August 7, 2026 • 33 mins
Hour 2 - Experts warn strong El Niño could bring record sea levels to California coast with flooding concerns. LA County to conduct earthquake preparedness review. South Coast AQMD approves modified abatement order against Lineage. Plus, California's Cyclosporiasis cases are higher than expected.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Monks and maryl hosted by Michael Monks and
Chris Merril. This is Monks and Meryl. Demand Kay, Meryl,
damn I.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is Monks and Meryl.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So excited to have you on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hosted by Michael Monks and Chris Merril on kf I
Am six. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Monks and Meryl Friday afternoon. So glad
to be with you, and so glad you're with us,
Well you're with me. Merril is out, He'll be back
on Monday. I appreciate you keeping me company. As always,
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you can join the conversation we're having today. Open up
that iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and leave
your message up to thirty seconds long. We'll play some
throughout the program. There was a mountain lion spotted in
San Dimas and folks are being worn to kind of
day away right now. This mountain lion was spotted, prompting
warnings for residents to avoid the area. Well, we have
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an update though. Who's talking me? Oh remark from the
g twenty four hour news room. What's the update on
the mountain lion? Tranquilized and removed from the area. Oh my, now,
I gotta tell you, this mountain lion looked pretty well
tranquilized anyway. It always surprises me how much these bigger
cats can often look like house cats, lazy flopping about.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You're talking about your kiddies.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I have a couple of cats, and there are
times where you'll see a nature video of a line.
Of course, they're ferocious predators, but when they're having their
leisure time, like, oh, they're looking their pall and cleaning
their face too. And it's if you gave them a
big ball of yarn, I bet they'd have a heck
of a time with it. I'm sure. Okay, So this
happened earlier this morning. This mountain lion was spotted in
San dimas they were saying please avoid this area. The
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pictures that the Sheriff's department shared online, they just showed
this pretty good sized mountain lion hanging out in the
bushes and laying down and watching the world go by.
And they shot him with a tranquilizer. Yeah, they did,
see I think they could have just opened up one
of those big lickable treats. He would have come over.
He would have purred. You could have rubbed his belly.
(02:13):
He probably likes the scratchy on the belly. We all
like a scratchy on the belly.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I think a mountain lion would do more harm than
good even if you tried giving him a little belly rub.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, hopefully the tranquilizer wears off and he'll wake up
somewhere where he should be. Thanks for the update. Definitely
appreciate that very much. Some bad news on the weatherfront.
We've been dealing with this heat wave that just seems
like it won't go. It seems like it's broken a
little bit over the past couple of days, where I
guess our standards maybe have shifted a bit because we're
not just being boiled alive while we're outside. But my goodness,
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I know some of you in some parts of southern
California are still getting roasted. We have all the televisions
on here, all the local stations are on, and every
time the seven day forecast, you know, when they cycle
through the beach front, the inland areas, the valleys, the
deserts and all that. My heart is with those of you.
Deborah lives in I can say where you lived on
You've talked about it before. Woodland Hills. It's the hot,
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hottest place. It's the only only place hotter than Woodland
Hills as hell. Yeah, I knew you were going to
say that.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I'm reading. You know, it's interesting that Woodland Hills was
actually featured in some of the analysis that I'm about
to get to. We've talked about super El Nino. We've
been talking about it all year. We knew this thing
was coming. We seem to be in the grips of
it now, but unfortunately it's going to get worse. And
I saw some analysis suggesting that there may be a
day coming up this year where Woodland Hills is the
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hottest place on Earth? Are you kidding? I? I'm not
kidding now. I you know, sometimes I follow some meteorologists
on acts who may not necessarily be affiliated with any
media publication or whatever, so I don't always know how
trustworthy or reputable I should say. But I saw that.
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I did see that, and it does it does feel
like it's one hundred and ten there pretty consistently. It
really does its well. Meteorologists and climate scientists have all
decided to raise the alarm bells now because we've been
talking about super all Nino all year. We knew this
type of weather was coming, this humidity, the high temperatures,
super hot July, super hot August. But we're going to
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see some significant changes coming as the year continues, even
as we get into autumn, even as we get into winter.
They're saying the central Ocean temperatures they're tracking higher than
landmark his historical events. One meteorologist that I do think
is reputable. His name is Ben Nol. He's a meteorologist
at the Washington Post. He says this year's El Nino
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will dwarf the six other super El Nino events on record.
He says the rise in the central Pacific Ocean temperatures
will be about four point one degrees celsius by December.
He says that would go way past previous peaks back
in eighteen seventy seven, the when we had back in
nineteen ninety seven, in the one a little more recently
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in twenty fifteen, Here's what he says that chilled me.
No one alive has witnessed an El Nino this strong.
Look around, Nobody you see has ever experienced the weather
event that we are all experiencing. You think we're ready
for that here in southern California. I believe in Southern
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California we have to be ready for anything. You never
know from one day to the next, what the hell
is going on outside. I mean, the weather tends to
be pretty consistent depending on where you are, and we
do get some waves here and there of maybe high
heat or some wetness. But we're pretty tough group of people.
But this this ocean stuff is what I don't fully
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understand because they're talking about the coast water rising and
that could mean flooding along the coast. Of course, it
can also mean some heavy rain coming for us. This
this meteorologist over the wappo. He says, the notorious super
El Nino in eighteen seventy seven in eighteen seventy eight
contributed to a global famine that wiped out three to
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four percent of the global population, and this Alninho is
supposed to be worse than that one. Now, he qualifies that, like,
I'm not being an alarmist here. He says, we are
better prepared, Deborah for these types of things now than
we were back in the eighteen seventies. Hepe. So yeah,
I would hope so as well. And everywhere in America
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we'll be feeling it. I saw a forecast map showing
that there are god the do points I guess I
mean as low as the temperatures are going to get
for some of these folks. Overnight in the East Coast
and the Midwest will be in the upper seventies. And
even as we've been dealing with this local heat wave
for the most part, again, I know there are pockets
of the region that you're just kind of being roasted.
It breaks. By evening it breaks, you start to get
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a little bit of cool air. You can relax a
little bit. But I want you to think about this.
No one alive has witnessed in El Nino as strong
as the one we are experiencing, and apparently it's just
going to be getting worse as the year drags on.
Atmospheric scientist Ryan Mao noted that if the current extreme
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ocean model, if these trends are verified, that it could
rank among the most extreme climate weather setups experienced in
modern human history. For US, warmer ocean waters physically expand.
According to ABC seven in San Francisco, they say that
pushes baseline sea levels higher along the coast, and it
vastly compounds coastal flood risks during high tide winter storms
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will also be dealing with more of those ass excuse me,
atmospheric rivers in SOCl super all NEI patterns traditionally shift
the jet stream directly over the southwest, and that turns
routine winter storms into tropical fuel deluges and major mud
slide risks for those burn scars. We've also got infrastructure
to worry about. Coastal communities like Ventura all the way
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on the Orange County San Diego. You got a couple
of different threats. You got these high time king tides
coming in along with all of this relentless wave action
that could strip the beaches and threaten all of those
coastal railways and the highway corridors. And I'm going to
let you know this just crossed our wires here from
our news partners at City News Service, Metrolink is suspending
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its Orange County Line service south of the Lagunai gal
Mission via Hoo station for five days next week because
of expected high tides. So we're already getting a little
taste my goodness, my goodness, we have the best weather
on earth, but it looks like we've got to get
through this year before we return to what we're used
to and if the al Ninho doesn't kill us, the
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earthquake will in La County says it it's going to
do its best to prepare all of us for the
big one. What they're planning to do is next on
Monks and Merril.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from KFI
AM six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I Am six forty Live every one on the iHeartRadio app.
It is Monks and Meryl. Today is Monks without Meryl.
He'll be back with us on Monday as he serves
a much deserved suspension. We were talking about this cat
that's in San Dimas, this mountain lion, and that got
sheriff's deputies telling people, yes, say away from this area.
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This mountain lion is dangerous. But I saw the images
and I thought, this looks like a house cat to me.
You know, they're big house cats. They're scary, and there
are bigger cats than mountain lions that are very scary
and would have no trouble eating me or you. But
at the end of the day. They're just cats, right.
I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Imagine they just go out there with like a giant
little laser pointer, a little deal and here katy katy,
katy gatty and right unto the cage.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think it will work.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
They're just giant cats.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that's all you have to do. Maybe one of
those lickables. I know the cats love those. If you
had a big lickable, like a gallon worth of that
lickable sledge that these cats for some reason go gaga over.
Maybe a little catnip roll up a big fat catnip joint.
Mountain lion would love that. And we were also talking
about al Nino, and we've been talking about al Ninho
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four months now, and I think we're in the midst
of it. But what I've been reading over the past
several days from some pretty good meteorologists, not just here
locally we've got some good ones, but also nationally who
are very concerned that this super El Nino that we're
experiencing could be the worst one ever ever and it
could cause some significant problems here in southern California. I
know you might be tired of hearing about it too.
(10:35):
We've been talking about it a lot. What do you
think happens.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The way they're describing this anino. I'm expecting some hurricane
type weather, most of the state underwater, and a nine
point five earthquake just to top all off. If that
doesn't happen, then this is just a big overreaction.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I hope it doesn't happen, but I get what you're saying.
You know we're getting this forecast is amin. Yes, it
looks like the coast could be flooded. There could be
some significant damage to infrastructure. We mentioned that Metrolink is
closing part of its Orange County line because of high
tides that are forecast next week. But this super all
Neino forecast as the year drags on suggests that that
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infrastructure could be damaged because you will not just have
the high tides, you will have relentless waves beating against
the coast. And I read that it was like from
Ventura all the way down to San Diego could see
some serious disruptions like that. So it's something that we
got to keep our eye on.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Hey, monks, I keep hearing about this massive Almino. Wouldn't
it be something of this thing turns into a nothing
burger and it's like nothing at all, really, and that
would be something. But more importantly, what is California and
La County doing proactively to prepare for this?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Where are they spending the money, where they show, you know,
sheltering things up up, Where are they getting things handled?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Probably nothing. It's probably going to be all reaction bingo.
That's from Cliff. Thank you for that. Yes, I think
you're right. Unfortunately, we are a people here in southern California,
especially La County and LA City, that we're governed by
a reactionary leaders. And what will happen is if some
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sort of devastating weather event, you know, knocks us offline,
off the power grid for a while, or take some homes,
we'll all be lining up for our free grocery cards
and we'll have, you know, Karen Pass or Lindsay Horvath
will stand up and talk about how we're locking arms
and we're going to get through this together, and then
we'll go down to the Air Quality Management District. Means
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it'll basically look like a big boil heights situation where
there will be a lot of promises made that will
make us feel like even bigger victims than we actually are,
and nothing will satisfy us, and then the cycle will
repeat it. I don't think, I don't think we're ever
prepared for anything. I just don't. We saw it with
the wildfires in January of twenty twenty five, and I'm
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super concerned beyond the super El Nino about the potential
for the big earthquake. I know, folks in southern California
can say the big one and everyone knows what it means.
We're fortunate that it hasn't happened. In fact is some
analyst describe earthquake amnesia for people in southern California because
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it's really been thirty years since North Rich. I mean,
that's an entire generation of people who have not experienced
a significant earthquake. I know we feel the rumbles all
the time. I've lived here three and a half years,
and I think the biggest one I felt was centered
around Pasadena. It was about a four point two and
that was rattling, that was jarring, but the big one
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that could be devastating. So Supervisor County Supervisor Catherine Barger
had this of supervisors adopt a motion that is supposed
to help La County be more prepared for the Big one.
And this all comes after this new research that we've
discussed on this very program and also on our newscasts
and other programs that are there is a significant tectonic
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strain on the local fault systems. They say it's the
highest it's been in a thousand years and that some
stress needs to be relieved from this fault system. Recent
scientific modeling reveals tectonic strain on key segments of the
San Andreas and Santa Cento faults, especially near the Cajone
Pass intersection. It is at its highest level in at
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least a thousand years. Researchers say this doesn't mean a
quake is happening today or tomorrow, but accumulated tectonic strain
does not dissipate on its own. It only releases through
major earthquakes. So Supervisor Barger got the rest of the
supervisors together this week they adopted her motion. I want
to hear your reaction to this. I want to know
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if you feel comfortable, if you feel safe with our
local leadership, and whether we are going to be prepared
for either climate events, whether events triggered by this super
al Nino or the big earthquake. How certain are you
that we will have our ducks in a row? And
I will contextualize that by telling you what was in
this motion. It brings in doctor Lucy Jones. That's probably
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somebody you've seen on television. Every time we get a
little rattler, every time something shakes in southern California, they
bring on doctor Lucy Jones, and she's great, but the
motion calls for her to come in along with researchers
from cal Tech and UCLA to help guide the county's
emergency management strategy. I want you to think about that.
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Does that suggest to you that we don't have a
strategy right now for an earthquake in Los Angeles County?
That only now are they thinking about putting this together
because there's research saying the big one any day now,
any day now, the big one, so we should probably
do something about it. LA County's Office of Emergency Management
has to present a comprehensive assessment to the Board of
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Supervisors at the end of September, and that should include
an evaluation of our readiness across medical centers, what our
critical infrastructure looks like, and how government continuity could take place.
But again, we've not seen a catastrophic direct hit earthquake
since Northridge, so there are a ton of people in
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this metro area who have never experienced a major trembler.
Do you think we will be in good hands when
the big one comes? I don't know, because I look
at what happens in Boyle Heights. It seems like an
underreaction and an overreaction and a no reaction all rolled
up into one. Our government at work. In fact, there's
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more on that story now. As the villain has been
selected in the Boil Heights story, open up the iHeartRadio app,
click on the talkback button. Let me know if you
feel confident that we are safe here in southern Californi
and in good hands with our government. We'll also get
into the latest on the Boyle Heights disaster. As Monks
and Merrill continues and Friday rolls along.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFIM six.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Chris Merril's out, He'll be back on Monday, So glad
you're with us anyway, It's Friday and something to feel
good about. We talked a bit about this mountain lion
in San Dimas that shut down part of a neighborhood
because the Sheriff's department didn't think it was safe. And
I mentioned off handedly that I think, you know, you
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see mountain lions and you notice that they look a
lot like house cats. I mean, they're big housecats. Could
they do a little more damage to you? Of course,
turn to your pet. Sure, same for tiger or lion.
They all have the same feline qualities at their base. Right.
I'm not suggesting you should pet a mountain lion. I
just thought I was looking at the pictures of this
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out lying and it looked like it was having a
good day, lounging in the dirt, the way that your
house cat lounges in the window.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Maybe on the contrary, the mountain lion is going hereunkn
Mike Mak monk, come here, Mike monk monk.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, could have been. And you know what what's sad
about that is it would have worked on me. It
absolutely would have.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Look what it comes down to is people who are
living in urban areas where wild animals are going to
be present, and people lose their underwear when a wild
animal is present in those areas, and do it a
drought and due to other environmental situations, animals are going
to come out the mountains every now and then.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But I'm really glad.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
They didn't kill the animal. I'm glad to recut relocated
it and that the mountain lion is fine. But people
shouldn't lose their pants over a wild animal when you're
living in that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I suppose it's easier said than done not to lose
your pants over a wild animal. There was a video
going viral this week about, you know, a bear cub,
a cute looking little bear cub that was on top
of a car in this passing car trying to figure
out whether they needed to help this baby bear cub
get down, because baby bear cubs look adorable. But when
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you see a baby bear cub, you're supposed to assume
that mama bear is nearby, and it turned out she was.
She was locked inside the vehicle that she had broken into,
and the baby bear was really just trying to get
to her, and obviously those people ran off. They were
terrified of the big bear. I don't know how you know,
we have ideas about how we might react should we
come face to face with a part of nature that
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scares us a little bit. But until it actually happens,
we don't know, And I don't know how I would
react if I saw this mountain lion in person, and
I'm only looking at the pictures and thinking it's kind
of cute, you know it's but they tranquilized it, and
they've relocated it so that cat will wake up somewhere
more appropriate for it to be lounging. We also talked
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a bit about this Al Ninos situation and how our
local weather is expected to be severely impacted. Already has
been this summer, but we haven't seen the worst of
it yet. Apparently it's what media relogists are saying. It's
going to be bad across the country, but here in
southern California we can expect the coasts possibly to be
ravaged by just the beating sound of waves, high tides,
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coastal flooding infrastructure possibly being damaged big time atmospheric rivers.
So a lot of wet days coming up.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Hello, amongks and merrill.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
This is Larry from City Beverly Hills, California, and in
regards to this El Nino that's coming along.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
We've seen some pretty bad woods in the past, and if.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
California does the same thing they does in the pass, they
won't save any of the water. So my question is
what are the plans for the local and state level
to capture some.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Of that water. Yeah, I think that's a good question, Larry,
because that's the question that I've posed to everybody is
in general, is what exactly do we expect our local
government to be doing on our behalf right now and
does that expectation meet reality. We were talking about that
not just in the context of a Ninho, but also
the threat of this earthquake. We know that the fault
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lines here are, according to expert researchers, experiencing the most
stress they've ever seen in one thousand years.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Hey, on the Oninho thing. Water cap is so more
armed about the same temperature as white. Last week, my
boat Caplan came in with the tuna. It was already seared,
you know, and I think I think he knew something
to send out for free forty thousand buckets.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So when it.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Rains, we all collect water and we can use that
to solve the drought. That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Jeff, I like your idea. You like your idea. Let's
get it over to Governor Newsom as fast as we can.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I have more confidence, more trust that I feel safer
laying down next to that amount of and that I
do pressing the state government. LA is going to be
completely wipe off the map when something big disaster happens.
Some cities will fare better, but overall we're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I'm afraid I have to tell you the same,
having witnessed our government up closed by covering it for
so long here at KFI. Boy, oh boy, my confidence
is really really lacking.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I live in southern California, La County. Do I think
we equipped.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
To handle an earthquake?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No way, Not with our politicians right now, with our
governor or our mayor.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's sad but true your thoughts. Do you think our
government will get it together, prepare us or to respond
afterwards to a big earthquake, to any potential devastating weather
events related to this super El Nino? Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and we'll play
some more of your messages. Not only do we have
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the recent wildfires from last year. But we have something
even more recent. We've got this situation in boil Heights.
Seven weeks ago, Lineage Logistics cold storage warehouse burned. We
know it stinks to high heaven over there because it
had a bunch of food, tens of millions of pounds
of food, and some of that food is still there, rotting,
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and the flies have come in and the rats have
come in, and the good people of boil Heights are
boiling over in anger because it's just been a disaster
that they were not prepared for. It does seem that
the government has responded, and it almost feels like an
over response to appease the people of boil Heights. I'm
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not necessarily seeing inspiring leadership from city Hall or the
Board of Supervisors here. I feel like what we're seeing
is politicians who know a key constituency that is it's
very important to their reelection, is angry about something, and
so they're falling over themselves to beat up Lineage Logistics.
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And I don't know if Lineage Logistics is responsible for
this fire. I know that as a company, it's been
reported that they've had fires at other locations across the country.
But we also know that they don't own this building
and that there was work being done on the solar
panels on top of this building at the time of
the fire, But the local leadership is really sticking at
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the Lineage for this. They gave them forty five days
to clean up this mess. They expect to have it
finished by the end of next week, which will be
on schedule, and then by the end of the week
after next they expect to have the site sanitized. They
say it's going to cost them eighty to one hundred
million dollars in all, but that still isn't enough for
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local officials. The Lineage logistics folks were hauled out to
the Air Quality Management District headquarters in Diamond Bar and
a bunch of boil high each residents were bust out
for a second day of hearings there and public health
inspections have revealed a severe vector problem. They documented live
and dead flies larva crawling on sidewalk perimeter walls and
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streets on Union Pacific Avenue and so the county health
officials have increased potential fines up to two thousand dollars
a day. They are now under a new abatement order.
Lineage because of the decisions by the AQMD that they've
really got to get that smell under controller. They could
face even higher fines for that. LAUSD is also concerned
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about their students. They are going to have students return
to their schools nearby and Boyle Heights. But the teachers'
union has sent a demand letter to the new superintendent
outlining what they have called fourteen requests, including soil, water
and air testing at campuses within three miles. They want
deep cleaning, they want air purifier installation, and they're even
calling for the facility's permanent closure. You know, if we
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can determine what's happened in Boyle, Heinz's representative of the
type of leadership we should expect if a big weather
event happens again, or if if we have an earthquake.
But what we know is that the forecast looks bad
in terms of the super El Nino, and we know
that the Ellie County Board of Supervisors just approved Emotion
to start preparing for a major earthquake. Now to just
in how start doing that. We'll get some more of
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your reaction. If you think we're ready.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You're listening to monks and Meryl onto the air from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Orders available anywhere on the Iart radio app.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Michael, my friend, if my particular housecat was the size of.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
A mountain lion, I bloody well would be in fear
in my life twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's fair, JT, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All I'm saying is I think the mountain lion that
we saw in San Dimas today that had to be
tranquilized in order to free the neighborhood of that terror,
was that kind of looks like it has housecat qualities.
All these big cats, you know, they they licked their paws,
they wipe their I think they probably walk in a
circle a little bit before they lay down. I wonder
if they cough up hairballs. Does anybody know if a
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lion coughs up a hairball? See this is the type
of stimulating talk that you get when I'm left to
my own devices on kay if I am six forty,
here's another reaction.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
Hey, Monks and Merrile, missing half of you, me too.
Still love a show though, Scott and Spanga here. Yeah,
I had a mountain lion grab me by the leg
one time.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He was a.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
Semi domesticated mountain lion had been declaude, which is really tragic,
but that's why the handler had him, and we were
walking him on a couple of chains, and I was
convinced if he wanted to do damage to me, he
would have.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, so what I'm learning is I'm not to pet
the mountain lion. We've also been talking a bit about
the weather. We know that we're dealing with El Nino.
Is it a super all Nino? Kind of feels that way.
We had quite a hell of a heat wave, if
we can even call it. That just feels like a
hot summer at this point, a really hot summer all
of July.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Here we are into August. But this isn't the end
of it. We will be feeling the effects of this
super El Nino, according to forecasters, through the fall part
of the winter. It's gonna be raising the ocean temperatures.
It's going to batter the coast. We're gonna see maybe
heavy heavy rainfall and flooding, especially mud slides in the
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burn Scar areas. That could be problem.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Hey, Monk Samaro, this is La Pool, Dude. I've been
doing this over thirty years. I've seen some pretty good weather.
If this isn't the worst weather I've ever seen, I
think all those idiots should lose their job. They keep
trying to frighten us into this and that, and then
it never happened. So that's my say.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, I think on the one hand, I guess I
would be upset with folks who were selling as forecasts
that maybe weren't accurate. But at the same time, I
don't know if I would be. I'd like to be
hold that conditions exist that could be problematic. And that's
what a lot of meteorologists and researchers are saying, is
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that we are looking at the worst super El Nino
in history. And they said back in the eighteen seventies
there was a super El Nino that caused a famine.
Now they do qualify that by saying we're much better
prepared for these types of things now than we were
in eighteen seventy seven. But the Washington Post meteorologist says,
there's never been a super El Nino like this one.
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No one alive has experienced a supera like the one
that we are experiencing and will continue to experience. We
haven't seen all the effects yet, we're also talking about
La County preparedness for the big earthquake. We know that
the fault lines around here are under a thousand year
stress level and that they have to start letting out
some of that theme and the only way to do
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that is a big quake. So La County has officially
launched a preparation plan.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I think you should be talking about samburg And County
because La County is not really near the Crown Path
that is Sambordino County.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
That's fair. The co Hon Pass was referenced in some
of the research about this thousand year stress level on
the local fault lines, but I think the concern is
that a lot of southern California is on these fault lines.
So hopefully San Bernardino County is prepared for an earthquake,
Orange County, Riverside County, Ventura County, all the rest of us.
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But we just know that LA County is just this
week decided that they should have a plan, and a
big one in case it's it's big. So we're going
to continue to monitor that. Welcome more of your comments
at the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button, and
we will certainly play some more of them as the
show rolls on.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Hey Mighty, on the earthquake business. LA does not want
to prepare. It's all a hope. They want it to
be as bad as possible. They get more federal funds
they can reappropriateate, move around and steal.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. So I saw some comments like this that I
that I identified from our talkback list, and they're cynical.
And that's a cynical comment. And what's sad about it
is the cynicism is just justified. You've earned the right
to feel that way about government here in southern California,
especially LA County and LA City. You just can't help
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but feel that way based on experience after experience after experience.
They're going to respond.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Well, the problem is taxpayers will part of it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
All the holes liven high Yep, more cynicism from the
question I asked, do you think the LA government will
prepare as well for the big earthquake? And this continues
to be the theme of the responses.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
All right, Michael, this is Bob and the I E.
I think, what's that big great quick hits and the
politicians get through blaming Trump for it, then maybe we
can get down to trying to figure out what we're
going to do for the disaster.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yep, more censism from our responders.
Speaker 9 (32:16):
I believe our politicians like Mayor Bass will be in
Africa during this Calmino and Governor Newstone will be at
the French laundry hanging out. Yeah, doing nothing as always.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So that was pretty much the theme from all of
you who have responded so far about whether you think
we will be in good hands should the s hit
the fan. And I'm not mad at you for it.
You've earned the right to be cynical about the way
California and local governments respond to disasters, prepare for disasters,
or even handle day to day quality of life issues
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or basic functions of government. You've earned that right. So
who who thinks some of these leaders should be a
real got a mayor's race in LA right. There's a
heck ton of money being raised for that campaign. You
got an income at mayor who's embattled. You have a
city council woman who doesn't have a great record, either
a lot of people that even you cynex out there
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might respect, or dumping tons of money into that race.
We'll tell you the big money playbook in the LA
mayoral race and who is giving that money As Monks
and Merril continues KFI AM six forty and live everywhere
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Well you're with me. Merril is out, He'll be back
on Monday. I appreciate you keeping me company. As always,
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you can join the conversation we're having today. Open up
that iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and leave
your message up to thirty seconds long. We'll play some
throughout the program. There was a mountain lion spotted in
San Dimas and folks are being worn to kind of
day away right now. This mountain lion was spotted, prompting
warnings for residents to avoid the area. Well, we have
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an update though. Who's talking me? Oh remark from the
g twenty four hour news room. What's the update on
the mountain lion? Tranquilized and removed from the area. Oh my, now,
I gotta tell you, this mountain lion looked pretty well
tranquilized anyway. It always surprises me how much these bigger
cats can often look like house cats, lazy flopping about.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You're talking about your kiddies.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I have a couple of cats, and there are
times where you'll see a nature video of a line.
Of course, they're ferocious predators, but when they're having their
leisure time, like, oh, they're looking their pall and cleaning
their face too. And it's if you gave them a
big ball of yarn, I bet they'd have a heck
of a time with it. I'm sure. Okay, So this
happened earlier this morning. This mountain lion was spotted in
San dimas they were saying please avoid this area. The
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pictures that the Sheriff's department shared online, they just showed
this pretty good sized mountain lion hanging out in the
bushes and laying down and watching the world go by.
And they shot him with a tranquilizer. Yeah, they did,
see I think they could have just opened up one
of those big lickable treats. He would have come over.
He would have purred. You could have rubbed his belly.
(02:13):
He probably likes the scratchy on the belly. We all
like a scratchy on the belly.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I think a mountain lion would do more harm than
good even if you tried giving him a little belly rub.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, hopefully the tranquilizer wears off and he'll wake up
somewhere where he should be. Thanks for the update. Definitely
appreciate that very much. Some bad news on the weatherfront.
We've been dealing with this heat wave that just seems
like it won't go. It seems like it's broken a
little bit over the past couple of days, where I
guess our standards maybe have shifted a bit because we're
not just being boiled alive while we're outside. But my goodness,
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I know some of you in some parts of southern
California are still getting roasted. We have all the televisions
on here, all the local stations are on, and every
time the seven day forecast, you know, when they cycle
through the beach front, the inland areas, the valleys, the
deserts and all that. My heart is with those of you.
Deborah lives in I can say where you lived on
You've talked about it before. Woodland Hills. It's the hot,
(03:07):
hottest place. It's the only only place hotter than Woodland
Hills as hell. Yeah, I knew you were going to
say that.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I'm reading. You know, it's interesting that Woodland Hills was
actually featured in some of the analysis that I'm about
to get to. We've talked about super El Nino. We've
been talking about it all year. We knew this thing
was coming. We seem to be in the grips of
it now, but unfortunately it's going to get worse. And
I saw some analysis suggesting that there may be a
day coming up this year where Woodland Hills is the
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hottest place on Earth? Are you kidding? I? I'm not
kidding now. I you know, sometimes I follow some meteorologists
on acts who may not necessarily be affiliated with any
media publication or whatever, so I don't always know how
trustworthy or reputable I should say. But I saw that.
(03:56):
I did see that, and it does it does feel
like it's one hundred and ten there pretty consistently. It
really does its well. Meteorologists and climate scientists have all
decided to raise the alarm bells now because we've been
talking about super all Nino all year. We knew this
type of weather was coming, this humidity, the high temperatures,
super hot July, super hot August. But we're going to
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see some significant changes coming as the year continues, even
as we get into autumn, even as we get into winter.
They're saying the central Ocean temperatures they're tracking higher than
landmark his historical events. One meteorologist that I do think
is reputable. His name is Ben Nol. He's a meteorologist
at the Washington Post. He says this year's El Nino
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will dwarf the six other super El Nino events on record.
He says the rise in the central Pacific Ocean temperatures
will be about four point one degrees celsius by December.
He says that would go way past previous peaks back
in eighteen seventy seven, the when we had back in
nineteen ninety seven, in the one a little more recently
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in twenty fifteen, Here's what he says that chilled me.
No one alive has witnessed an El Nino this strong.
Look around, Nobody you see has ever experienced the weather
event that we are all experiencing. You think we're ready
for that here in southern California. I believe in Southern
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California we have to be ready for anything. You never
know from one day to the next, what the hell
is going on outside. I mean, the weather tends to
be pretty consistent depending on where you are, and we
do get some waves here and there of maybe high
heat or some wetness. But we're pretty tough group of people.
But this this ocean stuff is what I don't fully
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understand because they're talking about the coast water rising and
that could mean flooding along the coast. Of course, it
can also mean some heavy rain coming for us. This
this meteorologist over the wappo. He says, the notorious super
El Nino in eighteen seventy seven in eighteen seventy eight
contributed to a global famine that wiped out three to
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four percent of the global population, and this Alninho is
supposed to be worse than that one. Now, he qualifies that, like,
I'm not being an alarmist here. He says, we are
better prepared, Deborah for these types of things now than
we were back in the eighteen seventies. Hepe. So yeah,
I would hope so as well. And everywhere in America
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we'll be feeling it. I saw a forecast map showing
that there are god the do points I guess I
mean as low as the temperatures are going to get
for some of these folks. Overnight in the East Coast
and the Midwest will be in the upper seventies. And
even as we've been dealing with this local heat wave
for the most part, again, I know there are pockets
of the region that you're just kind of being roasted.
It breaks. By evening it breaks, you start to get
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a little bit of cool air. You can relax a
little bit. But I want you to think about this.
No one alive has witnessed in El Nino as strong
as the one we are experiencing, and apparently it's just
going to be getting worse as the year drags on.
Atmospheric scientist Ryan Mao noted that if the current extreme
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ocean model, if these trends are verified, that it could
rank among the most extreme climate weather setups experienced in
modern human history. For US, warmer ocean waters physically expand.
According to ABC seven in San Francisco, they say that
pushes baseline sea levels higher along the coast, and it
vastly compounds coastal flood risks during high tide winter storms
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will also be dealing with more of those ass excuse me,
atmospheric rivers in SOCl super all NEI patterns traditionally shift
the jet stream directly over the southwest, and that turns
routine winter storms into tropical fuel deluges and major mud
slide risks for those burn scars. We've also got infrastructure
to worry about. Coastal communities like Ventura all the way
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on the Orange County San Diego. You got a couple
of different threats. You got these high time king tides
coming in along with all of this relentless wave action
that could strip the beaches and threaten all of those
coastal railways and the highway corridors. And I'm going to
let you know this just crossed our wires here from
our news partners at City News Service, Metrolink is suspending
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its Orange County Line service south of the Lagunai gal
Mission via Hoo station for five days next week because
of expected high tides. So we're already getting a little
taste my goodness, my goodness, we have the best weather
on earth, but it looks like we've got to get
through this year before we return to what we're used
to and if the al Ninho doesn't kill us, the
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earthquake will in La County says it it's going to
do its best to prepare all of us for the
big one. What they're planning to do is next on
Monks and Merril.
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It is Monks and Meryl. Today is Monks without Meryl.
He'll be back with us on Monday as he serves
a much deserved suspension. We were talking about this cat
that's in San Dimas, this mountain lion, and that got
sheriff's deputies telling people, yes, say away from this area.
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This mountain lion is dangerous. But I saw the images
and I thought, this looks like a house cat to me.
You know, they're big house cats. They're scary, and there
are bigger cats than mountain lions that are very scary
and would have no trouble eating me or you. But
at the end of the day. They're just cats, right.
I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Imagine they just go out there with like a giant
little laser pointer, a little deal and here katy katy,
katy gatty and right unto the cage.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think it will work.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
They're just giant cats.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that's all you have to do. Maybe one of
those lickables. I know the cats love those. If you
had a big lickable, like a gallon worth of that
lickable sledge that these cats for some reason go gaga over.
Maybe a little catnip roll up a big fat catnip joint.
Mountain lion would love that. And we were also talking
about al Nino, and we've been talking about al Ninho
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four months now, and I think we're in the midst
of it. But what I've been reading over the past
several days from some pretty good meteorologists, not just here
locally we've got some good ones, but also nationally who
are very concerned that this super El Nino that we're
experiencing could be the worst one ever ever and it
could cause some significant problems here in southern California. I
know you might be tired of hearing about it too.
(10:35):
We've been talking about it a lot. What do you
think happens.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The way they're describing this anino. I'm expecting some hurricane
type weather, most of the state underwater, and a nine
point five earthquake just to top all off. If that
doesn't happen, then this is just a big overreaction.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I hope it doesn't happen, but I get what you're saying.
You know we're getting this forecast is amin. Yes, it
looks like the coast could be flooded. There could be
some significant damage to infrastructure. We mentioned that Metrolink is
closing part of its Orange County line because of high
tides that are forecast next week. But this super all
Neino forecast as the year drags on suggests that that
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infrastructure could be damaged because you will not just have
the high tides, you will have relentless waves beating against
the coast. And I read that it was like from
Ventura all the way down to San Diego could see
some serious disruptions like that. So it's something that we
got to keep our eye on.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Hey, monks, I keep hearing about this massive Almino. Wouldn't
it be something of this thing turns into a nothing
burger and it's like nothing at all, really, and that
would be something. But more importantly, what is California and
La County doing proactively to prepare for this?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Where are they spending the money, where they show, you know,
sheltering things up up, Where are they getting things handled?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Probably nothing. It's probably going to be all reaction bingo.
That's from Cliff. Thank you for that. Yes, I think
you're right. Unfortunately, we are a people here in southern California,
especially La County and LA City, that we're governed by
a reactionary leaders. And what will happen is if some
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sort of devastating weather event, you know, knocks us offline,
off the power grid for a while, or take some homes,
we'll all be lining up for our free grocery cards
and we'll have, you know, Karen Pass or Lindsay Horvath
will stand up and talk about how we're locking arms
and we're going to get through this together, and then
we'll go down to the Air Quality Management District. Means
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it'll basically look like a big boil heights situation where
there will be a lot of promises made that will
make us feel like even bigger victims than we actually are,
and nothing will satisfy us, and then the cycle will
repeat it. I don't think, I don't think we're ever
prepared for anything. I just don't. We saw it with
the wildfires in January of twenty twenty five, and I'm
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super concerned beyond the super El Nino about the potential
for the big earthquake. I know, folks in southern California
can say the big one and everyone knows what it means.
We're fortunate that it hasn't happened. In fact is some
analyst describe earthquake amnesia for people in southern California because
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it's really been thirty years since North Rich. I mean,
that's an entire generation of people who have not experienced
a significant earthquake. I know we feel the rumbles all
the time. I've lived here three and a half years,
and I think the biggest one I felt was centered
around Pasadena. It was about a four point two and
that was rattling, that was jarring, but the big one
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that could be devastating. So Supervisor County Supervisor Catherine Barger
had this of supervisors adopt a motion that is supposed
to help La County be more prepared for the Big one.
And this all comes after this new research that we've
discussed on this very program and also on our newscasts
and other programs that are there is a significant tectonic
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strain on the local fault systems. They say it's the
highest it's been in a thousand years and that some
stress needs to be relieved from this fault system. Recent
scientific modeling reveals tectonic strain on key segments of the
San Andreas and Santa Cento faults, especially near the Cajone
Pass intersection. It is at its highest level in at
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least a thousand years. Researchers say this doesn't mean a
quake is happening today or tomorrow, but accumulated tectonic strain
does not dissipate on its own. It only releases through
major earthquakes. So Supervisor Barger got the rest of the
supervisors together this week they adopted her motion. I want
to hear your reaction to this. I want to know
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if you feel comfortable, if you feel safe with our
local leadership, and whether we are going to be prepared
for either climate events, whether events triggered by this super
al Nino or the big earthquake. How certain are you
that we will have our ducks in a row? And
I will contextualize that by telling you what was in
this motion. It brings in doctor Lucy Jones. That's probably
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somebody you've seen on television. Every time we get a
little rattler, every time something shakes in southern California, they
bring on doctor Lucy Jones, and she's great, but the
motion calls for her to come in along with researchers
from cal Tech and UCLA to help guide the county's
emergency management strategy. I want you to think about that.
(15:43):
Does that suggest to you that we don't have a
strategy right now for an earthquake in Los Angeles County?
That only now are they thinking about putting this together
because there's research saying the big one any day now,
any day now, the big one, so we should probably
do something about it. LA County's Office of Emergency Management
has to present a comprehensive assessment to the Board of
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Supervisors at the end of September, and that should include
an evaluation of our readiness across medical centers, what our
critical infrastructure looks like, and how government continuity could take place.
But again, we've not seen a catastrophic direct hit earthquake
since Northridge, so there are a ton of people in
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this metro area who have never experienced a major trembler.
Do you think we will be in good hands when
the big one comes? I don't know, because I look
at what happens in Boyle Heights. It seems like an
underreaction and an overreaction and a no reaction all rolled
up into one. Our government at work. In fact, there's
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more on that story now. As the villain has been
selected in the Boil Heights story, open up the iHeartRadio app,
click on the talkback button. Let me know if you
feel confident that we are safe here in southern Californi
and in good hands with our government. We'll also get
into the latest on the Boyle Heights disaster. As Monks
and Merrill continues and Friday rolls along.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFIM six.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Chris Merril's out, He'll be back on Monday, So glad
you're with us anyway, It's Friday and something to feel
good about. We talked a bit about this mountain lion
in San Dimas that shut down part of a neighborhood
because the Sheriff's department didn't think it was safe. And
I mentioned off handedly that I think, you know, you
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see mountain lions and you notice that they look a
lot like house cats. I mean, they're big housecats. Could
they do a little more damage to you? Of course,
turn to your pet. Sure, same for tiger or lion.
They all have the same feline qualities at their base. Right.
I'm not suggesting you should pet a mountain lion. I
just thought I was looking at the pictures of this
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out lying and it looked like it was having a
good day, lounging in the dirt, the way that your
house cat lounges in the window.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Maybe on the contrary, the mountain lion is going hereunkn
Mike Mak monk, come here, Mike monk monk.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, could have been. And you know what what's sad
about that is it would have worked on me. It
absolutely would have.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Look what it comes down to is people who are
living in urban areas where wild animals are going to
be present, and people lose their underwear when a wild
animal is present in those areas, and do it a
drought and due to other environmental situations, animals are going
to come out the mountains every now and then.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But I'm really glad.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
They didn't kill the animal. I'm glad to recut relocated
it and that the mountain lion is fine. But people
shouldn't lose their pants over a wild animal when you're
living in that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I suppose it's easier said than done not to lose
your pants over a wild animal. There was a video
going viral this week about, you know, a bear cub,
a cute looking little bear cub that was on top
of a car in this passing car trying to figure
out whether they needed to help this baby bear cub
get down, because baby bear cubs look adorable. But when
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you see a baby bear cub, you're supposed to assume
that mama bear is nearby, and it turned out she was.
She was locked inside the vehicle that she had broken into,
and the baby bear was really just trying to get
to her, and obviously those people ran off. They were
terrified of the big bear. I don't know how you know,
we have ideas about how we might react should we
come face to face with a part of nature that
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scares us a little bit. But until it actually happens,
we don't know, And I don't know how I would
react if I saw this mountain lion in person, and
I'm only looking at the pictures and thinking it's kind
of cute, you know it's but they tranquilized it, and
they've relocated it so that cat will wake up somewhere
more appropriate for it to be lounging. We also talked
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a bit about this Al Ninos situation and how our
local weather is expected to be severely impacted. Already has
been this summer, but we haven't seen the worst of
it yet. Apparently it's what media relogists are saying. It's
going to be bad across the country, but here in
southern California we can expect the coasts possibly to be
ravaged by just the beating sound of waves, high tides,
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coastal flooding infrastructure possibly being damaged big time atmospheric rivers.
So a lot of wet days coming up.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Hello, amongks and merrill.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
This is Larry from City Beverly Hills, California, and in
regards to this El Nino that's coming along.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
We've seen some pretty bad woods in the past, and if.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
California does the same thing they does in the pass, they
won't save any of the water. So my question is
what are the plans for the local and state level
to capture some.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Of that water. Yeah, I think that's a good question, Larry,
because that's the question that I've posed to everybody is
in general, is what exactly do we expect our local
government to be doing on our behalf right now and
does that expectation meet reality. We were talking about that
not just in the context of a Ninho, but also
the threat of this earthquake. We know that the fault
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lines here are, according to expert researchers, experiencing the most
stress they've ever seen in one thousand years.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Hey, on the Oninho thing. Water cap is so more
armed about the same temperature as white. Last week, my
boat Caplan came in with the tuna. It was already seared,
you know, and I think I think he knew something
to send out for free forty thousand buckets.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So when it.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Rains, we all collect water and we can use that
to solve the drought. That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Jeff, I like your idea. You like your idea. Let's
get it over to Governor Newsom as fast as we can.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I have more confidence, more trust that I feel safer
laying down next to that amount of and that I
do pressing the state government. LA is going to be
completely wipe off the map when something big disaster happens.
Some cities will fare better, but overall we're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I'm afraid I have to tell you the same,
having witnessed our government up closed by covering it for
so long here at KFI. Boy, oh boy, my confidence
is really really lacking.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I live in southern California, La County. Do I think
we equipped.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
To handle an earthquake?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No way, Not with our politicians right now, with our
governor or our mayor.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's sad but true your thoughts. Do you think our
government will get it together, prepare us or to respond
afterwards to a big earthquake, to any potential devastating weather
events related to this super El Nino? Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button and we'll play
some more of your messages. Not only do we have
(23:02):
the recent wildfires from last year. But we have something
even more recent. We've got this situation in boil Heights.
Seven weeks ago, Lineage Logistics cold storage warehouse burned. We
know it stinks to high heaven over there because it
had a bunch of food, tens of millions of pounds
of food, and some of that food is still there, rotting,
(23:24):
and the flies have come in and the rats have
come in, and the good people of boil Heights are
boiling over in anger because it's just been a disaster
that they were not prepared for. It does seem that
the government has responded, and it almost feels like an
over response to appease the people of boil Heights. I'm
(23:47):
not necessarily seeing inspiring leadership from city Hall or the
Board of Supervisors here. I feel like what we're seeing
is politicians who know a key constituency that is it's
very important to their reelection, is angry about something, and
so they're falling over themselves to beat up Lineage Logistics.
(24:08):
And I don't know if Lineage Logistics is responsible for
this fire. I know that as a company, it's been
reported that they've had fires at other locations across the country.
But we also know that they don't own this building
and that there was work being done on the solar
panels on top of this building at the time of
the fire, But the local leadership is really sticking at
(24:31):
the Lineage for this. They gave them forty five days
to clean up this mess. They expect to have it
finished by the end of next week, which will be
on schedule, and then by the end of the week
after next they expect to have the site sanitized. They
say it's going to cost them eighty to one hundred
million dollars in all, but that still isn't enough for
(24:51):
local officials. The Lineage logistics folks were hauled out to
the Air Quality Management District headquarters in Diamond Bar and
a bunch of boil high each residents were bust out
for a second day of hearings there and public health
inspections have revealed a severe vector problem. They documented live
and dead flies larva crawling on sidewalk perimeter walls and
(25:13):
streets on Union Pacific Avenue and so the county health
officials have increased potential fines up to two thousand dollars
a day. They are now under a new abatement order.
Lineage because of the decisions by the AQMD that they've
really got to get that smell under controller. They could
face even higher fines for that. LAUSD is also concerned
(25:36):
about their students. They are going to have students return
to their schools nearby and Boyle Heights. But the teachers'
union has sent a demand letter to the new superintendent
outlining what they have called fourteen requests, including soil, water
and air testing at campuses within three miles. They want
deep cleaning, they want air purifier installation, and they're even
calling for the facility's permanent closure. You know, if we
(26:00):
can determine what's happened in Boyle, Heinz's representative of the
type of leadership we should expect if a big weather
event happens again, or if if we have an earthquake.
But what we know is that the forecast looks bad
in terms of the super El Nino, and we know
that the Ellie County Board of Supervisors just approved Emotion
to start preparing for a major earthquake. Now to just
in how start doing that. We'll get some more of
(26:22):
your reaction. If you think we're ready.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You're listening to monks and Meryl onto the air from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Orders available anywhere on the Iart radio app.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Michael, my friend, if my particular housecat was the size of.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
A mountain lion, I bloody well would be in fear
in my life twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's fair, JT, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All I'm saying is I think the mountain lion that
we saw in San Dimas today that had to be
tranquilized in order to free the neighborhood of that terror,
was that kind of looks like it has housecat qualities.
All these big cats, you know, they they licked their paws,
they wipe their I think they probably walk in a
circle a little bit before they lay down. I wonder
if they cough up hairballs. Does anybody know if a
(27:06):
lion coughs up a hairball? See this is the type
of stimulating talk that you get when I'm left to
my own devices on kay if I am six forty,
here's another reaction.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
Hey, Monks and Merrile, missing half of you, me too.
Still love a show though, Scott and Spanga here. Yeah,
I had a mountain lion grab me by the leg
one time.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He was a.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
Semi domesticated mountain lion had been declaude, which is really tragic,
but that's why the handler had him, and we were
walking him on a couple of chains, and I was
convinced if he wanted to do damage to me, he
would have.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, so what I'm learning is I'm not to pet
the mountain lion. We've also been talking a bit about
the weather. We know that we're dealing with El Nino.
Is it a super all Nino? Kind of feels that way.
We had quite a hell of a heat wave, if
we can even call it. That just feels like a
hot summer at this point, a really hot summer all
of July.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Here we are into August. But this isn't the end
of it. We will be feeling the effects of this
super El Nino, according to forecasters, through the fall part
of the winter. It's gonna be raising the ocean temperatures.
It's going to batter the coast. We're gonna see maybe
heavy heavy rainfall and flooding, especially mud slides in the
(28:22):
burn Scar areas. That could be problem.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Hey, Monk Samaro, this is La Pool, Dude. I've been
doing this over thirty years. I've seen some pretty good weather.
If this isn't the worst weather I've ever seen, I
think all those idiots should lose their job. They keep
trying to frighten us into this and that, and then
it never happened. So that's my say.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, I think on the one hand, I guess I
would be upset with folks who were selling as forecasts
that maybe weren't accurate. But at the same time, I
don't know if I would be. I'd like to be
hold that conditions exist that could be problematic. And that's
what a lot of meteorologists and researchers are saying, is
(29:08):
that we are looking at the worst super El Nino
in history. And they said back in the eighteen seventies
there was a super El Nino that caused a famine.
Now they do qualify that by saying we're much better
prepared for these types of things now than we were
in eighteen seventy seven. But the Washington Post meteorologist says,
there's never been a super El Nino like this one.
(29:30):
No one alive has experienced a supera like the one
that we are experiencing and will continue to experience. We
haven't seen all the effects yet, we're also talking about
La County preparedness for the big earthquake. We know that
the fault lines around here are under a thousand year
stress level and that they have to start letting out
some of that theme and the only way to do
(29:52):
that is a big quake. So La County has officially
launched a preparation plan.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
I think you should be talking about samburg And County
because La County is not really near the Crown Path
that is Sambordino County.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
That's fair. The co Hon Pass was referenced in some
of the research about this thousand year stress level on
the local fault lines, but I think the concern is
that a lot of southern California is on these fault lines.
So hopefully San Bernardino County is prepared for an earthquake,
Orange County, Riverside County, Ventura County, all the rest of us.
(30:28):
But we just know that LA County is just this
week decided that they should have a plan, and a
big one in case it's it's big. So we're going
to continue to monitor that. Welcome more of your comments
at the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button, and
we will certainly play some more of them as the
show rolls on.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Hey Mighty, on the earthquake business. LA does not want
to prepare. It's all a hope. They want it to
be as bad as possible. They get more federal funds
they can reappropriateate, move around and steal.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. So I saw some comments like this that I
that I identified from our talkback list, and they're cynical.
And that's a cynical comment. And what's sad about it
is the cynicism is just justified. You've earned the right
to feel that way about government here in southern California,
especially LA County and LA City. You just can't help
(31:26):
but feel that way based on experience after experience after experience.
They're going to respond.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Well, the problem is taxpayers will part of it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
All the holes liven high Yep, more cynicism from the
question I asked, do you think the LA government will
prepare as well for the big earthquake? And this continues
to be the theme of the responses.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
All right, Michael, this is Bob and the I E.
I think, what's that big great quick hits and the
politicians get through blaming Trump for it, then maybe we
can get down to trying to figure out what we're
going to do for the disaster.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yep, more censism from our responders.
Speaker 9 (32:16):
I believe our politicians like Mayor Bass will be in
Africa during this Calmino and Governor Newstone will be at
the French laundry hanging out. Yeah, doing nothing as always.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So that was pretty much the theme from all of
you who have responded so far about whether you think
we will be in good hands should the s hit
the fan. And I'm not mad at you for it.
You've earned the right to be cynical about the way
California and local governments respond to disasters, prepare for disasters,
or even handle day to day quality of life issues
(32:53):
or basic functions of government. You've earned that right. So
who who thinks some of these leaders should be a
real got a mayor's race in LA right. There's a
heck ton of money being raised for that campaign. You
got an income at mayor who's embattled. You have a
city council woman who doesn't have a great record, either
a lot of people that even you cynex out there
(33:14):
might respect, or dumping tons of money into that race.
We'll tell you the big money playbook in the LA
mayoral race and who is giving that money As Monks
and Merril continues KFI AM six forty and live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
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Speaker 2 (33:35):
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