January 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Pulmonologist Dr. Ray Casciari joins the show to kick off hour 3 talking about the severity of the impact of the fires on air quality and as a result, our lungs. Dr. Ray provides common sense rules about how to tell if the air quality is impacting your lungs. // Tim continues the conversation with Dr. Ray Casciari turning to the subject of tuberculosis, and why the cases in Kansas City are a bit concerning. Tawala Sharp from Later with Mo’Kelly joins Tim to talk about an event at The Los Angeles Mission that is benefitting Altadena wildfire victims and takes place this Saturday (02/01) in Pasadena. // Tim wraps out the show with breaking news regarding multiple casualties after a regional jet crashed into a river near D.C. National Airport.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
One of my favorite guests of all time. He was
on with us during COVID and he put a lot
of people at ease. He saved a lot of lives
by telling people, you're gonna make it, well, most of.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You are going to make it. And his name is
doctor rak A. Sherry and he's with us, Doctor Ray,
how you.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sir, Jim, I'm doing great. Tell you boy, you're doing great.
Number one talk show buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think that was because of you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
No, no, no, you've got that after me. You got
it all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No no, no, no, you don't understand, like we could
not have done this without you. You saved so many
lives during COVID. You kept selling telling people as long
as you don't have nine thousand diseases working, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Be okay, yeah, or or or are really really old
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But but now we're we're we've got another emergence see
or another crisis on our hands with these fires.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Huh oh wow, you know the fires are really bad.
I was actually in Australia when the fires broke out,
and it was big news over there, and we looked
at it. It's awful to look at your your home
and and where you are, and I don't live in
that area, but to look at it burning like that,
(01:25):
I mean it was. It was really awful. And yeah,
the fires are devastating and the toxin that it put
into the air was devastating. It still is, by the way.
You know, folks have to had to breathe that the
rain helped a lot, by the way, good in terms
(01:48):
of respiratory disease. The rain helped a lot. So that's
a good thing. But now people are going back in
there and they're going to have some exposure. So you know,
maybe we ought to go through some of the things
you and I have gone through over time in terms
of what when when they are in trouble as far
(02:08):
as the lungs are concerned.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But doctor again, doctor Raker Shres with US world class
pullmonologist out of Saint Joe's in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I heard that the detector is that detect.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, smog or you know how clean the air is,
are not able to pick up the small particles that
have been produced by these fires.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is that true.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, that's true that you know. One of the rules
of thumb for lung disease is that if you can
see it, it won't it's not hurting you. Well, it's
really hurting you. Are the really tiny particles, the less
than two millimeters particles that penetrate deeping your lungs. And
that's what does the real damage. Uh And and that's
what's really difficult to pick up. Now, there are detectors
(02:48):
that can pick that up, but not not carrying those
with you as you walk around your home site. So
do you want to go over some rules of thumb
that can help to if you're out in the you know,
the homesite walking around.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Sure, absolutely, we got plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, okay, so these are my rules of thumb. They're
not written down anywhere, but I think they're good common
sense rules. So the first is something I said on
the show many times. If your eyes are burning, your
lungs are burning too. Because the same embryonic tissue that
was used to develop your eyes and your mouth and
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your nose is in your lungs. So if you feel
your eyes burning, then you know your lungs are doing
that too. It's time to get out of there. Okay,
So that's number one. Number two, remember the really bad
stuff you can't see. So if you think everything looks
okay and therefore you know, I'm going to go in, uh,
(03:53):
you know, maybe be a little careful, all right, Dan
Danner's do nothing. Okay, paters masks do nothing. Surgical masks
basically just filter out the stuff you can see. Now.
Properly fitting N ninety five mask is good. It'll filter
out the bacterias in the air, it'll filter out most viruses,
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but it's not going to get the really tiny toxic particles.
The toxic molecules require a self contained breathing apparatus. So well,
you know, right now, a lot of those folks have
the decision to let the Army Corps of Engineers clean
up their property. And that's a good decision.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right, But to get a self contained breathing apparatus has
got to be expensive.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, that's that's well. The fire departments have them, and
all the toxic cleanup folks have them. But you know,
especially if you have an electric car in your property
and that thing burned, you know, that's not for you
to clean up a lot of stuff in there that
you don't want to be exposed to. And the last
(05:06):
sort of rule of thumb is, if you've got an
underlying illness right now, talk to your doctor before you
go back into a toxic site. You know, have a
reasonable conversation, and follow follow your doctor's advice. So those
are my sort of you know, common sense rules of
thumb about how to handle, you know, going back into
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a toxic area.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I like those. I like all five of them. If
your eyes are burning, your lungs are burning, the bad
stuff is too small to see. N ninety five masks
is preferable, but it's not perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Electric car.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If it's burned in your yard, don't touch it, don't
get rid of it yourself, and then talk to your
doctor about your condition.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I like all five of those.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Good. Well, that's good. I like it when you give
me a word of confidence, that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But now let's get into real quickly. For people have
not been affected by the fires. What are we doing
with How close did you guys get when I say
you doctors and scientists, how close did you get to
the flu shot this year?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh boy, you're not gonna like my love, no want
it anyway? Yes, all right. Well, you know the way
we do the way we figured this out is we
go to the southern hemisphere and we say how successful
were we in the Southern hemisphere and the early returns.
In fact, I just looked this up today. We guessed
(06:33):
right about thirty four percent of the time. Not good?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What we tried to do it? Right? You know, like
we feel good about it. If we can reduce hospitalizations
about fifty percent. Okay, this year we're reducing hospitalizations about
thirty four percent. Now that's still good. I mean, you know,
(07:00):
if you if you can improve your chances that much,
you never to take that, right. I mean, it's not
like you're going to say, oh, well, I'm not going
to bother. No, you're going to You're going to take
just thirty four percent and go with it. But I
would I would really like it to be a little
closer to fifty percent. But it's still worth it. And
by the way, if you haven't got a flu shot yet,
(07:22):
I would get it because the flu is raging back
east and it's gonna it's gonna get worse out here
because we're just beginning our winner out here. It hasn't
been cold, but it's cold now, and people are going
to go indoors, and the flu's going to hit out
here a little worse.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think, Yeah, I'm I'm the opposite of a lot
of people. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Once the vaccines came out, people took the first one
and they didn't get any boosters. I became addicted to inoculations.
I get two or three a week now.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, I think if you get the flu shot, I
think one would probably be enough. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What's the highest score you've ever gotten with the flu
shot when scientists and doctors, what's the one year you
really knocked it out?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know, I think one year was sixty percent. Wow,
And yeah, so that's pretty good. That's the best I
can remember.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So that's huge. Yeah, And where does the flu come from?
What part of the world?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, you know, the flu, it hits the Southern hemisphere first,
and then it just circulates all around the world. So
I mean, I don't think it starts like you know,
we can pinpoint it to you know, Cape Town, South
Africa or anything, but it starts in the Southern hemisphere
and then it worked because you know, they have winter
(08:43):
when we're having summer. Sure, so it starts in their
winter and then it works its way all around the world.
Is there All the flu vaccines are developed based on
the Southern hemisphere's winter. Okay, like this year they developed
they they had two influenza a's H one N one
(09:03):
and H three N two and one influenza B. So
we developed our flu vaccine on that. And then you
make our best guess, is there.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
A patient zero for the flu? Every year? There's got
to be.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, there's you know, eventually, yeah, there is. We never
trace it back to a patient zero. It's not like
you know, it's it's not like HIV or you know,
the the other sort of viruses that can hit.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But they trace HIV back to patient zero.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Uh, we can trace it back. Well, no, we didn't
trace HIV to patient zero in Africa, but we can
trace it when it hits like in a in a
given area.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh I see, okay, all right, excellent, Bunny. I really
appreciate you coming on. We missed you on the show.
But when you're not on that means that things are
going good.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, you know, that's that's absolutely true. And we had
things have been going good and the only thing, you know,
the tuberculosis outbreaking Kansas City is a little bit of
a worry. Oh wait you heard about that?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Wait wait can you hold on?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Sure, okay, all right, hold them on sec doctors. Well,
he's going to say TV's hitting and then hang up
the hell out of here. We got to find out
more about this. Tuberculosis can wipe you out. We'll come
back and tell you how it's going to wipe you out. Tuberculosis.
Find out where it is and what you can do
about it. Maybe there's a vaccine. I love vaccines. I
get them all.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I'm addicted to these inoculations.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Every time I go to CVS, I'm like, hey, where
do I stand in line and get all knocked up
here with these shots?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Love them.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We have doctor Racers. Sherry's with us.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We're gonna talk about tuberculosis and doctor I remember during
COVID we dodged a bull it because San Francisco had
lost and didn't go to the super Bowl where it
could have been a massive spread. Because that's where in
San Francisco is where we had a lot of COVID. Well,
this year we might run into the opposite problem because
(11:15):
Kansas City is in the Super Bowl and they're having
an unbelievable tuberculosis problem that might be considered a danger
and become a super spreader at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Okay, this is why I want to talk about it.
So it's been in the news, and we got to
clear up a few things right now. Okay, So number one,
tuberculosis has never gone away. Promonologists see a few cases
every year, and it's a great imitator. It can look
like a lot of different things, but primarily it affects
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the lungs.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I heard that a quarter of the population in
the world has it, but only ten to fifteen percent
show symptoms.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Absolutely right. It's even lower than that, It's only like
five percent show symptoms. But here's the interesting thing. Last
year in this country, ninety six hundred people died at tuberculosis. Okay,
I'm sorry, that's not true. Ninety six hundred people had
tuberculous new cases were diagnosed in this country, But one
point five million people died of tuberculosis in the world
(12:19):
last year. Now, to give you a perspective on that
less than three hundred thousand die to COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
All right, so that gives you sort of a perspective
about what we're talking about here. Now. The thing about
it that's interesting is tuberculosis is not very contagious, all right.
That's very important to realize. You know, in order to
get tuberculosis from somebody, you have to have really close contact.
(12:48):
And in Kansas City right now, the reason is things
are concerned. Sixty four people have died in the past year,
so there is a focus there and I think there
have been seventy nine other cases diagnosed. But this is
very close contact and they'll get control of it now
that they've identified the focus, they will get control of it.
(13:12):
But there's no danger at the Super Bowl. It's not
going to be a mass spreading event like COVID was
because it's not contagious. It's very very low degree of
contagious city because you almost have to have somebody cough
directly into your face in order to get it. Okay, Okay,
(13:33):
that was kind of what I wanted to get at.
The Other thing about TV is we're going to be
seeing more and more of it because with all this
massive influx we've had of immigrants. You know, these folks
have not had the same sort of background regarding tuberculosis
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that the folks who've been raised in the United States
have had. So we are going to have more tuberculosis cases.
So we're gonna have to be a little more aware
of it as time goes on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Great, Okay, so it's not a panic situation yet with TV,
but the numbers are alarming. At one point five million people, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
A lot in the world. Yeah, and you know the
reason I brought it up. It's way more than COVID.
So yeah, it's very interesting to me what people get
excited about, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I really appreciate you coming on. We'd love to have
you on more often. But again, when you're not on
that that means things are going well. But just hearing
your voice reminds us of how many people you helped
out during COVID and we could never thank you enough.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's great to hear and it's great to hear you,
and thank you and congratulations again one good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
All right, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
All right, Doctor ray Ku Sherry, everybody, This just in
breaking news. This just happened nine minutes ago. Police are
investigating a plane crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport, DC
Fire and EMSA on Wednesday night, that's tonight. A small
plane went down near the airport, landing in the Potomac River.
(15:11):
All flights out of Reagan National have been halted. Has rescued.
Crews work to find the victims from the plane. At
this time, it is unclear will cause the plane to
go down. All takeoffs and landings have been halted at
DCA that's Reagan Airport around six fifteen pm hour time,
so it's literally thirteen minutes ago. Emergency personnel responding to
(15:36):
an aircraft incident on the airfield. The terminal remains open,
so as soon as we have any information on that,
we will pass it along to you. Initially I thought
it was a commercial jet, but it looks like it's
a smaller private jet.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
And you know those runways right there, they're right beside
the Potomac, and at least one of the runways from
my memory of being there, because my dad used to
take me there and watch planes take off, goes right
over the water as soon as it gets off the ground.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh I see right, Yeah, so I could have been.
But you know, the people that fly to that airport
a lot of times are really rich or they're politicians.
That's the airport that they like to use. Isn't that
the closer to one to d C. It's basically in DC. Yeah, yeah,
and the other one is Dallas.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Dallas is a little further away, and there's Bwy Baltimore,
Washington that's a little closer to DC, but Dallas is
the furthest the way.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
All right, We're going to keep an eye on that.
That is bad news. Well, we'll come back. Toualla is
going to be with us. He's got a he's with
the Moe Kelly Show every night. Used to have his
own show here on weekends, and he is he's got
something to talk about here. Los Angeles Mission has a
great event event benefiting Alta Dina wildfire victims taking place
(16:53):
on Saturday, this Saturday, the first February, first in past.
So we'll come back and talk to Tuala Sharp.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Twala joins us from the well, I guess the mo
Kelly Show used to have your own show here.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And I did used to have my old show, Soul Calous.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And my favorite part was when when you did the
Small Business Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Loved it.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I love small businesses, that is my heart. I feel
for every single one of the small businesses, especially in
my hometown of Altadena that are all gone. But Small
Business Saturday was a way to actually give back to
the backbone of our community here. I don't care if
you're from Burbank, Orange County, the valley, you know, the beaches, whatever, right,
(17:45):
I wanted to shine the light on the people who
who make it happen for all of us.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And these people live in Altadena got burned out of
their businesses. What do you say about ninety percent of
them don't own the property, so they just get money
for the inventory, which may not be not much.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Yeah, may not be much. And there is nothing thus
far that I've seen. And if there is something, please
reach out to me at mister mo Kelly. You can
hit me on his social media at mister mo Kelly
on all platforms and let me know if there is
some clause that says these small businesses get to come
back and open up their businesses as they were. Their
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inventory is replaced, and their leases start right back where
they were.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And it's going to take some time, even if they
do open in three or six months now, to get
enough business to come in, enough people to commit.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh no, no, that's not a factor, because it's like
I'm already being told we're looking at anywhere from six
months to a year or longer to just get back
to normal.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And your house was saved.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There are five houses on my block that are still standing. Wow,
everything for about three or four blocks around is gone.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Any idea how that happened? Was it just luck? Just
or dumb luck? Just a bit?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Because there's fire damage in the backyard and there's fire
damage in the front yard. So there's some rainbow that
was protecting house that caused the flames and the embers
to go right over our houses. Because all the houses
behind us of Alta Dean Drive burned down, all the
houses across the street from us, they would walk out
the front door, there's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
A friend of mine who's with the La County Sheriff's Department,
he said, the only houses that survived in a lot
of areas one story homes. He said this second story
caught the wind caught on fire to burn the house down.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
A lot of those houses that do have even those
larger crawl spaces and have vents towards the top because
a lot of the houses in Altadena they have these
sloped roofs. It's like old style houses where the roofs
around the edges are sloped down. They have these overhangs
where all the embers they just you know, because of
the updraft they're getting in those crawl spaces and they're
burning from the roof down.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
All right, So you're working, or you have a there's
the mission is having a big charity event, the Los
Angeles Mission.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Who years ago, I went out to skid Row and
I did some work with the Los Angeles Mission, feeding
the homeless out there and seeing it at the ground levels.
Why when, I don't know if you ever get those
flyers or those mailers to donate. I donate it because
I've been down there and I see the work that
they do.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
We get the Thanksgiving ones. My wife's always involved with them.
But they also they don't get a lot of public funding.
They get a lot of private funding, a lot of
private funding and they don't play by the public rules.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I like that and for what they do, they say,
we want to be able to dictate where our money goes,
not into our pockets. But we don't want anyone coming
back at us and saying, well, hey, I need to
get paid for you know, I did some bookworker for you,
or I did this that or the other I drove. No,
we want to make sure that we are able to
allocate every single dime that comes in. So in hearing
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all the covers that we've been doing, they reached out
to me personally said, hey, we have got a major
event happening this Saturday in Pasadena. If you could shine
any light on the show or the event, we would
love it. Share and Share was like you already know tee.
Come on, yeah, come on, come on, wait, knock it out,
all right?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What is it Saturday? Where there is.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Saturday from eleven am to four pm. It is happening
at eight five five North Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena.
Hot meals and mill boxes, emergency medical supplies, mobile laundry services,
hygiene and essential supplies, legal services, which are the most
important and the most needed. Where they're actually going to
(21:28):
be providing real guidance and real support for those that
need which is what we need most now. We need
that more. We need beyond the hygiene kits and the
mill kits. That's great and there are those that absolutely
need it, but if we do not have legal advisors, advocates,
individuals to help us navigate this absolute murderous row of
(21:51):
red tape getting through to these insurance companies and through
FEMA and all the other organizations that say, oh you
have to fill out four and fifty five eleven. You
got to go back to the beginning and start overnight.
These are the things that are nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So people should probably bring their insurance policy with.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Them, bring their insurance policy with you, bring your ID,
proof of ideas. Definitely needed to prove that you do
live in the area because there are a lot of individuals.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It to him, I want to grow up when I
see that the people that showed up at Santa Anita,
they said probably twenty five percent of them didn't live
in the burn Scar area.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And we're getting fats sobsolutely.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I'm seeing events happening all over the place, and I'm like,
when you're from Altadena, you know, who lives in Altadena,
and so it's one of those like I'm like, you
don't live out here, what are you doing that? I
just want to scream. I want to scream. But no,
at the LA Missions event, they are actually good asking
for ID because they're also going to be providing financial
support and all that, so there is no getting over there.
(22:49):
They're making sure that they're holding you to the letters.
That's why I respect what they are doing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So it's eight fifty five North Orangetrove from eleven am
to four pm. Meals, legal services, all kinds of hygiene.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Everything, financial services, everything, the whole kit and kaboodle, everything
that you need. And this is just one of so
many events that are happening. If you want to know
more about any event happening Pasadena, now, dot com is
the place to go because it is such a valuable resource.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, I always talk about you as the last
honest guy in radio because you're the only guy I
think on this station or in LA who doesn't give
a rats ass what people think about you just say it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That's why I missed the Saturday show, listened in for it,
Like who's he gonna piss off tonight. But one of
the things that you and I connected on when when
are my daughter is nineteen?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How old is your daughter? Fifteen? Fourteen? Fourteen? Okay? Is
the weight?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And I've never heard anyone else discuss this. I get
really crazy with the schools, and you did as well,
and we just happen to be talking about it, you know,
coincidentally in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
The weight of these effing backpacks.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
These backpacks that are going to give these kids all
type of I don't know what schools, what type.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of it was ridiculable pounds.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Absolutely, And then there's always this rule of well, we
don't have lockers because we don't want kids mingling at
the lockers and it costs us too much of a
traffic jam. The amount of cursing that I did when
I was told the reasons why, I'm like, I love
backpack and you've seen my daughter. My daughter's so slight,
and she's got a backpack that damn their waste. As
much as we now burn your rules and your policies,
(24:27):
this would be the issues I have with la U
s D. They want they want to well, we want
to make sure everyone gets an iPad to go along
with the eighty five pounds backpack.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Why not just have everything in the iPad? And they
don't even use those books half the time.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
They don't. They don't why because everything is on a
computer now, So what's the book back for?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's great man. All right, we're gonna keep promoting this.
Are you going there on Saturdays?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can go see Towola there on Saturday. If you're
nice enough. I heard you're gonna be signing autographs.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If people are not, way you put it out there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay, all right, thank you, Touala. Go see Tuwala this Saturday.
The event is eleven am to four pm, eight to
fifty five North Orange Grove. It's the Mission, the La Mission,
Downtown LA Mission. They're going to have a huge amount
of people out there, especially legal services is.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Going to be really important. So get on out there
this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Let's go right to Washington, DC breaking news here. It
looks like a helicopter has run in to a plane.
A helicopters at a plane at DC.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Airport, trying to see right by cop one and you
could see and hear this is.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Fox Channel five in Washington, DC where.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
They were going.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Initially, we were heading down to Reagan National and you
could just see, for lack of better words, a convoy
of fire trucks and rescue shooting down towards the airport.
But then photojournalists sNaN and I noticed that the fire
rescue cars were looping, so of course we followed and
realized that Gravelly Points seems like the staging area. Again,
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just really quickly, sound if you could show a number
of Erics County fire trucks and crews over here. We
have more coming, and we have more boats. We have
one two boats on the back of this pickup.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's it looks like hundreds of cops and fire engines
and ambulances.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
They're at least coming to bring their boats to get
into the water.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
All right, let's turn around really quickly.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So behind us, what they know is it's a helicopter.
They hit a plane and they don't believe it was
d C a DC police helicopter. Originally they thought it
was a police helicopter. They don't think it is maybe
a military helicopter.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
They have CNN's tim that's reporting a black Hawk helicopter
and that's that's coming from the FAA.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, and then there's video of it as well. They're
showing video right now and you can see the explosion.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's coming from Wow. That carries So that is what
he is.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
But I want to stress something in times like this,
it is very easy for information to I don't want
to see misinformation, but sometimes lines get crossed. But you
know when it comes from a US senator who clearly
knows knows Reagan national and who spends time going in
and out of their undoubtedly that's the reason we're sharing
that information with you.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Yeah, And just to reiterate again from our understanding, all
takeoff and landing has been halted there, but they said
the terminal.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Is still terminal was open.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
It's still open at this time. And then you saw
Nana there. She described the situation as fluid, and you
saw it there in real time as she was asking
the emergency responders with Fairfax County where you going.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And you can see the video, it looks like a plane.
I don't know if the plane hit the helicopter, the
helicopter hit the plane, but one of it looks like
the plane was on final approach to Reagan International and
a helicopter ran into it. I'm watching on channel Fox
right on Fox eleven here locally, and you can.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Clearly see the video.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It looks like a helicopter ran into the plane, and
that's that's the helicopter and the plane ran into it,
and they both explode in mid air and go right
into the Potomac River there. Man, that is a that's
a big, big deal. That is that is horrible and
you're going to see it when you get home. It'll
be the lead story on all these newscasts. And there's
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another plane that took off right before it, So it
looks like it looks like the plane was on final
approach or or either landing or just taking off. It
looks like it was landing and a helicopter ran right
into the side of it. God only knows how why
the helicopter couldn't see this plane. I mean, it had
all its lights on, it was probably flying. Maybe it
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wasn't flying in the right area, but it looks like
the helicopter went right into the side of it. And
maybe they were sightseeing, maybe they were looking at elsewhere where.
But that is a huge disaster. It looks like a
private plane and a helicopter collided, and there's got to
be one hundred emergency.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Vehicles out there. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The bridges are still open over the Potomac River. And
obviously we'll find out in the next couple of hours
how many people are on the plane, how many people
are on the helicopter. But I can't imagine anybody surviving that.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Anybody.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Who are you helping? And they he responded. He was
very candid with her and honest and said, we're trying
to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Okay, I want we're going to take a We're going
to take a deep breath here for a second, because
we want to show you video that's into the newsroom.
This is from earthcam and this is from near the
Kennedy Center. And this is what we've just been authorized
to show you. We're working to get that ready to
show you of here it is. This is what's being
said to be the moment that the collision happened. There Again,
(29:55):
we're being told here's a better angle. This is not
a live shot. I want to stress this is not
a lie or is this a live shot or no? Okay,
we just want to be careful with that. We because
we want people to know that what happened and what
is happening. But this is the moment, purportedly that a
helicopter crashed collided with what is only being called a
small aircraft at this hour, and uh yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You can see the flash there.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Are they saying that they did they know anything more
about the plane or the helicopter? They say, CNN saying
is a black Hawk.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah, according to CNN, who's the only one that's reporting
it at the moment. And this is according to the FAA.
According to them, that it's a passenger jet and it
collided in mid air with a black Hawk helicopter. That's
what's being reported.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Are they saying a commercial jet or private jet?
Speaker 9 (30:42):
They're saying they are just saying passenger jet. Okay, yeah,
at first it said jet, then it said passenger jets,
so that the story has been updated to a passenger jet.
So it could very well be a commercial jet. We
were just it's just unclear at this time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And you know, if you think about it, you know,
the people who use that airport with private jets, they
typically could be somebody. We know a lot of politicians
use that those runways in that airport, a lot of
celebrities going in and out of Washington, a lot of
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you know, big business guys flying in and out of Washington.
And it looks like a plane had taken off right
before this and is in the top of the picture there.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And then a plane.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
My guess is that the plane was landing and the
helicopter ran into the plane. And I can't imagine with
all the sensitive equipment and all the you know, the
guidance equipment and radar and warning signs, that a helicopter
could just accidentally fly into a plane like that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Is is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But if you're watching, there's a special report right now
on Channel seven, they're doing a live special report. CBS
Evening News is I think they're going to come on
with this story, but they haven't been on a yet.
So Aaron Katirski is reporting live from ABC and CBS.
(32:14):
This is the problem with doing national newscasts three hours
before when something like this happens.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I mean, CBS is talking about.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
NASA, so I do I do have something else into
the newsroom right now. This is according to White House officials.
Tim They are reporting that a military chopper has collided
with a regional jet near Reggued Airport there in the
DC area.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So that was a commercial jet.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And and you know when they say when you say,
when you say a military helicopter, they have not said
a Blackhawk, they just have military.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
They're saying military chopper specifically.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, So everybody gets nervous that that could be a
presidential helicopter, you know. And and so the immediate reaction
to people is, you know, do we know who it was?
You know it was a passenger jet. How many people
on the jet? This is a major, major breaking story
out of Washington, d C. I know Andrew and Moe
(33:09):
Kelly will be talking about it all night, give you
the latest details. And we will give all those details
for you tonight as soon as we get them right
here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand
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(33:33):
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It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
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One of my favorite guests of all time. He was
on with us during COVID and he put a lot
of people at ease. He saved a lot of lives
by telling people, you're gonna make it, well, most of.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You are going to make it. And his name is
doctor rak A. Sherry and he's with us, Doctor Ray,
how you.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sir, Jim, I'm doing great. Tell you boy, you're doing great.
Number one talk show buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think that was because of you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
No, no, no, you've got that after me. You got
it all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No no, no, no, you don't understand, like we could
not have done this without you. You saved so many
lives during COVID. You kept selling telling people as long
as you don't have nine thousand diseases working, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Be okay, yeah, or or or are really really old
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But but now we're we're we've got another emergence see
or another crisis on our hands with these fires.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Huh oh wow, you know the fires are really bad.
I was actually in Australia when the fires broke out,
and it was big news over there, and we looked
at it. It's awful to look at your your home
and and where you are, and I don't live in
that area, but to look at it burning like that,
(01:25):
I mean it was. It was really awful. And yeah,
the fires are devastating and the toxin that it put
into the air was devastating. It still is, by the way.
You know, folks have to had to breathe that the
rain helped a lot, by the way, good in terms
(01:48):
of respiratory disease. The rain helped a lot. So that's
a good thing. But now people are going back in
there and they're going to have some exposure. So you know,
maybe we ought to go through some of the things
you and I have gone through over time in terms
of what when when they are in trouble as far
(02:08):
as the lungs are concerned.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But doctor again, doctor Raker Shres with US world class
pullmonologist out of Saint Joe's in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I heard that the detector is that detect.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, smog or you know how clean the air is,
are not able to pick up the small particles that
have been produced by these fires.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is that true.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, that's true that you know. One of the rules
of thumb for lung disease is that if you can
see it, it won't it's not hurting you. Well, it's
really hurting you. Are the really tiny particles, the less
than two millimeters particles that penetrate deeping your lungs. And
that's what does the real damage. Uh And and that's
what's really difficult to pick up. Now, there are detectors
(02:48):
that can pick that up, but not not carrying those
with you as you walk around your home site. So
do you want to go over some rules of thumb
that can help to if you're out in the you know,
the homesite walking around.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Sure, absolutely, we got plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, okay, so these are my rules of thumb. They're
not written down anywhere, but I think they're good common
sense rules. So the first is something I said on
the show many times. If your eyes are burning, your
lungs are burning too. Because the same embryonic tissue that
was used to develop your eyes and your mouth and
(03:28):
your nose is in your lungs. So if you feel
your eyes burning, then you know your lungs are doing
that too. It's time to get out of there. Okay,
So that's number one. Number two, remember the really bad
stuff you can't see. So if you think everything looks
okay and therefore you know, I'm going to go in, uh,
(03:53):
you know, maybe be a little careful, all right, Dan
Danner's do nothing. Okay, paters masks do nothing. Surgical masks
basically just filter out the stuff you can see. Now.
Properly fitting N ninety five mask is good. It'll filter
out the bacterias in the air, it'll filter out most viruses,
(04:18):
but it's not going to get the really tiny toxic particles.
The toxic molecules require a self contained breathing apparatus. So well,
you know, right now, a lot of those folks have
the decision to let the Army Corps of Engineers clean
up their property. And that's a good decision.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right, But to get a self contained breathing apparatus has
got to be expensive.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, that's that's well. The fire departments have them, and
all the toxic cleanup folks have them. But you know,
especially if you have an electric car in your property
and that thing burned, you know, that's not for you
to clean up a lot of stuff in there that
you don't want to be exposed to. And the last
(05:06):
sort of rule of thumb is, if you've got an
underlying illness right now, talk to your doctor before you
go back into a toxic site. You know, have a
reasonable conversation, and follow follow your doctor's advice. So those
are my sort of you know, common sense rules of
thumb about how to handle, you know, going back into
(05:29):
a toxic area.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I like those. I like all five of them. If
your eyes are burning, your lungs are burning, the bad
stuff is too small to see. N ninety five masks
is preferable, but it's not perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Electric car.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If it's burned in your yard, don't touch it, don't
get rid of it yourself, and then talk to your
doctor about your condition.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I like all five of those.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Good. Well, that's good. I like it when you give
me a word of confidence, that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But now let's get into real quickly. For people have
not been affected by the fires. What are we doing
with How close did you guys get when I say
you doctors and scientists, how close did you get to
the flu shot this year?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh boy, you're not gonna like my love, no want
it anyway? Yes, all right. Well, you know the way
we do the way we figured this out is we
go to the southern hemisphere and we say how successful
were we in the Southern hemisphere and the early returns.
In fact, I just looked this up today. We guessed
(06:33):
right about thirty four percent of the time. Not good?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What we tried to do it? Right? You know, like
we feel good about it. If we can reduce hospitalizations
about fifty percent. Okay, this year we're reducing hospitalizations about
thirty four percent. Now that's still good. I mean, you know,
(07:00):
if you if you can improve your chances that much,
you never to take that, right. I mean, it's not
like you're going to say, oh, well, I'm not going
to bother. No, you're going to You're going to take
just thirty four percent and go with it. But I
would I would really like it to be a little
closer to fifty percent. But it's still worth it. And
by the way, if you haven't got a flu shot yet,
(07:22):
I would get it because the flu is raging back
east and it's gonna it's gonna get worse out here
because we're just beginning our winner out here. It hasn't
been cold, but it's cold now, and people are going
to go indoors, and the flu's going to hit out
here a little worse.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think, Yeah, I'm I'm the opposite of a lot
of people. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Once the vaccines came out, people took the first one
and they didn't get any boosters. I became addicted to inoculations.
I get two or three a week now.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, I think if you get the flu shot, I
think one would probably be enough. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What's the highest score you've ever gotten with the flu
shot when scientists and doctors, what's the one year you
really knocked it out?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know, I think one year was sixty percent. Wow,
And yeah, so that's pretty good. That's the best I
can remember.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So that's huge. Yeah, And where does the flu come from?
What part of the world?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, you know, the flu, it hits the Southern hemisphere first,
and then it just circulates all around the world. So
I mean, I don't think it starts like you know,
we can pinpoint it to you know, Cape Town, South
Africa or anything, but it starts in the Southern hemisphere
and then it worked because you know, they have winter
(08:43):
when we're having summer. Sure, so it starts in their
winter and then it works its way all around the world.
Is there All the flu vaccines are developed based on
the Southern hemisphere's winter. Okay, like this year they developed
they they had two influenza a's H one N one
(09:03):
and H three N two and one influenza B. So
we developed our flu vaccine on that. And then you
make our best guess, is there.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
A patient zero for the flu? Every year? There's got
to be.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, there's you know, eventually, yeah, there is. We never
trace it back to a patient zero. It's not like
you know, it's it's not like HIV or you know,
the the other sort of viruses that can hit.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But they trace HIV back to patient zero.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Uh, we can trace it back. Well, no, we didn't
trace HIV to patient zero in Africa, but we can
trace it when it hits like in a in a
given area.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh I see, okay, all right, excellent, Bunny. I really
appreciate you coming on. We missed you on the show.
But when you're not on that means that things are
going good.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, you know, that's that's absolutely true. And we had
things have been going good and the only thing, you know,
the tuberculosis outbreaking Kansas City is a little bit of
a worry. Oh wait you heard about that?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Wait wait can you hold on?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Sure, okay, all right, hold them on sec doctors. Well,
he's going to say TV's hitting and then hang up
the hell out of here. We got to find out
more about this. Tuberculosis can wipe you out. We'll come
back and tell you how it's going to wipe you out. Tuberculosis.
Find out where it is and what you can do
about it. Maybe there's a vaccine. I love vaccines. I
get them all.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I'm addicted to these inoculations.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Every time I go to CVS, I'm like, hey, where
do I stand in line and get all knocked up
here with these shots?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Love them.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We have doctor Racers. Sherry's with us.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
We're gonna talk about tuberculosis and doctor I remember during
COVID we dodged a bull it because San Francisco had
lost and didn't go to the super Bowl where it
could have been a massive spread. Because that's where in
San Francisco is where we had a lot of COVID. Well,
this year we might run into the opposite problem because
(11:15):
Kansas City is in the Super Bowl and they're having
an unbelievable tuberculosis problem that might be considered a danger
and become a super spreader at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Okay, this is why I want to talk about it.
So it's been in the news, and we got to
clear up a few things right now. Okay, So number one,
tuberculosis has never gone away. Promonologists see a few cases
every year, and it's a great imitator. It can look
like a lot of different things, but primarily it affects
(11:49):
the lungs.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I heard that a quarter of the population in
the world has it, but only ten to fifteen percent
show symptoms.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Absolutely right. It's even lower than that, It's only like
five percent show symptoms. But here's the interesting thing. Last
year in this country, ninety six hundred people died at tuberculosis. Okay,
I'm sorry, that's not true. Ninety six hundred people had
tuberculous new cases were diagnosed in this country, But one
point five million people died of tuberculosis in the world
(12:19):
last year. Now, to give you a perspective on that
less than three hundred thousand die to COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
All right, so that gives you sort of a perspective
about what we're talking about here. Now. The thing about
it that's interesting is tuberculosis is not very contagious, all right.
That's very important to realize. You know, in order to
get tuberculosis from somebody, you have to have really close contact.
(12:48):
And in Kansas City right now, the reason is things
are concerned. Sixty four people have died in the past year,
so there is a focus there and I think there
have been seventy nine other cases diagnosed. But this is
very close contact and they'll get control of it now
that they've identified the focus, they will get control of it.
(13:12):
But there's no danger at the Super Bowl. It's not
going to be a mass spreading event like COVID was
because it's not contagious. It's very very low degree of
contagious city because you almost have to have somebody cough
directly into your face in order to get it. Okay, Okay,
(13:33):
that was kind of what I wanted to get at.
The Other thing about TV is we're going to be
seeing more and more of it because with all this
massive influx we've had of immigrants. You know, these folks
have not had the same sort of background regarding tuberculosis
(13:54):
that the folks who've been raised in the United States
have had. So we are going to have more tuberculosis cases.
So we're gonna have to be a little more aware
of it as time goes on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Great, Okay, so it's not a panic situation yet with TV,
but the numbers are alarming. At one point five million people, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
A lot in the world. Yeah, and you know the
reason I brought it up. It's way more than COVID.
So yeah, it's very interesting to me what people get
excited about, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I really appreciate you coming on. We'd love to have
you on more often. But again, when you're not on
that that means things are going well. But just hearing
your voice reminds us of how many people you helped
out during COVID and we could never thank you enough.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's great to hear and it's great to hear you,
and thank you and congratulations again one good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
All right, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
All right, Doctor ray Ku Sherry, everybody, This just in
breaking news. This just happened nine minutes ago. Police are
investigating a plane crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport, DC
Fire and EMSA on Wednesday night, that's tonight. A small
plane went down near the airport, landing in the Potomac River.
(15:11):
All flights out of Reagan National have been halted. Has rescued.
Crews work to find the victims from the plane. At
this time, it is unclear will cause the plane to
go down. All takeoffs and landings have been halted at
DCA that's Reagan Airport around six fifteen pm hour time,
so it's literally thirteen minutes ago. Emergency personnel responding to
(15:36):
an aircraft incident on the airfield. The terminal remains open,
so as soon as we have any information on that,
we will pass it along to you. Initially I thought
it was a commercial jet, but it looks like it's
a smaller private jet.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
And you know those runways right there, they're right beside
the Potomac, and at least one of the runways from
my memory of being there, because my dad used to
take me there and watch planes take off, goes right
over the water as soon as it gets off the ground.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh I see right, Yeah, so I could have been.
But you know, the people that fly to that airport
a lot of times are really rich or they're politicians.
That's the airport that they like to use. Isn't that
the closer to one to d C. It's basically in DC. Yeah, yeah,
and the other one is Dallas.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Dallas is a little further away, and there's Bwy Baltimore,
Washington that's a little closer to DC, but Dallas is
the furthest the way.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
All right, We're going to keep an eye on that.
That is bad news. Well, we'll come back. Toualla is
going to be with us. He's got a he's with
the Moe Kelly Show every night. Used to have his
own show here on weekends, and he is he's got
something to talk about here. Los Angeles Mission has a
great event event benefiting Alta Dina wildfire victims taking place
(16:53):
on Saturday, this Saturday, the first February, first in past.
So we'll come back and talk to Tuala Sharp.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Twala joins us from the well, I guess the mo
Kelly Show used to have your own show here.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And I did used to have my old show, Soul Calous.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And my favorite part was when when you did the
Small Business Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Loved it.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I love small businesses, that is my heart. I feel
for every single one of the small businesses, especially in
my hometown of Altadena that are all gone. But Small
Business Saturday was a way to actually give back to
the backbone of our community here. I don't care if
you're from Burbank, Orange County, the valley, you know, the beaches, whatever, right,
(17:45):
I wanted to shine the light on the people who
who make it happen for all of us.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And these people live in Altadena got burned out of
their businesses. What do you say about ninety percent of
them don't own the property, so they just get money
for the inventory, which may not be not much.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Yeah, may not be much. And there is nothing thus
far that I've seen. And if there is something, please
reach out to me at mister mo Kelly. You can
hit me on his social media at mister mo Kelly
on all platforms and let me know if there is
some clause that says these small businesses get to come
back and open up their businesses as they were. Their
(18:20):
inventory is replaced, and their leases start right back where
they were.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And it's going to take some time, even if they
do open in three or six months now, to get
enough business to come in, enough people to commit.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh no, no, that's not a factor, because it's like
I'm already being told we're looking at anywhere from six
months to a year or longer to just get back
to normal.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And your house was saved.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There are five houses on my block that are still standing. Wow,
everything for about three or four blocks around is gone.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Any idea how that happened? Was it just luck? Just
or dumb luck? Just a bit?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Because there's fire damage in the backyard and there's fire
damage in the front yard. So there's some rainbow that
was protecting house that caused the flames and the embers
to go right over our houses. Because all the houses
behind us of Alta Dean Drive burned down, all the
houses across the street from us, they would walk out
the front door, there's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
A friend of mine who's with the La County Sheriff's Department,
he said, the only houses that survived in a lot
of areas one story homes. He said this second story
caught the wind caught on fire to burn the house down.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
A lot of those houses that do have even those
larger crawl spaces and have vents towards the top because
a lot of the houses in Altadena they have these
sloped roofs. It's like old style houses where the roofs
around the edges are sloped down. They have these overhangs
where all the embers they just you know, because of
the updraft they're getting in those crawl spaces and they're
burning from the roof down.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
All right, So you're working, or you have a there's
the mission is having a big charity event, the Los
Angeles Mission.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Who years ago, I went out to skid Row and
I did some work with the Los Angeles Mission, feeding
the homeless out there and seeing it at the ground levels.
Why when, I don't know if you ever get those
flyers or those mailers to donate. I donate it because
I've been down there and I see the work that
they do.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
We get the Thanksgiving ones. My wife's always involved with them.
But they also they don't get a lot of public funding.
They get a lot of private funding, a lot of
private funding and they don't play by the public rules.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I like that and for what they do, they say,
we want to be able to dictate where our money goes,
not into our pockets. But we don't want anyone coming
back at us and saying, well, hey, I need to
get paid for you know, I did some bookworker for you,
or I did this that or the other I drove. No,
we want to make sure that we are able to
allocate every single dime that comes in. So in hearing
(20:47):
all the covers that we've been doing, they reached out
to me personally said, hey, we have got a major
event happening this Saturday in Pasadena. If you could shine
any light on the show or the event, we would
love it. Share and Share was like you already know tee.
Come on, yeah, come on, come on, wait, knock it out,
all right?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What is it Saturday? Where there is.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Saturday from eleven am to four pm. It is happening
at eight five five North Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena.
Hot meals and mill boxes, emergency medical supplies, mobile laundry services,
hygiene and essential supplies, legal services, which are the most
important and the most needed. Where they're actually going to
(21:28):
be providing real guidance and real support for those that
need which is what we need most now. We need
that more. We need beyond the hygiene kits and the
mill kits. That's great and there are those that absolutely
need it, but if we do not have legal advisors, advocates,
individuals to help us navigate this absolute murderous row of
(21:51):
red tape getting through to these insurance companies and through
FEMA and all the other organizations that say, oh you
have to fill out four and fifty five eleven. You
got to go back to the beginning and start overnight.
These are the things that are nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So people should probably bring their insurance policy with.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Them, bring their insurance policy with you, bring your ID,
proof of ideas. Definitely needed to prove that you do
live in the area because there are a lot of individuals.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It to him, I want to grow up when I
see that the people that showed up at Santa Anita,
they said probably twenty five percent of them didn't live
in the burn Scar area.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And we're getting fats sobsolutely.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I'm seeing events happening all over the place, and I'm like,
when you're from Altadena, you know, who lives in Altadena,
and so it's one of those like I'm like, you
don't live out here, what are you doing that? I
just want to scream. I want to scream. But no,
at the LA Missions event, they are actually good asking
for ID because they're also going to be providing financial
support and all that, so there is no getting over there.
(22:49):
They're making sure that they're holding you to the letters.
That's why I respect what they are doing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So it's eight fifty five North Orangetrove from eleven am
to four pm. Meals, legal services, all kinds of hygiene.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Everything, financial services, everything, the whole kit and kaboodle, everything
that you need. And this is just one of so
many events that are happening. If you want to know
more about any event happening Pasadena, now, dot com is
the place to go because it is such a valuable resource.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, I always talk about you as the last
honest guy in radio because you're the only guy I
think on this station or in LA who doesn't give
a rats ass what people think about you just say it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That's why I missed the Saturday show, listened in for it,
Like who's he gonna piss off tonight. But one of
the things that you and I connected on when when
are my daughter is nineteen?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How old is your daughter? Fifteen? Fourteen? Fourteen? Okay? Is
the weight?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And I've never heard anyone else discuss this. I get
really crazy with the schools, and you did as well,
and we just happen to be talking about it, you know,
coincidentally in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
The weight of these effing backpacks.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
These backpacks that are going to give these kids all
type of I don't know what schools, what type.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of it was ridiculable pounds.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Absolutely, And then there's always this rule of well, we
don't have lockers because we don't want kids mingling at
the lockers and it costs us too much of a
traffic jam. The amount of cursing that I did when
I was told the reasons why, I'm like, I love
backpack and you've seen my daughter. My daughter's so slight,
and she's got a backpack that damn their waste. As
much as we now burn your rules and your policies,
(24:27):
this would be the issues I have with la U
s D. They want they want to well, we want
to make sure everyone gets an iPad to go along
with the eighty five pounds backpack.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Why not just have everything in the iPad? And they
don't even use those books half the time.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
They don't. They don't why because everything is on a
computer now, So what's the book back for?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That's great man. All right, we're gonna keep promoting this.
Are you going there on Saturdays?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can go see Towola there on Saturday. If you're
nice enough. I heard you're gonna be signing autographs.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If people are not, way you put it out there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay, all right, thank you, Touala. Go see Tuwala this Saturday.
The event is eleven am to four pm, eight to
fifty five North Orange Grove. It's the Mission, the La Mission,
Downtown LA Mission. They're going to have a huge amount
of people out there, especially legal services is.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Going to be really important. So get on out there
this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Let's go right to Washington, DC breaking news here. It
looks like a helicopter has run in to a plane.
A helicopters at a plane at DC.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Airport, trying to see right by cop one and you
could see and hear this is.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Fox Channel five in Washington, DC where.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
They were going.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Initially, we were heading down to Reagan National and you
could just see, for lack of better words, a convoy
of fire trucks and rescue shooting down towards the airport.
But then photojournalists sNaN and I noticed that the fire
rescue cars were looping, so of course we followed and
realized that Gravelly Points seems like the staging area. Again,
(26:07):
just really quickly, sound if you could show a number
of Erics County fire trucks and crews over here. We
have more coming, and we have more boats. We have
one two boats on the back of this pickup.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's it looks like hundreds of cops and fire engines
and ambulances.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
They're at least coming to bring their boats to get
into the water.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
All right, let's turn around really quickly.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So behind us, what they know is it's a helicopter.
They hit a plane and they don't believe it was
d C a DC police helicopter. Originally they thought it
was a police helicopter. They don't think it is maybe
a military helicopter.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
They have CNN's tim that's reporting a black Hawk helicopter
and that's that's coming from the FAA.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, and then there's video of it as well. They're
showing video right now and you can see the explosion.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's coming from Wow. That carries So that is what
he is.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
But I want to stress something in times like this,
it is very easy for information to I don't want
to see misinformation, but sometimes lines get crossed. But you
know when it comes from a US senator who clearly
knows knows Reagan national and who spends time going in
and out of their undoubtedly that's the reason we're sharing
that information with you.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Yeah, And just to reiterate again from our understanding, all
takeoff and landing has been halted there, but they said
the terminal.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Is still terminal was open.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
It's still open at this time. And then you saw
Nana there. She described the situation as fluid, and you
saw it there in real time as she was asking
the emergency responders with Fairfax County where you going.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And you can see the video, it looks like a plane.
I don't know if the plane hit the helicopter, the
helicopter hit the plane, but one of it looks like
the plane was on final approach to Reagan International and
a helicopter ran into it. I'm watching on channel Fox
right on Fox eleven here locally, and you can.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Clearly see the video.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It looks like a helicopter ran into the plane, and
that's that's the helicopter and the plane ran into it,
and they both explode in mid air and go right
into the Potomac River there. Man, that is a that's
a big, big deal. That is that is horrible and
you're going to see it when you get home. It'll
be the lead story on all these newscasts. And there's
(28:31):
another plane that took off right before it, So it
looks like it looks like the plane was on final
approach or or either landing or just taking off. It
looks like it was landing and a helicopter ran right
into the side of it. God only knows how why
the helicopter couldn't see this plane. I mean, it had
all its lights on, it was probably flying. Maybe it
(28:53):
wasn't flying in the right area, but it looks like
the helicopter went right into the side of it. And
maybe they were sightseeing, maybe they were looking at elsewhere where.
But that is a huge disaster. It looks like a
private plane and a helicopter collided, and there's got to
be one hundred emergency.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Vehicles out there. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The bridges are still open over the Potomac River. And
obviously we'll find out in the next couple of hours
how many people are on the plane, how many people
are on the helicopter. But I can't imagine anybody surviving that.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Anybody.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Who are you helping? And they he responded. He was
very candid with her and honest and said, we're trying
to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Okay, I want we're going to take a We're going
to take a deep breath here for a second, because
we want to show you video that's into the newsroom.
This is from earthcam and this is from near the
Kennedy Center. And this is what we've just been authorized
to show you. We're working to get that ready to
show you of here it is. This is what's being
said to be the moment that the collision happened. There Again,
(29:55):
we're being told here's a better angle. This is not
a live shot. I want to stress this is not
a lie or is this a live shot or no? Okay,
we just want to be careful with that. We because
we want people to know that what happened and what
is happening. But this is the moment, purportedly that a
helicopter crashed collided with what is only being called a
small aircraft at this hour, and uh yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You can see the flash there.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Are they saying that they did they know anything more
about the plane or the helicopter? They say, CNN saying
is a black Hawk.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah, according to CNN, who's the only one that's reporting
it at the moment. And this is according to the FAA.
According to them, that it's a passenger jet and it
collided in mid air with a black Hawk helicopter. That's
what's being reported.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Are they saying a commercial jet or private jet?
Speaker 9 (30:42):
They're saying they are just saying passenger jet. Okay, yeah,
at first it said jet, then it said passenger jets,
so that the story has been updated to a passenger jet.
So it could very well be a commercial jet. We
were just it's just unclear at this time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And you know, if you think about it, you know,
the people who use that airport with private jets, they
typically could be somebody. We know a lot of politicians
use that those runways in that airport, a lot of
celebrities going in and out of Washington, a lot of
(31:18):
you know, big business guys flying in and out of Washington.
And it looks like a plane had taken off right
before this and is in the top of the picture there.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And then a plane.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
My guess is that the plane was landing and the
helicopter ran into the plane. And I can't imagine with
all the sensitive equipment and all the you know, the
guidance equipment and radar and warning signs, that a helicopter
could just accidentally fly into a plane like that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Is is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
But if you're watching, there's a special report right now
on Channel seven, they're doing a live special report. CBS
Evening News is I think they're going to come on
with this story, but they haven't been on a yet.
So Aaron Katirski is reporting live from ABC and CBS.
(32:14):
This is the problem with doing national newscasts three hours
before when something like this happens.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I mean, CBS is talking about.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
NASA, so I do I do have something else into
the newsroom right now. This is according to White House officials.
Tim They are reporting that a military chopper has collided
with a regional jet near Reggued Airport there in the
DC area.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So that was a commercial jet.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And and you know when they say when you say,
when you say a military helicopter, they have not said
a Blackhawk, they just have military.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
They're saying military chopper specifically.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, So everybody gets nervous that that could be a
presidential helicopter, you know. And and so the immediate reaction
to people is, you know, do we know who it was?
You know it was a passenger jet. How many people
on the jet? This is a major, major breaking story
out of Washington, d C. I know Andrew and Moe
(33:09):
Kelly will be talking about it all night, give you
the latest details. And we will give all those details
for you tonight as soon as we get them right
here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand
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