September 9, 2025 • 15 mins
(Sept 09,2025)
Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. How focused is Gavin Newsom on his job? His official schedule remains a mystery. ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Mike talks about Apple’s big event happening today previewing the iPhone 17 and testing out GM’s semi-autonomous driving technology. Senate republicans investigate Palisades fire response.
Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. How focused is Gavin Newsom on his job? His official schedule remains a mystery. ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Mike talks about Apple’s big event happening today previewing the iPhone 17 and testing out GM’s semi-autonomous driving technology. Senate republicans investigate Palisades fire response.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
DM six forty bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Here it is a Taco Tuesday, September the ninth. And
before we get to this story about what the Supreme
Court just did, gave a big win to the Trump administration.
I'll explain that in a minute, But first, Neil, you
have an event coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The best events of last year. Food Wise is coming
back this weekend Friday, Saturday, and I think Sunday as well.
Manhattan Beach Food and Wine forty six top chefs. You've
got Antonio Lafasso, she's amazing. You've got Chris Cosentino, You've
got Sherry Yard, Neil Fraser, so many much more. Forty
(00:47):
wines and spirits. Ticker tickets include all you can eat
and drink, but they are going fast, so get them
at Manhattan Beach Food and Wine, all spelled out Manhattan
Beach Food and Wine dot com. Get your tickets and
I'll be out there broadcasting from two to five on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And watching Neil broadcast while he is stuffing his face
with both hands simultaneously.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Exactly, I can't. You're the only one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know that we'll eat on the air like that.
You spent all of last Saturday eating I have to work.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That is true, Okay, big win for the Trump administration.
Well started with a federal judge here in southern California
that said that the FEDS cannot arrest people detain them
for illegal immigration violations based on the fact that they
(01:41):
were Hispanic. Straight out racist is what the Fed's are
accused of. And the FED said, no, that's not Well,
here's what the Supreme Court said is that the ICE
can use race as a factor, not the factor, but
as a factor, and that gives reasonable cause.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And that gets kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They pull the same thing with education with race and
well with race specifically, and said the universities can.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Use race as a factor. Used to be you couldn't
at all.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So now and that was before a quota system or
after a quota system. So it got a little complicated.
But the point is is that ICE can come up
to someone who is Hispanic based on the fact that
someone is Hispanic to a great degree and then start
questioning that person and then they have to come up
with some other reason and not use race as a factor.
(02:45):
The reality is they're going to be using race as
a factor. Now Here is the argument of using race
as a factor. Ninety nine point nine percent or ninety
eight percent of those who do violate imigration laws, especially
in southern California, are Hispanic. Let me ask around here.
(03:07):
I wouldn't know how to prove my citizenship. I don't
care any of my papers or my passport with me.
When I go into a Mexican restaurant, I do ask
for chicken mole, and as you said earlier, tortilla's tortillas.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, well, and takeo anyone. I mean, don't you just
give them your driver's license and say here, no, because
illegal illegal migrants get driver's licenses all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And social security numbers they get. You can show us
a social Security card. So as a practical measure, if
virtually all of illegal migrants are Hispanic and the federal
government looks at Hispanics as a primary source of illegal immigration,
I think that as a that practically speaking, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
On the other hand, is that a touch racist?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Is that a problem that you have a race that's
being discriminated against specifically, Well, Supreme Court said, and it
took a middle ground and I don't even know what
it means.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Race can be a factor. What else?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Look up immigration activism and support groups in Los Angeles.
All of them are driven by Latinos. Of course, how
about this?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
How about this?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay, race can be a factor, but you have to
find something else. So for example, let's say you have
someone that looks Hispanic who is spending a lot of
time in front of a home depot store. Is that enough?
I would guess yes. Is the uniform? And that's that's
the whole story about that. What is the uniform of
(04:57):
the casual labor? It's the base matter of fact, kono
wears the uniform, jeans, you got tennis shoes, looking down,
not looking people directly in the eye, which is cultural.
By the way, that is a cultural thing. Where are
you from the United States?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Uh huh, that's not really the United States, but yeah,
it is so anyway, Sandford of Dino is North Mexico.
That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
What if they were to ask me, for example, let's
say I get stopped by an ice agent, where are
you from?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, Brazil? Uh huh? You are a Latino, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And you're just talking about Tortilla's just to take us
off the track, aren't you? So?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Is there race? Is there racism? Yes? Practically speaking, is
there a reason for it? Yes? So which way side
do I go on? Well? Hopefully I don't get picked up.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And by the way, just for right now, for argument's sake,
for anybody from ICE listening, Yes, I was born in Brazil. Yes,
I am an American citizen, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I don't wear baseball caps. I do when I walk.
But that's about it. All right, So much for that.
But the Supreme Court has it's a big win. It
is a big win for the Trump administration, but only
as to at this point southern California.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But that's going to go on big time.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Okay, Okay, time for Tech Tuesday with Mike Dubuski, ABC
News Technology reporter out of New York, Mike Coopertino, California
is where Apple is. And what they don't do is
introduce any of their products at for example, any of
(06:55):
the major shows that I happen around the country. They
just do it themselves. So what and it's hard to
know exactly what's going to happen. We sort of have
an idea what is expected to be released today.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
New iPhones are going to be the big deal here today.
We are in the seventeenth generation of the iPhone, the
iPhone seventeen, and you're going to get your normal base
level phones and your pro level phones, as we've become
used to kind of smaller and bigger versions of each
of those. But the big news bill is going to
be a new version of the iPhone to choose from,
an ultraslim, ultra light device that we're thinking, if rumors
(07:36):
are to be believed, is going to be called the
iPhone Air. You might be aware of the MacBook Air,
the ultraslim MacBook computer. It was unveiled by a little
ad where they pulled it out of a Manila envelope.
Everybody kind of like lost their minds, thinking like, Wow,
I didn't realize a computer could be that thin. They
seemingly are going to apply a similar philosophy to the iPhone.
(07:57):
Something I'm going to be keeping an eye on though,
is what that to battery life, because, as we know,
when you shrink the frame of a phone, that means
that you have less room for batteries. Apple learned this
the hard way with the iPhone Mini a few years ago,
which had pretty lackluster battery life in its first generation. Still,
this follows Samsung launching a slim version of the Galaxy
(08:17):
Phone earlier this year. So it does seem like we
are in the midst of a trend here towards slimmer smartphones.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, So I have a question because one of the
things that I do is I carry my phone in
my back pocket and I'll set someplace and the phone
is in the back pocket. Now I have a regular
iPhone and even though it is fairly slim, it is robust.
How do they get around having someone in that thin
(08:43):
that holds up?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, it's a good question, right. So Apple moved from
a different construction to titanium materials relatively recently. That was
kind of one of their big selling points within the
last several generations of iPhone. A lot of that went
to make the phone a lot lighter to hold, kind
of countering people who say these things have become kind
of bulky, kind of big, kind of you know, tough
(09:06):
to put in your pocket and not have them pull
your pants down, essentially, So they move to this titanium construction,
which you know, did raise some questions about durability. Those
questions really have not netted anything. People seem to be
using these phones as they normally do, and there have
not been any sort of standing lingering durability concerns with
the iPhone. And you couple that with the fact that
(09:27):
the sort of titanium construction isn't solid, right. There are
little cutouts for buttons and cutouts for your SIM cards,
so it's kind of like this, there's a bunch of
holes in your phone essentially on the side of it,
and that additionally would raise some durability concerns. Really hasn't
panned out. Now will that transfer to this new ultraslim phone.
We're just going to have to wait and see. There
(09:48):
are many many tech reviewers out there who will put
this thing through its paces, including durability tests, so that's
going to be something to keep an eye on going forward.
But yeah, they're not alone in this space either. And
I will say the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Edge,
the Samsung Super Slim smartphone, really has not stood up
any sort of concerning durability concerns in the few months
(10:10):
that it's been out.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
All Right, Just one real quick one because I know
you have to go. Apple is calling what's happening? Awe dropping?
Awe dropping. I haven't heard that one since the Gulf War.
Is this blowing smoke? Or do you really think this
is that big a deal?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I think aw dropping might be over selling. It's just
a touch given that it is a super thin iPhone.
But Apple does like their sort of play on words.
They give a name to pretty much all of their events,
so this is what they went with here. Also a
lot to be read into with the actual invite, which
is kind of blue an orange, kind of gives you
a little clue as to what the colors to these
things might be, which a lot of people really do
kind of make their decisions based upon. So maybe a
(10:49):
blue and an orange iPhone? Is it awe inspiring? I
think we're gonna have to wait until about ten o'clock
California time in order to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right, Mike, thanks much as always, Mike Dubuski, who
is the ABC News technology reporter that drops in and
helps us out. All right, Now, this was a weird
one when I first started looking at it, and that
is the number of investigations that are going into looking
(11:18):
at the Palisades fires or I mean, it just doesn't stop. Right,
Here's something new. Here's a group of people, all of
two of them that are also investigating what happened in
the Palisades fire. Rick Scott of Florida Ron Johnson of Wisconsin,
both Republican senators. US senators looking into the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
This is a local issue.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Right, Did the Department of Water and Power have enough
water or this was Edison I think was the LA
Fire Department anticipating what the fire was about. Did Karen
Bass do a good job or not? What do you
the US senators have to do with this, Well, that's
(12:04):
a good question as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Maybe it's because you have two.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Republicans who are looking at Los Angeles city that is very,
very blue, and why don't we look into it now?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is there a connection?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, there's some federal money that goes in for fire
protection and management.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It happens all over the country.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
But a federal investigation into something like this, you know, unfortunately,
it's smacks of politics to the point where you can't
even look or we can't even look at this horrific fire,
the Palisades fire that killed twelve and destroyed Pacific Palisades.
(12:47):
And the Eaton fire exploded the same day in Altadena
that killed nineteen people and destroyed that committee. Now, for
some reason, this investigation appears to focus only on the
Palisades fire, and it had to do with the Santa
Ynez Reservoir located in Pacific Palisades. Remember, it was empty,
(13:09):
it hadn't been repaired, it was right in the middle
of Palisades. And so the city is going nuts. The
city is saying, here's what happened. You've got Governor Newsom,
with the state and certainly the various various investigative arms,
you got the La Times, you have everybody looking at this.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
My question is, why would you have the FEDS look
at this? You know what, they don't have anything to
do with this.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
While they want to protect the citizens of California. That's
what these two senators are saying. We are there to
protect the citizens of California in Los Angeles. You think
they're gonna find anything wrong with this, You think they're
gonna come up with some kind of scathing report. It's
(14:03):
completely well. I'd think the politics, I mean just doesn't stop,
does it. And even with and here is with the fence.
The defense is going to be both from the city.
And there's all kinds of accusations. There were a thousand
firefighters that were not deployed. Karen Bass was in Africa
at the time. There was there's accusations going back and forth.
(14:26):
But here's what fire and water experts are saying and
keep on saying, that it didn't matter how much water
was there or not there. It doesn't matter whether that
reservoir was empty, half full, overflowing. The conditions of that
fire were totally unprecedented. No urban water system in the
(14:48):
world could have been properly prepared. Winds of one hundred
miles per hour were sweeping through the Palisades after that
fire has after that fire ignited, firefighters were running for
their lives. They literally had to go sideways and allow
(15:11):
the fire to go tearing through whatever place, whatever area
it wanted to go. I think that's what you're going
to find. I think that's what you're going to find.
Does that mean that there wasn't a screw.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Up or two?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think there were screw ups, no question about it,
but I don't think they mattered.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's one issue.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And two senators two Republican senators have all of a
sudden come out and are really concerned with the citizens,
the people of southern California. Wow, thank you for that one. Okay,
this is KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
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Speaker 3 (15:49):
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DM six forty bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Here it is a Taco Tuesday, September the ninth. And
before we get to this story about what the Supreme
Court just did, gave a big win to the Trump administration.
I'll explain that in a minute, But first, Neil, you
have an event coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The best events of last year. Food Wise is coming
back this weekend Friday, Saturday, and I think Sunday as well.
Manhattan Beach Food and Wine forty six top chefs. You've
got Antonio Lafasso, she's amazing. You've got Chris Cosentino, You've
got Sherry Yard, Neil Fraser, so many much more. Forty
(00:47):
wines and spirits. Ticker tickets include all you can eat
and drink, but they are going fast, so get them
at Manhattan Beach Food and Wine, all spelled out Manhattan
Beach Food and Wine dot com. Get your tickets and
I'll be out there broadcasting from two to five on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And watching Neil broadcast while he is stuffing his face
with both hands simultaneously.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Exactly, I can't. You're the only one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know that we'll eat on the air like that.
You spent all of last Saturday eating I have to work.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That is true, Okay, big win for the Trump administration.
Well started with a federal judge here in southern California
that said that the FEDS cannot arrest people detain them
for illegal immigration violations based on the fact that they
(01:41):
were Hispanic. Straight out racist is what the Fed's are
accused of. And the FED said, no, that's not Well,
here's what the Supreme Court said is that the ICE
can use race as a factor, not the factor, but
as a factor, and that gives reasonable cause.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And that gets kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They pull the same thing with education with race and
well with race specifically, and said the universities can.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Use race as a factor. Used to be you couldn't
at all.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So now and that was before a quota system or
after a quota system. So it got a little complicated.
But the point is is that ICE can come up
to someone who is Hispanic based on the fact that
someone is Hispanic to a great degree and then start
questioning that person and then they have to come up
with some other reason and not use race as a factor.
(02:45):
The reality is they're going to be using race as
a factor. Now Here is the argument of using race
as a factor. Ninety nine point nine percent or ninety
eight percent of those who do violate imigration laws, especially
in southern California, are Hispanic. Let me ask around here.
(03:07):
I wouldn't know how to prove my citizenship. I don't
care any of my papers or my passport with me.
When I go into a Mexican restaurant, I do ask
for chicken mole, and as you said earlier, tortilla's tortillas.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, well, and takeo anyone. I mean, don't you just
give them your driver's license and say here, no, because
illegal illegal migrants get driver's licenses all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And social security numbers they get. You can show us
a social Security card. So as a practical measure, if
virtually all of illegal migrants are Hispanic and the federal
government looks at Hispanics as a primary source of illegal immigration,
I think that as a that practically speaking, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
On the other hand, is that a touch racist?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Is that a problem that you have a race that's
being discriminated against specifically, Well, Supreme Court said, and it
took a middle ground and I don't even know what
it means.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Race can be a factor. What else?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Look up immigration activism and support groups in Los Angeles.
All of them are driven by Latinos. Of course, how
about this?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
How about this?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay, race can be a factor, but you have to
find something else. So for example, let's say you have
someone that looks Hispanic who is spending a lot of
time in front of a home depot store. Is that enough?
I would guess yes. Is the uniform? And that's that's
the whole story about that. What is the uniform of
(04:57):
the casual labor? It's the base matter of fact, kono
wears the uniform, jeans, you got tennis shoes, looking down,
not looking people directly in the eye, which is cultural.
By the way, that is a cultural thing. Where are
you from the United States?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Uh huh, that's not really the United States, but yeah,
it is so anyway, Sandford of Dino is North Mexico.
That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
What if they were to ask me, for example, let's
say I get stopped by an ice agent, where are
you from?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, Brazil? Uh huh? You are a Latino, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And you're just talking about Tortilla's just to take us
off the track, aren't you? So?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Is there race? Is there racism? Yes? Practically speaking, is
there a reason for it? Yes? So which way side
do I go on? Well? Hopefully I don't get picked up.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And by the way, just for right now, for argument's sake,
for anybody from ICE listening, Yes, I was born in Brazil. Yes,
I am an American citizen, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I don't wear baseball caps. I do when I walk.
But that's about it. All right, So much for that.
But the Supreme Court has it's a big win. It
is a big win for the Trump administration, but only
as to at this point southern California.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But that's going to go on big time.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Okay, Okay, time for Tech Tuesday with Mike Dubuski, ABC
News Technology reporter out of New York, Mike Coopertino, California
is where Apple is. And what they don't do is
introduce any of their products at for example, any of
(06:55):
the major shows that I happen around the country. They
just do it themselves. So what and it's hard to
know exactly what's going to happen. We sort of have
an idea what is expected to be released today.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
New iPhones are going to be the big deal here today.
We are in the seventeenth generation of the iPhone, the
iPhone seventeen, and you're going to get your normal base
level phones and your pro level phones, as we've become
used to kind of smaller and bigger versions of each
of those. But the big news bill is going to
be a new version of the iPhone to choose from,
an ultraslim, ultra light device that we're thinking, if rumors
(07:36):
are to be believed, is going to be called the
iPhone Air. You might be aware of the MacBook Air,
the ultraslim MacBook computer. It was unveiled by a little
ad where they pulled it out of a Manila envelope.
Everybody kind of like lost their minds, thinking like, Wow,
I didn't realize a computer could be that thin. They
seemingly are going to apply a similar philosophy to the iPhone.
(07:57):
Something I'm going to be keeping an eye on though,
is what that to battery life, because, as we know,
when you shrink the frame of a phone, that means
that you have less room for batteries. Apple learned this
the hard way with the iPhone Mini a few years ago,
which had pretty lackluster battery life in its first generation. Still,
this follows Samsung launching a slim version of the Galaxy
(08:17):
Phone earlier this year. So it does seem like we
are in the midst of a trend here towards slimmer smartphones.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, So I have a question because one of the
things that I do is I carry my phone in
my back pocket and I'll set someplace and the phone
is in the back pocket. Now I have a regular
iPhone and even though it is fairly slim, it is robust.
How do they get around having someone in that thin
(08:43):
that holds up?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, it's a good question, right. So Apple moved from
a different construction to titanium materials relatively recently. That was
kind of one of their big selling points within the
last several generations of iPhone. A lot of that went
to make the phone a lot lighter to hold, kind
of countering people who say these things have become kind
of bulky, kind of big, kind of you know, tough
(09:06):
to put in your pocket and not have them pull
your pants down, essentially, So they move to this titanium construction,
which you know, did raise some questions about durability. Those
questions really have not netted anything. People seem to be
using these phones as they normally do, and there have
not been any sort of standing lingering durability concerns with
the iPhone. And you couple that with the fact that
(09:27):
the sort of titanium construction isn't solid, right. There are
little cutouts for buttons and cutouts for your SIM cards,
so it's kind of like this, there's a bunch of
holes in your phone essentially on the side of it,
and that additionally would raise some durability concerns. Really hasn't
panned out. Now will that transfer to this new ultraslim phone.
We're just going to have to wait and see. There
(09:48):
are many many tech reviewers out there who will put
this thing through its paces, including durability tests, so that's
going to be something to keep an eye on going forward.
But yeah, they're not alone in this space either. And
I will say the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Edge,
the Samsung Super Slim smartphone, really has not stood up
any sort of concerning durability concerns in the few months
(10:10):
that it's been out.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
All Right, Just one real quick one because I know
you have to go. Apple is calling what's happening? Awe dropping?
Awe dropping. I haven't heard that one since the Gulf War.
Is this blowing smoke? Or do you really think this
is that big a deal?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I think aw dropping might be over selling. It's just
a touch given that it is a super thin iPhone.
But Apple does like their sort of play on words.
They give a name to pretty much all of their events,
so this is what they went with here. Also a
lot to be read into with the actual invite, which
is kind of blue an orange, kind of gives you
a little clue as to what the colors to these
things might be, which a lot of people really do
kind of make their decisions based upon. So maybe a
(10:49):
blue and an orange iPhone? Is it awe inspiring? I
think we're gonna have to wait until about ten o'clock
California time in order to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right, Mike, thanks much as always, Mike Dubuski, who
is the ABC News technology reporter that drops in and
helps us out. All right, Now, this was a weird
one when I first started looking at it, and that
is the number of investigations that are going into looking
(11:18):
at the Palisades fires or I mean, it just doesn't stop. Right,
Here's something new. Here's a group of people, all of
two of them that are also investigating what happened in
the Palisades fire. Rick Scott of Florida Ron Johnson of Wisconsin,
both Republican senators. US senators looking into the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
This is a local issue.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Right, Did the Department of Water and Power have enough
water or this was Edison I think was the LA
Fire Department anticipating what the fire was about. Did Karen
Bass do a good job or not? What do you
the US senators have to do with this, Well, that's
(12:04):
a good question as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Maybe it's because you have two.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Republicans who are looking at Los Angeles city that is very,
very blue, and why don't we look into it now?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is there a connection?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, there's some federal money that goes in for fire
protection and management.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It happens all over the country.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
But a federal investigation into something like this, you know, unfortunately,
it's smacks of politics to the point where you can't
even look or we can't even look at this horrific fire,
the Palisades fire that killed twelve and destroyed Pacific Palisades.
(12:47):
And the Eaton fire exploded the same day in Altadena
that killed nineteen people and destroyed that committee. Now, for
some reason, this investigation appears to focus only on the
Palisades fire, and it had to do with the Santa
Ynez Reservoir located in Pacific Palisades. Remember, it was empty,
(13:09):
it hadn't been repaired, it was right in the middle
of Palisades. And so the city is going nuts. The
city is saying, here's what happened. You've got Governor Newsom,
with the state and certainly the various various investigative arms,
you got the La Times, you have everybody looking at this.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
My question is, why would you have the FEDS look
at this? You know what, they don't have anything to
do with this.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
While they want to protect the citizens of California. That's
what these two senators are saying. We are there to
protect the citizens of California in Los Angeles. You think
they're gonna find anything wrong with this, You think they're
gonna come up with some kind of scathing report. It's
(14:03):
completely well. I'd think the politics, I mean just doesn't stop,
does it. And even with and here is with the fence.
The defense is going to be both from the city.
And there's all kinds of accusations. There were a thousand
firefighters that were not deployed. Karen Bass was in Africa
at the time. There was there's accusations going back and forth.
(14:26):
But here's what fire and water experts are saying and
keep on saying, that it didn't matter how much water
was there or not there. It doesn't matter whether that
reservoir was empty, half full, overflowing. The conditions of that
fire were totally unprecedented. No urban water system in the
(14:48):
world could have been properly prepared. Winds of one hundred
miles per hour were sweeping through the Palisades after that
fire has after that fire ignited, firefighters were running for
their lives. They literally had to go sideways and allow
(15:11):
the fire to go tearing through whatever place, whatever area
it wanted to go. I think that's what you're going
to find. I think that's what you're going to find.
Does that mean that there wasn't a screw.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Up or two?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think there were screw ups, no question about it,
but I don't think they mattered.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's one issue.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And two senators two Republican senators have all of a
sudden come out and are really concerned with the citizens,
the people of southern California. Wow, thank you for that one. Okay,
this is KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
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