January 29, 2025 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/29) - Art Arthur from the Center of Immigration Studies comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump signing the Laken Riley Act today. SoCal Edison wants to pass on the payment of damages from another recent CA wildfire to it's customers. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about LA County Sheriff's Deputies saving a 100-year-old woman from the Eaton Fire. More on the drones flying over New Jersey late last year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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The Lake and Riley Act passed and Trump signed it today,
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and that means if an illegal alien is picked up
and he is arrested for certain criminal acts, he can
be deported. If they had done that with Josea Abara
in New York City and in Georgia, then Lake and Riley,
that college student would not have been murdered Augusta University.
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She was out on a run, actually running at the
nearby campus of the University of Georgia, and she was
brutally attacked and raped and murdered. And had had had
the government on all levels been doing its job, should
never have happened.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And now this law puts it in black and white.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What must be done next time you run into a
Josea bar Let's get art Arthur on from the Center
for Immigration Studies to talk about this, because this is
this is quite a landmark today art.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
How are you, John, I'm doing great and thank you
for having me to dad. I wish we could be
talking about the American citizen who had managed to live.
But uh, this bill is a fitting tribute to her life.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Talk about the specifics of the bill. Uh, what what
what types of crimes does it cover? And what are
the responsibilities of various law enforcement if they run into
a character like jose Barr what are they what must
they do?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So a bar and his brother were actually arrested in Athens, Georgia,
which is where the killing took place, for tented shoplifting
from the local walmart.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And he also had an arrest in New York for
endangering a child. But what this bill covers, what this
bill requires is it forces DHS to take into custody
any person who entered the United States illegally who has
been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or assaultable law
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enforcement officer, or any crime that results in death or
serious bodily injury. So these are the kind it's you know,
a reactionary bill because it reacts to a horrible criminal event.
But it's also a common sense bill because you know,
these folks are here illegally and they turn around and
they commit one of these crimes. And we know one
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of the things we know about criminality is that most
criminals are upward defenders. Murder in broad daylight, which is
what happened in Lake and Riley's case, you know, isn't
the first crime most of those people commit. They commit
They start out committing these you know, theft defense and shoplifting, robbery,
and then they upward offend the more serious crimes. It'll
get those people off the streets. It'll also give state
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attorneys general, probably not the state attorney general in California,
but other state attorneys general the power to sue the
federal government to force DHS to take people like this
into custody, to not release migrants at the border, to
you know, hold criminal aliens until they can be deported.
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In addition to that, it also gives those state attorneys
general the ability to block wide scale parole programs the
sort that we saw under the Biden administration. More than
two point two million in admissible aliens were you know,
simply waved into the United States under those programs. So
it's not going to be possible for another Biden administration
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to come along and simply, you know, flout the laws
that Congress has passed as easily as the.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Last one did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So all the mandates are on Department of Homeland Security.
Are the mandates on local police or sheriff departments to
turn these over to DHS immediately?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, And that's really the big flaw in this law,
and quite frankly, it would be impossible, unfortunately, to pass
such a law. This law is depended upon not the
street cops. The street cops want to get the criminals
off the street and they want, you know, bad criminals
gone for good, which is what deportation does. It's those
political officials, the you know, the elected chiefs of police,
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the mayor of the city council, people like that, who
put up ridiculous sanctuary city laws that only you know,
provide sanctuary to criminals. Those sanctuary city laws not only
don't help you know, otherwise law abiding unauthorized individuals in
the United States, but in fact they harm them because
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most of these ailing criminals come from immigrant communities. Much
of the Lincoln Riley was exceptional because you know, she
was the United States and it was adversely affected. But
we saw so many of these crimes take place that
you know, the media couldn't turn away from it. They
had to report it, and that's why we know what happened.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One thing we were talking about at lengths last hour
is Tom Holman has been going on television. You've seen
the Ice Raids on TV, and they've gone through a
laundry list of the suspects that they've picked up, these
illegal aliens and all the crimes that they have either
been convicted of in the past or that they're suspected
of committing in recent times. And it is just the
worst crimes. It's all types of murders, rapes, sexual assaults,
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child sexual salt, pedophilia. I mean, I mean, honestly, you
pick like the ten worst crimes on the books, and
these guys have committed them.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And what keeps standing out is.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Why would let's say, a mayor of Los Angeles, Karen
Bass not want to help Holman and his ice crew
to get rid of these characters. At a Los Angeles
we are not talking about maids and gardeners and little
children and Grandma's we're talking about monsters, I mean, psychotic,
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violent monsters. Why wouldn't a Karen Bass or the La
City Council help ICE get these guys out of the city.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, the simple answer is that it's the you know,
dangerous confluence of sanctimony and ignorance. On the one hand,
they're ignorant of the fact that, you know, ICE is
there to protect the American people. But the sanctimonious part
is when they, you know, appeal to some portion of
the electorate, you know, and tell them that they're taking
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a tough stand. Remember Denver Mayor, the Denver Mayor said
he was going to, you know, form a group of
people who are going to block ICE from coming in
from doing what from taking your rapists off the street,
from getting your child molesters, your robbers, your kidnappers. I mean,
it's so utterly bri it's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
How can a public official cling to a notion that insane?
I don't know. If you saw the New York Times
Paul eighty seven percent of the country, eighty seven percent
agreed that criminal aliens ought to be deported. The percentage
of people who wanted the aliens to be left alone
was only ten percent. So who is Karent best representing exactly?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I had no idea. I wasn't in Los Angeles when
she got elected. But she's not doing anything other than
what she promised to do on the stump. And you know,
it is one of those situations where the voters really
need to, you know, wake up and look around and
see what's being done in their name, because every one
of these acts is being done in the name of
you know, the people who voted for these folks and
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the electorate as a whole. So yeah, I mean, you know,
it is that ten percent of the population, who you know,
is who either has their head in the sand or alternatively,
they are so open minded that they think, you know,
even criminals should be allowed to, you know, seek a
better life in the United.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
All right, but it's only ten percent.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Okay, the ten percent of the country is out of
their minds on many issues. But it's I mean, why
is why does a Karen Bass represent ten percent when
eighty seven percent of the public, including I think a
huge percentage of Democrats, want these guys put away, deported,
never to be seen again.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm just astonished by this.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Which is, you know, really underscores John, how important the
role that Tom Homan is playing right now, because part
of that role is public relations, part of that role
is political. I mean plainly, you know, he's out there
and forcing the laws, out there with the officers and
agents who are enforcing the law. But part of it
is to underscore exactly the points that you're making. Look,
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these are the people that were going after, These are
the dangers that we're taking off the street. This is
the impact that this is having on the lives of
Lake and Riley and tens of Earf, not hundreds of
Lake and Riley whose names we just don't know. Which
is you know why. It was a masterstroke on Trump's
part to make Tom hommand the borders are you know,
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that's not a role that exists in our political order,
but he created it so that there'd be somebody out
there who could put names and faces to the bad
people who are harming our communities.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
All Right, Art Arthur from Center for Immigration Studies, thank
you for coming on. Thanks so much, John, all right,
and we're gonna continue more.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Alex Stone is coming up after the two thirty news.
He's got audio from the La County Sheriff's Department of
two deputies. This is bodycam audio checking a senior living
apartment in Altadena, and there's a one hundred year old
woman standing in there with a walker and she's the
last one left.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
It was so crazy. I saw the video this morning
on the news.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, yeah, I will. I assume he's got the audio
and we'll play. Sure we have a co Lee report
and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Edison.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think we explained yesterday again how terribly dangerous these
utility companies are to our lives. Southern California. Edison some
years ago was found liable for the twenty seventeen Thomas
wildfire in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, and it is
now it's now asking to pass the one point six
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billion dollars in damages it has to pay. Wants to
pass that cost to the right pairs.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Now, who in their right mind is going to agree
to that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's the California Public Utilities Commission.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Okay, So the California Public Utilities Commission should say you
are nuts, you are responsible.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Why would you make innocent people pay more?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Edison also wants us to cover five and a half
billion dollars from the Woolsey fire in Ventura and La Counties,
so you'll get they if they pass. If the Public
Utilities Commission passes both measures, Edison customers will have a
two percent surcharge on their bills for the next thirty years.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No thirty years, but no, seriously, this makes zero sense.
So you're you're trying, You're you're making innocent people pay
more money for a problem that it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Was your fault. Punish the customers, punish the customers.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The customers pay you billions of dollars to run your
electrical system properly. They refuse to spend money on burying
the transmission line.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Which makes first of all, that should be the number
one priority. Not only is it dangerous, but it's ugly.
Who wants to see those lines everywhere? I sure don't.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And they don't bury the lines, they don't de energize
the lines in time, and then the fires break out
and let people die, and.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Then there's u and then they have to pay for lawsuits.
So now that they're going to be transferring money to
the innocent people paid so much money to them.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
In the first place.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's always our fault. It's our fault for being a customer.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
But somebody needs to talk to the California Public Utilities
Commission and say, and a story, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, they don't have the money. See, they end up
going bankrupt, and then they go bankrupt. And when PG
and E was going bankrupt, Knewsom set up a taxpayer fund.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yah.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I know, Well there has to be a different way.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
There has to be a fund. You can't go back
to the taxpayers. The taxpayers they suffered enough if we
had fires.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If we had some kind of like at least a
public humiliation ritual for the energy executive.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Absolutely we should.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We'd get that kind of satisfaction out of it.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Oh, you should do that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's like I'll pay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The two percent increase, but you know, I want to
watch you barbecue for a few hours.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
This is this is maddening, This is insane.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I it says here the the company would only get
probably sixty percent of the two and a half billion
dollars it requested for the Thomas fire, So a billion
would have to be picked up by the company and
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its shareholders. And so I mean that's the money they're
looking to get covered, and people are on fixed incomes, and.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
A lot of people could barely afford.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, electric prices here in this state are twice
as much as the rest of the country because of
all the green energy mandate.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Well, there's no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I mean, I told you I'm a DWP customer, and
I don't understand it. I mean, we could be gone
for weeks and our bill will be higher than it
was when we were home for weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, the whole system seems corrupt, Like the whole industry
seems corrupt. All I know is that the executives from
these companies walk away with multimillion dollar parachutes every time
something bad happens, and it's so bad that they have
to clean house. They have to clean the executives out.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I wouldn't mind having a seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year salary head of the d doos.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, yes, And you don't even
have to fill up the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
By the way, is anyone going to address that reservoir?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You just have a whole public world has gone silent
on that nothing happens.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
You know, you were asking why people are still going
to support Gaven Newsome and are in Bass because people
forget about that and they're looking at what they're doing now,
holding the news conference and trying to keep everybody safe
and having people return to their homes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I and also they have not explained what caused
the Palisades fire yet. They floated the theory and it
wasn't that they didn't have any convincing evidence necessarily, but
they said, well, maybe it was that fireworks issue from
a week earlier, or maybe it was but that went
went dead too. Wow, we have an after action report
that's going to come out in six months. I don't
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want to wait six months.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Yeah, it's not it's it's ridiculous. And fireworks should be illegal.
I know people are not going to agree they are illegal,
but there should stop them.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I know, there has to be a way. Yeah, that
was stupid that I said that they're not illegal.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Because they are, but there has to be there has
to be some serious punishment. You know, I saw a
lit cigarette in my neighborhood the other day, right with
the winds and whatever.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
I mean, people are just so.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's tough living with the species. We got a lot
of stupid people really do it. A lot of stupid
we do. Destructive people and impulsive people, and uh you
get you get teenagers on New Year's Eve getting drunk
and blowing off fireworks. I don't know how you control that.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
And I don't care when people get hurt when they're
doing that, because it's just one less person that's going
to do it next year.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
When they blow their hands off. I laugh, like the guy,
what was it the Lakers celebration, Dodgers Dodgers, Dodger celebration,
right blue his handoff?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
No, that would stop it already with the fireworks for
every little thing too.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
We're on every day one to four after four o'clock
John Cobolt Show on demand. Let's get to Alex Stone.
This heartbreaking story. At least it didn't end tragically, the
one hundred year old woman who was left behind in
a senior living apartment in Alta Data when the big
fires hit. Alex. You got some audio of, yeah, yeah,
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this is pretty incredible audio to here. And so the
eaton fire we all know was exploding the morning of
January eighth, and that's when buildings were going up in flames.
It was a one hundred mile per hour winds. They
were beginning to subside as the sun came up on
the eighth. There were two well A County Sheriff's deputies
who aren't even assigned to Altadena, but they moved into
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to hell bout.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
They were put on the fire area and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
They were assigned to clear and already evacuated senior living complex.
They thought it was already evacuated, and they were sent
over just to double check, make sure everybody's out of there,
nobody's going in there. Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez,
and they got there and immediately they knew there was
an issue. That there was an elderly confused resident out
front walking a dog, just like nothing was going on,
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even though the fire was moving in and in the
buildings all around the area. This is what it sounded
like on the body worn camera as they got unseen
right now. So they told that resident to wait there
while they went inside, that they would be back to
take them out of the fire area, take them to safety,
but first they had to go inside the evacuated smokey, dark,
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without electricity. They thought empty senior living home to double check,
and the fire was moving in all around. You can
hear them as they go through beginning to clear the building.
They're also watching out for their own safety, to make
sure that the building doesn't begin to burn.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Apartment. Anybody inside Sarah's apartment, anybody inside just like monitor
looking out the windows to see, like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh, shoot that shirt.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So then John, They hear a faint voice down the
hallway and they run toward it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Hello, Hello, where are you?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Where are you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Perfect?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Where were you at?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
What? Which room were you from? I've been trying to
find a way out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Let's get you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Out here, Let's get you out in the darkness. There
she was using a walker and had somehow been left
behind with everybody else gone, everybody else evacuated that it
appears a staff and all the other residents. She didn't
hear the orders to get out when everybody else left,
because she uses hearing aids and they were charging and
she told them this, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, thank goodness, we've been yelling. Did you hear us
I didn't hear I'm deaf, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Shocked my hearing one hundred years old that asked of
don't lose me. And so we caught up with the
deputies today, Alconis and Martinez, and they they told us
that they wanted to treat her like they would hope
that their mother or grandmother if they had to deal
with the police and a wildfire, how they would be
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dealt with.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And Deputy Elconis told.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Us, I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was
relieved that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to save her and you know,
comfort her and get additional units there so that we
could help her down the stairs because she also had
a walker and it was kind of tough for her
to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And John, Deputy Martinez, said he's never experienced anything like
this where they went into a building thinking it was
empty and then they hear this voice in the darkness
saying help.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Back in my mind, I hope that everyone was out,
so you typically when I've walked many empty hallways searching
for things, but I'd never had anyone go out hill before.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So it was definitely very concerning. We got her out
to safety as soon as.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Possible, so it's not clear how she got left behind.
Nobody did a head count. Well, that's the question. The
senior living apartment, it's kind of off of Lake in Altadena,
ended up not burning, but they've been closed for a
while because they're in the fire zone and smoke damage
and everything. She's going to be all right. The LA
Sheriff's bartman tells us they're working now to reunite. But
did they have on site management there? I mean, she
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was in the body cam. There was nobody there, but
normally I mean, I mean normally there would be. There
was a front desk, and I mean it looked like
walking into a hotel. I can tell you after covering
the Santa Rosa fires in twenty seventeen that there was
at least one senior living center where the staff abandoned
it and people were left and they had no way
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to get out, so they left the elderly behind. Yeah,
neighbors moved in and started calling police and firefighters went
through the flames, and they called in city buses through
the fire. It was there's a book about it now.
It's incredible where they brought in. These city bus drivers
were going driving through the fire to get up to
Fountain Grove in Santa Rosa to get people out, and
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they literally in beds and in wheelchairs, just took them
and put them on these buses and got them out.
So this is not that, but somehow she got left behind.
But we don't know how. You would think they would
have a whole battle plan in case fire breaks out,
so that employees, everybody gets a you know, different quadrant,
a different floor, and maybe they do. I mean everybody else,
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minu person walking their dog out front, everybody else was
out of the building. And so somehow she seems to
have got overlooked. Whether they looked in her room and she,
you know, was in the bathroom in that moment, I
don't know, and we don't have a good answer for that.
The sh Sheriff's department doesn't either, and if there will
be an investigation, we don't know. But but she was
still there looking for a way out. That was funny
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when they said, didn't you hear us I'm deaf? Yeah,
that's but she's all right. But yeah, like I said,
they want to they want to reunite Alcohoniz and Martinez
with her so they can give her a hug.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wow, that's that's quite a moment to have it recorded.
Thank you very much, you got it. Thanks you, Alex Stone,
ABC News. I'm not up in one of those places
that that's it now convinced.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But if that was your mom or your grandmother, can
you imagine how you would feel that she was left behind?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I mean, yes, that's out of everybody. I really would
you have to.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Do a head count. You have to.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You're putting them, you're loading them on buses, I presume,
and you're you're taking them to safety, and you're missing
a one hundred year old woman.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
She stands out. She's got to be the oldest person there, absolutely,
and she can still move around. How did they Nobody
thought of her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I would think.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Because they don't they all the care because my mother
in law is one of the in one of those
sen you're living at us and everybody is assigned somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
They would know, wouldn't they go through.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Regular routines of emergencies.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean, we have plenty of emergencies in southern California,
be any number of.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Things, right, but that or you're just so freaked out
that this fire is coming that you just you just
want to get out.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You don't care about anybody else.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
No retirement home for me. That's it. Back to the
exit bag plan.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
Jake Coogan. He was with a volunteer fire group that
Gavin Newsom put together a few years ago and then disbanded.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Why was it disbanded?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It was a volunteer group and they could have been
used for the fire problems that we had a few
weeks ago. We'll talk with Jay coming up. This drone
story yesterday the news broke I think during during the
show and after thinking about it and reading some more
news stories. They didn't explain anything that we didn't already
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know or could have easily guessed. They said that the
all the drones over New Jersey, and there were hundreds
and hundreds of them for weeks. Was it was it
was approved by the authorized by the FAA. But they
never said, well, whose drones were they? The FAA authorized
that they could fly. They made it sound like these
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drones belonged to the FAA. They didn't. It wasn't the enemy,
I guess not, or they would have been fired upon.
So is this a classified military experiment that they did well?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
But wouldn't they just say that, Hey, we can't talk
about it, it's classified. End of story. But again, we're
still we're still talking about it. We're still wondering.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
People were totally freaked out about it at first.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
When it's classified, are you allowed to say it's classified?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Say it's classified.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You just can't say how you can't explain the classification, right,
I mean, you can say it's classified.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
That's not giving away anything because.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They and she was very abruptly dismissive about it. I
know everybody was raving over this woman.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Yesterday, seven years Frescoss.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I know, but they're all the same. It doesn't matter
who they are.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They don't actually answer the questions and they don't give
the details and the context in the background. So I'm
I'm still as curious as I was before. You know,
Trump didn't clear anything up. And they also haven't explained
why the FAA didn't tell New Jersey law enforcement or
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New Jersey politicians or the public all this, all this
information going all the way back to November. If it
was nothing, then why didn't you say it was nothing
back in November.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
That's the problem. Just be honest.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
This is why I can't stand Paul politics and politicians,
because nobody's honest. If you're honest, you're gonna you're gonna
make people feel so much better, especially a situation like
this classified. It's classified, we can't talk about it. But
you know what, everybody's going to be. Okay, you're not
in any danger.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
You don't need to worry.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I still wont to know what the experiment was because
it looked like something for the military.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Right now, If it's classified, they can't tell you, and
if it isn't classified, then they should tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
They also at the time put temporary flight restrictions over
parts of New Jersey for special security reasons. They didn't
explain why they did that at the same time saying
that the drones were were benign. There's just like a
lot of contradictions, and so she was so dismissive of
the whole thing, saying everything's fine, don't worry about it, because.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That's what she's told to do, I know, which And
then you kind of think, well, then, why are you
even talking about it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You're not going to give us the information.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
See, the FAA's role is to ensure that drones operate
safely within the broader national airspace system. It's legal to
operate drones under four hundred feet if you comply with
all the rules, got to avoid restricted airspace.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Why shold you that drone was flying by my bedroom window?
Oh yeah, right, Well that was your creepy neighbor though,
Well that was a real estate agent trying to the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Creepy real estate agent, yes, exactly, trying to take photos
of you getting ready for bed. Yeah, uh huh, using
his sales brochure. Hey, look what the neighbors are like, Hey,
you want to move This lady keeps her windows wide open.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We're going to talk now about the Jay Coogan. He
was part of a volunteer fire group that the state
put together, Gavin Newsom did, and then Newsom disbanded it
without any explanation.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And maybe he could have been used to.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Fight the fires, especially early on when we were way
short of manpower. We've got Debor Mark here and doing
the news today. Island. Gonzales live in the KFI twenty
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The Lake and Riley Act passed and Trump signed it today,
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and that means if an illegal alien is picked up
and he is arrested for certain criminal acts, he can
be deported. If they had done that with Josea Abara
in New York City and in Georgia, then Lake and Riley,
that college student would not have been murdered Augusta University.
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She was out on a run, actually running at the
nearby campus of the University of Georgia, and she was
brutally attacked and raped and murdered. And had had had
the government on all levels been doing its job, should
never have happened.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And now this law puts it in black and white.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What must be done next time you run into a
Josea bar Let's get art Arthur on from the Center
for Immigration Studies to talk about this, because this is
this is quite a landmark today art.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
How are you, John, I'm doing great and thank you
for having me to dad. I wish we could be
talking about the American citizen who had managed to live.
But uh, this bill is a fitting tribute to her life.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Talk about the specifics of the bill. Uh, what what
what types of crimes does it cover? And what are
the responsibilities of various law enforcement if they run into
a character like jose Barr what are they what must
they do?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So a bar and his brother were actually arrested in Athens, Georgia,
which is where the killing took place, for tented shoplifting
from the local walmart.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And he also had an arrest in New York for
endangering a child. But what this bill covers, what this
bill requires is it forces DHS to take into custody
any person who entered the United States illegally who has
been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or assaultable law
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enforcement officer, or any crime that results in death or
serious bodily injury. So these are the kind it's you know,
a reactionary bill because it reacts to a horrible criminal event.
But it's also a common sense bill because you know,
these folks are here illegally and they turn around and
they commit one of these crimes. And we know one
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of the things we know about criminality is that most
criminals are upward defenders. Murder in broad daylight, which is
what happened in Lake and Riley's case, you know, isn't
the first crime most of those people commit. They commit
They start out committing these you know, theft defense and shoplifting, robbery,
and then they upward offend the more serious crimes. It'll
get those people off the streets. It'll also give state
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attorneys general, probably not the state attorney general in California,
but other state attorneys general the power to sue the
federal government to force DHS to take people like this
into custody, to not release migrants at the border, to
you know, hold criminal aliens until they can be deported.
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In addition to that, it also gives those state attorneys
general the ability to block wide scale parole programs the
sort that we saw under the Biden administration. More than
two point two million in admissible aliens were you know,
simply waved into the United States under those programs. So
it's not going to be possible for another Biden administration
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to come along and simply, you know, flout the laws
that Congress has passed as easily as the.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Last one did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So all the mandates are on Department of Homeland Security.
Are the mandates on local police or sheriff departments to
turn these over to DHS immediately?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, And that's really the big flaw in this law,
and quite frankly, it would be impossible, unfortunately, to pass
such a law. This law is depended upon not the
street cops. The street cops want to get the criminals
off the street and they want, you know, bad criminals
gone for good, which is what deportation does. It's those
political officials, the you know, the elected chiefs of police,
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the mayor of the city council, people like that, who
put up ridiculous sanctuary city laws that only you know,
provide sanctuary to criminals. Those sanctuary city laws not only
don't help you know, otherwise law abiding unauthorized individuals in
the United States, but in fact they harm them because
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most of these ailing criminals come from immigrant communities. Much
of the Lincoln Riley was exceptional because you know, she
was the United States and it was adversely affected. But
we saw so many of these crimes take place that
you know, the media couldn't turn away from it. They
had to report it, and that's why we know what happened.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One thing we were talking about at lengths last hour
is Tom Holman has been going on television. You've seen
the Ice Raids on TV, and they've gone through a
laundry list of the suspects that they've picked up, these
illegal aliens and all the crimes that they have either
been convicted of in the past or that they're suspected
of committing in recent times. And it is just the
worst crimes. It's all types of murders, rapes, sexual assaults,
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child sexual salt, pedophilia. I mean, I mean, honestly, you
pick like the ten worst crimes on the books, and
these guys have committed them.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And what keeps standing out is.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Why would let's say, a mayor of Los Angeles, Karen
Bass not want to help Holman and his ice crew
to get rid of these characters. At a Los Angeles
we are not talking about maids and gardeners and little
children and Grandma's we're talking about monsters, I mean, psychotic,
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violent monsters. Why wouldn't a Karen Bass or the La
City Council help ICE get these guys out of the city.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, the simple answer is that it's the you know,
dangerous confluence of sanctimony and ignorance. On the one hand,
they're ignorant of the fact that, you know, ICE is
there to protect the American people. But the sanctimonious part
is when they, you know, appeal to some portion of
the electorate, you know, and tell them that they're taking
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a tough stand. Remember Denver Mayor, the Denver Mayor said
he was going to, you know, form a group of
people who are going to block ICE from coming in
from doing what from taking your rapists off the street,
from getting your child molesters, your robbers, your kidnappers. I mean,
it's so utterly bri it's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
How can a public official cling to a notion that insane?
I don't know. If you saw the New York Times
Paul eighty seven percent of the country, eighty seven percent
agreed that criminal aliens ought to be deported. The percentage
of people who wanted the aliens to be left alone
was only ten percent. So who is Karent best representing exactly?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I had no idea. I wasn't in Los Angeles when
she got elected. But she's not doing anything other than
what she promised to do on the stump. And you know,
it is one of those situations where the voters really
need to, you know, wake up and look around and
see what's being done in their name, because every one
of these acts is being done in the name of
you know, the people who voted for these folks and
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the electorate as a whole. So yeah, I mean, you know,
it is that ten percent of the population, who you know,
is who either has their head in the sand or alternatively,
they are so open minded that they think, you know,
even criminals should be allowed to, you know, seek a
better life in the United.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
All right, but it's only ten percent.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Okay, the ten percent of the country is out of
their minds on many issues. But it's I mean, why
is why does a Karen Bass represent ten percent when
eighty seven percent of the public, including I think a
huge percentage of Democrats, want these guys put away, deported,
never to be seen again.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm just astonished by this.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Which is, you know, really underscores John, how important the
role that Tom Homan is playing right now, because part
of that role is public relations, part of that role
is political. I mean plainly, you know, he's out there
and forcing the laws, out there with the officers and
agents who are enforcing the law. But part of it
is to underscore exactly the points that you're making. Look,
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these are the people that were going after, These are
the dangers that we're taking off the street. This is
the impact that this is having on the lives of
Lake and Riley and tens of Earf, not hundreds of
Lake and Riley whose names we just don't know. Which
is you know why. It was a masterstroke on Trump's
part to make Tom hommand the borders are you know,
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that's not a role that exists in our political order,
but he created it so that there'd be somebody out
there who could put names and faces to the bad
people who are harming our communities.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
All Right, Art Arthur from Center for Immigration Studies, thank
you for coming on. Thanks so much, John, all right,
and we're gonna continue more.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Alex Stone is coming up after the two thirty news.
He's got audio from the La County Sheriff's Department of
two deputies. This is bodycam audio checking a senior living
apartment in Altadena, and there's a one hundred year old
woman standing in there with a walker and she's the
last one left.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
It was so crazy. I saw the video this morning
on the news.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow, yeah, I will. I assume he's got the audio
and we'll play. Sure we have a co Lee report
and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Edison.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think we explained yesterday again how terribly dangerous these
utility companies are to our lives. Southern California. Edison some
years ago was found liable for the twenty seventeen Thomas
wildfire in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, and it is
now it's now asking to pass the one point six
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billion dollars in damages it has to pay. Wants to
pass that cost to the right pairs.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Now, who in their right mind is going to agree
to that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's the California Public Utilities Commission.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Okay, So the California Public Utilities Commission should say you
are nuts, you are responsible.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Why would you make innocent people pay more?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Edison also wants us to cover five and a half
billion dollars from the Woolsey fire in Ventura and La Counties,
so you'll get they if they pass. If the Public
Utilities Commission passes both measures, Edison customers will have a
two percent surcharge on their bills for the next thirty years.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No thirty years, but no, seriously, this makes zero sense.
So you're you're trying, You're you're making innocent people pay
more money for a problem that it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Was your fault. Punish the customers, punish the customers.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The customers pay you billions of dollars to run your
electrical system properly. They refuse to spend money on burying
the transmission line.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Which makes first of all, that should be the number
one priority. Not only is it dangerous, but it's ugly.
Who wants to see those lines everywhere? I sure don't.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And they don't bury the lines, they don't de energize
the lines in time, and then the fires break out
and let people die, and.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Then there's u and then they have to pay for lawsuits.
So now that they're going to be transferring money to
the innocent people paid so much money to them.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
In the first place.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's always our fault. It's our fault for being a customer.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
But somebody needs to talk to the California Public Utilities
Commission and say, and a story, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, they don't have the money. See, they end up
going bankrupt, and then they go bankrupt. And when PG
and E was going bankrupt, Knewsom set up a taxpayer fund.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yah.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I know, Well there has to be a different way.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
There has to be a fund. You can't go back
to the taxpayers. The taxpayers they suffered enough if we
had fires.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If we had some kind of like at least a
public humiliation ritual for the energy executive.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Absolutely we should.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We'd get that kind of satisfaction out of it.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Oh, you should do that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's like I'll pay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The two percent increase, but you know, I want to
watch you barbecue for a few hours.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
This is this is maddening, This is insane.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I it says here the the company would only get
probably sixty percent of the two and a half billion
dollars it requested for the Thomas fire, So a billion
would have to be picked up by the company and
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its shareholders. And so I mean that's the money they're
looking to get covered, and people are on fixed incomes, and.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
A lot of people could barely afford.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, electric prices here in this state are twice
as much as the rest of the country because of
all the green energy mandate.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Well, there's no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I mean, I told you I'm a DWP customer, and
I don't understand it. I mean, we could be gone
for weeks and our bill will be higher than it
was when we were home for weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, the whole system seems corrupt, Like the whole industry
seems corrupt. All I know is that the executives from
these companies walk away with multimillion dollar parachutes every time
something bad happens, and it's so bad that they have
to clean house. They have to clean the executives out.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I wouldn't mind having a seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year salary head of the d doos.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, yes, And you don't even
have to fill up the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
By the way, is anyone going to address that reservoir?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You just have a whole public world has gone silent
on that nothing happens.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
You know, you were asking why people are still going
to support Gaven Newsome and are in Bass because people
forget about that and they're looking at what they're doing now,
holding the news conference and trying to keep everybody safe
and having people return to their homes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I and also they have not explained what caused
the Palisades fire yet. They floated the theory and it
wasn't that they didn't have any convincing evidence necessarily, but
they said, well, maybe it was that fireworks issue from
a week earlier, or maybe it was but that went
went dead too. Wow, we have an after action report
that's going to come out in six months. I don't
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want to wait six months.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Yeah, it's not it's it's ridiculous. And fireworks should be illegal.
I know people are not going to agree they are illegal,
but there should stop them.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I know, there has to be a way. Yeah, that
was stupid that I said that they're not illegal.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Because they are, but there has to be there has
to be some serious punishment. You know, I saw a
lit cigarette in my neighborhood the other day, right with
the winds and whatever.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
I mean, people are just so.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's tough living with the species. We got a lot
of stupid people really do it. A lot of stupid
we do. Destructive people and impulsive people, and uh you
get you get teenagers on New Year's Eve getting drunk
and blowing off fireworks. I don't know how you control that.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
And I don't care when people get hurt when they're
doing that, because it's just one less person that's going
to do it next year.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
When they blow their hands off. I laugh, like the guy,
what was it the Lakers celebration, Dodgers Dodgers, Dodger celebration,
right blue his handoff?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
No, that would stop it already with the fireworks for
every little thing too.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
We're on every day one to four after four o'clock
John Cobolt Show on demand. Let's get to Alex Stone.
This heartbreaking story. At least it didn't end tragically, the
one hundred year old woman who was left behind in
a senior living apartment in Alta Data when the big
fires hit. Alex. You got some audio of, yeah, yeah,
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this is pretty incredible audio to here. And so the
eaton fire we all know was exploding the morning of
January eighth, and that's when buildings were going up in flames.
It was a one hundred mile per hour winds. They
were beginning to subside as the sun came up on
the eighth. There were two well A County Sheriff's deputies
who aren't even assigned to Altadena, but they moved into
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to hell bout.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
They were put on the fire area and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
They were assigned to clear and already evacuated senior living complex.
They thought it was already evacuated, and they were sent
over just to double check, make sure everybody's out of there,
nobody's going in there. Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez,
and they got there and immediately they knew there was
an issue. That there was an elderly confused resident out
front walking a dog, just like nothing was going on,
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even though the fire was moving in and in the
buildings all around the area. This is what it sounded
like on the body worn camera as they got unseen
right now. So they told that resident to wait there
while they went inside, that they would be back to
take them out of the fire area, take them to safety,
but first they had to go inside the evacuated smokey, dark,
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without electricity. They thought empty senior living home to double check,
and the fire was moving in all around. You can
hear them as they go through beginning to clear the building.
They're also watching out for their own safety, to make
sure that the building doesn't begin to burn.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Apartment. Anybody inside Sarah's apartment, anybody inside just like monitor
looking out the windows to see, like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh, shoot that shirt.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So then John, They hear a faint voice down the
hallway and they run toward it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Hello, Hello, where are you?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Where are you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Perfect?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Where were you at?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
What? Which room were you from? I've been trying to
find a way out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Let's get you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Out here, Let's get you out in the darkness. There
she was using a walker and had somehow been left
behind with everybody else gone, everybody else evacuated that it
appears a staff and all the other residents. She didn't
hear the orders to get out when everybody else left,
because she uses hearing aids and they were charging and
she told them this, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, thank goodness, we've been yelling. Did you hear us
I didn't hear I'm deaf, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Shocked my hearing one hundred years old that asked of
don't lose me. And so we caught up with the
deputies today, Alconis and Martinez, and they they told us
that they wanted to treat her like they would hope
that their mother or grandmother if they had to deal
with the police and a wildfire, how they would be
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dealt with.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And Deputy Elconis told.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Us, I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was
relieved that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to save her and you know,
comfort her and get additional units there so that we
could help her down the stairs because she also had
a walker and it was kind of tough for her
to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And John, Deputy Martinez, said he's never experienced anything like
this where they went into a building thinking it was
empty and then they hear this voice in the darkness
saying help.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Back in my mind, I hope that everyone was out,
so you typically when I've walked many empty hallways searching
for things, but I'd never had anyone go out hill before.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So it was definitely very concerning. We got her out
to safety as soon as.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Possible, so it's not clear how she got left behind.
Nobody did a head count. Well, that's the question. The
senior living apartment, it's kind of off of Lake in Altadena,
ended up not burning, but they've been closed for a
while because they're in the fire zone and smoke damage
and everything. She's going to be all right. The LA
Sheriff's bartman tells us they're working now to reunite. But
did they have on site management there? I mean, she
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was in the body cam. There was nobody there, but
normally I mean, I mean normally there would be. There
was a front desk, and I mean it looked like
walking into a hotel. I can tell you after covering
the Santa Rosa fires in twenty seventeen that there was
at least one senior living center where the staff abandoned
it and people were left and they had no way
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to get out, so they left the elderly behind. Yeah,
neighbors moved in and started calling police and firefighters went
through the flames, and they called in city buses through
the fire. It was there's a book about it now.
It's incredible where they brought in. These city bus drivers
were going driving through the fire to get up to
Fountain Grove in Santa Rosa to get people out, and
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they literally in beds and in wheelchairs, just took them
and put them on these buses and got them out.
So this is not that, but somehow she got left behind.
But we don't know how. You would think they would
have a whole battle plan in case fire breaks out,
so that employees, everybody gets a you know, different quadrant,
a different floor, and maybe they do. I mean everybody else,
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minu person walking their dog out front, everybody else was
out of the building. And so somehow she seems to
have got overlooked. Whether they looked in her room and she,
you know, was in the bathroom in that moment, I
don't know, and we don't have a good answer for that.
The sh Sheriff's department doesn't either, and if there will
be an investigation, we don't know. But but she was
still there looking for a way out. That was funny
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when they said, didn't you hear us I'm deaf? Yeah,
that's but she's all right. But yeah, like I said,
they want to they want to reunite Alcohoniz and Martinez
with her so they can give her a hug.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wow, that's that's quite a moment to have it recorded.
Thank you very much, you got it. Thanks you, Alex Stone,
ABC News. I'm not up in one of those places
that that's it now convinced.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But if that was your mom or your grandmother, can
you imagine how you would feel that she was left behind?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I mean, yes, that's out of everybody. I really would
you have to.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Do a head count. You have to.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You're putting them, you're loading them on buses, I presume,
and you're you're taking them to safety, and you're missing
a one hundred year old woman.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
She stands out. She's got to be the oldest person there, absolutely,
and she can still move around. How did they Nobody
thought of her? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I would think.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Because they don't they all the care because my mother
in law is one of the in one of those
sen you're living at us and everybody is assigned somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
They would know, wouldn't they go through.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Regular routines of emergencies.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean, we have plenty of emergencies in southern California,
be any number of.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Things, right, but that or you're just so freaked out
that this fire is coming that you just you just
want to get out.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You don't care about anybody else.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
No retirement home for me. That's it. Back to the
exit bag plan.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
Jake Coogan. He was with a volunteer fire group that
Gavin Newsom put together a few years ago and then disbanded.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Why was it disbanded?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It was a volunteer group and they could have been
used for the fire problems that we had a few
weeks ago. We'll talk with Jay coming up. This drone
story yesterday the news broke I think during during the
show and after thinking about it and reading some more
news stories. They didn't explain anything that we didn't already
(24:10):
know or could have easily guessed. They said that the
all the drones over New Jersey, and there were hundreds
and hundreds of them for weeks. Was it was it
was approved by the authorized by the FAA. But they
never said, well, whose drones were they? The FAA authorized
that they could fly. They made it sound like these
(24:33):
drones belonged to the FAA. They didn't. It wasn't the enemy,
I guess not, or they would have been fired upon.
So is this a classified military experiment that they did well?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
But wouldn't they just say that, Hey, we can't talk
about it, it's classified. End of story. But again, we're
still we're still talking about it. We're still wondering.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
People were totally freaked out about it at first.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
When it's classified, are you allowed to say it's classified?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Say it's classified.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You just can't say how you can't explain the classification, right,
I mean, you can say it's classified.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
That's not giving away anything because.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They and she was very abruptly dismissive about it. I
know everybody was raving over this woman.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Yesterday, seven years Frescoss.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I know, but they're all the same. It doesn't matter
who they are.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They don't actually answer the questions and they don't give
the details and the context in the background. So I'm
I'm still as curious as I was before. You know,
Trump didn't clear anything up. And they also haven't explained
why the FAA didn't tell New Jersey law enforcement or
(25:43):
New Jersey politicians or the public all this, all this
information going all the way back to November. If it
was nothing, then why didn't you say it was nothing
back in November.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
That's the problem. Just be honest.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
This is why I can't stand Paul politics and politicians,
because nobody's honest. If you're honest, you're gonna you're gonna
make people feel so much better, especially a situation like
this classified. It's classified, we can't talk about it. But
you know what, everybody's going to be. Okay, you're not
in any danger.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
You don't need to worry.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I still wont to know what the experiment was because
it looked like something for the military.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Right now, If it's classified, they can't tell you, and
if it isn't classified, then they should tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
They also at the time put temporary flight restrictions over
parts of New Jersey for special security reasons. They didn't
explain why they did that at the same time saying
that the drones were were benign. There's just like a
lot of contradictions, and so she was so dismissive of
the whole thing, saying everything's fine, don't worry about it, because.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That's what she's told to do, I know, which And
then you kind of think, well, then, why are you
even talking about it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You're not going to give us the information.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
See, the FAA's role is to ensure that drones operate
safely within the broader national airspace system. It's legal to
operate drones under four hundred feet if you comply with
all the rules, got to avoid restricted airspace.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Why shold you that drone was flying by my bedroom window?
Oh yeah, right, Well that was your creepy neighbor though,
Well that was a real estate agent trying to the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Creepy real estate agent, yes, exactly, trying to take photos
of you getting ready for bed. Yeah, uh huh, using
his sales brochure. Hey, look what the neighbors are like, Hey,
you want to move This lady keeps her windows wide open.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We're going to talk now about the Jay Coogan. He
was part of a volunteer fire group that the state
put together, Gavin Newsom did, and then Newsom disbanded it
without any explanation.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And maybe he could have been used to.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Fight the fires, especially early on when we were way
short of manpower. We've got Debor Mark here and doing
the news today. Island. Gonzales live in the KFI twenty
four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John
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