January 22, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/22) - US Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) comes on the show to talk about the border now that Pres. Trump is back in office. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the latest regarding the Hughes Fire. There was a community meeting last night for John's neighborhood regarding fire preparedness after the lack of response for the Palisades and Eaton Fires. SoCal Edison was told by a judge they need to preserve any evidence relating to the Eaton Fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four and after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. The
five Freeway is shut down all the way to the
Grapevine now, just looking at the latest bulletins. Fully closed
from north of Route one twenty six to Grapevine Road
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in Kerrn County. They've also requested all available National Guard
air tankers, eight of them. So they're sending eight National
Guard air tankers to attack this gigantic fire in It's
called the Hughes Fire. It's near Lake Hughes Staic on
the borderline of La and Ventura Counties.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is massive.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
They've evacuated or ordered evacuations of nineteen thousand people. The
video is spectacular. The high wind warnings are in effect
for at least the next twenty four hours, thirty to
forty miles winds gusts sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And over and.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Every possible red flag fire warning is in effect.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We will give you more.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Michael Monks is coming on with a detailed report after
three point thirty. Debor will provide all the bulletins between
now and then, and let's go to uh.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Let's go to the phone.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Are Tom McClintock, who's uh has been a US congressman
in northern California for years and been on our show
for it seems like decades, Tom, Are you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There, Yes, right here, Johnny, it has been decades.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, it's been a long time, and you're one of
our favorite guests there there. There's so much to cover
in so short a time. Let me let me ask
you first with what Trump is doing this this immigration,
the set of executive orders are overwhelming. There's not enough
time to go through all the different policies that he's
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changing or implementing. I mean, this is gone, this is
already underway. I saw Tom Holman, heard him speak on
Fox this morning. They've already rounded up hundreds of criminals.
Talk about the size of this illegal immigration operation that
Trump and Homan are launching.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, we've had, as you know, the most massive illegal
mass migration in recorded history, and that is now under Biden,
and that's now requiring the greatest repatriation effort in history.
And that's what the Donald Trump was elected to do,
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and that's what he has been doing since noon on Monday.
It's there's there's nothing complicated about it. It's simply enforcing
immigration law. If you're not going to enforce your immigration laws,
you don't have immigration laws. If you don't have immigration laws,
you don't have borders. And you don't have borders, you
don't have a country. And that's the danger we've been
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running for these last four years. And and and thank
god God, that national nightmare ended at noon on Monday.
Trump proved in his first administration that we have the
laws in place as long as they're enforced to secure
our border. The problem is, Joe Biden proved that a
president who is willing to make a mockery of our
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immigration laws and open our borders can do that as well.
So I have no doubts that that Donald Trump, on
his own authority, will secure our borders. But the Congress
now has to act to assure that this never happens again,
and that no president in the future can ever do
to our country what Joe Biden did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And what must they do because my understanding is that
the president has absolute authority over the border, you know,
through the constitution and Supreme Court rulings and congressional laws
in the past. What is missing here to keep Biden
from abusing the loopholes.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, a large number of things. In fact, we just
passed the Lake and Riley Act a few minutes ago
off of the House floor, is now going to the
President for signature. What that says is that if any
illegal immigrant who, by the way, is required to be
incarcerated anyway during their asylum claims being heard, that law
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is completely ignored. But what this measure says is if
they're arrested for any other crime, they have to be
taken into custody. The President has no discretion. They have
to be taken into custody. That would have prevented a
lot of the violence that these criminal illegals are perpetrating
against very vulnerable Americans like Lake and Riley.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So is that going to force the City of Los
Angeles to turn over arrested criminals to ICE immediately? Because
you still have council people here making noises about this
being a sanctuary sin, and you have legislators in Sacramento
still insisting it's a sanctuary state. So what happens when
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local law enforcement arrests people they find are illegal and
have committed the crimes under the Lake and Riley Act.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, they are not required to cooperate with federal authorities,
but they are also forbidden from interfering with federal authorities.
And I think what we're going to see is, you know,
Tom Holme has made this very clear, any local official
interferes with ICE and performances duties will be arrested, will
be prosecuted, and will be imprisoned if they're found guilty
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of obstructing ICE in its work. So that will take
care of part of the problem. But we really have
to go after this whole sanctuary nonsense. You know, sanctuary
policies do not protect the immigrant community. They protect the
criminals in the immigrant community that are preying on the
immigrant community. What they forbid is turning over criminal illegal
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aliens to ICE so that they can be deported as
the law requires and get them the hell out of
our country.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So is there any way that ICE can tract people
newly arrested in Los Angeles who are here illegally. Is
there is there any way for them to be proactive
and go after these suspects since La City is not
going to cooperate.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Now, that is a good question. I don't know the
answer to it. I do know that we there are
one point four million illegal migrants who've already been gone
through the court system, have been ordered deported, and that
the Biden administration simply refused to enforce those deportation orders.
That's going to be one of the targets. The other
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is of the seven or eight million on the non
detained docket. These are illegals that are supposed to be
detained but aren't there at large, hundred thousand of them
criminal records and six.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Currently in the US. They have records and they haven't
been detained.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Correct. And remember the i NA requires Immigration and Nationality
Act requires of any illegal alien to be detained while
their case is being heard. That was the beauty of
the remains in Mexico policy under the first Trump administration.
It took the incentive of making phony asylum claims out
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because they couldn't now get automatic entry into the United States.
They had to remain in Mexico while their case was
being adjudicated. Of course, that that process is now backlog
by five or six years. Trump has just reinstated that
policy on the first day of Biden's administration. He rescented
that policy on the first day of Trump's new administration,
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he has reinstated it. I think that's going to have
a huge effect on drying up all of these phony
asylum claims.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The deadline to close all the federal diversity offices passed
about an hour and fifteen minutes ago. How does how
does that change the way the government operates a lot
of people don't understand exactly what all these all these
DEI employees did and and and why why why this existed?
Like what what was the purpose? And what's what's how's
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the country going to suffer now that federal DEI offices
have closed?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, I mean, obviously their purpose was to judge people
on the color of their skin rather than the content
of their character. To borrow of Martin Luther King's famous
line of this is this is institutionalized racial discrimination. Uh.
And it was promoted under the Biden administration, and it
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came to a screeching halt today under the under the
Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
What did these people do all day? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I assume most of them are working from home to
begin with, because I read only a tiny percentage of
government workers as a whole. We're showing up until Trump
issued his new order. But I can't imagine the diversity
people actually did very much from their.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Homes all day.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, And actually I think what they did was highly
offensive to a nation that prides itself on being colorblind.
You know, there's only one race in this country. It's
the American race. We come from all sorts of different backgrounds,
but were united as Americans. DEI was specifically trying to
create divisions among us as Americans. So I think it
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was highly a destructive in its very nature. So having
all of those offices throughout the federal government now shut down,
their employees dismissed, I think is going to have an
enormously unifying effect. And then you raised the other question.
We have an awful lot of employees throughout the bureaucracy
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who've been sitting at home for the last several years
of if they're at home, one really has to ask
do we really need them? And that's the question that
Elon Musk has raised, and that's I think going to
be a big source of savings as a lot of
these positions are simply collapsed.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let me ask you one more thing before we got
to do the news, because you know, we have these,
we have a new fire, raging and castaic right now,
what is your what are your thoughts on Trump if
he's going to authorize aid to Los Angeles, for example,
for the Palisades fire in La County, for the Altadena fire,
strings attached. Some of the politicians here are appalled there
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might be strings attached. But considering the way Newsom in
Bass run things, I think Trump absolutely has to demand
some assurances about where money's going to go.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think the American people are going to demand it too.
I think people California are going to demand it. I mean, first,
no federal aide should pass through the hands of Gavin
Newsom or Karen Bass or their agencies. They have proven
themselves to be completely incompetent in managing public funds, completely
incapable of making good decisions. So the aid needs to
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be administered through the federal agencies or directly to the victims.
And second, the policies that produced this catastrophe have got
to be changed. That includes reform of the environmental laws
that have made it impossible for land managers to remove
excess vegetation before it burns. You do that through logging,
through grazing, through cutting fire brakes, fireproofing power lines. Without
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these reforms, we're going to continue to see catastrophic fires
destroying our community. There's an old thing. You can't fill
a broken bucket by pouring more water into it. At
some point you've got to fix the bucket, all.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, Tom good talking with you. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Same here, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Congressman Tom McClintock from northern California. Michael Munks is going
to have extensive fire coverage coming up after three thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We're covering this massive Hues fire up by Lake Hughes,
Castaic region. The five is shut down in both directions
through the grapevine and visually there. It is a spectacular
fire with long snakes of flames.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Let's see Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's being blown by sant Ana wins that are thirty
to forty miles an hour, sustained fifty to sixty miles
plus in gusts. It's all brush right now. It's a
tremendous amount of extremely dry brush. Humidity levels over the
next twenty four hours supposed to drop to about three percent,
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and Fox eleven has a shows the firefighters trying to
I guess, set up some kind of fire line along
the edge of Lake Hughes Road, but it's a total inferno,
enormous amount of smoke. Obviously homes are threatened, but I
guess not imminently. And nineteen thousand people were told to evacuate,
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which is pretty much the whole population of Castea. But
the winds are just ferocious. They have requested and gotten
I think six or eight rather National National Guard air
tankers and the two Super Scoopers that we have on
loan from Canada, and just taking a look.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Here at well now that fifty three hundred acres, maybe more,
but at least fifty three hundred acres have burned. Twenty
thousand people are under evacuation orders.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Northbound Interstate five all ways closed just north or Route
one twenty six. You have to detour onto one twenty
six or take Root fourteen. But they're telling people just
avoid the area entirely. If you're still in the area,
get out. Just about everyone is being told to get out.
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They have an evacuation point at Hart High School, which
is on New Hall Avenue in Santa Clarita. They have
additional animal evacuation shelter space for large pets at Pierce
College on Wineka Avenue in Woodland Hills, and they're supposed
to be a news conference coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Now it's five.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Now it's five, it was four, and now it's going
to be five o'clock. Zero percent containment obviously, and the
winds are supposed to be for the next twenty four
hours thirty to forty miles in the hour, a sustained
fifty to sixty and higher for gusts. It's a major
Santa and a win event, wind event, red flag warning,
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the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Have you ever been out on the lake at Castak, John, Yeah,
a couple of times. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It is really a beautiful area up there. When the
kids were small, there would be events or camping trips
or something up in that area. I remember going to
It is beautiful, and it's everything's on fire right now.
They're even evacuating a prison, which can only mean good things.
Right when we come back, Michael Monks is going to
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do an extended report on everything that's happening in the fire.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
There's going to be a news conference coming up at
five o'clock on this Hughes fire near Kistaic. Until then,
the next best thing is Michael Munks here from KFI News.
He's got all these sheets of paper spread in front
of him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Take it away.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What's gone on today and what's going to be happening
in the near future.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Well, here's the situation. Another national event happening right here
in our area. Huge fire on the heels of those
other two major destructive fires that took place they're calling this.
When the Hughes fire near kist broke out a little
after eleven o'clock this morning. We saw it and it
started at about forty or fifty acres, so something to
keep an eye on with the Santa Ana wins. But
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this thing blew up fast. It started to spread rapidly.
It got to five hundred acres within a few moments
of that, and then it was two three thousand acres
and right now it's more than five thousand acres. We're
talking about four and a half hours of monitoring this
fire and it has exploded to thousands of acres. This
has impacted thousands of residents. Nineteen thousand people under mandatory
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evacuation orders right now. Another sixteen thousand are under evacuation
warnings right now, so they need to be thinking about
getting out, packing up a few things, and having the
car gased up to make sure they can leave if
this thing spreads. Those evacuation zones have spread to Ventura County,
so that zone has also spread, just as this fire
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has spread. Big big deal traffic wise, here we are
in the afternoon rush. The five is shut down in
this area. Naturally, they've got that thing shut down between
Grapevine Road on the north side and State Route one
twenty six on the south. They got a dozen aircraft
up there, including two of those Super Scoopers, those fixed
wing planes.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
They're battling this thing from the air.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'll note that we haven't seen any official word on
expansion beyond this five thousand range, So the spread of
it seems to have slowed down a little bit, just
based on how rapidly those numbers were first coming out.
Is that because of a change in the winds, or
that's the effectiveness of the all the water drops and
fire retardant drops. Well, I think it's probably safe to
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assume one that the firefighters are doing their jobs from
the air, that it is landing where they needed to land.
But the winds are a problem still, ye, I mean,
these winds are out there as the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They said they had the Palisades that the winds are
so strong it would blow the water away before it
would reach the ground, and that's why it made firefighting
from the air in effective. Plus the flames simply couldn't
withstand those winds. Exactly two weeks ago, the winds were higher.
These are still Santa Ana winds, but they are not
in that seventy eighty mile range. National Weather Service says
right now, in that area of Castaic where this fire
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has broken out, the winds have been around twelve.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Miles per hour up to about forty two miles power.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Now that's a good gust of wind that can bother
the water dropping from the planes or the fire retardant,
but it's not seventy eighty miles an hour. And apparently
the firefighters think that the winds are stable enough or
low enough that they can continue to drop the spot.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The forecast is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
For thirty to forty mile an hour winds all the
way through tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We're still in these conditions.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yeah, So like we just saw that Griffith Park has closed,
the La Zoo has closed because of the red flag conditions.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So we are still in the midst of this.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
And John, as you know, we've got maybe a little
bit of rain in the forecast for this weekend. On
the one hand, that's a good thing because we've we
haven't had it for a while. But with the destructive
nature of these fires that have blown through different parts
of La County, now there are other concerns that are emerging.
So emergency workers are preparing for mudslides and debris to
be falling down these hillsigdnes that have lost all of
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that vegetation that otherwise would have helped block some of
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The status of the Palisades and the Eaten fire now
to Dina, I guess it's died down enough that we
could spare all those firefighters who are now inkustaic.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
That's what it looks like. Those fires are not out right,
I mean, but they are seriously contained. The numbers are rising,
They've risen even more today, so we are seeing that
a major progress has been made. Evacuation orders lifted on
those areas, people able to finally go back and see
the destruction or what remains of their homes. So all
of that is very good progress. And because of those
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two fires, I guess one silver lining is we had
this influx of firefighters from all around the world really
at this point, so we've got extra hands on deck
here to possibly spare as this new fire has. We
haven't seen any destruction to residences yet. This is a
five thousand acre fire that is burned here and all that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We haven't seen.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
We haven't seen any reports of that yet. An entertainment,
no injuries reported yet, just a very big scene. Those
flames are massive right now though.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah spectaculator watch, but it's burned almost one hundred percent
brush so far.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It absolutely has.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
And you know, schools, students have been evacuated, some inmates
that the jails up there have been either evacuated from
they were or shuffletery next news. I know you were
worried about that.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh yeah, no, I have no faith in any agency
of government right now, especially in this county. All right,
Michael Monks, CAFFI News, Thank you very much. I mentioned
earlier that last night there was a community meeting in
my town over Zoom, and I didn't know how private
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the meeting was. I didn't say anything about it, but
I could see now that they are the people with
this organization are publishing their impression of the meeting. And
let me let me tell you. My wife and I
went on the Zoom call with hundreds of other people
because we were in the evacuation warning zone. The electricity
was cut off for eight days. We were told not
to drink the water. And then the looting started and
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there didn't seem to be a police presence in our neighborhood,
and we had like five homes broken into on our
block in one night. These were armed robbers. It was mayhem,
nothing compared to what the people in Palisades put up with,
which was total destruction, thousands and thousands of homes burned
to the ground. We were mild collateral damage in regards
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to it. But what it did open my eyes to
is that the city was completely unprepared for everything and
made it bolstered the more credibility to the idea that
they really had messed up the response, the original response
to the fire. And remember this is the fire fighters
and the police officers on the street have been doing
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a spectacular job. But management in the city is completely broken.
The functioning government is busted. And uh, I'm just reading
the news the story that the organization that hosted the
Zoom meeting. Karen Bass was on the Zoom call. Because
when I turned on my computer, first thing I saw
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was her face.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Did you jump? I actually I did jump, because.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
When you're on zoom, you assume that the other person
can see you right automatically and they can hear you.
And I had to double track right away. It's like,
she can't see me right, and she can't hear me
right because I was not being I was not being
kind as soon as I saw her face because that
was the last face I wanted to see. It's like,
here's the face, Here's the face of doom. So Nathan
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Hockman was on the call, so was the councilwoman, Tracy Park.
And they are really as good as it gets when
it comes to DAS and council people. There were a
number though, of people from the d WP Fire Department,
police department, you know, individually, seemed like nice people. But
like I say, the man edgement structure is broken, and
Bass just spewed a few cliches and platitudes, and then
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she had to go and and uh, you know the
rest of the questions were for her staff. She did
seem overwhelmed. I will tell you, Uh, my impression after
she was done at the meeting is there's no hope
if she's running the city.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Uh, And there's just no hope that.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And if we have another fire or another calamity of
some sort, I don't know, she just may get on
a plane and leave entirely. I saw no no energy,
no fire, no understanding really of what was.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Going on here.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And at one point she she seemed really stunned that
there were two people impersonating firefighters that had come to
the city to pull whatever theft or scam they were
gonna pull. She was like overly surprised, like she didn't
know people did stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It was almost like Grandma suddenly coming to terms with
the modern world.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The last paragraph of this news story that the organization
put out was the takeaway from the forum was la
as a city was either unprepared or incapable of containing
a perfect storm of high winds and brushfires that wiped
out Pacific Palisades. Hopefully the apocalyptic warning has been received
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by all.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So I thought of you know, just in case I
thought it was just me.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I was overwhelmingly unimpressed by the presentation, and I hung
in there for an hour and a half. But I
have no confidence that if we have another fire tonight,
an earthquake, any kind of natural disaster or human disaster
or riot or whatever whatever nature and Hu mannikin unleash
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the current Bass administration and much of the city council,
the bureaucracies, the agencies. Everyone is understaffed, underfunded, many of
them are clueless, and there has to be a massive change.
And the same thing for the county. We talked about
the Altadena Finer fire and how West Altadena got evacuation
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warnings nine hours after the fire was already burning homes.
Nine hours later, seventeen people died. All the people that
died in the Altadena fire lived west of Lake Avenue.
They did not get evacuation warnings until three in the morning.
The fire was burning in the six and seven o'clock
hour of the night before all the all the erroneous
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evacuation warnings that went out, and then the ones that
mattered were many hours late.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I mean the the reservoir that was empty.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's just the firefighters that weren't dispatched to the palisades,
the engines that weren't dispatched, the one hundred engines that
are in the garage that need to be fixed, but
they don't have mechanics. LA fire department is half funded,
the police department is at least fifteen hundred officers short,
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and for the goal of what they need for the Olympics,
more like thirty five hundred short.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
This is a disaster. The city is broke.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're going to be borrowing money to cover the fire
expenses until the federal government bails them out. And you
bet Trump is going to put conditions on the money
for Bass and Newsome, and he should because these two
are massively responsible and incompetent. And I'm going to say
that every day, really loud, until the two of them
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get out, we get replaced by somebody good.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't want.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't want just Newsom junior, like Rob Bonta, the
attorney general, or one of those city council clowns to
replace Bass. There's got to be an entirely different type
of person.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, and you get home tonight, you want to watch something.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You can watch my wife's video podcast, Debora Cobet Live.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm the guest.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
We talk about the fires recently and the Trump administration
coming in. So it's Debora Cobet Life on YouTube. So
go to YouTube and you can watch it. And we
had a good discussion about those matters, and she does
a good show. You should be watching all the time.
All right, Conway's coming up in minutes. The fire is
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now up to eight thousand acres and fifteen thousand people
under evacuation orders. This is in the Castaic region, the
Hughes Fire near Lake Hughes on the eating fire of
the Altadena Fire. In case you missed it, a judge
has ordered up in California not to destroy any data,
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equipment or evidence related to that fire. Investigators have been
looking at the at the base of an electrical tower
that that might have been the start of the fire.
And and a judge told Edison, and the judge's name
is ashphoch uh Chattery and and and and Edison was
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was fighting it saying no, no, no, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
How dare you say we would destroy evidence?
Speaker 7 (28:30):
But they were trying to contest the restraining order, Well
what are you contesting the restraining order for? And then
trying to convince this that you're not going to destroy
the evidence of the fire's origin.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Power companies still, after all these years, still starting fires.
Conway's here, Hey, now, hey, I we're going to talk
about this fire. Obviously I think it's uh, you know,
pretty well contained. They've got under control.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Fortunately went toward towards Lake Casteak, so that was a
big natural block there.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
But they've got to stop scaring the f out of everybody.
They've got to stop doing this.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
They they had evacuation, a mandatory evacuation, not has come
out to West Hills. That's thirty five miles today. It
happened today. Another one happened. This guy is in the
guy who sent me an email, he said he's in
the evacuation zone. He lives on Sawmill Motor Road. Not
familiar with it, so I looked it up. That's in Palmdale, Palmdale.
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That fire is moving away from him and he's in Palmdale.
He got an evacuation with them and then.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You get these things with all these codes now and
the codes are indecipherable.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
And this fire is burning again towards the Lake Casteak.
They've got it on both sides. And look, I don't
question a lot of what these guys do, but they
got to open that five freeway up pretty quick. There's
a lot of truckers that are making a living. They
can fly through this thing. Yeah, I don't know, but
it's but that fire is forty two miles away from
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Palm Dye or you know as the crow flies, maybe
thirty five and and the and the fire is burning
away from him.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And he got an evacuation notice. I think what it is.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
The areas are too big. They've got to split them up.
The areas are too big. So if you encroach it,
like five feet into another county or another city, they
give the whole city the evacuation notice.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And this guy's nowhere near it. Yeah, and well there's
no humans involved in sending out the warnings. It all
comes out of right, you know, computer software.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
And some of these reporters are wearing those those yellow
fire jackets and they're nine miles from the fire.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, it's like there seems to be a lot of
show going. Yeah, there is, there's there's reporters you like
to do that. It's it's odd, it really is.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And you know what it does.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
It scares the f out of everybody up there. It
scares the hell out of the kids, and and and
it and these kids are gonna grow up to be
nervous wrecks. You know, they're gonna be all crazy. They're
gonna be all masked up and goggled and you know,
gloves and everything their whole life.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Imagine can you imagine me and kid growing up in
this era? No, it's impossible. Last five years and it locked.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
And when your parents are all hysterical about global warming
all the time, I know, got them mighty, that's going
to be a mentally ill generation.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Crew takes over.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Monks is coming on with us, and we have a
pressor at five o'clock, and then Dean Sharp and then
Todd Spitzer, your buddy, Yash Spitzer's coming on with us. Yeah,
by the way, real quick before we go, Before you go, buddy,
you've been living in la for how long?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thirty two years now, and it's not better than when
you got here.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
No, I think it's time for you to move out
of the city of la and I think we have
to put together go fund me.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If you don't know the can for you, it was
me all right.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
You have not you have not seen the the tea leaves,
you've not written, you've not read the tea leaves.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It might be time to go.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
H we got Briginia Deristino live in the twenty four
hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Covelt
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four and after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. The
five Freeway is shut down all the way to the
Grapevine now, just looking at the latest bulletins. Fully closed
from north of Route one twenty six to Grapevine Road
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in Kerrn County. They've also requested all available National Guard
air tankers, eight of them. So they're sending eight National
Guard air tankers to attack this gigantic fire in It's
called the Hughes Fire. It's near Lake Hughes Staic on
the borderline of La and Ventura Counties.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is massive.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
They've evacuated or ordered evacuations of nineteen thousand people. The
video is spectacular. The high wind warnings are in effect
for at least the next twenty four hours, thirty to
forty miles winds gusts sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And over and.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Every possible red flag fire warning is in effect.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We will give you more.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Michael Monks is coming on with a detailed report after
three point thirty. Debor will provide all the bulletins between
now and then, and let's go to uh.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Let's go to the phone.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Are Tom McClintock, who's uh has been a US congressman
in northern California for years and been on our show
for it seems like decades, Tom, Are you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There, Yes, right here, Johnny, it has been decades.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, it's been a long time, and you're one of
our favorite guests there there. There's so much to cover
in so short a time. Let me let me ask
you first with what Trump is doing this this immigration,
the set of executive orders are overwhelming. There's not enough
time to go through all the different policies that he's
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changing or implementing. I mean, this is gone, this is
already underway. I saw Tom Holman, heard him speak on
Fox this morning. They've already rounded up hundreds of criminals.
Talk about the size of this illegal immigration operation that
Trump and Homan are launching.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, we've had, as you know, the most massive illegal
mass migration in recorded history, and that is now under Biden,
and that's now requiring the greatest repatriation effort in history.
And that's what the Donald Trump was elected to do,
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and that's what he has been doing since noon on Monday.
It's there's there's nothing complicated about it. It's simply enforcing
immigration law. If you're not going to enforce your immigration laws,
you don't have immigration laws. If you don't have immigration laws,
you don't have borders. And you don't have borders, you
don't have a country. And that's the danger we've been
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running for these last four years. And and and thank
god God, that national nightmare ended at noon on Monday.
Trump proved in his first administration that we have the
laws in place as long as they're enforced to secure
our border. The problem is, Joe Biden proved that a
president who is willing to make a mockery of our
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immigration laws and open our borders can do that as well.
So I have no doubts that that Donald Trump, on
his own authority, will secure our borders. But the Congress
now has to act to assure that this never happens again,
and that no president in the future can ever do
to our country what Joe Biden did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And what must they do because my understanding is that
the president has absolute authority over the border, you know,
through the constitution and Supreme Court rulings and congressional laws
in the past. What is missing here to keep Biden
from abusing the loopholes.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, a large number of things. In fact, we just
passed the Lake and Riley Act a few minutes ago
off of the House floor, is now going to the
President for signature. What that says is that if any
illegal immigrant who, by the way, is required to be
incarcerated anyway during their asylum claims being heard, that law
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is completely ignored. But what this measure says is if
they're arrested for any other crime, they have to be
taken into custody. The President has no discretion. They have
to be taken into custody. That would have prevented a
lot of the violence that these criminal illegals are perpetrating
against very vulnerable Americans like Lake and Riley.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So is that going to force the City of Los
Angeles to turn over arrested criminals to ICE immediately? Because
you still have council people here making noises about this
being a sanctuary sin, and you have legislators in Sacramento
still insisting it's a sanctuary state. So what happens when
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local law enforcement arrests people they find are illegal and
have committed the crimes under the Lake and Riley Act.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, they are not required to cooperate with federal authorities,
but they are also forbidden from interfering with federal authorities.
And I think what we're going to see is, you know,
Tom Holme has made this very clear, any local official
interferes with ICE and performances duties will be arrested, will
be prosecuted, and will be imprisoned if they're found guilty
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of obstructing ICE in its work. So that will take
care of part of the problem. But we really have
to go after this whole sanctuary nonsense. You know, sanctuary
policies do not protect the immigrant community. They protect the
criminals in the immigrant community that are preying on the
immigrant community. What they forbid is turning over criminal illegal
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aliens to ICE so that they can be deported as
the law requires and get them the hell out of
our country.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So is there any way that ICE can tract people
newly arrested in Los Angeles who are here illegally. Is
there is there any way for them to be proactive
and go after these suspects since La City is not
going to cooperate.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Now, that is a good question. I don't know the
answer to it. I do know that we there are
one point four million illegal migrants who've already been gone
through the court system, have been ordered deported, and that
the Biden administration simply refused to enforce those deportation orders.
That's going to be one of the targets. The other
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is of the seven or eight million on the non
detained docket. These are illegals that are supposed to be
detained but aren't there at large, hundred thousand of them
criminal records and six.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Currently in the US. They have records and they haven't
been detained.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Correct. And remember the i NA requires Immigration and Nationality
Act requires of any illegal alien to be detained while
their case is being heard. That was the beauty of
the remains in Mexico policy under the first Trump administration.
It took the incentive of making phony asylum claims out
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because they couldn't now get automatic entry into the United States.
They had to remain in Mexico while their case was
being adjudicated. Of course, that that process is now backlog
by five or six years. Trump has just reinstated that
policy on the first day of Biden's administration. He rescented
that policy on the first day of Trump's new administration,
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he has reinstated it. I think that's going to have
a huge effect on drying up all of these phony
asylum claims.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The deadline to close all the federal diversity offices passed
about an hour and fifteen minutes ago. How does how
does that change the way the government operates a lot
of people don't understand exactly what all these all these
DEI employees did and and and why why why this existed?
Like what what was the purpose? And what's what's how's
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the country going to suffer now that federal DEI offices
have closed?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, I mean, obviously their purpose was to judge people
on the color of their skin rather than the content
of their character. To borrow of Martin Luther King's famous
line of this is this is institutionalized racial discrimination. Uh.
And it was promoted under the Biden administration, and it
(08:45):
came to a screeching halt today under the under the
Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
What did these people do all day? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I assume most of them are working from home to
begin with, because I read only a tiny percentage of
government workers as a whole. We're showing up until Trump
issued his new order. But I can't imagine the diversity
people actually did very much from their.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Homes all day.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, And actually I think what they did was highly
offensive to a nation that prides itself on being colorblind.
You know, there's only one race in this country. It's
the American race. We come from all sorts of different backgrounds,
but were united as Americans. DEI was specifically trying to
create divisions among us as Americans. So I think it
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was highly a destructive in its very nature. So having
all of those offices throughout the federal government now shut down,
their employees dismissed, I think is going to have an
enormously unifying effect. And then you raised the other question.
We have an awful lot of employees throughout the bureaucracy
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who've been sitting at home for the last several years
of if they're at home, one really has to ask
do we really need them? And that's the question that
Elon Musk has raised, and that's I think going to
be a big source of savings as a lot of
these positions are simply collapsed.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let me ask you one more thing before we got
to do the news, because you know, we have these,
we have a new fire, raging and castaic right now,
what is your what are your thoughts on Trump if
he's going to authorize aid to Los Angeles, for example,
for the Palisades fire in La County, for the Altadena fire,
strings attached. Some of the politicians here are appalled there
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might be strings attached. But considering the way Newsom in
Bass run things, I think Trump absolutely has to demand
some assurances about where money's going to go.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think the American people are going to demand it too.
I think people California are going to demand it. I mean, first,
no federal aide should pass through the hands of Gavin
Newsom or Karen Bass or their agencies. They have proven
themselves to be completely incompetent in managing public funds, completely
incapable of making good decisions. So the aid needs to
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be administered through the federal agencies or directly to the victims.
And second, the policies that produced this catastrophe have got
to be changed. That includes reform of the environmental laws
that have made it impossible for land managers to remove
excess vegetation before it burns. You do that through logging,
through grazing, through cutting fire brakes, fireproofing power lines. Without
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these reforms, we're going to continue to see catastrophic fires
destroying our community. There's an old thing. You can't fill
a broken bucket by pouring more water into it. At
some point you've got to fix the bucket, all.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, Tom good talking with you. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Same here, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Congressman Tom McClintock from northern California. Michael Munks is going
to have extensive fire coverage coming up after three thirty.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We're covering this massive Hues fire up by Lake Hughes,
Castaic region. The five is shut down in both directions
through the grapevine and visually there. It is a spectacular
fire with long snakes of flames.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Let's see Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's being blown by sant Ana wins that are thirty
to forty miles an hour, sustained fifty to sixty miles
plus in gusts. It's all brush right now. It's a
tremendous amount of extremely dry brush. Humidity levels over the
next twenty four hours supposed to drop to about three percent,
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and Fox eleven has a shows the firefighters trying to
I guess, set up some kind of fire line along
the edge of Lake Hughes Road, but it's a total inferno,
enormous amount of smoke. Obviously homes are threatened, but I
guess not imminently. And nineteen thousand people were told to evacuate,
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which is pretty much the whole population of Castea. But
the winds are just ferocious. They have requested and gotten
I think six or eight rather National National Guard air
tankers and the two Super Scoopers that we have on
loan from Canada, and just taking a look.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Here at well now that fifty three hundred acres, maybe more,
but at least fifty three hundred acres have burned. Twenty
thousand people are under evacuation orders.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Northbound Interstate five all ways closed just north or Route
one twenty six. You have to detour onto one twenty
six or take Root fourteen. But they're telling people just
avoid the area entirely. If you're still in the area,
get out. Just about everyone is being told to get out.
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They have an evacuation point at Hart High School, which
is on New Hall Avenue in Santa Clarita. They have
additional animal evacuation shelter space for large pets at Pierce
College on Wineka Avenue in Woodland Hills, and they're supposed
to be a news conference coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Now it's five.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Now it's five, it was four, and now it's going
to be five o'clock. Zero percent containment obviously, and the
winds are supposed to be for the next twenty four
hours thirty to forty miles in the hour, a sustained
fifty to sixty and higher for gusts. It's a major
Santa and a win event, wind event, red flag warning,
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the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Have you ever been out on the lake at Castak, John, Yeah,
a couple of times. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It is really a beautiful area up there. When the
kids were small, there would be events or camping trips
or something up in that area. I remember going to
It is beautiful, and it's everything's on fire right now.
They're even evacuating a prison, which can only mean good things.
Right when we come back, Michael Monks is going to
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do an extended report on everything that's happening in the fire.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
There's going to be a news conference coming up at
five o'clock on this Hughes fire near Kistaic. Until then,
the next best thing is Michael Munks here from KFI News.
He's got all these sheets of paper spread in front
of him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Take it away.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What's gone on today and what's going to be happening
in the near future.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Well, here's the situation. Another national event happening right here
in our area. Huge fire on the heels of those
other two major destructive fires that took place they're calling this.
When the Hughes fire near kist broke out a little
after eleven o'clock this morning. We saw it and it
started at about forty or fifty acres, so something to
keep an eye on with the Santa Ana wins. But
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this thing blew up fast. It started to spread rapidly.
It got to five hundred acres within a few moments
of that, and then it was two three thousand acres
and right now it's more than five thousand acres. We're
talking about four and a half hours of monitoring this
fire and it has exploded to thousands of acres. This
has impacted thousands of residents. Nineteen thousand people under mandatory
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evacuation orders right now. Another sixteen thousand are under evacuation
warnings right now, so they need to be thinking about
getting out, packing up a few things, and having the
car gased up to make sure they can leave if
this thing spreads. Those evacuation zones have spread to Ventura County,
so that zone has also spread, just as this fire
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has spread. Big big deal traffic wise, here we are
in the afternoon rush. The five is shut down in
this area. Naturally, they've got that thing shut down between
Grapevine Road on the north side and State Route one
twenty six on the south. They got a dozen aircraft
up there, including two of those Super Scoopers, those fixed
wing planes.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
They're battling this thing from the air.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'll note that we haven't seen any official word on
expansion beyond this five thousand range, So the spread of
it seems to have slowed down a little bit, just
based on how rapidly those numbers were first coming out.
Is that because of a change in the winds, or
that's the effectiveness of the all the water drops and
fire retardant drops. Well, I think it's probably safe to
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assume one that the firefighters are doing their jobs from
the air, that it is landing where they needed to land.
But the winds are a problem still, ye, I mean,
these winds are out there as the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They said they had the Palisades that the winds are
so strong it would blow the water away before it
would reach the ground, and that's why it made firefighting
from the air in effective. Plus the flames simply couldn't
withstand those winds. Exactly two weeks ago, the winds were higher.
These are still Santa Ana winds, but they are not
in that seventy eighty mile range. National Weather Service says
right now, in that area of Castaic where this fire
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has broken out, the winds have been around twelve.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Miles per hour up to about forty two miles power.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Now that's a good gust of wind that can bother
the water dropping from the planes or the fire retardant,
but it's not seventy eighty miles an hour. And apparently
the firefighters think that the winds are stable enough or
low enough that they can continue to drop the spot.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The forecast is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
For thirty to forty mile an hour winds all the
way through tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We're still in these conditions.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yeah, So like we just saw that Griffith Park has closed,
the La Zoo has closed because of the red flag conditions.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So we are still in the midst of this.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
And John, as you know, we've got maybe a little
bit of rain in the forecast for this weekend. On
the one hand, that's a good thing because we've we
haven't had it for a while. But with the destructive
nature of these fires that have blown through different parts
of La County, now there are other concerns that are emerging.
So emergency workers are preparing for mudslides and debris to
be falling down these hillsigdnes that have lost all of
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that vegetation that otherwise would have helped block some of
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The status of the Palisades and the Eaten fire now
to Dina, I guess it's died down enough that we
could spare all those firefighters who are now inkustaic.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
That's what it looks like. Those fires are not out right,
I mean, but they are seriously contained. The numbers are rising,
They've risen even more today, so we are seeing that
a major progress has been made. Evacuation orders lifted on
those areas, people able to finally go back and see
the destruction or what remains of their homes. So all
of that is very good progress. And because of those
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two fires, I guess one silver lining is we had
this influx of firefighters from all around the world really
at this point, so we've got extra hands on deck
here to possibly spare as this new fire has. We
haven't seen any destruction to residences yet. This is a
five thousand acre fire that is burned here and all that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We haven't seen.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
We haven't seen any reports of that yet. An entertainment,
no injuries reported yet, just a very big scene. Those
flames are massive right now though.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah spectaculator watch, but it's burned almost one hundred percent
brush so far.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It absolutely has.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
And you know, schools, students have been evacuated, some inmates
that the jails up there have been either evacuated from
they were or shuffletery next news. I know you were
worried about that.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh yeah, no, I have no faith in any agency
of government right now, especially in this county. All right,
Michael Monks, CAFFI News, Thank you very much. I mentioned
earlier that last night there was a community meeting in
my town over Zoom, and I didn't know how private
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the meeting was. I didn't say anything about it, but
I could see now that they are the people with
this organization are publishing their impression of the meeting. And
let me let me tell you. My wife and I
went on the Zoom call with hundreds of other people
because we were in the evacuation warning zone. The electricity
was cut off for eight days. We were told not
to drink the water. And then the looting started and
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there didn't seem to be a police presence in our neighborhood,
and we had like five homes broken into on our
block in one night. These were armed robbers. It was mayhem,
nothing compared to what the people in Palisades put up with,
which was total destruction, thousands and thousands of homes burned
to the ground. We were mild collateral damage in regards
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to it. But what it did open my eyes to
is that the city was completely unprepared for everything and
made it bolstered the more credibility to the idea that
they really had messed up the response, the original response
to the fire. And remember this is the fire fighters
and the police officers on the street have been doing
(21:52):
a spectacular job. But management in the city is completely broken.
The functioning government is busted. And uh, I'm just reading
the news the story that the organization that hosted the
Zoom meeting. Karen Bass was on the Zoom call. Because
when I turned on my computer, first thing I saw
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was her face.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Did you jump? I actually I did jump, because.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
When you're on zoom, you assume that the other person
can see you right automatically and they can hear you.
And I had to double track right away. It's like,
she can't see me right, and she can't hear me
right because I was not being I was not being
kind as soon as I saw her face because that
was the last face I wanted to see. It's like,
here's the face, Here's the face of doom. So Nathan
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Hockman was on the call, so was the councilwoman, Tracy Park.
And they are really as good as it gets when
it comes to DAS and council people. There were a
number though, of people from the d WP Fire Department,
police department, you know, individually, seemed like nice people. But
like I say, the man edgement structure is broken, and
Bass just spewed a few cliches and platitudes, and then
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she had to go and and uh, you know the
rest of the questions were for her staff. She did
seem overwhelmed. I will tell you, Uh, my impression after
she was done at the meeting is there's no hope
if she's running the city.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Uh, And there's just no hope that.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And if we have another fire or another calamity of
some sort, I don't know, she just may get on
a plane and leave entirely. I saw no no energy,
no fire, no understanding really of what was.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Going on here.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And at one point she she seemed really stunned that
there were two people impersonating firefighters that had come to
the city to pull whatever theft or scam they were
gonna pull. She was like overly surprised, like she didn't
know people did stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It was almost like Grandma suddenly coming to terms with
the modern world.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The last paragraph of this news story that the organization
put out was the takeaway from the forum was la
as a city was either unprepared or incapable of containing
a perfect storm of high winds and brushfires that wiped
out Pacific Palisades. Hopefully the apocalyptic warning has been received
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by all.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So I thought of you know, just in case I
thought it was just me.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I was overwhelmingly unimpressed by the presentation, and I hung
in there for an hour and a half. But I
have no confidence that if we have another fire tonight,
an earthquake, any kind of natural disaster or human disaster
or riot or whatever whatever nature and Hu mannikin unleash
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the current Bass administration and much of the city council,
the bureaucracies, the agencies. Everyone is understaffed, underfunded, many of
them are clueless, and there has to be a massive change.
And the same thing for the county. We talked about
the Altadena Finer fire and how West Altadena got evacuation
(25:26):
warnings nine hours after the fire was already burning homes.
Nine hours later, seventeen people died. All the people that
died in the Altadena fire lived west of Lake Avenue.
They did not get evacuation warnings until three in the morning.
The fire was burning in the six and seven o'clock
hour of the night before all the all the erroneous
(25:49):
evacuation warnings that went out, and then the ones that
mattered were many hours late.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I mean the the reservoir that was empty.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's just the firefighters that weren't dispatched to the palisades,
the engines that weren't dispatched, the one hundred engines that
are in the garage that need to be fixed, but
they don't have mechanics. LA fire department is half funded,
the police department is at least fifteen hundred officers short,
(26:22):
and for the goal of what they need for the Olympics,
more like thirty five hundred short.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
This is a disaster. The city is broke.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're going to be borrowing money to cover the fire
expenses until the federal government bails them out. And you
bet Trump is going to put conditions on the money
for Bass and Newsome, and he should because these two
are massively responsible and incompetent. And I'm going to say
that every day, really loud, until the two of them
(26:51):
get out, we get replaced by somebody good.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I don't want.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't want just Newsom junior, like Rob Bonta, the
attorney general, or one of those city council clowns to
replace Bass. There's got to be an entirely different type
of person.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, and you get home tonight, you want to watch something.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You can watch my wife's video podcast, Debora Cobet Live.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm the guest.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
We talk about the fires recently and the Trump administration
coming in. So it's Debora Cobet Life on YouTube. So
go to YouTube and you can watch it. And we
had a good discussion about those matters, and she does
a good show. You should be watching all the time.
All right, Conway's coming up in minutes. The fire is
(27:42):
now up to eight thousand acres and fifteen thousand people
under evacuation orders. This is in the Castaic region, the
Hughes Fire near Lake Hughes on the eating fire of
the Altadena Fire. In case you missed it, a judge
has ordered up in California not to destroy any data,
(28:03):
equipment or evidence related to that fire. Investigators have been
looking at the at the base of an electrical tower
that that might have been the start of the fire.
And and a judge told Edison, and the judge's name
is ashphoch uh Chattery and and and and Edison was
(28:25):
was fighting it saying no, no, no, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
How dare you say we would destroy evidence?
Speaker 7 (28:30):
But they were trying to contest the restraining order, Well
what are you contesting the restraining order for? And then
trying to convince this that you're not going to destroy
the evidence of the fire's origin.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Power companies still, after all these years, still starting fires.
Conway's here, Hey, now, hey, I we're going to talk
about this fire. Obviously I think it's uh, you know,
pretty well contained. They've got under control.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Fortunately went toward towards Lake Casteak, so that was a
big natural block there.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
But they've got to stop scaring the f out of everybody.
They've got to stop doing this.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
They they had evacuation, a mandatory evacuation, not has come
out to West Hills. That's thirty five miles today. It
happened today. Another one happened. This guy is in the
guy who sent me an email, he said he's in
the evacuation zone. He lives on Sawmill Motor Road. Not
familiar with it, so I looked it up. That's in Palmdale, Palmdale.
(29:29):
That fire is moving away from him and he's in Palmdale.
He got an evacuation with them and then.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You get these things with all these codes now and
the codes are indecipherable.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
And this fire is burning again towards the Lake Casteak.
They've got it on both sides. And look, I don't
question a lot of what these guys do, but they
got to open that five freeway up pretty quick. There's
a lot of truckers that are making a living. They
can fly through this thing. Yeah, I don't know, but
it's but that fire is forty two miles away from
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Palm Dye or you know as the crow flies, maybe
thirty five and and the and the fire is burning
away from him.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And he got an evacuation notice. I think what it is.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
The areas are too big. They've got to split them up.
The areas are too big. So if you encroach it,
like five feet into another county or another city, they
give the whole city the evacuation notice.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And this guy's nowhere near it. Yeah, and well there's
no humans involved in sending out the warnings. It all
comes out of right, you know, computer software.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
And some of these reporters are wearing those those yellow
fire jackets and they're nine miles from the fire.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, it's like there seems to be a lot of
show going. Yeah, there is, there's there's reporters you like
to do that. It's it's odd, it really is.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And you know what it does.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
It scares the f out of everybody up there. It
scares the hell out of the kids, and and and
it and these kids are gonna grow up to be
nervous wrecks. You know, they're gonna be all crazy. They're
gonna be all masked up and goggled and you know,
gloves and everything their whole life.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Imagine can you imagine me and kid growing up in
this era? No, it's impossible. Last five years and it locked.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
And when your parents are all hysterical about global warming
all the time, I know, got them mighty, that's going
to be a mentally ill generation.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Crew takes over.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Monks is coming on with us, and we have a
pressor at five o'clock, and then Dean Sharp and then
Todd Spitzer, your buddy, Yash Spitzer's coming on with us. Yeah,
by the way, real quick before we go, Before you go, buddy,
you've been living in la for how long?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thirty two years now, and it's not better than when
you got here.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
No, I think it's time for you to move out
of the city of la and I think we have
to put together go fund me.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If you don't know the can for you, it was
me all right.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
You have not you have not seen the the tea leaves,
you've not written, you've not read the tea leaves.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It might be time to go.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
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