January 9, 2025 • 36 mins
With only days left in his presidency, Joe Biden says if he had stayed in the race he could have beaten Donald Trump. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will explain.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Michael, and your morning show is heard on
great radio stations across the country like one oh five,
nine twelve fifty WHNZ and Tampa, Florida, News Radio five
seventy WKBN and Youngstown, Ohio and News Radio one thousand
KTOK in Oklahoma City. Love to have you listen to
us live in the morning, and of course we're so
grateful you came for the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enjoy starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding because we're in this together.
This is your Morning Show with Michael del john.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Seven minutes after the hour onto are and streaming live
on your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show. Honored
to serve you. I'm Michael del Jarno serving assault Jeffrey
Lyons in the control room. Red's there. We were just
having a long conversation off the air. Joe Biden's not
even supposed to be in California, but what was he there?
To dedicate two statues right before he left for Italy.
(00:59):
Then he gets stuck there in the fire, and then
he brings up his great grandchild. Finally, what a mess.
The mayor knows the fire starting, she still goes where
was she ultimately headed? She wasn't she was coming back
through Scotland, but she was Africa, Africa, right, She's off
on a trip to Africa. And then that last clip.
(01:21):
I don't know what news you all heard. I'm national,
but we monitor. We pick a station just so I
can feel like the old days. I don't like to
be in like network silence for eight minutes. So I
actually caught a Fox newscast in what we were monitoring,
and they had the quote from from Gavin Newsom he
will not respond to these attacks by Donald Trump. He
(01:44):
will not lower himself to make this political. But what
if it is political? And as you're on the quote
unquote high ground, not making it political while lives are
being lost, properties being lost, you are making it political.
Newsom says, I don't want to make that. I won't
make this a political conversation. Kids have lost their schools,
(02:07):
parents have lost their homes. That's political. This whole victim
narrative now you're playing right into my soapbox. We're not
here to be victims, We're here to be victors. How
(02:27):
this happen? How could this have been prevented? What things
are being done? We're done, could be done? What can
be learned from this? They don't ever want to get
to that because they're a part of the cause. Now,
I am a stickler for timing. Hey, why are you crying, Judy?
(02:53):
My husband just died. Bill, Yeah, how cancer? Three packs
upon Mall's a day? Bad timing? Just be be sorry
for her loss and be But then we talked earlier
in the first hour. The way news cycles work today,
(03:14):
if you don't talk about it now, you may never.
So the first to come under attack is the mayor.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who refused to
answer a Sky News reporter, is facing criticism why she
(03:35):
cut the cities? I mean, Santa Ana wins happen, these
fires happen. How could that not be a major priority.
You're the mayor of a city. Your first and foremost
priority is safety. There should always be enough money for police,
(03:57):
always enough money for fire, always enough money for roads
and infrastructure. But what did this mayor do in the
height of what gaven Newsom would never make political? She
cut the fire department's budget by seventeen point six million dollars. Now,
getting back to red nice conversation off the air when this,
(04:19):
you know, dun, dun, circus music continues. I can go
layers deep on every level of this conversation, because that's
not even the cuts she asked for. She wanted twenty
three million dollars in cuts, got seventeen point six million dollars.
(04:44):
And where'd the money go? Oh, homelessness. Well, I don't
have to tell you. Homelessness just grew by about one
hundred thousand acres. And by the way, here's the best
worst part, at best, I think best about this. Most
(05:12):
of that money, the one point three billion dollars slated
for homelessness, sixty five percent of the one point three
billion slated for homelessness, most of it never got there.
City comptroller study found nearly half of that funding went unused. Now,
(05:41):
I don't know how many of these Hollywood stars. I
know James Woods isn't, But how many these Hollywood stars
voted for propositions that didn't happen, voted for politicians who
were ignoring forestry, ignoring water flows and dams. I don't.
I just don't know how they're going to reconcile at all.
Know that if my home burned down, the number one
(06:02):
priority of the fire department would first and foremost make
sure all of us got out alive than our animals.
Then they'd worry about putting the fire out, and then
finally telling me and the insurance company the cause. The
exact perhaps wire in the exact wall, in the exact corner,
in the exact room of the home. Nobody wants you
(06:23):
to focus on the winds. Already, the associated press came
out this morning. Fire hydrants can dry in southern California,
and they went dry just when they were needed most.
And of course the cause. Well, Los Angeles isn't the
only city to see its public water systems stressed by
firefighting demands as human cause. Climate change makes wildfires worse. Careful,
(06:47):
I just I'm a stickler for timing. I'm sorry we're
having this conversation now, but it doesn't stop Gavenussom Oh,
Donald Trump, this guy sound rageous. I will not. Schools
have burnt down, kids have lost their schools, parents have
lost their homes. I will not make this political, as
(07:08):
they're all going to be making it political. And a
real question today how much of this is active God
and how much of this is active ignorance? Voted for elected,
not held accountable, ignorance, wokeness. Who'd we say was our
caller of the day, Because I can't remember if it
was James or the Iowa. We played James again, I
(07:30):
don't remember which one it was, but boy did he
nail it. Will let James be the fill in for
the rest of this half hour. Whenever I choke, You
ought to just play James. Well I'm choking. James could
just keep saying it over and over again. But these
things are relevant. But when you start peeling the onion,
it just gets I mean, play the circus music. Why
(07:51):
is the president there? He's not there because of the fire.
He was there for a couple of statues. Then he
can't get He can't go to Italy now because of this,
may not be able to play The Kings, couldn't play
last night. Oh, by the way, I do have a
grand cent. I'll acknowledge it now that Hunter's pardoned. Hunter's
part Now I have a grandchild. All right, way to go.
Where's the mayor who cut all this budget? Oh, she's
(08:11):
on her way back from Africa, but she's on a
ramp right now, sharing like elevator space with a Sky
News reporter who's trying to question her, and she's just
gonna ignore him. Then you dig into the budget. She
wanted twenty three million cut from the fire department, got
seventeen million to give it to homelessness. That was already
sixty five percent of the budget. Why don't mayors serve
(08:36):
the citizens? They have just failed. And then if you say, well,
because they want to serve the homeless, isn't that Christian?
And then sixty what was it, fifty percent of that
money never even got to them. Nearly half never even
got to the homeless. I don't remember if it was
(08:59):
James arwa 's hear James. I think it was James,
jamesri and Michael Jim from Youngstown.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Again, you're looking at Dei fires from a Dei state.
This is Dei at its finest. They let the water
that should be in their water pipes flow into the ocean.
They do not clear cut their forests, and they are
sheer idiots with their management of the state. This is
(09:24):
what we see now. Maybe that the rich and famous
are affected, it will change. Have a great show.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean, isn't that the relevant question? I mean, we
went through the laundry list. I mean, you can't imagine
the people that have been affected. It's a who's who one.
If Anthony Hopkins is still going to vote the way
he was vying, I wonder if Brad pay basically, Ricky Lake,
Paris Hilton, Eugene Levy, I wonder how they're all voting now.
(09:56):
It's a relevant question. They didn't need DEEI, they didn't
need wokeness, they didn't need climate change narrative. They needed mayors, governors, firefighters, plans,
preparations and protections. And my only question of the day is,
(10:17):
if my house was burning, life is the priority, then
putting the fire out, and then determining the cause. Promise you,
when the cause list comes out, we'll never get to
the things we're talking about today, or at the rate
of the way this circus is playing out, that the
(10:38):
actual cause was a half funded homeless encampment fire because
the temperatures got chilly, it would be the perfect conclusion
to this, potentially seventeen minutes after the hour, thanks for
waking up with your morning show, not one, not two,
not three, but your top five stories of the day
coming up, and with only days left in a presidency,
(11:00):
Biden says, had he stayed in office. He would have
beaten Donald Trump, though he would have been unable to
serve the term. That more. When Your Morning Show continues next, It's.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
At least five now have been killed in the fires
in southern California, more than one hundred thousand under mandatory
evacuation as the fast moving wildfires continue. Five centralized fires
now being fought in the Los Angeles area wins a
lot better today. They'll be able to attack this by
air now and make some progress in putting them out.
(11:36):
President Biden has canceled his trip to Italy. He's headed
back to our nation's capital where Jimmy Carter will be
having a National Cathedral funeral today, of which the President,
Joe Biden will do the eulogy. And the semi finals
are tonight. Orange Bowl kicks off fourth seed Penn State
and fifth seed Notre Dame in Miami at the Orange Bowl.
(11:57):
And I have a true confession for you coming up
in about sixty seconds. I want to thank our new sponsor,
Burner Technologies. Now, I'm an owner, I'm a gun owner
and a burner launcher owner. I really love this technology
because I first and foremost have the right to protect myself,
my wife, my children, and my family. But I also
(12:19):
might be put in a place where I have to
make a split second decision that I have to live
with the rest of my life and may have to
face judgment for see Daniel Penny. And that's where the
burner launcher comes in. Legal in all fifty states, no permits,
no background checks. I own one, my daughters have one.
A powerful deterrent. It fires either tear gas or kinetic
(12:43):
rounds with a sixty foot range. One shot can incapacitate
an attacker from up to forty minutes, thus saving two lives.
Trusted by over five hundred government agencies, police departments, and
private security firms, you can check out our fourteenthud and
four and a half stars and above reviews. I highly
encourage you to check it out. It's a new year,
(13:04):
you need to prioritize your safety and this is one
of my real solutions and I think it will be
for you and your family as well. Visit burn up
by r NA burn a dot com slash del Jorno.
Get ten percent off your purchase. That's burn up by
r ni NA rather burna dot com slash del Jorno.
(13:25):
All right, so here's how my show starts. Gee, I
really think there's timing and it's important to discuss a
lot of this stuff. And it may not be while
holmes are still burning down and lives are being lost,
but it did come up. And you'll wonder sometimes with
the news cycle, if it's possible to come back after
(13:46):
the fact and have the conversation how much of this
is tragedy, how much of this is act of God,
how much of this is wins alone, how much of
this is ignorance and failed leadership? So then you start
getting into the budget cuts. Gavin Newsom, I think cleared
me to feel better about having a lot of these
conversations accusing Donald Trump of trying to make tragedy political,
(14:07):
as Gavin Newssen is making it political as political might
be the cause ground zero improbable cause. See the left
when this stuff happens, just want you to focus on
the kid's school to burn down, or the parents' home
that burned down. Victim, victim, victim, But what about policies.
(14:29):
David's not He's going to join us. We're going to
talk a lot about other things later in the third hour,
but on this one, David already Newsom's saying, don't make
it political, as he's made it political, as the AP
is already telling it's global warming. I mean, but I
call me old school. I just think there's a time
for these kinds of conversations. But I think they've forced
it now. And when you have a mayor that has
cut the budget asked for twenty three million, but cut
(14:53):
the fire department budget by over seventeen million to fund homelessness,
of which half never got there, and you don't have
the firefighter. And then water policies and forestry policies all
play a role in this. If not, now, when do
we bring these things up? Well, it's a fair question.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Michael. You're doing a great job today on this, by
the way, and I think your timing is exactly on
point because people are not paying attention. But what we're
not putting into perspective is the fact that California has been,
in essence, the political opposenter used upon for the entire
idea of global climate climate change. Now here's newsflash to everybody.
(15:31):
This isn't an argument about climate change. The climate's always
been changing. Study history, there's been massive climate change. The
question is in our era, in our lifetimes in the sixties,
we were convinced the seventies that that we were going
to have a global Arctic ice age, that we were
all going.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
To remember that one of my first back reports.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Right now the models have changed, and the computerized models
have said, no, we've got climate change and the climate
is getting warmer. Well, look the statistics or the statistics,
and nobody's are arguing about the temperature changes. The question is,
if you really believe it's happening, what are you doing
to mitigate against the inevitable consequences? As you spoke about earlier,
(16:15):
the perfect storm was inevitable. That Rogan quote made all
the sense in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Wars the winds ply wooden people.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Just why were they just soap boxing on the issue
and as a country, what are we doing to prepare
for the consequences?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, David, I hope with dawns on them is that
they were more committed and had an allegiance to a
narrative and a political agenda. That's why it went from
Agenda twenty one and catastrophic global warming to CO two, which,
by the way, as long as we're exhaling and animals
are passing gas you're going to have, you know, So
(16:52):
now it's just climate change, which of course is always
I mean, almost laughably could be viewed as seasons. But
we do have climate change. But that's not but that's
not what they're after. They're after a controlling exactly, They're
after a controlling agenda. But the specific questions about a
you know, a municipal mayor not prioritizing police and fire
(17:15):
and human safety for homelessness, of which that budget cut
doesn't even get to homeless and before this is over,
that may even be the cause of the fire, and
other preparations like you're alluding to. I think they are relevant.
Do you think and what to take a break and
come back and ask this question, But do you think
because of the homes probably who mostly voted for this
(17:36):
stuff that have been lost and the insurance company is
going to want to get to the bottom of it
as well, will this finally become a meaningful conversation that
this was not an act of God but an act
of ignorance. More with David Sonati from the American Policy Roundtable.
When You're a Morning Show continues, Good.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Morning, guys, This is Jeff in Pleasant View, Tennessee, and
my morning show is your morning show with Michael Dale.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
JOHNO.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning show airs live five to
eight am Central, six to nine Eastern in great cities
like Memphis, Tennessee, Telsa, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California. You'd love to
be a part of your morning routine. But we're happy
you're here now. Enjoy the podcast down the air and
streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show,
and because it belongs to you, can't have it without
(18:30):
your voice. I always joke, you know, I look around.
I felt this way when I wrote my book. I'd
love to I'd love to my my English teacher has
passed away, but if she were alive, she would have
died when she heard I wrote a book me of
all people because of my grades. You know, I always
say when I'm the smartest guy in the room, we're
(18:50):
all in trouble. But that's really kind of how it's come.
You know. I found through COVID I was smarter than doctors,
just because I need to ask the right questions. It
is with great pride that I tell you, if you
really want to understand how we got in this mess
in California. Sometimes a trucker named Keith from LA is
the best way to understand what the heck happened.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Good morning, everybody, Keith West Coast Trucker. I grew up
in LA, southern California, and I know of personally two
firefighters that left California when they tried to do the
vaccine mandate for COVID.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So just me knowing too, I.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Wonder how many others have left because of their crazy politics.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Love you guys. What we have is an out of five,
out of control fires, a level of destruction that was
anticipated and worried about and warned about for years. Some
will try to sell you it was the perfect wind
in the perfect storm. Others might look at this a
little more closely and say, this could be a perfect
storm of d ignorant voters, ignorant politicians not prioritizing municipal priorities.
(20:07):
This may be malfeasan's more than act of God. David Sson,
he's joining us from the American Policy Roundtable, and we're
all sensitive, well, lives are being lost and properties being lost.
Is it too soon? And I don't think it is.
To have these conversations, I'll ask the question this way,
and Red's already sent me a story about State Farm
already canceled about twenty five percent of their policies. And
(20:30):
I don't blame them based on some of the decisions
where they're being made. Whether the media talks about it,
Donald Trump talks about it, or Gavin Newsom tries to
defend it, or the mayor continues to ignore it. Insurance
companies are not going to ignore it. They're going to
look at these forestry decisions, these waterflow issues, these budgetary cuts,
and they're going to make it a determination as to
(20:51):
whether or not they're going to cover these claims. I mean,
that's coming with a lot of stars waiting on a
six million dollar check.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, you know it's interesting, Michael. The insurance companies still
have a philosophical perspective that acknowledges the term and act
of God. The problem is the global warming community doesn't
believe that stuff anymore, and they think it's all our fault, right,
they think it's an active associated presses lecturing us this morning,
it's all your fault. If you had listened to us
(21:18):
about human generated climate change, we would have fixed this. Well,
let's let's run a computer model. If we had done
everything that the global warming.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Culture, oh oh oh, call on me, professor, call on me,
wanted us to do, Yes, sir, mister Dell's jon or no.
Even if we turned off every electricity, we sat in
the dark doing nothing, drove nothing, went nowhere, ate nothing,
two tenths of one degree. I'm guessing yeah, we still.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Would have had the fire, and they still wouldn't have
had enough water. So the bottom line is, why are
we arguing over philosophical world views while our homes are
burning down? Here's an idea. Whether you believe it's man made,
whether you believe it's an act of God, the climate's
a very big thing. The last time I checked, even
(22:08):
Elon Musk hasn figured out which buttons to push to
change it in an instant, right, So how about we
prepare on the downside, which is hard for us all
to do because we live in denial. And is there
a greater area of denial in the world than Malibu?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Our time is so short together, I hate to use
it up for sound, and then I question whether or
not you're going to hear this sound. I pray you can.
I'm going to play two for you and the audience
real quickly. One is the Fox Business News anchor setting
up you know how much of this was act of God,
perfect storm, perfect wind versus active ignorance listens. Do you
(22:47):
think that criticism is fair?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one, that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so our hydrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need, and only
a fraction of that money has been spent, has all
(23:11):
been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So, David, to your point, that's why I thought it
was worth chiming in. Here's a proposition voted for funding
in preparation of such a thing, so these hydrants would
never be dry. None of it implemented. And now you have,
you know, the lecture coming from the Associated Press, Oh,
this is all global warming and that's why these hydrants
(23:34):
are dry. No climate change is real. It happens, It's
always happened, and we're in a cycle right now. But
these fires in Santa Ana wins also happen all the time.
And this was preparation made, voted for and then ignored
it and not implemented. That's going to be relevant. Did
you hit mute by the way, because I can't hear
(23:55):
you now.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And the AP Michael's not doing themselves any favors either,
because they're quoting experts in other articles who are saying, hey,
wait a second. If you go back to nineteen hundreds,
the western part of the United States and the ant underds
burned a lot, and it burned every year, and people
knew don't build out there. They knew there were certain limitations. Well,
(24:19):
we got really good on technology and caught a lot
of breaks on climate, and now things are changing and
we're not changing with it. But instead we're pointing fingers
and blaming. The people that are politicizing this are the
global warming community who want to blame people and beat
them down.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But that doesn't stop the fire. No, and then checked
it was water. That's kind of what we need is water.
Oh yeah, and the winds made fighting the fires from
the air. I mean, I understand that there were some
specifics to this that were worst case scenario, but that
doesn't make it irrelevant that the Los Angeles mayor cut
the fire department budget by seventeen point six million dollars.
(24:56):
Those are fair questions, the fair questions. Well, and then
I have that audio. So so she's flying back from Africa.
I think she's in Scotland waiting to enter the tarmac,
and a Sky News reporter wants to talk about it.
Now she asks for a twenty three million dollar budget cut.
You would think you're the mayor of Los Angeles. These
fires happened, they spread, These are annual battles, and you
certainly didn't want to have one, and it could happen
(25:18):
like ninety three, and now it's happened, and you cut
it for homelessness, of which only half got to homelessness,
and homelessness may still turn out to be the cause.
And this guy's asking relevant questions, but I cannot tell you.
It's the space of an elevator. I mean, he's just
the only person there standing next to her in her
handler and she's just acting like he's invisible and doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Listen to Evans from Sky News in the UK. We're
far chiefs say that they're really stretched to the limit
and running out of water.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
What are they want to say?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Have you no response to that. Do you owe citizen's
and apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret coming the fire department did by millions
of dollars? Not in there? Have you nothing to say today?
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
(26:12):
Elon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering
your position, madam mayor have you absolutely nothing to say
to the citizens today? You're dealing with this design?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Mean, what do you make of it? David? You run
eye voters for example? All right, so you know we
elect people, that's not the end of our participation. Then
we hold them accountable. But these are legitimate, serious questions
as lives are being lost, hundreds and hundreds, thousands of
acres and homes are being lost by some of the
biggest name stars to the tunes of billions nothing. Just
(26:44):
don't even do this, by the question.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
This is the the problem with being a utopian. When
reality crashes in on your world, you have nothing left
to say. And this is what we're dealing with right now.
We're dealing and it's silly, Michael, because we've got this
little silly statement we make all the time, all across
the country in political debates. Look, we all drive the
same road roads and fight the same potholes. Who cares
(27:08):
what your political party is?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeh?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Who cares what your affinities are?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We got to fix problems. What might be? Could this
be something that really changes things? Not, as John F.
Kenny would say, for the moment and for all time.
Could this lead to an awakening? I mean, we've already
got some kind of a I don't want to call
it a revival, but certainly a cultural awakening and a
political awakening in motion. What role does this fireplay I
(27:36):
mean in the epicenter of left narrative and ideology. This
could be a This could be a change, This could
have some serious political influence.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We've got to go back to that famous quote of
friend Francis Schaeffer. So we are as humans, we are
mugged by reality. Here's reality. Here's reality at every level.
And it doesn't matter what your politics are about global warming.
What we need is better policy and more water.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Narratives, they always die, and the cause of death is
always reality and consequence. David's gonna be back next tower
real quick. Let's get your top five stories of the day,
and they do center around these fires and devastation. Billy
Crystal and Paris Hilton among the celebrities who have lost
their homes in the southern California wildfires. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Billy and his wife Janis Crystal released a statement saying
the home they've lived in since nineteen seventy nine is gone.
They add that words cannot describe the enormity of the
devastation that they're witnessing and experiencing. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton posted
on Acts that her Malibu home has burned down and
she's heartbroken beyond words. She says the loss is overwhelming,
but she's holding onder gratitude that her family is safe.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Insurance losses from more than seventeen thousand
acres of Palisades fire could reach about ten billion dollars.
Daniel Martindale has the details.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
That's according to a preliminary estimate from JP Morgan Insurance.
It says most of the laws has come from homeowners
rather than commercial, building and business owners. At least one
thousand structures have burned and more than thirteen thousand others
are considered at risk. KBCTV estimates fifty to seventy five
percent of Pacific Palisades has been destroyed. I'm Daniel Martindale.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, you know the budget cuts to the fire department
in Los Angeles, and now that the winds have died down,
where are the fighters going to come from Oregon? As
it turns out, Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
We are mobilizing twelve Strive teams.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
They're made up of two hundred and forty firefighters.
Speaker 11 (29:28):
And sixty engines that will be headed down to southern
California to help.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Out with the wildfires.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
John Hendrix, with the Oregon State Fire Marshal says they'll
work to protect structures like homes and businesses. They'll be
there around two weeks. Oregon and California have a joint
agreement to send firefighters when the other state needs help.
I'm me Sa Taylor.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Local and federal officials say they're stepping up preparations for
Gasparrella in Tampa. For our Tampa listens, pay close attention,
and they're going to get some help from the Feds.
And here's why, Tammy Trehila reports.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Lonzo says the FBI is committing additional intelligence and technical
resources to Gasparilla safety following the attack in New Orleans,
campus police chief says the department is not aware of
any threats and has a vast and comprehensive safety plan
in place for both the children's and adults parades, which
draws them three hundred thousand spectators each January. I'm Tammy trheo.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Fans of Amazon Prime, and I'm one of them Prime
Video hit series or Reacher. I won't have to wait
much longer to enjoy new episodes. The first three episodes
of the show's third season. We'll hit the streaming service
on February the twentieth. New episodes of the crime thriller
then will debut every Thursday through March twenty seventh. Anthony
Michael Hall will join the cast alongside with Alan Richardson.
(30:42):
In sports Boy, What a four or five days of
football ahead? Starting tonight with the Orange Bowl semifinals of
the NCAA College Football Tournament Penn State Notre Dame in
Miami Tomorrow is what Ohio State and Texas forgot about
the Longhorns. Then, of course, have the NFL Playoffs, beginning
(31:05):
on Saturday with two games Chargers, Texans, Steelers Ravens Sunday
three games Broncos, Bills, Packers, Eagles, Commanders, and the Tampa
Bay Bucks. Finishing on Monday night with Minnesota at the Rams.
Already the NFL working on contingency plans for what to
do with the Fires, that Rams playoff game will probably,
most probably at this moment be moved. Kings, their game
(31:28):
was postponed on the ice last night in Los Angeles
against the Flames, and the best in the East played
the best in the West, and guess what, za Natti's
East one. The Cavs beat OKC, snapping a fifteen game
winning streak one twenty nine to one. Two. That may
have been a preview of your upcoming NBA Finals come June.
And birthdays today Princess Kate Middleton forty three, rocker Dave
(31:49):
Matthews fifty eight, actor J. K. Simmons is seventy and
Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page eighty one. If it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We are so glad you were born and
thanks for making us a part of your big day.
This is your morning show. This is your Morning Show
with Michael de Chuno. At least five people have been killed,
(32:10):
with more than one hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation. As now,
five fires in all continue to engulf the Los Angeles area.
I'm going to shut up and let the guy that
does it best to his job, our national correspondent Roy O'Neil.
Five fires, lessening wins, that'll help us fight it from
the air, give us the latest.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Done this right, and we are seeing more of that
airborne activity and will as the sun comes up, really
get into having this airborne attack on some of these flames.
The first priority has been to save human lives, and
a lot of those evacuation orders have already been up,
the people have been moved out, and now the focus
can turn to saving some of the structures there. But
(32:51):
more than a thousand buildings have already been lost in
some of these individual fires, and it looks like it's
going to take another couple of days to really get
the upper hand on thing.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I was just going to say. And the spread we
were fighting originally three now we call it five. And
there's been some talk about the it's spreading to the
hills in the Beverly Hills area. What's the latest done
all of that.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Yeah, we saw some of the activity turn to Hollywood
Hills and right about a mile from the Chinese Theater
and not far from the Hollywood Bowl that area. There
were some evacuation orders there last night. In some cases
people have been allowed to return. It seems that they
at least stopped the spread some of that particular fire.
Others have popped up that they've been able to contain,
(33:35):
like the Subhulvta fire that got up to about seventy
five acres That was a big concern closer to downtown
around around this time yesterday, but it seems that when
they were able to knock back because it was kicking
up a lot of smoke right downtown. Today is going
to be a pivotal day in this fire fight. As
the winds continue to subside, they're still pretty gusty. He's
(33:56):
still in that thirty mile per hour range, but nothing
like the eighty five even one hundred miles per hour
gus we were getting yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And while the battle continues to put it out, already
coming to the surface of the amount of people uninsured
or quite frankly, what these insurance ripples might be and
levels might be. Latest on that.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
Right and clearly, even when it comes to either homeowner's
insurance or businesses that are insured.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, we talk a lot about the homeowners fleeing.
Speaker 11 (34:23):
There have been a lot of businesses lost in this stores, restaurants,
hair salons, doctor's offices.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A lot of that stuff has simply gone up in flames.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
By the way, you see, Billy Crystal's house was lost
forty seven years there forty seven years in a house
in the Pacific Pali stats.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Imagine the memorabilia that was lost just in that one
house well, or even more importantly, the memories right. I
mean I was saying earlier nineteen seventy nine, that would
make me a freshman in high school. Our chateau State's
home in Kenner, Louisiana. Do you know the memories my
grandmothers and my grandparents were there, you know, first this
first that was there. We move a lot, so I
(35:01):
don't have those attachments, but you know, that's all irreplaceable stuff.
And you wonder what the influence of these stars losing
so much will be on this conversation. This could be
the biggest story of the year, in one of the
most biggest political shaping stories of the year. Right now.
It's an ongoing tragedy, and so we got to keep
our eye on the flames and get them out first.
(35:23):
The President, of course, was there for statue unveilings. He
gets trapped there. I know they canceled the King's hockey
game last night. They may have to move the Rams
playoff game, and at some point the President's got to
get to Washington, d c. Today to do the eulogy
for Jimmy Carter's National Service. It's right crazy stuff. Yeah,
(35:44):
he's back in DC.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
He went out there in part it was dedicating a
national monument and then also for the birth of his
great granddaughter. I think it's his first great grandchold, which is.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The real reason it was out there.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
And then yeah, now he's got to deliver the eulogy today.
He did cancel the trip to Rome the Vatican over
the next three days to stay in Washington.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Boy, one of your busier weeks of your career. So
great to have you as a resource. Roy O'Neil, thank you.
We'll talk again tomorrow fifty eight minutes after the hour.
We're gonna take a break for your local news. When
we come back. All this talk about Biden sabotaging offshore drilling,
what is the role of energy production, refining, and energy
independence in the health of our economy. We'll ask our
(36:26):
economists to money with David Boonson and more on Jimmy
Carter's funeral as well with White House correspondent John Decker.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
All straight ahead, We're all in this together. This is
your morning Show with Michael Ndhild Joano
Hi, I'm Michael, and your morning show is heard on
great radio stations across the country like one oh five,
nine twelve fifty WHNZ and Tampa, Florida, News Radio five
seventy WKBN and Youngstown, Ohio and News Radio one thousand
KTOK in Oklahoma City. Love to have you listen to
us live in the morning, and of course we're so
grateful you came for the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enjoy starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding because we're in this together.
This is your Morning Show with Michael del john.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Seven minutes after the hour onto are and streaming live
on your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show. Honored
to serve you. I'm Michael del Jarno serving assault Jeffrey
Lyons in the control room. Red's there. We were just
having a long conversation off the air. Joe Biden's not
even supposed to be in California, but what was he there?
To dedicate two statues right before he left for Italy.
(00:59):
Then he gets stuck there in the fire, and then
he brings up his great grandchild. Finally, what a mess.
The mayor knows the fire starting, she still goes where
was she ultimately headed? She wasn't she was coming back
through Scotland, but she was Africa, Africa, right, She's off
on a trip to Africa. And then that last clip.
(01:21):
I don't know what news you all heard. I'm national,
but we monitor. We pick a station just so I
can feel like the old days. I don't like to
be in like network silence for eight minutes. So I
actually caught a Fox newscast in what we were monitoring,
and they had the quote from from Gavin Newsom he
will not respond to these attacks by Donald Trump. He
(01:44):
will not lower himself to make this political. But what
if it is political? And as you're on the quote
unquote high ground, not making it political while lives are
being lost, properties being lost, you are making it political.
Newsom says, I don't want to make that. I won't
make this a political conversation. Kids have lost their schools,
(02:07):
parents have lost their homes. That's political. This whole victim
narrative now you're playing right into my soapbox. We're not
here to be victims, We're here to be victors. How
(02:27):
this happen? How could this have been prevented? What things
are being done? We're done, could be done? What can
be learned from this? They don't ever want to get
to that because they're a part of the cause. Now,
I am a stickler for timing. Hey, why are you crying, Judy?
(02:53):
My husband just died. Bill, Yeah, how cancer? Three packs
upon Mall's a day? Bad timing? Just be be sorry
for her loss and be But then we talked earlier
in the first hour. The way news cycles work today,
(03:14):
if you don't talk about it now, you may never.
So the first to come under attack is the mayor.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who refused to
answer a Sky News reporter, is facing criticism why she
(03:35):
cut the cities? I mean, Santa Ana wins happen, these
fires happen. How could that not be a major priority.
You're the mayor of a city. Your first and foremost
priority is safety. There should always be enough money for police,
(03:57):
always enough money for fire, always enough money for roads
and infrastructure. But what did this mayor do in the
height of what gaven Newsom would never make political? She
cut the fire department's budget by seventeen point six million dollars. Now,
getting back to red nice conversation off the air when this,
(04:19):
you know, dun, dun, circus music continues. I can go
layers deep on every level of this conversation, because that's
not even the cuts she asked for. She wanted twenty
three million dollars in cuts, got seventeen point six million dollars.
(04:44):
And where'd the money go? Oh, homelessness. Well, I don't
have to tell you. Homelessness just grew by about one
hundred thousand acres. And by the way, here's the best
worst part, at best, I think best about this. Most
(05:12):
of that money, the one point three billion dollars slated
for homelessness, sixty five percent of the one point three
billion slated for homelessness, most of it never got there.
City comptroller study found nearly half of that funding went unused. Now,
(05:41):
I don't know how many of these Hollywood stars. I
know James Woods isn't, But how many these Hollywood stars
voted for propositions that didn't happen, voted for politicians who
were ignoring forestry, ignoring water flows and dams. I don't.
I just don't know how they're going to reconcile at all.
Know that if my home burned down, the number one
(06:02):
priority of the fire department would first and foremost make
sure all of us got out alive than our animals.
Then they'd worry about putting the fire out, and then
finally telling me and the insurance company the cause. The
exact perhaps wire in the exact wall, in the exact corner,
in the exact room of the home. Nobody wants you
(06:23):
to focus on the winds. Already, the associated press came
out this morning. Fire hydrants can dry in southern California,
and they went dry just when they were needed most.
And of course the cause. Well, Los Angeles isn't the
only city to see its public water systems stressed by
firefighting demands as human cause. Climate change makes wildfires worse. Careful,
(06:47):
I just I'm a stickler for timing. I'm sorry we're
having this conversation now, but it doesn't stop Gavenussom Oh,
Donald Trump, this guy sound rageous. I will not. Schools
have burnt down, kids have lost their schools, parents have
lost their homes. I will not make this political, as
(07:08):
they're all going to be making it political. And a
real question today how much of this is active God
and how much of this is active ignorance? Voted for elected,
not held accountable, ignorance, wokeness. Who'd we say was our
caller of the day, Because I can't remember if it
was James or the Iowa. We played James again, I
(07:30):
don't remember which one it was, but boy did he
nail it. Will let James be the fill in for
the rest of this half hour. Whenever I choke, You
ought to just play James. Well I'm choking. James could
just keep saying it over and over again. But these
things are relevant. But when you start peeling the onion,
it just gets I mean, play the circus music. Why
(07:51):
is the president there? He's not there because of the fire.
He was there for a couple of statues. Then he
can't get He can't go to Italy now because of this,
may not be able to play The Kings, couldn't play
last night. Oh, by the way, I do have a
grand cent. I'll acknowledge it now that Hunter's pardoned. Hunter's
part Now I have a grandchild. All right, way to go.
Where's the mayor who cut all this budget? Oh, she's
(08:11):
on her way back from Africa, but she's on a
ramp right now, sharing like elevator space with a Sky
News reporter who's trying to question her, and she's just
gonna ignore him. Then you dig into the budget. She
wanted twenty three million cut from the fire department, got
seventeen million to give it to homelessness. That was already
sixty five percent of the budget. Why don't mayors serve
(08:36):
the citizens? They have just failed. And then if you say, well,
because they want to serve the homeless, isn't that Christian?
And then sixty what was it, fifty percent of that
money never even got to them. Nearly half never even
got to the homeless. I don't remember if it was
(08:59):
James arwa 's hear James. I think it was James,
jamesri and Michael Jim from Youngstown.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Again, you're looking at Dei fires from a Dei state.
This is Dei at its finest. They let the water
that should be in their water pipes flow into the ocean.
They do not clear cut their forests, and they are
sheer idiots with their management of the state. This is
(09:24):
what we see now. Maybe that the rich and famous
are affected, it will change. Have a great show.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean, isn't that the relevant question? I mean, we
went through the laundry list. I mean, you can't imagine
the people that have been affected. It's a who's who one.
If Anthony Hopkins is still going to vote the way
he was vying, I wonder if Brad pay basically, Ricky Lake,
Paris Hilton, Eugene Levy, I wonder how they're all voting now.
(09:56):
It's a relevant question. They didn't need DEEI, they didn't
need wokeness, they didn't need climate change narrative. They needed mayors, governors, firefighters, plans,
preparations and protections. And my only question of the day is,
(10:17):
if my house was burning, life is the priority, then
putting the fire out, and then determining the cause. Promise you,
when the cause list comes out, we'll never get to
the things we're talking about today, or at the rate
of the way this circus is playing out, that the
(10:38):
actual cause was a half funded homeless encampment fire because
the temperatures got chilly, it would be the perfect conclusion
to this, potentially seventeen minutes after the hour, thanks for
waking up with your morning show, not one, not two,
not three, but your top five stories of the day
coming up, and with only days left in a presidency,
(11:00):
Biden says, had he stayed in office. He would have
beaten Donald Trump, though he would have been unable to
serve the term. That more. When Your Morning Show continues next, It's.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Your Morning Show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
At least five now have been killed in the fires
in southern California, more than one hundred thousand under mandatory
evacuation as the fast moving wildfires continue. Five centralized fires
now being fought in the Los Angeles area wins a
lot better today. They'll be able to attack this by
air now and make some progress in putting them out.
(11:36):
President Biden has canceled his trip to Italy. He's headed
back to our nation's capital where Jimmy Carter will be
having a National Cathedral funeral today, of which the President,
Joe Biden will do the eulogy. And the semi finals
are tonight. Orange Bowl kicks off fourth seed Penn State
and fifth seed Notre Dame in Miami at the Orange Bowl.
(11:57):
And I have a true confession for you coming up
in about sixty seconds. I want to thank our new sponsor,
Burner Technologies. Now, I'm an owner, I'm a gun owner
and a burner launcher owner. I really love this technology
because I first and foremost have the right to protect myself,
my wife, my children, and my family. But I also
(12:19):
might be put in a place where I have to
make a split second decision that I have to live
with the rest of my life and may have to
face judgment for see Daniel Penny. And that's where the
burner launcher comes in. Legal in all fifty states, no permits,
no background checks. I own one, my daughters have one.
A powerful deterrent. It fires either tear gas or kinetic
(12:43):
rounds with a sixty foot range. One shot can incapacitate
an attacker from up to forty minutes, thus saving two lives.
Trusted by over five hundred government agencies, police departments, and
private security firms, you can check out our fourteenthud and
four and a half stars and above reviews. I highly
encourage you to check it out. It's a new year,
(13:04):
you need to prioritize your safety and this is one
of my real solutions and I think it will be
for you and your family as well. Visit burn up
by r NA burn a dot com slash del Jorno.
Get ten percent off your purchase. That's burn up by
r ni NA rather burna dot com slash del Jorno.
(13:25):
All right, so here's how my show starts. Gee, I
really think there's timing and it's important to discuss a
lot of this stuff. And it may not be while
holmes are still burning down and lives are being lost,
but it did come up. And you'll wonder sometimes with
the news cycle, if it's possible to come back after
(13:46):
the fact and have the conversation how much of this
is tragedy, how much of this is act of God,
how much of this is wins alone, how much of
this is ignorance and failed leadership? So then you start
getting into the budget cuts. Gavin Newsom, I think cleared
me to feel better about having a lot of these
conversations accusing Donald Trump of trying to make tragedy political,
(14:07):
as Gavin Newssen is making it political as political might
be the cause ground zero improbable cause. See the left
when this stuff happens, just want you to focus on
the kid's school to burn down, or the parents' home
that burned down. Victim, victim, victim, But what about policies.
(14:29):
David's not He's going to join us. We're going to
talk a lot about other things later in the third hour,
but on this one, David already Newsom's saying, don't make
it political, as he's made it political, as the AP
is already telling it's global warming. I mean, but I
call me old school. I just think there's a time
for these kinds of conversations. But I think they've forced
it now. And when you have a mayor that has
cut the budget asked for twenty three million, but cut
(14:53):
the fire department budget by over seventeen million to fund homelessness,
of which half never got there, and you don't have
the firefighter. And then water policies and forestry policies all
play a role in this. If not, now, when do
we bring these things up? Well, it's a fair question.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Michael. You're doing a great job today on this, by
the way, and I think your timing is exactly on
point because people are not paying attention. But what we're
not putting into perspective is the fact that California has been,
in essence, the political opposenter used upon for the entire
idea of global climate climate change. Now here's newsflash to everybody.
(15:31):
This isn't an argument about climate change. The climate's always
been changing. Study history, there's been massive climate change. The
question is in our era, in our lifetimes in the sixties,
we were convinced the seventies that that we were going
to have a global Arctic ice age, that we were
all going.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
To remember that one of my first back reports.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Right now the models have changed, and the computerized models
have said, no, we've got climate change and the climate
is getting warmer. Well, look the statistics or the statistics,
and nobody's are arguing about the temperature changes. The question is,
if you really believe it's happening, what are you doing
to mitigate against the inevitable consequences? As you spoke about earlier,
(16:15):
the perfect storm was inevitable. That Rogan quote made all
the sense in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Wars the winds ply wooden people.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Just why were they just soap boxing on the issue
and as a country, what are we doing to prepare
for the consequences?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, David, I hope with dawns on them is that
they were more committed and had an allegiance to a
narrative and a political agenda. That's why it went from
Agenda twenty one and catastrophic global warming to CO two, which,
by the way, as long as we're exhaling and animals
are passing gas you're going to have, you know, So
(16:52):
now it's just climate change, which of course is always
I mean, almost laughably could be viewed as seasons. But
we do have climate change. But that's not but that's
not what they're after. They're after a controlling exactly, They're
after a controlling agenda. But the specific questions about a
you know, a municipal mayor not prioritizing police and fire
(17:15):
and human safety for homelessness, of which that budget cut
doesn't even get to homeless and before this is over,
that may even be the cause of the fire, and
other preparations like you're alluding to. I think they are relevant.
Do you think and what to take a break and
come back and ask this question, But do you think
because of the homes probably who mostly voted for this
(17:36):
stuff that have been lost and the insurance company is
going to want to get to the bottom of it
as well, will this finally become a meaningful conversation that
this was not an act of God but an act
of ignorance. More with David Sonati from the American Policy Roundtable.
When You're a Morning Show continues, Good.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Morning, guys, This is Jeff in Pleasant View, Tennessee, and
my morning show is your morning show with Michael Dale.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
JOHNO.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning show airs live five to
eight am Central, six to nine Eastern in great cities
like Memphis, Tennessee, Telsa, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California. You'd love to
be a part of your morning routine. But we're happy
you're here now. Enjoy the podcast down the air and
streaming live on your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show,
and because it belongs to you, can't have it without
(18:30):
your voice. I always joke, you know, I look around.
I felt this way when I wrote my book. I'd
love to I'd love to my my English teacher has
passed away, but if she were alive, she would have
died when she heard I wrote a book me of
all people because of my grades. You know, I always
say when I'm the smartest guy in the room, we're
(18:50):
all in trouble. But that's really kind of how it's come.
You know. I found through COVID I was smarter than doctors,
just because I need to ask the right questions. It
is with great pride that I tell you, if you
really want to understand how we got in this mess
in California. Sometimes a trucker named Keith from LA is
the best way to understand what the heck happened.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Good morning, everybody, Keith West Coast Trucker. I grew up
in LA, southern California, and I know of personally two
firefighters that left California when they tried to do the
vaccine mandate for COVID.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So just me knowing too, I.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Wonder how many others have left because of their crazy politics.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Love you guys. What we have is an out of five,
out of control fires, a level of destruction that was
anticipated and worried about and warned about for years. Some
will try to sell you it was the perfect wind
in the perfect storm. Others might look at this a
little more closely and say, this could be a perfect
storm of d ignorant voters, ignorant politicians not prioritizing municipal priorities.
(20:07):
This may be malfeasan's more than act of God. David Sson,
he's joining us from the American Policy Roundtable, and we're
all sensitive, well, lives are being lost and properties being lost.
Is it too soon? And I don't think it is.
To have these conversations, I'll ask the question this way,
and Red's already sent me a story about State Farm
already canceled about twenty five percent of their policies. And
(20:30):
I don't blame them based on some of the decisions
where they're being made. Whether the media talks about it,
Donald Trump talks about it, or Gavin Newsom tries to
defend it, or the mayor continues to ignore it. Insurance
companies are not going to ignore it. They're going to
look at these forestry decisions, these waterflow issues, these budgetary cuts,
and they're going to make it a determination as to
(20:51):
whether or not they're going to cover these claims. I mean,
that's coming with a lot of stars waiting on a
six million dollar check.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, you know it's interesting, Michael. The insurance companies still
have a philosophical perspective that acknowledges the term and act
of God. The problem is the global warming community doesn't
believe that stuff anymore, and they think it's all our fault, right,
they think it's an active associated presses lecturing us this morning,
it's all your fault. If you had listened to us
(21:18):
about human generated climate change, we would have fixed this. Well,
let's let's run a computer model. If we had done
everything that the global warming.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Culture, oh oh oh, call on me, professor, call on me,
wanted us to do, Yes, sir, mister Dell's jon or no.
Even if we turned off every electricity, we sat in
the dark doing nothing, drove nothing, went nowhere, ate nothing,
two tenths of one degree. I'm guessing yeah, we still.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Would have had the fire, and they still wouldn't have
had enough water. So the bottom line is, why are
we arguing over philosophical world views while our homes are
burning down? Here's an idea. Whether you believe it's man made,
whether you believe it's an act of God, the climate's
a very big thing. The last time I checked, even
(22:08):
Elon Musk hasn figured out which buttons to push to
change it in an instant, right, So how about we
prepare on the downside, which is hard for us all
to do because we live in denial. And is there
a greater area of denial in the world than Malibu?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Our time is so short together, I hate to use
it up for sound, and then I question whether or
not you're going to hear this sound. I pray you can.
I'm going to play two for you and the audience
real quickly. One is the Fox Business News anchor setting
up you know how much of this was act of God,
perfect storm, perfect wind versus active ignorance listens. Do you
(22:47):
think that criticism is fair?
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one, that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so our hydrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need, and only
a fraction of that money has been spent, has all
(23:11):
been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
So, David, to your point, that's why I thought it
was worth chiming in. Here's a proposition voted for funding
in preparation of such a thing, so these hydrants would
never be dry. None of it implemented. And now you have,
you know, the lecture coming from the Associated Press, Oh,
this is all global warming and that's why these hydrants
(23:34):
are dry. No climate change is real. It happens, It's
always happened, and we're in a cycle right now. But
these fires in Santa Ana wins also happen all the time.
And this was preparation made, voted for and then ignored
it and not implemented. That's going to be relevant. Did
you hit mute by the way, because I can't hear
(23:55):
you now.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And the AP Michael's not doing themselves any favors either,
because they're quoting experts in other articles who are saying, hey,
wait a second. If you go back to nineteen hundreds,
the western part of the United States and the ant underds
burned a lot, and it burned every year, and people
knew don't build out there. They knew there were certain limitations. Well,
(24:19):
we got really good on technology and caught a lot
of breaks on climate, and now things are changing and
we're not changing with it. But instead we're pointing fingers
and blaming. The people that are politicizing this are the
global warming community who want to blame people and beat
them down.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But that doesn't stop the fire. No, and then checked
it was water. That's kind of what we need is water.
Oh yeah, and the winds made fighting the fires from
the air. I mean, I understand that there were some
specifics to this that were worst case scenario, but that
doesn't make it irrelevant that the Los Angeles mayor cut
the fire department budget by seventeen point six million dollars.
(24:56):
Those are fair questions, the fair questions. Well, and then
I have that audio. So so she's flying back from Africa.
I think she's in Scotland waiting to enter the tarmac,
and a Sky News reporter wants to talk about it.
Now she asks for a twenty three million dollar budget cut.
You would think you're the mayor of Los Angeles. These
fires happened, they spread, These are annual battles, and you
certainly didn't want to have one, and it could happen
(25:18):
like ninety three, and now it's happened, and you cut
it for homelessness, of which only half got to homelessness,
and homelessness may still turn out to be the cause.
And this guy's asking relevant questions, but I cannot tell you.
It's the space of an elevator. I mean, he's just
the only person there standing next to her in her
handler and she's just acting like he's invisible and doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Listen to Evans from Sky News in the UK. We're
far chiefs say that they're really stretched to the limit
and running out of water.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
What are they want to say?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Have you no response to that. Do you owe citizen's
and apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret coming the fire department did by millions
of dollars? Not in there? Have you nothing to say today?
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
(26:12):
Elon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering
your position, madam mayor have you absolutely nothing to say
to the citizens today? You're dealing with this design?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Mean, what do you make of it? David? You run
eye voters for example? All right, so you know we
elect people, that's not the end of our participation. Then
we hold them accountable. But these are legitimate, serious questions
as lives are being lost, hundreds and hundreds, thousands of
acres and homes are being lost by some of the
biggest name stars to the tunes of billions nothing. Just
(26:44):
don't even do this, by the question.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
This is the the problem with being a utopian. When
reality crashes in on your world, you have nothing left
to say. And this is what we're dealing with right now.
We're dealing and it's silly, Michael, because we've got this
little silly statement we make all the time, all across
the country in political debates. Look, we all drive the
same road roads and fight the same potholes. Who cares
(27:08):
what your political party is?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeh?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Who cares what your affinities are?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We got to fix problems. What might be? Could this
be something that really changes things? Not, as John F.
Kenny would say, for the moment and for all time.
Could this lead to an awakening? I mean, we've already
got some kind of a I don't want to call
it a revival, but certainly a cultural awakening and a
political awakening in motion. What role does this fireplay I
(27:36):
mean in the epicenter of left narrative and ideology. This
could be a This could be a change, This could
have some serious political influence.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We've got to go back to that famous quote of
friend Francis Schaeffer. So we are as humans, we are
mugged by reality. Here's reality. Here's reality at every level.
And it doesn't matter what your politics are about global warming.
What we need is better policy and more water.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Narratives, they always die, and the cause of death is
always reality and consequence. David's gonna be back next tower
real quick. Let's get your top five stories of the day,
and they do center around these fires and devastation. Billy
Crystal and Paris Hilton among the celebrities who have lost
their homes in the southern California wildfires. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Billy and his wife Janis Crystal released a statement saying
the home they've lived in since nineteen seventy nine is gone.
They add that words cannot describe the enormity of the
devastation that they're witnessing and experiencing. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton posted
on Acts that her Malibu home has burned down and
she's heartbroken beyond words. She says the loss is overwhelming,
but she's holding onder gratitude that her family is safe.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm Mark Mayfield. Insurance losses from more than seventeen thousand
acres of Palisades fire could reach about ten billion dollars.
Daniel Martindale has the details.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
That's according to a preliminary estimate from JP Morgan Insurance.
It says most of the laws has come from homeowners
rather than commercial, building and business owners. At least one
thousand structures have burned and more than thirteen thousand others
are considered at risk. KBCTV estimates fifty to seventy five
percent of Pacific Palisades has been destroyed. I'm Daniel Martindale.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, you know the budget cuts to the fire department
in Los Angeles, and now that the winds have died down,
where are the fighters going to come from Oregon? As
it turns out, Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
We are mobilizing twelve Strive teams.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
They're made up of two hundred and forty firefighters.
Speaker 11 (29:28):
And sixty engines that will be headed down to southern
California to help.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Out with the wildfires.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
John Hendrix, with the Oregon State Fire Marshal says they'll
work to protect structures like homes and businesses. They'll be
there around two weeks. Oregon and California have a joint
agreement to send firefighters when the other state needs help.
I'm me Sa Taylor.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Local and federal officials say they're stepping up preparations for
Gasparrella in Tampa. For our Tampa listens, pay close attention,
and they're going to get some help from the Feds.
And here's why, Tammy Trehila reports.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Lonzo says the FBI is committing additional intelligence and technical
resources to Gasparilla safety following the attack in New Orleans,
campus police chief says the department is not aware of
any threats and has a vast and comprehensive safety plan
in place for both the children's and adults parades, which
draws them three hundred thousand spectators each January. I'm Tammy trheo.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Fans of Amazon Prime, and I'm one of them Prime
Video hit series or Reacher. I won't have to wait
much longer to enjoy new episodes. The first three episodes
of the show's third season. We'll hit the streaming service
on February the twentieth. New episodes of the crime thriller
then will debut every Thursday through March twenty seventh. Anthony
Michael Hall will join the cast alongside with Alan Richardson.
(30:42):
In sports Boy, What a four or five days of
football ahead? Starting tonight with the Orange Bowl semifinals of
the NCAA College Football Tournament Penn State Notre Dame in
Miami Tomorrow is what Ohio State and Texas forgot about
the Longhorns. Then, of course, have the NFL Playoffs, beginning
(31:05):
on Saturday with two games Chargers, Texans, Steelers Ravens Sunday
three games Broncos, Bills, Packers, Eagles, Commanders, and the Tampa
Bay Bucks. Finishing on Monday night with Minnesota at the Rams.
Already the NFL working on contingency plans for what to
do with the Fires, that Rams playoff game will probably,
most probably at this moment be moved. Kings, their game
(31:28):
was postponed on the ice last night in Los Angeles
against the Flames, and the best in the East played
the best in the West, and guess what, za Natti's
East one. The Cavs beat OKC, snapping a fifteen game
winning streak one twenty nine to one. Two. That may
have been a preview of your upcoming NBA Finals come June.
And birthdays today Princess Kate Middleton forty three, rocker Dave
(31:49):
Matthews fifty eight, actor J. K. Simmons is seventy and
Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page eighty one. If it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We are so glad you were born and
thanks for making us a part of your big day.
This is your morning show. This is your Morning Show
with Michael de Chuno. At least five people have been killed,
(32:10):
with more than one hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation. As now,
five fires in all continue to engulf the Los Angeles area.
I'm going to shut up and let the guy that
does it best to his job, our national correspondent Roy O'Neil.
Five fires, lessening wins, that'll help us fight it from
the air, give us the latest.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Done this right, and we are seeing more of that
airborne activity and will as the sun comes up, really
get into having this airborne attack on some of these flames.
The first priority has been to save human lives, and
a lot of those evacuation orders have already been up,
the people have been moved out, and now the focus
can turn to saving some of the structures there. But
(32:51):
more than a thousand buildings have already been lost in
some of these individual fires, and it looks like it's
going to take another couple of days to really get
the upper hand on thing.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I was just going to say. And the spread we
were fighting originally three now we call it five. And
there's been some talk about the it's spreading to the
hills in the Beverly Hills area. What's the latest done
all of that.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Yeah, we saw some of the activity turn to Hollywood
Hills and right about a mile from the Chinese Theater
and not far from the Hollywood Bowl that area. There
were some evacuation orders there last night. In some cases
people have been allowed to return. It seems that they
at least stopped the spread some of that particular fire.
Others have popped up that they've been able to contain,
(33:35):
like the Subhulvta fire that got up to about seventy
five acres That was a big concern closer to downtown
around around this time yesterday, but it seems that when
they were able to knock back because it was kicking
up a lot of smoke right downtown. Today is going
to be a pivotal day in this fire fight. As
the winds continue to subside, they're still pretty gusty. He's
(33:56):
still in that thirty mile per hour range, but nothing
like the eighty five even one hundred miles per hour
gus we were getting yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And while the battle continues to put it out, already
coming to the surface of the amount of people uninsured
or quite frankly, what these insurance ripples might be and
levels might be. Latest on that.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
Right and clearly, even when it comes to either homeowner's
insurance or businesses that are insured.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, we talk a lot about the homeowners fleeing.
Speaker 11 (34:23):
There have been a lot of businesses lost in this stores, restaurants,
hair salons, doctor's offices.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A lot of that stuff has simply gone up in flames.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
By the way, you see, Billy Crystal's house was lost
forty seven years there forty seven years in a house
in the Pacific Pali stats.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Imagine the memorabilia that was lost just in that one
house well, or even more importantly, the memories right. I
mean I was saying earlier nineteen seventy nine, that would
make me a freshman in high school. Our chateau State's
home in Kenner, Louisiana. Do you know the memories my
grandmothers and my grandparents were there, you know, first this
first that was there. We move a lot, so I
(35:01):
don't have those attachments, but you know, that's all irreplaceable stuff.
And you wonder what the influence of these stars losing
so much will be on this conversation. This could be
the biggest story of the year, in one of the
most biggest political shaping stories of the year. Right now.
It's an ongoing tragedy, and so we got to keep
our eye on the flames and get them out first.
(35:23):
The President, of course, was there for statue unveilings. He
gets trapped there. I know they canceled the King's hockey
game last night. They may have to move the Rams
playoff game, and at some point the President's got to
get to Washington, d c. Today to do the eulogy
for Jimmy Carter's National Service. It's right crazy stuff. Yeah,
(35:44):
he's back in DC.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
He went out there in part it was dedicating a
national monument and then also for the birth of his
great granddaughter. I think it's his first great grandchold, which is.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The real reason it was out there.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
And then yeah, now he's got to deliver the eulogy today.
He did cancel the trip to Rome the Vatican over
the next three days to stay in Washington.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Boy, one of your busier weeks of your career. So
great to have you as a resource. Roy O'Neil, thank you.
We'll talk again tomorrow fifty eight minutes after the hour.
We're gonna take a break for your local news. When
we come back. All this talk about Biden sabotaging offshore drilling,
what is the role of energy production, refining, and energy
independence in the health of our economy. We'll ask our
(36:26):
economists to money with David Boonson and more on Jimmy
Carter's funeral as well with White House correspondent John Decker.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
All straight ahead, We're all in this together. This is
your morning Show with Michael Ndhild Joano
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.