Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the private jet crash near San Diego

Two people are dead and eight injured after a plane crashed in San Diego overnight.

The small business jet crashed into the Murphy Canyon neighbourhood, spilling jet fuel across the road and engulfing multiple homes in flames.

Police evacuated around 100 residents.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking authorities are doing more searches, to make sure everyone's out.

He says it's believed those killed were on board, but among those injured were people on the ground.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stateside Richard Arnold, good Friday morning to you, Good morning
make and he got there by one nick stop the center.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, a win's a win, right, He won the pressure
game when it came to the House. He got his
tax bill through by this single vote, two hundred and
fifteen to two hundred and fourteen for what the master
of nicknames calls one big beautiful bill. However, Matt Drudge,
the Conservative blog calls it quote the big beautiful tax bomb.
That's because this will add around three point eight trillion
dollars US to the massive deficits country has, which is

(00:31):
already at what thirty six a trillion, at a point
when others already are cooling on the US economy. So
if conservatives once called themselves fiscal conservatives, well they didn't
vote that way, did they. They talk about cutting the debt,
then they balloon it when they're in power. This now
goes to the US Senate, where some Republicans are saying
this is too big and they will not vote for
it in this form. Republican Senator Around Paul saying his

(00:52):
party will own the deficit if they backed this thing.
Republicans Senate leader John Suons says they plan to seek
some changes and maybe break the bill apart into separate packages.
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham says, the claims about spending cuts
are a mira.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Some of these cuts are not real.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So let's don't get higher on a horse here that
we've somehow made some major advancement of reducing spending costs.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
We did.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
When it's added up, the richest ten percent get an increase,
the poorest lose some money because the tax changes are aggressive,
and there are plant cuts as well through medical care
and food money for the poor, so rich do better
on the backs of the poor. There is an extension
of the twenty seventeen Trump's tax cuts that will cost

(01:38):
two point two trillion US. However, on the other side,
some eight point six million people here will be without
medical coverage, Food stamp requirements will be tightened. There will
be a temporary ban on taxing tips, which is an
idea that Trump put forward to win votes during the
campaign in Las Vegas and so on. But again that's
just temporary. There was a core for it would be
illigrants to pay a thousand bucks to be considered in

(01:59):
the court tier, and there is a ban on some
clean energy incentives just on those elements. So if they
eliminated the tax counts for people who earn a half
a million bucks US a year or more, that would
save more than one trillion dollars, little more than the
cost of health care and food for poorer folks. So
that's basically the split here. Trump already is calling from
an early Senate vote on his budget and says it

(02:21):
would be disastrous if he loses, So he's already turning
up the pressure once again. Meantime, one little provision that
sort of snuck in my is and how Republicans want
to change the law that gun owners now will not
have to report it if they buy silencers for their weapons,
because as we know, the endless gun massacres in this
country are so noisy.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, San Diego, what's the upload.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, we've just had the initial numbers on the dead
and injured from this crash. It was a small business
jet that went down into a suburban area of San Diego.
Flat Chu. Dan Eddie is saying.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Eat injuries and we had two fatalities as well. We're
currently out right now, so it injured two fatalities. What
are those injuries were transport.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It appears that those killed were on the jet. That's
not exactly confirmed as yet. They're still investigating. Some on
the ground also were among the injured. So this is
really a huge disaster scene. Some fifteen houses were set
on fire, there was a lot of jet fuel burning.
About one hundred people were evacuated in the middle of
the night. At the height of this thing, last word
from the pilot was this lucky traffic.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Sacation triple six self. This yere three miles final two.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
So no indication than of any emergency at that point
that they knew about in the cabin. Meantime, this occurred
as they were coming in to land at a small
uncontrolled airport in the middle of the night. As I say,
thick fog as well. Not clear as yet if there
was any data voice recorder on the aircraft. It was
a Citation two jet, so dating for the late seventies,
so that was a point when these devices weren't mandated.

(03:47):
On the ground. Right now, they're doing more searches to
make sure everybody is out. This is a place where
a lot of military families lives. As a city councilor we.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Know that there was many miracles and many heroic actions
from our police department are firefighters and the military members themselves.
I heard stories over at the school just near us
about military families helping military families out of their home,
jumping out of windows avoiding fire.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
So quite a scene and amazing there were not more casualties,
might because everyone, of course would have been at home.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, exactly, all right, man't go well. Richard Arnold stateside
just quickly, so he got the big bill, through the
big beautiful bill. But a federal judge also has ordered
the administration to reinstate more than thirteen hundred US Department
of Education employees. Twenty one state sued him over that,
so that's a loss and big news today, Universal's epic
new theme park has opened. This is Comcast. This is

(04:40):
sort of TVV entertainment, sort of clashing. The world's coming together.
Epic Universe is what it's called. So first major theme
park in the US that's opened in twenty years. It's
in Orlando and Florida. The most technologically advanced theme park ever,
took six years to build seven point seven billion dollars.
It's you watch it on the telly, then you go

(05:00):
play with it at the theme park, or so goes
the Theory.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
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