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Last Hour, 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 2: I read you parts of the lawsuit that's been filed 10 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 2: in La Superior Court by the plaintiffs, the residents of 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 2: what used to be Pacific Palisades, against LADWP and the 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles because the LADWP failed in so 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 2: many ways, traumatic ways, and we learned new stuff by 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: reading this just the introduction to a lengthy filing. We're 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: going to talk to Roger Bailey now, he's the lead 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: attorney on this case. 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Roger, how are. 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 3: You hi, John doing well? Nice to be with you again. 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on again. So I went through. 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: I guess this is like the twenty seven page complaint 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: that you filed. Read some of it on the air 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: Last Hour. Let's start with the claim that there was 23 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 2: a second source of ignition for the fire at ten 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 2: thirty that night, discuss what ignited the fire and created 25 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 2: an even worse situation at ten thirty PM. 26 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: Sure, and just by way of background, you remember when 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: we last spoke back in January, we were focused and 28 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 3: filed based on the lack of water. But what you 29 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: didn't know was at that time we also had some 30 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: indication that the ledwp's electrical equipment had sparked and started 31 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: one of several fires in the area. But when the 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: LEDWP came public and said, oh no, those circuits were 33 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: all abandoned and had been abandoned for five years, we 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 3: decided to keep our powder dry and wait to see 35 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 3: how that evidence ultimately unfolded. And last week, after several 36 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: months of US probing and asking for more detail on 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 3: this electrical circuit, the ladwp's lawyers admitted that, in fact, 38 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 3: that particular circuit was energized at the time of the fire. 39 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: And so what we have is we have a small 40 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: fire starting in the morning hours, and as the day progresses, 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: we have the wind picking up as everybody remembers, and 42 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: that circuit, which is just above the summit Temescal Canyon 43 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 3: Ridge actually starts seeing seventy eighty mile an hour winds. 44 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 3: We know from post fire photographs the poles in that 45 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 3: area snapped to the ground, and then we have elements 46 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: of art arking in spotfires starting. And then most tellingly, 47 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: we've got reports from clients that live in the summit 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 3: of a wall of fire coming down from that area, 49 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 3: which is different from the original point of origin that 50 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: was identified in the morning, a totally different area. We've 51 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 3: got a wall of fire being reported by residents right 52 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: out of that same area where those poles are, and 53 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 3: of course it spread down to the summit and elsewhere 54 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: into the palisades. 55 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 2: So this was directly ignited because the power poles collapsed 56 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: and the transmission lines hit the vegetation. There was thick 57 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: vegetation down below on the ground, so it's almost as 58 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 2: if it was a separate fire, correct. 59 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 3: And on top of that, we have evidence in the 60 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: form of videos, and there was even some local news 61 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: broadcasts that showed after the fire was moving through the community. 62 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 3: We have transformers exploding, we have the power lines which 63 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 3: were still energized through the palisades and not just up 64 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 3: on the ridge there. The power grid in the Palisades 65 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: remain energized, and we have a multiple spot fires starting 66 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: through the Palisades. So in Esmens, you've got a series 67 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: of little fires that become big fires that all converge 68 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: into the massive fire we know as the Palace Palasades fire. 69 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: And there was virtually no water available after a few 70 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 2: hours to put out any of the fires that had started. 71 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: I mean when I was reading through your complaint, ninety 72 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,239 Speaker 2: seven and a half percent of the normal available water 73 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: didn't exist because of the scent and as reservoir being empty, 74 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 2: and also a second reservoir, the Chautauqua, being empty as well. 75 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, like we talked about last time, within 76 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 3: hours of these fires starting, firefighters tapped into hydrants and 77 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: had no water available and reported to many homeowners, sorry 78 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 3: I could have saved your home, but I have no water. 79 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 3: And eventually they stopped sending people out because there was 80 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 3: nothing for them to do with no water. So it 81 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: was a combination of not de energizing the grid which 82 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 3: resulted in these multiple additional spotfires starting, and not having 83 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 3: any water resources available that prevented firefighters from doing their job. 84 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 3: I mean they were out there trying to do their job, 85 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 3: but were unable to do that because they had no water. 86 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: This is just stunning because there's two things that the 87 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: DWP is supposed to do, supply water and power, and 88 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 2: their power lines started this particular fire and they didn't 89 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: have the water available. 90 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: I mean, that's right. 91 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: It gets worse. Yeah, it just keeps getting worse the 92 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 3: more we dig into it. And remember this information about 93 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: the power grid We've been asking for for months, and 94 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 3: originally they said, oh, the lines were abandoned. They have 95 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 3: since come clean to say that that was a misunderstanding. 96 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: These lines were actually active, which explained all of the 97 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 3: wall of fire reports we got from people that live 98 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: in the summit. 99 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 2: Do you have any information what started the original fire 100 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: at ten thirty in the morning. 101 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you that there is an ongoing 102 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 3: investigation by cal Fire. But what it seems to be, 103 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: and I'm an underscore seems to be is there was 104 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: a small adacre brush fire that occurred on New Year's 105 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 3: Eve into New Year's Day, and many people that live 106 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: in the Palisades remember seeing that fire. That fire was 107 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: extinguished or believed to be extinguished. On New Year's Day. 108 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 3: Six days later, we had the Santanna wind event. That 109 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 3: we all remember kickup. And it looks as though embers 110 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 3: from that earlier New Year's Day fire reignited, but that 111 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 3: was in an area a good distance away from these 112 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: power lines, and the wall of fire that I described 113 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 3: that looks like what was a rekindling, but that was 114 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 3: moving in a different direction than the fire that we're 115 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 3: talking about here. 116 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: It seems like, yeah, two separate fires. Now, why would 117 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: they not de energize the lines after the first fire erupted? Well, well, 118 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: I mean I thought that would be an automatic policy. 119 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: It's like turn it, let's turn off the power so 120 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 2: it doesn't get worse. 121 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 3: Well, and that's exactly right. I mean Edison has approval 122 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 3: from the PUC to do exactly that. Because when you 123 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 3: have high winds, you don't want tree limbs falling into 124 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 3: power lines. You don't want lines arcing or transformers exploding, 125 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 3: which is why you de energize the grid as an 126 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 3: added safety measure. So, even if the DWP did de 127 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 3: energize some of the grids, we know from evidence, video 128 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 3: and other evidence that the Palisades remained energized. You know, 129 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: the power system, the grids throughout the Palisades remain energized, 130 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 3: because we've got video of the transformers explode causing more fires, 131 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 3: pole fires, you know, starting because there's energy running through 132 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 3: the lines. So we don't know why they wouldn't de 133 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 3: energize the grid. The protocol would have been de energized 134 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 3: and prevent other fires from starting. 135 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,559 Speaker 2: What have you found about why they infill the Sandy 136 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: Inez Reservoir was it really didn't want to spend the 137 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 2: money because the money was only one hundred and thirty 138 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: grand and they could have done it cheaper in house. 139 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: It's you know, in the grand scheme of things of government, 140 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty grand isn't very much. And the 141 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 2: reservoir was originally designed to fight fires. 142 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 3: Well, that was one of the reasons it was built 143 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 3: that back in the late sixties and early seventies, was 144 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 3: to provide a source of water. And remember it wasn't 145 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: only for the hydrants, but they used to fly helicopters 146 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 3: over Satainnez and pick up water for water drops, and 147 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 3: so a lot of people that lived in the area 148 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 3: felt comforted that the Santinez Reservoir was nearby and helicopters 149 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: could drop into it in the event of a fire 150 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: and and you know use that to tend fires. But 151 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 3: with it empty, we had not only no water in 152 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,239 Speaker 3: the hydrants, and we had no ability for those helicopters 153 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 3: to go draw water either out of standing as or Chautauqua. 154 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 3: You're basically both hands tied behind your back with no resource. 155 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: And as the why why, yeah, as the why, there 156 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: was a tear in the cover that was identified back 157 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 3: in early twenty twenty four. That should have been and 158 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 3: according to the you know led TOWP union leadership, could 159 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 3: have been fixed in house within a month. There were 160 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 3: several weeks. 161 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 1: Okay, so why didn't they do that? 162 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 3: Because they claimed we had to go out to bid. 163 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: Our protocol is we've got to put this out to bid. 164 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 3: So months later it goes out to bid, there's bids 165 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 3: of contractors awarded, and even after the contractors awarded, no 166 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 3: work has begun, and of course January arrives and there's 167 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 3: no water in the reservoir, no repair work has begun. 168 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 3: Then we know the aftermath. 169 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: But this is an emergency safety situation. 170 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 3: Exactly. 171 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,719 Speaker 2: You don't have to put it out for barrier, and 172 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 2: you could speed up the bidding process. You don't have 173 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 2: to put it out for bid when it's a matter 174 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 2: of life and death. 175 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: Fire season is coming. 176 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 3: That's right, and that's the worst time to leave a 177 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 3: reservoir or multiple reservoirs empty. And the other thing is 178 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 3: we heard, well the water wasn't drinkable because of this 179 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: tear in the cover. Okay, fine, you know what, Then 180 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 3: leave water in there for the helicopters, or leave water 181 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: in there solely for firefighting purposes until you get the 182 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 3: cover fixed. People don't have to drink out of it. 183 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 3: Let if helicopters go draw water out of it as 184 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 3: an added safety measure. 185 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 2: Well, what have they been drinking for the last year 186 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 2: that the reservoir has been offline? 187 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 3: You know, they have tanks that they fill from other locations. 188 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 3: They have three one million gallon tanks. They keep those 189 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: filled for normal consumption. But the event of a fire 190 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 3: like this, you needed one hundred and seventeen million gallons 191 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: of extra water that san In has offered. And of 192 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 3: course that was when the three tanks ran out. There 193 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 3: was no water for any purpose, drinking or firefighting. 194 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 2: Why hasn't anyone from the DWP City Council Mayor's office 195 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: addressed all these issues publicly? They haven't said anything about it, 196 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 2: as if they're hoping it all goes away and everyone forgets. 197 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been crickets. You know, we've been expecting, you know, 198 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 3: public explanations. You know, the community has been wanting answers 199 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: and haven't received any answers other than we're looking into it. 200 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 3: We're investigating. But you know, it isn't that complicated. There's 201 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 3: an explanation for why they didn't fill and maybe they 202 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 3: don't want to acknowledge what it is. And there's a 203 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 3: further explanation for why they didn't turn the power off 204 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 3: right as they. 205 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 2: Should have right, and why they didn't fund the fire 206 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 2: department fully to begin with, and why they didn't fix 207 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: all the fire engines, and why didn't they hire enough mechanics. 208 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: I mean, the level of mismanagement and stupidity is overwhelming. 209 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: All right, Roger, So you filed this lawsuit this week yesterday, yesterday, yesterday. 210 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: Okay, what's what's the next step here? 211 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 3: We'll be in front of the court uh in April, 212 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 3: and at that time different dates will be set and uh, 213 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 3: you know we'll get the uh, we'll get the litigation going. 214 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 3: When there are several hundred families already that are part 215 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 3: of this, and more being added daily. And uh, you 216 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: know now that people are after the they've realized they've 217 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 3: lost everything, the shock has worn off, and now they're 218 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 3: they're more than ever wanting the answers, and we're gonna 219 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 3: we're going to provide those in this case. 220 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 2: Those depositions are going to be entertaining. Thank you very much, 221 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 2: Robert tra Bailey, stay in touch with us. Let us 222 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: know we absolutely any new, any news, all right, Roger Bailey, 223 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 2: and he's the lead attorney on the Palisades fire representing 224 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: many Palisades residents. 225 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 226 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 227 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 2: The LADWP has just issued a statement regarding the lawsuit 228 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 2: that I was talking about with the lead attorney, Roger 229 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 2: Bailey a few minutes ago. If you're just joining us, 230 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: the LEDWP is getting sued by many Palisades residents because 231 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: the plaintiffs and their attorneys believe that there was a 232 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 2: second fire. First one started at ten thirty in the morning. 233 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: Second one started at ten thirty at night near the 234 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 2: summit up in the Highlands that's north of the main 235 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 2: village up in the Hills and this was caused when 236 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 2: an H frame set of power poles collapsed, snapped in half, 237 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: sending power lines down. Well, the power lines were downed, 238 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: fell on heavy vegetation and ignited this fire. The LEDWP 239 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 2: made a false to a Washington Post reporter claiming that 240 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: those lines had long been abandoned and deenergized for five years, 241 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: and it wasn't until five days ago when the LADWP 242 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: attorney finally admitted in a footnote that it was energized 243 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 2: at the time of the fire. So once again it 244 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: looks and smells like a big cover up. In the lawsuit, 245 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 2: there's color photos of the h and it and you 246 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: know it's a the H frame poles, and it describes 247 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 2: what the poles look like. It's two vertical poles and 248 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 2: then there are three horizontal poles across connecting them, so 249 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 2: it looks roughly like it's the shape of an H 250 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: And what happened is those poles collapsed, the energized power 251 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: lines fell to the ground. And they have video because 252 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: agencies like you see San Diego has cameras in the hills, 253 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: and you could see that the homes in the Summit 254 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 2: neighborhood had electricity. You can see the lights on in 255 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 2: the homes or the street lights are on. And you 256 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: could also see where a hotspot explodes at ten thirty six, 257 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 2: because there were embers blowing towards the homes after the 258 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 2: fire ignited and it went to hell quickly. Heavy fire 259 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: activity just above the Summit neighborhood at the THAMESCA Water tank. 260 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: So that's what I see with my eyes in the 261 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 2: photos that's included of The DWP has said, yes, the 262 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 2: power lines were de energized for several years, but re 263 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 2: energized in twenty twenty four. It was energized at the 264 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 2: time the fire started. Did the DWP says the ATF, 265 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, is investigating the 266 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 2: origin and cause of the fire. LEDWP has provided extensive 267 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,119 Speaker 2: information and the ATF knows that the line was energized. 268 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: But the ATF and neither the ATF or any other 269 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: investigating authority has indicated that LADWP facilities were involved in 270 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: the ignition. And then it goes on. It's interesting they 271 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: they try to provide some kind of response to the 272 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 2: power lines going down and maybe starting this second big 273 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: fire in the Palisades that night. I don't see any 274 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: statements about the reservoir why it was empty. And you 275 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 2: combine that with the fire response. Because Kristin Crowley's decisions, 276 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: a thousand firefighters were sent home. Karen Bass defunded the 277 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 2: fire department. There's only it's only fifty percent funded. They 278 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 2: spend most of their days putting out homeless fires seventeen 279 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: thousand a year. A lot of fire engines are broken, 280 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: over one hundred. There's no mechanics to fix them, so 281 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 2: they were out of service. You add this up and 282 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: between the fire management, the mayor, the city council, the DWP, 283 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 2: they're problems. Not filling the reservoir, not de energizing the 284 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 2: power lines that night of the fire. Oh my god. 285 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: Every way they could fail they failed. They failed every 286 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: way possible. Many different people failed, Like there wasn't one 287 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: smart guy or smart woman in the whole bureaucracy. Nobody, 288 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 2: nobody at DWP, nobody in Karen Bass's office, nobody in 289 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 2: city council, nobody in the fire department. Nobody. Wow, total complete, 290 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 2: overwhelming failure. Every wrong decision that could be made was made. 291 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 2: Every place that you could neglect they neglected. But outside 292 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: of Kristan Crowley. Everybody still has their jobs. We'll have 293 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 2: I got all kinds of. 294 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: Stuff to do here. 295 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 296 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 4: six forty. 297 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. 298 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 2: You know, eighty percent of the country does not want 299 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 2: boys playing girl sports. Doesn't matter that they claim their 300 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 2: transgender if they're biological boys. Eighty percent of the country 301 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 2: says no. But in Sacramento, the Assembly Democrats just blocked 302 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 2: a bill that would stop boys from playing in girls 303 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 2: sports and would stop boys from being in a girl's 304 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: locker room, whether they were transgender or not. 305 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: Bill A. 306 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 2: Sale wrote the bill the Republican from the Inland Empire. 307 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: He's coming on with us after three o'clock. It is shocking. 308 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 2: It really shocks me, and I shouldn't be on. How 309 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party has decided that women now have to 310 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 2: compete against biological males and that women have to sit 311 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 2: in locker rooms and restrooms with biological males. 312 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: That is so. 313 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 2: Bizarre, and most of the country sees it that way. 314 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: Why is it always California? Why is it always California 315 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: holding on to the weirdest, strangest In some cases, most 316 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 2: destructive policies, people keep voting for it. We'll talk to 317 00:19:53,359 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 2: Bill Sale coming up. I'm also und that certain Democrats 318 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 2: keep defending illegal alien violent criminals. One of them is 319 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 2: Michelle Wou. She's the mayor of Boston. Boston is a 320 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 2: sanctuary city. She gave a speech the other day, a 321 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: strong speech claiming that no one tells Boston how to 322 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 2: take care of our own, not kings and not presidents 323 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 2: who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies. 324 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 2: Do you remember they rebelled against King George back in 325 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 2: seventeen seventy four, the Tea Party closing a Boston harbor 326 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 2: protesting taxes from King George. And she's comparing that to 327 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 2: protecting violent criminal illegal aliens who rape and kill, that 328 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 2: they have to be protected against Donald Trump. In fact, 329 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 2: you're not going to believe this, but Michelle Wu considers 330 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 2: the illegal alien rapists and murderers to be family. This 331 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: is her exact quote. We may not always agree or 332 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 2: see eye to eye, but at the end of the day, 333 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: we are a family. If you come for one of us, 334 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: you will get all of us. She's pledging that everyone 335 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: in Boston is going to protect the illegal alien violent criminals, 336 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 2: including the murderers and the rapists. So CBS investigated in 337 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 2: Boston because Ice had been claiming that they arrested three 338 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 2: hundred and seventy illegal aliens, and more than two hundred 339 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 2: of the three seventy were arrested for homicide, rape, manslaughter, 340 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 2: and other significant crimes. 341 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: You want to hear some of these Boston family members. 342 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 2: Well, one family member a Guatemalan three counts of aggravated 343 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 2: child rape. He was released in Boston on seventy five 344 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 2: hundred dollars bail. Now, I cannot fathom what aggravated child 345 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 2: rape means. I don't even want to look it up. 346 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 2: I don't want to even picture that. But Michelle will 347 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 2: these the progressive democrats running these cities, and Karen Bass 348 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 2: has the same feelings. She has not cooperated at all 349 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 2: with the murderers and rapists then need to be deported 350 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 2: here in La she is less outspoken about it. Michelle 351 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 2: Wou really doesn't care. She's so sure she's right that 352 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 2: an aggravated child rapist be protected. I just had a 353 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 2: detainer on this guy, but they let him out on 354 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: seventy five hundred dollars bail. Here's another one, also from Guatemala, 355 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 2: also aggravated child rape. The victim was age nine or younger. 356 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 2: Also released on seventy five hundred dollars bail. Also an 357 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: ICE detainer ignored. These are two separate men. Here's a 358 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: Honduran charged with assaalt to rape, masked arm robbery, released 359 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 2: on his own recognaissance with zero dollars bail. Allegal alien 360 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 2: in Boston. This is CBS reporting Wooster County had two 361 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 2: illegal alien inmates charged with child rape. They both got 362 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 2: out on five hundred dollars bail. Another was charged with 363 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 2: fentanyl trafficking, released on four thousand dollars bond before Ice 364 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 2: could arrive. This is what Michelle wou Is proudly defined 365 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 2: of the progressives running these governments are the sickest, most 366 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 2: destructive people I've ever encountered in my life. There is 367 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: nothing political. There's no political debate over deporting aggravated child 368 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 2: rapists or arresting aggravated child rapists, but they release them 369 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 2: for pennies in Boston. Now, I heard that Trump. In fact, 370 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 2: I don't know if if anyone can check. Trump was 371 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 2: going to be signing an executive order banning sanctuary cities. 372 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's been done. I don't know 373 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: how you enforce that. 374 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 2: But this this concept, and they stand there, all smug arrogant, smiling, 375 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 2: proud of themselves. And there's nothing that Karen Bass disagrees 376 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 2: with the y'all wou on here, except she keeps it 377 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: to herself. She gives that silly smile. Speaking of a 378 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 2: silly smile, she was up in Sacramento begging for money. 379 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: She wants. 380 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 2: A couple of billion dollars to bail out LA for 381 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 2: the fire. We're going to play you a clip of 382 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 2: Karen Bass. Now you listen very specifically to the question, 383 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 2: and notice that Karen Bass spews a lot of words. 384 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: This was like a word stew never answers the question directly, 385 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: just spins and circles. This is Cacra and Sacramento. The 386 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 2: reporter is Ashley Zavala. Cut One right now. 387 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 5: Is dealing with a really uncertain budget situation in terms 388 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 5: of its Medicaid funds, in terms of what federal funding 389 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 5: looks like in the future. Of tax returns in your 390 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 5: district are delayed until October, so lawmakers are going to 391 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 5: have to formulate a budget plan that they don't really 392 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 5: even know how much money they're working with. So what's 393 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 5: your I guess what's your message to California taxpayers and 394 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 5: other parts of the states to sort of see these 395 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 5: challenges ahead for the state while you know you yourself 396 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 5: have your challenge. 397 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 6: Right right and we are fortunate to have the state 398 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 6: legislature and governor that we do. And we are concerned 399 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 6: because we don't know what awaits us from Washington, d C. 400 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,199 Speaker 6: But the state will have a better sense of the 401 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 6: finances after April fifteenth, when taxes are due that may 402 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 6: revise when the budget is updated based on the tax returns, 403 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 6: will give us a better idea. But that's why we're 404 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 6: here now, because the subcommittees in the Assembly and in 405 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 6: the Senate that decide the budget that the governor put 406 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 6: forward our meeting right now. 407 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 7: Jesus. 408 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 1: We make sure. 409 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 6: That La City is included in that. We've been working 410 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 6: lockstep with the county. The county was here last week, 411 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 6: so we wanted to make sure that our voices were. 412 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: Heard as well. 413 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 2: She missed the part that there's a lot of people 414 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 2: who don't have in La who don't have to file 415 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 2: their taxes until October I believe they got a delay 416 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 2: because of all the natural disasters we had in Los Angeles, 417 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 2: So she completely ignored that part of the question. And 418 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 2: she needs billions of dollars from the state government. But 419 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: the state is seventy six billion dollars in deficit as well. 420 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: And all this stuff in LA is self inflicted, including this, 421 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 2: as we've gone over in the first two hours, this 422 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 2: huge fire. There were so many things that the city 423 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 2: and the Department of Water and Power did to the 424 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 2: residents here to make this far, far worse than it 425 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 2: had to be. All right, coming up after three o'clock. 426 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: You know what, the Democrats in the Assembly are interested 427 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 2: in having boys dressed up as girls in high school 428 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: locker rooms. 429 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: They should be allowed to play. 430 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: Girl sports, being girls, locker rooms, being girls' restrooms. 431 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: Bill a sale. 432 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 2: The Republican wrote a bill to stop this nonsense. Eighty 433 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 2: percent of the country wants this stopped. Democrats block the bill. 434 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: We'll talk about it after three. 435 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty. 436 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 2: Follow us on social media at John coblt Radio. At 437 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio, we're listing one thousand followers away from 438 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 2: hitting twenty five thousand after three o'clock, Bill a salely 439 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 2: the Republican assemblyman to come on, He's got a simple bill, 440 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 2: keep boys out of girls sports and out of girls' 441 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 2: locker rooms. Eighty percent of Americans say yes to that. Enough, okay, enough, 442 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: But the Democrats in the Assembly shot down that bill 443 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 2: by a wide margin. Bill Sale is going to come on, 444 00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 2: we'll talk about it now. This is really one of 445 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: the strangest excuses I've ever heard for a flight being delayed. 446 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 2: This was a United Airline flight once again out of well, 447 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 2: it came out of Los Angeles here and it was 448 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 2: headed to Shanghai. And it took off and it flew 449 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 2: about two hours over the ocean when the pilot discovered 450 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 2: that he had forgotten his passport. 451 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: The pilot forgot his passport. 452 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 2: Uh huh, Yeah, the pilot forgot his passport. So they 453 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 2: had to turn the flight around and divert it to 454 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 2: San Francisco. And there were two hundred and fifty seven 455 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 2: passengers who ended up getting delayed six hours. 456 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: I would be so pissed off. 457 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 2: You know what they would give you for being pissed off. 458 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 2: They gave these passengers fifteen dollar meal voucher. 459 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: You know, that's why bother that happened to me one time. 460 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 2: I'll take fifteen hundred and it says in some other compensation, 461 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 2: but it's not specified. Maybe they got like a thousand 462 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 2: frequent fire miles or something. I don't know, but fifteen 463 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 2: dollars meal vouchers. 464 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: Here. 465 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: You can't even buy a hamburger at an airport fifteen No, 466 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 2: you can't. 467 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: You can't. 468 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 2: So a new crew had to take over, and the 469 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 2: flight departed at nine o'clock out of San Francisco, six 470 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 2: hours behind schedule. The pilot announced on the intercom that 471 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 2: he forgot his passport. 472 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 7: I definitely would not have done that. I would have 473 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 7: blamed some sort of mechanical issue or something. It's not 474 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 7: safe to fly. I'm not going to say that I'm 475 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 7: an idiot. I forgot my passport two hours into the flight. 476 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 7: Come on, now, it'd be like forgetting to get dressed. 477 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: I mean. 478 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: The United finally put out an official statement, and they 479 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 2: did not mention the passport. They wrote, your flight diverted 480 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 2: to San Francisco due to an unexpected crew related issue, 481 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 2: requiring a new crew. Once they arrive, we'll get you 482 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,479 Speaker 2: back get you back on your way to Shanghai as 483 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 2: soon as possible. Uh, the passengers really pissed off. 484 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: I have not heard that one. 485 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: So he would he would landed in China, and you 486 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: see see how everyone is afraid of other countries immigration laws. Yeah, 487 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: like this guy freaked out and turned the plane around, 488 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: knowing he's probably gonna get severely disciplined and and get 489 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: get embarrassed around the world. But that's better than facing 490 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 2: whatever the Chinese government was going to do to him. Right, 491 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 2: He's got to spend the night there. He can't turn 492 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 2: the plane around and come back. 493 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: You'd have to stay on the plane. Would even be 494 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: able to stay on the plane without. 495 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know how that works, but 496 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 2: you see, he didn't want to find out, right, he 497 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 2: didn't want to end up in some Chinese prison because 498 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 2: you know, they enforced their laws in China. 499 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 7: I had a layover in Russia and we were told 500 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 7: you are not allowed to leave the airport. 501 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't screw with that. I'm 502 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: going to shoot you dead as soon as you stepped 503 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 2: on the tarmac. Yeah, that's that's the thing everybody else 504 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 2: enforces the law and every you know, and you're afraid. 505 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 2: You're afraid to do anything wrong. You're afraid to cross 506 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 2: the street the wrong way in some of these countries. 507 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 2: All Right, we come back, bill a sale on the 508 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 2: Republican assemblyman and he had a bill AB eight forty four. 509 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: It would keep. 510 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 2: Boys at a girl sports at a girl's locker rooms. 511 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,959 Speaker 2: The Sacramento wacko Democrats shot it down, locked the bill. Really, 512 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: so they're so sick these people. Debra Mark is live 513 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 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