October 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Survivors of the Eaton Fire say they want more from SoCal Edison, the utility many blame for the devastation; Local officials say they're ready to get tougher on copper thieves as lights continue to go dark and phone service is disrupted; Most of California's sandy beaches could disappear by 2100 according to a new report; and Long Beach's new minor league baseball team gets closer to a fresh name.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
We got another hour together. The usc Trojans just finished
beating down the Michigan Wolverines. The twenty first ranked Trojans
win thirty one to thirteen over the fifteenth ranked Michigan
Wolverines on what has been a pretty solid day for
college football in southern California. UCLA gets its second win
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in a row, this time on the road against Michigan State,
a big thirty eight to thirteen wins. So very nice
sports Saturday here, even if we did get the sad
news about actress Diane Keaton dying here in Los Angeles today,
at the age of seventy nine. If you missed any
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of our first hour, do look it up on the
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always listen to the full show at your leisure. Just
search for Michael Monks Reports on KFI AM six forty.
You'll hear a bit about the Palisades fire investigation, the
fight going on between La mayor Bass and developer Rick Caruso.
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They may face off again and next year's mayor's race,
and another candidate has emerged as a possibility as well.
So we went through a lot, including the storm that's
rolling in on Monday and Tuesday. All that in our
first hour. Just look it up on the iHeartRadio app
or at KFIAM six forty dot com. So we spend
some time talking about the Palisades Fire, the arrest that
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they made, the after action report that has come out,
questions around why the La City Fire Department could not
detect that a fire on January first was still burning underground,
only to be resurfaced by Santa Ana Wins and turning
it into the Palisades Fire. But there was another terrible,
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destructive and deadly fire in January, the Eaten Fire, and
victims of that fire are also fighting still. Federal prosecutors
have already announced indictments in this one, and so Cal
Edison has offered to settle with a lot of the victims.
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But the Eaten Fire Survivor's Network, made up of folks
in Altadena, Pasadena, si Era Mandre who were affected by this,
they say it doesn't go far enough. They talked to
the press this week about what they see as basically
a low ball offer and one that is not comprehensive
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enough from the utility. Here is one of the members
of that network.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I think fallout didn't stop at a fire perimeter line.
The fire's damage extended far beyond the official burn zone,
seeping into standing homes, coating yards, and forcing families to
flee homes that looked intact. But we're no longer safe
to live in. But Edison's draft plan draws its recovery
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map as if those boundaries define who was harmed and
who wasn't. It leaves out renters who lost everything, small
and home based businesses that kept our neighborhood running, and
families who can document displacement flab results or public health warnings,
but happened to live just outside the line drawn on
a firefighter's map.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So in that instance, the resident is saying, look so
cal Edison is offering compensation of folks who live in
this designated area, but he's saying the damage was done
far beyond the area indicated. Even if houses were not
completely destroyed by fire, they may have been damaged and
not just by the flame. So the heat, by some
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of the toxicity that emerged from that fire.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Pay for housing until we get home. No one should
lose housing before recovery is complete. Yet, under Edison's draft formula,
ailease receive loss of use payments that fall far short
of real rents. In our zip codes. In Altadena, Pasadena
and Sierra Madre, rents for family homes now average double
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what Edison's model allows, and their formula ignores the real
full costs of displacement, the security deposits, moving in storage fees,
duplicate utilities, longer commutes, higher childcare costs, in the daily
toll of being uprooted. Edison's duty isn't to estimate housing
costs on paper. It's to ensure survivors have a safe
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roof over their heads until they can return to their
homes or rebuild. Pay for housing until we get home.
That's the baseline of fairness and the foundation of recovery.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Similar message there. You're offering money for housing, but not enough.
It's not inclusive enough. It does not take into full
account all of the damage, all of the losses that
residents here are facing. And in this statement he sums
up the argument from the Eaten Fire Survivors Network.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
We're asking Edison to align the draft with reality and
pay for the full footprint of their harm. Do that
and recovery move faster. Families go home sooner, kids get
back to stable schools, small businesses reopen, and neighborhoods come
back to life. These three pillars fix what you broke,
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include everyone harmed, pay for housing until we get home.
Are how we move forward fairly and together.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So cal Edison is trying to finalize its forthcoming claims
program for eligible individuals and businesses who were hurt by
the eat and fire. But these residents, as you just heard, say,
this is not fair, this is not transparent, it's not
inclusive enough. The other thing to remember about this offer
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from so cal Edison is if you sign it, you're
waving your right to sue them later on. So the
question is is this amount less than what I'll get later?
Should I take this amount now to just get on
with my life. The utility is already being investigated by
state officials for allegedly starting the fire. It's been argued
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that a tower belonging to so cal Edison became re
energized and sent sparks toward dry brush. SCEE has denied
any wrongdoing in the summer, the utility said it would
launch a compensation program for those who lost homes, businesses,
or rental properties in the fire, and claims would also
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cover total and partial structure loss, commercial property loss, business interruptions,
smoke and ash, physical injury, and fatalities. They've been negotiating
with residents for a while, hosting meetings and town halls
and that sort of thing, and so SEE released a
draft of what it is considering as payments. It would
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be based on square footage and the extent of damage,
and each person who died would bring one and a
half million dollars for pain and suffering, and five hundred
thousand dollars for each surviving spouse and eligible dependent. So
Cal Edison says another five million dollars would serve as
a premium toward the Edison Fund. Now, critics of this
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program have worn that if you participate in this, if
you agree to this, you would be required to forfeit
your right to sue, and that this payout would likely
come at a reduced rate compared to a potential larger
court settlement. And this fire was massive, nineteen people dead,
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more than ninety four hundred homes and other structures and
Altadena gone. Dozens of lawsuits have already been filed against Edison.
That's why they're trying to get this together, to settle
this now. But these residents do not seem to be
happy with what's on the table right now. So the
negotiations will continue, and we'll continue to follow and bring
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you the latest on that fire and the Palisades Fire
investigation as this goes on. Another widespread problem across southern California,
particularly in the city of Los Angeles, and we talked
about it just last week, copper wire theft and how
it's dark in so many streets, including the landmarks Sixth
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Street Bridge in downtown LA which is pretty new and
now sits dark. Was supposed to be the ribbon of light,
that's what they were calling it. It was quite lovely when
it was lit up. It's not lit up anymore because
the copper's been stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So this week.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Local lawmakers, state legislators, city council members, the district attorney,
the county sheriff all got together by that bridge to
say we're sick of it and we want harsher penalties
for people who steal the copper wire. We're going to
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talk about that next and then we'll get into what
happened just a few days later that cost a lot
of people their phones. When Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you until nine o'clock tonight. Governor Newsom has
signed that housing bill that LA City Hall formally of pose.
Senate Bill seventy nine was introduced by Senator Scott Wiener,
a Democrat from San Francisco, and what it does is
it overrides local zoning standards and allows for taller and
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more dense housing near transit stops in just a few
counti it's about seven, but that includes Los Angeles County,
San Diego County, Santa Clair, Alameda, Sacramento, San Francisco, and
San Mateo are the other ones. This legislation was pushed
by people who say more housing is desperately needed, and
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if you could build more housing near transit stops like
subways and light rail stations and rapid bus lines, you'd
be able to attract residents to that housing who may
not need to buy vehicle clog up the roads. The
city opposed it on a close vote. It was not
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a unanimous rejection of this. It was an eight to
five vote to oppose this legislation. Because of what I
just said about overriding local zoning standards. Some of the
folks at city Hall say, we're doing enough, We're doing
enough for housing. We're already doing the work in Los Angeles.
We should retain control. But Governor Knwsom signed it just yesterday,
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and so it is the law of the state impacting
those seven counties, including LA. It basically is something that
Yimby's like and Nimby's don't. This has been an ongoing
fight in California, the yes in my backyard crowd the
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no in my backyard crowd. In fact, this legislation was
co sponsored by an organization called California Yemby. But it
does not go as far as some people who are
worried about it think. According to California Yimbe, for example,
a lot of folks in Pacific Palisades were worried about
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tall apartment structures up to nine stories, which this bill
allows coming to the Palasades because there are bus stops there.
But based on the analysis none of those bus stops
qualify for this. Another point of concern out of La
City Hall was from Councilman Monica Rodriguez, who represents the
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northeast San Fernando Valley, and she says, look, we've got
we've got plans for metro lines to come up there,
and if there are stations there that would qualify. But
can that housing be built before the stations are operational?
And what happens if that housing is built and the
station's never come. Interesting questions, but it is now the
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law of the state, and we'll see if any new
housing pops up along transit stops. Anybody building anything, though,
willing to keep an eye on the copper because we
all know how quickly it vanishes from street lights, from
utility polls. A piece of legislation was adopted in the
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Assembly in this past session. It got its final vote
in September. The governor has not signed this one yet,
Assembly Bill or seventy six, and it would increase a
crackdown they're calling it on copper wire theft. So Assembly,
when Mark Gonzales got together with some other local officials
today excuse me, this week in downtown Los Angeles City
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Councilman Isabelle Herado who represents the area, La County DA
Nathan Hofkman La County Sheriff Luna. Here's a little bit
from that press conference and what they had to say
about how tough they're going to get on copper theft.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's the street where children walk home from school, left
in the darkness. It's a small business owner closing early
because the block that they work on feels unsafe. It's
the senior waiting to help that never comes because a
phone line when dead. Imagine that entire blocks, entire communities
plunge in the dock darkness, not by nature, but by
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neglect and by greed. When our lights go out, so
does a sense of security that keeps our communities thriving.
Street Lights are not luxuries, they are lifelines.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We're coming after you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We're gonna make sure that you are then abiding by
the law, and if not, you're gonna be looking at felonies.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
You're gonna be looking at thousands of dollars of fines.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
So the next time somebody comes into your place of
business and they're trying to sell this, there's a very
good chance it may be an undercover Deputy Sheriff from
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're ready to come after these copper thieves. This bill
was pretty easily passed in the Assembly, very popular, almost
unanimous votes. It looks like in both chambers. The governor
hasn't signed it yet, but he's working his way through
the pile of bills and coordinating press announcements and all that,
and so this seems like something that will be signed.
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This is what it would do. It would strengthen enforcement
tools and help protect the infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
They say.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It would expand reporting requirements for junk dealers and recyclers,
requiring them to collect detailed transaction records and verify the
seller's identity and lawful ownership of metals brought to their business.
So that would help stop folks from just yanking out
the copper wire from the city street lights and the
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sixth Street Bridge and then tumbling over to one of
the recyclers and running off with some cash, because they
have to be able to prove that they are the
lawful owners of that copper. This bill would also make
it illegal for individuals to possess certain scrap metal, including
parts from street lights, traffic signals and plaques. Plaques, because yes,
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even commemorative plaques in the public right of way have
been vandalized, not even just for the joy that some
get in tearing something up, but because there's money to
be made on the metal that is used to display
an event or an honor of someone's memory. Penalties would
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be increased and reflect the high cost of damage and replacement.
They say now more than thirty eight thousand feet that's
seven miles of copper wire were stolen from the sixth
Street bridge that cost the city two and a half
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million dollars to repair it. It's still dark by the
way in parts. The LA Bureau of Street Lighting is
also reported nearly forty six thousand service requests for outages
just last year. Forty percent of those attributed to wire theft.
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So this press conference announcing how tough if they're all
going to get on this thing was right there by
that bridge. It's been a long standing problem and it's
not getting any better because just this week.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
No data, phone calls not going through and cell phone
switching into SOS mode with no service have been impacting
Verizon customers around southern California. Now Verizon saying the outage
was caused by vandals who cut fiber lines, a company
saying multiple fiber cuts were made, impacting the Greater La area.
Verizon says its engineers are engaged in working to solve
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the issue. Alix Stone, Abcnews Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Verizon outage because of vandals, likely taking the metals. I
will tell you that when I first moved into my apartment,
we were having some Internet difficulties. It just was not
a strong signal with Spectrum, and Spectrum could not figure
out what and we could not either. But it turned
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out that there was something wrong internally in the building
and that the Spectrum cable line just for my unit
was not going to be usable for us. So we
had to go and find a new internet service provider.
And we already have Verizon phones. So we ran down
on the Verizon office and said what can you do
for us? And they say, we've got a box in
your area. You know, they use a different kind of
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a system, doesn't come through the cable lines, but they
have all these different boxes all over town that point
in your area and you can use their internet service.
So that's perfect. Yeah, we got one right right right
outside your window. Well, I live in the Fashion district
right across the street from skid Row. The technician from
Verizon comes in and can't figure out why the signal
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is not working until they go and look at the box,
and of course it's been long gutted. So this has happened.
This happens all the time, and it it has real
consequences for people. Your services are out, your street lights
are out, and it creates an environment that feels unsafe.
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And if it's unsafe, people don't want to live there,
people don't want to invest there. This is a very
serious issue. Another serious issue is our beaches. I know
you all enjoy them, but seventy percent of them might
be gone by twenty one hundred. What does that mean.
We'll talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
This is Michael Monks Reports and Michael Monks from KFI
News another half hour together on this Saturday night. In
southern California. A new survey out of UCLA shows twenty
percent of Californians are concerned about their ability to pay
their housing cost So that has prompted many people to
either take a second job, or cut back on healthcare,
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or stop saving for retirement. UCLA released this data at
the Center for Health Policy Research. This is the California
Health Interview Survey. Roughly five point nine million California adults,
or nineteen point nine percent, say they worried very often
or somewhat often about paying their monthly housing costs last year.
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That's up from eighteen point eight percent in twenty twenty
three and up from fifteen point one percent in twenty
twenty one. About fifteen point six percent of adults said
they took a second job or performed additional work at
their existing job to help pay their housing costs. About
fourteen point two percent say they stopped saving for retirement,
while fifteen point nine percent racked up more credit card debt,
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twelve point two percent cut back on health food, and
five point eight percent cut back on health care. Single
parents with children, according to the survey, were even more
concerned about their housing costs. Thirty six point two percent
say they worried often or somewhat often about paying their
mortgage or their rent. That's much higher than the twelve
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point eight percent who were worried Among married parents with children.
Very scary numbers. California is a tough place man, very expensive,
and those numbers are going up, up up, More people
each year, more worried about whether they'll have enough money
to pay for basic necessities like housing. But in spite
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of how challenging it is to live here, what do
we often retort now about the weather. We're gonna have
some rough weather over the next few days, according to
National Weather Service, some rain rolling in. But in spite
of that, you know, we've got nice temperatures in the autumn.
We still have beautiful beaches. Oh wait, we might not
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have beautiful beaches anymore. There's a new report from an
organization called surf Rider that indicates seventy percent of California's
sandy beaches good vanish by twenty one hundred. Now, if
twenty one hundred sounds like something well off into the future,
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it's really not. It's seventy five years away. A baby
born this year may see this. They say more than
half of America's sandy beaches will be gone by twenty
one hundred due to climate driven sea level rise, but
the number is higher in California, seventy percent. The Surfrider
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Foundation's twenty twenty five State of the Beach report also
highlights how coastal communities are successfully fighting back with nature
based solutions. So this report says the predictions are grim,
but this report also reveals reasons for optimism. This organization
does have a climate action program, so they are pushing
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for certain policies to help stave off what they would
call a disaster. But the foundation says erosion of sandy
beaches is a normal coastal process, but climate change is
intensifying and compounding its impacts, leading to sea levels rising
more quickly and more extreme weather events happening more frequently.
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And then at the same time, rampant private development in
these coastal areas is more and more encroaching on eroding
beaches and contributing to what the organization calls the coastal squeeze.
This is where beaches would naturally migrate inland in response
to rising seas, Developments such as buildings, roads, and seawalls
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block their path and they gradually grow narrower or they
erode or disappear altogether. This report specifically looked at San
Clemente and Santao Fray State Beach and what it says
is one of southern California's marquee surf destinations. Santao Fray
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State Beach was inaccessible due to the packs of erosion
for months back in twenty twenty four. The coastline is
experiencing the impacts of decades of diminishing sand supply due
to developed watersheds and coastal armoring, including the construction of
Dana Point Harbor in the nineteen sixties. In San Clemente.
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The group says poorly planned development and climate change has
exacerbated coastal erosions, storm impacts, and infrastructure vulnerability. Landslides during
heavy rains in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and
twenty twenty four repeatedly shut down the Pacific Surf Line,
a rail line, and that resulted in hundreds of millions
of dollars in repair costs. At San Clemente State Beach,
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both the shoreline and nearby bluffs are rapidly receding, they say,
and that's leading to the loss of sandy beach areas
that once provided critical habitat and recreation space, as well
as a natural buffer for the rail line. In recent years,
they say, high tides and storms have repeatedly damaged the
access road and parking lot to Santa No Fra State Beach,
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resulting in months long closures and a loss of more
than half of the original three hundred and fifty parking spaces.
In twenty seventeen, a large rock revetment was installed under
a temporary emergency permit to armor the access road while
protecting a segment of the road. The action has contributed
to a significant acceleration of erosion at both ends of
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the eight hundred foot rock wall and loss of recreational
beach space. The report recommends the following five things that
residents can do to save the Sandy beaches so they
are not gone in twenty one hundred. They say, go
to the beach, observe conditions firsthand, and document them. Surfrider
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also recommends joining Surfrider. They say to contact your local representatives,
go to a city council meeting, and restore your favorite
beach through surf Wrighter Foundations Climate Action Program. This group
has been around along time. In nineteen eighty four is
when it was founded by some surfers in Malibu. They
characterize themselves as a nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to the
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protection of the world's oceans and beaches. They claim to
have more than two hundred, excuse me, over one million supporters,
activists and members, with more than two hundred volunteer led
chapters and student clubs in the US. So some dire
warnings about the conditions of sandy beaches in southern California.
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We certainly don't want to lose those beaches, but as
we noted, there are other problems too. High cost of living,
people freaking out about whether they can even afford the rent,
the copper being stolen out of the street lights and utilities,
the expensive bridges we build dark because of this, And
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then there is the lingering threat of crime. Three suspects,
at least one of whom was armed with the gun,
emerged from a car and took multiple items from a
man during an ambush style robbery on a sidewalk in
West Hollywood. Today has happened. Excuse me, this was yesterday.
This happened about five thirty Friday on Hacienda Place, just
north of Santa Monica Boulevard, one blocky east of Los Sienaga.
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There's surveillance video. It shows a four door silver or
gray Sedan slow down, and then three people dressed in
dark clothes and face coverings jump out and confront this guy,
force him to the ground and take a bunch of items,
and then they hurry back into the car and leave
the sea. The man's wedding ring was taken. It's tough
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out here, man, It's tough out here. In California. We
always say at least we have the weather, the beaches,
and now we're being told we might not even have that.
Up next, you've got an opportunity to name a couple
of things that may still be here in twenty one hundred.
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A sports team and a couple of new train stops
are asked looking for your help in picking a name.
We'll talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I Michael Monks from KFI News,
finishing up this edition of the program on a Saturday
night in southern California. We've had some tragedies at local
race tracks. Another horse dead at Los Alamidos this week
after winning a race. The two year old Philly named
warm Springs was taken off by ambulance after finishing first
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last weekend in the ninth race. Her death listed as
non musco scetical, let me try that again, non musco
lous skeletal. No further information about that death, but Warm
Springs had raised five times in her young career, all
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Little sal Amido's two first place finishes. The twelfth horse
to die from a racing or training injury at the
track in Cyprus this year, and then a couple days
after that, it was reported that a racehorse was killed
in a training injury at Santa Anita. Three year old
gelding died after colliding with another horse during training at
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Santa Anita Park. Big Nash died on Monday, same thing
musculoskeletal musculoskeletal category. A statement from Santa Anita says Big
Nash was working from the gate during training Monday morning
at Santa Anita Park when his rider lost his balance
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and fell. Big Nash continued down the track and collided
with another horse who was also training. Both horses were
immediately attended to by an expert team of on site veterinarians. Sadly,
given the nature of Big Nash's injury, surgical repair was
not an option and the veterinary team recommended humane euthanasia
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after a thorough evaluation. Big Nash had not yet run
a race in his career. Eight horses have died at
Santa Nita this year, so twenty between the two tracks.
All right, More sports news. Long Beach is getting a
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minor league baseball team and they are trying to figure
out a name for it. Last week, or maybe a
couple of weeks ago, we talked about the Dodgers minor
league team coming to Ontario. This is a new development
and that organization in Ontario released its new name. They're
going to be called the Tower Buzzers, and that's reflective
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of a trend across minor league baseball that cities are
getting hyper specific with their mascots and getting a little
zanier with them. So the Ontario Tower Buzzers a reference
to the airport and also a lot of homage to
the movie Top Gun. So what will Long Beach do.
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They've narrowed it down to six, the Long Beach Coast,
the Long Beach Cruisers, the Long Beach Grit, the Long
Beach Groove, the Long Beach Parrots, or the Long Beach Regulators.
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So I don't know. I like regulators, I suppose because
it's it's a reference to that song. I don't know, Oliver.
Maybe you can help me out here. This is short notice.
I didn't tell you, but I think this is a
reference to that song Regulate by Regina. You're old enough
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to remember Nate Dogg Warren G.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't know if you can just play the raw version, Oliver,
because it might have swear words. So I don't know
if there's like a.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Safe regulate any stealing of his property.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're is this the g rated version? Is okay?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Street gotta be handed with the steel if you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You keep regular. It was a clear black night, a
clear white moon.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Woman G was on the streets trying to const So, yeah,
get some phone this one.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And I the LBC see they're referencing a long beach
there in that song. One of those guys I think
is involved in this, and is it? Is it Warren G?
Is he involved? Let me just do a quick search.
I should have done this. Yeah, yeah, he's part of this.
Warren G is part of the team's ownership group. So
that's I guess that's the one. I'll root for it
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because that's hyper specific. I love that song Long Beach Regulators.
The other one's the Coast Cruisers grit Groove parrots. I
don't mind the parrots. You don't see a lot of
parrots in animal mascots. But the regulators, I think is
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that's the most authentically Long Beach. But the next phase
of voting opens. It's already opened and it's open until
next Wednesday, the fifteenth, and you can participate in the
public vote online or at designated in person voting stations
in the city. So just go to Long Beach Baseball
Club dot com if you want, and you can vote
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there on the name. La Metro is also asking for
your help. They got a couple of new stations coming online.
The D Line, this is the station that the line
that's pretty short. It goes from Union Station to Koreatown.
Right now. It shares its lines with the B Line
until a little split, and the D line, of course
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goes the B Line goes all the way to North
Hollywood from Union Station. But the D Line, formerly known
as the Purple Line, it's about to get bigger and
it will eventually go all the way to the West Side.
And that's what they're getting excited about at Metro two
new Section three they call it. Stations will open in
twenty twenty seven as the D line makes its way
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to West la So you can offer a name to
the Westwood UCLA station or the West la Va Hospital
station or both. They are looking for simplicity, a short name,
easily recognizable so that it fits on the sign and
the map. They want to acknowledge the neighborhood. So think
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about the neighborhood identity. It should provide specific information about
the property's location, and it should reflect the property's location
relative to the entire transit system and not duplicate elsewhere.
That's it. So name a baseball team, name a couple
of train stations. Take your mind off the troubles of
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the world. I'm trying to take my mind off the
dead bird that is outside of the studio door. I
keep saying studio door. I mean the building, the office
building door downstairs. There is a dead bird. And now
I've got to deal with that again. And I hope
that I hope it's not a bad omen. I appreciate
all the calls that we got today telling me that
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yes it is a bad omen or no it's not
If we're back next week, as I hope we are,
maybe we'll know more. You can hear Michael Monks reports
every Saturday night here on KFI from seven to nine.
My thanks to Oliver Boone and Brigitta Agostino for their
company tonight, and my thanks to all of you for listening.
I'll be back all next week, Monday through Friday, doing
the news for you here on KFI and appearing on
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all of your favorite shows, keeping track at the City Council,
the LA Board of Supervisors, and all that sort of
of stuff. So keep it right here. We'll be back
again next week KFI.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
We got another hour together. The usc Trojans just finished
beating down the Michigan Wolverines. The twenty first ranked Trojans
win thirty one to thirteen over the fifteenth ranked Michigan
Wolverines on what has been a pretty solid day for
college football in southern California. UCLA gets its second win
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in a row, this time on the road against Michigan State,
a big thirty eight to thirteen wins. So very nice
sports Saturday here, even if we did get the sad
news about actress Diane Keaton dying here in Los Angeles today,
at the age of seventy nine. If you missed any
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of our first hour, do look it up on the
iHeartRadio app, download the podcast, stream the podcast. You can
always listen to the full show at your leisure. Just
search for Michael Monks Reports on KFI AM six forty.
You'll hear a bit about the Palisades fire investigation, the
fight going on between La mayor Bass and developer Rick Caruso.
(01:14):
They may face off again and next year's mayor's race,
and another candidate has emerged as a possibility as well.
So we went through a lot, including the storm that's
rolling in on Monday and Tuesday. All that in our
first hour. Just look it up on the iHeartRadio app
or at KFIAM six forty dot com. So we spend
some time talking about the Palisades Fire, the arrest that
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they made, the after action report that has come out,
questions around why the La City Fire Department could not
detect that a fire on January first was still burning underground,
only to be resurfaced by Santa Ana Wins and turning
it into the Palisades Fire. But there was another terrible,
(01:58):
destructive and deadly fire in January, the Eaten Fire, and
victims of that fire are also fighting still. Federal prosecutors
have already announced indictments in this one, and so Cal
Edison has offered to settle with a lot of the victims.
(02:20):
But the Eaten Fire Survivor's Network, made up of folks
in Altadena, Pasadena, si Era Mandre who were affected by this,
they say it doesn't go far enough. They talked to
the press this week about what they see as basically
a low ball offer and one that is not comprehensive
(02:41):
enough from the utility. Here is one of the members
of that network.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I think fallout didn't stop at a fire perimeter line.
The fire's damage extended far beyond the official burn zone,
seeping into standing homes, coating yards, and forcing families to
flee homes that looked intact. But we're no longer safe
to live in. But Edison's draft plan draws its recovery
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map as if those boundaries define who was harmed and
who wasn't. It leaves out renters who lost everything, small
and home based businesses that kept our neighborhood running, and
families who can document displacement flab results or public health warnings,
but happened to live just outside the line drawn on
a firefighter's map.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So in that instance, the resident is saying, look so
cal Edison is offering compensation of folks who live in
this designated area, but he's saying the damage was done
far beyond the area indicated. Even if houses were not
completely destroyed by fire, they may have been damaged and
not just by the flame. So the heat, by some
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of the toxicity that emerged from that fire.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Pay for housing until we get home. No one should
lose housing before recovery is complete. Yet, under Edison's draft formula,
ailease receive loss of use payments that fall far short
of real rents. In our zip codes. In Altadena, Pasadena
and Sierra Madre, rents for family homes now average double
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what Edison's model allows, and their formula ignores the real
full costs of displacement, the security deposits, moving in storage fees,
duplicate utilities, longer commutes, higher childcare costs, in the daily
toll of being uprooted. Edison's duty isn't to estimate housing
costs on paper. It's to ensure survivors have a safe
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roof over their heads until they can return to their
homes or rebuild. Pay for housing until we get home.
That's the baseline of fairness and the foundation of recovery.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Similar message there. You're offering money for housing, but not enough.
It's not inclusive enough. It does not take into full
account all of the damage, all of the losses that
residents here are facing. And in this statement he sums
up the argument from the Eaten Fire Survivors Network.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
We're asking Edison to align the draft with reality and
pay for the full footprint of their harm. Do that
and recovery move faster. Families go home sooner, kids get
back to stable schools, small businesses reopen, and neighborhoods come
back to life. These three pillars fix what you broke,
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include everyone harmed, pay for housing until we get home.
Are how we move forward fairly and together.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So cal Edison is trying to finalize its forthcoming claims
program for eligible individuals and businesses who were hurt by
the eat and fire. But these residents, as you just heard, say,
this is not fair, this is not transparent, it's not
inclusive enough. The other thing to remember about this offer
(05:51):
from so cal Edison is if you sign it, you're
waving your right to sue them later on. So the
question is is this amount less than what I'll get later?
Should I take this amount now to just get on
with my life. The utility is already being investigated by
state officials for allegedly starting the fire. It's been argued
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that a tower belonging to so cal Edison became re
energized and sent sparks toward dry brush. SCEE has denied
any wrongdoing in the summer, the utility said it would
launch a compensation program for those who lost homes, businesses,
or rental properties in the fire, and claims would also
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cover total and partial structure loss, commercial property loss, business interruptions,
smoke and ash, physical injury, and fatalities. They've been negotiating
with residents for a while, hosting meetings and town halls
and that sort of thing, and so SEE released a
draft of what it is considering as payments. It would
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be based on square footage and the extent of damage,
and each person who died would bring one and a
half million dollars for pain and suffering, and five hundred
thousand dollars for each surviving spouse and eligible dependent. So
Cal Edison says another five million dollars would serve as
a premium toward the Edison Fund. Now, critics of this
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program have worn that if you participate in this, if
you agree to this, you would be required to forfeit
your right to sue, and that this payout would likely
come at a reduced rate compared to a potential larger
court settlement. And this fire was massive, nineteen people dead,
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more than ninety four hundred homes and other structures and
Altadena gone. Dozens of lawsuits have already been filed against Edison.
That's why they're trying to get this together, to settle
this now. But these residents do not seem to be
happy with what's on the table right now. So the
negotiations will continue, and we'll continue to follow and bring
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you the latest on that fire and the Palisades Fire
investigation as this goes on. Another widespread problem across southern California,
particularly in the city of Los Angeles, and we talked
about it just last week, copper wire theft and how
it's dark in so many streets, including the landmarks Sixth
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Street Bridge in downtown LA which is pretty new and
now sits dark. Was supposed to be the ribbon of light,
that's what they were calling it. It was quite lovely when
it was lit up. It's not lit up anymore because
the copper's been stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So this week.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Local lawmakers, state legislators, city council members, the district attorney,
the county sheriff all got together by that bridge to
say we're sick of it and we want harsher penalties
for people who steal the copper wire. We're going to
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talk about that next and then we'll get into what
happened just a few days later that cost a lot
of people their phones. When Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you until nine o'clock tonight. Governor Newsom has
signed that housing bill that LA City Hall formally of pose.
Senate Bill seventy nine was introduced by Senator Scott Wiener,
a Democrat from San Francisco, and what it does is
it overrides local zoning standards and allows for taller and
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more dense housing near transit stops in just a few
counti it's about seven, but that includes Los Angeles County,
San Diego County, Santa Clair, Alameda, Sacramento, San Francisco, and
San Mateo are the other ones. This legislation was pushed
by people who say more housing is desperately needed, and
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if you could build more housing near transit stops like
subways and light rail stations and rapid bus lines, you'd
be able to attract residents to that housing who may
not need to buy vehicle clog up the roads. The
city opposed it on a close vote. It was not
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a unanimous rejection of this. It was an eight to
five vote to oppose this legislation. Because of what I
just said about overriding local zoning standards. Some of the
folks at city Hall say, we're doing enough, We're doing
enough for housing. We're already doing the work in Los Angeles.
We should retain control. But Governor Knwsom signed it just yesterday,
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and so it is the law of the state impacting
those seven counties, including LA. It basically is something that
Yimby's like and Nimby's don't. This has been an ongoing
fight in California, the yes in my backyard crowd the
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no in my backyard crowd. In fact, this legislation was
co sponsored by an organization called California Yemby. But it
does not go as far as some people who are
worried about it think. According to California Yimbe, for example,
a lot of folks in Pacific Palisades were worried about
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tall apartment structures up to nine stories, which this bill
allows coming to the Palasades because there are bus stops there.
But based on the analysis none of those bus stops
qualify for this. Another point of concern out of La
City Hall was from Councilman Monica Rodriguez, who represents the
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northeast San Fernando Valley, and she says, look, we've got
we've got plans for metro lines to come up there,
and if there are stations there that would qualify. But
can that housing be built before the stations are operational?
And what happens if that housing is built and the
station's never come. Interesting questions, but it is now the
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law of the state, and we'll see if any new
housing pops up along transit stops. Anybody building anything, though,
willing to keep an eye on the copper because we
all know how quickly it vanishes from street lights, from
utility polls. A piece of legislation was adopted in the
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Assembly in this past session. It got its final vote
in September. The governor has not signed this one yet,
Assembly Bill or seventy six, and it would increase a
crackdown they're calling it on copper wire theft. So Assembly,
when Mark Gonzales got together with some other local officials
today excuse me, this week in downtown Los Angeles City
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Councilman Isabelle Herado who represents the area, La County DA
Nathan Hofkman La County Sheriff Luna. Here's a little bit
from that press conference and what they had to say
about how tough they're going to get on copper theft.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's the street where children walk home from school, left
in the darkness. It's a small business owner closing early
because the block that they work on feels unsafe. It's
the senior waiting to help that never comes because a
phone line when dead. Imagine that entire blocks, entire communities
plunge in the dock darkness, not by nature, but by
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neglect and by greed. When our lights go out, so
does a sense of security that keeps our communities thriving.
Street Lights are not luxuries, they are lifelines.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
We're coming after you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We're gonna make sure that you are then abiding by
the law, and if not, you're gonna be looking at felonies.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
You're gonna be looking at thousands of dollars of fines.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
So the next time somebody comes into your place of
business and they're trying to sell this, there's a very
good chance it may be an undercover Deputy Sheriff from
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're ready to come after these copper thieves. This bill
was pretty easily passed in the Assembly, very popular, almost
unanimous votes. It looks like in both chambers. The governor
hasn't signed it yet, but he's working his way through
the pile of bills and coordinating press announcements and all that,
and so this seems like something that will be signed.
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This is what it would do. It would strengthen enforcement
tools and help protect the infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
They say.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It would expand reporting requirements for junk dealers and recyclers,
requiring them to collect detailed transaction records and verify the
seller's identity and lawful ownership of metals brought to their business.
So that would help stop folks from just yanking out
the copper wire from the city street lights and the
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sixth Street Bridge and then tumbling over to one of
the recyclers and running off with some cash, because they
have to be able to prove that they are the
lawful owners of that copper. This bill would also make
it illegal for individuals to possess certain scrap metal, including
parts from street lights, traffic signals and plaques. Plaques, because yes,
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even commemorative plaques in the public right of way have
been vandalized, not even just for the joy that some
get in tearing something up, but because there's money to
be made on the metal that is used to display
an event or an honor of someone's memory. Penalties would
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be increased and reflect the high cost of damage and replacement.
They say now more than thirty eight thousand feet that's
seven miles of copper wire were stolen from the sixth
Street bridge that cost the city two and a half
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million dollars to repair it. It's still dark by the
way in parts. The LA Bureau of Street Lighting is
also reported nearly forty six thousand service requests for outages
just last year. Forty percent of those attributed to wire theft.
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So this press conference announcing how tough if they're all
going to get on this thing was right there by
that bridge. It's been a long standing problem and it's
not getting any better because just this week.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
No data, phone calls not going through and cell phone
switching into SOS mode with no service have been impacting
Verizon customers around southern California. Now Verizon saying the outage
was caused by vandals who cut fiber lines, a company
saying multiple fiber cuts were made, impacting the Greater La area.
Verizon says its engineers are engaged in working to solve
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the issue. Alix Stone, Abcnews Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Verizon outage because of vandals, likely taking the metals. I
will tell you that when I first moved into my apartment,
we were having some Internet difficulties. It just was not
a strong signal with Spectrum, and Spectrum could not figure
out what and we could not either. But it turned
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out that there was something wrong internally in the building
and that the Spectrum cable line just for my unit
was not going to be usable for us. So we
had to go and find a new internet service provider.
And we already have Verizon phones. So we ran down
on the Verizon office and said what can you do
for us? And they say, we've got a box in
your area. You know, they use a different kind of
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a system, doesn't come through the cable lines, but they
have all these different boxes all over town that point
in your area and you can use their internet service.
So that's perfect. Yeah, we got one right right right
outside your window. Well, I live in the Fashion district
right across the street from skid Row. The technician from
Verizon comes in and can't figure out why the signal
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is not working until they go and look at the box,
and of course it's been long gutted. So this has happened.
This happens all the time, and it it has real
consequences for people. Your services are out, your street lights
are out, and it creates an environment that feels unsafe.
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And if it's unsafe, people don't want to live there,
people don't want to invest there. This is a very
serious issue. Another serious issue is our beaches. I know
you all enjoy them, but seventy percent of them might
be gone by twenty one hundred. What does that mean.
We'll talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
This is Michael Monks Reports and Michael Monks from KFI
News another half hour together on this Saturday night. In
southern California. A new survey out of UCLA shows twenty
percent of Californians are concerned about their ability to pay
their housing cost So that has prompted many people to
either take a second job, or cut back on healthcare,
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or stop saving for retirement. UCLA released this data at
the Center for Health Policy Research. This is the California
Health Interview Survey. Roughly five point nine million California adults,
or nineteen point nine percent, say they worried very often
or somewhat often about paying their monthly housing costs last year.
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That's up from eighteen point eight percent in twenty twenty
three and up from fifteen point one percent in twenty
twenty one. About fifteen point six percent of adults said
they took a second job or performed additional work at
their existing job to help pay their housing costs. About
fourteen point two percent say they stopped saving for retirement,
while fifteen point nine percent racked up more credit card debt,
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twelve point two percent cut back on health food, and
five point eight percent cut back on health care. Single
parents with children, according to the survey, were even more
concerned about their housing costs. Thirty six point two percent
say they worried often or somewhat often about paying their
mortgage or their rent. That's much higher than the twelve
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point eight percent who were worried Among married parents with children.
Very scary numbers. California is a tough place man, very expensive,
and those numbers are going up, up up, More people
each year, more worried about whether they'll have enough money
to pay for basic necessities like housing. But in spite
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of how challenging it is to live here, what do
we often retort now about the weather. We're gonna have
some rough weather over the next few days, according to
National Weather Service, some rain rolling in. But in spite
of that, you know, we've got nice temperatures in the autumn.
We still have beautiful beaches. Oh wait, we might not
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have beautiful beaches anymore. There's a new report from an
organization called surf Rider that indicates seventy percent of California's
sandy beaches good vanish by twenty one hundred. Now, if
twenty one hundred sounds like something well off into the future,
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it's really not. It's seventy five years away. A baby
born this year may see this. They say more than
half of America's sandy beaches will be gone by twenty
one hundred due to climate driven sea level rise, but
the number is higher in California, seventy percent. The Surfrider
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Foundation's twenty twenty five State of the Beach report also
highlights how coastal communities are successfully fighting back with nature
based solutions. So this report says the predictions are grim,
but this report also reveals reasons for optimism. This organization
does have a climate action program, so they are pushing
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for certain policies to help stave off what they would
call a disaster. But the foundation says erosion of sandy
beaches is a normal coastal process, but climate change is
intensifying and compounding its impacts, leading to sea levels rising
more quickly and more extreme weather events happening more frequently.
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And then at the same time, rampant private development in
these coastal areas is more and more encroaching on eroding
beaches and contributing to what the organization calls the coastal squeeze.
This is where beaches would naturally migrate inland in response
to rising seas, Developments such as buildings, roads, and seawalls
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block their path and they gradually grow narrower or they
erode or disappear altogether. This report specifically looked at San
Clemente and Santao Fray State Beach and what it says
is one of southern California's marquee surf destinations. Santao Fray
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State Beach was inaccessible due to the packs of erosion
for months back in twenty twenty four. The coastline is
experiencing the impacts of decades of diminishing sand supply due
to developed watersheds and coastal armoring, including the construction of
Dana Point Harbor in the nineteen sixties. In San Clemente.
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The group says poorly planned development and climate change has
exacerbated coastal erosions, storm impacts, and infrastructure vulnerability. Landslides during
heavy rains in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and
twenty twenty four repeatedly shut down the Pacific Surf Line,
a rail line, and that resulted in hundreds of millions
of dollars in repair costs. At San Clemente State Beach,
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both the shoreline and nearby bluffs are rapidly receding, they say,
and that's leading to the loss of sandy beach areas
that once provided critical habitat and recreation space, as well
as a natural buffer for the rail line. In recent years,
they say, high tides and storms have repeatedly damaged the
access road and parking lot to Santa No Fra State Beach,
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resulting in months long closures and a loss of more
than half of the original three hundred and fifty parking spaces.
In twenty seventeen, a large rock revetment was installed under
a temporary emergency permit to armor the access road while
protecting a segment of the road. The action has contributed
to a significant acceleration of erosion at both ends of
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the eight hundred foot rock wall and loss of recreational
beach space. The report recommends the following five things that
residents can do to save the Sandy beaches so they
are not gone in twenty one hundred. They say, go
to the beach, observe conditions firsthand, and document them. Surfrider
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also recommends joining Surfrider. They say to contact your local representatives,
go to a city council meeting, and restore your favorite
beach through surf Wrighter Foundations Climate Action Program. This group
has been around along time. In nineteen eighty four is
when it was founded by some surfers in Malibu. They
characterize themselves as a nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to the
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protection of the world's oceans and beaches. They claim to
have more than two hundred, excuse me, over one million supporters,
activists and members, with more than two hundred volunteer led
chapters and student clubs in the US. So some dire
warnings about the conditions of sandy beaches in southern California.
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We certainly don't want to lose those beaches, but as
we noted, there are other problems too. High cost of living,
people freaking out about whether they can even afford the rent,
the copper being stolen out of the street lights and utilities,
the expensive bridges we build dark because of this, And
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then there is the lingering threat of crime. Three suspects,
at least one of whom was armed with the gun,
emerged from a car and took multiple items from a
man during an ambush style robbery on a sidewalk in
West Hollywood. Today has happened. Excuse me, this was yesterday.
This happened about five thirty Friday on Hacienda Place, just
north of Santa Monica Boulevard, one blocky east of Los Sienaga.
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There's surveillance video. It shows a four door silver or
gray Sedan slow down, and then three people dressed in
dark clothes and face coverings jump out and confront this guy,
force him to the ground and take a bunch of items,
and then they hurry back into the car and leave
the sea. The man's wedding ring was taken. It's tough
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out here, man, It's tough out here. In California. We
always say at least we have the weather, the beaches,
and now we're being told we might not even have that.
Up next, you've got an opportunity to name a couple
of things that may still be here in twenty one hundred.
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A sports team and a couple of new train stops
are asked looking for your help in picking a name.
We'll talk about that next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I Michael Monks from KFI News,
finishing up this edition of the program on a Saturday
night in southern California. We've had some tragedies at local
race tracks. Another horse dead at Los Alamidos this week
after winning a race. The two year old Philly named
warm Springs was taken off by ambulance after finishing first
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last weekend in the ninth race. Her death listed as
non musco scetical, let me try that again, non musco
lous skeletal. No further information about that death, but Warm
Springs had raised five times in her young career, all
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Little sal Amido's two first place finishes. The twelfth horse
to die from a racing or training injury at the
track in Cyprus this year, and then a couple days
after that, it was reported that a racehorse was killed
in a training injury at Santa Anita. Three year old
gelding died after colliding with another horse during training at
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Santa Anita Park. Big Nash died on Monday, same thing
musculoskeletal musculoskeletal category. A statement from Santa Anita says Big
Nash was working from the gate during training Monday morning
at Santa Anita Park when his rider lost his balance
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and fell. Big Nash continued down the track and collided
with another horse who was also training. Both horses were
immediately attended to by an expert team of on site veterinarians. Sadly,
given the nature of Big Nash's injury, surgical repair was
not an option and the veterinary team recommended humane euthanasia
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after a thorough evaluation. Big Nash had not yet run
a race in his career. Eight horses have died at
Santa Nita this year, so twenty between the two tracks.
All right, More sports news. Long Beach is getting a
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minor league baseball team and they are trying to figure
out a name for it. Last week, or maybe a
couple of weeks ago, we talked about the Dodgers minor
league team coming to Ontario. This is a new development
and that organization in Ontario released its new name. They're
going to be called the Tower Buzzers, and that's reflective
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of a trend across minor league baseball that cities are
getting hyper specific with their mascots and getting a little
zanier with them. So the Ontario Tower Buzzers a reference
to the airport and also a lot of homage to
the movie Top Gun. So what will Long Beach do.
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They've narrowed it down to six, the Long Beach Coast,
the Long Beach Cruisers, the Long Beach Grit, the Long
Beach Groove, the Long Beach Parrots, or the Long Beach Regulators.
(31:30):
So I don't know. I like regulators, I suppose because
it's it's a reference to that song. I don't know, Oliver.
Maybe you can help me out here. This is short notice.
I didn't tell you, but I think this is a
reference to that song Regulate by Regina. You're old enough
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to remember Nate Dogg Warren G.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't know if you can just play the raw version, Oliver,
because it might have swear words. So I don't know
if there's like a.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Safe regulate any stealing of his property.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're is this the g rated version? Is okay?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Street gotta be handed with the steel if you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You keep regular. It was a clear black night, a
clear white moon.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Woman G was on the streets trying to const So, yeah,
get some phone this one.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And I the LBC see they're referencing a long beach
there in that song. One of those guys I think
is involved in this, and is it? Is it Warren G?
Is he involved? Let me just do a quick search.
I should have done this. Yeah, yeah, he's part of this.
Warren G is part of the team's ownership group. So
that's I guess that's the one. I'll root for it
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because that's hyper specific. I love that song Long Beach Regulators.
The other one's the Coast Cruisers grit Groove parrots. I
don't mind the parrots. You don't see a lot of
parrots in animal mascots. But the regulators, I think is
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that's the most authentically Long Beach. But the next phase
of voting opens. It's already opened and it's open until
next Wednesday, the fifteenth, and you can participate in the
public vote online or at designated in person voting stations
in the city. So just go to Long Beach Baseball
Club dot com if you want, and you can vote
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there on the name. La Metro is also asking for
your help. They got a couple of new stations coming online.
The D Line, this is the station that the line
that's pretty short. It goes from Union Station to Koreatown.
Right now. It shares its lines with the B Line
until a little split, and the D line, of course
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goes the B Line goes all the way to North
Hollywood from Union Station. But the D Line, formerly known
as the Purple Line, it's about to get bigger and
it will eventually go all the way to the West Side.
And that's what they're getting excited about at Metro two
new Section three they call it. Stations will open in
twenty twenty seven as the D line makes its way
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to West la So you can offer a name to
the Westwood UCLA station or the West la Va Hospital
station or both. They are looking for simplicity, a short name,
easily recognizable so that it fits on the sign and
the map. They want to acknowledge the neighborhood. So think
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about the neighborhood identity. It should provide specific information about
the property's location, and it should reflect the property's location
relative to the entire transit system and not duplicate elsewhere.
That's it. So name a baseball team, name a couple
of train stations. Take your mind off the troubles of
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the world. I'm trying to take my mind off the
dead bird that is outside of the studio door. I
keep saying studio door. I mean the building, the office
building door downstairs. There is a dead bird. And now
I've got to deal with that again. And I hope
that I hope it's not a bad omen. I appreciate
all the calls that we got today telling me that
(35:26):
yes it is a bad omen or no it's not
If we're back next week, as I hope we are,
maybe we'll know more. You can hear Michael Monks reports
every Saturday night here on KFI from seven to nine.
My thanks to Oliver Boone and Brigitta Agostino for their
company tonight, and my thanks to all of you for listening.
I'll be back all next week, Monday through Friday, doing
the news for you here on KFI and appearing on
(35:48):
all of your favorite shows, keeping track at the City Council,
the LA Board of Supervisors, and all that sort of
of stuff. So keep it right here. We'll be back
again next week KFI.
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