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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcast presents a town hall with California Governor Gavin Newsom. Up, first,

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Speaker 1: we have Vincent, Beverly and Vincent in Pasadena. Vincent and

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Speaker 1: Beverly are married. Vincent is their son. They lost their

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Speaker 1: family home of forty one years in the Eton fire. Governor,

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Speaker 1: this is Vincent, Beverly and Vincent.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, hello, forty one years huh.

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Speaker 3: One years and same spot. Kids grew up there. We

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Speaker 3: modeled the house, fixed it up. We fixed it up,

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Speaker 3: made a home out of it. We didn't have to

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Speaker 3: move and centrally located, so everything was there, all my

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Speaker 3: family history, everything.

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Speaker 2: And and and a community that's unlike any other in

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Speaker 2: the region. Huh. I mean, remarkable diversity, generational wealth being created,

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Speaker 2: opportunities beautiful tell us. I mean when you know, for

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Speaker 2: those that don't fully appreciate Alta Dina and maybe more

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Speaker 2: familiar with some of these coastal communities, maybe can help

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Speaker 2: if you would, I'd appreciate it, and I think people

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Speaker 2: listening would appreciate. Just describe the community and the people,

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Speaker 2: the vibrancy.

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Speaker 3: The attraction is that it's a wooded area and the

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Speaker 3: forest is right there, lots of wildlife, parks. The community

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Speaker 3: made up of people who have been in Altadena for generations.

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Speaker 4: Tight community.

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Speaker 3: Everybody knows everybody on the block. Everybody comes to each

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Speaker 3: other's rescue. My neighbors helped me build fences, and I

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Speaker 3: helped them paint their homes and do that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: And we've seen the senior citizens leave and their children

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Speaker 3: come in, be seen young people come in. And Alta

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Speaker 3: Dina was had the reputation of being kind of like

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Speaker 3: a little secret. People didn't know how nice it was

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Speaker 3: up in Altadena. And young folks are starting to come

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Speaker 3: in and buy some of the homes when the older

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Speaker 3: people leave or go into nursing homes or leave to

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Speaker 3: go with their families when they can't support themselves anymore

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Speaker 3: by themselves. But it was always a welcoming community and

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Speaker 3: always a surprise to.

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Speaker 4: People when they came up.

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Speaker 3: Parks were nice, just almost a perfect kind of situation.

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Speaker 5: It was crime free. What with your door, Go walk

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Speaker 5: your dog out, locking your door, come back, everything would

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Speaker 5: be in place. Speak to everybody along the way and

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Speaker 5: it was our perfect day. You know, we love We

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Speaker 5: weren't going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Wow, did you guys, did you have insurance on the property.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we haven't assurance. That is not an issue.

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Speaker 5: Our issue now is finding somewhere to live. People are

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Speaker 5: gouging us. They want to give us properties that they

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Speaker 5: would normally rent from anywhere from three to five thousand

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Speaker 5: dollars a month. They want to charge us eight thousand

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Speaker 5: dollars and it's unfurnished. It's at the top of most

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Speaker 5: people's budget. So you got a home, and then you

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Speaker 5: got to still come out of pocket to get a

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Speaker 5: washing machine and dryer, a bed. All that that's part

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Speaker 5: is disturbing me more than anything. Right now that I

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Speaker 5: am out of a home of forty one years. None

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Speaker 5: of my personal belongings, you know, antiques that have been

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Speaker 5: passed down, some of them, and some antiques that we

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Speaker 5: purchased after all these years, they're gone. We don't have

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Speaker 5: basic things, and people don't seem to cure to allow

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Speaker 5: us to try to make homes for the next two

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Speaker 5: years while we're waiting to rebuild.

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Speaker 2: It is grief and and mine on your behalf. It

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Speaker 2: is unconscionable to see this kind of price gouging and

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Speaker 2: to see the greed of people taking advantage of you

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Speaker 2: and others similarly in your position. We immediately after this

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Speaker 2: this disaster, we did. I signed an executive order on

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Speaker 2: price gouging. It's now about enforcing it. And so I

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Speaker 2: cannot impress upon you. Let me. I want to know

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Speaker 2: who to forgive my language, Who the hell these people

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Speaker 2: are that are doubling rents. I want their names, their address.

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Speaker 2: I'm coming after them. The Attorney General needs to come

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Speaker 2: after them. It is against the law to do that.

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Speaker 2: If they were advertising a rent before this tragedy, they

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Speaker 2: cannot charge these absorbent and prices. They cannot, and so

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Speaker 2: we need to we need to hold them accountable. And

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Speaker 2: these laws mean nothing unless we enforce and so I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry that you're facing that, and I know others as well,

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Speaker 2: and we've got we've got to hold these people accountable.

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Speaker 5: Also, they're trying to force us into a twenty four

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Speaker 5: month leaf instead of a one year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, thank you for that example. Let me

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Speaker 2: look into that as well. Were doing tenant protections. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of people that are moving into rentals with

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Speaker 2: family members, but then they're in a rental and the

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Speaker 2: rental says, well, you can only have two people, and

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Speaker 2: now there's five, and so potentially people are going to

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Speaker 2: get evicted. So I just did an executive order yesterday

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Speaker 2: on that, prohibiting that so people have the ability, if

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Speaker 2: they've been impacted by the fires, to be with others

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Speaker 2: in that rental environment. The price gouging. I extended the

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Speaker 2: price gouging beyond the emergency declaration, and the Attorney General

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Speaker 2: just did a big announcement potentially needing some warrant power

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Speaker 2: to have more force to go after these people taking advantage.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for that one versus two year example.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you this, have you been offered any

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Speaker 2: unsolicited offers to buy your home?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: My bone two or three days after this potastrophe, the

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Speaker 3: Bone was bringing off the whole people just calling, are

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Speaker 3: you interested? Get tech still buy your property?

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Speaker 4: You know as that Cody.

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Speaker 2: I was at the first Ame Lena Kennedy and others

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Speaker 2: community leaders in your backyard five days ago, and this

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Speaker 2: came up with with faith leaders and community leaders, and

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Speaker 2: we immediately did an executive order that now is illegal

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Speaker 2: as well. They cannot unsolicit you with low ball offers.

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Speaker 2: My biggest fear right now in Altadena is the community

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Speaker 2: is not able to come back because in a time

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Speaker 2: of trial and stress, people may feel hopeless and may

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Speaker 2: give in to the temptation to sell their properties at

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Speaker 2: below market value. We cannot let that happen. And so

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Speaker 2: these predatory practices, these people that are calling you, texting,

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Speaker 2: that's something else. Please please let us know. I want

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Speaker 2: to go. I mean, this is another area where we

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Speaker 2: have to go after these people speculators taking advantage of

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Speaker 2: this tragedy.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's one example.

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Speaker 3: Or these scammers are coming in and touching base with

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Speaker 3: people and ask them. But they want to rebuilt. And

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Speaker 3: if you give us a depositive, will purchase your supplies

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Speaker 3: because supplies it.

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Speaker 4: Will be in demand.

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Speaker 3: And once you decide to build, if you don't have

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Speaker 3: those plies set aside, build the materials and stuff that

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Speaker 3: it's going to be along the way. So give us

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Speaker 3: some money now, will pursase them for you now, and

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Speaker 3: then then you never hear from those guys.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for highlighting that for people listening, uh to

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Speaker 2: not fall prey to that and these scanners and fraudsters. Well,

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Speaker 2: what so, we've we've got a lot of work to

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Speaker 2: do together to have your back and your your neighbors

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Speaker 2: and the community, and to get you back and uh

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Speaker 2: and and to keep you uh in the mind frame

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Speaker 2: you are right now that I mean you you don't

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Speaker 2: want to move, You want to rebuild.

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Speaker 4: Right, this is this is our forever home. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: we want to.

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Speaker 3: But here are some things when talking to people that

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Speaker 3: are concerned about the infrastructure for Altadena markets the library

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Speaker 3: burnt down, banks burnt down, the post office burnt down,

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Speaker 3: you know, senior citizens centers and all that burned down.

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Speaker 3: Is that going to come back? Is that recovery going

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Speaker 3: to be accelerated? For Altadena? The building permits nightmare going

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Speaker 3: to be modified so that we can get to start

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Speaker 3: building sooner.

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Speaker 2: So let me specifically answer that. And being up being

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Speaker 2: in your backyard nine in the last twelve days and

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Speaker 2: going up and down the commercial Court or seeing that

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Speaker 2: destruction firsthand, I'm mindful of everything you just said. Let

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Speaker 2: me be specific though, as it relates to permits, we

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Speaker 2: are waving sequel, We wave the Coastal Act. We have

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Speaker 2: a forcing function in the executive order. I have done

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Speaker 2: eleven executive orders since the fires to require local government

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Speaker 2: to create the conditions where local government is responsible for

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Speaker 2: getting permits within thirty days and making sure that we

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Speaker 2: break through all of the bureaucratic red tape. So the

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Speaker 2: state has already done that, and we are driving locals

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Speaker 2: to do that as well. Number Two, the Biden administration,

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Speaker 2: President Biden and I say President Biden, Joe Biden. President

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden himself approved a major dis master declaration within

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Speaker 2: thirty six hours. It's unprecedented in the history of disasters

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Speaker 2: in this country. What does that mean. It allows for

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Speaker 2: individual assistance, which is critical, but it also, through this

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Speaker 2: technical thing called ceeded G grants, allows for all of

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Speaker 2: the parks, playgrounds, community centers, and everything you just described

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Speaker 2: to get rebuilt with federal support and federal money. We're

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Speaker 2: getting reimbursed at seventy five percent for that one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent for other things. So there's going to be a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a local match forgive the technical point there,

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Speaker 2: but we've already we just got that, and we got

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Speaker 2: it just in time before tomorrow Monday, and we're making

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Speaker 2: sure that those dollars not only are secure, but they're

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Speaker 2: being activated. And then we've got the Small Business Administration

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Speaker 2: that's out there trying to provide that extra support. And

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Speaker 2: then there's gaps. We've got all these community foundations. And

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Speaker 2: then there's a huge effort La Rises effort, which is

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Speaker 2: going to be this the community led effort, which is

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Speaker 2: going to lead a vibrant, energetic rebuilding process that is

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Speaker 2: community led, not top down. It's not going to be

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Speaker 2: the state dictating. It's going to be you telling us

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Speaker 2: what you need. And we're going to remove every damn

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Speaker 2: barrier that we humanly possibly can between the city, state, region,

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Speaker 3: So well, there need to be community leaders established in

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Speaker 3: order to tap into this effort.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in fact where the reason I was with

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Speaker 2: Lena and others and with the church leaders, we're really

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Speaker 2: starting to already connect to the UH, to the community

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Speaker 2: UH and in a very granular way. And in today

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Speaker 2: Sunday we're announcing UH this our co chairs and I

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Speaker 2: because at any hour it's going to go out. I

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Speaker 2: the folks that are going to be leading this effort

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Speaker 2: for the state because they're deeply committed to your community.

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Speaker 2: And Altadena is on my mind with this larger rebuilt

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Speaker 2: I assure you Alta Dina is deeply on my mind.

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Speaker 3: So there's concerned that you know, they may try to

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Speaker 3: turn the Altadena into an apartment area and the no

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Speaker 3: homeschool away, but they'll be building back with apartment buildings.

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Speaker 3: Except like our park. We've had the developers try to

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Speaker 3: get our park park before, and you know, you know

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Speaker 3: the part of the park burned, just the building there.

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Speaker 3: But you know, hopefully there's no changing of our zona.

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Speaker 3: We try to keep it a residential home area, single

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Speaker 2: We've got to do everything in our power. You have

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Speaker 2: my firm commitment. Then when I say community led, you

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Speaker 2: decide in that respect. I do not want to see

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Speaker 2: speculators come in. I don't want to see displacement. We

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Speaker 2: don't want to see reckless up zoning that destroys the

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Speaker 2: character and the unique vibrancy of your community. And we

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Speaker 2: all want to see parks and open space devoured in

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Speaker 2: that respect. So absolutely, that's the commitment.

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Speaker 5: Do you have any idea when they might be able

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Speaker 5: to start, you know, excavating some of that clean up, Steff.

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Speaker 4: We haven't even been able to get back to our

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Speaker 2: Yet, so I'm sorry about that. So here's here's where

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Speaker 2: Within sixty days, all of the hasmats done and debris

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Speaker 2: I want to say in nine months, but with grace

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Speaker 4: About a year.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I want to get it done. We're going

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's that's it.

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Speaker 2: I could spend the next three years with you, guys.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Oh, i appreciate you to your great governance.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sorry for all you're going through.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we love you, Love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Up next, we have Natalie from Pacific Palisades. Natalie lost

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Speaker 1: both her home and her business. Natalie, meet Governor Newsom.

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Speaker 2: Are you there? Natalie?

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Speaker 6: Hi, Governor Newsom, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Question is how are you doing?

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Speaker 6: Not the greatest, just being totally honest.

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Speaker 2: She lost your home, and your business.

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Speaker 6: I lost both. Yes, it's been very devastating.

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Speaker 2: And what has it been navigating some of the support

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Speaker 7: I have, and there's been some that have been absolutely amazing,

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Speaker 7: and I'm so grateful for them. The reason I even

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Speaker 7: free people warning these outfits, So that was really kind. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 7: some of the other disaster relief has been not the greatest,

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Speaker 7: But for the people that are helping and the companies

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Speaker 2: I love that. What is is if FEMA assistants SBA

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Speaker 7: I'll be quite Franks, not pretty easy. They're kind of

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Speaker 7: jump through like hoops of fire for being honest. Essentially,

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Speaker 7: like I did have some Renter's insurance on my home right,

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Speaker 7: very small amount that doesn't even cover some of like

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Speaker 7: literally it's like nothing, basically, and because I was honest

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Speaker 7: the wait list. So far they're denying my claim. I

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Speaker 2: And that's specific to the FEMA process. Yeah, and SBA,

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Speaker 6: It's been SBA was very difficult.

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Speaker 7: There was a lot of issues with the website, like

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Speaker 7: a little more as far as like their tech side and.

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Speaker 6: Not doing what they're doing to me.

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Speaker 2: Basically, I appreciate, and we'll we'll follow up specifically and

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that because unfortunately, and I can't get too

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Speaker 7: insurance is not active on my business right now. So

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Speaker 7: getting these loans and getting these things in order is

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Speaker 7: a huge deal for me.

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Speaker 6: Have nothing.

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Speaker 7: I've lost over six hundred thousand with my business.

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Speaker 6: Wow, which a lifetime to achieve.

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Speaker 7: So you know what am I supposed to do with

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got to do a weekend to get you

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Speaker 2: back on your feed. And the fact you're even engaging

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Speaker 2: And I'm sorry as well. We're very mindful of what's

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Speaker 2: going on with price gouging. It was one of the

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Speaker 2: Renting motels, hotels, they cannot they cannot exceed ten percent

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Speaker 7: Think we're asking now like of like proof of things

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Speaker 7: like it's kind of wild. I'm you know, like I'm

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Speaker 7: hopefully get that back soon. And they're what they're asking

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Speaker 7: me to like move in with I'm just and I

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Speaker 7: you have security on things. But it's when I started

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's it's it's that's going to be. I mean,

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Speaker 2: The Attorney General reinforced that I had I extended the

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Speaker 2: it's now just driving accountability, also driving accountability to your

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Speaker 2: has that that that modest just getting you started debit

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Speaker 7: So much for taking the time with me today, and

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Speaker 7: I just appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks so much, and I'm so sorry

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Speaker 1: This is an iHeartRadio California town Hall with Governor Newsom. Next,

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Speaker 1: we have Jim in Altadena, his home of twenty four

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Speaker 1: years burned down. Jim, you're on with our governor.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Governor.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Jim? How are you? How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm encouraged.

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Speaker 8: Everywhere I go I see so many smiling faces. You

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Speaker 4: Lost a house.

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Speaker 8: Everybody is giving. Everybody is giving. And went out to

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Speaker 8: sand I needed to get some toys from my cats.

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Speaker 8: And there were two lines. There was a line that

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Speaker 8: a real short line. I'm like, what's the difference between

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Speaker 8: the three quarters of a mile. That's people making donations and

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Speaker 8: bringing water and bringing dips and bringing food and bringing clothes.

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Speaker 8: And they waited an hour maybe more to get in.

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Speaker 8: And then when I got there, the number of volunteers

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Speaker 8: just so many people that are folding clothes and laying

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Speaker 8: in shock. I had a front house with an inlaw house,

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Speaker 8: so I lost three houses total.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Jim, how long have you lived in the in

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Speaker 8: March would be twenty four years? WHOA, I moved down

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Speaker 8: from northern California. I lived in born in Palo Alto,

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Speaker 8: grew up in Los Altos in Sunny Vale, and then

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Speaker 8: moved down here to get into the film industry way back.

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Speaker 2: Can you can? I ask you to do a favor.

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Speaker 2: It's so, I spent a lot of time in Altadena.

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Speaker 2: In the last thing, you know, nine out of the

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Speaker 2: last twelve days built out in the community. Describe the community.

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Speaker 2: It is a special place. It's so unique, it's so

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Speaker 2: really it's a it's a It's one of the most

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Speaker 4: Oh, it really is, it really is.

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Speaker 8: I've got Latino neighbors on both sides of me, Asian

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Speaker 8: you know, all living together, and they're just the best

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of artists that were drawn to it.

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Speaker 8: The reason I moved there is I like vintage things.

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Speaker 8: I lost a jukebox in the fire. I lost you

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Speaker 8: know a lot of collectible stuff. And my house was

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Speaker 8: built in forty seven. It's a nineteen forty.

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Speaker 4: Seven branch style. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: And the houses across the street it was there was

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Speaker 8: an art tech Thomas Jane, who you know, built all

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Speaker 8: these houses and they were known as James Village and

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Speaker 8: we've been trying for years to get a historical designation

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Speaker 8: to it. It never happened. But they were you know, the

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Speaker 8: it's just adorable. So there's there's a lot of like,

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Speaker 8: there's visual aesthetic up there.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're up there.

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Speaker 8: You've got the Deodora trees, you got Christmas Tree Lane,

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Speaker 8: You've got you know, such a visual aesthetic.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 8: I like to tell people, hey, we're up above the

440
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Speaker 8: bad air, and any bad air that we do get

441
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Speaker 8: blows east into Duarte.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow.

443
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Speaker 8: But just everybody there, it's just it's a lot of pride,

444
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Speaker 8: a lot of sense of community in Altadena, and a

445
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Speaker 8: lot of families that I know that have been living

446
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 8: there since the seventies, or people I know that moved away.

447
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 8: They grew up there, they moved away. The neighbor across

448
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 8: the street from me, she was raised in the house.

449
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Speaker 8: She bought it, She and her husband bought it from

450
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Speaker 8: their parents, raised their kids there, you know, then even

451
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,479
Speaker 8: had their grandkids there for a little bit. You know,

452
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Speaker 8: their their house is gone. And my heart just breaks

453
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Speaker 8: for especially for them.

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Speaker 4: You know.

455
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Speaker 8: I know I have my own trials, but somebody like that,

456
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 8: that's your whole life. I mean, it's it's you know,

457
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 8: it's a special kind of people up there.

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Speaker 2: No and and uh i'm I'm it's indelible. And having

459
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 2: met so many members of the community, and and it

460
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: requires a unique approach in the recovery and the assistance. Uh,

461
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 2: we've got it, and we're deeply mindful. We've got to

462
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Speaker 2: customize uh that and it's got to be community led,

463
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Speaker 2: and we've got to get the community back. And that's

464
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Speaker 2: my biggest fear about your neighborhood is that it doesn't

465
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Speaker 2: look like the neighborhood you left that.

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Speaker 8: Okay, And that was one of That was one of

467
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Speaker 8: the questions. I came up with some questions to ask you,

468
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Speaker 8: and that was one of mine. Is maintaining the aesthetic,

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Speaker 8: you know, and I use for an example, Santa Barbara

470
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Speaker 8: one hundred years ago, so much as Santa Barbara burned

471
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Speaker 8: and then you know, and I don't know who made

472
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Speaker 8: the decision, but we're going to build back Spanish style. Yeah,

473
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Speaker 8: and so span you know, Santa Barbara now has that

474
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Speaker 8: beautiful Spanish aesthetic to all the buildings and community buildings

475
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Speaker 8: and libraries and houses and everything. It's got, you know,

476
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Speaker 8: it's really got that aesthetic to it, you know. And

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Speaker 8: so I don't know, do we have any control over that?

478
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 8: Do we not have a control?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 8: Is that a county level is at a state level.

481
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 8: And then you know, luckily I have state farm. I

482
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 8: wasn't dropped, and I did an insurance review recently. Well

483
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 8: and and but my concern is people that are under

484
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 8: insured and don't have the money, and you know it

485
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 8: it's more costly to build a house with a unique

486
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Speaker 8: house than a cookie cutter house, and then a character

487
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 8: house did a cost even more than that, And you know,

488
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Speaker 8: do people want to do it? They just want to

489
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Speaker 8: say I want to get my house back, and I

490
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 8: know it could be a long process. So you know,

491
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Speaker 8: that was one of my concerns.

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Speaker 2: For sure, I appreciate it. So as we were quite

493
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Speaker 2: literally battling the fires, we were also battling bureaucracy and

494
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Speaker 2: starting to organize a framework for rebuilding and doing it

495
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Speaker 2: from the bottom up, not the top down, and making

496
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Speaker 2: sure it's a community lead process, community lead process. It's

497
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: not the state, it's not the federal government mandating and dictating.

498
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Speaker 2: And so what we're doing is clearing all of the

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Speaker 2: bureaucratic brush from the rebuilding frame so that their state

500
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Speaker 2: is not in the way and we're moving fast. So

501
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 2: that's that includes the debris removal, where we did an

502
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Speaker 2: executive order to get the HASMAT teams out there early

503
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: and by the way, in your community, has the the

504
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 2: damage assessments are almost done, which is great. They've got

505
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: that done in record time, and the HASMAT teams will

506
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: be out there starting to remove all the battery all

507
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 2: batteries and and you know pro paying tanks, et cetera.

508
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: And concurrently then the debris removal begin and you can

509
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 2: opt in, as you know, if you have insurance. You

510
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: can decide for yourself if you want to do your

511
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 2: own debris removal, or you can do a right of

512
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: entry where the Army Corps and their contractors could come

513
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: in and do that. But concurrently, we'll be in this

514
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: planning process. UH and the states trying to focus now

515
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: on how we leverage supplies, how we leverage materials to

516
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Speaker 2: keep prices and check, how we leverage workforce. Working with

517
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: a community college and our state labor agencies, we're looking

518
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 2: at regionalizing that workforce even out of state because we're

519
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: mindful of the pressures across the spectrum. Hey, thank you

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00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: for checking in, and more importantly, thank you for your spirit. Brother,

521
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: thank you.

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Speaker 8: For being Oh yeah, it's not just my spirit, it's

523
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 8: everybody's spirits. I'm sure you've seen it walking around and

524
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Speaker 8: I'm sure people take their time to cry, and like

525
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Speaker 8: I said, I'll probably do my crying when everything settles down.

526
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Speaker 8: But the things that brought tears to my eye are

527
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Speaker 8: just the joy of people and the helping people, and

528
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 8: you know, people overhearing. I was at breakfast and they're like, oh,

529
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 8: we got your breakfast, don't worry, and just everybody wanted

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Speaker 8: to help me. You know, I'm sure you've had this

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Speaker 8: discussion many times, and you know, in the disaster, why can't.

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Speaker 4: We stay like this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know I love that.

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Speaker 8: Well, thank you for everything you're doing, and thank you

535
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Speaker 8: for the updates.

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00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Thank you so much. I'm so sorry

537
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: for everything you're struggling with going through.

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Speaker 4: Keep it up, brother, Thank you and your team for

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00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: everything you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We have Julia up next in Hollywood. She worked in

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Speaker 1: Palisades Village, which didn't burn down, but she currently can't

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Speaker 1: work at the location because it's shut down. This is

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Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio California town hall with Governor Newsom. Julia.

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Speaker 9: You're on him, mister Newson.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Julia? How are you?

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Speaker 9: I'm okay. I'm a little stressed out. I did lose

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Speaker 9: my job. Yeah, and unemployment is only paying me two

549
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 9: hundred dollars a week, whereas at the restaurant I worked out,

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Speaker 9: I made twelve hundred dollars a week.

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Speaker 2: Twelve hundred a week. Yeah, we'll take a look at that.

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Speaker 2: And I say that not just take a look at that.

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Speaker 2: I just did a supplement with edd and the the

554
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Speaker 2: Unemployment insurance to just quickly get an additional twenty million

555
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Speaker 2: dollars directly into the region to supplement further. That's a

556
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Speaker 2: perfect example that gap between where you were and where

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00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: you need to be.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I also saw that as many as thirty five

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00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 9: thousand jobs can be lost permanently because of the Los

560
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 9: Angeles fires. For many workers like me living paycheck to paycheck,

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00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 9: already struggling to pay bills, missing out on even a

562
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 9: week's worth of work can be severely detrimental. Are you

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Speaker 9: planning to introduce legislation to help disaster victims with debt

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Speaker 9: relief such as temporary interest charge freezes, to forgiveness programs,

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Speaker 9: or disaster related unemployment compensation.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the question, so let me tell you what

567
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: we did yesterday, and forgive me for jumping around, but

568
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: I just want to give you the totality of what

569
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: we're doing in real time that are direct responses to

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00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 2: your question and then broader. We have pushed back all

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Speaker 2: state taxes till October fifteenth. We push back property taxes

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00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: till April twenty two, twenty six, and people can apply

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00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 2: for a four year deferral on interest and penalties related

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Speaker 2: to property taxes. We're doing the same for sales and

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00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: use tax for small business. We're extending those time periods.

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Speaker 2: We are doing a two and a half billion dollar

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Speaker 2: state supplemental to provide relief and flexibility to fill in

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Speaker 2: the gaps along the lines of which you expressed. I

579
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 2: talked about that twenty million just very quickly under the

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Speaker 2: EDD through the unemployment insurance. We're working with the California

581
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Speaker 2: Foundation and the Latino Community Foundation to provide millions and millions.

582
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Speaker 2: We're going to raise hundreds of millions and philanthropic grants

583
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Speaker 2: to fill gaps as well, all in an effort to

584
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: provide support. We've got the price gouging rules as it

585
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 2: relates to evictions as well. We're addressing that issue. We're

586
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: trying to make sure that the rents and the costs

587
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: for services and goods are capped and we just have

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Speaker 2: to enforce that. And we're trying to get the SBA

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00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: to move quickly on helping these businesses, these small businesses

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Speaker 2: back on their feet as well.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate. I'm sorry what you're going through. I started

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00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 2: the restaurant businesses. Uh, that's that's that's how I that's

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Speaker 2: my my that's how I got out of college open

595
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Speaker 2: my first restaurant. And I appreciate everything you do in

596
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Speaker 2: that space and in the service industry and in the

597
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: impact this is this has had on that industry in

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Speaker 2: this region.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But I hope you'll. I hope you'll you'll rebound and

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00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 2: quickly and our team will fall up with you on

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Speaker 2: the supplemental unemployment.

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Speaker 9: Thank you. And is there like a timeline of when

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Speaker 9: I'll be able to go.

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Speaker 5: Back to work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just I mean, we're moving heaven and earth

607
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: to get the damage assessment work done in the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: and then get the hazardous material material, which is phase

609
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: one of the debris removal done within the next sixty days,

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00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 2: and then currently starting the larger debris removal so people

611
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 2: can start rebuilding for properties that have been completely damaged.

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00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 2: People can come in individually, people with insurance. Businesses that

613
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 2: were not impacted. Once we have the repopulation plans done

614
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 2: and safety zones established and the utilities and suppression systems

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Speaker 2: back up, we're hoping to get those businesses up and

616
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Speaker 2: moving as quickly as possible. And SBA, we're hoping to

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Speaker 2: hold them. I mean, we're not hoping we will hold

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Speaker 2: them accountable to doing their job as well as well

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Speaker 2: as our business, state, business agencies, and local and.

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Speaker 9: Regional Do you think it's fair that some employees have

621
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Speaker 9: been told to use paid time off to cover the

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Speaker 9: miss wages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I have to look into the details of that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've expanded paid support and we actually just

625
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Speaker 2: expanded in January, and this is important, higher reimbursement for

626
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 2: lower wage workers. That was a that just went in

627
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Speaker 2: effect in January. But that's that's something we're going to

628
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 2: have to monitor. And I appreciate you bringing that up

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Speaker 2: specifically as as an example of how some businesses may

630
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: not necessarily be protecting their employees as they should. So

631
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Speaker 2: thank you for that insight.

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Speaker 9: Well, thank you for speaking to me.

633
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Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm sorry what you're going through.

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Speaker 1: Next is Jet from Los Angeles, a freshman at Palisades

635
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: Charter High School. Sixty percent of the school burned down.

636
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: Jet was evacuated and finally got word their house has

637
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Speaker 1: power again this morning. Good and he's returning home today.

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Speaker 1: Governor Newsom. This is Jet.

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Speaker 11: How you doing buddy, Hi, Governor, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine how is how are you and

641
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 2: the other your all your friends that you know having

642
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: an impact at school? Man, that's something you'll never forget

643
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 2: how you handle it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So it's been a little bit like depressing in

645
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Speaker 11: a way because I was really looking forward to this

646
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 11: next semester of posades. Yeah, and then like literally even

647
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 11: the matter of twenty four hours, like it all turned

648
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 11: upside down and a lot of my friends have already

649
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 11: transferred schools. A lot of my friends are moving different places,

650
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Speaker 11: and yeah, it's just kind of crazy.

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00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: What how about you? Are you? What do you? Are

652
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 2: you able to? Have you transferred another district? What are

653
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: your what's your current status?

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Speaker 11: I think we're going to ride out this year and

655
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Speaker 11: see what happens and maybe we get back on campus

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00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 11: this year hopefully. But yeah, we're gonna finish this year.

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Speaker 2: I think that's good. It's it's critical, and I appreciate

658
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Speaker 2: your mindset in that respect. We it's it's cold comfort

659
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: to you because it's a technical thing. But one of

660
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 2: the first actions we took after the fire was allowing

661
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Speaker 2: flexibility so you can transfer to another district nearby district

662
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: and there were issues around class sizes and other technical

663
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: state issues that we were able to wave through. But

664
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Speaker 2: we'd love your feedback, not just today, just over the

665
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: course the next days and months, if there's other things

666
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 2: we can be doing. Things you're hearing, things you're hearing

667
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: from the schools themselves, meaning from the administrators of other

668
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: flexibilities and supports that we can provide. Okay, I appreciate it.

669
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: So did you are you back in school now?

670
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Speaker 11: So our school was supposed to start on I think

671
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 11: January fourteenth, but now we're starting on Tuesday this week

672
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Speaker 11: online online.

673
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you went through that with COVID as.

674
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 11: Well, right, yeah, in fifth grade, like my whole year

675
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 11: is online as well.

676
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't imagine you're looking forward to that again.

677
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 11: Huh No, Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to it.

678
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 11: That's kind of been like the worst part because obviously,

679
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 11: like the social part of high school life is like

680
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 11: the best part.

681
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Speaker 2: So of course, of course, well man, you're gonna come

682
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 2: out stronger than you can't even imagine, more resilient than

683
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: you can imagine, and the stuff you'll face in your

684
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: life will pale and comparison to this. So you're going

685
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: to crush it going forward.

686
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Speaker 11: Brother, Thank you.

687
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 2: I wish you all the best. And and let's stay

688
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Speaker 2: in touch.

689
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Speaker 11: All right, thank you, thank you man.

690
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Speaker 1: Now we have Elizabeth in Malibu. She lost her home

691
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: in the Palisades fire. Her business building is still standing,

692
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: but it is inoperable. So Governor Newsom, this is Elizabeth.

693
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: Hi, Elizabeth, how you holding in.

694
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 10: I'm I'm doing okay. This has been a this has

695
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 10: been a tough one.

696
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

697
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Speaker 10: I've been through the ninety three fire, the Woolsey fire,

698
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 10: the earthquake, COVID and and I have to say, of

699
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 10: all of those, this is by far the toughest, the

700
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Speaker 10: toughest one. You know, we're kind of looking to the

701
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Speaker 10: government to help us. We you know, so I've lost

702
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 10: I lost my home as well. So I lost my home.

703
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 10: I lived over near the Getty Villa and that was

704
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 10: just decimated. And you know, that's that's a tough loss.

705
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 10: You know, it's all the kids, baby cups, and you know,

706
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 10: all the memories that you have. It's just it's a

707
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 10: really it's almost you kind of don't even really comprehend

708
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 10: that that it's happened still, you know, because we haven't

709
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 10: really been able to get up there and all of that.

710
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 10: But one of my the question that I wanted to

711
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 10: ask you, is that in in September of last year,

712
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 10: I got a letter from State Farm and they dropped

713
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 10: my insurance and so I had to try to get

714
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 10: other insurance, couldn't get it because of where I live,

715
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 10: and so then I was offered California a fair plan.

716
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Speaker 4: Which I did.

717
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 6: So, you know, they dropped me.

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Speaker 10: And I've been with them for thirty years, not only

719
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 10: not only in my residence but in my business. And

720
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 10: you know, I just I find it incomprehensible that they

721
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 10: can do that, and I'm you know, really asking you

722
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 10: to see what you can help us with. You know,

723
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 10: there's about sixteen hundred policies families that they've dropped. I

724
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 10: mean that's not a lot. I mean in the scheme

725
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 10: of their entire organization, that's not a lot. And you know,

726
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 10: and I and I know that Governor I mean Commissioner

727
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 10: Laura has asked them and they agreed to make it

728
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 10: retroactive for ninety days, which is great. But you know,

729
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 10: they started dropping people in March, and I feel like

730
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 10: they should be taking care of us, you know, I mean,

731
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Speaker 10: it's such a devastating time for us, and you know

732
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Speaker 10: that their company is worth one hundred and thirty four

733
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 10: billion dollars and you know to you know, and for

734
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 10: California Fair Plan, it's a million dollars less than I

735
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 10: had on my policy with State Farm.

736
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Speaker 4: So it's a big hit.

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Speaker 2: So a number of things. By the way, that's sixteen

738
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 2: hundred you know what, You were exactly right. They dropped

739
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: sixteen hundred plans about seventy percent of the market in

740
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: that area to the commissioner, and I appreciate your reference

741
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: to what he's trying to do in the cloudback. Also,

742
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: moving forward, we extended a one year moratorium on the

743
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 2: ability to drop the plan. It's not extended for commercial

744
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 2: and we're trying to work a legislative strategy to address

745
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: the commercial anxieties in that space moving forward, so they

746
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 2: can't do this in the middle of this disaster. The

747
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 2: Fair Plan that you're on, it's just for those that

748
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 2: are not familiar with it, and I'll get to your

749
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 2: specific concern. The Fair Plan was established in nineteen sixty eight.

750
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: It's not a government plan, it's not taxpayer funded plan.

751
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,439
Speaker 2: It's a syndicate pool made up of all of these

752
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 2: actual insurers that are in the market, including State Farm.

753
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: But to your point, it caps at three million dollars.

754
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 2: It doesn't provide the kind of coverage you can get

755
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 2: on these admitted market based plans, and there's some questions.

756
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: We're doing the assessment. There was a back of the

757
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: envelope assessment and again this is back of the envelope

758
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: about three point seven billion dollars of exposure just related

759
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 2: to the Palisades fire. And we're getting the update of

760
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: the impacts on the Eton fire as it relates to

761
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 2: the exposure to the Fair Plan and how then the

762
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: Fair Plan can pay everybody out in a timely way.

763
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 2: They do have reinsurance, So I want to re ensure

764
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: you that there is a reinsurance policy that that that

765
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 2: should that should get us to look, you're going to

766
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 2: get You're going to get what you deserve under that plan,

767
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: and we're going to do everything to make sure that happens.

768
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: But the broader issue of stabilizing this insurance market, to

769
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Speaker 2: Commissioner Lara's credit, there was a lot of progress being

770
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Speaker 2: made this last year. You can't make this up. In Paradise, Californi.

771
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 2: After the campfire just last week, literally ten days ago

772
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: or so, one of the major insurans announced they were

773
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: reinsuring people in Paradise because of some of the reforms

774
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: that were being made in the state to stabilize the

775
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 2: insurance market. That's cold comfort, I know to you, but

776
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 2: I want you to know that we're not reacting to

777
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: that insurance crisis. We for a year and a half,

778
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: I did an executive order and the Commissioner's been driving

779
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 2: reforms that were finally making a difference in stabilizing the

780
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 2: market and getting people back providing that coverage. But what

781
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 2: you've exampled is accountability for a major insurer that just

782
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 2: exited the market. And they may be smiling behind the

783
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: scenes from a dollars and cents perspective, but it makes

784
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: a lot of sense to me for you to ask

785
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 2: someone like me and the Insurance Commission what the hell

786
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: we can do to get them to face a little

787
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 2: accountability on the impact they've just had on this community.

788
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 10: I mean, I think from you know, March, you know,

789
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 10: I think March is when they started dropping everybody, and

790
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 10: it's just I mean, it's just so you know, there's

791
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 10: no good faith there, there's no there's no you know,

792
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 10: they're not they're not standing behind them. And again they're

793
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 10: worth one hundred and thirty four billion dollars. And you

794
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 10: know that that's off their twenty twenty three report. And

795
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 10: they I believe they say, because I just actually had

796
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 10: it pulled up weight of course, my phone just went

797
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 10: out one sec. They said, we are financially strong one

798
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 10: hundred and thirty four point eight billion dollars. And it

799
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 10: just you know, to me when you know, you know,

800
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 10: California Fair Plan, even with FEMA, it's not enough to

801
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 10: build a home. You know, building out here is one

802
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 10: thousand dollars a square foot, as you know, and that's low.

803
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 10: And I mean, I'm an interior designer. I build all

804
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 10: day long. I work with clients every single day, and

805
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 10: you know that's low. So you know you're looking at

806
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 10: a twenty three hundred square foot that's two million three

807
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 10: that's I mean, nobody has that money from their insurance policies.

808
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 6: And so what are we going to you know, what

809
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 6: are we going to do? How are we going to.

810
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 10: Build back the beautiful Pacific Palisades, which is one of

811
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 10: the most I grew up in Connecticut and New Canaan, Connecticut.

812
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 10: It's gorgeous little town and the Palisades is just like

813
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 10: that you know, right close to the beach and so

814
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 10: and the community is so tight and so strong, and

815
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 10: I know we will build back, but you know, I

816
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 10: just it's it's just really I hope that you guys

817
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 10: can help us, because it's such a tough space for

818
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 10: us to be in.

819
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I'm deeply mindful in the rebuild. And you

820
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 2: may have seen we are suspending the Coastal Act and sequel.

821
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: We're driving permitting reform and doing everything to move having

822
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: and earth to make sure that when we rebuild some

823
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 2: of the burdens and costs and delays all that is removed,

824
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 2: as well as looking at some larger master pulled contracts

825
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: to lower construction costs and supply chain issues including workforce

826
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 2: which is going to be scarce as well, so that

827
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 2: we don't see those costs skyrocket. And then address, as

828
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: you say, the gaps between insurance and that reality on rebuilding.

829
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 2: And that's where this massive philanthropic effort is going to

830
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: take shape. We've already raised tens of millions of dollars,

831
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Speaker 2: We're about to announce significantly more in the next few

832
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: hours in fact, and then we're going to be asking

833
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 2: the federal government to get back some of California tax

834
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: pair of money, including yours as a donor state California,

835
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 2: and a massive supplemental in Congress, so we can fill

836
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 2: those gaps and we can address that concern you just highlighted.

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Speaker 6: Okay, thank you so much, Governor. I really appreciate your time.

838
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: Thank you.

839
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Speaker 1: Pam has our final question in Pacific Palisades. She lost

840
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: her home of twenty eight years. Pam, you're on with

841
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom.

842
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 2: Hi, Hi, Pam.

843
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 12: Thank you for the time today.

844
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 2: Governor are you holding up?

845
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 12: Oh well? Shout out to all of our friends and

846
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 12: strangers of the city of Los Angeles.

847
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 2: Ela.

848
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 12: You've hugged us. Thank you, Governor Newson. We've heard discussions

849
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 12: and the possibility to live in an RV or a

850
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 12: tiny home or mobile on our property while we rebuild.

851
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 12: I think, wow, what a savings and rent. We can

852
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 12: apply those funds to a rebuild. We have a smaller property,

853
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 12: and so of those who have smaller properties, would it

854
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 12: be possible to have an opportunity to have a parking

855
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 12: permit on the street? Oh yeah, or create an area,

856
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 12: a designated area that has community services.

857
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 5: Where we could park.

858
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 12: Maybe we can pull in park in the nighttime when

859
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 12: materials are delivered, we can move to another area of

860
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 12: the town. I just I love the idea and I

861
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 12: love that opportunity, and I love.

862
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 2: Your example, particularly with smaller units. You're right, I mean,

863
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 2: you know, we had in mind that people could be

864
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: in a larger driveway footprint as the buildings being constructed

865
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: next to it, but yours is a perfect example where

866
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 2: that may be constrained. And so absolutely, it's a great

867
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: specific example that we need to work with the cities

868
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 2: that have been impacted to see if we can accommodate.

869
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 2: By the way, Pam, thank you for even recognizing I

870
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 2: did one of these eleven executive orders, which are just

871
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: fancy ways of just like no time to process laws.

872
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 2: We're just making them to allow people to have ADUs

873
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 2: to allow them to have trailers on their property as

874
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Speaker 2: they rebuild. So we've dealt with zoning issues in that respect.

875
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 2: But you're talking now about a public right away as

876
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: it relates to the public space and the parking, and

877
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 2: that's something we can run up the flag pole and

878
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,479
Speaker 2: it's a great example of something that we could push

879
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: local government to accommodate. And by the way, just broadly

880
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 2: We're working with FEMA on massive, massive investments and procurement,

881
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 2: on providing people that don't have the means of even

882
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 2: providing for their our own temporary facility to construct these

883
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: prefab these units and get them out in operational and

884
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: on these properties as quick as possible.

885
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 12: Sprinters with wheels, our v's with wheels. We can be

886
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 12: there at night, move during the day when materials get

887
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 12: deliver it anyway. I love I love this out of

888
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 12: the box thinking so thank you, no, thank you?

889
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: And and if I may Pam, how long how long

890
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 2: you've been living in the community.

891
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 12: Since nineteen ninety six, so what is that twenty nine?

892
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 12: My mouth is bad. Yeah, while a long time. We

893
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 12: love our neighbors. We hope to be back with all

894
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 12: of our neighbors. And it's just unbelievable. This is it's

895
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 12: the wild wild West by the way out there trying

896
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 12: to secure a rental. We have crazy stories. I'm like

897
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 12: in a reality show without cameras, but it's horrific and

898
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 12: crazy right.

899
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 2: Now, just meaning how people are taking advantage of this crisis.

900
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 12: It's just it's a numbers uh scarce inventory, which there

901
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 12: always was, and now you have all these extra people

902
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:05,240
Speaker 12: who need housing.

903
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why this example you brought up is

904
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: so important, because it will be critical to accommodate and

905
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: uh and and to supplement that scarcity of supply. I'm

906
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 2: sorry everything you're going through, but thank you for your

907
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 2: spirit and thank you for for your insight. And I'm

908
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 2: going to circle back very quickly on your specific example.

909
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 12: All right, thank you, thank you, thank you.

910
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 2: So I just want to thank everybody all these remarkable stories,

911
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 2: remarkable people. Thank you for your resilience, thank you for

912
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 2: your willingness to share your stories so publicly, your heartbreak.

913
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: But one thing I just you know, reflecting on the

914
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 2: conversations we just had, was thank you for maintaining your

915
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: your your your spirit. Thank you for expressing your pride

916
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 2: in your communities, uh, your love of your neighbor. Thank

917
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 2: you for for staying optimistic and not giving in. You know,

918
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: is remarkable that here's the story is just reminding us

919
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: what everybody's been through, you know, with COVID and you know,

920
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 2: just you know, a young child that you know they're

921
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 2: back on zoom again years and years later, and the

922
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 2: challenges everybody is faced over the course the last decade.

923
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 2: And here we are at this remarkable moment in the

924
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 2: history of Southern California, in our state, and and so

925
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 2: my state of minds want to resolve, not just resilient.

926
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Speaker 2: And I hope all of you stay strong and resolved.

927
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 2: I know we have your back, and we're going to

928
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 2: be back. We're not turning our backs when the cameras

929
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 2: turn off. We're going to continue to monitor progress. We're

930
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 2: going to hold ourselves to a higher level of accountability

931
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 2: with humility and grace, constantly iterating, constantly addressing issues seen

932
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 2: but also the issues that are unseen today that will

933
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 2: present themselves a new I heard loud and clear some

934
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: of the frustrations with FEMA applications, SBA disaster loans and

935
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 2: the importance of making sure that process is more streamlined

936
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 2: and more seamless. I want to mind everybody that wants

937
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 2: just basic information across the spectrum of federal supports, state support,

938
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 2: as well as local support. We've got this website CAA

939
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 2: dot gov slash LA Fires CAA dot gov slash la Fires,

940
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 2: which aggregates all that information can help you navigate through

941
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: all of this. This California Rises Fund we've created is

942
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 2: a great fund working with the California Fire Foundation to

943
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 2: support no overhead in this to support critical programs for

944
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 2: those in critical need. And then this La Rises Council

945
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 2: we just announced is all about building back, stronger, more resilient,

946
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 2: addressing so many of the concerns that were brought up

947
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: in today's conversation. So on behalf of all of us,

948
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 2: all forty one hundred and forty million Californians, and all

949
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 2: of us there are still act there sixteen thousand personnel

950
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 2: still active addressing the challenges and needs of people. I

951
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 2: just want to thank you all of you for joining

952
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 2: us today and again, please stay in touch and engage

953
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 2: and go to c A dot gov slash La Fires

954
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 2: for more information.