February 18, 2025 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the latest passenger plane crash juxtaposed against the decision to fire hundreds of FAA workers by the Trump administration AND Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s entry into the 2026 California Governor race…PLUS – Thoughts on practicality of the LAUSD cellphone ban - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Jf I, mister Kelly, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. Hope you've had a pleasant
President's Day thus far. Another day, another plane incident, just
becoming like any old day in America. Oh and another
hundred or so FAA employees also laid off. You may
remember what I said last week. I remember what I
said last week. I said, it's not about blame, but
it is about responsibility going forward. And you can't be
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an active participant in the hiring and firing of FAA
and TSA and FDA and CDC. You can't be an
active participant in those hiring and firing decisions and not
also be responsible for either the results or the unintended consequences.
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I mean, how long has it been since we've had
an incident on an airplane? Oh, I don't know, four
or five days or so. It's getting to be a
routine occurrence. I can't give you an explanation as to why.
I just know that it has been happening.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The facts of the matter around this event that happened
at approximately two thirty PM is Delta Airlines flight four
eight one nine from Minneapolis to Toronto, operated by subsidiary
Endeavor Air was involved in a single aircraft accident upon
landing at Toronto Pearson. The plane was carrying four crew
and seventy six passengers, among them twenty two Canadians. The
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other passengers and were multinational Airport emergency workers mounted a
textbook response, reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating
the passenger. We set up our emergency operations center with
Delta Airlines and representatives from fire, police, paramedics, security and
our federal agency partners. Again, there were no fatalities. Seventeen
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injured passengers were quickly taken to local area hospitals. At
this time, we do not know if any of those
passengers having critical injuries. We immediately halted further arrivals and
departures on our remaining three runways. Those runways were reopened
at approximately five pm. The other runways are remaining to
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serve the investigation, which will be carrying forward for the
rest of tonight and into the next several days. These
two runways will remain closed while our investigation or while
the investigation takes place again. We are very grateful that
there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries.
We are very focused on the care and the concern
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and the passengers and the crew, some of whom have
already been reunified with their friends and their families. Others
we have in a comfortable place right here at the airport,
in an environment where they're getting a lot of care
and support from my staff. Delta Airlines is also continuing
to provide customer care and information for passengers in closing.
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No airport CEO wants to have these type of press conferences,
but this is exactly what our emergency, our operations, and
our federal our first responder partners are all practiced and
trained for. And again this outcome is in due part
to their heroic work, and I thank them profusely.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Did you see the video of the woman who was
on that plane. For some reason, she decided after the
plane landed and crashed and rolled over, she decided to
start recording a video saying to the effect of our
plate is landed, it's crashed, and now it's side down.
Maybe it's just me, but if in the unlikely event
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of a plane crash, you know how I would say,
if in the unlikely event of ale or anything, if
in the unlikely event that I should end up in
a plane crash. The absolute last thing I'm going to
do is record a selfie video of my ass upside
down in a crash plane. Most likely I'm going to
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be scrambling for my life. Most likely I can't tell
you definitively. I've never been in that situation, but I
can exclude the possibility of me reaching for my phone.
If I'm going to reach my phone, I'm going to
call my wife, call someone, Hey, yeah, that's my plane.
I'm still alive. I'm going to communicate with someone I
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need to communicate. The last thing I'm going to do
is record a video for the purpose of social media
or maybe to get on the news.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And yeah, she ended up on the news. They did
interview her, they did play her video.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So if that the Goalden mission accomplish, I just don't
understand people today. And yes, I've made mention that President
Trump had fired hundreds of employees with the FAA over
the weekend. It's not connected to this, but it's not
disconnected either. As I said before, to give you specifics,
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three hundred of the FAA members received termination notices over
the weekend, and those affected worked as maintenance mechanics, aeronautical
information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistance. Wait, let
me read that again, Aviation safety assistance. And wait, let
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me read it one more time, Aviation safety assistance and
management and program assistance. I'm not saying that if all
of them still had their jobs, this wouldn't have happened.
I'm not saying that just because someone was fired that
this happened. I am saying I am old enough to
remember when people complain loudly, I mean really loudly, so loudly.
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I think Mark Runner even heard a good evening, Mark Runner.
I think Taila Sharp heard it. I know Stephan heard it.
People were complaining about just decreasing the LA Fire Department's
budget and saying that was connected to the fires here.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And if that math.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Is consistent, and you're going to complain that because resources
were taken away in the event of a disaster, that
person leading the effort or is responsible for either that
agency or that group of people is inculpable, then it
would stand the reason. If the logic holds, if you're
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firing FAA employees here, there, and everywhere, and we have
not if we have had a rash of FAA incidents, crashes, whatever.
It's not a direct Coral should say, causal relationship. But
after a certain point, when you keep subtracting from these agencies,
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you keep subtracting the leadership, Eventually there's going to be
a hole in the whole system, if not already, if
logic serves, you can't blame this person and not also
blame that person. But again, I'm just talking about responsibility.
There's something not right with our air travel. I can't
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tell you what it is. I just know that we
have fewer people available to either protect us or figure
it out. That much can't be argued. We're having hundreds
and hundreds. This is not the first firing. I told
you about all the other people who are fired, Hundreds
of people connected to our air travel, our air security,
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and our air safety who have been laid off for
whatever reasons. It's not for me to tell you that
there were great employees or they are horrible employees. I
just know that we have fewer employees, and I know
that in terms of air traffic controllers, we already knew
back from the Biden administration that they were understaffed and overworked.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Riverside County
Sheriff Chad Bianca has thrown his hat in the governor's race.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I have thoughts on that, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Will tell you how you can know long before the
election whether he has a shot at winning or not.
You will know six seven months in evance. I'll give
you all the clues and all the keys, and you
will know in advance whether he's serious or whether he
has a shot.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Full the hours over.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Just want to let you know on preview that we
will be talking about the LAUSD cell phone ban, which
starts tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
We have had a lot of commonversation on that.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Now that it is here and we have a better
sense of how it's supposed to be enforced, we'll get
into that and let you know what we think. And
fifteen hundred trucks per day of debris removal going on
right now in the Eaton Canyon area as they try
to move all of that debris, but not only move it,
but there's a controversy as to where it's going to
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end up and for how long that's before this hour
is over. But let me get back to what I
intended to discuss.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has officially thrown his hat
into the ring, and his star, at least within Republican circles,
has been rising for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He has been very outspoken. He has been a firebrand
in the sense that he's made it very clear that
he supports just about everything related to President Trump. That's important.
I want to get back to that in just a moment.
That speaks to his persona. But now he's going to
move a in a much more overtly political position if
he were to become governor. Want you to listen to this,
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and on the other side of this audio, I'm going
to tell you how you will know long before the election,
whether he has any shot of becoming governor of California.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Listen to this. As I was out there.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Today, I spent the last hour and a half or
so out there talking with people from all over Riverside County,
Orange County, San Diego County. I appreciate you so much
for coming. But what I realized is today we have
a microcosm of California.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Here.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
We have law enforcement, we have firemen, elected officials, we
have leaders from our tribal nations, construction workers, teachers, doctors, nurses, students,
business owners, real estate professionals.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Farmers, pastors.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I saw a few of my retired friends, dads, and
most importantly for this revolution that we have going on
in California, Mama Bears. I think it would be safe
to say that this crowd represents all aspects of our
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beautiful state. Do you know who I do not see
here today?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
There are no one.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
There is no one from special interest groups that are
destroying our state.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Before I say anything else, I.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Want to especially thank my beautiful wife, Denise. She has
been faithfully by my side through this crazy thing we
call law enforcement, and so far she's promised to stay
with me during this.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Next thing we're doing.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
She is truly my rock of support in everything in
my life, and she is going to represent California well
as a first lady. Last thing checking, Naomi, thank you
very much for allowing us to have this here today.
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This is an awesome event. I love this building. Thank
you very much for allowing it here, So.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I'm here to announce our campaign to be the next
governor of California.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That was Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco officially announcing his
candidacy to become governor. And there are some things that
I noticed in what he was saying, where he was
saying it, and to whom he was saying it. As
far as I'm concerned, lets me know a few things
that I think you should be aware of. Part of
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the reason why it's difficult for a Republican to win
a state wide race here in California is it's not
as uniform as people would want to make it. There
are different groups, there are different political persuasions. It's a
blue state, but there are a number of moderate threads
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and red threads running through the state. And the question
is is Chad Bianco serious about becoming governor or is
he more running for Orange County Supervisor? And now I
don't mean that dismissively, but if you listen to what
he said, he talked about that group for his announcement,
how it was a microcosm of California.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It was a microcosm of the professions in Riverside and
Orange and San Diego counties. And if you're going to
win a statewide election, especially in California, you have to
speak to the people that you don't usually speak to.
You have to reach out, especially if you're a Republican,
because it's more blue than not. Chad Bianco can't win
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with just the support of Republicans Democrats plus independents outnumber
registered that is, outnumber registered Republicans two to one. He
cannot win by Republican support alone. And if this sounds
earily reminiscent about what I said about Steve Garvey, that's
intentional because Chad Bianco is going to have to reach
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beyond his base. And if you want to know whether
he is serious about becoming governor, you.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Will see examples of that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You will see him going up and down the state
talking to people and talking to media outlets which may
be either seemingly unfriendly or seemingly formed him. In other words,
people don't know about him, they're not familiar with him,
they don't know his background. And I say this saying
Chad Bianco, Sheriff Bianco is welcome on the show anytime
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just like anyone else. You welcome on the show and
you can express your vision for the state. Now, what
we say with Larry Elder, what we saw with other
Republican quote unquote candidates Steve Garvey when it was running
for Senate, there was an unserious approach. In other words,
they didn't have the campaign infrastructure, they didn't hire the
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people which was necessary to win a statewide election, and
they were not making the overtures. In other words, they
weren't going to the communities, they weren't going to the
counties to suggest that they were actually trying to get
those votes. You can't only come on KFI and expect
to reach moderates, independence and Democrats.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So if the extent of your media outreach is only
going to be too friendly outlets or outlets which won't
really provide any pushback or won't extended the communities that
you don't already have, you're not serious and you will
not win.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
And you will be able to know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
As we get closer to the election whether Sheriff Bianco
is trying to take the Steve Garvey and also Larry
Elder route or is he trying to go maybe the
Arnold Schwarzenegger route where it's a little bit more moderate
in presentation, and he will incorporate different constituencies and communities
and then give himself an honest shot at winning statewide office.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I know you love how he sounds.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know that you love that everything he says in
regard to connected to Donald Trump, that just makes you
froth at the mouth. But it won't win you a
statewide election here in California. Now you have to ask
yourself a question as a voter, if you want to
support him, do you want him to just say everything
that you like to hear. Do you want him to
espouse every belief that you already have, or do you
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want to give him a good chance to win?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Because those ideas are mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Because if you think that the only way he's gonna
win is going to mimic everything that you already believe in,
everything you already like it, it may be in concert
with President Trump that will not win California. And then
we go back to this old cycle of oh my gosh,
I can't believe this is a one party state.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The Democrats always win. They alway chief always lie whatever
you want to say.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
The bottom line is he cannot win if he does
not do the things which are necessary to win. And
I'm saying it to you, and I would say it
to him. And if Steve Garvey were mad enough to
come on this program, I would have said it to him,
but he ducked us. I'm telling you because I appreciate
the competition between parties in this state, but it has
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to be legitimate competition.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
If this were.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Basketball, if you're not gonna practice, if you're not gonna
shoot a thousand shots today, if you're not gonna do
the cardio work to give yourself the best chance to
win when the game is actually played, then you're just
effing around.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're not serious.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And if you just want to sit back and say,
well the other team always cheats, no, you're not giving
yourself a real chance to win.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You're not seriously trying.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
You will know four or.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Five months before the election whether the Riverside County Sheriff
Chad Bianco was serious about trying to become governor of
this next state, because if he's only talking to folks
that already agree with him, and he's not talking to
the people who actually may disagree with him, if he's
not reaching out to constituents and communities who at this
point may not be on board, then he's not trying
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to win.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
La USD cell phone band starts tomorrow Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We talked about it here time and time again.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I am for it, I'm just not so sure it
realistically can be enforced. Is it going to be a
school white enforcement, meaning when kids come to school, do
they drop off their phones and the principal's office and
the administration building or is it going to be a
class by class type of enforcement where you come into
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mister Johnson's class and you know, you put all your
phones in a box and no one can touch them.
Or is it going to be the honor system. Didn't
know how it was going to play out at all. Also, also,
is it going to be standardized where all of the
schools WITHINSD are expected to follow the same type of
enforcement procedures or is it going to be left up
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to the individual schools. Those are the questions that I had,
and I'm not even an administrator. I don't even work
with kids, Thank goodness, to get on my damn nerves
outside of martial arts. When I can tell him what
to do, I can tell him to sit down and
shut up. I can kick him in the head.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I don't know. I don't kick him in the head,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
But Twalla sharp, he works with kids, and he works
in a contemporary environment where he has a better sense
of what's happening on a day to day ground level.
What say you to Walla before I play this piece
on what is actually going to happen so far, looking.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
At what they've got lined up or what some of
the plans are, I don't see what the point of
pushing it back because this was supposed to have kicked
off a while ago. I can't remember the I think
it was like maybe August of those so yea was yeah,
definite last year. But looking at what they've come up
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with now, I'm like, I don't see why you held
off to come up with nothing. This is not a
real plan. This is not something that I see being successful.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Let's see what they have planned starting tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
The Los Angeles Unified school district is banning cell phones
during the school day. The policy was approved last June.
This includes phones, smart watches, and earbuds, all of which
must be turned off and stored. Exceptions will be made
for emergencies, health needs, and students with disabilities. Schools can
implement the ban in a variety of ways, like requiring
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students to put them in their backpacks, or using portable
storage boxes, magnetic or belcrow pouches, or classroom phone holders.
Supporters say the ban will reduce distractions and improve focus.
Phones will still be allowed before and after school.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Though, what say you, twalla, I think that's in the sky.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't think it's being realistic, you know, put it
in their backpacks.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I don't believe that. No, as I said, there is
no concrete plan. It's kind of every school will be
able to do it their own way. So that means
there is no uniform plan, meaning that all schools have
not bought into or do not have a plan across
the board that they can stick to and that they
can adhere to. If you have some school saying put
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it in your backpack, while other schools are saying put
it in a magnetic pouch that already causes friction between
students who may learn of other different ways and are
that's going to cause a problem. Also, they have not
said how they are going to address being able to
get in touch with students because we are living in
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an age now where if there is a crisis on
the campus. As a parent, I need to be able
to get in touch with my daughter. I don't want
to have to go through the rigmarole of the switchboard
to get in touch with my daughter to find out
she's okay. We all know here, even in LA that
there have been school shootings and there have been crises
on campus. Now we are at the point of time
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with buyers, fight anything anything. As parents, we now use
these phones or given our children these phones to be
able to get in contact with them. I don't see
anything and hear any provisions to say how they have
stepped up any of their existing programs to be able
to get in touch with parents if there is an
emergency or anything like that. We haven't received anything home
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from my daughter who's still in school. I do know
that they did show us some of the little cubbies
and some of the best practices, and you know, a
three strike rule. You know, first time you use your phone,
you're getting a warning, second time you're getting a talking to.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
A third time you're going to call the parent. Got it.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I've heard that from my daughter school. But I look
at this plan and I don't think this is going
to work at all. And I think this is probably
going to slowly but quietly go.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Away before the school year's done.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I always think that, if anything, the biggest danger is
a failure of imagination to not be able to foresee
likely problems or issues. For example, let's say they took
the route where all the phones were turned off and
put into a box behind the teacher in the front
of the classroom, and then there is some sort of
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emergency at the school.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, not even talking citywide, like the schools in lockdown.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And let's say you, as a parent will get an
email message at the schools in lockdown because of X, Y,
and Z, no parent can get in touch with any
of their kids.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That is not going to work. That's not going to
be acceptable.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
No, No, Nowadays, we are used to being able to
get in touch with our child if there is a crisis.
I have gotten text messages during the day. I know
where they were, LAUSD. Is they the mess saying we
have become aware of a potential threat on your child's campus.
And I called my daughter immediately to make sure she's okay,
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because I don't want your random text message to say
we are monitoring incomplete information. Yeah, I need to know
from my DAR directly. Do not LAUSD. You're going to
get sued. You're gonna get yourself sued. You're going to
find yourself in a world of trouble because this is
not going to work.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I know it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And I'm gonna tell you right now, as a kid
who used to always try to gain the system, what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You're gonna have parents or even students themselves using old dummy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Phones to turn in to give to the teacher or
whatever to satisfy the supposed requirement of not having a phone,
and they still will have their phone, maybe it's on
vibrator or silent or whatever, for selfish reasons, for parental reasons.
And I would not be opposed to that, because I
think the rule is it may be well intentioned, but
it's impossibly executed. There's no way, even under the best
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circumstances that this is going to work in a way
which is going to be able to satisfy both the
school and the student and the parent.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's just not so.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What happens is people are going to maliciously comply. Yeah,
they'll give you a phone, they'll make sure a phone
is turned off, they'll make sure a phone has been
turned into the teacher or to the school or the administrator.
And then they'll go about it the other ways. And
remember it said supposedly you're supposed to turn in your
smart watches as.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, right right, You're gonna you're gonna take their their
Galaxy watches in there, and iPhone watches and and and
and you know the pixel watches.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Good luck with that. Good freaking luck with that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, they're gonna get sued, and I can't say it's undeserved.
It's later with mo Kelly can if I am since
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we
come back, we got to talk to you now as
we go through the recovery stage of after the fires.
We talked about the human toll last week, how people
like to walla sharp have to make considerations on where
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to live how to pay for that, where to go?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
What if you lost your job as well?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, now we're the part of debris removal, what that
looks like and what that means for people who don't
even live in that community.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We talked about
the fires. We talked about the damage to structures, how
homes were destroyed, businesses were destroyed, people who were displaced.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We talked about how.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Landlords may be participating in price gougy raising the rents
because they know that there is a higher need for
housing people who are desperate trying to find a place
to stay, and so rent without rent control is out
of control. That's just some of the facets of this disaster.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
But I was.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Trying to remind people when I did my weekly spot
on Spectrum News today that the disaster is not over.
It's just moved to a different point in the timeline.
And although people want to hurry up and get their
lives back to normal, and that makes sense, people want
to see the communities returned to normal. There's a process
it's going to be a long and arduous process which
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is going to take years.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And part of that is the debris removal.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Even though the fires may not have hit your street,
the fires may not have hit your community, your neighborhood,
there will be a debris removal which will impact you,
your community, your neighborhood. In just in terms of the
Eaton Canyon fire, about fifteen hundred truckloads of debris per day.
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Fifteen hundred truckloads per day of debris will be moving
throughout the Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods to Dwarte. It's a
long way in between, which means you will encounter the trucks.
Maybe you live in a Dwarte area and you don't
want that debris there. There's going to be a big
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fight about where that debris is going to land, how
long it's going to be there, the undertented consequences. We
talked about how the debris, the flow of debris thanks
to the rains, and how it has ended up in
the ocean in some parts, the toxic waste. How long
is this going to take? This disaster is going to
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be continuous, long after the fires have been since put out,
people are still struggling and people are still being impacted.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Think about these numbers for a minute.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
Two and a half million tons, million tons of debris
coming from about nine thousand properties that were destroyed, and
all of that going to be basically shipped through neighborhoods
just like this one and off towards the two ten
Freeway and then into that landfill that it's going to
be going to be sifted through. There are three main
routes that are going to be used for all of
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this west of Lake, east of Lake, and then the
Hastings Ranch area.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Debris coming from west of.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
Lake uses Woodbury to a Royal Boulevard to get to
the two ten.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That's where we are this morning.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Debris east of Lake and west of Eton Canyon golf Course,
they're going to use New York Drive to Sierra Madre
Villa Avenue to reach Rosemey to get to the two ten,
and everything coming from east of Eaton Canyon Golf Course
will use Mitchellinda Avenue to get to the two ten.
This all part of the Phase two of the cleanup
video coming from the US Army Corps of Engineers. As
you know, Phase one was identifying hazardous material and properties
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that had been burned in the fire. Part two is
cleaning it all out, and they're expecting fifteen hundred truck
loads every day to go through these neighborhoods. Giant haulers,
you can't miss them. They're called Super ten dump trucks.
But once they get to where they're going, Lario Park
in the border of Erwindale and Dwarti, that's where the
opposition remains, with residents unwilling to accept promises from the
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EPA that this is safe.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
On what used to be in Equestrian Center.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Mark Ronner and twenty five. Our news will have more
on this at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But Twala, this impacts you, This speaks to you, This
involves you.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
What do you make of this? You know that's interesting.
I went to Alta Dina over the weekend just to
kind of takes more pictures and get a lay of
the land. And I saw in my yard, in all
of my neighbor's yards, those with the few houses still
standing and those that have all just been burned to
the ground. Phase one clean up signs complete. You know,
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I saw all the signs saying all the toxic material
had been removed. Phase one complete, And I said to myself,
and I'm looking around, and I'm looking in my neighbor's yard.
I'm like, but that's just a bunch of I see
canisters there.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I see all types of things.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
I know for a fact, my next door neighbor whose
garage burned down, his tesla was in the garage and
his tesla exploded in the garage. And so I'm like,
but I looked to the back and I'm like, I've
been over to his yard, Like, huh, what do they
remove from his garage? So I'm like, it looks like
it's still there. So I'll take them at their word
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that they got rid of all of the toxic debris.
I saw a lot of these trucks that they're talking about.
I saw a lot of those lined up all over
the city. And I'm thinking to myself, this is not
going to be easy. The streets are still narrow, there
are still a lot of street signs out. There's still
going to be a lot of congestion. If they're talking
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about going down Woodbary and all that, this is going
to take a long time. I drove up to Loma
Alta for the first time the construction zone had moved
out of the area, and I drove up to Loma
Alta and it was then that I could see the
full depths of the destruction, because before I'm just seeing
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from alt to Dean drive down, I'm just seeing my
immediate area. I drove up to Loma Alta, and when
I tell you that, as far as I could see,
I'm seeing nothing, nothing at all. You're telling me that
you're gonna come in and just start. But just even
if you bring bulldozers, heavy haulers, whatever you want to
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call them, they have the bulldozing trucks up there, they
have the scraper trucks up they have all these different
things up there. This looks like something that's gonna take
maybe six months to a year just to get rid
of all this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Did you notice they said fifteen hundred trucks per day,
and they did not give any end date.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
They didn't say for the next two three weeks. They
didn't say for the next.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Two to three months, because they know for a fact
if they give you any in day, they are lying
anything outside of a year. And you don't want to
tell people right now that we're not going to be
back home for at least another year.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
No, no, no, not even back home, just be able to
move in and out of that community, because if you
didn't have a house, then that's another year before you
could build a house.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Oh absolutely, yes, yes, yes, yes, there's so few houses.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
There are so few houses up there.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Give me in a sense of when you say so
few houses, most of the neighborhood is gone.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
But when I drove up for a mile from out
from out to Dean Drive, going up to Loma Alta,
I saw, in both directions, for about two blocks, I
saw maybe one house. For a mile stretch of land,
I saw one house still standing. Everything else was just rubble.
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And then I drove down Loma Auta and I saw
nothing but destruction, blocks and blocks and blocks of destruction.
Of how is not standing.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But beyond that, without the physical structures, the physical edifices
of the houses, I'm quite sure the infrastructure, from water
to electricity, to gas, all that's gone as well. I
will say, the power communication. The power is back on,
so I was able to reset the alarms and turn
the lights on and stuff, only to find out that
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there's no water running. And they said the gas was
on and the gas is not back on. So there's
still no water running period, there's still no gas running.
Electricity is up, and from my understanding, that's not everywhere.
It's still not everywhere. So again, this is going to
be something that is going to take so much time,
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and the idea of putting this out there like this
is a quick thing that they're going to be doing.
Cleaning the debris out.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
You can do, you know, fifteen hundred trucks a day
and even deal with the amount of debris that I saw,
because it's not just we're just loading. It's not like
you have just a bunch of people they're just putting,
you know, bushels and bags of trash into a truck. No,
they're going in and digging out foundations, digging out actual
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I saw one house. It was I remember the house.
It's a two story house. And when I passed by
the area, I did not know that they had almost
like a sub level. But you could see all of
this house had burned down into a sub level that
just you would have to dig deep down into the
ground to.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Get this out. And I saw I said to myself like.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Oh man, yeah, when when my insurance coming to these
said it's going to be like at least two years
before you get.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Back to the house.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
When I saw that, I said, yeah, No, they weren't wrong.
They weren't wrong.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
This least too as West on the low end, two
years probably three four.
Speaker 8 (35:50):
Yeah, And then I said to myself, well, there's not
a lot of people who will be returning to not
a lot of people that I know whose families have
two years to go and sit somewhere before they're able
to even come back and plan out a rebuild.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
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Speaker 6 (36:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. Hope you've had a pleasant
President's Day thus far. Another day, another plane incident, just
becoming like any old day in America. Oh and another
hundred or so FAA employees also laid off. You may
remember what I said last week. I remember what I
said last week. I said, it's not about blame, but
it is about responsibility going forward. And you can't be
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an active participant in the hiring and firing of FAA
and TSA and FDA and CDC. You can't be an
active participant in those hiring and firing decisions and not
also be responsible for either the results or the unintended consequences.
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I mean, how long has it been since we've had
an incident on an airplane? Oh, I don't know, four
or five days or so. It's getting to be a
routine occurrence. I can't give you an explanation as to why.
I just know that it has been happening.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The facts of the matter around this event that happened
at approximately two thirty PM is Delta Airlines flight four
eight one nine from Minneapolis to Toronto, operated by subsidiary
Endeavor Air was involved in a single aircraft accident upon
landing at Toronto Pearson. The plane was carrying four crew
and seventy six passengers, among them twenty two Canadians. The
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other passengers and were multinational Airport emergency workers mounted a
textbook response, reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating
the passenger. We set up our emergency operations center with
Delta Airlines and representatives from fire, police, paramedics, security and
our federal agency partners. Again, there were no fatalities. Seventeen
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injured passengers were quickly taken to local area hospitals. At
this time, we do not know if any of those
passengers having critical injuries. We immediately halted further arrivals and
departures on our remaining three runways. Those runways were reopened
at approximately five pm. The other runways are remaining to
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serve the investigation, which will be carrying forward for the
rest of tonight and into the next several days. These
two runways will remain closed while our investigation or while
the investigation takes place again. We are very grateful that
there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries.
We are very focused on the care and the concern
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and the passengers and the crew, some of whom have
already been reunified with their friends and their families. Others
we have in a comfortable place right here at the airport,
in an environment where they're getting a lot of care
and support from my staff. Delta Airlines is also continuing
to provide customer care and information for passengers in closing.
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No airport CEO wants to have these type of press conferences,
but this is exactly what our emergency, our operations, and
our federal our first responder partners are all practiced and
trained for. And again this outcome is in due part
to their heroic work, and I thank them profusely.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Did you see the video of the woman who was
on that plane. For some reason, she decided after the
plane landed and crashed and rolled over, she decided to
start recording a video saying to the effect of our
plate is landed, it's crashed, and now it's side down.
Maybe it's just me, but if in the unlikely event
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of a plane crash, you know how I would say,
if in the unlikely event of ale or anything, if
in the unlikely event that I should end up in
a plane crash. The absolute last thing I'm going to
do is record a selfie video of my ass upside
down in a crash plane. Most likely I'm going to
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be scrambling for my life. Most likely I can't tell
you definitively. I've never been in that situation, but I
can exclude the possibility of me reaching for my phone.
If I'm going to reach my phone, I'm going to
call my wife, call someone, Hey, yeah, that's my plane.
I'm still alive. I'm going to communicate with someone I
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need to communicate. The last thing I'm going to do
is record a video for the purpose of social media
or maybe to get on the news.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And yeah, she ended up on the news. They did
interview her, they did play her video.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So if that the Goalden mission accomplish, I just don't
understand people today. And yes, I've made mention that President
Trump had fired hundreds of employees with the FAA over
the weekend. It's not connected to this, but it's not
disconnected either. As I said before, to give you specifics,
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three hundred of the FAA members received termination notices over
the weekend, and those affected worked as maintenance mechanics, aeronautical
information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistance. Wait, let
me read that again, Aviation safety assistance. And wait, let
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me read it one more time, Aviation safety assistance and
management and program assistance. I'm not saying that if all
of them still had their jobs, this wouldn't have happened.
I'm not saying that just because someone was fired that
this happened. I am saying I am old enough to
remember when people complain loudly, I mean really loudly, so loudly.
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I think Mark Runner even heard a good evening, Mark Runner.
I think Taila Sharp heard it. I know Stephan heard it.
People were complaining about just decreasing the LA Fire Department's
budget and saying that was connected to the fires here.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And if that math.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Is consistent, and you're going to complain that because resources
were taken away in the event of a disaster, that
person leading the effort or is responsible for either that
agency or that group of people is inculpable, then it
would stand the reason. If the logic holds, if you're
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firing FAA employees here, there, and everywhere, and we have
not if we have had a rash of FAA incidents, crashes, whatever.
It's not a direct Coral should say, causal relationship. But
after a certain point, when you keep subtracting from these agencies,
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you keep subtracting the leadership, Eventually there's going to be
a hole in the whole system, if not already, if
logic serves, you can't blame this person and not also
blame that person. But again, I'm just talking about responsibility.
There's something not right with our air travel. I can't
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tell you what it is. I just know that we
have fewer people available to either protect us or figure
it out. That much can't be argued. We're having hundreds
and hundreds. This is not the first firing. I told
you about all the other people who are fired, Hundreds
of people connected to our air travel, our air security,
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and our air safety who have been laid off for
whatever reasons. It's not for me to tell you that
there were great employees or they are horrible employees. I
just know that we have fewer employees, and I know
that in terms of air traffic controllers, we already knew
back from the Biden administration that they were understaffed and overworked.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Riverside County
Sheriff Chad Bianca has thrown his hat in the governor's race.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I have thoughts on that, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Will tell you how you can know long before the
election whether he has a shot at winning or not.
You will know six seven months in evance. I'll give
you all the clues and all the keys, and you
will know in advance whether he's serious or whether he
has a shot.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Full the hours over.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Just want to let you know on preview that we
will be talking about the LAUSD cell phone ban, which
starts tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
We have had a lot of commonversation on that.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Now that it is here and we have a better
sense of how it's supposed to be enforced, we'll get
into that and let you know what we think. And
fifteen hundred trucks per day of debris removal going on
right now in the Eaton Canyon area as they try
to move all of that debris, but not only move it,
but there's a controversy as to where it's going to
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end up and for how long that's before this hour
is over. But let me get back to what I
intended to discuss.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has officially thrown his hat
into the ring, and his star, at least within Republican circles,
has been rising for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He has been very outspoken. He has been a firebrand
in the sense that he's made it very clear that
he supports just about everything related to President Trump. That's important.
I want to get back to that in just a moment.
That speaks to his persona. But now he's going to
move a in a much more overtly political position if
he were to become governor. Want you to listen to this,
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and on the other side of this audio, I'm going
to tell you how you will know long before the election,
whether he has any shot of becoming governor of California.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Listen to this. As I was out there.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Today, I spent the last hour and a half or
so out there talking with people from all over Riverside County,
Orange County, San Diego County. I appreciate you so much
for coming. But what I realized is today we have
a microcosm of California.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Here.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
We have law enforcement, we have firemen, elected officials, we
have leaders from our tribal nations, construction workers, teachers, doctors, nurses, students,
business owners, real estate professionals.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Farmers, pastors.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I saw a few of my retired friends, dads, and
most importantly for this revolution that we have going on
in California, Mama Bears. I think it would be safe
to say that this crowd represents all aspects of our
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beautiful state. Do you know who I do not see
here today?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
There are no one.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
There is no one from special interest groups that are
destroying our state.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Before I say anything else, I.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Want to especially thank my beautiful wife, Denise. She has
been faithfully by my side through this crazy thing we
call law enforcement, and so far she's promised to stay
with me during this.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Next thing we're doing.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
She is truly my rock of support in everything in
my life, and she is going to represent California well
as a first lady. Last thing checking, Naomi, thank you
very much for allowing us to have this here today.
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This is an awesome event. I love this building. Thank
you very much for allowing it here, So.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I'm here to announce our campaign to be the next
governor of California.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That was Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco officially announcing his
candidacy to become governor. And there are some things that
I noticed in what he was saying, where he was
saying it, and to whom he was saying it. As
far as I'm concerned, lets me know a few things
that I think you should be aware of. Part of
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the reason why it's difficult for a Republican to win
a state wide race here in California is it's not
as uniform as people would want to make it. There
are different groups, there are different political persuasions. It's a
blue state, but there are a number of moderate threads
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and red threads running through the state. And the question
is is Chad Bianco serious about becoming governor or is
he more running for Orange County Supervisor? And now I
don't mean that dismissively, but if you listen to what
he said, he talked about that group for his announcement,
how it was a microcosm of California.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It was a microcosm of the professions in Riverside and
Orange and San Diego counties. And if you're going to
win a statewide election, especially in California, you have to
speak to the people that you don't usually speak to.
You have to reach out, especially if you're a Republican,
because it's more blue than not. Chad Bianco can't win
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with just the support of Republicans Democrats plus independents outnumber
registered that is, outnumber registered Republicans two to one. He
cannot win by Republican support alone. And if this sounds
earily reminiscent about what I said about Steve Garvey, that's
intentional because Chad Bianco is going to have to reach
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beyond his base. And if you want to know whether
he is serious about becoming governor, you.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Will see examples of that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You will see him going up and down the state
talking to people and talking to media outlets which may
be either seemingly unfriendly or seemingly formed him. In other words,
people don't know about him, they're not familiar with him,
they don't know his background. And I say this saying
Chad Bianco, Sheriff Bianco is welcome on the show anytime
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just like anyone else. You welcome on the show and
you can express your vision for the state. Now, what
we say with Larry Elder, what we saw with other
Republican quote unquote candidates Steve Garvey when it was running
for Senate, there was an unserious approach. In other words,
they didn't have the campaign infrastructure, they didn't hire the
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people which was necessary to win a statewide election, and
they were not making the overtures. In other words, they
weren't going to the communities, they weren't going to the
counties to suggest that they were actually trying to get
those votes. You can't only come on KFI and expect
to reach moderates, independence and Democrats.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So if the extent of your media outreach is only
going to be too friendly outlets or outlets which won't
really provide any pushback or won't extended the communities that
you don't already have, you're not serious and you will
not win.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
And you will be able to know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
As we get closer to the election whether Sheriff Bianco
is trying to take the Steve Garvey and also Larry
Elder route or is he trying to go maybe the
Arnold Schwarzenegger route where it's a little bit more moderate
in presentation, and he will incorporate different constituencies and communities
and then give himself an honest shot at winning statewide office.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I know you love how he sounds.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know that you love that everything he says in
regard to connected to Donald Trump, that just makes you
froth at the mouth. But it won't win you a
statewide election here in California. Now you have to ask
yourself a question as a voter, if you want to
support him, do you want him to just say everything
that you like to hear. Do you want him to
espouse every belief that you already have, or do you
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want to give him a good chance to win?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Because those ideas are mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Because if you think that the only way he's gonna
win is going to mimic everything that you already believe in,
everything you already like it, it may be in concert
with President Trump that will not win California. And then
we go back to this old cycle of oh my gosh,
I can't believe this is a one party state.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The Democrats always win. They alway chief always lie whatever
you want to say.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
The bottom line is he cannot win if he does
not do the things which are necessary to win. And
I'm saying it to you, and I would say it
to him. And if Steve Garvey were mad enough to
come on this program, I would have said it to him,
but he ducked us. I'm telling you because I appreciate
the competition between parties in this state, but it has
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to be legitimate competition.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
If this were.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Basketball, if you're not gonna practice, if you're not gonna
shoot a thousand shots today, if you're not gonna do
the cardio work to give yourself the best chance to
win when the game is actually played, then you're just
effing around.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're not serious.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And if you just want to sit back and say,
well the other team always cheats, no, you're not giving
yourself a real chance to win.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You're not seriously trying.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
You will know four or.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Five months before the election whether the Riverside County Sheriff
Chad Bianco was serious about trying to become governor of
this next state, because if he's only talking to folks
that already agree with him, and he's not talking to
the people who actually may disagree with him, if he's
not reaching out to constituents and communities who at this
point may not be on board, then he's not trying
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to win.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
La USD cell phone band starts tomorrow Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We talked about it here time and time again.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I am for it, I'm just not so sure it
realistically can be enforced. Is it going to be a
school white enforcement, meaning when kids come to school, do
they drop off their phones and the principal's office and
the administration building or is it going to be a
class by class type of enforcement where you come into
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mister Johnson's class and you know, you put all your
phones in a box and no one can touch them.
Or is it going to be the honor system. Didn't
know how it was going to play out at all. Also, also,
is it going to be standardized where all of the
schools WITHINSD are expected to follow the same type of
enforcement procedures or is it going to be left up
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to the individual schools. Those are the questions that I had,
and I'm not even an administrator. I don't even work
with kids, Thank goodness, to get on my damn nerves
outside of martial arts. When I can tell him what
to do, I can tell him to sit down and
shut up. I can kick him in the head.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I don't know. I don't kick him in the head,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
But Twalla sharp, he works with kids, and he works
in a contemporary environment where he has a better sense
of what's happening on a day to day ground level.
What say you to Walla before I play this piece
on what is actually going to happen so far, looking.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
At what they've got lined up or what some of
the plans are, I don't see what the point of
pushing it back because this was supposed to have kicked
off a while ago. I can't remember the I think
it was like maybe August of those so yea was yeah,
definite last year. But looking at what they've come up
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with now, I'm like, I don't see why you held
off to come up with nothing. This is not a
real plan. This is not something that I see being successful.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Let's see what they have planned starting tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
The Los Angeles Unified school district is banning cell phones
during the school day. The policy was approved last June.
This includes phones, smart watches, and earbuds, all of which
must be turned off and stored. Exceptions will be made
for emergencies, health needs, and students with disabilities. Schools can
implement the ban in a variety of ways, like requiring
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students to put them in their backpacks, or using portable
storage boxes, magnetic or belcrow pouches, or classroom phone holders.
Supporters say the ban will reduce distractions and improve focus.
Phones will still be allowed before and after school.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Though, what say you, twalla, I think that's in the sky.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't think it's being realistic, you know, put it
in their backpacks.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I don't believe that. No, as I said, there is
no concrete plan. It's kind of every school will be
able to do it their own way. So that means
there is no uniform plan, meaning that all schools have
not bought into or do not have a plan across
the board that they can stick to and that they
can adhere to. If you have some school saying put
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it in your backpack, while other schools are saying put
it in a magnetic pouch that already causes friction between
students who may learn of other different ways and are
that's going to cause a problem. Also, they have not
said how they are going to address being able to
get in touch with students because we are living in
(21:48):
an age now where if there is a crisis on
the campus. As a parent, I need to be able
to get in touch with my daughter. I don't want
to have to go through the rigmarole of the switchboard
to get in touch with my daughter to find out
she's okay. We all know here, even in LA that
there have been school shootings and there have been crises
on campus. Now we are at the point of time
(22:10):
with buyers, fight anything anything. As parents, we now use
these phones or given our children these phones to be
able to get in contact with them. I don't see
anything and hear any provisions to say how they have
stepped up any of their existing programs to be able
to get in touch with parents if there is an
emergency or anything like that. We haven't received anything home
(22:33):
from my daughter who's still in school. I do know
that they did show us some of the little cubbies
and some of the best practices, and you know, a
three strike rule. You know, first time you use your phone,
you're getting a warning, second time you're getting a talking to.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
A third time you're going to call the parent. Got it.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I've heard that from my daughter school. But I look
at this plan and I don't think this is going
to work at all. And I think this is probably
going to slowly but quietly go.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Away before the school year's done.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I always think that, if anything, the biggest danger is
a failure of imagination to not be able to foresee
likely problems or issues. For example, let's say they took
the route where all the phones were turned off and
put into a box behind the teacher in the front
of the classroom, and then there is some sort of
(23:22):
emergency at the school.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, not even talking citywide, like the schools in lockdown.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And let's say you, as a parent will get an
email message at the schools in lockdown because of X, Y,
and Z, no parent can get in touch with any
of their kids.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
That is not going to work. That's not going to
be acceptable.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
No, No, Nowadays, we are used to being able to
get in touch with our child if there is a crisis.
I have gotten text messages during the day. I know
where they were, LAUSD. Is they the mess saying we
have become aware of a potential threat on your child's campus.
And I called my daughter immediately to make sure she's okay,
(24:01):
because I don't want your random text message to say
we are monitoring incomplete information. Yeah, I need to know
from my DAR directly. Do not LAUSD. You're going to
get sued. You're gonna get yourself sued. You're going to
find yourself in a world of trouble because this is
not going to work.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I know it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And I'm gonna tell you right now, as a kid
who used to always try to gain the system, what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You're gonna have parents or even students themselves using old dummy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Phones to turn in to give to the teacher or
whatever to satisfy the supposed requirement of not having a phone,
and they still will have their phone, maybe it's on
vibrator or silent or whatever, for selfish reasons, for parental reasons.
And I would not be opposed to that, because I
think the rule is it may be well intentioned, but
it's impossibly executed. There's no way, even under the best
(24:52):
circumstances that this is going to work in a way
which is going to be able to satisfy both the
school and the student and the parent.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's just not so.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What happens is people are going to maliciously comply. Yeah,
they'll give you a phone, they'll make sure a phone
is turned off, they'll make sure a phone has been
turned into the teacher or to the school or the administrator.
And then they'll go about it the other ways. And
remember it said supposedly you're supposed to turn in your
smart watches as.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, right right, You're gonna you're gonna take their their
Galaxy watches in there, and iPhone watches and and and
and you know the pixel watches.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Good luck with that. Good freaking luck with that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, they're gonna get sued, and I can't say it's undeserved.
It's later with mo Kelly can if I am since
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we
come back, we got to talk to you now as
we go through the recovery stage of after the fires.
We talked about the human toll last week, how people
like to walla sharp have to make considerations on where
(25:53):
to live how to pay for that, where to go?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
What if you lost your job as well?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, now we're the part of debris removal, what that
looks like and what that means for people who don't
even live in that community.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We talked about
the fires. We talked about the damage to structures, how
homes were destroyed, businesses were destroyed, people who were displaced.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We talked about how.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Landlords may be participating in price gougy raising the rents
because they know that there is a higher need for
housing people who are desperate trying to find a place
to stay, and so rent without rent control is out
of control. That's just some of the facets of this disaster.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
But I was.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Trying to remind people when I did my weekly spot
on Spectrum News today that the disaster is not over.
It's just moved to a different point in the timeline.
And although people want to hurry up and get their
lives back to normal, and that makes sense, people want
to see the communities returned to normal. There's a process
it's going to be a long and arduous process which
(27:34):
is going to take years.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And part of that is the debris removal.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Even though the fires may not have hit your street,
the fires may not have hit your community, your neighborhood,
there will be a debris removal which will impact you,
your community, your neighborhood. In just in terms of the
Eaton Canyon fire, about fifteen hundred truckloads of debris per day.
(28:05):
Fifteen hundred truckloads per day of debris will be moving
throughout the Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods to Dwarte. It's a
long way in between, which means you will encounter the trucks.
Maybe you live in a Dwarte area and you don't
want that debris there. There's going to be a big
(28:26):
fight about where that debris is going to land, how
long it's going to be there, the undertented consequences. We
talked about how the debris, the flow of debris thanks
to the rains, and how it has ended up in
the ocean in some parts, the toxic waste. How long
is this going to take? This disaster is going to
(28:48):
be continuous, long after the fires have been since put out,
people are still struggling and people are still being impacted.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Think about these numbers for a minute.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
Two and a half million tons, million tons of debris
coming from about nine thousand properties that were destroyed, and
all of that going to be basically shipped through neighborhoods
just like this one and off towards the two ten
Freeway and then into that landfill that it's going to
be going to be sifted through. There are three main
routes that are going to be used for all of
(29:20):
this west of Lake, east of Lake, and then the
Hastings Ranch area.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Debris coming from west of.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
Lake uses Woodbury to a Royal Boulevard to get to
the two ten.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That's where we are this morning.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Debris east of Lake and west of Eton Canyon golf Course,
they're going to use New York Drive to Sierra Madre
Villa Avenue to reach Rosemey to get to the two ten,
and everything coming from east of Eaton Canyon Golf Course
will use Mitchellinda Avenue to get to the two ten.
This all part of the Phase two of the cleanup
video coming from the US Army Corps of Engineers. As
you know, Phase one was identifying hazardous material and properties
(29:53):
that had been burned in the fire. Part two is
cleaning it all out, and they're expecting fifteen hundred truck
loads every day to go through these neighborhoods. Giant haulers,
you can't miss them. They're called Super ten dump trucks.
But once they get to where they're going, Lario Park
in the border of Erwindale and Dwarti, that's where the
opposition remains, with residents unwilling to accept promises from the
(30:14):
EPA that this is safe.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
On what used to be in Equestrian Center.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Mark Ronner and twenty five. Our news will have more
on this at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But Twala, this impacts you, This speaks to you, This
involves you.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
What do you make of this? You know that's interesting.
I went to Alta Dina over the weekend just to
kind of takes more pictures and get a lay of
the land. And I saw in my yard, in all
of my neighbor's yards, those with the few houses still
standing and those that have all just been burned to
the ground. Phase one clean up signs complete. You know,
(30:50):
I saw all the signs saying all the toxic material
had been removed. Phase one complete, And I said to myself,
and I'm looking around, and I'm looking in my neighbor's yard.
I'm like, but that's just a bunch of I see
canisters there.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I see all types of things.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
I know for a fact, my next door neighbor whose
garage burned down, his tesla was in the garage and
his tesla exploded in the garage. And so I'm like,
but I looked to the back and I'm like, I've
been over to his yard, Like, huh, what do they
remove from his garage? So I'm like, it looks like
it's still there. So I'll take them at their word
(31:31):
that they got rid of all of the toxic debris.
I saw a lot of these trucks that they're talking about.
I saw a lot of those lined up all over
the city. And I'm thinking to myself, this is not
going to be easy. The streets are still narrow, there
are still a lot of street signs out. There's still
going to be a lot of congestion. If they're talking
(31:52):
about going down Woodbary and all that, this is going
to take a long time. I drove up to Loma
Alta for the first time the construction zone had moved
out of the area, and I drove up to Loma
Alta and it was then that I could see the
full depths of the destruction, because before I'm just seeing
(32:13):
from alt to Dean drive down, I'm just seeing my
immediate area. I drove up to Loma Alta, and when
I tell you that, as far as I could see,
I'm seeing nothing, nothing at all. You're telling me that
you're gonna come in and just start. But just even
if you bring bulldozers, heavy haulers, whatever you want to
(32:35):
call them, they have the bulldozing trucks up there, they
have the scraper trucks up they have all these different
things up there. This looks like something that's gonna take
maybe six months to a year just to get rid
of all this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Did you notice they said fifteen hundred trucks per day,
and they did not give any end date.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
They didn't say for the next two three weeks. They
didn't say for the next.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
Two to three months, because they know for a fact
if they give you any in day, they are lying
anything outside of a year. And you don't want to
tell people right now that we're not going to be
back home for at least another year.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
No, no, no, not even back home, just be able to
move in and out of that community, because if you
didn't have a house, then that's another year before you
could build a house.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Oh absolutely, yes, yes, yes, yes, there's so few houses.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
There are so few houses up there.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Give me in a sense of when you say so
few houses, most of the neighborhood is gone.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
But when I drove up for a mile from out
from out to Dean Drive, going up to Loma Alta,
I saw, in both directions, for about two blocks, I
saw maybe one house. For a mile stretch of land,
I saw one house still standing. Everything else was just rubble.
(33:50):
And then I drove down Loma Auta and I saw
nothing but destruction, blocks and blocks and blocks of destruction.
Of how is not standing.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But beyond that, without the physical structures, the physical edifices
of the houses, I'm quite sure the infrastructure, from water
to electricity, to gas, all that's gone as well. I
will say, the power communication. The power is back on,
so I was able to reset the alarms and turn
the lights on and stuff, only to find out that
(34:23):
there's no water running. And they said the gas was
on and the gas is not back on. So there's
still no water running period, there's still no gas running.
Electricity is up, and from my understanding, that's not everywhere.
It's still not everywhere. So again, this is going to
be something that is going to take so much time,
(34:46):
and the idea of putting this out there like this
is a quick thing that they're going to be doing.
Cleaning the debris out.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
You can do, you know, fifteen hundred trucks a day
and even deal with the amount of debris that I saw,
because it's not just we're just loading. It's not like
you have just a bunch of people they're just putting,
you know, bushels and bags of trash into a truck. No,
they're going in and digging out foundations, digging out actual
(35:16):
I saw one house. It was I remember the house.
It's a two story house. And when I passed by
the area, I did not know that they had almost
like a sub level. But you could see all of
this house had burned down into a sub level that
just you would have to dig deep down into the
ground to.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Get this out. And I saw I said to myself like.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Oh man, yeah, when when my insurance coming to these
said it's going to be like at least two years
before you get.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Back to the house.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
When I saw that, I said, yeah, No, they weren't wrong.
They weren't wrong.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
This least too as West on the low end, two
years probably three four.
Speaker 8 (35:50):
Yeah, And then I said to myself, well, there's not
a lot of people who will be returning to not
a lot of people that I know whose families have
two years to go and sit somewhere before they're able
to even come back and plan out a rebuild.
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