireworks 372 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: by idiot teenagers in the Palisades, and they think maybe 373 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 2: the same area reignited a week later because of the 374 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 2: intense wins. 375 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: That's theory one. 376 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: Theory number two, the fire was sparked by something else 377 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: that morning, maybe another person. I don't know if they 378 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: have any vagrants up there. It's funny, but nobody's talking 379 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 2: about the thousands of vagrants that live in the wilds 380 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 2: around here. But that's policy. But it does involve vagrant. 381 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: They're not allowed to say it speak publicly. That's also 382 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: a part of the woke progressive movement. LA Fire Department 383 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,959 Speaker 2: has declined to answer specific questions about the January first fire. 384 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 2: It's known as the Lochman fire. The files have been sealed. 385 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 2: Why are they sealed if that was the precursor of 386 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 2: the big fire? What do you mean sealed? And they're 387 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: part of the ongoing investigation. Kristen Crowley, the LA Fire 388 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: chief another diversity manger, said, we won't leave a fire 389 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: that has any hotspots. But with that, I will tell 390 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 2: you that the investigation, the team we have on board 391 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 2: right now will be able to determine whether or not 392 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 2: that indeed happened. I can look you in the eye 393 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 2: and tell you that full disclosure. If that's what they 394 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 2: found out, we will tell you that, Well, what is this. 395 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: We won't leave a fire that has hotspots, but maybe 396 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: this was a hotspot, which means you left it. 397 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: Well, why did you leave it? Why was this not 398 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: fire monitored? 399 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: Especially when you got the warning about one hundred mile 400 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 2: an hour winds coming on January second, You got that 401 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 2: warning a day after the fire, and then this fire 402 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 2: finally blew up on the seventh five days later. So 403 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: Crowley got the warning and did nothing and then told 404 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 2: you that, well, we. 405 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 1: Don't leave hotspots. Well, we don't leave. 406 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 2: Hotspots except the most likely theory about the new fire 407 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 2: is that it was a hot spot, but we didn't 408 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 2: leave it. And if we did leave it, we'll tell you, 409 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 2: except we sealed the files, so we were not telling you. 410 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 2: You see how they do it, and the whole time, 411 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 2: ambassadors in Africa. You see, San Diego has cameras that 412 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: monitor the mountains and the hills, including the Palisades, and 413 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 2: they got the January first blaze on camera. By the way, 414 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 2: I've just talked with somebody. Do you remember years ago 415 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: they used to have fire spotters, They used to have 416 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 2: fire towers. 417 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: Yes, I heard that they that they have very few 418 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 1: and the few they have are not even manned regularly. 419 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 8: So is that gonna change now? I mean here, that's 420 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 8: something that definitely should change. That's something that they could do. 421 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: Why didn't they. 422 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 2: Have fire spotters in the wilds north of the Palisades 423 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 2: and all the other hill side areas well. 424 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 8: It's the same question is why didn't they have that 425 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 8: fire squad yesterday that only gets paid when they come 426 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 8: to uh yeah, right right, there's no rhyme or reason 427 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 8: to any of this. 428 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: And with all the technology they don't they can't send 429 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 2: up drones with with with heat shaking or or fire 430 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 2: seeking capabilitabilities, right infrared capabilities to see if there's suddenly 431 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: an ignition point. Shouldn't be maybe swarming drones in the 432 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 2: hills during high fire seasons, an advanced warning system. 433 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: Do they have censors up there? Maybe? Have they done anything? 434 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: They've spent obviously no money on the firefighters and no 435 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 2: money on upgraded technology. What we have is only fifty 436 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 2: percent of a fire department, But what they should have 437 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 2: funded all these years instead of spending billions of dollars 438 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: on drug addict vagrants and mental patient vagrants. The ATF 439 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 2: is going to issue a report in about sixty days. 440 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,959 Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes many months. I wonder how many secrets 441 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 2: they're keeping right now, because right because most of the 442 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 2: city wants Bass out, I wonder if there's pressure to 443 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 2: suppress more bad news, to try to protect Bass, protect Newsom, 444 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 2: who's on his last legs as a presidential candidate, to 445 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: protect Kristen Crowley and all these other diversity bongers, to 446 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 2: protect Genese Quinonyez. Everything of the last ten years has 447 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 2: been bragging about diversity, quotas, no money, No money has 448 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 2: been spent on the infrastructure, any kind of infrastructure, water, power, roadways, fire, police, 449 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: no extra money chest the legal aliens, homeless people and criminals. 450 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 2: That's the holy trunity. And now there's another story which 451 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 2: we won't have time to get to, about all the 452 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 2: toxic ash and toxic air. That's another thing, by the way, 453 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 2: that the government historically lies about. They'd lied about it 454 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 2: in New York City. The federal EPA at the time, 455 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 2: under the idiot Bush administration, was claiming that their testing 456 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 2: shows that the air was okay in Manhattan after the 457 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 2: Twin Towers. 458 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: Oh how could that be? They did? I know, but 459 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: that that come on, and. 460 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 8: You're gonna say the air is great here in southern 461 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 8: California after the fires. 462 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 2: Oh, there's a way that we're all breathing in lead 463 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 2: and all kinds of heavy toxic metals. 464 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: Right, and then we're going to wonder why we get cancer. 465 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 8: Yeah, well we have, we have no genetic disposition to it. 466 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: Well, ten years later, how many fire and police, uh 467 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,479 Speaker 2: policemen ended up ended up seriously ill I mean they 468 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 2: had emphasey men lug cancer and heart issues and it 469 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: was all from the toxic air that the government lied about. 470 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 2: And you know they're going to be lying about the 471 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 2: air here too. 472 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 8: Well, they can't lie because how many times do they say, oh, 473 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 8: you need to write to beat Karen Bath said to 474 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 8: be safe, right, you can't go in and clean the 475 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 8: debris because it's it's not safe. I want too many talkses, 476 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 8: so that's on record. 477 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: I want to I wonder what the readings are, though 478 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: I don't good one to know. Well, yeah, I don't 479 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: recall that they've released any numbers. 480 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI Am sixty. 481 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: Well, I got a minute here. 482 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 2: You know what, there's one clip I missed when Trump 483 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 2: going after Pete Boota J. Edge, the old Transportation secretary, 484 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 2: when he was railing away about all the woke progressive 485 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: hiring policies that the FAA had Play cut number four. 486 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 9: The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance and diversity 487 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 9: hiring were last updated on March twenty third of twenty two. 488 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: They wanted to make. 489 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 5: It even more so. And then I came men and 490 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 5: I assume. 491 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 9: Maybe this is the reason the FAA, which is overseen 492 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 9: by Secretary Pete Buddhachek, a real winner. 493 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 5: That's the guy. 494 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 9: He's a real winner. 495 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 3: Do you know? 496 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 9: Badly everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation. 497 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 9: He's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. 498 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 9: He ran his city into the ground, and he's a 499 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 9: disaster now. He's just got a good line of book. 500 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 9: The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating 501 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 9: civil aviation. Well he runs it forty five thousand people 502 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 9: and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity. 503 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 9: So I had to say that it's terrible. Then it's 504 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 9: a group within the FAA. Another story determined that the 505 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 9: workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to 506 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 9: get the administration to change that and to change it imediately. 507 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 9: This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my 508 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 9: getting there. 509 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. I love when he takes down 510 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 2: pomp founds. All right, conways, here we. 511 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 10: Got a lot of specialists coming on to talk about 512 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 10: this horrible plane crash. We have Patrick Wyle, he's airline consultant. 513 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 10: We also have two other specialists, Tim Lynn, who is 514 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 10: a helicopter pilot, we'll find out what happened, then what's 515 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 10: going on with that. Dean Sharp's coming on as well. 516 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 10: And then so it turns out there were no survivors. 517 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 10: I was watching this thing last night and it's amazing. 518 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 10: You know, back in the old days, when there's a 519 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 10: plane crash, you'd never see video of it and you'd 520 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 10: only hear about it hours later. Now it's moments later. 521 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 10: I mean, it happened at five point fifty eight and 522 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 10: they're showing replays right away, right away. I mean, you 523 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 10: know everything we live in the sea all world now 524 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 10: of everything you know, you instantly see it. And if 525 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 10: TV's not going to show it, some station I'm not 526 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 10: going to say which one said this is hard to watch, 527 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 10: and then they didn't show it. They showed right up 528 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 10: into the accident. So you just now go to YouTube 529 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 10: and you see the whole thing. 530 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: Or you know, you can't trust. 531 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 10: That station, right because they don't understand that we can 532 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 10: handle crap like that. 533 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: Nobody turns it off when you say this is graphic. 534 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 10: Giving you a warning, right, Like if I said at 535 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 10: five o'clock today, I'm gonna say something might get suspended 536 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 10: for everyone will be like, Okay, what's going on with 537 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 10: that guy? I hope they do suspend him. And then 538 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 10: we also have second storm of the winter expected to 539 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 10: hit southern California. That's next week, like Tuesday, Wednesday. All right, 540 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 10: so get your sandbags. Oh there's gonna be a big one. 541 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. 542 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 10: I just like to, you know, scare people. No, but 543 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 10: I don't know how big it's gonna be. But look, 544 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 10: the last one we had, we thought it was gonna 545 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 10: be a drizzle and it was a downpour. 546 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: I know at certain point. 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