October 14, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/14)
Lou Penrose fills in for John
-UPDATE MICHAEL MONKS KFI NEWSROOM
-ROMNEY SISTER IN LAW FOUND DEAD
-SF MAYOR ASKS YOU TO ADOPT A DRAIN
-CHECK IN ON THE RAIN AND ROADS
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Lou Penrose sitting into John Cobalt. All this week, what
a day in southern California. We got the forecast, so
we knew it was coming, and really the storm delivered
and it was heavy duty rainfall earlier today and the
storm for the most part, subsided right on time. At
one o'clock, kfi's Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is in the newsroom. So far, so good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There's still some pockets of rain I'm seeing here on
the radar, but it seems like this bigot's off.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
There are pockets of rain.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
We are seeing some rain falling in the area around Ukaipa,
San Bernardino County. What we're dealing with right now, Lou,
is just the aftermath the day loge as you called
it before you went to break, that has already blown
through this part of southern California, and we're actually seeing
a little bit of sunshine breaking through the clouds right
now here in Burbank. It looks kind of nice out there.
(00:57):
A total reversal of what we were experiencing earlier this
morning when that rain was coming down as if you
had turned on the shower. It was fast, it was intense,
and the rain piled up all across La County, parts
of Inturre County, parts of Orange County very very quickly,
I mean multiple inches in a very short period of time.
But that rain has finally, for the most part, subsided,
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and now we were just keeping our eyes peeled for
any potential after effects such as mud slides.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm looking at some video here earlier today in North Hollywood,
and I mean, conditions must have just been right in
the geography of this street.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But there's a car floating.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean, there was so much rain so quickly at
once in one area that it is beyond the tires
of a car. So you know, we hear about, oh
we got two inches and twelve hours. No, there's feet
of water that can gather very very quickly because of
the topography of the area. And not only the topography,
because you're right about that, but the streets around here
are just not designed to drain that quickly. The rain
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came down so hard and so fast that this is
what the National Weather Service was warning about the most.
In addition to the mud slides, it was flash flooding
and we did see that pop up. In fact, there
are still some flash flood watches that are lingering in
southern California. That still remains the threat right now, but
it's just a flood watch for much of Orange County
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right now, parts of San Bernardino County or Riverside County
right now, those are the lingering things.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
But when that rain comes down.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
At the speed that it did and the short amount
of time that it did, you're going to have some
situations on the road. We certainly saw that that was
the worst part for this region. It wasn't necessarily that
we were all getting a little bit wet, but I mean,
if you were in the San Fernando Valley today, you
were definitely driving through roads that some people may have
been wise to turn around to avoid them. They tell
you don't drown, turn around. There was some pretty deep
(02:50):
water that some of these cars were braving during the
morning commute.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It was pretty choppy out there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, right around like ten in the morning. I was
listening Gary and Channon. We're saying just that wherever you are,
just stay, Yeah, that's probably the best course of action.
You mentioned drainage, and I was listening to some of
the folks from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Of Inventura.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They said, it's not so much the drainage, although nobody
could handle that much rain that quickly, or at least
nobody in this in this area, it's also the debris
that's caught that that's brought by the moving water. It
only takes a couple of palm fronds to block a drain,
and then once that drain is blocked and there's a
rock on top of it, now it's not moving, and
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now all of a sudden, water will.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Just start to accumulate.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So just getting these storm drains cleared the greats cleared
in a quick way takes time.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
At least they know where they are.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But sometimes the locals in the areas will know about
their storm drain and they'll go out there with the
broom handle and just kind of make sure that the
drain is clear so that the water can go down.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
That's right, And because there is so much debris that
can come down from the hillsides, there's there's not a
whole lot of preparation one can do to predict what's
gonna come down.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Because the rain started pouring.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Now, certainly no one would tell la to slow down
its pace of cleaning the garbage out of its streets.
I mean that type of debris is going to be there,
and that's going to be problematic. But we do have
the topography. As you say, it's often very lovely to
look at, but it can become problematic if it starts
washing down the hillside and lou Just the pace of
this rain was so significant. Places like bell Air and
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Beverly Hills saw more than two inches come down in
just a twelve hour period. Su pal but A Canyon
saw more than three inches come down in that same
amount of time, almost two inches in legal excuse me
an Eagle Rock, an inch and a half in East Pasadena.
San Gabriel Dam saw more than three inches in twenty
four hours. The wettest spot is the same that it
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always is. It's ope, it's can't they call it. That's
a part of the Angelus National Forest. It got more
than five inches of rain in just that twelve hour period.
But even Palmdale, Lancaster got a little wet today. More
than a quarter inch in Landcaster and nearly half an
inch in Palmdale.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The size of the storm, I mean, just the circumference
to be able to have impacts as you mentioned in Lancaster, Palmdell,
through the La Basin, Long Beach, Orange County are now
working its way. Well, it's over San Diego right now.
I mean it is a large winter storm, an early
winter storm, but a large one and not insignificant wind
sixty mile an hour winds.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, there's a wind advisory out there in parts of
the mountains, and there's also farther up north of Santa
Barbara where where the mountains are taller.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I suppose that there's a winter weather advisory.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
So it's a different experience depending on where you are
and winter weather as.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Weather advis just north of Santa Blarbaudy.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, it's not something that you're used to hearing that
no blustering snow.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
The meteorologists have been calling this an anomaly. This isn't
the type of storm that blows through at this time
of year, and so it caught us off guard, and
it's it's well, I shouldn't say it caught us off guard.
And we were getting the warnings for a few days.
Since the end of last week. The meteorologists of the
National Weather Services were telling us that some pretty significant
weather was going to be rolling through and it certainly did.
(06:01):
It lived up to its name, and more fortunate that
we haven't seen too much damage, so it's not over.
Though the rain may have moved on. There are remaining
evacuation orders that you reference before going to break in
Orange County, and it shows you how devastating some of
these wildfires are. Because of course we're paying attention to
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the area burned and the Palisades fire and in the
Eaten fire, those are still very very fresh, but these
evacuation orders out of Orange County around the Airport fire,
and there are other fire burn scars that have also
been of concern today. We're talking about the Hurst fire
and the Sunset fire. These were fires that burned this year,
also not as significant as Palisades are Eaten, but those
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burn scars are still problematic and potentially dangerous. So even
after the flames are put out and all these months later,
those areas can still pose a problem to folks. And
that's what we're watching right now, is to see if
there's any sliding or any potential damage down the road.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, that's true. This is the unknown.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
This is the first real winter rain storm to affect
these areas. After having had you know, the topography forever changed.
So you're absolutely right. This is a this is a
learning process, and so far, so good. Michael Monks from
the KFI newsroom, thanks so much for coming on. We
appreciate the update. My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Lou.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right, when we come back, I want to talk
a little bit about the storm channels and the storm.
There's a story out of San Francisco. San Francisco also
got wet. I mean, the storm pretty much hit all
of coastal California and inland southern California, and the mayor
of San Francisco catching a little heat.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He came out in a public.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Service message and asked people to adopt a storm drain
and keep an eye on it, which I thought was
a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But he's getting all kinds of blowback. We'll share that
story with you.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Coming up next to Lou Penrose, if of John Coblt
on the John Coblt Show.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt, speaking of the rain
and the storm drains and the flooding. And I did
see flooding in North Hollywood. Some video here courtesy of KTLA.
This car is almost floating and that's from this morning.
So rain gathers quickly. They talk about inches. But because
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of the topography, because of the way the land is,
and because of the way the water can collect in areas, and.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You've seen this happen.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Like you can go to just a street corner, one
corner of the street, across the street is dry. The
other side of the street in Los Angeles and you're
up to your knees in water. And it's not because
there isn't a drain. There is a drain there. So
it's just the uniqueness of the topography because it doesn't
rain that often, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Don't have to prepare, like you know, it's Portland, Oregon.
But there is.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Like an effort in some parts of the state. This
is out of San Francisco. The mayor there, Mayor Daniel Laurie,
new mayor, has an adopt a drain program and he's
getting some blowback. People think that, oh, my goodness, is
the highest taxes anywhere in the state and they are
now asking you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The mayor's out there asking you to adopt a drain.
But what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He adopted a couple of draams, and he filmed himself
today in a public service announcement.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now he is up to his knees. He's not wearing waiters.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
He should be wearing some kind of rubber boots, otherwise
his shoes are ruined. But he's in one of these
very typical areas that we see all the time in
North Hollywood, in all kinds of areas.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Now where I used to live in Venice, this happens.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
It's just uneven and water collects at the lowest level.
And again, there could be one area where there's just
all the water collects and the water isn't going down
because the drain is clogged by a piece of a
palm tree. And he says, we all know our areas,
we all know where that is likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Please register.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
At my adopt a Drain program, and then when it rains,
you go keep an eye in your drain.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
We need your health. TPW is outworking really hard first
rain of the season. They do incredible work, but sometimes
all of that's pitching in to make a huge difference.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You can adopt your drain.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
We've cleared us you and I'm telling you incredibly satisfying.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Now, but it is satisfying, especially if the water goes
down the drain instead of into your house. So he's
got an adopt the drain program and he's urging people
of San Francisco to be part of it. Here is
one one person, one critic on social media. San Franciscos
crack me up. They pay the highest amount of taxes
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and the cities can't even provide them with working drains.
They need to have an adopt a drain program. What's next,
adopt the fentanyl attic? Now, I don't think you have
to adopt the fentanyl addict. So water moves fast, and
you could triple the size of the Department of Water
and Power or in any city, and they're not going
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to keep up with the water.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
If the drain is clogged.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
How many people do you think are out there with
brooms removing the stuff in the way.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So this is kind of simple.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But as soon as there's a lot of water and
you have a little river going, that river will pick
up whatever debris is in along the curb, or maybe
a little rock or some paper or a newspaper or
a New York Times still wrapped up in plastic or
Los Angeles times wrapped up in plastic, and it only
takes a little bit of that and one palm tree part,
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just a piece of wood, piece of bark, the front
from itself, and all of a sudden, now a storm
drain that could have collected a lot of water is
all being passed by, and now the next.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Lowest point becomes flooded.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And then the next thing you know, it's eating away
at a burm, and now it's rolling into the front
of somebody's business or into somebody's if it's in a residential,
it's down now going into somebody's garage door, and like
water causes damage. So it is like, I don't know
why that is so offensive to have the mayor. I
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get it, it's a progressive mayor, it's a progressive city.
But that's not a terrible idea to say, hey, go
keep an eye on the storm drain in front of
your house or in front of your business, and if
you want to like register and be the person in
charge of it, that'd be great because then we know
it would be covered and we can direct resources to
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where we are.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Hearing this flooding. And nobody's adopted a storm drain.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Those are the kinds of outside the box ideas that
I rely on when you want to become a mayor
of a major city. I give him credit not seeing
a lot out of the new mayor of the city
in County of San Francisco. I remember the campaign, but
it was somewhat less crazy than all the other candidates,
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so I was.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Kind of rooting for him.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And now I like him even more, And now that
makes me want to learn more about whatever policies he has.
I'm sure most of them will be ridiculous, but that
one I thought was pretty good, and I think that's
unfair criticism.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Adopt the drain, what's next? Adopt the fentanyl addict.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No, but if you know that there's a fentanyl addict
always in front of your business, then like call somebody.
If you know the storm drain in front of your
business always gets clogged because there's always a lot of
loose dirt around it, or there's a bunch of planters
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and it carries a bunch of dirt. Like go and
clean it out yourself. And the water damage that you
say might be your own. All right, when we come back,
we have to talk about this. Absolutely crazy story of
the Romney family. So terrible tragedy and the death of
Carrie Romney, and we don't exactly know what happened, and
(14:04):
we do know that she was found on the ground.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Next to a multi story parking.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Garage, and they're being pretty tight lipped about exactly what happened,
but we do know some of the details about her
and that she was most recently going through a divorce.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
By Scott Romney.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Now Scott Romney is the father of Ronna Romney McDaniel,
So some of the details are a little fishy. We'll
give them to you and you can draw conclusions yourself.
Lou Penrose on the John Cobalt Show.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Lou Penrose in for John Covelt this week talking about.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
The rain regarding the adopted Draine idea great idea, but
signing up and registering, I think that could be a
liability issue if for some reason you can't keep the
drain clear for that maybe you're out of town, maybe
you're sick or something, and somebody gets into a car
accident because there's a big bunch of water and it
caused a car to spin and somebody got hurt, perhaps
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you could be liable.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Wow, you sound like my wife, all right, So that
means we can't have any neighborhood watch programs because if
you go on vacation and somebody breaks into your neighbor's
car and you were supposed to be on duty at
the neighborhood watch program, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All he's talking about. He's just saying, Hey, you know
where you live.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You know, if water forms a puddle every time it
rains and there's a storm drain there, why don't you
go down there with a broom and sweep the tree
branches out in front so the drain can work like
a drain. That's and if you agree to do that,
sign up so that the Department of Water and Power
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in San Francisco knows that you agree to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Now, if it's still clogs because you were out of town,
then it clogs.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But it was going to clog, whether you were out
of town or you just decided to wait for the
people at the water department to come and clean it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But if nobody does anything.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
And the water builds up and then all of a sudden,
redaverts and goes down into your neighbor's driveway and through
his garage and ruins all his drywall that would have
been averted if somebody just moves some of the garbage
in front of the storm drain, or if you can't,
then you keep an eye on it and then call
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and say, hey, really becoming a lake over here, somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I can't get in there.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I'm too worried about it, Like it's not that complicated,
And I don't understand the blowback.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
What is the.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Residents supposed to do risk their lives to impy this
drain or are they supposed to call somebody at this
point from the city. I just don't really understand what
a lay person is going to get done.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh my, uh, you've never seen a wet news paper
stopping water from going down the drain Like this has
never happened to you. You never had a newspaper on
your driveway, And now the sprinklers are all not going
where they're supposed to go, and all the water is
going toward your garage or toward your door.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You don't think you can handle it a lay person.
I'm not asking you to part the red sea.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm just saying if you know of a drain that
doesn't always drain around this time in southern California when
it rains, then go tell somebody at the water district.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And if you can keep it clear, then take a
second and go keep it clear.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Especially if it's a forecasted rain, because that's what they do,
you know, when that's what the forecast is for, so
that we can go prepare and make sure that they
know where the big drains are. But it we're talk
about small ones like the little gutters that could be
obstructed by a wet Los Angeles times.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not a big deal.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Here's the mayor again, this again, Mayor of Los Angeles
to a city accounting, we.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Need your health. TPW is outworking really hard his first
brain and a season. They do incredible work, but sometimes
all that's pitching in can make a huge difference. You
can adopt your brain and clear that you and I'm
telling you incredibly satisfying.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, very satisfying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Saves the city time and money and could prevent a
lot of property damage.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But don't get involved.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
If you think you're gonna get sued or you can't
handle it, let somebody else get involved. So this is
the statement from Mitt Romney. Our family is heartbroken by
the loss of Carrie, who brought warmth and love to
all of our lives. We ask for privacy during this
difficult time, very very strange situation.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Public records revealed the woman found dead near a shopping
center is Carrie Elizabeth Romney, the sister in law of
Mitt Romney. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department found the
sixty four year old on the street by a parking
garage in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So that's curious to me. I worked on the Romney campaign.
I've come to know the Romney family pretty well. There's
a lot of them, and they're wonderful people. Not a
huge fan of the way the Romney political career ended,
but I was a huge.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Fan of the way it started.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And my boss was an early Romney supporter in the
primary in two thousand and eight, so he was an
early Romney supporter. And in twenty twelve I was one
of the delegates for Romney. He lost to Obama and
then got sideways and developed Trump arrangement syndrome. But nevertheless,
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a really an amazing political family and just an amazing family,
just very very strong people and very interesting people and
a very very tight family. So number one, sixty four
year old Romney's don't travel alone. There's always a helper,
there's always people. There are family, certainly their family. They're lds,
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so they must have somebody that can drive in the family.
That's number one, eight thirty at night, Friday night, alone,
sixty four years old Hiatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clarita. And
she was on the ground and the car may have
been on the second story, so it is unclear if
she fell or jumped, but absolutely tragic. So Carrie Romney
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was married to Scott Romney. That's Mitt's older brother, Scott
Romney eighty one. There was like a seventeen year difference
in age between these two and they began divorce proceedings
in June.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They only had been married eight years.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And just to kind of put this in contemporary perspective,
because this is not interesting to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
This is so.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Scott Romney was Rona Romney, McDaniel's father. Let's see here
they are fouled for divorce June tenth, eight years of marriage.
Irreconcilable differences and one of the issues that was holding
up the divorce besides an agreement on spousal support, which
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there always will be. Was Scott Romney wanted his ex
wife to go back to her maiden name. He didn't
want her being a Romney anymore. And that's all we know.
But the I guess the body has been released to
the Romney family, but the further information is not available
until toxicology reports come out.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Absolute tragedy, but a little strange.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Every once in a while, there are one of these
stories where and I'm not a newsperson, I'm a talk
show host, but I spend so much time in the
newsroom with all these news people and they have like.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
A sixth sense on stuff, and I think I've picked
it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Every once in a while, there's something about a story
that just ain't right. And this is one of the
stories that it just ain't right. There's something missing, So
we'll wait and see what the with the rest of
that story is.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Louke Penrose on the John Coblt Show.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
COBLT out this week. Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt
all this week. Good to be with you. Nobody was
asked to go online, sign.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Up and take responsibility for a storm drain.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
The adopted drane was basically, keep an eye out, go out,
clean it up if you see it plugged.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's all it was.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And I still think it's a good idea. And I
don't know why that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
What's the newspaper now, that's funny.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
I just don't understand these talkbacks that you're getting, man,
I mean, these people don't want to be responsible for
protecting their own property when the city's not going to
do it. I mean, I'd protect my own property for
God's sake.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Man, it's a friggin drain. If it's too dangerous, don't
do it. If it's safe, go for it. Protect your property.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, the person that benefits the most is you, or
your neighbor or the people on your block.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Again, no one suggested you hire a crane.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But things collect right around the storm drain.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Storm drains are purposely put at the lowest level of
the area because that's where the water goes, so they
want the storm drain there first, and then when the
water goes to where the storm drain is then the
water goes away, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Water collecting in a torrential deluge.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Like we had earlier today, bad water going down the drain,
good branches, trees and wet right us and garbage and
things that homeless people leave behind. Because the homeless, they
really they scram when the rain comes, no question about it.
Sometimes they leave some of their campsite behind. They don't
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always police as well as we would like. Not everybody's
a good camper, And sometimes some wet blanket or some
piece of rug gets caught up in the deluge and
covers the drain and guess what, a perfectly good infrastructure
is now completely useless. So that's all the mayor was suggesting,
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like adopt your local drain, like keep an eye out
for the drain near your business or near your house.
Nobody's compelling you to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's what we.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Pay taxes for. I don't understand why a resident, anybody's
supposed to be in charge of the gutter system and
the drainage system in their neighborhoods. I mean, I get
the whole community thing, and I get it, but I
think the world's too big, and I think we shouldn't
be in charge of the storm gutters.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
All right, I give up, check meate.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Just go ahead and have the water come in and
damage all your dry wall and ruin everything, and then
try and get an appointment with somebody to come and
dry out the dry wall and get that all put in.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
See how how long that takes?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
All right, Well, the cease fire in that area of
the world is not twenty four hours old. And already
the concern that I had at the beginning that why
are we allowing anything but unconditional surrender? My concerns had
been just completely confirmed.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A Palestinian terror group.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Executed eight people on a busy street in Gaza City.
This is not I shouldn't be laughing. It's ridiculous. I mean,
these are the people that we're dealing with. Following the
Israeli Defense forces withdrawal, Hamas quickly look to reassert its
control over Gaza and targeted clans.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They live in clans over there. That's how they all
get together.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
They have clans there, and as soon as the Israeli
Defense Force withdrew, then the strongest clan took hold of
the second strongest clan and line them up in the
daylight in the middle of the street in this in
Gaza City and filmed it. And now we see that
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the people that are back in charge of that area
are just not save people. AMAS militants reportedly used ambulances
to storm the neighborhoods of the clan who they accused
collaborated with Israel. So there is a cease fire, I guess,
between the western world, Israel and these terrorists in Gaza.
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But I don't think the hurt feelings are over, and
I think we will continue to have just a problem
or to but we'll keep it play. Hey, great day
today on the rain, lots of great coverage. I know
a lot of people are still on evacuation orders, and
there are still areas of North County and San Diego
and parts of San Diego that are getting rain, and
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still some pockets of rain out in San Bernardino. But
for the first big winter storm of southern California after
a major fire, a number of major fires, I think
everything was handled very very well, and we the forecast
proved to be accurate, and everybody was prepared and we
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took heat.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The biggest problem, of course is the freeways.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And the commute, but that's going to be the way
it's going to be now for another couple of hours,
so just stay tuned to KFIM six forty. It was
an early season storm, and you heard Michael Monks earlier
that this was an unprecedented storm. National Weather Service had
to issue a flash flood warning at seven point forty
this morning in Los Angeles and Ventura County. And why
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they can't figure out how to make that guy's voice
sound a little bit more like a normal person, I'll
never know. We're in the broadcasting business. There's a bunch
of radio people in this building with the world's most
delicious voices, and they have like this electronic guy telling
you that you're about to get flooded. So somebody needs
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to work on that. I know the National Weather Service
they're busy looking at satellite images. They probably don't have
a broadcast guy or a creative guy or an imaging
guy in their employee. But sometimes I just hear beeps
and buzzes and long pauses on KFI and I'm waiting
to hear where the flood is, and it's a lot
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of background noise. I mean, it's quite astounding when you
consider that this is our mass communication, and this is
the way we're trying to get important information about flash flooding,
and it's impossible to hear the voice.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I don't know who's in charge of that. Somebody
back in DC.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm sure maybe that guy had maybe he has been furloughed.
Apparently everyone else has been.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
The federal agency's impacted by the mass layoffs include the
Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing
and Urban Development, Homeland Security, and the Treasury Department. The
multiple sources at the Department of Education tell us CNN
the latest round of mass layoffs have decimated the office.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
So we'll see how long this government shutdown maintains. It's
day fourteen. My prediction is this will be over by
the end of the week. We already have fifty five
US Senators we need sixty, and one Democrat has joined
with the fifty three Republicans and one independent. There is
another independent in the United States Senate, so technically that
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should be somebody that might be easy to peel off.
So that'll bring the number down to four. And I
just think TikTok, TikTok, and I think that will be
a win, and then we can move on to begin
to do other things as we enter into fall, and
fall is supposed to be fun time, so governments supposed
to be done. Government should be a journ. September thirtyth
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is supposed to be the end. It's not an election year.
We should be free from all the DC talk for
just a couple of months so we can talk about
really important things like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
That's really what Americans want to talk about. A little
departure from the chaos of DC would be I think
a welcome time, a welcome president for this time of year.
(30:30):
Lou Penrose if of John Cobelt on The John Cobelt
Show on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Hey, you've been listening to the John coblt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Lou Penrose sitting into John Cobalt. All this week, what
a day in southern California. We got the forecast, so
we knew it was coming, and really the storm delivered
and it was heavy duty rainfall earlier today and the
storm for the most part, subsided right on time. At
one o'clock, kfi's Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is in the newsroom. So far, so good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There's still some pockets of rain I'm seeing here on
the radar, but it seems like this bigot's off.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
There are pockets of rain.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
We are seeing some rain falling in the area around Ukaipa,
San Bernardino County. What we're dealing with right now, Lou,
is just the aftermath the day loge as you called
it before you went to break, that has already blown
through this part of southern California, and we're actually seeing
a little bit of sunshine breaking through the clouds right
now here in Burbank. It looks kind of nice out there.
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A total reversal of what we were experiencing earlier this
morning when that rain was coming down as if you
had turned on the shower. It was fast, it was intense,
and the rain piled up all across La County, parts
of Inturre County, parts of Orange County very very quickly,
I mean multiple inches in a very short period of time.
But that rain has finally, for the most part, subsided,
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and now we were just keeping our eyes peeled for
any potential after effects such as mud slides.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm looking at some video here earlier today in North Hollywood,
and I mean, conditions must have just been right in
the geography of this street.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But there's a car floating.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean, there was so much rain so quickly at
once in one area that it is beyond the tires
of a car. So you know, we hear about, oh
we got two inches and twelve hours. No, there's feet
of water that can gather very very quickly because of
the topography of the area. And not only the topography,
because you're right about that, but the streets around here
are just not designed to drain that quickly. The rain
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came down so hard and so fast that this is
what the National Weather Service was warning about the most.
In addition to the mud slides, it was flash flooding
and we did see that pop up. In fact, there
are still some flash flood watches that are lingering in
southern California. That still remains the threat right now, but
it's just a flood watch for much of Orange County
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right now, parts of San Bernardino County or Riverside County
right now, those are the lingering things.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
But when that rain comes down.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
At the speed that it did and the short amount
of time that it did, you're going to have some
situations on the road. We certainly saw that that was
the worst part for this region. It wasn't necessarily that
we were all getting a little bit wet, but I mean,
if you were in the San Fernando Valley today, you
were definitely driving through roads that some people may have
been wise to turn around to avoid them. They tell
you don't drown, turn around. There was some pretty deep
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water that some of these cars were braving during the
morning commute.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It was pretty choppy out there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, right around like ten in the morning. I was
listening Gary and Channon. We're saying just that wherever you are,
just stay, Yeah, that's probably the best course of action.
You mentioned drainage, and I was listening to some of
the folks from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Of Inventura.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They said, it's not so much the drainage, although nobody
could handle that much rain that quickly, or at least
nobody in this in this area, it's also the debris
that's caught that that's brought by the moving water. It
only takes a couple of palm fronds to block a drain,
and then once that drain is blocked and there's a
rock on top of it, now it's not moving, and
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now all of a sudden, water will.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Just start to accumulate.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So just getting these storm drains cleared the greats cleared
in a quick way takes time.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
At least they know where they are.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But sometimes the locals in the areas will know about
their storm drain and they'll go out there with the
broom handle and just kind of make sure that the
drain is clear so that the water can go down.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
That's right, And because there is so much debris that
can come down from the hillsides, there's there's not a
whole lot of preparation one can do to predict what's
gonna come down.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Because the rain started pouring.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Now, certainly no one would tell la to slow down
its pace of cleaning the garbage out of its streets.
I mean that type of debris is going to be there,
and that's going to be problematic. But we do have
the topography. As you say, it's often very lovely to
look at, but it can become problematic if it starts
washing down the hillside and lou Just the pace of
this rain was so significant. Places like bell Air and
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Beverly Hills saw more than two inches come down in
just a twelve hour period. Su pal but A Canyon
saw more than three inches come down in that same
amount of time, almost two inches in legal excuse me
an Eagle Rock, an inch and a half in East Pasadena.
San Gabriel Dam saw more than three inches in twenty
four hours. The wettest spot is the same that it
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always is. It's ope, it's can't they call it. That's
a part of the Angelus National Forest. It got more
than five inches of rain in just that twelve hour period.
But even Palmdale, Lancaster got a little wet today. More
than a quarter inch in Landcaster and nearly half an
inch in Palmdale.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The size of the storm, I mean, just the circumference
to be able to have impacts as you mentioned in Lancaster, Palmdell,
through the La Basin, Long Beach, Orange County are now
working its way. Well, it's over San Diego right now.
I mean it is a large winter storm, an early
winter storm, but a large one and not insignificant wind
sixty mile an hour winds.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, there's a wind advisory out there in parts of
the mountains, and there's also farther up north of Santa
Barbara where where the mountains are taller.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I suppose that there's a winter weather advisory.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
So it's a different experience depending on where you are
and winter weather as.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Weather advis just north of Santa Blarbaudy.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, it's not something that you're used to hearing that
no blustering snow.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
The meteorologists have been calling this an anomaly. This isn't
the type of storm that blows through at this time
of year, and so it caught us off guard, and
it's it's well, I shouldn't say it caught us off guard.
And we were getting the warnings for a few days.
Since the end of last week. The meteorologists of the
National Weather Services were telling us that some pretty significant
weather was going to be rolling through and it certainly did.
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It lived up to its name, and more fortunate that
we haven't seen too much damage, so it's not over.
Though the rain may have moved on. There are remaining
evacuation orders that you reference before going to break in
Orange County, and it shows you how devastating some of
these wildfires are. Because of course we're paying attention to
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the area burned and the Palisades fire and in the
Eaten fire, those are still very very fresh, but these
evacuation orders out of Orange County around the Airport fire,
and there are other fire burn scars that have also
been of concern today. We're talking about the Hurst fire
and the Sunset fire. These were fires that burned this year,
also not as significant as Palisades are Eaten, but those
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burn scars are still problematic and potentially dangerous. So even
after the flames are put out and all these months later,
those areas can still pose a problem to folks. And
that's what we're watching right now, is to see if
there's any sliding or any potential damage down the road.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, that's true. This is the unknown.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
This is the first real winter rain storm to affect
these areas. After having had you know, the topography forever changed.
So you're absolutely right. This is a this is a
learning process, and so far, so good. Michael Monks from
the KFI newsroom, thanks so much for coming on. We
appreciate the update. My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Lou.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right, when we come back, I want to talk
a little bit about the storm channels and the storm.
There's a story out of San Francisco. San Francisco also
got wet. I mean, the storm pretty much hit all
of coastal California and inland southern California, and the mayor
of San Francisco catching a little heat.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He came out in a public.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Service message and asked people to adopt a storm drain
and keep an eye on it, which I thought was
a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But he's getting all kinds of blowback. We'll share that
story with you.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Coming up next to Lou Penrose, if of John Coblt
on the John Coblt Show.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt, speaking of the rain
and the storm drains and the flooding. And I did
see flooding in North Hollywood. Some video here courtesy of KTLA.
This car is almost floating and that's from this morning.
So rain gathers quickly. They talk about inches. But because
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of the topography, because of the way the land is,
and because of the way the water can collect in areas, and.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You've seen this happen.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Like you can go to just a street corner, one
corner of the street, across the street is dry. The
other side of the street in Los Angeles and you're
up to your knees in water. And it's not because
there isn't a drain. There is a drain there. So
it's just the uniqueness of the topography because it doesn't
rain that often, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Don't have to prepare, like you know, it's Portland, Oregon.
But there is.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Like an effort in some parts of the state. This
is out of San Francisco. The mayor there, Mayor Daniel Laurie,
new mayor, has an adopt a drain program and he's
getting some blowback. People think that, oh, my goodness, is
the highest taxes anywhere in the state and they are
now asking you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The mayor's out there asking you to adopt a drain.
But what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He adopted a couple of draams, and he filmed himself
today in a public service announcement.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now he is up to his knees. He's not wearing waiters.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
He should be wearing some kind of rubber boots, otherwise
his shoes are ruined. But he's in one of these
very typical areas that we see all the time in
North Hollywood, in all kinds of areas.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Now where I used to live in Venice, this happens.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
It's just uneven and water collects at the lowest level.
And again, there could be one area where there's just
all the water collects and the water isn't going down
because the drain is clogged by a piece of a
palm tree. And he says, we all know our areas,
we all know where that is likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Please register.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
At my adopt a Drain program, and then when it rains,
you go keep an eye in your drain.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
We need your health. TPW is outworking really hard first
rain of the season. They do incredible work, but sometimes
all of that's pitching in to make a huge difference.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You can adopt your drain.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
We've cleared us you and I'm telling you incredibly satisfying.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Now, but it is satisfying, especially if the water goes
down the drain instead of into your house. So he's
got an adopt the drain program and he's urging people
of San Francisco to be part of it. Here is
one one person, one critic on social media. San Franciscos
crack me up. They pay the highest amount of taxes
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and the cities can't even provide them with working drains.
They need to have an adopt a drain program. What's next,
adopt the fentanyl attic? Now, I don't think you have
to adopt the fentanyl addict. So water moves fast, and
you could triple the size of the Department of Water
and Power or in any city, and they're not going
(11:02):
to keep up with the water.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
If the drain is clogged.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
How many people do you think are out there with
brooms removing the stuff in the way.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So this is kind of simple.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But as soon as there's a lot of water and
you have a little river going, that river will pick
up whatever debris is in along the curb, or maybe
a little rock or some paper or a newspaper or
a New York Times still wrapped up in plastic or
Los Angeles times wrapped up in plastic, and it only
takes a little bit of that and one palm tree part,
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just a piece of wood, piece of bark, the front
from itself, and all of a sudden, now a storm
drain that could have collected a lot of water is
all being passed by, and now the next.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Lowest point becomes flooded.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And then the next thing you know, it's eating away
at a burm, and now it's rolling into the front
of somebody's business or into somebody's if it's in a residential,
it's down now going into somebody's garage door, and like
water causes damage. So it is like, I don't know
why that is so offensive to have the mayor. I
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get it, it's a progressive mayor, it's a progressive city.
But that's not a terrible idea to say, hey, go
keep an eye on the storm drain in front of
your house or in front of your business, and if
you want to like register and be the person in
charge of it, that'd be great because then we know
it would be covered and we can direct resources to
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where we are.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Hearing this flooding. And nobody's adopted a storm drain.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Those are the kinds of outside the box ideas that
I rely on when you want to become a mayor
of a major city. I give him credit not seeing
a lot out of the new mayor of the city
in County of San Francisco. I remember the campaign, but
it was somewhat less crazy than all the other candidates,
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so I was.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Kind of rooting for him.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And now I like him even more, And now that
makes me want to learn more about whatever policies he has.
I'm sure most of them will be ridiculous, but that
one I thought was pretty good, and I think that's
unfair criticism.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Adopt the drain, what's next? Adopt the fentanyl addict.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No, but if you know that there's a fentanyl addict
always in front of your business, then like call somebody.
If you know the storm drain in front of your
business always gets clogged because there's always a lot of
loose dirt around it, or there's a bunch of planters
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and it carries a bunch of dirt. Like go and
clean it out yourself. And the water damage that you
say might be your own. All right, when we come back,
we have to talk about this. Absolutely crazy story of
the Romney family. So terrible tragedy and the death of
Carrie Romney, and we don't exactly know what happened, and
(14:04):
we do know that she was found on the ground.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Next to a multi story parking.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Garage, and they're being pretty tight lipped about exactly what happened,
but we do know some of the details about her
and that she was most recently going through a divorce.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
By Scott Romney.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Now Scott Romney is the father of Ronna Romney McDaniel,
So some of the details are a little fishy. We'll
give them to you and you can draw conclusions yourself.
Lou Penrose on the John Cobalt Show.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Lou Penrose in for John Covelt this week talking about.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
The rain regarding the adopted Draine idea great idea, but
signing up and registering, I think that could be a
liability issue if for some reason you can't keep the
drain clear for that maybe you're out of town, maybe
you're sick or something, and somebody gets into a car
accident because there's a big bunch of water and it
caused a car to spin and somebody got hurt, perhaps
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you could be liable.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Wow, you sound like my wife, all right, So that
means we can't have any neighborhood watch programs because if
you go on vacation and somebody breaks into your neighbor's
car and you were supposed to be on duty at
the neighborhood watch program, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All he's talking about. He's just saying, Hey, you know
where you live.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You know, if water forms a puddle every time it
rains and there's a storm drain there, why don't you
go down there with a broom and sweep the tree
branches out in front so the drain can work like
a drain. That's and if you agree to do that,
sign up so that the Department of Water and Power
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in San Francisco knows that you agree to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Now, if it's still clogs because you were out of town,
then it clogs.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But it was going to clog, whether you were out
of town or you just decided to wait for the
people at the water department to come and clean it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But if nobody does anything.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
And the water builds up and then all of a sudden,
redaverts and goes down into your neighbor's driveway and through
his garage and ruins all his drywall that would have
been averted if somebody just moves some of the garbage
in front of the storm drain, or if you can't,
then you keep an eye on it and then call
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and say, hey, really becoming a lake over here, somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I can't get in there.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I'm too worried about it, Like it's not that complicated,
And I don't understand the blowback.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
What is the.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Residents supposed to do risk their lives to impy this
drain or are they supposed to call somebody at this
point from the city. I just don't really understand what
a lay person is going to get done.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh my, uh, you've never seen a wet news paper
stopping water from going down the drain Like this has
never happened to you. You never had a newspaper on
your driveway, And now the sprinklers are all not going
where they're supposed to go, and all the water is
going toward your garage or toward your door.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You don't think you can handle it a lay person.
I'm not asking you to part the red sea.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm just saying if you know of a drain that
doesn't always drain around this time in southern California when
it rains, then go tell somebody at the water district.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And if you can keep it clear, then take a
second and go keep it clear.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Especially if it's a forecasted rain, because that's what they do,
you know, when that's what the forecast is for, so
that we can go prepare and make sure that they
know where the big drains are. But it we're talk
about small ones like the little gutters that could be
obstructed by a wet Los Angeles times.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not a big deal.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Here's the mayor again, this again, Mayor of Los Angeles
to a city accounting, we.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Need your health. TPW is outworking really hard his first
brain and a season. They do incredible work, but sometimes
all that's pitching in can make a huge difference. You
can adopt your brain and clear that you and I'm
telling you incredibly satisfying.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, very satisfying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Saves the city time and money and could prevent a
lot of property damage.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But don't get involved.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
If you think you're gonna get sued or you can't
handle it, let somebody else get involved. So this is
the statement from Mitt Romney. Our family is heartbroken by
the loss of Carrie, who brought warmth and love to
all of our lives. We ask for privacy during this
difficult time, very very strange situation.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Public records revealed the woman found dead near a shopping
center is Carrie Elizabeth Romney, the sister in law of
Mitt Romney. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department found the
sixty four year old on the street by a parking
garage in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So that's curious to me. I worked on the Romney campaign.
I've come to know the Romney family pretty well. There's
a lot of them, and they're wonderful people. Not a
huge fan of the way the Romney political career ended,
but I was a huge.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Fan of the way it started.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And my boss was an early Romney supporter in the
primary in two thousand and eight, so he was an
early Romney supporter. And in twenty twelve I was one
of the delegates for Romney. He lost to Obama and
then got sideways and developed Trump arrangement syndrome. But nevertheless,
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a really an amazing political family and just an amazing family,
just very very strong people and very interesting people and
a very very tight family. So number one, sixty four
year old Romney's don't travel alone. There's always a helper,
there's always people. There are family, certainly their family. They're lds,
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so they must have somebody that can drive in the family.
That's number one, eight thirty at night, Friday night, alone,
sixty four years old Hiatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clarita. And
she was on the ground and the car may have
been on the second story, so it is unclear if
she fell or jumped, but absolutely tragic. So Carrie Romney
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was married to Scott Romney. That's Mitt's older brother, Scott
Romney eighty one. There was like a seventeen year difference
in age between these two and they began divorce proceedings
in June.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They only had been married eight years.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And just to kind of put this in contemporary perspective,
because this is not interesting to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
This is so.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Scott Romney was Rona Romney, McDaniel's father. Let's see here
they are fouled for divorce June tenth, eight years of marriage.
Irreconcilable differences and one of the issues that was holding
up the divorce besides an agreement on spousal support, which
(21:26):
there always will be. Was Scott Romney wanted his ex
wife to go back to her maiden name. He didn't
want her being a Romney anymore. And that's all we know.
But the I guess the body has been released to
the Romney family, but the further information is not available
until toxicology reports come out.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Absolute tragedy, but a little strange.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Every once in a while, there are one of these
stories where and I'm not a newsperson, I'm a talk
show host, but I spend so much time in the
newsroom with all these news people and they have like.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
A sixth sense on stuff, and I think I've picked
it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Every once in a while, there's something about a story
that just ain't right. And this is one of the
stories that it just ain't right. There's something missing, So
we'll wait and see what the with the rest of
that story is.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Louke Penrose on the John Coblt Show.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
COBLT out this week. Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt
all this week. Good to be with you. Nobody was
asked to go online, sign.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Up and take responsibility for a storm drain.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
The adopted drane was basically, keep an eye out, go out,
clean it up if you see it plugged.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's all it was.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And I still think it's a good idea. And I
don't know why that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
What's the newspaper now, that's funny.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
I just don't understand these talkbacks that you're getting, man,
I mean, these people don't want to be responsible for
protecting their own property when the city's not going to
do it. I mean, I'd protect my own property for
God's sake.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Man, it's a friggin drain. If it's too dangerous, don't
do it. If it's safe, go for it. Protect your property.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, the person that benefits the most is you, or
your neighbor or the people on your block.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Again, no one suggested you hire a crane.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But things collect right around the storm drain.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Storm drains are purposely put at the lowest level of
the area because that's where the water goes, so they
want the storm drain there first, and then when the
water goes to where the storm drain is then the
water goes away, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Water collecting in a torrential deluge.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Like we had earlier today, bad water going down the drain,
good branches, trees and wet right us and garbage and
things that homeless people leave behind. Because the homeless, they
really they scram when the rain comes, no question about it.
Sometimes they leave some of their campsite behind. They don't
(24:12):
always police as well as we would like. Not everybody's
a good camper, And sometimes some wet blanket or some
piece of rug gets caught up in the deluge and
covers the drain and guess what, a perfectly good infrastructure
is now completely useless. So that's all the mayor was suggesting,
(24:33):
like adopt your local drain, like keep an eye out
for the drain near your business or near your house.
Nobody's compelling you to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's what we.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Pay taxes for. I don't understand why a resident, anybody's
supposed to be in charge of the gutter system and
the drainage system in their neighborhoods. I mean, I get
the whole community thing, and I get it, but I
think the world's too big, and I think we shouldn't
be in charge of the storm gutters.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
All right, I give up, check meate.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Just go ahead and have the water come in and
damage all your dry wall and ruin everything, and then
try and get an appointment with somebody to come and
dry out the dry wall and get that all put in.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
See how how long that takes?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
All right, Well, the cease fire in that area of
the world is not twenty four hours old. And already
the concern that I had at the beginning that why
are we allowing anything but unconditional surrender? My concerns had
been just completely confirmed.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A Palestinian terror group.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Executed eight people on a busy street in Gaza City.
This is not I shouldn't be laughing. It's ridiculous. I mean,
these are the people that we're dealing with. Following the
Israeli Defense forces withdrawal, Hamas quickly look to reassert its
control over Gaza and targeted clans.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They live in clans over there. That's how they all
get together.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
They have clans there, and as soon as the Israeli
Defense Force withdrew, then the strongest clan took hold of
the second strongest clan and line them up in the
daylight in the middle of the street in this in
Gaza City and filmed it. And now we see that
(26:31):
the people that are back in charge of that area
are just not save people. AMAS militants reportedly used ambulances
to storm the neighborhoods of the clan who they accused
collaborated with Israel. So there is a cease fire, I guess,
between the western world, Israel and these terrorists in Gaza.
(26:52):
But I don't think the hurt feelings are over, and
I think we will continue to have just a problem
or to but we'll keep it play. Hey, great day
today on the rain, lots of great coverage. I know
a lot of people are still on evacuation orders, and
there are still areas of North County and San Diego
and parts of San Diego that are getting rain, and
(27:14):
still some pockets of rain out in San Bernardino. But
for the first big winter storm of southern California after
a major fire, a number of major fires, I think
everything was handled very very well, and we the forecast
proved to be accurate, and everybody was prepared and we
(27:36):
took heat.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The biggest problem, of course is the freeways.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And the commute, but that's going to be the way
it's going to be now for another couple of hours,
so just stay tuned to KFIM six forty. It was
an early season storm, and you heard Michael Monks earlier
that this was an unprecedented storm. National Weather Service had
to issue a flash flood warning at seven point forty
this morning in Los Angeles and Ventura County. And why
(28:02):
they can't figure out how to make that guy's voice
sound a little bit more like a normal person, I'll
never know. We're in the broadcasting business. There's a bunch
of radio people in this building with the world's most
delicious voices, and they have like this electronic guy telling
you that you're about to get flooded. So somebody needs
(28:23):
to work on that. I know the National Weather Service
they're busy looking at satellite images. They probably don't have
a broadcast guy or a creative guy or an imaging
guy in their employee. But sometimes I just hear beeps
and buzzes and long pauses on KFI and I'm waiting
to hear where the flood is, and it's a lot
(28:45):
of background noise. I mean, it's quite astounding when you
consider that this is our mass communication, and this is
the way we're trying to get important information about flash flooding,
and it's impossible to hear the voice.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I don't know who's in charge of that. Somebody
back in DC.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm sure maybe that guy had maybe he has been furloughed.
Apparently everyone else has been.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
The federal agency's impacted by the mass layoffs include the
Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing
and Urban Development, Homeland Security, and the Treasury Department. The
multiple sources at the Department of Education tell us CNN
the latest round of mass layoffs have decimated the office.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
So we'll see how long this government shutdown maintains. It's
day fourteen. My prediction is this will be over by
the end of the week. We already have fifty five
US Senators we need sixty, and one Democrat has joined
with the fifty three Republicans and one independent. There is
another independent in the United States Senate, so technically that
(29:47):
should be somebody that might be easy to peel off.
So that'll bring the number down to four. And I
just think TikTok, TikTok, and I think that will be
a win, and then we can move on to begin
to do other things as we enter into fall, and
fall is supposed to be fun time, so governments supposed
to be done. Government should be a journ. September thirtyth
(30:09):
is supposed to be the end. It's not an election year.
We should be free from all the DC talk for
just a couple of months so we can talk about
really important things like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
That's really what Americans want to talk about. A little
departure from the chaos of DC would be I think
a welcome time, a welcome president for this time of year.
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