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Speaker 1: back to Deborah. Breaking news.

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Speaker 2: We have breaking news. This just into the KFI newsroom.

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Speaker 2: TMZ is reporting that you know that singer David He

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Speaker 2: has been viewed as a suspect in the death of

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Speaker 2: Celeste Reeves. That's the teenager whose body, her decomposing body

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Speaker 2: was found in his tesla. So right now, TMZ is

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Speaker 2: saying there's no paperwork classifying David as a suspect, but

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Speaker 2: one of their sources did say that investigators are looking

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Speaker 2: at David as a suspect.

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Speaker 1: That story broke weeks ago, right, they found her body.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but now David has not been listed as a suspect.

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Speaker 1: Why would that be. It's his car, there's a dead

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Speaker 1: woman in your trunk, right, you're a suspect.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what, John, I don't get paid too.

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Speaker 2: I don't get paid to analyze things like that.

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Speaker 1: I know that. I just find that in music. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for weeks, since he's not a suspect, we mean, he's

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Speaker 3: Well, now he is apparently reported.

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Speaker 2: Reportedly allegedly suspect.

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Speaker 1: You ever ended up with a dead girl in the

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Speaker 3: I hope that never happened.

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Speaker 1: You would, you know, you just don't put her in there.

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Speaker 1: He was framed by someone else. Well, we'll see. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that for that. Now, let's uh, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about Chevy At Hills, where they're being forced to take

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Speaker 1: don't know how a council person can force a homeless

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Speaker 1: whatever the business dealings were, the neighborhood still doesn't want

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Speaker 1: and Polly Grossband from Chevy Hills, who was on with

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Speaker 4: You hi, John. It's nice to hear your boys.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's good to have fine, it's good to have

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Speaker 1: you on again. Tell me you apparently pursued Katie Roslovsky

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Speaker 4: We did. You know, we are still expressing our deep

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Speaker 4: We're still urging Katie to delay the shelters plans opening

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Speaker 1: And you actually went to a meeting where she was speaking.

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Speaker 4: We did. We a group of us neighbors. We all

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Speaker 4: And after she was you know, kind of making her

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Speaker 1: Now and Senate Bill's seventy nine is the one that

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Speaker 4: But yes, and at least at least she's standing against it.

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Speaker 1: It, but she's for this homeless shelter coming into your neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so we kind of started with the shout outs,

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Speaker 1: If you can't put a homeless shelter in a residential

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Speaker 4: And we did so. The unlucky part which happened was

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Speaker 1: most people don't want to do it, but you and

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Speaker 4: It felt it felt like a relief to see her

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Speaker 1: It's the gall they have. You pay their salaries, you

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Speaker 4: Well, it is what she actually is doing right now,

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Speaker 4: and it's our neighborhood and we are still raising the

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Speaker 4: this is one where she has to think a moment,

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Speaker 1: All right, very good, Polly, Thank you for coming on

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Speaker 4: In content for having me on. And yes, and also

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Speaker 4: One was the timeline. The other one is the Instagram

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Speaker 4: I'll send it to you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll do. Thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: All right. That's Polly Grossman Chevy at Hills. They are

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Speaker 1: fighting to keep a homeless shelter out of their neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: Regular citizens just trying to live their life, minding their

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Speaker 1: Jenise and if you didn't if you didn't hear it,

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Speaker 2: And I really need to find out.

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Speaker 1: the award to Genie Kenonias. And she's going to spend

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