August 27, 2024 • 34 mins
GUEST- ALEX STONE // 2 workers killed at Atlanta Delta facility after reported tire explosion // SEATAC IMPACT - Thousands of travelers, airport operations impacted by Port of Seattle cyberattack
Crime Round-up // Burglary crew arrested in Compton following armed home invasion in Sherman Oaks // Men in Rolls Royce, Ferrari targeted in attempted carjacking at Fashion Island mall in O.C // Burglars smash through walls to ransack Garment District businesses // GUEST - Steve Gregory // California deploys first C-130 Hercules made to fight wildfires // Disgraced Attorney Thomas Girardi Found Guilty of Stealing $15M From Clients
Crime Round-up // Burglary crew arrested in Compton following armed home invasion in Sherman Oaks // Men in Rolls Royce, Ferrari targeted in attempted carjacking at Fashion Island mall in O.C // Burglars smash through walls to ransack Garment District businesses // GUEST - Steve Gregory // California deploys first C-130 Hercules made to fight wildfires // Disgraced Attorney Thomas Girardi Found Guilty of Stealing $15M From Clients
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Tim Conway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting in for
Tim while he's away. Got the whole Conway crew here though,
Krozier and Angel and yeah, Sharon Stefuslicious is working in
there to make sure everything sounds good and maybe top
of the heap. Regular news superstar Alex Stone joined us
(00:32):
from ABC News. No, really, I have to take another
look at the heap. I thought you were tough.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a weird heap.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, but you have been out in front on this
bizarre story out of SeaTac and also this Delta Airlines accident.
I wonder if you can fill this entemone. I guess
the Delta Airlines accent WI should be clear. It was
an explosion of a tire.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
What what happened?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Well, I mean these things are so big and under
so much pressure, and the airline is calling it a
an accident. And it was in the wheel and brake
shop at the Atlanta Airport where it's a hangar and
they work on the tires and on the braking system
and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
That all the components go along with.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It, and these employees were working on one not attached
to an airplane today. They were doing their regular maintenance
on it, and it appears that the tire exploded or
some components with it. And it was described to us
by Delta as being a tire and its component's kind
of like the rim on a car wheel.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And when it.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Exploded, it killed two Delta employees and badly injured critically
injuring a third. And it's just something like that you
wouldn't think would be so dangerous, but if a tire
with that kind of pressure, if it blows, it's essentially
an explosion, like they were next to something the wind boom.
And so Delta says it's doing an internal investigation now
(01:56):
to figure out what they were doing and why it exploded.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The FAA says it's.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Aware of it, that it doesn't know what role it's
going to take in this whole thing because they weren't
in the air it wasn't on an airplane, but it
is a part of an airplane, so they will probably
be part of it as well. But the three people
impacted by this, two of them dead Delta employees, maintenance workers,
is working on that tire.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There is a part of this that reminds me of
a recent story involving a maintenance vehicle, as I remember it,
that was involved in a fire and they were putting
it out. Firefighters were putting it out with water, and
the heat from the fire itself caused one of these
immense tires and one of these huge like construction vehicles
(02:44):
or maintenance vehicles to explode and the firefighter was killed.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh yeah, up in Palmdale, Lancaster. Yeah, LA County firefighter.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Sure, And so you know, I thought that was just
so freakish. And as you've kind of just noted, I
didn't think, wow, that's right, that becomes a projectile once
it explodes and it took out this firefighter.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Didn't think that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So soon after seeing that story, we'd see this story,
which is essense of the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, and it's not only the tire but all the
tire pieces, of course, but also the metal components around it.
And depending on how much they had taken out, it
could have been the breaking parts as well. But we
know at least it had like the rim of what
you would think of a car wheel. So that is
metal that in the explosion is going to go flying,
(03:31):
either in one piece or in numerous pieces. One of
the witnesses told firefighters that he heard this explosion and
went toward it and there was a body laying on
the ground. So it was like a bomb going off
in that tire shop, and sadly, two people lost their lives.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, Now you may or may not know the answer
to this, but I'm just curious whether there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is precedent for this, if this is like, how unusual
it is? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
In the airline industry, there's so many safety stops that
I had nothing that we've ever covered that is anything
like this that I'm sure it's something that they train
on and the dangers of the pressure that a tire
is under, but people being killed by it in an
airline workshop, I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, well that's the story out of Delta there in Atlanta.
So what's going on at Tacoma Airport? The Seattle to
coma airport seatack is it's called in Washington.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yeah, So we just got an update from the Last
Airlines a little while ago. They say they are doing
better today. They are telling passengers, you know what if
you're flying on a last airline today, go ahead and
check your bags.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know, remember.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yesterday they were saying no that with the internet down
at Sea Tack, please just carry on your bag, do
not check it because they were doing everything by hand.
If you were going through Seattle or to Seattle, they
were saying, just carry it on.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So they are making progress.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
The airport says, if you can carry on a bag
and you're going to Seattle or through Seattle, try to
do that to not overwhelm them. But this is Gabe Martinez.
He's trying to get home to Virginia. Still long lines
today it is getting better, but still problems with checking in.
We're now in day four of this. And he said
when he showed up he didn't know about it. He
hadn't been listening to KFI and that that he knew
(05:12):
something was up right away.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Something about the computer's gout hacked and they're doing everything manually.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And he says, definitely impacting him getting home.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's making us not too easy about getting out of here.
Are we going to get out of here? Is it
going to take longer? The play'm going to leave without is?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And so slowly Mark they're bringing things back online, and
you remember it was Saturday. They realized somebody was in
the airport secure system and they immediately shut everything down.
And that was everything from the airport website and email
to all the flight boards, to the kiosks and baggage
handling and everything else. Even now, the signs that you
know normally would say Spirit in big yellow letters when
(05:49):
you walk into the check in terminal right now is
a piece of printer paper that they printed out Spirit
and it stuck to those screens because otherwise you'd have
no idea. It's not like the old days were Remember
the airline name was plastered all over the wall behind
the check in counter. Now it's all TV screens and sure,
and they're all off and really Perry Cooper at the
airport saying that the biggest problem has been baggage handling
(06:11):
to figure out how to deal with that with the
computers down.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So what is occurring is that they can go to
a certain point, but at that point they can't be
separated to different parts of the airport where they would
be loaded onto their specific aircraft.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And they have been able to get some of that
back up, and Alaska says they were doing it all
by hand, hand bag tags, hand sorting. It was like
nineteen eighty five. And now because they all piled up,
they couldn't get them out fast enough. They're delivering those
hotels and homes. They still don't know though, who did this,
what they were targeting, and Cooper says that they honestly
don't know. The Port of Seattle is their police department
(06:45):
handling it with federal agencies, and they don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
At that point that we're still looking into that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, they figure out who and why, but they've been
a little bit coy or I would say very coy
about what this really was and how deep the bad
guys got in and what they had access to. They
haven't been overly forthcoming at all, but it's been slow,
and they say that they're they're bringing things back online
when they can say, Okay, that system is safe, boot
it up again, that one is safe. Until they can
(07:11):
figure out exactly where the intruders went.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's almost as though they're cyber vandals, you know what
I mean. If they didn't ask for anything in return,
it wasn't one of those situations of it, Yeah, that
we know of exactly. Do you think that there are
motives here that they're not sharing with media yet.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There may be, you know, quite honestly, typically when a
company is a victim of ransomware, they don't want anybody
to know it because they either want to tell the
person doing the ransom to take a hike, or they
don't want everybody to know that they paid them a
huge amount of money. So down the line we may
find out something like that was involved. But they aren't
(07:49):
indicating that this is ransomware at all. You would have
to believe that they kind of know what they got
into and where they were and what they were accessing
and what they're move may have been. But at this
point they're not saying. They're saying they have no idea,
they don't know where they were, they don't know what
they wanted. But were they able to steal anything. They're
(08:09):
not really giving any answer on that either. But the
good news is the TSA has its own computer system,
its own network that was not part.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Of this at all.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
The FAA has its own That's why there have been
like no cancelations, very few delays and cancelations because Airline's
been operating fine except for the computers in sport to
check you in and to do baggage handling and to
scan your boarding pass. Other than that, the airline's planes
have been coming and going. They've been getting their flight plans,
(08:41):
have been dispatching, they've been going to the runway.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Air Traffic control has been fine. TSA security has been
fine because they're on their own computer network. But anything
that is on the computer network of the airport that's
been a problem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I mean, I have to say that part of the
airport associated with everything before you get to TSA, that
can be some of the most vexing, infuriating stuff, you know,
And to think that, you know, it's gotten even worse
with the computers down, and it's they're still down, although
it sounds like they're slowly getting up to speed, which
is what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And then you get in in the Centurion club you
can't get into and what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sorry, I must have those finger sandwiches at the Centurion Club.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That's right, you really our top of the heap.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I knew it all right, Back to your champagne and
finger sandwiches, Alex Stone, thanks my friend. Yeah, that is
a situation at Sea Tag when come back. This is insane.
Last night, a home invasion robbery. Three arms suspects. They
break into a house in Sherman Oaks. It's nine o'clock
(09:44):
at night, the woman who lives there is taking a
shower at the time. Well, what happened next is extraordinary.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's crazy when you get these stories about the lawlessness
that's running rampant over life in southern California. This one
in Sherman Oaks is truly bizarre for a couple of reasons.
The hour that it happened, nine o'clock at night, the
fact that again people were home, and then what happened
(10:24):
ultimately is extraordinary as well.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Huge collective sigh of relief in this neighborhood, a place
that's been hit with multiple home break ins over the
course of this summer, and it's tough to.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Catch these guys.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
They go in quick, they're out quick, and then they're
out of here before police ever arrived. This one was
just about timing as well, because shortly after someone called
nine to one one police were immediately here because they
were already in the area. Doing surveillance and patrols for
crimes like this. It was early enough in the evening
people around for a walk on green Leaf Street unaware
mask burglars. At the same time were sneaking up the
(10:54):
driveway carrying bags of items stolen from a home they
just ransacked. This surveillance video of the home burglery from
across the street was taken a little after nine Monday night.
And what's become an all too common crime in Sherman Oaks,
and I walk the street every day for twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's getting worse. Well, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But what we're learning is that increasingly these are organized bands.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
These are not one offs.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
And Nanny was the only person home at the time
and told police the men wore ski masks and had guns,
but she wasn't hurt because of other recent break ins.
LAPD was already nearby when she called nine one one.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Officers who were already in the agra surveilling patrolling the area.
We're able to locate the vehicle. They follow the vehicle
for location in Compton.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Air seven captured the moments the suspect.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That is the part that is just beautiful. They were
already there, they'd been surveilling them, and it was just
a matter of time and not a lot of time
before they moved.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
In Air seven captured the moments the suspect tried to
outrun police and com but Lapd confirms four men were detained.
A welcome conclusion for those on green Leaf.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I know that that's amazing, that's great news.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I hope that they stay in Jawn, they don't get
bailed out.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Laped says the men have not yet been arrested or charged,
and police haven't released any information about these suspects, like
whether they have criminal histories. Many instrument oaks now wondering
if this group what they're irresponsible for any of the
other home invasions in this area.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
We don't know these individuals are connected to any of those,
but we're certain going to look into them.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Laped also tells me that at this point they have
not recovered any of the still items from this house
here behind me, but they're still waiting on a search
warrant to be executed. Once they search that house, they
potentially will recover those items and obviously will go a
long way if they find other items well.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Why did they have to wait so long for a
search warrant? On Law and Order they can get a
search warrant in ten minutes, not even they call it in.
You can get a search warrant. They're judges up all night. Honestly,
I don't know. That's the one part of the story
I don't get LAPD is still waiting for a search warrant. Really,
we know this stuff must be in there house. Look,
(13:02):
the arrest is the important thing. I just it's one
of the things that struck me as a little bit odd.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
We'll recover those items, and obviously will go a long
way if they find other items to figure out whether
or not this group of men are connected in any
way to other break ins in this neighborhood are frankly
anywhere around Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Don't tell me that Law and Order is not real.
It's based on reality. I will cite it as my
source meantime, And I don't mean this is sort of
the crime blodder reality of this segment. This is an
extraordinary story at Fashion Island where.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Men in rolls Royce and Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
They're confronted, they rip off their car, they get their wallet,
their watches, a lot.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Of concern, a lot of worry, and of course people
thinking about what is next. Here are the ongoing violence
not stopping out here at the popular shopping moll. We've
learned from investigators at last night's incident happened here at
the parking a lot. The victims two friends, who police
say were targeted for their luxury cars. Both of them
(14:08):
are okay, but of course they're frustrated that the two robbers,
the three robberies rather got away. Get to take a
look at the video here from last night police. He
was a only eleven thirty pm and when one of
the victims was in the white roast roys and was
approached by three male suspects wearing ski masks. One of
them arn't with a handgun. After a brief struggle there,
(14:29):
his high end watch and wallet were strolling. But not
satisfied with what they had already taken, the thieves try
to carjack the victim's friend, who was in a yellow Ferrari.
That victim driving away, but one of the suspects fired
his weapon, narrowly missing.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The driver.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Fired his weapon into the ferrari as he's screeched away.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Got these guys don't to what end, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Shattering that, he's able to drive away to a nearby
gas station, where he was interviewed by police. It appears
he suffered a few cuts due to shattered glass. Nothing
was stolen from him. Last night's incident comes.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I mean, I got to say this, A white Ferrari
and a I'm sorry, yellow Ferrari and a white Rolls.
I mean, these guys are coming in hot, right. I mean,
there's nothing subtle about their act man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's like, if I had the money to have either
of those two vehicles, I'd have a security person with
me walking across the park.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm with Krozer. I don't see how you drive that
stuff around by yourself. I mean it seems like you know,
they're it's screaming, Hey, I've got money, and this is
just the beginning of it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah. I watched that Jay Leno's garage show.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, I really love that show, and we love Jay
and Jay is really good and he's got a story
with every car. But here's what it has to do
with the Rolls. So I would never think about getting
a Rolls until just the other day. I'm watching the
Jay Leno garage show, and he's got the new rolls Specter.
It's called Okay and it's British, you know, they sell
(16:02):
spell Specter Spectr e right, and it's got five foot doors,
so when you open the door, it's five feet a
big heavy door that you open, and when you want
to close it, it's a button and it closes itself.
(16:23):
And I don't even think it depressed the button. I
think it closes maybe. You know, you can set them
up so they were automatically. That car was so sexy,
it was so insanely seductive that I thought, oh my god,
that that is the role. You know, if I could
afford a roles, that's the roles, I would buy the
one from Jay Leno's garage, that roll Specter. And so
(16:48):
I went to of course the internet to see, well,
you know, if I came into a lot of money,
how much money would I need to buy this role Specter.
I guess that it's almost whippable, you know, although I
think the guess is always going to be in the
all right, whip it quickly and I have to do
(17:10):
a super I have to do a turbo whip because
I'm up against the clock. Turbo whip. Please whip all right,
turbo whip quickly? The new rolls roy in Specter Stfoush.
How much to get it out the door in your driveway?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Three hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Thousand excellent guests, not correct Sharon three Another excellent guest,
but not correct.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Angel six hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Another very strong guess, but not correct.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Kiki one million m. I'm just going to put it out.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
There, all right, Kroz, you'll cap us off. I'll go
half a mill.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Half a mill is correct, Michael Krazer. Wow, it's a
little north of half a mill, but we'll tell you
it's half a million change.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Thank you, but very impressive.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
But man, that's one hundred and fifty is a little
north of half.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's not quite that far.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You met two of them?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, oh is that right after?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I didn't realize. I'll have to check out the fine print, man. Okay. Well,
in any case, if you have one, be careful where
you go and where you park it. That's what my
advice would be to you today when we come back.
Steve Gregory joins US California deploying something substantial. It's a
(18:27):
big piece of hardware. We'll talk to Steve about that. Next.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Mark Thompson with Steve Gregory here on the Tim Conway
Junior Show. Tim returns next week. I was asking Steve,
you know, I'd like to intro somebody and give them
a sense in edition.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You know, Steve has got stories here day to day.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He's won you know, many many many Golden Mics, and
he is recognized as an outstanding journalist.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But I saying, what are you working on?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I can promote you because I know you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Have Unsolved, and you have a Studio six forty, and
you have I think a third thing that you're working on.
You have a whole unit. I went down there. I
mean I was there just yesterday and you're there. You've
got a whole bunch of people in this. I mean,
it's it looks like a sealed team six of media
down there.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What is that for?
Speaker 8 (19:22):
For?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Which one of these projects? Is that group?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
All of them?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean, here's the thing, Mark, I've been I've been
working so long as a one man band.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, for many many years.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I was like that until I want to say, it
was four years ago when Jacob Gonzales and I worked
on the Death and Life of Kobe Bryant together and
we logged three hundred and eighty three hours on that project.
And I realized that I went so long without without
ever having any help that I didn't know what I
(19:53):
was missing until I realized having the help made a
huge difference. Sure, So now I've got Jacob working with me,
I got Richie Kinteto working with me on Studio six.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Forty and uh.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
And then I've got like Elmer Betagette working with me,
and Tony Sorrentino works with me as my field engineer.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I got my photographer, Mark Many. I so I've got.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, you you really are like a little media
company down there. I mean, you know, you take them
at your photographer, your zirobrig radio. What do you need
a photographer because things are changing all digital?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Man. Yeah, you know that, you're on YouTube, sure you know.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
And then so Mark takes amazing footage and amazing photos
and we use that now and so it is I'm
very blessed to have talent and uh. And it's in
addition to the other stuff they do at KFI.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So you know, we all have to wear multiple hats
around here.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Sure, so you know, so they all have to do
like you know, Jacob does mid Days with Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Sure, everybody's yea, everyone's doing. Everybody's hustling. Yeah, that's certainly true.
And you've been but you've always been the kind of
I kind of a journalistic gumshoe. I always you know,
you out there on the street, Steve Gregory.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And now you're just doing so much more so.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Anyway, So the project that you most would promote would
be what any one of those that you mentioned.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Well, it's only our newest project obviously, Studio six forty,
which has been going very very well. It's the every
week we rotate around three different college journalists from area
colleges and universities. We present them with the topics of
the week, and then they weigh in through the lens
of a student journalist.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And what is the biggest thing you've noticed talking to
student journalists?
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Oh, that's a great question, and I think here's the
thing that I've noticed is that I find myself being
more mentor than help.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I'm sure they look over up to you.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, no, no, it's just that you know, I think
I gave them all credit for having the same level
of experience and skill by now, and it's not true.
And some of them are are better at one thing
than another and weighing in on things and being more
articulate about certain things. And then you have to keep
in mind there's still students and they're still learning, they're
still developing their craft. So one of the things I
(22:00):
think this sticks out is they're not afraid to have
an opinion. And the thing that we've been working on,
like the last week's episode was fact checking because I
asked him about Kamala Harris's speech and did you you know?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And I said, what'd you think of it? First of all?
Speaker 9 (22:13):
And I wanted to hear what they said. They were like, oh,
she did this, that and the other. I said, okay,
how many of you actually fact checked it? And they
gave me this look like what do you mean? I said, well,
did you go through in fact check? And we talked
about the same thing when the RNC had Trump. I said, so,
you know, and then when we have to kind of
peel it back a little bit and say, well, you know,
one of the panelists assertion about reproductive rights and that
(22:36):
he wants to do a federal ban on abortion.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I said, well, did you fact check? That's not really true.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
What he wants to do is give the states the
authority to make those decisions. So, you know, we talk
about things like that, and I will tell you that
sometimes our you know, the listeners here at KFI, they
forget that they're students. So they have sometimes had very
strong opinions about these students and they're like, okay, slow down, people,
slow down.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right right, these are the right These are minds that
are evolving into this job as journalists.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
But it's just it's been fascinating. I love it.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I love that they get in there and they're all
excited and they have this energy about them, and they
love you know that they're being on KFI. A lot
of their parents listen, a lot of their relatives and friends.
But what is cool about it is a lot of
their friends and colleagues in the college space are listening.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
And I think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
They're one viral TikTok moment away Steve Gregory from it eclipsing.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You and your Murrow and all the other ward do it.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't, Yeah, I don't have to. They can explode
on TikTok as.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sure, I'm really proud of them. It's fun and it's
very cool.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
It's been fun to put it together and and just
see how, you know, and tweak it along the way
because no infrastructure existed to do this kind of a show. Sure,
and so we've had to create this infrastructure and this
whole curriculum around this program.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, it's a clever idea, I think, And I mean
there's a built in curiosity because you're always curious what
younger people think. People who are, you know, just kind
of getting their eat. We in the business. So that's
that's Studio six forty all right. Now you're here to
talk to us about something huge.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm hoping this will be a game changer to use
the off use word in the fight against wildfires.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
The something that I learned the other day, CalFire just
took it possession of its first C one thirty hercules
or one thirty h and from the US Coast Guard.
It was part of It was a part of a
defense package and aid bill from a couple of years
ago where they can take surplus military equipment and repurpose
it in other ways more for helping in first responders
(24:37):
and whatnot. And in this case, cal Fire will take
possession of seven of these massive sea one thirties, each
capable of carrying four thousand gallons of fire retardant and water.
So it's important because CalFire has the largest air attack
fleet in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Think about that for that's extraordinary.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we have more wildfires I think
you're around than anybody, but we have the biggest, uh
you know, collection of air attack apparatus. So when CalFire
brought that aboard, it went into service yesterday out of Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
It's where it's where it will be stationed.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
And then in the next couple of years we'll start
to see more of the planes coming into service. The
Coast Guard has been kind enough to retrofit them already
with the tanks, paint them with the CalFire logo, and
then they're going to spread those out all over the
state in strategic parts and the ground crew can be airborne.
They can get that plane airborne with the pilots and
(25:34):
the on board of the liquid within twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Wow wow yeah, And and and getting the liquid. Can
you can you hang for just I just want to
get the because I think you know, obviously fire season
is going to get cranked up here soon.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, Santa Ana's are coming exactly yea.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
And so I'd like to know a little bit more so.
Steve Gregory stays with us. He just won a Murrow Award,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
National That is a spectacularly coveted award in journalist.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, the first one KFI has ever won.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Congratulations, very cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'm I'm shrinking in the awards that I can offer
to compete with you, because I don't think I am
trying to think of some of the plaques I have
at home. Now, nothing, nothing really stamps out.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I am six.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sharon is and now I mentioned it's the guys. Steve
Gregory in studio. He's an award winning journalist. Just won
the Edward R. Murrow Award, which maybe I don't know
if it's the Apex of journalism awards.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
But broadcast news it is. It is the top news award.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
You've heard.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
There's the regional Emmys and all that stuff, but those
are those are for all the different formats. But uros
are a national broadcast news award.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, and you've won it, and it's really oppressive, and
so I hesitate to take time out of speaking with
you just to note that Sharon has successfully changed the
channel on one of the seven monitors that's here in
the studio, and that I don't care how many awards
you have. That is one of the hardest things you've
(27:19):
ever you can imagine you're doing.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
And here's the thing I don't understand because I've you've
I've been in television control rooms like you, Mark, and
you have all these different monitors in there.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
They never have a problem shifting chance.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
They don't have to send somebody up there with a
remote holding the.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Hand, yeah, with shielded with an RFD shielding mechanism to
make sure it doesn't go to the other TV.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's absurd, it is, Sharon, It really is.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I mean, I guess it's cool that there are all
these monitors here, but it really doesn't do us any
good if we can't change the channel without changing all
the channels that anyway. So Steve, I'm sorry you had
to see that ugliness, but thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Oh I've been around this ugliness for a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Now, we were talking before the break about this massive
she one thirty hercules aircraft that's been added to the
cal Fire firefighting flight, and you were saying that we've
got a bigger arsenal of things to fight fires here
in California than anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yep, we do.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
And then then down in southern California, we also have
a very unique situation here with the Rapid sorry, the
Quick Response Force, and that is a special partnership between
the Orange County Fire Authority, Ventura County Fire, La County Fire,
and Colson Aviation. Colson Aviation is a private company, but
(28:38):
they lease those big Chinooks, those twe helicopters from the
Vietnam era which have been retrofitted to hold more than
four thousand gallons as well, and they are paid for
by so Cal Edison in a partnership with the counties,
and the counties paid for the ground time. So cal
Edison pays for the airtime or the flight time rather so,
(28:58):
and so when we get those in town. And then
on top of that, we have the partnership with the
government of Quebec. La County does to have the super
scoopers and the sikorskis. So we have a very robust,
a very very robust infrastructure of air power when it
comes to Santa Ana seas.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And still sadly, I mean with Santa Ana season ahead,
when the Santa Anas get going, there's really just no
knocking them down.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
And so this is why all fire agencies, calt fire
being the biggest, obviously, they have to be very strategic.
So this is why projecting with their meteorologists and their
fire science fire behavior science folks, that's why they're always
trying to project where the troublespots are going to be,
and they usually try to identify like the top five
spots at least in our area where they think fires
(29:45):
are going to break out first. Then that's when they
deploy the resources to be and they do structure protection
and they do strategic placement of those resources so that
response times are you know, are very short. And I
was telling you about those thirty is having a twenty
minute response time. That's really amazing when you think about
the size of that. But like those chinooks have a
(30:07):
very very short response time. But the key to it
is also the refilling time and in the sort of
the refractory period of you know, getting back to the
base and filling up, whereas those chinooks can they can
fill up in like sixty seconds. I think they can
max out with the snorkel that they have. So we
are in southern California pretty much invented all of the
(30:28):
air attacks that are that are mirrored around the world.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And yet the irony, of course, as I was noting,
is it's against the backdrop of a hugely dangerous fire situation,
with the well with the fact that you can't knock
these fires down when once Santa Ana's get going, and
to the point, and this is the ironic point, given
(30:53):
what you've said, fire insurance is harder and.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Harder to get.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Oh gosh, yeah, you've.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Got insurance companies pulling out of California. They just don't
offer it at all. So again, against this backdrop of
this arsenal that is the greatest in all the world,
as residents of California, we still feel insanely vulnerable and
you know, unensurable in many cases.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
And this is also on top of CalFire making the
pledge that they will control ninety five percent of all fires,
to contain ninety five percent of all fires within ten acres,
So they want to that's their goal. That is their
operational goal is to contain all wildfires to a maximum
of ten acres within ninety five percent of all fires
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within a maximum of ten acres.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
So the idea is, don't let it get to be big.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Yeah, but you said it the Santa Anas. That's what
changes the game because it's not really the flames advancing
that are as dangerous as or that is as dangerous
as the embers that fly and cause the spot fires.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Sure, that's always.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
The unpredictable one, and that is the thing that really
freaks out fire fighters because they could have all their
resources in the perfectly positioned location, and all it takes
is that gust of wind to blow a burning ember
up to a mile away, yeah, and still smoldering and
land right in the eaves of a house, right up
underneath a roof tile or something, and then just enough
(32:19):
to smolder and catch something on fire like a tree
next to it. And then it's you know, then you've
got resources having to go over there. And then that's
what gets scary.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's the wind, sure, and the wind can be unrelenting,
you know, for days.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Fuels are bad enough because we're always having this drought
and the heat doesn't make anything better.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But that wind is what really changes the game.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean years doing forecasting for Channel eleven, just sitting
there hour after hour watching and sadly just resigning yourself
to the fact that we just had to wait for
the weather to break because the wind was just too
powerful for firefighters to get the upper hand.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Have you ever have you ever thought about being a
fire science guy, like like the fire meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, I'm too I'm too much of a you know,
I'm too much of a broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Show.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I'll tell you something now, every time I go to
a command post, those are the first guys I ask for,
those fire meteorologists, the fire science guys.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
They got so much greater. They're brilliant, they'rez love them
really absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
All right, he's got three shows and Steve Gregory Industries,
whatever he's doing. It's Studio six forty. It's unsolved. It's
the magic of Steve Gregory, the award winning journalist. Thank
you first to you, my friend, yet good to see
you always when we come back. They have been found arrested.
(33:42):
It was the big crackdown on something that has been
an epidemic in southern California. We'll talk about it next.
It's a Tim Kaway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
for Tim on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the Heart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Tim Conway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting in for
Tim while he's away. Got the whole Conway crew here though,
Krozier and Angel and yeah, Sharon Stefuslicious is working in
there to make sure everything sounds good and maybe top
of the heap. Regular news superstar Alex Stone joined us
(00:32):
from ABC News. No, really, I have to take another
look at the heap. I thought you were tough.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a weird heap.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, but you have been out in front on this
bizarre story out of SeaTac and also this Delta Airlines accident.
I wonder if you can fill this entemone. I guess
the Delta Airlines accent WI should be clear. It was
an explosion of a tire.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
What what happened?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Well, I mean these things are so big and under
so much pressure, and the airline is calling it a
an accident. And it was in the wheel and brake
shop at the Atlanta Airport where it's a hangar and
they work on the tires and on the braking system
and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
That all the components go along with.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It, and these employees were working on one not attached
to an airplane today. They were doing their regular maintenance
on it, and it appears that the tire exploded or
some components with it. And it was described to us
by Delta as being a tire and its component's kind
of like the rim on a car wheel.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And when it.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Exploded, it killed two Delta employees and badly injured critically
injuring a third. And it's just something like that you
wouldn't think would be so dangerous, but if a tire
with that kind of pressure, if it blows, it's essentially
an explosion, like they were next to something the wind boom.
And so Delta says it's doing an internal investigation now
(01:56):
to figure out what they were doing and why it exploded.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The FAA says it's.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Aware of it, that it doesn't know what role it's
going to take in this whole thing because they weren't
in the air it wasn't on an airplane, but it
is a part of an airplane, so they will probably
be part of it as well. But the three people
impacted by this, two of them dead Delta employees, maintenance workers,
is working on that tire.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There is a part of this that reminds me of
a recent story involving a maintenance vehicle, as I remember it,
that was involved in a fire and they were putting
it out. Firefighters were putting it out with water, and
the heat from the fire itself caused one of these
immense tires and one of these huge like construction vehicles
(02:44):
or maintenance vehicles to explode and the firefighter was killed.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh yeah, up in Palmdale, Lancaster. Yeah, LA County firefighter.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Sure, And so you know, I thought that was just
so freakish. And as you've kind of just noted, I
didn't think, wow, that's right, that becomes a projectile once
it explodes and it took out this firefighter.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Didn't think that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So soon after seeing that story, we'd see this story,
which is essense of the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, and it's not only the tire but all the
tire pieces, of course, but also the metal components around it.
And depending on how much they had taken out, it
could have been the breaking parts as well. But we
know at least it had like the rim of what
you would think of a car wheel. So that is
metal that in the explosion is going to go flying,
(03:31):
either in one piece or in numerous pieces. One of
the witnesses told firefighters that he heard this explosion and
went toward it and there was a body laying on
the ground. So it was like a bomb going off
in that tire shop, and sadly, two people lost their lives.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, Now you may or may not know the answer
to this, but I'm just curious whether there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is precedent for this, if this is like, how unusual
it is? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
In the airline industry, there's so many safety stops that
I had nothing that we've ever covered that is anything
like this that I'm sure it's something that they train
on and the dangers of the pressure that a tire
is under, but people being killed by it in an
airline workshop, I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, well that's the story out of Delta there in Atlanta.
So what's going on at Tacoma Airport? The Seattle to
coma airport seatack is it's called in Washington.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yeah, So we just got an update from the Last
Airlines a little while ago. They say they are doing
better today. They are telling passengers, you know what if
you're flying on a last airline today, go ahead and
check your bags.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know, remember.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yesterday they were saying no that with the internet down
at Sea Tack, please just carry on your bag, do
not check it because they were doing everything by hand.
If you were going through Seattle or to Seattle, they
were saying, just carry it on.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So they are making progress.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
The airport says, if you can carry on a bag
and you're going to Seattle or through Seattle, try to
do that to not overwhelm them. But this is Gabe Martinez.
He's trying to get home to Virginia. Still long lines
today it is getting better, but still problems with checking in.
We're now in day four of this. And he said
when he showed up he didn't know about it. He
hadn't been listening to KFI and that that he knew
(05:12):
something was up right away.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Something about the computer's gout hacked and they're doing everything manually.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And he says, definitely impacting him getting home.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's making us not too easy about getting out of here.
Are we going to get out of here? Is it
going to take longer? The play'm going to leave without is?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And so slowly Mark they're bringing things back online, and
you remember it was Saturday. They realized somebody was in
the airport secure system and they immediately shut everything down.
And that was everything from the airport website and email
to all the flight boards, to the kiosks and baggage
handling and everything else. Even now, the signs that you
know normally would say Spirit in big yellow letters when
(05:49):
you walk into the check in terminal right now is
a piece of printer paper that they printed out Spirit
and it stuck to those screens because otherwise you'd have
no idea. It's not like the old days were Remember
the airline name was plastered all over the wall behind
the check in counter. Now it's all TV screens and sure,
and they're all off and really Perry Cooper at the
airport saying that the biggest problem has been baggage handling
(06:11):
to figure out how to deal with that with the
computers down.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So what is occurring is that they can go to
a certain point, but at that point they can't be
separated to different parts of the airport where they would
be loaded onto their specific aircraft.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And they have been able to get some of that
back up, and Alaska says they were doing it all
by hand, hand bag tags, hand sorting. It was like
nineteen eighty five. And now because they all piled up,
they couldn't get them out fast enough. They're delivering those
hotels and homes. They still don't know though, who did this,
what they were targeting, and Cooper says that they honestly
don't know. The Port of Seattle is their police department
(06:45):
handling it with federal agencies, and they don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
At that point that we're still looking into that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah, they figure out who and why, but they've been
a little bit coy or I would say very coy
about what this really was and how deep the bad
guys got in and what they had access to. They
haven't been overly forthcoming at all, but it's been slow,
and they say that they're they're bringing things back online
when they can say, Okay, that system is safe, boot
it up again, that one is safe. Until they can
(07:11):
figure out exactly where the intruders went.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's almost as though they're cyber vandals, you know what
I mean. If they didn't ask for anything in return,
it wasn't one of those situations of it, Yeah, that
we know of exactly. Do you think that there are
motives here that they're not sharing with media yet.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There may be, you know, quite honestly, typically when a
company is a victim of ransomware, they don't want anybody
to know it because they either want to tell the
person doing the ransom to take a hike, or they
don't want everybody to know that they paid them a
huge amount of money. So down the line we may
find out something like that was involved. But they aren't
(07:49):
indicating that this is ransomware at all. You would have
to believe that they kind of know what they got
into and where they were and what they were accessing
and what they're move may have been. But at this
point they're not saying. They're saying they have no idea,
they don't know where they were, they don't know what
they wanted. But were they able to steal anything. They're
(08:09):
not really giving any answer on that either. But the
good news is the TSA has its own computer system,
its own network that was not part.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Of this at all.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
The FAA has its own That's why there have been
like no cancelations, very few delays and cancelations because Airline's
been operating fine except for the computers in sport to
check you in and to do baggage handling and to
scan your boarding pass. Other than that, the airline's planes
have been coming and going. They've been getting their flight plans,
(08:41):
have been dispatching, they've been going to the runway.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Air Traffic control has been fine. TSA security has been
fine because they're on their own computer network. But anything
that is on the computer network of the airport that's
been a problem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I mean, I have to say that part of the
airport associated with everything before you get to TSA, that
can be some of the most vexing, infuriating stuff, you know,
And to think that, you know, it's gotten even worse
with the computers down, and it's they're still down, although
it sounds like they're slowly getting up to speed, which
is what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And then you get in in the Centurion club you
can't get into and what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sorry, I must have those finger sandwiches at the Centurion Club.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That's right, you really our top of the heap.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I knew it all right, Back to your champagne and
finger sandwiches, Alex Stone, thanks my friend. Yeah, that is
a situation at Sea Tag when come back. This is insane.
Last night, a home invasion robbery. Three arms suspects. They
break into a house in Sherman Oaks. It's nine o'clock
(09:44):
at night, the woman who lives there is taking a
shower at the time. Well, what happened next is extraordinary.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's crazy when you get these stories about the lawlessness
that's running rampant over life in southern California. This one
in Sherman Oaks is truly bizarre for a couple of reasons.
The hour that it happened, nine o'clock at night, the
fact that again people were home, and then what happened
(10:24):
ultimately is extraordinary as well.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Huge collective sigh of relief in this neighborhood, a place
that's been hit with multiple home break ins over the
course of this summer, and it's tough to.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Catch these guys.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
They go in quick, they're out quick, and then they're
out of here before police ever arrived. This one was
just about timing as well, because shortly after someone called
nine to one one police were immediately here because they
were already in the area. Doing surveillance and patrols for
crimes like this. It was early enough in the evening
people around for a walk on green Leaf Street unaware
mask burglars. At the same time were sneaking up the
(10:54):
driveway carrying bags of items stolen from a home they
just ransacked. This surveillance video of the home burglery from
across the street was taken a little after nine Monday night.
And what's become an all too common crime in Sherman Oaks,
and I walk the street every day for twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's getting worse. Well, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But what we're learning is that increasingly these are organized bands.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
These are not one offs.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
And Nanny was the only person home at the time
and told police the men wore ski masks and had guns,
but she wasn't hurt because of other recent break ins.
LAPD was already nearby when she called nine one one.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Officers who were already in the agra surveilling patrolling the area.
We're able to locate the vehicle. They follow the vehicle
for location in Compton.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Air seven captured the moments the suspect.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That is the part that is just beautiful. They were
already there, they'd been surveilling them, and it was just
a matter of time and not a lot of time
before they moved.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
In Air seven captured the moments the suspect tried to
outrun police and com but Lapd confirms four men were detained.
A welcome conclusion for those on green Leaf.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I know that that's amazing, that's great news.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I hope that they stay in Jawn, they don't get
bailed out.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Laped says the men have not yet been arrested or charged,
and police haven't released any information about these suspects, like
whether they have criminal histories. Many instrument oaks now wondering
if this group what they're irresponsible for any of the
other home invasions in this area.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
We don't know these individuals are connected to any of those,
but we're certain going to look into them.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Laped also tells me that at this point they have
not recovered any of the still items from this house
here behind me, but they're still waiting on a search
warrant to be executed. Once they search that house, they
potentially will recover those items and obviously will go a
long way if they find other items well.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Why did they have to wait so long for a
search warrant? On Law and Order they can get a
search warrant in ten minutes, not even they call it in.
You can get a search warrant. They're judges up all night. Honestly,
I don't know. That's the one part of the story
I don't get LAPD is still waiting for a search warrant. Really,
we know this stuff must be in there house. Look,
(13:02):
the arrest is the important thing. I just it's one
of the things that struck me as a little bit odd.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
We'll recover those items, and obviously will go a long
way if they find other items to figure out whether
or not this group of men are connected in any
way to other break ins in this neighborhood are frankly
anywhere around Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Don't tell me that Law and Order is not real.
It's based on reality. I will cite it as my
source meantime, And I don't mean this is sort of
the crime blodder reality of this segment. This is an
extraordinary story at Fashion Island where.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Men in rolls Royce and Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
They're confronted, they rip off their car, they get their wallet,
their watches, a lot.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Of concern, a lot of worry, and of course people
thinking about what is next. Here are the ongoing violence
not stopping out here at the popular shopping moll. We've
learned from investigators at last night's incident happened here at
the parking a lot. The victims two friends, who police
say were targeted for their luxury cars. Both of them
(14:08):
are okay, but of course they're frustrated that the two robbers,
the three robberies rather got away. Get to take a
look at the video here from last night police. He
was a only eleven thirty pm and when one of
the victims was in the white roast roys and was
approached by three male suspects wearing ski masks. One of
them arn't with a handgun. After a brief struggle there,
(14:29):
his high end watch and wallet were strolling. But not
satisfied with what they had already taken, the thieves try
to carjack the victim's friend, who was in a yellow Ferrari.
That victim driving away, but one of the suspects fired
his weapon, narrowly missing.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The driver.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Fired his weapon into the ferrari as he's screeched away.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Got these guys don't to what end, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Shattering that, he's able to drive away to a nearby
gas station, where he was interviewed by police. It appears
he suffered a few cuts due to shattered glass. Nothing
was stolen from him. Last night's incident comes.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I mean, I got to say this, A white Ferrari
and a I'm sorry, yellow Ferrari and a white Rolls.
I mean, these guys are coming in hot, right. I mean,
there's nothing subtle about their act man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's like, if I had the money to have either
of those two vehicles, I'd have a security person with
me walking across the park.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm with Krozer. I don't see how you drive that
stuff around by yourself. I mean it seems like you know,
they're it's screaming, Hey, I've got money, and this is
just the beginning of it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah. I watched that Jay Leno's garage show.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, I really love that show, and we love Jay
and Jay is really good and he's got a story
with every car. But here's what it has to do
with the Rolls. So I would never think about getting
a Rolls until just the other day. I'm watching the
Jay Leno garage show, and he's got the new rolls Specter.
It's called Okay and it's British, you know, they sell
(16:02):
spell Specter Spectr e right, and it's got five foot doors,
so when you open the door, it's five feet a
big heavy door that you open, and when you want
to close it, it's a button and it closes itself.
(16:23):
And I don't even think it depressed the button. I
think it closes maybe. You know, you can set them
up so they were automatically. That car was so sexy,
it was so insanely seductive that I thought, oh my god,
that that is the role. You know, if I could
afford a roles, that's the roles, I would buy the
one from Jay Leno's garage, that roll Specter. And so
(16:48):
I went to of course the internet to see, well,
you know, if I came into a lot of money,
how much money would I need to buy this role Specter.
I guess that it's almost whippable, you know, although I
think the guess is always going to be in the
all right, whip it quickly and I have to do
(17:10):
a super I have to do a turbo whip because
I'm up against the clock. Turbo whip. Please whip all right,
turbo whip quickly? The new rolls roy in Specter Stfoush.
How much to get it out the door in your driveway?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Three hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Thousand excellent guests, not correct Sharon three Another excellent guest,
but not correct.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Angel six hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Another very strong guess, but not correct.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Kiki one million m. I'm just going to put it out.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
There, all right, Kroz, you'll cap us off. I'll go
half a mill.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Half a mill is correct, Michael Krazer. Wow, it's a
little north of half a mill, but we'll tell you
it's half a million change.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Thank you, but very impressive.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
But man, that's one hundred and fifty is a little
north of half.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's not quite that far.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You met two of them?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, oh is that right after?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I didn't realize. I'll have to check out the fine print, man. Okay. Well,
in any case, if you have one, be careful where
you go and where you park it. That's what my
advice would be to you today when we come back.
Steve Gregory joins US California deploying something substantial. It's a
(18:27):
big piece of hardware. We'll talk to Steve about that. Next.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Mark Thompson with Steve Gregory here on the Tim Conway
Junior Show. Tim returns next week. I was asking Steve,
you know, I'd like to intro somebody and give them
a sense in edition.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You know, Steve has got stories here day to day.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He's won you know, many many many Golden Mics, and
he is recognized as an outstanding journalist.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But I saying, what are you working on?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I can promote you because I know you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Have Unsolved, and you have a Studio six forty, and
you have I think a third thing that you're working on.
You have a whole unit. I went down there. I
mean I was there just yesterday and you're there. You've
got a whole bunch of people in this. I mean,
it's it looks like a sealed team six of media
down there.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What is that for?
Speaker 8 (19:22):
For?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Which one of these projects? Is that group?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
All of them?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean, here's the thing, Mark, I've been I've been
working so long as a one man band.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, for many many years.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I was like that until I want to say, it
was four years ago when Jacob Gonzales and I worked
on the Death and Life of Kobe Bryant together and
we logged three hundred and eighty three hours on that project.
And I realized that I went so long without without
ever having any help that I didn't know what I
(19:53):
was missing until I realized having the help made a
huge difference. Sure, So now I've got Jacob working with me,
I got Richie Kinteto working with me on Studio six.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Forty and uh.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
And then I've got like Elmer Betagette working with me,
and Tony Sorrentino works with me as my field engineer.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I got my photographer, Mark Many. I so I've got.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, you you really are like a little media
company down there. I mean, you know, you take them
at your photographer, your zirobrig radio. What do you need
a photographer because things are changing all digital?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Man. Yeah, you know that, you're on YouTube, sure you know.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
And then so Mark takes amazing footage and amazing photos
and we use that now and so it is I'm
very blessed to have talent and uh. And it's in
addition to the other stuff they do at KFI.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So you know, we all have to wear multiple hats
around here.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Sure, so you know, so they all have to do
like you know, Jacob does mid Days with Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Sure, everybody's yea, everyone's doing. Everybody's hustling. Yeah, that's certainly true.
And you've been but you've always been the kind of
I kind of a journalistic gumshoe. I always you know,
you out there on the street, Steve Gregory.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And now you're just doing so much more so.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Anyway, So the project that you most would promote would
be what any one of those that you mentioned.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Well, it's only our newest project obviously, Studio six forty,
which has been going very very well. It's the every
week we rotate around three different college journalists from area
colleges and universities. We present them with the topics of
the week, and then they weigh in through the lens
of a student journalist.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And what is the biggest thing you've noticed talking to
student journalists?
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Oh, that's a great question, and I think here's the
thing that I've noticed is that I find myself being
more mentor than help.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I'm sure they look over up to you.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, no, no, it's just that you know, I think
I gave them all credit for having the same level
of experience and skill by now, and it's not true.
And some of them are are better at one thing
than another and weighing in on things and being more
articulate about certain things. And then you have to keep
in mind there's still students and they're still learning, they're
still developing their craft. So one of the things I
(22:00):
think this sticks out is they're not afraid to have
an opinion. And the thing that we've been working on,
like the last week's episode was fact checking because I
asked him about Kamala Harris's speech and did you you know?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And I said, what'd you think of it? First of all?
Speaker 9 (22:13):
And I wanted to hear what they said. They were like, oh,
she did this, that and the other. I said, okay,
how many of you actually fact checked it? And they
gave me this look like what do you mean? I said, well,
did you go through in fact check? And we talked
about the same thing when the RNC had Trump. I said, so,
you know, and then when we have to kind of
peel it back a little bit and say, well, you know,
one of the panelists assertion about reproductive rights and that
(22:36):
he wants to do a federal ban on abortion.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I said, well, did you fact check? That's not really true.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
What he wants to do is give the states the
authority to make those decisions. So, you know, we talk
about things like that, and I will tell you that
sometimes our you know, the listeners here at KFI, they
forget that they're students. So they have sometimes had very
strong opinions about these students and they're like, okay, slow down, people,
slow down.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right right, these are the right These are minds that
are evolving into this job as journalists.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
But it's just it's been fascinating. I love it.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I love that they get in there and they're all
excited and they have this energy about them, and they
love you know that they're being on KFI. A lot
of their parents listen, a lot of their relatives and friends.
But what is cool about it is a lot of
their friends and colleagues in the college space are listening.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
And I think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
They're one viral TikTok moment away Steve Gregory from it eclipsing.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You and your Murrow and all the other ward do it.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't, Yeah, I don't have to. They can explode
on TikTok as.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sure, I'm really proud of them. It's fun and it's
very cool.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
It's been fun to put it together and and just
see how, you know, and tweak it along the way
because no infrastructure existed to do this kind of a show. Sure,
and so we've had to create this infrastructure and this
whole curriculum around this program.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, it's a clever idea, I think, And I mean
there's a built in curiosity because you're always curious what
younger people think. People who are, you know, just kind
of getting their eat. We in the business. So that's
that's Studio six forty all right. Now you're here to
talk to us about something huge.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm hoping this will be a game changer to use
the off use word in the fight against wildfires.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
The something that I learned the other day, CalFire just
took it possession of its first C one thirty hercules
or one thirty h and from the US Coast Guard.
It was part of It was a part of a
defense package and aid bill from a couple of years
ago where they can take surplus military equipment and repurpose
it in other ways more for helping in first responders
(24:37):
and whatnot. And in this case, cal Fire will take
possession of seven of these massive sea one thirties, each
capable of carrying four thousand gallons of fire retardant and water.
So it's important because CalFire has the largest air attack
fleet in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Think about that for that's extraordinary.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we have more wildfires I think
you're around than anybody, but we have the biggest, uh
you know, collection of air attack apparatus. So when CalFire
brought that aboard, it went into service yesterday out of Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
It's where it's where it will be stationed.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
And then in the next couple of years we'll start
to see more of the planes coming into service. The
Coast Guard has been kind enough to retrofit them already
with the tanks, paint them with the CalFire logo, and
then they're going to spread those out all over the
state in strategic parts and the ground crew can be airborne.
They can get that plane airborne with the pilots and
(25:34):
the on board of the liquid within twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Wow wow yeah, And and and getting the liquid. Can
you can you hang for just I just want to
get the because I think you know, obviously fire season
is going to get cranked up here soon.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well, Santa Ana's are coming exactly yea.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
And so I'd like to know a little bit more so.
Steve Gregory stays with us. He just won a Murrow Award,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
National That is a spectacularly coveted award in journalist.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, the first one KFI has ever won.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Congratulations, very cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'm I'm shrinking in the awards that I can offer
to compete with you, because I don't think I am
trying to think of some of the plaques I have
at home. Now, nothing, nothing really stamps out.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I am six.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sharon is and now I mentioned it's the guys. Steve
Gregory in studio. He's an award winning journalist. Just won
the Edward R. Murrow Award, which maybe I don't know
if it's the Apex of journalism awards.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
But broadcast news it is. It is the top news award.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
You've heard.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
There's the regional Emmys and all that stuff, but those
are those are for all the different formats. But uros
are a national broadcast news award.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, and you've won it, and it's really oppressive, and
so I hesitate to take time out of speaking with
you just to note that Sharon has successfully changed the
channel on one of the seven monitors that's here in
the studio, and that I don't care how many awards
you have. That is one of the hardest things you've
(27:19):
ever you can imagine you're doing.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
And here's the thing I don't understand because I've you've
I've been in television control rooms like you, Mark, and
you have all these different monitors in there.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
They never have a problem shifting chance.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
They don't have to send somebody up there with a
remote holding the.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Hand, yeah, with shielded with an RFD shielding mechanism to
make sure it doesn't go to the other TV.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's absurd, it is, Sharon, It really is.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I mean, I guess it's cool that there are all
these monitors here, but it really doesn't do us any
good if we can't change the channel without changing all
the channels that anyway. So Steve, I'm sorry you had
to see that ugliness, but thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Oh I've been around this ugliness for a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Now, we were talking before the break about this massive
she one thirty hercules aircraft that's been added to the
cal Fire firefighting flight, and you were saying that we've
got a bigger arsenal of things to fight fires here
in California than anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yep, we do.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
And then then down in southern California, we also have
a very unique situation here with the Rapid sorry, the
Quick Response Force, and that is a special partnership between
the Orange County Fire Authority, Ventura County Fire, La County Fire,
and Colson Aviation. Colson Aviation is a private company, but
(28:38):
they lease those big Chinooks, those twe helicopters from the
Vietnam era which have been retrofitted to hold more than
four thousand gallons as well, and they are paid for
by so Cal Edison in a partnership with the counties,
and the counties paid for the ground time. So cal
Edison pays for the airtime or the flight time rather so,
(28:58):
and so when we get those in town. And then
on top of that, we have the partnership with the
government of Quebec. La County does to have the super
scoopers and the sikorskis. So we have a very robust,
a very very robust infrastructure of air power when it
comes to Santa Ana seas.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And still sadly, I mean with Santa Ana season ahead,
when the Santa Anas get going, there's really just no
knocking them down.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
And so this is why all fire agencies, calt fire
being the biggest, obviously, they have to be very strategic.
So this is why projecting with their meteorologists and their
fire science fire behavior science folks, that's why they're always
trying to project where the troublespots are going to be,
and they usually try to identify like the top five
spots at least in our area where they think fires
(29:45):
are going to break out first. Then that's when they
deploy the resources to be and they do structure protection
and they do strategic placement of those resources so that
response times are you know, are very short. And I
was telling you about those thirty is having a twenty
minute response time. That's really amazing when you think about
the size of that. But like those chinooks have a
(30:07):
very very short response time. But the key to it
is also the refilling time and in the sort of
the refractory period of you know, getting back to the
base and filling up, whereas those chinooks can they can
fill up in like sixty seconds. I think they can
max out with the snorkel that they have. So we
are in southern California pretty much invented all of the
(30:28):
air attacks that are that are mirrored around the world.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And yet the irony, of course, as I was noting,
is it's against the backdrop of a hugely dangerous fire situation,
with the well with the fact that you can't knock
these fires down when once Santa Ana's get going, and
to the point, and this is the ironic point, given
(30:53):
what you've said, fire insurance is harder and.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Harder to get.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Oh gosh, yeah, you've.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Got insurance companies pulling out of California. They just don't
offer it at all. So again, against this backdrop of
this arsenal that is the greatest in all the world,
as residents of California, we still feel insanely vulnerable and
you know, unensurable in many cases.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
And this is also on top of CalFire making the
pledge that they will control ninety five percent of all fires,
to contain ninety five percent of all fires within ten acres,
So they want to that's their goal. That is their
operational goal is to contain all wildfires to a maximum
of ten acres within ninety five percent of all fires
(31:35):
within a maximum of ten acres.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
So the idea is, don't let it get to be big.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Yeah, but you said it the Santa Anas. That's what
changes the game because it's not really the flames advancing
that are as dangerous as or that is as dangerous
as the embers that fly and cause the spot fires.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Sure, that's always.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
The unpredictable one, and that is the thing that really
freaks out fire fighters because they could have all their
resources in the perfectly positioned location, and all it takes
is that gust of wind to blow a burning ember
up to a mile away, yeah, and still smoldering and
land right in the eaves of a house, right up
underneath a roof tile or something, and then just enough
(32:19):
to smolder and catch something on fire like a tree
next to it. And then it's you know, then you've
got resources having to go over there. And then that's
what gets scary.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's the wind, sure, and the wind can be unrelenting,
you know, for days.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Fuels are bad enough because we're always having this drought
and the heat doesn't make anything better.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But that wind is what really changes the game.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean years doing forecasting for Channel eleven, just sitting
there hour after hour watching and sadly just resigning yourself
to the fact that we just had to wait for
the weather to break because the wind was just too
powerful for firefighters to get the upper hand.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Have you ever have you ever thought about being a
fire science guy, like like the fire meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, I'm too I'm too much of a you know,
I'm too much of a broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Show.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I'll tell you something now, every time I go to
a command post, those are the first guys I ask for,
those fire meteorologists, the fire science guys.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
They got so much greater. They're brilliant, they'rez love them
really absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
All right, he's got three shows and Steve Gregory Industries,
whatever he's doing. It's Studio six forty. It's unsolved. It's
the magic of Steve Gregory, the award winning journalist. Thank
you first to you, my friend, yet good to see
you always when we come back. They have been found arrested.
(33:42):
It was the big crackdown on something that has been
an epidemic in southern California. We'll talk about it next.
It's a Tim Kaway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
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