February 6, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/06) - It is becoming more clear that SoCal Edison equipment sparked the Eaton Fire. ICE conducted a raid in Colorado targeting Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela but it seems as though the gang members were tipped off before the raid. Traci Park opposes the idea of using Will Rogers State Beach for toxic debris removal from the Palisades Fire. There are calls for LADWP CEO Janisse Quinones to resign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's the podcast version. You could hear what you missed.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Actually, there's a reason that happened because I was just
looking through our list of guests and in the three
o'clock hour, we're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. And
Cheryl had her ranch burned down in the Bobcat fire
back in twenty twenty. Another fire started by Southern California Edison,
and I was going through her letter and she wrote,
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you may remember me. You had me on your show
John and Ken back in twenty twenty. And I was
just reading that, so my part of my mind was
recalling her appearance on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And all right, let's get back to the present.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, but very good though. You jumped right on me.
Oh yeah, that's that's what you're here for, all right.
And the reason I wanted to start out by mentioning
her case because there is it looks like it's almost
assured now that Southern California Edison started the eaton fire
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in Alta, Dina, which killed seventeen people. So this southern
California edison crowd is a deadly crowd. These executives, they
don't take care of their electrical system and they keep
repeatedly having these problems that burns hundreds of thousands of
acres and burns people to death.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
There's no other way to put it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And Cheryl wrote to us a few days ago saying,
in twenty twenty we had her on. She had an
eleven acre ranch in Juniper Hills and she has a
non profit animal rescue. Her home, a cabin, all over
horse stall, the guesthouse, motorhome, and trailer all were lost.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The barn they had was one hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And the reason we're having her on is five years
later she still can't get into her house. We are
she has a newly built house, but she can't get
into it. And she's going to go through all the
problems that she is still having with the government to
this day. And you people in Altadena and in Pacific
Palisades ought to listen to Cheryl coming up in the
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three o'clock hour, because I don't care what cheerleaders like
Steve Soberoff tell you it's going to be a terrible hassle.
And you have morons running the city and morons running
the county, absolute brainstem morons. So you're in for it.
And I am not going to go along with all
of the sober Off's happy rah rah talk. I don't
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care if I'm on the bus to know. The bus
to know is the reality bus. So we'll get into
that with Cheryl. Now, what I want to tell you
about so Cal Edison with this Altadena fire two weeks
after the fire, and this is from the New York Times,
and this story came out just a few hours ago,
and they updated the story eight minutes ago. So you
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got you got the freshest, the freshest loaf out of
the oven.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Two weeks after the fire broke out on January nineteenth,
Southern California, Edison technicians began testing electrical equipment near where
the fire started and they noticed small white flashes appearing
on the high voltage transmission lines when power was restored,
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signs that the system was functioning abnormally, and it's one
of seven irregularities that Edison has been reviewing. The flashes
are similar to the ones captured on video near electrical
equipment just moments before the fire broke out on January seventh,
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And it adds to what the Time says is a
growing pool of evidence linking the origin of the fire
which killed seventeen, destroyed more than ninety four hundred homes
in businesses, linking utility to the fire. And California has
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been trying to reduce the wildfires set off by electrical equipment.
And this is what must be done now in Altaden
and the Palisades. The wires have to go underground. They
should have gone underground one hundred years ago. They're going
to have to install weather stations to track storms and
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cut power to customers during dangerous conditions. That's what they've
been slowly doing, but it's what everybody must do now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Edison is looking.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Through the data and is seeing that the system was
understrained from those strong winds, but claimed it did not
initially find any direct evidence suggesting its equipment was at fault.
Now this is like not getting it that the uh
that the Wuhan uh uh in Wuhan, you had you
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had the virus erupt in the same city as where
they were doing research on enhancing the virus. Remember that nonsense.
What are the odds that the COVID virus would would
originate in the town where they were doing COVID research
on enhancing it? And yet you had much of the
world that refused to believe it. Well, it's the same
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thing here. If you have a fire start right below
a transmission tower, Gee, it's very likely that the electrical
system had something to do with starting the fire. I
don't but do you know why they deny this or
pretend that it didn't happen, is because the liability is
going to crush so Cal Edison.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
The utility expanded its investigation after The New York Times
published a video came from outside an Arco gas station
in Altadena, and it captured the flashes in the area
of transmission towers in Eaton Canyon. The flashes occurred in
short succession, one at six ten pm, another three seconds
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later before the flames burst out below the towers. So
that anomaly, that aberration, whatever happened. Pedro Pizarro is the
president and CEO of so Cal Edison's parent company, and
he says, well, after we saw the video, we went
back and said, hey.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Are there things.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We just don't understand here, and should we bring it
back into the fold.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They see.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The thing is they had they had electrical faults recorded
miles from the start of the fire, and they didn't
understand how the electrical problems far from the fire would
play a role at igniting it until they found this
ARCO video and said, oh, there were electrical problems directly
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over where the fire started. How about that? And so
now the so now investigators are demanding that Edison come clean.
Jamie Court is president of Consumer Watchdog, which is a
nonprofit group that represents taxpayers and consumers, and Court said,
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clearly Edison should have known that when you experience flashes
on a line that could cause a fire in the
exact place where the fire started. I don't understand how
they could not put two and two together. They do
that on purpose. They'll put two and two together because
nobody admits guilt, nobody tells the truth and public anymore.
Least of all, least of all corporate executives, corporate executives
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of energy companies that kill people by the dozens and
hundreds and cause billions of dollars worth of damage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, because they know that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh, that's gonna come out of their profits, it's gonna
come out of their stock price, it's gonna come out
of their hides.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know, they might actually get get fired, So of.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Course they're not gonna I mean, it's exactly like the
Wuhan situation. And this this willful suspension of believing what
you see with your own eyes. This is this is
clearly a case where just look with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Look on the video. You see the flashes.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh well, yeah, I guess so that's where the fire
would have started, right, Look at that. The fire started
right below the wires where the flashes flared.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And they are looking at a tremendous, tremendous liability now.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But so cal Edison has started a lot of fires.
So is PG and E.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And what happens is they get bailed out by taxpayers,
they get bailed out by rape pairs, they get protected
by corrupt politicians like Gavin Newsom. Remember Gavin Newsom's wife
was getting money from PG and E so she could
make a bunch of annoying feminist films that nobody watched.
That's how the business runs. All right, Well, we come back.
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I'm gonna switch gears for a second because you may
have heard that in Aurora, Colorado, the trend de Ragua
gang is slowly getting busted up by Trump and Tom
Holman at ICE and Homeland Security, and Bill Mlusion from
Fox News went along on the trip to roused up
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these gang members and there weren't as many as they thought.
Looks like somebody is leaking word of these raids to
the bad guys. It's got to be somebody in government
that is sympathetic to murderous gang members.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Bill llushan our friend over at Fox News. He gets
a lot of cool assignments. He was stationed at the
border for years and he's been going on ice raids.
He went on one in Boston the day after Trump
was inaugurated, and this week he got to go on
the ice raid in Aurora, Colorado, going after Trendy Arago
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gang members, a raid that didn't get them as many
criminals as they wanted. Because it looks like somebody in
government is leaking the details of these raids. Bill has
a complete report here from Fox News.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Row it God, bless y'all. Let's take the bad guys
off the street. Send the GITMO come home safe, every
one of them.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You guys, we can row you up.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Orders are Tom Homan rallying the troops ahead of a
massive federal operation in Aurora, Colorado Wednesday morning. Said got
several hundred federal agents from ICE, HSI, d EA, FBI.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
At F, and CBP all.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Targeting alleged members of the Venezuelan gang TRENDEA.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Ronquo, Tom, you guys have hundreds of people out here.
What's the goal today?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
To go today?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Sent a messages to TDA that we're going to eradicate
from this country. There's no safe harbor, there's no saints
for fun.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Fox thanks.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Fox News joined as one team of agents arrived at
the Aurora apartment complex that went viral last summer when
TDA gang members were seen on security video with guns.
As the team went door to door, they found blood
stained walls, but no gang members. The entire complex was
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virtually empty. At a second trend of Rockwallink complex, ICE
was met by activists who taunted them and others who
used megaphones to coach those living inside. DEA agents used
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flash bangs inside while serving a warrant that led to
a handful of arrests, but no TDA gang members. A
stop at another apartment complex netted no arrests. It seems
like they were tipped off. They knew this was coming.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
So yeah, I do get the impression that there were
some intellleagues here and I think that that probably they
didn't know we were coming. But we're still coming, and
just because something leaks now and then doesn't, it's not
going to stop us.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We have a warrant also on their radar. This previously
deported Honduran illegal alien with pending local charges for stranguling, kidnapping,
and possession of fentanyl. While activists yelled outside agents recovered
this stolen rifle from inside the man's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Home and guys.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Officials told us they were planning to net triple digit
arrests as a result of this operation, possibly upwards of
two hundred people. Ice officials told me at the end
of the At the end of the day yesterday they
only had thirty arrests, only one of which was a
confirmed Trendy Arragua gang member. It certainly felt like everybody
knew this was coming, including.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
The targets and the local media. We'll send it back
to you.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
And did the local media did they get ahead of
the operation.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
They were everywhere we were sometimes ahead of us, it
felt like along with some of the local activists. This
raid was initially supposed to happen last week, guys, but
two media outlets wrote articles announcing it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It got leaked to them.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
They wrote articles announcing that ICE was coming to the
Aurora area to conduct the huge operation.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Ice Can't Raid.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Moved it to this week, and everywhere we went, the
local media was there, followed quickly by those anti ICE activists.
It definitely felt like people knew it was coming, and
ICE officials told us the same.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's bill mallusion with Fox News is this is
really like disgusting, isn't it. You have the progressive media
now fouling up federal investigations for murderous gangs. Trendy I
Ragua is an extremely deadly Venezuelan gang, and we've let
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so many illegal aliens in that they have their own
lobbying groups. Their are their own advocacy groups that are
working with local media to give a heads up signal
to these murderous criminals. These people aren't. They're not just
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like bouncing checks here. They kill people, they ripe women,
They have incredible drug smuggling and human smuggling operations. They
have women in sexual captivity, buying and selling these young girls.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And this is what these activists are doing. All these activists,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
If they're American citizens, like those screaming women, they to
all be shipped to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Eventually, Tom Holman and Ice is going to crack this nut.
They're not going to get away with this forever. But
it just shows you that this progressive movement in this
country really is about bringing down the US, is about
destroying our way of life and our civilization. And you
always have people in the media belonging to this progressive
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cult who are willing, who are willing to be part
of the part of the conspiracy. Like can you imagine
reporters in any generation blown blowing the whistle and warning
the criminals so they can get away, warning people that
they know have murdered and raped and are smuggling humans
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and drugs. And this is These are the kind of
journalists that they have in the local media, in the
Denver area. They're hardcore progressives, they're sick, and I'd be
happy shipping shipping them all to Cuba. They should all
go to gwandanamal Day, no trials. I don't care what
happens to them, because the people, it was innocent people
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suffering in those apartment complexes, including some including innocent illegal aliens.
This is crazy. You talk about treason, Absolutely crazy, But
you know, the good guys are going to win ultimately.
And I and I think if they find any any
political you know, if they find any journalists or any
politicians involved in tipping off, in tipping off the gang
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members to ice coming in, then I think home and
ought to go after them, filed federal charges. You know,
if we see a few journalists and a few politicians
going to federal prison, then maybe this crap will stop.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
All right, We got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app coming up after two o'clock. Oh, I'm so
glad we're getting this man on. His name is Sayed
Koshawnee sayed Koshane was the resident who lost his home
in Pacific Palisades and went to the DWP Commissioner's meeting
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in downtown LA last week wanting to know what the
hell went on here? Why was there no water in
the reservoir. And he spoke for about six minutes. And
we are going to have say ed Koshanion right after
two o'clock, and in the final segment of this hour,
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we are going to play again his appearance before the DWP.
He went after, he went after Genie Kinoniez, who's the
idiot CEO of the DWP. She's the one who is
obsessed with diversity, equity and inclusion. And in fact, she
said she approaches everything on every aspect of her job
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and looks at it through the lens, through the equity lens.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, the equity lens.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And she never filled up the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon reservoir all year. That thing has been sitting empty,
still empty. But that's what an equity lens does to
your eyesight. You can't notice one hundred and seventeen million
gallons missing out of the reservoir. So we're going to
play you say Ed's appearance before the DWP in the
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next segment, and then after two o'clock En Dever's news
he's going to be on Live with Us.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Another aspect to this is and I'm confounded by this.
I haven't seen anything that explains it. If you're going
to end up with an enormous amount of toxic waste,
would you put it right next to the ocean? Would
you put it right next to the beach. That's what
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they're doing. The EPA and FEMA is taking all the
toxic waste, all the paints, you know, the lead paints,
the chemicals, the lithium batteries, the asbestos, and they're going
to sort them out, package them and stack them up
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until it's time to take them elsewhere. And they're going
to do it at the will Rogers Beach parking lot,
which is adjacent to the beach and to the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
But the EPA says it's safe, John, The EPA says
that it's going to be contained and we're all going
to be okay.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, That's what scares me is they if they would say, look,
this might be a little risky. But here's what we're
doing to mitigate the risk, but just to flat outside,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's like it can't mean that's the biggest red f
How could you say that?
Speaker 9 (20:36):
How can you definitively say that it's safe.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You can't and nobody believes it. But why are you
taking the risk next to the ocean and the beach one?
I mean, we're going to have big rainstorms this week
and maybe next week, and one big tidal wave comes
in is going to wipe all that toxic waste into
the ocean. And man, we have so many environmental groups. Look,
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you noticed there's no protests for this. We're the environmental
groups unless they were bought off. Maybe they were, but
why wouldn't you protest this one the worst toxic waste imaginable?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And they're going to build build their big.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Mountain of of of toxic garbage. And what is it
with that will Rogers parking lot? Because the idiot Mike Bonden,
the councilman, wanted to put a homeless village there.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Homeless village and now it's going to be a toxic waste.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
We used to bike there all the time. I don't
think you're going to be going there. No, no, well
we can't.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We can't drive in that area because of all the
homeless people on the beach.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
See that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's the thing that the the the atmosphere is already
toxic with crazy drug addicts and mental patients, and now
it's going to be chemically toxic. The Tracy Park is
against this, the West Side councilwoman who replaced bond It,
but she apparently doesn't have a say in what's going
on here. And let me play you this a little
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bit of this story that Channel four did and you'll
get an idea what Tracy's trying to do to stop this.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Since this fire, since this fire started, Will Rogers Safe
each year has really been the hub of resources for
first responders. We've been live out here, plenty of mourning,
showing you the fire trucks and the National Guard and
the communications centers. Well, now this parking lot is going
to serve a new purpose as well. It will also
become another temporary site for hazardous household materials removed from
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the homes impacted by the Palisades fire. In addition to
the staging area space at pch Into Panga the EPA says,
all those paints, chemicals, lithium batteries will be consolidated, securely packaged,
and safely loaded here, and then we'll go to permanent
disposal and recycling facilities outside of the burn area. The
EPA says it shows will rogers because its parking lot
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is on flat open land that's close to the damage
and destroyed homes, some of those homes just across the highway.
Although the EPA thinks this is a great spot and
it will constantly monitor the air to make sure everything
is safe. Council Member Tracy Park says she has her concerns.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
My concerns about it are that we are removing it
from an area.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
That is already toxic and contaminated and taking it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Down to sort and sore at the.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
Beach, which is our most sensitive environmental area and habitat
in the entire region.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
But Doug Stewart, the Mayor of Malibu, says he commends
the new side to stave in from a city says,
in part, the City of Malibu is grateful to California
State Parks and the EPA for working together to accelerate
wildfire recovery efforts. The addition of a second temporary EPA
processing site at will Rogers is important step in ensuring
hazardous materials or removed safely and efficiency, helping impacted residents
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move forward in rebuilding their homes. That I got to
hear live. We do know that at some point today
Mayor Karen Bass will be here in the Palisades and
meeting with the EPA and federal officials looking at removal
process and.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The propress so far.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's well. Oh, Karen Bass is coming to meet with
the EPA.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She ought to be disposed of too.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
They should put her in one of those containers and
take her out to a toxic dump.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
What Tracy said is is correct.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Uh, they must have open flat areas in the Palisades
that have already burned. Why not collect all the toxic
material there? Why are you taking it to a sensitive
environment like a beach, the ocean with all the wildlife.
Why would you do that? That's incredibly stupid. Now you
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heard there was support from the Mayor of Malibu, Doug Stewart.
Of course there is, because two days ago they were
bringing the toxic waste to Malibu and they were going
to lay it out next to city Hall where Doug
Stort goes to work every day. And then the people
in Malibu understandably went nuts because not only is that
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you have all those government to offices there, you also
have a lot of schools in that district. There are
several schools within a half mile or a mile, and
so everybody was screaming and yelling, get this out of Malibu.
The DA said, fine, we'll take it out of Malibu.
Now you put it in a beach area in the Palisades. Well,
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what would you do that for? That's stupid too. It's
not either or I mean, I don't understand this. The
Palisades is all completely poisoned, toxified, burned out. Just lay
out the waste in, you know, like Darouse's parking lot
for the Galston's parking lot. What you know, you can't
you can't damage the area any worse. The hell are
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they doing? Why would you spread all this toxicity to
the beach of all places. I I just I'm completely
flabbergasted by the the e p A and FEMA. It's
just another Karen Basset is gonna go and what are
they gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Tell her, Oh, it's gonna be safe.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And then she's gonna say, I've been assured that it's
gonna be safe. Okay, Moron to moron, everything's gonna be safe.
That's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. When we come back, we're gonna
we're gonna play you a clip. And it's funny how
just regular residents you hear, you hear some of them
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speak and they make perfect sense, and then you hear
official speak and it's total garbage and nonsense. We're gonna
play Sayid Kashani played this over a week ago, maybe
a week and a half ago, and he uh, he
went to a board the the Water and Power Commissioners
meeting in downtown LA. He's totally burned out of his house.
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He's got nothing but the clothes on his back, literally,
and he went there and he had a tape recording
of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, where she
was asserting some gobbledegook about diversity. And he did his
own investigation into how much the DWP had been discussing
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the empty reservoir in the last year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's was.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It was a great, great presentation that he gave. We're
going to play it back for you in the next
segment and then after Debra's news at two o'clock, uh
Sayed Kashani is going to be on with us live.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So that's all ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, so I want to play this. Uh this
is this is say Ed Kashani. He is a resident
who got burned out in Pacific Palisades and he did
what very few do even after the government threw its competence,
burns you out of your town. He actually went to
the DWP commissioners meeting in downtown LA and demanded to
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know what the hell happened here, especially why was the
one hundred and seventeen million gallon Senti Inez Reservoir empty.
And he was particularly upset with the DWP CEO, Janie Keinons.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
By the way, Kenonees, who.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and
is obsessed with diversity and equity, we are now paying,
on top of the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
we are paying for her police security detail because she
is getting a lot of threats against her and other
DWP employees. And so there is now now She has
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a twenty four to seven LAPD detail, according to Fox News,
and the DWP says, we can confirm the threats have
been made against our employees, including incidents in the field.
We're now going to play you, say ed Kashani at
the DWP public meeting.
Speaker 11 (29:07):
My name is said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived
in the Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my
house burned down.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I apologize. I come to you dress like this.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
I'm not used to going on in public dress like this,
but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I would I.
Speaker 11 (29:27):
Would like to remind the commissioners of a little history.
When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director, William Mulholland
immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader of this organization.
And I'm addressing miss Quinonas. I call on this board
to ask Pis Quinonas also to resign now to honor
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the history of this organization and resign for her culpability
in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades. Why, as
we know this Antenna's reservoir is I believe one hundred
and fifteen million gallons. There's the principal source of water
for that area. That reservoir was drained by the department
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about a year ago. In all the meetings since then,
the Department CEO never reported as this commission regarding either
the reservoir, its status.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Or any effort to repair. What did you report on?
Speaker 11 (30:29):
Well, I have here per comments made to this board
in November, and what happened to report.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
We're about forty Kismanic and the organization and so that's
a huge number for our diversity metrics. LA's about forty
eight percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the
communities that we're serving.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Sonine days later, the city burned out. Your director is
more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs, and
that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now,
what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you appointed
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When you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to direct
the Department of Water and Power, you had not completed
her background check.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
What would that check have shown.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge
of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria
one year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was
still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts
electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of Miss
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Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which
we all know is a bankrupt utility down half the state,
and you appointed her as the director of the Department
of Water and Power at double the prior director's salary
and a housing allowance without completing any background check.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Now, let's talk about the reservoir.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
I've looked at your agendas since Mss Quernonos was appointed.
The reservoir never came up once. You never discussed it,
even though it's a critical piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Let's look at history.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush
fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time
was full. It provided water and the fire was controlled.
There was very little structural damage. Why because there was
water this time there was no water without the reservoir.
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The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I
believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons
each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one
hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir
in order to supply the area that was drained. It
was empty, there was no water, and your director never
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reported to you this situation or its urgency, instead again
filling racial quotas instead of filling the reservoir.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Let's look at money.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
The excuse given was that you needed some kind of
delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever
to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir.
That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars. You
drained the reservoir in February, didn't even approve the contract,
not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not
even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a
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gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time.
Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
That is less than one fifth of on a salary,
and you wouldn't pay it to repair the reservoir. I
get the water back online. What did you spend money
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on during that time. Well, one of the things you
spent money on is you approved five million dollars due
as a board, you approved five million dollars to pay
to out of state colleges to transfer students from California
universities to out of state's colleges, including the alma mater
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of one of your commissioners. Why are you paying five
million dollars to out of state colleges and you won't
pay one hundred thousand dollars to fix our reservoir. These
questions have to be answered. So until satisfactory explanation is
provided for these things, I suggest, and I call on
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this board to at the very least put miss cornonus
on leave, unpaid leave. Take away your house that you're
paying for, and let it prove herself and she can
start or refully the reservoir, which, as I understand, the
sole empty.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
So what is the explanation for this?
Speaker 11 (35:08):
There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades
whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street
was fighting to save his house until four o'clock that
afternoon when the water shut off. Why again, because the
reservoir was a thank you, your time has expired.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
That's all you get at the end. Thank you, your
times expired. Well, we're going to talk to sayed Kashani
live on the phone coming up in just a few
minutes after Debora's news. It's it's it's just stunning. And
Janice Knonez is still in power, getting paying, getting paid
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and now
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there's a twenty four to seven LAPD detail protecting her
because she's getting a lot of threats. So the Jennie
Canon is cost to LA Tech expairs. This keeps growing
and growing, and the reservoir is still empty. And remember
when we we listened to Steve Soberoff, he says, well,
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you know, there'll be a report, you know, in about
four or five months that'll explain, you know, why the
reservoir was empty, you know, and we're not going to
be talking it's political. We don't want to talk about
political stuff. That's the bus to know. They just want
to dismiss all this, they don't want to examine it.
We got to take a break. Debor Mark live the
KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We're on from one until four at then after four
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's the podcast version. You could hear what you missed.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Actually, there's a reason that happened because I was just
looking through our list of guests and in the three
o'clock hour, we're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. And
Cheryl had her ranch burned down in the Bobcat fire
back in twenty twenty. Another fire started by Southern California Edison,
and I was going through her letter and she wrote,
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you may remember me. You had me on your show
John and Ken back in twenty twenty. And I was
just reading that, so my part of my mind was
recalling her appearance on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And all right, let's get back to the present.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, but very good though. You jumped right on me.
Oh yeah, that's that's what you're here for, all right.
And the reason I wanted to start out by mentioning
her case because there is it looks like it's almost
assured now that Southern California Edison started the eaton fire
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in Alta, Dina, which killed seventeen people. So this southern
California edison crowd is a deadly crowd. These executives, they
don't take care of their electrical system and they keep
repeatedly having these problems that burns hundreds of thousands of
acres and burns people to death.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
There's no other way to put it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And Cheryl wrote to us a few days ago saying,
in twenty twenty we had her on. She had an
eleven acre ranch in Juniper Hills and she has a
non profit animal rescue. Her home, a cabin, all over
horse stall, the guesthouse, motorhome, and trailer all were lost.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The barn they had was one hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And the reason we're having her on is five years
later she still can't get into her house. We are
she has a newly built house, but she can't get
into it. And she's going to go through all the
problems that she is still having with the government to
this day. And you people in Altadena and in Pacific
Palisades ought to listen to Cheryl coming up in the
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three o'clock hour, because I don't care what cheerleaders like
Steve Soberoff tell you it's going to be a terrible hassle.
And you have morons running the city and morons running
the county, absolute brainstem morons. So you're in for it.
And I am not going to go along with all
of the sober Off's happy rah rah talk. I don't
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care if I'm on the bus to know. The bus
to know is the reality bus. So we'll get into
that with Cheryl. Now, what I want to tell you
about so Cal Edison with this Altadena fire two weeks
after the fire, and this is from the New York Times,
and this story came out just a few hours ago,
and they updated the story eight minutes ago. So you
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got you got the freshest, the freshest loaf out of
the oven.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Two weeks after the fire broke out on January nineteenth,
Southern California, Edison technicians began testing electrical equipment near where
the fire started and they noticed small white flashes appearing
on the high voltage transmission lines when power was restored,
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signs that the system was functioning abnormally, and it's one
of seven irregularities that Edison has been reviewing. The flashes
are similar to the ones captured on video near electrical
equipment just moments before the fire broke out on January seventh,
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And it adds to what the Time says is a
growing pool of evidence linking the origin of the fire
which killed seventeen, destroyed more than ninety four hundred homes
in businesses, linking utility to the fire. And California has
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been trying to reduce the wildfires set off by electrical equipment.
And this is what must be done now in Altaden
and the Palisades. The wires have to go underground. They
should have gone underground one hundred years ago. They're going
to have to install weather stations to track storms and
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cut power to customers during dangerous conditions. That's what they've
been slowly doing, but it's what everybody must do now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Edison is looking.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Through the data and is seeing that the system was
understrained from those strong winds, but claimed it did not
initially find any direct evidence suggesting its equipment was at fault.
Now this is like not getting it that the uh
that the Wuhan uh uh in Wuhan, you had you
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had the virus erupt in the same city as where
they were doing research on enhancing the virus. Remember that nonsense.
What are the odds that the COVID virus would would
originate in the town where they were doing COVID research
on enhancing it? And yet you had much of the
world that refused to believe it. Well, it's the same
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thing here. If you have a fire start right below
a transmission tower, Gee, it's very likely that the electrical
system had something to do with starting the fire. I
don't but do you know why they deny this or
pretend that it didn't happen, is because the liability is
going to crush so Cal Edison.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
The utility expanded its investigation after The New York Times
published a video came from outside an Arco gas station
in Altadena, and it captured the flashes in the area
of transmission towers in Eaton Canyon. The flashes occurred in
short succession, one at six ten pm, another three seconds
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later before the flames burst out below the towers. So
that anomaly, that aberration, whatever happened. Pedro Pizarro is the
president and CEO of so Cal Edison's parent company, and
he says, well, after we saw the video, we went
back and said, hey.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Are there things.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We just don't understand here, and should we bring it
back into the fold.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They see.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The thing is they had they had electrical faults recorded
miles from the start of the fire, and they didn't
understand how the electrical problems far from the fire would
play a role at igniting it until they found this
ARCO video and said, oh, there were electrical problems directly
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over where the fire started. How about that? And so
now the so now investigators are demanding that Edison come clean.
Jamie Court is president of Consumer Watchdog, which is a
nonprofit group that represents taxpayers and consumers, and Court said,
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clearly Edison should have known that when you experience flashes
on a line that could cause a fire in the
exact place where the fire started. I don't understand how
they could not put two and two together. They do
that on purpose. They'll put two and two together because
nobody admits guilt, nobody tells the truth and public anymore.
Least of all, least of all corporate executives, corporate executives
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of energy companies that kill people by the dozens and
hundreds and cause billions of dollars worth of damage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, because they know that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh, that's gonna come out of their profits, it's gonna
come out of their stock price, it's gonna come out
of their hides.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know, they might actually get get fired, So of.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Course they're not gonna I mean, it's exactly like the
Wuhan situation. And this this willful suspension of believing what
you see with your own eyes. This is this is
clearly a case where just look with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Look on the video. You see the flashes.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh well, yeah, I guess so that's where the fire
would have started, right, Look at that. The fire started
right below the wires where the flashes flared.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And they are looking at a tremendous, tremendous liability now.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But so cal Edison has started a lot of fires.
So is PG and E.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And what happens is they get bailed out by taxpayers,
they get bailed out by rape pairs, they get protected
by corrupt politicians like Gavin Newsom. Remember Gavin Newsom's wife
was getting money from PG and E so she could
make a bunch of annoying feminist films that nobody watched.
That's how the business runs. All right, Well, we come back.
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I'm gonna switch gears for a second because you may
have heard that in Aurora, Colorado, the trend de Ragua
gang is slowly getting busted up by Trump and Tom
Holman at ICE and Homeland Security, and Bill Mlusion from
Fox News went along on the trip to roused up
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these gang members and there weren't as many as they thought.
Looks like somebody is leaking word of these raids to
the bad guys. It's got to be somebody in government
that is sympathetic to murderous gang members.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Bill llushan our friend over at Fox News. He gets
a lot of cool assignments. He was stationed at the
border for years and he's been going on ice raids.
He went on one in Boston the day after Trump
was inaugurated, and this week he got to go on
the ice raid in Aurora, Colorado, going after Trendy Arago
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gang members, a raid that didn't get them as many
criminals as they wanted. Because it looks like somebody in
government is leaking the details of these raids. Bill has
a complete report here from Fox News.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Row it God, bless y'all. Let's take the bad guys
off the street. Send the GITMO come home safe, every
one of them.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You guys, we can row you up.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Orders are Tom Homan rallying the troops ahead of a
massive federal operation in Aurora, Colorado Wednesday morning. Said got
several hundred federal agents from ICE, HSI, d EA, FBI.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
At F, and CBP all.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Targeting alleged members of the Venezuelan gang TRENDEA.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Ronquo, Tom, you guys have hundreds of people out here.
What's the goal today?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
To go today?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Sent a messages to TDA that we're going to eradicate
from this country. There's no safe harbor, there's no saints
for fun.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Fox thanks.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Fox News joined as one team of agents arrived at
the Aurora apartment complex that went viral last summer when
TDA gang members were seen on security video with guns.
As the team went door to door, they found blood
stained walls, but no gang members. The entire complex was
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virtually empty. At a second trend of Rockwallink complex, ICE
was met by activists who taunted them and others who
used megaphones to coach those living inside. DEA agents used
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flash bangs inside while serving a warrant that led to
a handful of arrests, but no TDA gang members. A
stop at another apartment complex netted no arrests. It seems
like they were tipped off. They knew this was coming.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
So yeah, I do get the impression that there were
some intellleagues here and I think that that probably they
didn't know we were coming. But we're still coming, and
just because something leaks now and then doesn't, it's not
going to stop us.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We have a warrant also on their radar. This previously
deported Honduran illegal alien with pending local charges for stranguling, kidnapping,
and possession of fentanyl. While activists yelled outside agents recovered
this stolen rifle from inside the man's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Home and guys.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Officials told us they were planning to net triple digit
arrests as a result of this operation, possibly upwards of
two hundred people. Ice officials told me at the end
of the At the end of the day yesterday they
only had thirty arrests, only one of which was a
confirmed Trendy Arragua gang member. It certainly felt like everybody
knew this was coming, including.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
The targets and the local media. We'll send it back
to you.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
And did the local media did they get ahead of
the operation.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
They were everywhere we were sometimes ahead of us, it
felt like along with some of the local activists. This
raid was initially supposed to happen last week, guys, but
two media outlets wrote articles announcing it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It got leaked to them.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
They wrote articles announcing that ICE was coming to the
Aurora area to conduct the huge operation.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Ice Can't Raid.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Moved it to this week, and everywhere we went, the
local media was there, followed quickly by those anti ICE activists.
It definitely felt like people knew it was coming, and
ICE officials told us the same.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's bill mallusion with Fox News is this is
really like disgusting, isn't it. You have the progressive media
now fouling up federal investigations for murderous gangs. Trendy I
Ragua is an extremely deadly Venezuelan gang, and we've let
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so many illegal aliens in that they have their own
lobbying groups. Their are their own advocacy groups that are
working with local media to give a heads up signal
to these murderous criminals. These people aren't. They're not just
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like bouncing checks here. They kill people, they ripe women,
They have incredible drug smuggling and human smuggling operations. They
have women in sexual captivity, buying and selling these young girls.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And this is what these activists are doing. All these activists,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
If they're American citizens, like those screaming women, they to
all be shipped to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Eventually, Tom Holman and Ice is going to crack this nut.
They're not going to get away with this forever. But
it just shows you that this progressive movement in this
country really is about bringing down the US, is about
destroying our way of life and our civilization. And you
always have people in the media belonging to this progressive
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cult who are willing, who are willing to be part
of the part of the conspiracy. Like can you imagine
reporters in any generation blown blowing the whistle and warning
the criminals so they can get away, warning people that
they know have murdered and raped and are smuggling humans
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and drugs. And this is These are the kind of
journalists that they have in the local media, in the
Denver area. They're hardcore progressives, they're sick, and I'd be
happy shipping shipping them all to Cuba. They should all
go to gwandanamal Day, no trials. I don't care what
happens to them, because the people, it was innocent people
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suffering in those apartment complexes, including some including innocent illegal aliens.
This is crazy. You talk about treason, Absolutely crazy, But
you know, the good guys are going to win ultimately.
And I and I think if they find any any
political you know, if they find any journalists or any
politicians involved in tipping off, in tipping off the gang
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members to ice coming in, then I think home and
ought to go after them, filed federal charges. You know,
if we see a few journalists and a few politicians
going to federal prison, then maybe this crap will stop.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
All right, We got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app coming up after two o'clock. Oh, I'm so
glad we're getting this man on. His name is Sayed
Koshawnee sayed Koshane was the resident who lost his home
in Pacific Palisades and went to the DWP Commissioner's meeting
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in downtown LA last week wanting to know what the
hell went on here? Why was there no water in
the reservoir. And he spoke for about six minutes. And
we are going to have say ed Koshanion right after
two o'clock, and in the final segment of this hour,
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we are going to play again his appearance before the DWP.
He went after, he went after Genie Kinoniez, who's the
idiot CEO of the DWP. She's the one who is
obsessed with diversity, equity and inclusion. And in fact, she
said she approaches everything on every aspect of her job
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and looks at it through the lens, through the equity lens.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, the equity lens.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And she never filled up the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon reservoir all year. That thing has been sitting empty,
still empty. But that's what an equity lens does to
your eyesight. You can't notice one hundred and seventeen million
gallons missing out of the reservoir. So we're going to
play you say Ed's appearance before the DWP in the
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next segment, and then after two o'clock En Dever's news
he's going to be on Live with Us.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Another aspect to this is and I'm confounded by this.
I haven't seen anything that explains it. If you're going
to end up with an enormous amount of toxic waste,
would you put it right next to the ocean? Would
you put it right next to the beach. That's what
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they're doing. The EPA and FEMA is taking all the
toxic waste, all the paints, you know, the lead paints,
the chemicals, the lithium batteries, the asbestos, and they're going
to sort them out, package them and stack them up
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until it's time to take them elsewhere. And they're going
to do it at the will Rogers Beach parking lot,
which is adjacent to the beach and to the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
But the EPA says it's safe, John, The EPA says
that it's going to be contained and we're all going
to be okay.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, That's what scares me is they if they would say, look,
this might be a little risky. But here's what we're
doing to mitigate the risk, but just to flat outside,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's like it can't mean that's the biggest red f
How could you say that?
Speaker 9 (20:36):
How can you definitively say that it's safe.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You can't and nobody believes it. But why are you
taking the risk next to the ocean and the beach one?
I mean, we're going to have big rainstorms this week
and maybe next week, and one big tidal wave comes
in is going to wipe all that toxic waste into
the ocean. And man, we have so many environmental groups. Look,
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you noticed there's no protests for this. We're the environmental
groups unless they were bought off. Maybe they were, but
why wouldn't you protest this one the worst toxic waste imaginable?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And they're going to build build their big.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Mountain of of of toxic garbage. And what is it
with that will Rogers parking lot? Because the idiot Mike Bonden,
the councilman, wanted to put a homeless village there.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Homeless village and now it's going to be a toxic waste.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
We used to bike there all the time. I don't
think you're going to be going there. No, no, well
we can't.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We can't drive in that area because of all the
homeless people on the beach.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
See that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's the thing that the the the atmosphere is already
toxic with crazy drug addicts and mental patients, and now
it's going to be chemically toxic. The Tracy Park is
against this, the West Side councilwoman who replaced bond It,
but she apparently doesn't have a say in what's going
on here. And let me play you this a little
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bit of this story that Channel four did and you'll
get an idea what Tracy's trying to do to stop this.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Since this fire, since this fire started, Will Rogers Safe
each year has really been the hub of resources for
first responders. We've been live out here, plenty of mourning,
showing you the fire trucks and the National Guard and
the communications centers. Well, now this parking lot is going
to serve a new purpose as well. It will also
become another temporary site for hazardous household materials removed from
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the homes impacted by the Palisades fire. In addition to
the staging area space at pch Into Panga the EPA says,
all those paints, chemicals, lithium batteries will be consolidated, securely packaged,
and safely loaded here, and then we'll go to permanent
disposal and recycling facilities outside of the burn area. The
EPA says it shows will rogers because its parking lot
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is on flat open land that's close to the damage
and destroyed homes, some of those homes just across the highway.
Although the EPA thinks this is a great spot and
it will constantly monitor the air to make sure everything
is safe. Council Member Tracy Park says she has her concerns.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
My concerns about it are that we are removing it
from an area.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
That is already toxic and contaminated and taking it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Down to sort and sore at the.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
Beach, which is our most sensitive environmental area and habitat
in the entire region.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
But Doug Stewart, the Mayor of Malibu, says he commends
the new side to stave in from a city says,
in part, the City of Malibu is grateful to California
State Parks and the EPA for working together to accelerate
wildfire recovery efforts. The addition of a second temporary EPA
processing site at will Rogers is important step in ensuring
hazardous materials or removed safely and efficiency, helping impacted residents
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move forward in rebuilding their homes. That I got to
hear live. We do know that at some point today
Mayor Karen Bass will be here in the Palisades and
meeting with the EPA and federal officials looking at removal
process and.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The propress so far.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's well. Oh, Karen Bass is coming to meet with
the EPA.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She ought to be disposed of too.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
They should put her in one of those containers and
take her out to a toxic dump.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
What Tracy said is is correct.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Uh, they must have open flat areas in the Palisades
that have already burned. Why not collect all the toxic
material there? Why are you taking it to a sensitive
environment like a beach, the ocean with all the wildlife.
Why would you do that? That's incredibly stupid. Now you
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heard there was support from the Mayor of Malibu, Doug Stewart.
Of course there is, because two days ago they were
bringing the toxic waste to Malibu and they were going
to lay it out next to city Hall where Doug
Stort goes to work every day. And then the people
in Malibu understandably went nuts because not only is that
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you have all those government to offices there, you also
have a lot of schools in that district. There are
several schools within a half mile or a mile, and
so everybody was screaming and yelling, get this out of Malibu.
The DA said, fine, we'll take it out of Malibu.
Now you put it in a beach area in the Palisades. Well,
(25:39):
what would you do that for? That's stupid too. It's
not either or I mean, I don't understand this. The
Palisades is all completely poisoned, toxified, burned out. Just lay
out the waste in, you know, like Darouse's parking lot
for the Galston's parking lot. What you know, you can't
you can't damage the area any worse. The hell are
(26:00):
they doing? Why would you spread all this toxicity to
the beach of all places. I I just I'm completely
flabbergasted by the the e p A and FEMA. It's
just another Karen Basset is gonna go and what are
they gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Tell her, Oh, it's gonna be safe.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And then she's gonna say, I've been assured that it's
gonna be safe. Okay, Moron to moron, everything's gonna be safe.
That's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. When we come back, we're gonna
we're gonna play you a clip. And it's funny how
just regular residents you hear, you hear some of them
(26:42):
speak and they make perfect sense, and then you hear
official speak and it's total garbage and nonsense. We're gonna
play Sayid Kashani played this over a week ago, maybe
a week and a half ago, and he uh, he
went to a board the the Water and Power Commissioners
meeting in downtown LA. He's totally burned out of his house.
(27:04):
He's got nothing but the clothes on his back, literally,
and he went there and he had a tape recording
of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, where she
was asserting some gobbledegook about diversity. And he did his
own investigation into how much the DWP had been discussing
(27:25):
the empty reservoir in the last year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's was.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It was a great, great presentation that he gave. We're
going to play it back for you in the next
segment and then after Debra's news at two o'clock, uh
Sayed Kashani is going to be on with us live.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So that's all ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, so I want to play this. Uh this
is this is say Ed Kashani. He is a resident
who got burned out in Pacific Palisades and he did
what very few do even after the government threw its competence,
burns you out of your town. He actually went to
the DWP commissioners meeting in downtown LA and demanded to
(28:10):
know what the hell happened here, especially why was the
one hundred and seventeen million gallon Senti Inez Reservoir empty.
And he was particularly upset with the DWP CEO, Janie Keinons.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
By the way, Kenonees, who.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and
is obsessed with diversity and equity, we are now paying,
on top of the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
we are paying for her police security detail because she
is getting a lot of threats against her and other
DWP employees. And so there is now now She has
(28:48):
a twenty four to seven LAPD detail, according to Fox News,
and the DWP says, we can confirm the threats have
been made against our employees, including incidents in the field.
We're now going to play you, say ed Kashani at
the DWP public meeting.
Speaker 11 (29:07):
My name is said Kashani. Until January seventh, I lived
in the Pacific Palisades operative term being lived till my
house burned down.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I apologize. I come to you dress like this.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
I'm not used to going on in public dress like this,
but this is all I have to wear, so I apologize.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I would I.
Speaker 11 (29:27):
Would like to remind the commissioners of a little history.
When the Saint Francis Dan collapsed, your director, William Mulholland
immediately resigned. He took full responsibility as leader of this organization.
And I'm addressing miss Quinonas. I call on this board
to ask Pis Quinonas also to resign now to honor
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the history of this organization and resign for her culpability
in not delivering sufficient water to the Palisades. Why, as
we know this Antenna's reservoir is I believe one hundred
and fifteen million gallons. There's the principal source of water
for that area. That reservoir was drained by the department
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about a year ago. In all the meetings since then,
the Department CEO never reported as this commission regarding either
the reservoir, its status.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Or any effort to repair. What did you report on?
Speaker 11 (30:29):
Well, I have here per comments made to this board
in November, and what happened to report.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
We're about forty Kismanic and the organization and so that's
a huge number for our diversity metrics. LA's about forty
eight percent Latino, So we're getting close to representing the
communities that we're serving.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Sonine days later, the city burned out. Your director is
more interested in filling racial quotas than filling reservoirs, and
that was clear from her own comments to this commission. Now,
what is the Commission's responsibility in this? When you appointed
(31:19):
When you approve the appointment of Miss Cornonas to direct
the Department of Water and Power, you had not completed
her background check.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
What would that check have shown.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
Miss Cornonas, among her other positions, was placed in charge
of re electrification of Puerto Rico after the Hurricane Ria
one year after appointment, eighty percent of the island was
still without electricity. To this day, there are still blackouts
electricity on Puerto Rico. This is the legacy of Miss
(31:52):
Cornona's work. She went from there to pged E, which
we all know is a bankrupt utility down half the state,
and you appointed her as the director of the Department
of Water and Power at double the prior director's salary
and a housing allowance without completing any background check.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Now, let's talk about the reservoir.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
I've looked at your agendas since Mss Quernonos was appointed.
The reservoir never came up once. You never discussed it,
even though it's a critical piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Let's look at history.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
In twenty twenty one May, there was a major brush
fire in the Palisades, but the reservoir at that time
was full. It provided water and the fire was controlled.
There was very little structural damage. Why because there was
water this time there was no water without the reservoir.
(32:50):
The three tanks you have supplying the area, which I
believe someone can crack them wrong, only a million gallons
each are insufficient for any emergency situation. You need one
hundred and eleven million gallons of water in the reservoir
in order to supply the area that was drained. It
was empty, there was no water, and your director never
(33:11):
reported to you this situation or its urgency, instead again
filling racial quotas instead of filling the reservoir.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Let's look at money.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
The excuse given was that you needed some kind of
delay to get money together. I don't know, contract whatever
to fix some tear in the cover of the reservoir.
That cost was one hundred and forty thousand dollars. You
drained the reservoir in February, didn't even approve the contract,
not you, not the commission, but the DWP did not
even approve the contract to repair until November. It's a
(33:46):
gap of eight months. Reservoir was sitting empty all that time.
Costs of repairs only one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
That is less than one fifth of on a salary,
and you wouldn't pay it to repair the reservoir. I
get the water back online. What did you spend money
(34:07):
on during that time. Well, one of the things you
spent money on is you approved five million dollars due
as a board, you approved five million dollars to pay
to out of state colleges to transfer students from California
universities to out of state's colleges, including the alma mater
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of one of your commissioners. Why are you paying five
million dollars to out of state colleges and you won't
pay one hundred thousand dollars to fix our reservoir. These
questions have to be answered. So until satisfactory explanation is
provided for these things, I suggest, and I call on
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this board to at the very least put miss cornonus
on leave, unpaid leave. Take away your house that you're
paying for, and let it prove herself and she can
start or refully the reservoir, which, as I understand, the
sole empty.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
So what is the explanation for this?
Speaker 11 (35:08):
There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades
whose house is burned out. My neighbor on my street
was fighting to save his house until four o'clock that
afternoon when the water shut off. Why again, because the
reservoir was a thank you, your time has expired.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
That's all you get at the end. Thank you, your
times expired. Well, we're going to talk to sayed Kashani
live on the phone coming up in just a few
minutes after Debora's news. It's it's it's just stunning. And
Janice Knonez is still in power, getting paying, getting paid
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and now
(35:50):
there's a twenty four to seven LAPD detail protecting her
because she's getting a lot of threats. So the Jennie
Canon is cost to LA Tech expairs. This keeps growing
and growing, and the reservoir is still empty. And remember
when we we listened to Steve Soberoff, he says, well,
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you know, there'll be a report, you know, in about
four or five months that'll explain, you know, why the
reservoir was empty, you know, and we're not going to
be talking it's political. We don't want to talk about
political stuff. That's the bus to know. They just want
to dismiss all this, they don't want to examine it.
We got to take a break. Debor Mark live the
KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
(36:32):
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