August 31, 2025 • 34 mins
Hour 1: Governor Newsom is sending more police and homeless camp enforcement to Southern California; the LA city council formally opposes state legislation that would allow for more multi-family housing near transit stations, but one member has faced national criticism for the vote; and four cities in Southern California have landed in the top 10 of America’s dirtiest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael Monks from KFI News. We're with you for the
next two hours on this very warm Saturday night of
Labor Day weekend. I do hope you're enjoying this weekend.
If you are traveling on the road right now, do
so safely. If you're hanging out in the backyard doing
your thing, get relaxed. We've got a lot to get
to over the next two hours, a jam pack show
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full of news and information that you really just don't
get other places. So we're glad to have you here.
I gotta tell you, I was driving home just yesterday
from the station here in Burbank, going through Griffith Park,
and let me tell you what I saw. A leaf
that fell on my car. A dead leaf fell from
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a tree onto my vehicle. And that can only mean
one thing. Autumn is coming. Another sign we're back on
the grid iron UCLA and Utah kicking off at eight
o'clock tonight. USC is just putting it to Missouri State
right now. They're up fifty six to thirteen with just
under two minutes left in the third quarter. And of
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course I know all of you care about this. The
Kentucky Wildcats defeated Toledo twenty four to sixteen, as another
long season of being a Kentucky Wildcat football fan begins
for me, but off to a pretty good start there.
The weird thing about living in southern California as opposed
to living in the South where I lived before, is
that Labor Day is typically the cultural end of summertime.
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You do start to feel the weather change a bit.
That is not the case here. We were so spoiled
in July with those deliciously low temperatures for a lot
of us who live in some of the areas that
aren't the desert. I don't know how you people do
it out there, but you know, downtown here and even
in the valleys it was it was nice. But boy,
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oh boy, it has been hot lately. It does not
feel like autumn at all. This is when summer really
starts to squeeze us September October and we've got heat advisory.
It goes into effect early Monday morning until Tuesday evening.
It's going to be in the nineties downtown LA and
Lindo c one hundred plus in all of the valleys.
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It's going to be over eighty in the beaches. Of course,
triple digits in the Inland Empire as well, So happy fall,
Happy fall. Indeed, now the autumn equinox has not actually
come until September twenty second, so it is still technically
summer for the next few weeks, so hang in there.
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But if you are traveling and you are planning to
come home at some point, there are some tips for you.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Millions are expected to be traveling via car. The best
advice from Triple A is a timing Right when do
you want to avoid the traffic? They say, bookend your
traffic either leading early in the morning or later in
the evening. Gas prices are lower than last year. Triple
A says the national average for a gallon of AS
is down from three dollars thirty six cents to currently
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three dollars twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What was that gas prices are down? So if you're
out driving, are you noticing that gas prices are down?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Probably not if you are a California your resident, if
you're driving around from or to southern California, No, not
at all. Apparently the national average has dropped today nine
tenths of a cent to just over three dollars in
nineteen cents. Per gallon, But as of today, the price
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went up more than a cent in La County, for
an average price per gallon of four dollars and sixty
three cents, roughly for sixty three per gallon compared to
the national average of three dollars in nineteen cents. The
average price in Orange County rose one point five four
cents today. That's its highest since June. It is now
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averaging four dollars and fifty nine cents per gallon. The
average price in Riverside County is four dollars and forty
seven cents. Now. California is pretty well known for having
some pretty steep gas prices, and frankly, some of that
has to do with regulations that we have here. Now,
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the state has decided to stop a plan that would
have required oil companies to pay a penalty if their
profits go up too much. There are some fears in
Sacramento and of course in the oil industry, that this
plan would cause oil companies to stop or cut production,
and then what does that mean? Gas prices go up
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in this state even more.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Two oil refineries that make up eighteen percent of California's
refining capacity announced plans to close amid new rules at
oil companies would be penalized if they make too much
money now and what's being called a win for the
fossil fuel industry, the planned penalize oil companies is being
put on hold until at least twenty thirty. California already
has by far the nation's most expensive gasoline. The Commission
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saying it's not walking back efforts to move away from
fossil fuels, but must prioritize protecting consumers at the gas
pump at like Stone, abcinowsl Sancheles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, let's hope for a decline in those prices at
some point in our lifetime. It would be nice to
afford some gas. The good news is you got a
chance at being able to afford all the gas you
could stomach. By the biggest car you want. Pour the
gas out on the sidewalk for all you will care
if you hit the powerball jackpot tonight. The bad news
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is the last chance you had to buy a ticket
for tonight's drawing that just passed a few minutes ago.
Seven oh five pm was the very last moment that
you could buy an eligible ticket. So if you buy
one at this moment, you gotta wait till Monday's drawing.
But tonight's drawing for the power Balls the thirteenth largest
lottery jackpot in American history, a billion dollars. I wonder
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if you're daydreaming about what you would do with that
amount of money. It's hard not to now Here at KFI,
we are very fortunate to have Michelle Cube, one of
our great leading producers who oversees a lot of us.
She organizes this lotto drawing, most of us are a
part of it, so she sends us little updates. We
see our tickets, we know they're there. Michelle light a
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candle for us. And if you tuned to KFI on
Monday and you don't hear anyone, well just know we've
divvied up the cash, and as much as we love
you all, we're out of here without a trace gone.
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Chances are we'll be back on Monday, but it's nice
to dream if you've got a ticket. Good luck. California,
in spite of all of its flaws, is inordinately lucky.
I don't even know if I should say inordinately. Of course,
we have a lot of people in California, so it
is natural that we win more than the average state
when it comes to hitting these jackpots. So, hey, I
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hope it's you. That's right, you good luck. One thing
we are getting more of, if it's not money in
Southern California's police, more coming to LA, more coming to
the Inland Empire. And it is not President Trump who
is sending them this time. It is Governor Knew Something.
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And he's also directed more homeless camps to be removed
from certain parts of the state. We're going to dive
into that. Plus, transportation projects are in the news and
attempt to speed up California's high speed rail project has
just been slowed down in Sacramento, and the neighbors in
Chinatown have rallied against the gondola that will take you
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from that neighborhood to Dodger Stadium. We're going to dive
into that next. This is Michael Monks reports on Michael
Monks from KFI News. We're together till nine o'clock to night.
Happy Labor Day weekend. I hope you're finding some time
to relax, like mo Kelly. You just heard Andy Reesemeyer,
who's our new Sunday host, you know him from KTLA.
He was filling in for Mo Kelly on Friday night,
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and that's why you hear his voice promoting Moe's show
for Monday. Mo's in Italy. Debor Mark was in Italy.
I don't understand, maybe KFI, we've already hit the powerball jackpot,
and nobody has told me, because there seems to be
an inordinate amount of European vacations taking place in this building,
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and yet for some reason, I'm the one working six
days a week. But it is my pleasure to be
with you on this very warm Saturday night here in
Burbank and talking to you across southern California and across
the world on the iHeartRadio app. There has been some ongoing,
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significant trolling out of Governor Newsom's office towards President Trump.
He is tweeting frequently in a style that is frankly
similar to the way President Trump tweets, but it is
an even more exaggerated version of the outrageous stuff that
our president will say. But he's also pushing some policies
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that I think objectively you have to acknowledge, seem to
be to position him in a way to where he
can say no, no, no, we're taking care of that thing
President Trump is criticizing us for, and one of those
areas is crime. You talk to I mean, if you
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talk to people here, we know that there's some problems,
but if you talk to people outside of California, especially
in conservative media nationally, they really loved to hit California
for crime problems. And so Governor Newsom had made some
announcements just this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Week expanding what Governor Gavin Newsom did last year in Oakland,
San Bernardino, and Bakersfield. Now more cities will get California
Highway Patrol officers on the streets, dog ment. Local police
crime suppression teams with a minimum of fifteen officers will
be mobile targeting areas that need more police in cities
like La San Diego, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Governor news we have a.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Lot more work to do, and that's precisely why we
are announcing this today.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Alex Stone, ABC News Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You heard the governor in that report from Alex Stone
saying we have more work to do. This was a
point he was trying to emphasize at the press conference
this week, which I also reported on, because he wants
to push the message that crime is down, that the
statistics show crime is down in California. And so you're
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in a weird position when you are promoting that stats
show crime is down, but we're sending in crime suppression
teams from the California Highway Patrol to targeted areas across
the state. So the idea, he says, doesn't make those
numbers go down even further. Well, where are they going.
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They're going to La, They're going to the Ie, They're
going to be in Sacramento, San Diego, other places. The
Governor's office says, this has already worked in Oakland, Bakersfield,
and San Bernardino. What these teams do. They are groups
of about fifteen CHP officers who join local law enforcement.
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They target high crime areas. They're looking for repeat IT fenders,
they want to get their hands on illegal weapons, illegal drugs,
and those sorts of things. They say they will conduct
proactive enforcement operations. They will provide increased visibility in the community.
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And that's something that's lacking in a lot of our areas.
We know that the LAPD, for example, is well below
the number of officers it would like to have, so
any opportunity that the city proper can have to show
there's a cruiser on the corner that can be a
deterrent from crime. This is supposed to get going pretty soon.
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Some of the statistics from the suppression teams that were
deployed last year in San Bernardino, Bakersfield, and Oakland, the
governor says that resulted in more than nine thousand arrest
five eight hundred stolen vehicles recovered, and four hundred fire
arms recovered. In Bakersfield specifically since April of last year,
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they say the partnership resulted in eight hundred and fifty
nine felony arrest, seven hundred twenty one misdemeanor arrest, more
than twenty six hundred DUI arrest, and more than thirteen
hundred stolen vehicles recovered and more than one hundred firearms seized.
They say the city's twenty twenty four crime rates were
the lowest since twenty twenty one, with a fifty seven
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percent decline in homicides and sixty percent fewer shootings. And
Oakland presented similar data. They didn't release the specific numbers
out of sand Bornandino. Well, that's something to look forward to.
Another thing that the governor has announced is not just
tough on crime, but tough on homelessness. Last year, we
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saw the governor come to LA and hang out at
some homeless camps, help clear some of them in front
of cameras, and also threaten local governments that if they
don't start moving these camps out of these public areas
faster and more frequently, he may withhold state funding from them.
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And now just this week, the same week he announced
this crime suppression team being deployed to La, the Inland Empire,
and other places San Diego other places around the state,
he's launched a new task force to clear homeless camps
in the ten largest cities in California. Of course, that
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includes Los Angeles, that includes Long Beach, that includes Anaheim,
San Diego. Again, he's calling it the State Action for
Facilitation on Encampments or Safe Task Force. The Governor's office
says this task force will coordinate expertise and programs across
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state agencies to address homeless camps, with the goal being
to work with local governments to move people from the
streets in a temporary shelter and then ultimately permanent housing.
Now he is in a difficult position here, just like
with the crime thing, so he's careful with the messaging.
Just like with the crime thing. The governor emphasized what
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he sees as a positive the crime. Crime stats show
crime is down in California, but we want to suppress
them more. We want to push them further down, so
we're doing this thing. He emphasized data that has shown
homelessness has improved in California, but we wanted to improve more.
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He says, quote, California has put in place a strong,
comprehensive strategy for fighting the national homelessness and housing crises
and is outperforming the nation as a result in turning
this issue around. No one should live in a dangerous
or unsanitarian campment, and we will continue our ongoing work
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to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
Pay attention to the governor's emphasis on how California is
outpacing the nation, because that was another point he made
in the crime suppression announcement. In fact, during the press
conference about the crime suppression teams that he's deploying, he
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had materials ready to display and then pass out and
include it in the official press release showing specific states,
all of them with Republican governors having higher rates of
murder and other crimes. For example, he named politicians representing
those states, whether they be in Congress or serving as
fellow governors. So he's fighting President Trump online a lot,
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but he is also fighting this narrative about California that
is shared outside of the state by Republican opponent, and
he's doing that in his official capacity with these official announcements.
So if he is gearing up for a twenty twenty
eight presidential bid, he has to create a story about
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California that is not the one that is portrayed or
reported on. There are certainly numerous problems here, homelessness being
one of them, crime being one of them. We'll talk
about how four cities in southern California landed in the
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top ten of the dirtiest in the country a little
bit later on this hour. There's problems here, But if
you're going to run for president and you are the
governor of California, you've got to find a way to
spend those very challenging issues into a positive and we'll
see how that develops. A member of the La City
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Council went on a pretty popular liberal podcast called Pod
Save America and a clip from that has made the
rounds on Twitter in a way that I don't think
she's happy about. And it comes after the La City
Council voted very narrowly to oppose a piece of state
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legislation you've probably heard talk about on these airwaves. We're
gonna get into that next. This is Michael Monks reports
on Michael Monks from KFI News. We're together till nine
o'clock tonight on this Saturday night of Labor Day weekend,
hoping it's a good win. It is definitely a good
win for the Trojans at usc they are up sixty
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six to thirteen in their season opener against Porol, Missouri State.
Really laying it on thick there. The Bruins of UCLA
will be taking on Utah. They're kicking off at eight.
The Dodgers right now knotted up at zero against the
Diamondbacks in the top of the six, and the Angels
one four to one over the Astros in Houston earlier today. Now,
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there's a piece of legislation that you've probably heard about.
The official number is SB seventy nine, Senate Bill seventy nine.
It's sponsored by Democrats. Scott Wiener out of San Francisco.
I know we've talked about it in news here on KFI.
You've heard it explored on many of the shows here.
I've had folks come on to talk about this, both
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for and against it. It's it's basically a piece of
legislation that is supposed to make it easier to build
apartments multifamily housing close to transit stops, but not just
all transit stops. If you've got a random bus stop
in your neighborhood, that's not what this bill's talking about.
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I think that's where a lot of the confusion comes from.
It doesn't mean you have a bus stop. It's primarily
these mass transit stations, the subway, the light rail, and
then the express buses. This thing is progressing through the
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State Assembly. It's now got some amendments that are being
attached to it, specifically to address some people's concerns. Specifically
in La the La City Council is officially against this legislation,
but it was not a unanimous vote. A lot of
times the council or even the Board of Supervisors, they
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will vote on a motion to oppose or to support
a piece of legislation out of Sacramento or even Washington,
and it's just not even mentioned. It's just a quick
unanimous vote. This was debated pretty hard at city Hall
and ended up in an eight to five vote. Oh,
it was pretty close. Two members were absent, so eight
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to five. That was enough to make the city's official
position no on Senate Bill seventy nine, and the mayor
sign this. The City Attorney's office has put out some
information saying that this could be really costly for Los Angeles.
The argument from the people opposed to this at city
Hall is that these types of zoning issues should be
made at the local level. City Council member Amelda Padilla
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went on the podcast pod Save America. It's very popular,
especially with folks on the left side of the political spectrum,
and I want you to listen to this clip. It's
three different parts. I've cut into one. You here a
quick overview from the host. You're gonna hear a question
two and an answer by Amelda Padea, and then you're
gonna hear the host again.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Fourth largest economy in the world, we also have a
massive affordability crisis. Most Democrats agree that the state needs
to build a lot more housing when you start talking
about where and how gets tricky. A new state bill
called SB seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Is being hotly debated.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It would override local zoning rules to allow for more
housing to be built near transit stops and bus stops.
Supporters say it's key to building more bringing down rent,
and boosting public transit and cutting emissions. They call themselves
yimbi's or yes in my backyard. Critics, including LA Mayor
Karen Bass, warn it could undermine local control, push people
out of their homes, and strain roads and infrastructure. Here
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to hash it out, we have the lead author of
the bill, Senator Scott Wiener, and we have LA City
Council Member Emelda Padilla, who recently voted with the majority
of LA's City council to oppose the bill a resolution
that the mayor signed. Great, that's important, but are you
focused on what will ultimately make California affordable for the
people in your district?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well, I am by a law. I really have no
all jurisdiction anymore because it's an eedy one, right. But
we still as a team got together with the developer
the high school across the street. Other states and instead
of building something that was potentially six stories. We got
it down to three stories, and we also got the
developer to also work with us to make sure that
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it helps the families of the area. We also said,
you know, instead of a ton of office space, we
do want you to also incorporate a few more parking
lots and EV chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'll stop it there, because you even heard the host
chucklt Hurt. Now, look, this isn't me taking a position
on what Council VIDIA is saying. But he asked, what
are you doing to address the affordability crisis? And it
does seem to be basic supply and demand, right, If
you have more apartments, if you have more housing options,
then it should not cost as much. And her response
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to that was, well, there was a proposal in my
district to build a six story apartment building that I
had cut in half. So our argument was yes by
creating fewer new apartment buildings. And that's the clip that's
been going around, especially being derided by folks who would
be described as Ymbi's the yes in my backyard people,
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the ones who want more housing build even if it's
next to their neighborhoods, as opposed to the Nimbies than
not in my backyard, folks. So it's a ymb nimby thing.
She had a rough time at the city council meeting
yesterday Friday. They have They had the meeting at van
NY's City Hall, so in her district, and neighbors showed
up and railed against her for a similar issue. They
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are also basically Nimbi's in this story. There's a proposal,
a plan to build a pretty significant one hundred and
ninety four unit apartment building on Victory Boulevard across from
from schools. Every just about every resident who spoke, including
representatives from various neighborhood councils, were mad at Council Wimpadia
for not stopping the project. They don't want this housing project,
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and she said that's really you know, there's so many
different types of developments and paths for them to move
that that one was out of her control. Because there's
also this housing emergency in the city, so it allows
some projects to move forward. It was a tough meeting
to watch because she said, I have to be the
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person who finds the balance between the Ymbis and the Nimbies.
SB seventy nine did progress this week. We'll continue to monitor.
I think next week could be significant for it as
we learn more about what these amendments are and what
they mean for Los Angeles and southern California. You won't
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have to worry yet about any new housing going up
next to transit stops. Related to the high speed rail project.
Lawmakers and Sacramento shot down another bill that was authored
by Senator Scott Wiener out of San Francisco, the Democrat there.
His goal was to streamline permitting and right of way
acquisitions for the project that would ideally, in his view,
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make this thing go faster, but died in what is
called the suspense file. That is where state lawmakers are
able to decide that a piece of legislation is too
costly and just kill it for now and not have
to deal with it now. The California High Speed Rail
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Authority itself announced this week that it's bored, has approved
the issuance of bid invitations for key rail materials, and
they say that this should accelerate this project. That is,
there's no track, it was already supposed to be operational.
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I'm sorry, did I tell you what the California High
Sped Rail project is I know we talk about it
so much. Voters in California improved this thing many years ago.
It was supposed to be open in twenty twenty, connecting
La to San Francisco very rapidly. It's not there right now.
They're working on a one hundred nineteen mile stretch in
the Central Valley Bakersfield and are said it's a project
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that makes people probably loathe to support any type of
real projects. It's very unfortunate. Meanwhile, another transportation project that
likely won't have any housing next to it anytime soon
is the gondola that former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is
pushing in Chinatown to connect Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
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He also took a loss at the State Assembly. There
was a piece of legislation there that La Mayor Karen
Bass and the city Council also opposed. This would have
asked the Assembly to I guess speed up the gondola
project as well, but that didn't happen, and there are
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also some pretty significant protests last week, so the gondola
project is still swinging in the balance. The high speed
rail project, apparently they are ordering the tracks something we
just don't build things very well in California. Not fast
enough housing gondolas. It's a long wait. Will you be
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waiting for COVID vaccine? If you plan to get the
COVID vaccine, you are gonna have to pay attention to
some very significant changes. And four of the top ten
dirtiest cities in America are right here in southern California.
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Those stories are next. This is Michael Monks reports on
Michael Monks from KFI News. I hope you can stick
around for the eight o'clock hour because there is a
new survey from residents of downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of
them responded to this survey. They say they're tired of
the number of people experiencing these mental health crises on
the street. They're tired of the crime, they're tired of
the vandalism. They really want something done about it. The
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two co founders of the Downtown LA Residents Association will
join us to talk about the results of that survey,
and then this second half of the eight o'clock Hour
will be joined by film director Peter Jones. He is
a graduate in nineteen seventy four the Harvard School for Boys.
It's now Harvard Westlake this very posh school with a
lot of wealthy kids, and that members of that class
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got together over Zoom during the pandemic and reconnected and
they became vulnerable with each other. They shared memories, they
shared their struggles, and he's turned it into a documentary
that's actually really great and it premieres on PBSSCAL next week.
He joins us to talk about that film. But speaking
of the pandemic, you know, we don't live in that
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period anymore. But COVID still exists, right. It's something that
can make you sick. There are vaccines every year that
come out and you can get one if you want.
And if you do get COVID, you know, there are
a lot more treatments now than there were back in
twenty twenty when it was all a little weird and
a little scary. Even but this year, Health Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy has mandated some changes and things are a little confusing.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
The FDA approved the COVID vaccine for this fall only
for Americans over sixty five and adults and younger people
at high risk. It comes as HHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, a longtime vaccine skeptic moves to overhaul US
vaccine policy this week, ousting the head of the CDC,
Susan Manares, when she refused to get on board with
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his changes, her lawyer saying she refused to rubber stamp unscientific,
reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts. Chambers in just
a vaccine policy, fueling turmoil. Let the CDC just days
after the FDA approved the COVID vaccine for this fall
only for Americans over sixty five and adults and younger
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people at high risk, but a critical CDC panel is
not expected to give their recommendation for several more weeks.
The White House insists the vaccine will still be available
for all Americans who want it, but pressed on whether
insurance will continue to cover it, the White House signstepping.
Just as the new vaccines are rolling out to pharmacies
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across the country, CBS announces it will limit access to
the shot in sixteen states, requiring prescription in thirteen states,
including New York, Florida, and Colorado. Walgreen says they'll give
vaccines in states where we are able to do so.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
People are confused about whether or not they should get
a COVID vaccine and also where they may be distributed now,
since the FDA narrowed their approval of the vaccine, saying
that it's approved for people sixty five and up and
those with underlying medical additions, the White House did say,
but you can still get one if you want. But
we saw this statement from CBS basically saying that if
you look across the country, about thirty four states at
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cbsay hey we're green, come get the vaccine, then less
than that fourteen is that you're going to need a
doctor's prescription day to the vaccine, and then a few
states they may not even give the vaccine at all.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Because of that uncertainty, it is putting a lot of
hesitancy among pharmacists and patients around what that coverage may
actually look like.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
At the end of the.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Day, the FDA authorized Pfizer's updated dose of the COVID
vaccine for use by adults sixty five and older, along
with those with underlying health conditions ages five to sixty four.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says the FDA's scaled back
range could limit availability for key age groups. Last week,
the lead pediatrician group recommended in children as young as
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six to twenty three months should receive the COVID vaccine
to help protect against serious illness, as well as anyone
under eighteen who was at high risk or never vaccinated
against COVID Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So I shared all of that with you because I'm confused.
You know, I'm in news, and I'm a little confused
over you know, who's getting this. If you want it,
I usually do get one every year with my flu shot.
I'll just let you know that I don't want to
get sick. You know. I know that it's not as
big a deal as it was five years ago. But
if I can avoid the flu, I get a flu vaccine.
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If I can avoid getting COVID, I'll get a COVID vaccine.
This one's it seems a little odd. I don't know
what the circumstances are for the COVID vacs. Real quickly,
before we end this hour, there is a new survey
out from the lawn care company lawn Starter. They evaluate
several categories in cities cleanliness, pollution, living conditions, waste, infrastructure,
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and how residents feel about those issues in the city,
and they come up with a list of the dirtiest
cities in America, and on the top ten, there are
four of them right here in southern California. Number ten
was Corona, Number five was Ontario. Number two was Los Angeles,
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so wish one was number one. The dirtiest city in
America according to lawn Star excuse me, lawn Starter, San Bernardino.
That's a rough ranking dirtiest city. I can tell you
that how dirty LA is really shocks me. And we're
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going to dive into that a little bit more in
the next hour, because downtown Los Angeles is the dirtiest
of them all and it really shouldn't be that way.
And the residents Association there have had it. They want changes,
they want action. There's a new survey. More than seven
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hundred residents and business folks down there responded to it.
They're almost unanimous in what the biggest problems are. They
want action. That's coming up in the next hour on
Michael Monks Reports. Stick around with us right here on
KFI AM six forty
Michael Monks from KFI News. We're with you for the
next two hours on this very warm Saturday night of
Labor Day weekend. I do hope you're enjoying this weekend.
If you are traveling on the road right now, do
so safely. If you're hanging out in the backyard doing
your thing, get relaxed. We've got a lot to get
to over the next two hours, a jam pack show
(00:22):
full of news and information that you really just don't
get other places. So we're glad to have you here.
I gotta tell you, I was driving home just yesterday
from the station here in Burbank, going through Griffith Park,
and let me tell you what I saw. A leaf
that fell on my car. A dead leaf fell from
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a tree onto my vehicle. And that can only mean
one thing. Autumn is coming. Another sign we're back on
the grid iron UCLA and Utah kicking off at eight
o'clock tonight. USC is just putting it to Missouri State
right now. They're up fifty six to thirteen with just
under two minutes left in the third quarter. And of
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course I know all of you care about this. The
Kentucky Wildcats defeated Toledo twenty four to sixteen, as another
long season of being a Kentucky Wildcat football fan begins
for me, but off to a pretty good start there.
The weird thing about living in southern California as opposed
to living in the South where I lived before, is
that Labor Day is typically the cultural end of summertime.
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You do start to feel the weather change a bit.
That is not the case here. We were so spoiled
in July with those deliciously low temperatures for a lot
of us who live in some of the areas that
aren't the desert. I don't know how you people do
it out there, but you know, downtown here and even
in the valleys it was it was nice. But boy,
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oh boy, it has been hot lately. It does not
feel like autumn at all. This is when summer really
starts to squeeze us September October and we've got heat advisory.
It goes into effect early Monday morning until Tuesday evening.
It's going to be in the nineties downtown LA and
Lindo c one hundred plus in all of the valleys.
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It's going to be over eighty in the beaches. Of course,
triple digits in the Inland Empire as well, So happy fall,
Happy fall. Indeed, now the autumn equinox has not actually
come until September twenty second, so it is still technically
summer for the next few weeks, so hang in there.
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But if you are traveling and you are planning to
come home at some point, there are some tips for you.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Millions are expected to be traveling via car. The best
advice from Triple A is a timing Right when do
you want to avoid the traffic? They say, bookend your
traffic either leading early in the morning or later in
the evening. Gas prices are lower than last year. Triple
A says the national average for a gallon of AS
is down from three dollars thirty six cents to currently
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three dollars twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What was that gas prices are down? So if you're
out driving, are you noticing that gas prices are down?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Probably not if you are a California your resident, if
you're driving around from or to southern California, No, not
at all. Apparently the national average has dropped today nine
tenths of a cent to just over three dollars in
nineteen cents. Per gallon, But as of today, the price
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went up more than a cent in La County, for
an average price per gallon of four dollars and sixty
three cents, roughly for sixty three per gallon compared to
the national average of three dollars in nineteen cents. The
average price in Orange County rose one point five four
cents today. That's its highest since June. It is now
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averaging four dollars and fifty nine cents per gallon. The
average price in Riverside County is four dollars and forty
seven cents. Now. California is pretty well known for having
some pretty steep gas prices, and frankly, some of that
has to do with regulations that we have here. Now,
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the state has decided to stop a plan that would
have required oil companies to pay a penalty if their
profits go up too much. There are some fears in
Sacramento and of course in the oil industry, that this
plan would cause oil companies to stop or cut production,
and then what does that mean? Gas prices go up
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in this state even more.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Two oil refineries that make up eighteen percent of California's
refining capacity announced plans to close amid new rules at
oil companies would be penalized if they make too much
money now and what's being called a win for the
fossil fuel industry, the planned penalize oil companies is being
put on hold until at least twenty thirty. California already
has by far the nation's most expensive gasoline. The Commission
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saying it's not walking back efforts to move away from
fossil fuels, but must prioritize protecting consumers at the gas
pump at like Stone, abcinowsl Sancheles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, let's hope for a decline in those prices at
some point in our lifetime. It would be nice to
afford some gas. The good news is you got a
chance at being able to afford all the gas you
could stomach. By the biggest car you want. Pour the
gas out on the sidewalk for all you will care
if you hit the powerball jackpot tonight. The bad news
(05:46):
is the last chance you had to buy a ticket
for tonight's drawing that just passed a few minutes ago.
Seven oh five pm was the very last moment that
you could buy an eligible ticket. So if you buy
one at this moment, you gotta wait till Monday's drawing.
But tonight's drawing for the power Balls the thirteenth largest
lottery jackpot in American history, a billion dollars. I wonder
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if you're daydreaming about what you would do with that
amount of money. It's hard not to now Here at KFI,
we are very fortunate to have Michelle Cube, one of
our great leading producers who oversees a lot of us.
She organizes this lotto drawing, most of us are a
part of it, so she sends us little updates. We
see our tickets, we know they're there. Michelle light a
(06:36):
candle for us. And if you tuned to KFI on
Monday and you don't hear anyone, well just know we've
divvied up the cash, and as much as we love
you all, we're out of here without a trace gone.
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Chances are we'll be back on Monday, but it's nice
to dream if you've got a ticket. Good luck. California,
in spite of all of its flaws, is inordinately lucky.
I don't even know if I should say inordinately. Of course,
we have a lot of people in California, so it
is natural that we win more than the average state
when it comes to hitting these jackpots. So, hey, I
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hope it's you. That's right, you good luck. One thing
we are getting more of, if it's not money in
Southern California's police, more coming to LA, more coming to
the Inland Empire. And it is not President Trump who
is sending them this time. It is Governor Knew Something.
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And he's also directed more homeless camps to be removed
from certain parts of the state. We're going to dive
into that. Plus, transportation projects are in the news and
attempt to speed up California's high speed rail project has
just been slowed down in Sacramento, and the neighbors in
Chinatown have rallied against the gondola that will take you
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from that neighborhood to Dodger Stadium. We're going to dive
into that next. This is Michael Monks reports on Michael
Monks from KFI News. We're together till nine o'clock to night.
Happy Labor Day weekend. I hope you're finding some time
to relax, like mo Kelly. You just heard Andy Reesemeyer,
who's our new Sunday host, you know him from KTLA.
He was filling in for Mo Kelly on Friday night,
(08:29):
and that's why you hear his voice promoting Moe's show
for Monday. Mo's in Italy. Debor Mark was in Italy.
I don't understand, maybe KFI, we've already hit the powerball jackpot,
and nobody has told me, because there seems to be
an inordinate amount of European vacations taking place in this building,
(08:50):
and yet for some reason, I'm the one working six
days a week. But it is my pleasure to be
with you on this very warm Saturday night here in
Burbank and talking to you across southern California and across
the world on the iHeartRadio app. There has been some ongoing,
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significant trolling out of Governor Newsom's office towards President Trump.
He is tweeting frequently in a style that is frankly
similar to the way President Trump tweets, but it is
an even more exaggerated version of the outrageous stuff that
our president will say. But he's also pushing some policies
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that I think objectively you have to acknowledge, seem to
be to position him in a way to where he
can say no, no, no, we're taking care of that thing
President Trump is criticizing us for, and one of those
areas is crime. You talk to I mean, if you
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talk to people here, we know that there's some problems,
but if you talk to people outside of California, especially
in conservative media nationally, they really loved to hit California
for crime problems. And so Governor Newsom had made some
announcements just this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Week expanding what Governor Gavin Newsom did last year in Oakland,
San Bernardino, and Bakersfield. Now more cities will get California
Highway Patrol officers on the streets, dog ment. Local police
crime suppression teams with a minimum of fifteen officers will
be mobile targeting areas that need more police in cities
like La San Diego, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Governor news we have a.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Lot more work to do, and that's precisely why we
are announcing this today.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Alex Stone, ABC News Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You heard the governor in that report from Alex Stone
saying we have more work to do. This was a
point he was trying to emphasize at the press conference
this week, which I also reported on, because he wants
to push the message that crime is down, that the
statistics show crime is down in California. And so you're
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in a weird position when you are promoting that stats
show crime is down, but we're sending in crime suppression
teams from the California Highway Patrol to targeted areas across
the state. So the idea, he says, doesn't make those
numbers go down even further. Well, where are they going.
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They're going to La, They're going to the Ie, They're
going to be in Sacramento, San Diego, other places. The
Governor's office says, this has already worked in Oakland, Bakersfield,
and San Bernardino. What these teams do. They are groups
of about fifteen CHP officers who join local law enforcement.
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They target high crime areas. They're looking for repeat IT fenders,
they want to get their hands on illegal weapons, illegal drugs,
and those sorts of things. They say they will conduct
proactive enforcement operations. They will provide increased visibility in the community.
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And that's something that's lacking in a lot of our areas.
We know that the LAPD, for example, is well below
the number of officers it would like to have, so
any opportunity that the city proper can have to show
there's a cruiser on the corner that can be a
deterrent from crime. This is supposed to get going pretty soon.
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Some of the statistics from the suppression teams that were
deployed last year in San Bernardino, Bakersfield, and Oakland, the
governor says that resulted in more than nine thousand arrest
five eight hundred stolen vehicles recovered, and four hundred fire
arms recovered. In Bakersfield specifically since April of last year,
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they say the partnership resulted in eight hundred and fifty
nine felony arrest, seven hundred twenty one misdemeanor arrest, more
than twenty six hundred DUI arrest, and more than thirteen
hundred stolen vehicles recovered and more than one hundred firearms seized.
They say the city's twenty twenty four crime rates were
the lowest since twenty twenty one, with a fifty seven
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percent decline in homicides and sixty percent fewer shootings. And
Oakland presented similar data. They didn't release the specific numbers
out of sand Bornandino. Well, that's something to look forward to.
Another thing that the governor has announced is not just
tough on crime, but tough on homelessness. Last year, we
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saw the governor come to LA and hang out at
some homeless camps, help clear some of them in front
of cameras, and also threaten local governments that if they
don't start moving these camps out of these public areas
faster and more frequently, he may withhold state funding from them.
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And now just this week, the same week he announced
this crime suppression team being deployed to La, the Inland Empire,
and other places San Diego other places around the state,
he's launched a new task force to clear homeless camps
in the ten largest cities in California. Of course, that
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includes Los Angeles, that includes Long Beach, that includes Anaheim,
San Diego. Again, he's calling it the State Action for
Facilitation on Encampments or Safe Task Force. The Governor's office
says this task force will coordinate expertise and programs across
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state agencies to address homeless camps, with the goal being
to work with local governments to move people from the
streets in a temporary shelter and then ultimately permanent housing.
Now he is in a difficult position here, just like
with the crime thing, so he's careful with the messaging.
Just like with the crime thing. The governor emphasized what
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he sees as a positive the crime. Crime stats show
crime is down in California, but we want to suppress
them more. We want to push them further down, so
we're doing this thing. He emphasized data that has shown
homelessness has improved in California, but we wanted to improve more.
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He says, quote, California has put in place a strong,
comprehensive strategy for fighting the national homelessness and housing crises
and is outperforming the nation as a result in turning
this issue around. No one should live in a dangerous
or unsanitarian campment, and we will continue our ongoing work
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to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
Pay attention to the governor's emphasis on how California is
outpacing the nation, because that was another point he made
in the crime suppression announcement. In fact, during the press
conference about the crime suppression teams that he's deploying, he
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had materials ready to display and then pass out and
include it in the official press release showing specific states,
all of them with Republican governors having higher rates of
murder and other crimes. For example, he named politicians representing
those states, whether they be in Congress or serving as
fellow governors. So he's fighting President Trump online a lot,
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but he is also fighting this narrative about California that
is shared outside of the state by Republican opponent, and
he's doing that in his official capacity with these official announcements.
So if he is gearing up for a twenty twenty
eight presidential bid, he has to create a story about
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California that is not the one that is portrayed or
reported on. There are certainly numerous problems here, homelessness being
one of them, crime being one of them. We'll talk
about how four cities in southern California landed in the
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top ten of the dirtiest in the country a little
bit later on this hour. There's problems here, But if
you're going to run for president and you are the
governor of California, you've got to find a way to
spend those very challenging issues into a positive and we'll
see how that develops. A member of the La City
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Council went on a pretty popular liberal podcast called Pod
Save America and a clip from that has made the
rounds on Twitter in a way that I don't think
she's happy about. And it comes after the La City
Council voted very narrowly to oppose a piece of state
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legislation you've probably heard talk about on these airwaves. We're
gonna get into that next. This is Michael Monks reports
on Michael Monks from KFI News. We're together till nine
o'clock tonight on this Saturday night of Labor Day weekend,
hoping it's a good win. It is definitely a good
win for the Trojans at usc they are up sixty
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six to thirteen in their season opener against Porol, Missouri State.
Really laying it on thick there. The Bruins of UCLA
will be taking on Utah. They're kicking off at eight.
The Dodgers right now knotted up at zero against the
Diamondbacks in the top of the six, and the Angels
one four to one over the Astros in Houston earlier today. Now,
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there's a piece of legislation that you've probably heard about.
The official number is SB seventy nine, Senate Bill seventy nine.
It's sponsored by Democrats. Scott Wiener out of San Francisco.
I know we've talked about it in news here on KFI.
You've heard it explored on many of the shows here.
I've had folks come on to talk about this, both
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for and against it. It's it's basically a piece of
legislation that is supposed to make it easier to build
apartments multifamily housing close to transit stops, but not just
all transit stops. If you've got a random bus stop
in your neighborhood, that's not what this bill's talking about.
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I think that's where a lot of the confusion comes from.
It doesn't mean you have a bus stop. It's primarily
these mass transit stations, the subway, the light rail, and
then the express buses. This thing is progressing through the
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State Assembly. It's now got some amendments that are being
attached to it, specifically to address some people's concerns. Specifically
in La the La City Council is officially against this legislation,
but it was not a unanimous vote. A lot of
times the council or even the Board of Supervisors, they
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will vote on a motion to oppose or to support
a piece of legislation out of Sacramento or even Washington,
and it's just not even mentioned. It's just a quick
unanimous vote. This was debated pretty hard at city Hall
and ended up in an eight to five vote. Oh,
it was pretty close. Two members were absent, so eight
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to five. That was enough to make the city's official
position no on Senate Bill seventy nine, and the mayor
sign this. The City Attorney's office has put out some
information saying that this could be really costly for Los Angeles.
The argument from the people opposed to this at city
Hall is that these types of zoning issues should be
made at the local level. City Council member Amelda Padilla
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went on the podcast pod Save America. It's very popular,
especially with folks on the left side of the political spectrum,
and I want you to listen to this clip. It's
three different parts. I've cut into one. You here a
quick overview from the host. You're gonna hear a question
two and an answer by Amelda Padea, and then you're
gonna hear the host again.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Fourth largest economy in the world, we also have a
massive affordability crisis. Most Democrats agree that the state needs
to build a lot more housing when you start talking
about where and how gets tricky. A new state bill
called SB seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Is being hotly debated.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It would override local zoning rules to allow for more
housing to be built near transit stops and bus stops.
Supporters say it's key to building more bringing down rent,
and boosting public transit and cutting emissions. They call themselves
yimbi's or yes in my backyard. Critics, including LA Mayor
Karen Bass, warn it could undermine local control, push people
out of their homes, and strain roads and infrastructure. Here
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to hash it out, we have the lead author of
the bill, Senator Scott Wiener, and we have LA City
Council Member Emelda Padilla, who recently voted with the majority
of LA's City council to oppose the bill a resolution
that the mayor signed. Great, that's important, but are you
focused on what will ultimately make California affordable for the
people in your district?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well, I am by a law. I really have no
all jurisdiction anymore because it's an eedy one, right. But
we still as a team got together with the developer
the high school across the street. Other states and instead
of building something that was potentially six stories. We got
it down to three stories, and we also got the
developer to also work with us to make sure that
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it helps the families of the area. We also said,
you know, instead of a ton of office space, we
do want you to also incorporate a few more parking
lots and EV chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'll stop it there, because you even heard the host
chucklt Hurt. Now, look, this isn't me taking a position
on what Council VIDIA is saying. But he asked, what
are you doing to address the affordability crisis? And it
does seem to be basic supply and demand, right, If
you have more apartments, if you have more housing options,
then it should not cost as much. And her response
(23:42):
to that was, well, there was a proposal in my
district to build a six story apartment building that I
had cut in half. So our argument was yes by
creating fewer new apartment buildings. And that's the clip that's
been going around, especially being derided by folks who would
be described as Ymbi's the yes in my backyard people,
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the ones who want more housing build even if it's
next to their neighborhoods, as opposed to the Nimbies than
not in my backyard, folks. So it's a ymb nimby thing.
She had a rough time at the city council meeting
yesterday Friday. They have They had the meeting at van
NY's City Hall, so in her district, and neighbors showed
up and railed against her for a similar issue. They
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are also basically Nimbi's in this story. There's a proposal,
a plan to build a pretty significant one hundred and
ninety four unit apartment building on Victory Boulevard across from
from schools. Every just about every resident who spoke, including
representatives from various neighborhood councils, were mad at Council Wimpadia
for not stopping the project. They don't want this housing project,
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and she said that's really you know, there's so many
different types of developments and paths for them to move
that that one was out of her control. Because there's
also this housing emergency in the city, so it allows
some projects to move forward. It was a tough meeting
to watch because she said, I have to be the
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person who finds the balance between the Ymbis and the Nimbies.
SB seventy nine did progress this week. We'll continue to monitor.
I think next week could be significant for it as
we learn more about what these amendments are and what
they mean for Los Angeles and southern California. You won't
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have to worry yet about any new housing going up
next to transit stops. Related to the high speed rail project.
Lawmakers and Sacramento shot down another bill that was authored
by Senator Scott Wiener out of San Francisco, the Democrat there.
His goal was to streamline permitting and right of way
acquisitions for the project that would ideally, in his view,
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make this thing go faster, but died in what is
called the suspense file. That is where state lawmakers are
able to decide that a piece of legislation is too
costly and just kill it for now and not have
to deal with it now. The California High Speed Rail
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Authority itself announced this week that it's bored, has approved
the issuance of bid invitations for key rail materials, and
they say that this should accelerate this project. That is,
there's no track, it was already supposed to be operational.
(26:37):
I'm sorry, did I tell you what the California High
Sped Rail project is I know we talk about it
so much. Voters in California improved this thing many years ago.
It was supposed to be open in twenty twenty, connecting
La to San Francisco very rapidly. It's not there right now.
They're working on a one hundred nineteen mile stretch in
the Central Valley Bakersfield and are said it's a project
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that makes people probably loathe to support any type of
real projects. It's very unfortunate. Meanwhile, another transportation project that
likely won't have any housing next to it anytime soon
is the gondola that former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is
pushing in Chinatown to connect Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
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He also took a loss at the State Assembly. There
was a piece of legislation there that La Mayor Karen
Bass and the city Council also opposed. This would have
asked the Assembly to I guess speed up the gondola
project as well, but that didn't happen, and there are
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also some pretty significant protests last week, so the gondola
project is still swinging in the balance. The high speed
rail project, apparently they are ordering the tracks something we
just don't build things very well in California. Not fast
enough housing gondolas. It's a long wait. Will you be
(28:11):
waiting for COVID vaccine? If you plan to get the
COVID vaccine, you are gonna have to pay attention to
some very significant changes. And four of the top ten
dirtiest cities in America are right here in southern California.
(28:31):
Those stories are next. This is Michael Monks reports on
Michael Monks from KFI News. I hope you can stick
around for the eight o'clock hour because there is a
new survey from residents of downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of
them responded to this survey. They say they're tired of
the number of people experiencing these mental health crises on
the street. They're tired of the crime, they're tired of
the vandalism. They really want something done about it. The
(28:53):
two co founders of the Downtown LA Residents Association will
join us to talk about the results of that survey,
and then this second half of the eight o'clock Hour
will be joined by film director Peter Jones. He is
a graduate in nineteen seventy four the Harvard School for Boys.
It's now Harvard Westlake this very posh school with a
lot of wealthy kids, and that members of that class
(29:15):
got together over Zoom during the pandemic and reconnected and
they became vulnerable with each other. They shared memories, they
shared their struggles, and he's turned it into a documentary
that's actually really great and it premieres on PBSSCAL next week.
He joins us to talk about that film. But speaking
of the pandemic, you know, we don't live in that
(29:36):
period anymore. But COVID still exists, right. It's something that
can make you sick. There are vaccines every year that
come out and you can get one if you want.
And if you do get COVID, you know, there are
a lot more treatments now than there were back in
twenty twenty when it was all a little weird and
a little scary. Even but this year, Health Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy has mandated some changes and things are a little confusing.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
The FDA approved the COVID vaccine for this fall only
for Americans over sixty five and adults and younger people
at high risk. It comes as HHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, a longtime vaccine skeptic moves to overhaul US
vaccine policy this week, ousting the head of the CDC,
Susan Manares, when she refused to get on board with
(30:24):
his changes, her lawyer saying she refused to rubber stamp unscientific,
reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts. Chambers in just
a vaccine policy, fueling turmoil. Let the CDC just days
after the FDA approved the COVID vaccine for this fall
only for Americans over sixty five and adults and younger
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people at high risk, but a critical CDC panel is
not expected to give their recommendation for several more weeks.
The White House insists the vaccine will still be available
for all Americans who want it, but pressed on whether
insurance will continue to cover it, the White House signstepping.
Just as the new vaccines are rolling out to pharmacies
(31:05):
across the country, CBS announces it will limit access to
the shot in sixteen states, requiring prescription in thirteen states,
including New York, Florida, and Colorado. Walgreen says they'll give
vaccines in states where we are able to do so.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
People are confused about whether or not they should get
a COVID vaccine and also where they may be distributed now,
since the FDA narrowed their approval of the vaccine, saying
that it's approved for people sixty five and up and
those with underlying medical additions, the White House did say,
but you can still get one if you want. But
we saw this statement from CBS basically saying that if
you look across the country, about thirty four states at
(31:41):
cbsay hey we're green, come get the vaccine, then less
than that fourteen is that you're going to need a
doctor's prescription day to the vaccine, and then a few
states they may not even give the vaccine at all.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Because of that uncertainty, it is putting a lot of
hesitancy among pharmacists and patients around what that coverage may
actually look like.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
At the end of the.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Day, the FDA authorized Pfizer's updated dose of the COVID
vaccine for use by adults sixty five and older, along
with those with underlying health conditions ages five to sixty four.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says the FDA's scaled back
range could limit availability for key age groups. Last week,
the lead pediatrician group recommended in children as young as
(32:23):
six to twenty three months should receive the COVID vaccine
to help protect against serious illness, as well as anyone
under eighteen who was at high risk or never vaccinated
against COVID Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So I shared all of that with you because I'm confused.
You know, I'm in news, and I'm a little confused
over you know, who's getting this. If you want it,
I usually do get one every year with my flu shot.
I'll just let you know that I don't want to
get sick. You know. I know that it's not as
big a deal as it was five years ago. But
if I can avoid the flu, I get a flu vaccine.
(32:56):
If I can avoid getting COVID, I'll get a COVID vaccine.
This one's it seems a little odd. I don't know
what the circumstances are for the COVID vacs. Real quickly,
before we end this hour, there is a new survey
out from the lawn care company lawn Starter. They evaluate
several categories in cities cleanliness, pollution, living conditions, waste, infrastructure,
(33:22):
and how residents feel about those issues in the city,
and they come up with a list of the dirtiest
cities in America, and on the top ten, there are
four of them right here in southern California. Number ten
was Corona, Number five was Ontario. Number two was Los Angeles,
(33:45):
so wish one was number one. The dirtiest city in
America according to lawn Star excuse me, lawn Starter, San Bernardino.
That's a rough ranking dirtiest city. I can tell you
that how dirty LA is really shocks me. And we're
(34:07):
going to dive into that a little bit more in
the next hour, because downtown Los Angeles is the dirtiest
of them all and it really shouldn't be that way.
And the residents Association there have had it. They want changes,
they want action. There's a new survey. More than seven
(34:27):
hundred residents and business folks down there responded to it.
They're almost unanimous in what the biggest problems are. They
want action. That's coming up in the next hour on
Michael Monks Reports. Stick around with us right here on
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