December 21, 2025 • 33 mins
A wet Christmas is on the way to Southern California and the forecast is only getting worse; LA Mayor Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath are fighting in public on social media; The LA Fire Department’s after-action report was revised at least seven times so that language could be softer be it was released to the public; and a look at a difficult week in Hollywood as actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife are found murdered in their home in Brentwood leading to their son’s arrest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock on this last Saturday
before Christmas. We are rocking around the Christmas tree here
in the studio. We've had a beautiful tree in here
all season long. I'll be sad to see it go.
I do love Christmas decorations. I hope you got the
chance to take some in and enjoy the spirit of
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the holidays, despite the fact that the world has continued
to spin very very fast, even right here in southern California.
A lot of difficult headlines out there, and you may
even be in a difficult situation right now with it
being the last weekend before Christmas. So you might be
out shopping, or you were earlier today you're on your
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way home and you're stuck in that traffic, or you
might be trying to get out of this place to
go see loved ones elsewhere. It's a mess out there,
and it is going to be a mess for the
next several days. We have a double mess approaching us
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right now, because not only is it already every day
difficult to drive around southern California. But they're predicting record
travel for the holidays, especially on the roads, also in
the skies, and that's.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Only adding to the stress.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Couple that with the fact that we have this very
bizarre wet forecast coming, and that's only going to make
things worse er. It's going to be a tough holiday
season here in La So get to where you're going,
get there as safe as you can, but give yourself
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as much time as you can.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Borrow.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Alone with the eighty million passengers nearly three million passengers
expected to fly today and tomorrow alone, with the FAA
directing more than four hundred and forty thousand flights through
December twenty seven, the busiest airport's this holiday going to
be the usual suspects, right Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Worths, Chicago, O'Hare,
and Los Angeles. And to keep traffic moving, we're learning
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that the FAA says it may open up military airspace,
especially along the East coast and the goal.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The TSA anticipates screening more than forty three million passengers
between December nineteenth and January fourth, about two point eight
to three million passengers a day, triple a says one
hundred and nine point five million people will travel by car,
up two percent from last year, and this weekend before
Christmas is expected to be one of the busiest, nearly
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fifty two thousand planes taking off as people and packages
head to their destinations. It's so busy the FAA is
even planning on using limited military air space if needed.
The TSA anticipates screening more than forty three million passengers
between December nineteenth and January fourth, about two point eight
to three million passengers a day across the country. Dangerous
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wind and widespread rain causing holiday travel troubles. In Oregon
River south of Portland, reaching flood stage, a father and
his five kids trapped in their stranded pickup truck, pulled
one by one from rushing floodwaters. Blizzard conditions also snarling
holiday travel in the sky and the ground across the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So it's bad here, it's bad there, It's pretty much
bad everywhere. As for the local travel forecast, before we
get into this weather forecast that is very troubling, the
local travel forecast is immense. They say that beginning today,
year in holiday travel is expected to be bigger than
last year. A record ten point two million people from
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Southern California are expected to travel at least fifty miles
from here. And I don't know how the Auto Club
of Southern California creates these numbers, but they say that
is a two point eight percent increase from last year's
volume of nine point nine million. They say the holiday
travel period is Saturday today, December the twentieth, through New
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Year's Day, janu Wary the first. They say, the vast
majority of folks from right here in Southern California, about
eight point nine million, are expected to reach their destinations
by car, so you may already be on one of
those outbound freeways and sitting there. We will, of course
have our regular traffic reports for you tonight and all
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through the travel season, so you can keep it here
for those latest updates. Just under a million people are
planning to fly, while over three hundred and thirty thousand
people we use other means, which the Auto Club says
includes trains, buses, and cruise ships. By the way, the
most popular destinations for Southern Californians who are expected to
travel fifty miles or more are San Diego, Las Vegas, Anaheim,
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which happens to be here the Central Coast and national
parks here in California as well as Arizona. This weekend
is expected to be particularly busy on area freeways as
people begin hitting the roadways. The eastbound San Bernardino ten
Freeway towards Phoenix is expected to be the most congested
route today. Travel times are expected to double on some
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stretches of that.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
They say.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas, could also be
a busy travel day as people make their move after
the official Christmas holiday. But it's not just traffic that
is snarling our holiday festivities.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Relentless rounds of rain, mountain snow, winter weather advisories or
parts with the Rockies Cascades have a winter storm warning.
That's where you're gonna be getting those feet of snow,
and we have a floodwatch yes for parts of Washington
and Oregon, Eureka, reading down to Sacramento. It is really
northern California that now becomes the primary focus with this
next fire host. And then we have another feed of
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moisture that sets up much further south. Now's the time
in southern California to get out of town or get
into town before that next storm sets up as we
head into Christmas even Christmas Day here.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So if you're leaving, hopefully you've left.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you're getting here, hopefully you are already tucked into
bed in your hotel room or at your loved ones home.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Because this weather forecast looks really, really bad.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's not romantic like you might expect in other parts
of the country, with a heavy white snow coming down
reflecting the beautiful lights giving you that true sense of Christmas.
This is just going to be wet and nasty. They're
calling this a Pineapple Express storm. They say it could
cause mud slides, Trees could be coming down, There could
be some flooding on freeways and homes and businesses.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The La Times.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Reports if the forecast are right, this could be one
of the stormiest Christmases in recent memory for southern California.
They say there's an eighty percent chance that downtown Los
Angeles will get two or more inches of rain Tuesday
through Christmas Day, the last time that happened downtown over
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day nineteen seventy one. We could
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see three to six inches of rain all next week,
from Tuesday to Saturday across most of LA and Orange Counties.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The ie.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The Times reports the High Desert could see two to
three inches of rain, but the most precipitation. Those of
you who are fortunate enough to live in certain special
parts of southern California may just see some brown Christmas.
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You know, the mountains are one of the only places
around here where you'll see some snow. But they are
predicting the most precipitation eight to ten and is expected
to fall in parts of southern California mountain ranges, which
could trigger mud slides and debris floats flows in the
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recent burnscars. So this is going to be an absolute mess.
And it seems like since we got word that rain
was moving into the region over Christmas, which was earlier
this week, the forecast has only gotten worse. Sometimes you
hear about some potential bad weather many days out in advance,
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and then you know it dissipates, it gets a little
bit better.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
This has gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The National Weather Service reports that there is an eighty
to one hundred percent chance of rain in Los Angeles, Ventura,
Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo County is starting Tuesday night,
lasting into Wednesday and Thursday. The OC the IE and
San Diego County could see some light showers on Tuesday,
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with heavier rainfall expected on Winday Day, and officials there
have warned of heavy rainfall, increased flooding risk, and possible
mud slides. The Times reports that this could be a
worst case scenario, with forecasters warning that there's a forty
percent chance of very high amounts of rain for La
Ventura and southern Santa Barbara Counties and a thirty percent
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chance of the same for northern Santa Barbara County. In
San Luis Obispo County, this scenario would see four or
more inches of rain fall on the coast and in
the valleys, with eight or more inches in the mountains
and the foothills. Tuesday through Thursday, peak rainfall rates could
be half an inch to an inch per hour. So
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what does this mean as that rain starts to fall,
Possible mud slides, flooded freeways, rivers flooding over their banks,
localized flooding possibly coming into your home, coastal flooding, trees
and power lines fall down, dangerous sea conditions, and swift
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water rescues. So we are going to have a wet
Christmas in southern California. It looks like so you will
need to be safe. If you have any last minute
running around that you need to do in preparation of
the big day at your house, do it tomorrow Sunday.
I've got one more thing to pick up. I'm doing
it tomorrow and then we're locking in.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Good luck out there and marry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Up next, Lamhor Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath
are fighting and they're doing it publicly on social media.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We will talk about what triggered that.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Plus, there is a new report indicating that the after
action report of the Palisades fire had to be revised
many many times behind the scenes before the public ever
got their hands on it. We'll talk about that next.
As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I hope you're enjoying this last weekend before Christmas. Merry Christmas, everyone.
I bet La Mayor Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsay
Horvath are not sipping eggnog together right about now. Lamyre
Bass published an op ad in the La Daily News
this week very quickly, I'll go over the highlights. Basically,
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she was touting the city's efforts, her efforts to address
homelessness in Los Angeles. She again repeats that for the
first time since LA began tracking homelessness, the number of
unhoused Angelino's has fallen for two consecutive years, including a
drop in street homelessness. She says, quote when I took
off as LA wasn't just facing a forty year crisis.
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We were confronting a deeply dysfunctional system that had metastasized
around it. Homelessness policy was scattered across a patchwork of
agencies and processes that were outdated, overly complex, and resistance
to accountability. No single entity held clear responsibility, Transparency was limited,
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and far too many leaders clung to the hope that
homelessness would somehow resolve itself. Put simply, government had become
calibrated to manage homelessness, not end it. That is part
of the op ed written by LA Mayor Bass published
by the Los Angeles Daily News. So the mayor posts
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a link to that OpEd on her ex account, and
then supervisor Lindsay Horvath quote tweets it. That is to say,
She replied to it with her comment visible above the
Mayor's link, and Supervisor Horvath says, the only political threat
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our homelessness response faces is protecting the status quo in
favor of track records that are indefensible at the current pace.
It'll take three hundred years to solve homelessnes. Staying the
course is what got us here, and it's what I
was elected not to do.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Then Mayor Bass responded to Supervisor Horrorvath on X the
Mayor says the status quo was decades of rising homelessness,
and then Supervisor Horrvath responded to that with a video montage.
She put the caption proudly walking away from this track
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record in twenty twenty six, and what the video showed
was an image of the Mayor's op ed and then
as a little bit of music played in this short clip.
She covered it with a bunch of scathing headlines, including
references to LA's response to homelessness, financial mismanagement at the
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LA Homeless Services Authority, and the city itself. Now there
has been speculation that Supervisor Horvath may run for mayor
next year. She previously lived in West Hollywood, where she
served as mayor. West Hollywood is not part of Los Angeles,
it is its own city, But very recently she moved
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into the city proper. And while The Times reported earlier
this year that she was not actively looking to run,
she also wasn't, as they put it, cooling that speculation.
What is that issue here is the La Homeless Services Authority.
This was the agency that was created in tandem between
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the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.
It has been riddled with problems, scathing audits showing severe
financial mismanagement, and even that decline in street homelessness, if
we are to take it at face value, very modest,
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despite the billions spent. So the County of Los Angeles,
at the urgence of Supervisor Horvath, and then basically with
approval from voters last November, decided to leave LASA. La
County is creating its own homeless department, and now the
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city is kind of left with LASA. Now the city
is also trying to do its own thing right now,
but it's clunky and it's a mess, and it's got
a lot of different hands in it and no singular
leader taking control of that. But That's what's that issue
here is who controls the narrative and the policy related
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to homelessness. But to see those two really spatting the
way they were in public was surprising to me as
someone who covers these two here at KFI. We know
that they had some issues during the fires. They had
some severe disagreements. There were some texts that were obtained
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and seen, and they were not getting along at the time,
But to have this public spat is really something. So
twenty twenty six could be interesting. We know the mayor
is running for reelection. We talked about that last week
on this program because she held her first big political
rally of her reelection campaign. She does face what could
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be considered serious competition from former LA School Superintendent Austin Butner,
who was a deputy mayor, and then some other candidates
who are going to be working to make their name known,
possibly developer Rick Caruso getting in there and trying to
get a rematch with Mayor bass Luble Supervisor Horvath get
in the race as well. Or is she holding out
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for the other thing that Los Angeles County voters approved
in November of twenty twenty four, and that was that
expanded board of supervisors. Right now, there are five county supervisors.
By twenty thirty two, there will be nine of them.
But there will also be a tenth position, and that
position begins in twenty twenty eight a county executive, basically
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a county mayor. It would be a more powerful position
than the mayor of Los Angeles. We haven't really let
that sink in yet. We've got a new very powerful
position coming to Los Angeles County in just a couple
of years. Everyone's going to run for it. But there
are more problems at LA City Hall today with this
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new report coming out that the after action report involving
the Palisades fire. Apparently before the public, you and me
got our hands on it, it was revised many, many
times internally. We'll talk about this new report next.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
It was dark in San Francisco to day power outages,
leaving one hundred and thirty thousand people without power. Massive
outage knocked out power to those homes and businesses in
that city on Saturday, representing roughly one third of PG
and E customers in San Francisco. The Associated Press reports
the power failure left a large swath of the northern
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part of the city in the dark, beginning with the
Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park.
PG and E did not say exactly what happened yet,
but fire officials said at least some of those blackouts
were caused by a fire that broke out inside APG
and E substation. And we know all too well in
southern California about fires that can be started allegedly by
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utility companies. That's certainly the allegation around the Eaton fire
and in the Palisades fire. We continue to learn more
about what started that deadly destructive fire back in January,
and now we're learning more about what we've already learned.
Words We received an after action report that the city
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created internally. It was released, we talked about it here
on KFI. Billy Times is out with a story today
that says the LA Fire Department softened its report on
the Palisades fire. The Times has obtained at least seven
drafts of this report, and they note the changes that
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were made before this after action report was made public.
According to the Times, some of those changes include fire
Department officials removing language saying that the decision not to
fully staff and pre deploy all available crews and engines
ahead of that storm the strong wind storm did not
align with the Department's procedures during red flag days. They
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took that language out and instead they said that the
number of engine companies put in place went above and
beyond the standard LAFD pre deployment matrix. They renamed a
section un quote failures to primary challenges.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There was an item in the report that the public
got that said personnel violated national guidelines on how to
avoid firefighter deaths and injuries. Excuse me. That part was
taken out of the public version. An item saying that
personnel violated national guidelines on how to avoid firefighter deaths
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and injuries was scratched from the public version, but it
was in some of these earlier drafts. There was a
passage that alleged some fire crews waited more than an
hour for an assignment on the day of the fires.
That was taken out. There was an early passage removed
that contained this language that I will read to you.
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If the department had adequately augmented all available resources as
done in years past in preparation for the weather event.
The department would have been required to recall members for
all available positions unfilled by voluntary overtime, which would have
allowed for all remaining resources to be staffed and available
for augmentation, pre deployment and prepositioning. That language was taken out.
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The final report said the fire department balanced fiscal responsibility
with proper preparation for predicted weather and fire behavior by
following the LAFD pre deployment matrix.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
The Fire department.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Issued a statement to The Times not very informative, but
city Councilman Monica Rodriguez put out a statement that said
today's reporting makes clear that accountability is optional when after
action report sports are conducted in house with oversight by
political appointees. She says, after action reports are meant to
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provide a comprehensive and transparent assessment of key leadership decisions
to ensure proper accountability. If these reports are purposefully watered
down to cover up failures, it leaves Angelinos firefighters and
city officials without a full understanding of what happened and
what needs to change. She finishes with after action reports
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must be independent to ensure honest assessments in order to
avoid repeating disastrous errors and to protect our communities in
the future. Now, this final report was still a little
bit critical of itself being the LA Fire Department. It
did find that the agency's response to the Palisades Fire
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was hampered by limited resources and leadership and communication issues.
So we continue to learn more about the Palisades Fire.
There were some references to the Lochman Fire, which we've
since learned.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
May have re emerged.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Lockman fire started on January first, was mostly put out,
but apparently not completely. We know that there are charges
against someone for allegedly intentionally setting that fire, and we
know that firefighters left while it was apparently still smoldering underground,
and then the Santa Ana winds blew in nearly a
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week later. Those flames come back out and they morph
it in the Palisades Fire. There's still a lot more
to learn about what happened in January. We are working
on a one year special remembering what happened here in
southern California, not just in the Palisades, but in Altadena,
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in Pasadena, the Eaten Fire and the other fires that
burned that week and that will be coming out to
mark that anniversary in the early part of January. Let's
turn out to Burbank City Hall. One city councilman in
Burbank seems very worried about this talk in the entertainment industry,
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and I mean the industry, the business part of it,
specifically Warner Brothers. Discovery. Netflix has offered to buy that company.
Warner Brothers board has agreed to that sale. Paramount is
trying to do a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers. All
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of this is probably a long way away from concluding
it's going to have to go through regulators, but it's
a local story in that there are workers at these
local businesses based in Burbank where Warner Brothers is and
Councilman Constantine Anthony was pushing for his fellow council members
to get involved in some sort of litigate to stop
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this from happening. He's very worried about jobs in those
industries if this goes through.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He mentioned this last week, put out a press release.
By the time the city council meeting rolled around this week,
the city attorney had to deflate that balloon. This is
city attorney in Burbank, Joseph McDougall.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
First, I can tell you we don't have authority to
file such an action. The state action for unfair competition
is Business and Professions Code one seven two hundred. It's
the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta that has authority to
bring those actions, as well as district attorneys and city
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attorneys for cities with a population of seven hundred and
fifty thousand or more. There's four of those, Los Angeles,
San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. So we do
not possess the authority to bring such an action on
our own, and I would have to seek outside council
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even to provide memorandum to the council. Also, the memorandum
that I provide, if I receive direction to provide, that
would be attorney client privilege. It would not be shared
with the public. It would just be advice to council.
At that point, I would consider it anticipated litigation and
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would not be sharing legal strategy with the public.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So the lesson I think we learned here was maybe
don't put out a press release before knowing what you
are allowed to do exactly, So the city Council in
Burbank decided instead that it would craft a letter to
state and federal officials and ask them to monitor this
situation since they do lack any authority to take legal action.
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But this story is going to continue. This is a
big deal. This isn't just Hollywood's scuttle, but these are
major companies that will have a major influence over the
next generation of this region's signature industry. So we'll keep
an eye on that as well. It has been a week.
It's been a tough week, and it's hard to believe
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that it's really only been since Sunday when we learned
that actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer
Reiner were found dead in their home in Brentwood, and
now their own son is charged with their murders. We'll
talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It is hard to believe that it was only Sunday
where we learned of the murders in Brentwood.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Nick Reiner a suspect in this case.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
He was subsequently booked for murder.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And is being held on four million dollar bail.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
The arrest of Rob Rider's son coming earlier today. Sources
are telling us it is for suspicion of murder, but
no charges have been filed yet. The district attorney will
decide on charges in the next couple of days. He's
being held on four million dollars bail. The LPD making
the arrest after they spent all night here at the
Reiner home where I am right now. They have since
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moved out. There is no activity beyond the walls of
the Reiner home. There is a white gate out front,
high hedges around the home. Inside there are holiday decorations
around the house.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
What we know about Nick Reiner is that he has
been very upfront four years now about how he has
battled drug addiction, going back to his teenage years. He's
now thirty two. He had actually, about a decade ago,
worked with his dad Rob.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They made a movie together called.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Being Charlie that was largely inspired by his struggles with
drug addiction via his father's struggles in raising a child
who is dealing with these kinds of issues.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Today, LPD investigators they will be presenting their case, the
evidence in what they have learned to the La County DA.
So the DA can decide on what charges to file
against Nick Reiner. He was booked into jail by police
on suspicion of murder, But it's a district attorney who
decides on what charges to file and actually filing those
charges that will come today. And then once charges are filed,
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then we'll know when Nick Reiner will make his initial
appearance in court for allegedly killing his mom and dad.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Thirty two year old Nick Reiner is locked in jail
without bail, suspected of murdering his parents. Iconic filmmaker Rob
Reiner and his wife Michelle were found dead Sunday inside
their Los Angeles home, and we're learning new details about
the hours leading up to their debts sourts of say. Saturday,
Rob Reiner and his son Nick got into an argument
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at Conan O'Brien's holiday party. Nick was seen there acting strangely.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Her office will be filing charges against Nick.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Reiner was accused of killing his parents.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
Act director Rob Reiner at the TA I'm a producer,
Michelle Singer Reiner.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Two other children of the Reiners, Jake and Romy. They
issued a joint statement. They said, and I'm quoting here
words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we
are experiencing every moment of the day.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
Between now and January seven, lawyers will be reviewing possible
competency issues. The big question what will Reiner's lawyers do
to try to steer the case from a possible murder
conviction to manslaughter based on Reiner's mental health or drug
abuse issues.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all
in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I thought he was very bad for our country.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In a jarring post today, the President blamed Reiner's death
on his politics, saying he was killed because of the
anger he caused others through his mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome, and late today President Trump doubled
down I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at
all in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
That post drawing immediate outrage even among some republics, Congressman
Thomas Massey calling it inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
A man who was just brutally murdered.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Stand By me, he was such an important movie.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm a seventies baby, so growing up it was all
in the family.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
Mead.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
He was a political activist.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Even in the show, it did seem like everyone loved
Rob Riiner out here in Hollywood. If you go to
social media today, you'll see picture after picture, story after
a story of people posing with Rob Reiner describing some
encounter they had or a time they worked together. He
was generous, he was kind, he was open, and he
was always interested in dialogue.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All of that was just this week, from the discovery
of the bodies on Sunday in Brentwood to this weekend
where there are theaters at different parts of the country
who are paying respects to Rob Reiner.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
One Chaine has been screening this Film's.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Brilliant, He's funny, He's an above average dancer.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
The American President to raise money Arizona's Harkins theaters charging
five dollars. Proceeds go into the human Rights campaign. Other
screenings from Baltimore County, Maryland, to Bainbridge Island near Seattle,
where the historic Lynwood Theater is showing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
What the Truth? You can't handle the truth?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
A few good men, Hello, and the Princess Brian.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Named Genego Montoya for free.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
To honor the legendary actor, director, and humanitarian Wayne Cabot
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So it has been a busy week in news with
the Hiner tragedy and the charges and the investigation, and
the news pouring out about what might have happened at
that holiday party host at Conan O'Brien's house that preceded
all of this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's just been a messy situation. Let's not forget.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It was also just Monday that federal authorities announced that
they had foiled a terrorist applot here in Los Angeles
where there were plans to blow things up on New
Year's New Year's Eve right at midnight across LA and
Orange County. Happy holidays everyone is it's difficult. We will
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talk next hour about dealing with stress, dealing with grief
during the holidays. I've got a couple of experts coming
on just in case you need that. It's a pretty
good conversation. I'm also joined by Heather Brooker at the
top of the hour. There is a significant development in
the entertainment industry outside of all that merger talk, Academy Awards,
They're not going to be on broadcast television starting very
very soon. Talk about why that is coming up in
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the next hour on Michael Monks
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Reports KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock on this last Saturday
before Christmas. We are rocking around the Christmas tree here
in the studio. We've had a beautiful tree in here
all season long. I'll be sad to see it go.
I do love Christmas decorations. I hope you got the
chance to take some in and enjoy the spirit of
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the holidays, despite the fact that the world has continued
to spin very very fast, even right here in southern California.
A lot of difficult headlines out there, and you may
even be in a difficult situation right now with it
being the last weekend before Christmas. So you might be
out shopping, or you were earlier today you're on your
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way home and you're stuck in that traffic, or you
might be trying to get out of this place to
go see loved ones elsewhere. It's a mess out there,
and it is going to be a mess for the
next several days. We have a double mess approaching us
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right now, because not only is it already every day
difficult to drive around southern California. But they're predicting record
travel for the holidays, especially on the roads, also in
the skies, and that's.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Only adding to the stress.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Couple that with the fact that we have this very
bizarre wet forecast coming, and that's only going to make
things worse er. It's going to be a tough holiday
season here in La So get to where you're going,
get there as safe as you can, but give yourself
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as much time as you can.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Borrow.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Alone with the eighty million passengers nearly three million passengers
expected to fly today and tomorrow alone, with the FAA
directing more than four hundred and forty thousand flights through
December twenty seven, the busiest airport's this holiday going to
be the usual suspects, right Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Worths, Chicago, O'Hare,
and Los Angeles. And to keep traffic moving, we're learning
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that the FAA says it may open up military airspace,
especially along the East coast and the goal.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The TSA anticipates screening more than forty three million passengers
between December nineteenth and January fourth, about two point eight
to three million passengers a day, triple a says one
hundred and nine point five million people will travel by car,
up two percent from last year, and this weekend before
Christmas is expected to be one of the busiest, nearly
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fifty two thousand planes taking off as people and packages
head to their destinations. It's so busy the FAA is
even planning on using limited military air space if needed.
The TSA anticipates screening more than forty three million passengers
between December nineteenth and January fourth, about two point eight
to three million passengers a day across the country. Dangerous
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wind and widespread rain causing holiday travel troubles. In Oregon
River south of Portland, reaching flood stage, a father and
his five kids trapped in their stranded pickup truck, pulled
one by one from rushing floodwaters. Blizzard conditions also snarling
holiday travel in the sky and the ground across the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So it's bad here, it's bad there, It's pretty much
bad everywhere. As for the local travel forecast, before we
get into this weather forecast that is very troubling, the
local travel forecast is immense. They say that beginning today,
year in holiday travel is expected to be bigger than
last year. A record ten point two million people from
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Southern California are expected to travel at least fifty miles
from here. And I don't know how the Auto Club
of Southern California creates these numbers, but they say that
is a two point eight percent increase from last year's
volume of nine point nine million. They say the holiday
travel period is Saturday today, December the twentieth, through New
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Year's Day, janu Wary the first. They say, the vast
majority of folks from right here in Southern California, about
eight point nine million, are expected to reach their destinations
by car, so you may already be on one of
those outbound freeways and sitting there. We will, of course
have our regular traffic reports for you tonight and all
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through the travel season, so you can keep it here
for those latest updates. Just under a million people are
planning to fly, while over three hundred and thirty thousand
people we use other means, which the Auto Club says
includes trains, buses, and cruise ships. By the way, the
most popular destinations for Southern Californians who are expected to
travel fifty miles or more are San Diego, Las Vegas, Anaheim,
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which happens to be here the Central Coast and national
parks here in California as well as Arizona. This weekend
is expected to be particularly busy on area freeways as
people begin hitting the roadways. The eastbound San Bernardino ten
Freeway towards Phoenix is expected to be the most congested
route today. Travel times are expected to double on some
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stretches of that.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
They say.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas, could also be
a busy travel day as people make their move after
the official Christmas holiday. But it's not just traffic that
is snarling our holiday festivities.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Relentless rounds of rain, mountain snow, winter weather advisories or
parts with the Rockies Cascades have a winter storm warning.
That's where you're gonna be getting those feet of snow,
and we have a floodwatch yes for parts of Washington
and Oregon, Eureka, reading down to Sacramento. It is really
northern California that now becomes the primary focus with this
next fire host. And then we have another feed of
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moisture that sets up much further south. Now's the time
in southern California to get out of town or get
into town before that next storm sets up as we
head into Christmas even Christmas Day here.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So if you're leaving, hopefully you've left.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you're getting here, hopefully you are already tucked into
bed in your hotel room or at your loved ones home.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Because this weather forecast looks really, really bad.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's not romantic like you might expect in other parts
of the country, with a heavy white snow coming down
reflecting the beautiful lights giving you that true sense of Christmas.
This is just going to be wet and nasty. They're
calling this a Pineapple Express storm. They say it could
cause mud slides, Trees could be coming down, There could
be some flooding on freeways and homes and businesses.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The La Times.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Reports if the forecast are right, this could be one
of the stormiest Christmases in recent memory for southern California.
They say there's an eighty percent chance that downtown Los
Angeles will get two or more inches of rain Tuesday
through Christmas Day, the last time that happened downtown over
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day nineteen seventy one. We could
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see three to six inches of rain all next week,
from Tuesday to Saturday across most of LA and Orange Counties.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The ie.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The Times reports the High Desert could see two to
three inches of rain, but the most precipitation. Those of
you who are fortunate enough to live in certain special
parts of southern California may just see some brown Christmas.
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You know, the mountains are one of the only places
around here where you'll see some snow. But they are
predicting the most precipitation eight to ten and is expected
to fall in parts of southern California mountain ranges, which
could trigger mud slides and debris floats flows in the
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recent burnscars. So this is going to be an absolute mess.
And it seems like since we got word that rain
was moving into the region over Christmas, which was earlier
this week, the forecast has only gotten worse. Sometimes you
hear about some potential bad weather many days out in advance,
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and then you know it dissipates, it gets a little
bit better.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
This has gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The National Weather Service reports that there is an eighty
to one hundred percent chance of rain in Los Angeles, Ventura,
Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo County is starting Tuesday night,
lasting into Wednesday and Thursday. The OC the IE and
San Diego County could see some light showers on Tuesday,
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with heavier rainfall expected on Winday Day, and officials there
have warned of heavy rainfall, increased flooding risk, and possible
mud slides. The Times reports that this could be a
worst case scenario, with forecasters warning that there's a forty
percent chance of very high amounts of rain for La
Ventura and southern Santa Barbara Counties and a thirty percent
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chance of the same for northern Santa Barbara County. In
San Luis Obispo County, this scenario would see four or
more inches of rain fall on the coast and in
the valleys, with eight or more inches in the mountains
and the foothills. Tuesday through Thursday, peak rainfall rates could
be half an inch to an inch per hour. So
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what does this mean as that rain starts to fall,
Possible mud slides, flooded freeways, rivers flooding over their banks,
localized flooding possibly coming into your home, coastal flooding, trees
and power lines fall down, dangerous sea conditions, and swift
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water rescues. So we are going to have a wet
Christmas in southern California. It looks like so you will
need to be safe. If you have any last minute
running around that you need to do in preparation of
the big day at your house, do it tomorrow Sunday.
I've got one more thing to pick up. I'm doing
it tomorrow and then we're locking in.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Good luck out there and marry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Up next, Lamhor Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath
are fighting and they're doing it publicly on social media.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We will talk about what triggered that.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Plus, there is a new report indicating that the after
action report of the Palisades fire had to be revised
many many times behind the scenes before the public ever
got their hands on it. We'll talk about that next.
As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I hope you're enjoying this last weekend before Christmas. Merry Christmas, everyone.
I bet La Mayor Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsay
Horvath are not sipping eggnog together right about now. Lamyre
Bass published an op ad in the La Daily News
this week very quickly, I'll go over the highlights. Basically,
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she was touting the city's efforts, her efforts to address
homelessness in Los Angeles. She again repeats that for the
first time since LA began tracking homelessness, the number of
unhoused Angelino's has fallen for two consecutive years, including a
drop in street homelessness. She says, quote when I took
off as LA wasn't just facing a forty year crisis.
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We were confronting a deeply dysfunctional system that had metastasized
around it. Homelessness policy was scattered across a patchwork of
agencies and processes that were outdated, overly complex, and resistance
to accountability. No single entity held clear responsibility, Transparency was limited,
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and far too many leaders clung to the hope that
homelessness would somehow resolve itself. Put simply, government had become
calibrated to manage homelessness, not end it. That is part
of the op ed written by LA Mayor Bass published
by the Los Angeles Daily News. So the mayor posts
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a link to that OpEd on her ex account, and
then supervisor Lindsay Horvath quote tweets it. That is to say,
She replied to it with her comment visible above the
Mayor's link, and Supervisor Horvath says, the only political threat
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our homelessness response faces is protecting the status quo in
favor of track records that are indefensible at the current pace.
It'll take three hundred years to solve homelessnes. Staying the
course is what got us here, and it's what I
was elected not to do.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Then Mayor Bass responded to Supervisor Horrorvath on X the
Mayor says the status quo was decades of rising homelessness,
and then Supervisor Horrvath responded to that with a video montage.
She put the caption proudly walking away from this track
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record in twenty twenty six, and what the video showed
was an image of the Mayor's op ed and then
as a little bit of music played in this short clip.
She covered it with a bunch of scathing headlines, including
references to LA's response to homelessness, financial mismanagement at the
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LA Homeless Services Authority, and the city itself. Now there
has been speculation that Supervisor Horvath may run for mayor
next year. She previously lived in West Hollywood, where she
served as mayor. West Hollywood is not part of Los Angeles,
it is its own city, But very recently she moved
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into the city proper. And while The Times reported earlier
this year that she was not actively looking to run,
she also wasn't, as they put it, cooling that speculation.
What is that issue here is the La Homeless Services Authority.
This was the agency that was created in tandem between
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the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.
It has been riddled with problems, scathing audits showing severe
financial mismanagement, and even that decline in street homelessness, if
we are to take it at face value, very modest,
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despite the billions spent. So the County of Los Angeles,
at the urgence of Supervisor Horvath, and then basically with
approval from voters last November, decided to leave LASA. La
County is creating its own homeless department, and now the
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city is kind of left with LASA. Now the city
is also trying to do its own thing right now,
but it's clunky and it's a mess, and it's got
a lot of different hands in it and no singular
leader taking control of that. But That's what's that issue
here is who controls the narrative and the policy related
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to homelessness. But to see those two really spatting the
way they were in public was surprising to me as
someone who covers these two here at KFI. We know
that they had some issues during the fires. They had
some severe disagreements. There were some texts that were obtained
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and seen, and they were not getting along at the time,
But to have this public spat is really something. So
twenty twenty six could be interesting. We know the mayor
is running for reelection. We talked about that last week
on this program because she held her first big political
rally of her reelection campaign. She does face what could
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be considered serious competition from former LA School Superintendent Austin Butner,
who was a deputy mayor, and then some other candidates
who are going to be working to make their name known,
possibly developer Rick Caruso getting in there and trying to
get a rematch with Mayor bass Luble Supervisor Horvath get
in the race as well. Or is she holding out
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for the other thing that Los Angeles County voters approved
in November of twenty twenty four, and that was that
expanded board of supervisors. Right now, there are five county supervisors.
By twenty thirty two, there will be nine of them.
But there will also be a tenth position, and that
position begins in twenty twenty eight a county executive, basically
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a county mayor. It would be a more powerful position
than the mayor of Los Angeles. We haven't really let
that sink in yet. We've got a new very powerful
position coming to Los Angeles County in just a couple
of years. Everyone's going to run for it. But there
are more problems at LA City Hall today with this
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new report coming out that the after action report involving
the Palisades fire. Apparently before the public, you and me
got our hands on it, it was revised many, many
times internally. We'll talk about this new report next.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It was dark in San Francisco to day power outages,
leaving one hundred and thirty thousand people without power. Massive
outage knocked out power to those homes and businesses in
that city on Saturday, representing roughly one third of PG
and E customers in San Francisco. The Associated Press reports
the power failure left a large swath of the northern
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part of the city in the dark, beginning with the
Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park.
PG and E did not say exactly what happened yet,
but fire officials said at least some of those blackouts
were caused by a fire that broke out inside APG
and E substation. And we know all too well in
southern California about fires that can be started allegedly by
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utility companies. That's certainly the allegation around the Eaton fire
and in the Palisades fire. We continue to learn more
about what started that deadly destructive fire back in January,
and now we're learning more about what we've already learned.
Words We received an after action report that the city
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created internally. It was released, we talked about it here
on KFI. Billy Times is out with a story today
that says the LA Fire Department softened its report on
the Palisades fire. The Times has obtained at least seven
drafts of this report, and they note the changes that
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were made before this after action report was made public.
According to the Times, some of those changes include fire
Department officials removing language saying that the decision not to
fully staff and pre deploy all available crews and engines
ahead of that storm the strong wind storm did not
align with the Department's procedures during red flag days. They
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took that language out and instead they said that the
number of engine companies put in place went above and
beyond the standard LAFD pre deployment matrix. They renamed a
section un quote failures to primary challenges.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There was an item in the report that the public
got that said personnel violated national guidelines on how to
avoid firefighter deaths and injuries. Excuse me. That part was
taken out of the public version. An item saying that
personnel violated national guidelines on how to avoid firefighter deaths
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and injuries was scratched from the public version, but it
was in some of these earlier drafts. There was a
passage that alleged some fire crews waited more than an
hour for an assignment on the day of the fires.
That was taken out. There was an early passage removed
that contained this language that I will read to you.
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If the department had adequately augmented all available resources as
done in years past in preparation for the weather event.
The department would have been required to recall members for
all available positions unfilled by voluntary overtime, which would have
allowed for all remaining resources to be staffed and available
for augmentation, pre deployment and prepositioning. That language was taken out.
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The final report said the fire department balanced fiscal responsibility
with proper preparation for predicted weather and fire behavior by
following the LAFD pre deployment matrix.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
The Fire department.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Issued a statement to The Times not very informative, but
city Councilman Monica Rodriguez put out a statement that said
today's reporting makes clear that accountability is optional when after
action report sports are conducted in house with oversight by
political appointees. She says, after action reports are meant to
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provide a comprehensive and transparent assessment of key leadership decisions
to ensure proper accountability. If these reports are purposefully watered
down to cover up failures, it leaves Angelinos firefighters and
city officials without a full understanding of what happened and
what needs to change. She finishes with after action reports
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must be independent to ensure honest assessments in order to
avoid repeating disastrous errors and to protect our communities in
the future. Now, this final report was still a little
bit critical of itself being the LA Fire Department. It
did find that the agency's response to the Palisades Fire
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was hampered by limited resources and leadership and communication issues.
So we continue to learn more about the Palisades Fire.
There were some references to the Lochman Fire, which we've
since learned.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
May have re emerged.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Lockman fire started on January first, was mostly put out,
but apparently not completely. We know that there are charges
against someone for allegedly intentionally setting that fire, and we
know that firefighters left while it was apparently still smoldering underground,
and then the Santa Ana winds blew in nearly a
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week later. Those flames come back out and they morph
it in the Palisades Fire. There's still a lot more
to learn about what happened in January. We are working
on a one year special remembering what happened here in
southern California, not just in the Palisades, but in Altadena,
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in Pasadena, the Eaten Fire and the other fires that
burned that week and that will be coming out to
mark that anniversary in the early part of January. Let's
turn out to Burbank City Hall. One city councilman in
Burbank seems very worried about this talk in the entertainment industry,
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and I mean the industry, the business part of it,
specifically Warner Brothers. Discovery. Netflix has offered to buy that company.
Warner Brothers board has agreed to that sale. Paramount is
trying to do a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers. All
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of this is probably a long way away from concluding
it's going to have to go through regulators, but it's
a local story in that there are workers at these
local businesses based in Burbank where Warner Brothers is and
Councilman Constantine Anthony was pushing for his fellow council members
to get involved in some sort of litigate to stop
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this from happening. He's very worried about jobs in those
industries if this goes through.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He mentioned this last week, put out a press release.
By the time the city council meeting rolled around this week,
the city attorney had to deflate that balloon. This is
city attorney in Burbank, Joseph McDougall.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
First, I can tell you we don't have authority to
file such an action. The state action for unfair competition
is Business and Professions Code one seven two hundred. It's
the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta that has authority to
bring those actions, as well as district attorneys and city
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attorneys for cities with a population of seven hundred and
fifty thousand or more. There's four of those, Los Angeles,
San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. So we do
not possess the authority to bring such an action on
our own, and I would have to seek outside council
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even to provide memorandum to the council. Also, the memorandum
that I provide, if I receive direction to provide, that
would be attorney client privilege. It would not be shared
with the public. It would just be advice to council.
At that point, I would consider it anticipated litigation and
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would not be sharing legal strategy with the public.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So the lesson I think we learned here was maybe
don't put out a press release before knowing what you
are allowed to do exactly, So the city Council in
Burbank decided instead that it would craft a letter to
state and federal officials and ask them to monitor this
situation since they do lack any authority to take legal action.
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But this story is going to continue. This is a
big deal. This isn't just Hollywood's scuttle, but these are
major companies that will have a major influence over the
next generation of this region's signature industry. So we'll keep
an eye on that as well. It has been a week.
It's been a tough week, and it's hard to believe
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that it's really only been since Sunday when we learned
that actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer
Reiner were found dead in their home in Brentwood, and
now their own son is charged with their murders. We'll
talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It is hard to believe that it was only Sunday
where we learned of the murders in Brentwood.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Nick Reiner a suspect in this case.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
He was subsequently booked for murder.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And is being held on four million dollar bail.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
The arrest of Rob Rider's son coming earlier today. Sources
are telling us it is for suspicion of murder, but
no charges have been filed yet. The district attorney will
decide on charges in the next couple of days. He's
being held on four million dollars bail. The LPD making
the arrest after they spent all night here at the
Reiner home where I am right now. They have since
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moved out. There is no activity beyond the walls of
the Reiner home. There is a white gate out front,
high hedges around the home. Inside there are holiday decorations
around the house.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
What we know about Nick Reiner is that he has
been very upfront four years now about how he has
battled drug addiction, going back to his teenage years. He's
now thirty two. He had actually, about a decade ago,
worked with his dad Rob.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They made a movie together called.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Being Charlie that was largely inspired by his struggles with
drug addiction via his father's struggles in raising a child
who is dealing with these kinds of issues.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Today, LPD investigators they will be presenting their case, the
evidence in what they have learned to the La County DA.
So the DA can decide on what charges to file
against Nick Reiner. He was booked into jail by police
on suspicion of murder, But it's a district attorney who
decides on what charges to file and actually filing those
charges that will come today. And then once charges are filed,
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then we'll know when Nick Reiner will make his initial
appearance in court for allegedly killing his mom and dad.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Thirty two year old Nick Reiner is locked in jail
without bail, suspected of murdering his parents. Iconic filmmaker Rob
Reiner and his wife Michelle were found dead Sunday inside
their Los Angeles home, and we're learning new details about
the hours leading up to their debts sourts of say. Saturday,
Rob Reiner and his son Nick got into an argument
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at Conan O'Brien's holiday party. Nick was seen there acting strangely.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Her office will be filing charges against Nick.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Reiner was accused of killing his parents.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
Act director Rob Reiner at the TA I'm a producer,
Michelle Singer Reiner.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Two other children of the Reiners, Jake and Romy. They
issued a joint statement. They said, and I'm quoting here
words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we
are experiencing every moment of the day.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
Between now and January seven, lawyers will be reviewing possible
competency issues. The big question what will Reiner's lawyers do
to try to steer the case from a possible murder
conviction to manslaughter based on Reiner's mental health or drug
abuse issues.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all
in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I thought he was very bad for our country.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In a jarring post today, the President blamed Reiner's death
on his politics, saying he was killed because of the
anger he caused others through his mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome, and late today President Trump doubled
down I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at
all in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
That post drawing immediate outrage even among some republics, Congressman
Thomas Massey calling it inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
A man who was just brutally murdered.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Stand By me, he was such an important movie.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm a seventies baby, so growing up it was all
in the family.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
Mead.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
He was a political activist.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Even in the show, it did seem like everyone loved
Rob Riiner out here in Hollywood. If you go to
social media today, you'll see picture after picture, story after
a story of people posing with Rob Reiner describing some
encounter they had or a time they worked together. He
was generous, he was kind, he was open, and he
was always interested in dialogue.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All of that was just this week, from the discovery
of the bodies on Sunday in Brentwood to this weekend
where there are theaters at different parts of the country
who are paying respects to Rob Reiner.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
One Chaine has been screening this Film's.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Brilliant, He's funny, He's an above average dancer.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
The American President to raise money Arizona's Harkins theaters charging
five dollars. Proceeds go into the human Rights campaign. Other
screenings from Baltimore County, Maryland, to Bainbridge Island near Seattle,
where the historic Lynwood Theater is showing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
What the Truth? You can't handle the truth?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
A few good men, Hello, and the Princess Brian.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Named Genego Montoya for free.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
To honor the legendary actor, director, and humanitarian Wayne Cabot
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So it has been a busy week in news with
the Hiner tragedy and the charges and the investigation, and
the news pouring out about what might have happened at
that holiday party host at Conan O'Brien's house that preceded
all of this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's just been a messy situation. Let's not forget.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It was also just Monday that federal authorities announced that
they had foiled a terrorist applot here in Los Angeles
where there were plans to blow things up on New
Year's New Year's Eve right at midnight across LA and
Orange County. Happy holidays everyone is it's difficult. We will
(32:58):
talk next hour about dealing with stress, dealing with grief
during the holidays. I've got a couple of experts coming
on just in case you need that. It's a pretty
good conversation. I'm also joined by Heather Brooker at the
top of the hour. There is a significant development in
the entertainment industry outside of all that merger talk, Academy Awards,
They're not going to be on broadcast television starting very
very soon. Talk about why that is coming up in
(33:21):
the next hour on Michael Monks
Speaker 1 (33:23):
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