October 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Today in Cyprus Park, someone got stuck in a storm drain and had to be freed, forcing law enforcement to shut down part of the southbound 110 freeway. he Louvre in Paris was recently the target of a $102 million crown jewel heist, and now police have made three arrests, with the suspects charged with gang-related robbery. More than 1,000 items were stolen from a storage facility belonging to the Oakland Museum of California. Carl’s Jr. is running a special promotion, helping families through the government shutdown with $1 meals. Firefighters who cleaned up a brush fire on New Year’s Day warned their chief that the fire was still smoldering as they left the site. That was the Lachman Fire, which progressed into the Pacific Palisades wildfire on January 7. Mayor Karen Bass has announced arrests related to arson in the Sepulveda Basin. The City of Pasadena is suing UCLA to keep the Bruins in the Rose Bowl! An official motion at City Hall supports the Olympic 2028 closing ceremony’s relocation to LA Memorial Coliseum.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand and Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lunks from KFI News with you till ten o'clock alongside
Tiffany Hobbs. You know her from Saturdays with Tiffany and
My show comes on after hers on Saturdays. But here
it is Cabbage Night in America. We're back to this
and then we're together holding down the fort until ten
o'clock tonight, and you'll be back seven to ten for
(00:24):
Halloween tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'll be here tomorrow with all of the goodies and goblins,
goblins and goals and Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Something scary happened today in Cypress Park. A man or
someone man or woman not sure. This person ended up
in a storm drain in Cypress Park and had to
be freed. It forced firefighters to shut down the southbound
Harbor Freeway, the one ten.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That's one way to spend your cabbage night.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Not a good start to the day, and this is
a busy freeway. This happened in the afternoon about one
twenty two on North Arroyo Seco Avenue. Individual in a
confined space needing rescue was the call to the LAFD.
The firefighters show up, They shut down the southbound one
ten right at the transition to the five. The LAFD
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says firefighters were able to quickly remove a gate covering
this storm drain and that man was able Oh, they
do identify as a man. That man was able to
climb out. Not clear yet how the person wound up.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
In the drain.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And other terrible news on the one ten. A pedestrian
struck and killed this morning on the one ten freeway
in South LA.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
That's why I brought this up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is almost every other day at posit that this
crosses our wire service from City News service that a pedestrian.
You know there are there's an inordinate number of pedestrians
hit by vehicles in Greater Los Angeles, but every day,
what's really shocking is the number of them that are
hit on the freeway. What are you doing on the
freeway now? When you drive you see a lot of
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people who appear to be homeless, who are crawling out
of the bushes that are doing god knows what behind there,
maybe living there but or maybe under the influence of drugs, yes,
and stumbling out into the lanes of traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
As a quick anecdote, I was in traffic yesterday, just
regular commuter traffic on this side streets, and it was
just after dusk, maybe seven thirty, so dark now, and
there was a person in the middle of the streets,
kind of in that middle lane. There was no median,
and he was visibly out of it completely, how for
whatever reason, out of it, and he was swerving like walking,
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but he's like moving into the lanes and cars were
swerving around him. So I called the police, and it
took the police a while to get to him. By
the time they got there, he was gone, thankfully. But
I just kept thinking, what if.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Something that will be the next It's going to be
the next one. Every day I see it frequently on
the one ten. Yeah, you know, I see it on
the one ten a lot. I'm sure you know by
now that one of the world's most famous museums, the
Louver in Paris, which I've had the pleasure of visiting.
It's lovely, of course, it was the target of a heist.
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One hundred and two million dollars in loot taken from
that museum. We're bringing it up tonight because now there
are reports out of Oakland that a museum was hit.
But first here's the latest on the Louver situation. They've
made some arrest.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Paris prosecutors say the two men who they believe helped
execute this stunning one hundred and two million dollar heist
of the Louver have partially admitted their involvements. Paris public
prosecutor Lord Becko citing major progress in the investigation. More
than a week after two suspects dressed as construction workers
broke into the Louver and made off with some of
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France's crown jewels, prosecutors say they were watching the key
suspect arrested last night for some time. They say they've
got more and more leads from suspects pones, and they
now believe they have three of the four men suspected
of carrying out that daylight heist here at the Louver
eleven days ago in custody. Two of the men charged
overnight with gang related robbery. Prosecutors say they're now determined
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to recover the jewels as their investigate accelerates.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You've been laughing since the lady said bon time.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Than a week after two suspects dressed as construction workers
broke into the Loove and made off with some of
France's Crown Jewels. Prosecutors say they were watching the key
suspect arrested last night for some time. They say they've
got more and more leads from suspects phones, and they
now believe they have three of the four men suspected
of carrying out that daylight He partially admitted their involvements,
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have partially admitted their involvements.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Aren't hitting news right there, bon bon soir. They put
that in there, well a little.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It probably just a style choice because this this reporter
is obviously speaking English. The prosecutors and the police they're
speaking French, so you just add a little piece of
the foreign language. He set some set some stage and
then uh, then you move on from it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's like, you know, every fashion person says, take off
one thing before you leave the house.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That could have been left out, but you loved it
the most. It's the most memorable part. It's definitely bone swam.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Really quick.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Speaking of the people captured, did you see this viral?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was just about to ask about the hot detective.
He's not really a detective. Apparently this I know exactly
what you did. Oh no, there's a there was an
image going around online after this Louver heist of a
very attractive man dressed rather I mean very sophisticated. It's
kind of yes, very period piece, but also very natural
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in these clothes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It wasn't like a spectacle at all.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But he looked like the Frenchman that you you've warned
about because like your wife, you're not safe around this man.
He looks like swap and it's over. Just a beautiful man.
But he was standing next to some police cars at
the scene of the heist, and the video and the
picture goes a viral. I'm sure if you search hot
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detective Paris, the picture will show up good looking guy.
I think he was just a bystander. Oh, but everyone
was sharing it online like, well, this guy's on the case.
They're getting this guy. Yeah, we were just talking about
AI and you've kind of fallen for a little bit
of a hoax. And now we've got to go to
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Oakland because it's not as big as a heist as
what we experienced in Paris one hundred two million dollars
in stuff stolen, But there has been a theft at
the Oakland Museum of California. Police say a suspect or
suspects stole more than one thousand items from the museum's collection,
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including metalwork, jewelry, Native American baskets, and everyday items like
athletic trophies. This happened a couple of weeks ago at
a storage facility that the museum uses. Museum director and
CEO Lori Fogerty says they're going public now with the
theft in case the artifacts show up at flea markets,
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antique stores, or pawn shops.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
We believe it was a crime of opportunity. We do
not think this was a high value art theft or
a heist of some kind. We think that there was
an intrusion into the building and the thieves ended up
just grabbing what they could get easily and taking off
with it. They did take some items that do have
very important historic value, namely several Native California baskets, some
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really beautiful jewelry by mid century California jewelry maker, some
scrimshaw whalebone artifacts. But they also grab historic memorabilia like
political pins and athletic awards. We imagine a lot of
this kind of material might end up in a pawn
shop or an antique store, or even a flea market or,
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which is why it's so important to get the word
out to the public, because people may see something that
looks kind of not like it should be there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So it's different than the Louver in a lot of ways,
of course, But it seems like if you stole some
very old jewels from the Louver that you can't just
go hit up, you know, a pawn shop in all
sauce and run out with some money. Probably don't want
to do that, yeah, Whereas here you might have gotten
something of value that might not be recognizable as priceless
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or timeless. And this museum is asking for help. It
is the Oakland Museum of California that got hit as well.
There's only one guy who can solve that crime, and
it's the hot detective guy the photo. Yeah, who's not
really detective, but he looked the part and I would
trust him.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was googling just information about the Louver and the
heist and all the things, and no fewer than five
different stories about other places involved in jewelry heist in
the last from southern California to Oklahoma to Jamaica. Unfortunately,
homes that have been evacuated, people are going in and.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Pillaging just all over the place.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So this seems to be a queen's it happens, has
happened in New York three point two million dollars from
a home and a personal safe. These stories are just
people are robbing, they are stealing.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well, we've had recently here in La County a.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Couple of train robberies basically, I mean they're cargo thefts right,
like they're orchestrated and so it's not like bandits with
bandanas over their faces, you know, on ponies running alongside
the train. But I mean, these are them up twenty
first century train robberies going on.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I don't know, maybe we're in the long long, the
wrong line of work.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I don't know that I would be any good at
that sort of stuff, but I that I would. I
don't like dressing up for Halloween, but I would dress up.
That's a raw little banditry. I could get into that
only on Cabbage night. Cabbage Night is you got to
look out for mischief. Up next, there's a report out
today that says firefighters were cleaning up that Lachman fire
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in Palisades and some of them thought they should stay.
Remember that fire ended up being the Palisades for one
week later. We'll talk about that. Coming up next. Michael
Monks and Tiffany Hobbs here, you're.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks filling in until ten o'clock
and then George Nori will be here with his big show.
We'll talk to George later this evening. I just want
to share with you that Carl's Junior is running a
very special promotion, especially at a time just prior to
what's happening on Saturday with the Snap Benefits and cal
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Fresh happening, well, Carl's Junior has decided to step up
for their customers and for those of you in southern California.
They want to help families with the government shut down.
And what they're going to be doing is start Saturday,
they'll be offering one dollar meals. Yes, you'll be able
to get a meal for one dollar to families of
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federal government employees, active duty military personnel, and recipients of EBT.
The whole family gets the meal. So here's the example.
Let's say you're in the military and you come in,
you show your ID, and you have a family of four,
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each of you will be given one meal for one
dollar each, which means your entire family of four will
eat four four dollars total. This is a beautiful promotion.
Carl's Junior wants to offer a little bit of help
and a lot of love again for families with EBT,
federal government and military. It's all in an effort to
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support our community. It starts this Saturday, So get down
there too, Carl's Junior. Make sure you have something that
shows that you are a part of any of those
classifications and you can enjoy one dollar meals.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Way to go, Carls Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A lot of people going to be in need this
weekend as those food stamp benefits run out the first
of the month. On Saturday, those EBT cards will not
be loaded because of the federal government shutdown. We reported
earlier tonight that police and barstow are expected to go
out to grocery stores and anticipation of potential unrest. So
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it's going to be a rough weekend for some folks
and rough for the foreseeable future until this government gets
its act together. Well, speaking of governments and acts together,
there is more fallout from the Palisades Fire. Report out
of the Los Angeles Times Today shows that firefighters who
were cleaning up a brush fire on New Year's Day
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that authorities eventually called the Lockman Fire and that they
also now say turned into the Palisades Fire. A week later,
those firefighters warned a battalion chief that there were signs
that first fire was still burning. You may recall that
just a few weeks ago a man was arrested for
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allegedly starting the Lochman Fire on New Year's Day in
the area that the Palisades Fire originated. And what we
learned from that investigation was that the fire we know
as the Palisades Fire was born out of the Lochman Fire.
The Lockman Fire was never fully out. It was still
smoldering underground.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, that's such an interesting development to know that one fire,
if you're not a fire officionado, you're not in the
fire department or study fire, that these things can burn
underground seemingly out of anyone's i view, without any indication
that it's happening for weeks. Remember nine to eleven the
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firefighters talking about how fires were smoldering four months underground,
So it's not unheard of by any means, but we
certainly didn't expect it connected to the Palisades fire, but
that it did, and that it reignited in the winds
on January sixth and seventh's just oh my, it's just
so cold.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What the fire department has been saying is that this
Lockman fire was battled to the best of their ability.
That's the official word. And we saw official statements from
the LA Fire Department from their spokesperson online saying that
these things happen, that there are fires that continue to
smolder underground, but the fire department determined that it was
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okay to lead. However, what we learned in this report
from the La Times is there were firefighters on the
scene who told commanders that it was a quote bad
idea to leave the scene of the Lockman fire, And
we now know why because that fire re emerged from
the ground, bolstered by the Santa Ana winds of January
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seventh and destroyed the Palais Sais.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And all of this has come out in the discovery process.
There's text messages that have now been shared, and those
text messages do show that a different firefighters specifically said
that crew members were upset when they were told to
pack up and leave, but that they could not ignore orders.
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And that's because these firefighters were saying that there were
tree stumps that were still hot at the location when
they were starting to pack up, and that they had
even left hoses behind in case any of the hidden
embers sparked a flare up, but that they were reluctant
to go, but they had to follow their command orders.
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They didn't want to leave, and this is what it
resulted in.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
There was going to be a lot of fallout from
this fire, and it is damaged Mayor Karen Bass politically
as well. But on the same day that the La
Times came out with this report related to the Palisades
fire and that investigation, Mayor Bass put out a press
release about arrests in the Subpulvet of Basin in the
San Fernando Valley related to arson fires. And this is
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an area where residents have been complaining four years that
homeless people are setting hundreds of fires a year, and
today Mayor Bass says park rangers from the Department of
Recreation and Parks may be arrest in coordination with the
LA Fire Departments ARSEN Investigation Unit and it was It's
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very rare for the mayor to put out a press
release about arresting people, and I think that this may
have been well timed to say that, you know, we
are fighting back in this part of town where so
many residents have said homeless people are starting fires and
the city is not doing anything about it. We just
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had another Santa Ana win red flag warning ester week.
Please do something about this before things get bad.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, this is image recovery at every level of our
city services, starting with the mayor, and the last thing
they want is for people to get closer to the
one year anniversary and remember the faults of city services.
So they're trying to do this image cleanup and make
sure that we know as the public that they're doing
everything they can to mitigate this situation so it doesn't
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happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And we do keep hearing from Rick Caruso, the local
businessman who lost to Karen Bass in the twenty twenty
two mayoral election, and he's got a lot to say
about the response to the fires and the rebuilding effort
and the homeless population and other issues facing Los Angeles.
But one thing he has not said officially yet is
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whether he will be a candidate again. We do know
Mayor bass is running for reelection, but whether there is
going to be anyone beyond Austin Butener, the former superintendent
and deputy mayor, to run against her, it's yet to
be seen. We will continue to follow. We're gonna talk
sports next, but sport in a unique way because sports
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is becoming news, and not just because the Dodgers are
going on to Toronto for Game six and I guess
they hope game seven of the World Series if needed seven. Yeah,
it's gonna have to be seven for the Dodgers. And
what's happening is one local city has decided to sue
the Bruins of UCLA over the use of one of
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the stadiums, and also the La City Council is moving
to make sure that the closing ceremonies of the twenty
twenty eight Olympics takes place only in one stadium and
not two the way it was originally announced.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
We'll talk about this stadium.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sagas Sports with sports anchor Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News alongside Tiffany Hobbes. Usually
hear US hosting shows on Saturdays. Saturdays with Tiffany follows. Yeah,
Michael Monks reports every Saturday. But here we are all
hallows eve tired look at us, you know, catching up
to us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It is, and I'm just so happy that we get
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sports we do.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Indeed, the city of Pasadena is suing UCLA to keep
the Bruins out.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, oh, they want to keep them in the wrong move.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Now you're a USC girl, I am yeah, And I
don't know how intense the rivalry is for you. I mean,
is it like thumbs down on the Bruins and all occasions.
You're not on a friendly rivalry at all.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It's weapons up, it's whatever that will move them away
from US. I speak for Petro's Papadacus and all of
the us E people. It doesn't really matter where UCLA
moves to. Because they're five and three. Perhaps they should
concentrate their efforts on their sports.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You inverted that and they're on their U.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So I'm sorry, three and five look for me, I
was see.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'll say this.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You know, because we work on Saturdays and so college
football is usually taking place I follow, and I'll update
the scores throughout the night, and so I'm following the
Bruins and thee times.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But they were zero and four. Who Ucla? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And then they won, they fire their coach, they win
three in a row. I guess they got this hot
assistant that as a UCLA grad and everybody's real hot
on the team again, like we've got some momentum. But
they got their butts whipped at Indiana last Saturday, and
they're off this week, so they've got a little time.
But apparently the bye week is something a little more
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dangerous for them because Pasadena is like, let's play ball
and let's play in court. Because the Bruins had signed
a lease to play at the Rose Bowl until twenty
forty four. And there are I guess rumors according to
Pasadena that UCLA is looking to move their games to
Sofi Stadium in Inglewood.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Oh, they want to go big and they maybe want
to be closer to campus.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know, the Rose Bowl is twenty five miles driving
from Westwood. It is from the campus. That's a long
way to go.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It is. It's the tradition of it all, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The Rose Bowl is iconic place. You know it at
every corner of America. You know the Rose Bowl, but you,
as a USC gal, you know Memorial Coliseum. I do.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I do fight on and I can understand the attachment
that people have to spaces and not wanting to have
something new because it does shake up what you're used to.
And UCLA more or less belongs in the Rose in
the Rose Bowl stadium. It's it's synonymous, you know. And
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to move them to SOFI, they need to get good
before they.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Even consider something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think they want to get good, and maybe this
is part of that effort. I'm not sure Memorial Coliseum
is actually closer to UCLA than the Rose Bull is
it is?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It is?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There are quite a few other options, and I think
that UCLA has a very enlarged ego to just jump
right over other stadiums into So far.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We can't USC and UCLA share. No, No, don't. The
Lakers and the Clippers show.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Don't do that. No, you stop that right now. They
don't share anymore. The Lakers used to show exactly and
that didn't work out very well for any didn't it
did not. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
UCLA has confessed that we continue to evaluate the long
term arrangement for UCLA football home games, but no decision
has been made now. This lawsuit, fouled by the city
and the Rose Bowl operating company, says that basically UCLA
has notified the city and the Rose Bowl of the
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university's intent to take steps that will breach an agreement
that was signed in twenty ten and in twenty fourteen.
But they are supposed to be playing there, according to
this lawsuit, until twenty forty four and it's upset Pasadena
enough to send them to court. But now let's talk
about your home stadium, LA Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It is a classic stadium in its own right, pretty
well known even across the country. Made its debut in
the nineteen thirty two Olympic Games. It has been part
of the nineteen eighty four Olympic Games, yes, and it
will be part of the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games,
making it the first venue to be part of three Olympics.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Look at the Memorial Coliseum. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Very very cool. But it's also at the center of
another little mini controversy, maybe involving Sofi Stadium or as
the official Olympics organization refers to it the stadium in
Inglewood because they don't use the branding on any of these.
That's why when you see Crypto referenced as any Olympic events,
it will be the Arena Downtown or the Downtown Arena.
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The plan for the closing ceremonies in twenty twenty eight
was to be this unprecedented dual event, a little bit
going on at Memorial Coliseum and a little bit going
on at so Far at the same time, which might
make for an interesting broadcast, I don't know, but kind
of a weird event to attend in person, and horrible traffic. Uh,
we're a mess. We're not We're so not ready for
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the Olympics. But that might be a conversation after this
point is made. There is now an official motion at
LA City Hall was approved by the City Council's ad
Hoc Committee on the twenty twenty eight Olympic and Paralympic
Games that supports the relocation of the Olympic closing ceremony
from both the LA Memorial Coliseum and the Stadium in
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Inglewood to solely the LA Memorial Coliseum. They also support
the same for the Paralympic closing ceremony from the stadium
in Inglewood to the LA Memorial Coliseum. They say that
there are more events being added to Memorial Coliseum. Makes
more sense to just have the whole thing going on there.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
There's been like.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I watched these meetings, right, This is what I do
for KF. I watch the local government meetings and even
the council meetings. Yes, I mean that the committee meetings
at council, and they're often very enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
If you're into this, sol you got to get out, Michael,
I know, but I like this stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
There's some pretty serious turf force locally about the Olympics.
My favorite story I've done so far this year was
city council and Tim Mcoscar being really upset about some
sailing events being moved out of San Pedro to Long
Beach and this long diatribe he went on about how
the wind is better in San Pedro than it is
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in Long Beach.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Anything to qualify I So you' these are neighboring communities
down in the Harbor area, you know, the South Bay,
and you would think that even though LA is the
host city, isn't it right that LA is the host region?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
But LA has so many.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Smaller cities, neighborhoods, and everyone wants their share of the pie.
Everyone wants their bragging rights to say that they had
this event at their stadium because it draws in a
lot of revenue and it can continue making money for
years to come. The reason that we're considered that we
talk about the Memorial Coliseum in terms of years is
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because of how much of an impact it made in
was it thirty two eighty four, and then what it
will make in twenty twenty eight. They want their share
of the pie.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
I wonder if I got that which takes more events
out of the city of Los Angeles, and we conditionally
said take those events out of Los Angeles begrudgingly, but
move sailing back in. That was a condition precedent.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That was a councilman temc Oscar explaining his anger at
the time over the relocation of sailing and out of
San Pedro to Long Beach.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
I'll be prepared to invoke motion number one of twenty
eight for twenty eight, which asks what is the process
that takes us to a dispute and how do we
arbitrate or litigate that issue?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean he was threatening like let's go, let's go
to court. And so now you've got, you know, these
little turf wars that are taking I wish I could find.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The jobs in otherwise to people want jobs in their
area and their city, and it will take those jobs
in place them somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, it's true. I mean these boundaries are not invisible.
They do have economic consequences. And yes, if you're Los
Angeles and there's money to be made and you desperately needed,
then I get it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I really wish I could find where he loses his mind.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
A week and a half ago. A week and a
half ago, we unanimously approved their venue plan, which takes
more events out of the city of Los Angeles, and
we conditionally said take those events out of Los Angeles. Begrudgingly,
accurately or inaccurately, purposefully or accidentally presents the plan to
the IOC, and I will be listening to they are
(27:58):
not presenting the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
App im I know, I played it for our listeners.
So Tom, he was so mad, but he can here.
It's not going to be Long Beach. It's not going
to be Long Beach paying for it. It's gonna be us.
I'll find that for another day, and I can't find
in my arm feel the emotion. Yeah, I gotta find
out what I named.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It, tomit what he said. It's one of my all
time favorite sound bites.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Timic oscars so angry that Long Beach thought it had
better wind than San Pedro. But this where we find ourselves.
I don't think we're ready for the Olympics. And obviously
that's tracked all a few years out, well two and
a half years out. Really we're still doing the Shine Lake.
What I mean, what I'm saying is we're not ready
to be ready. We're not ready to even do the
things that are. Traffic is still a disaster. The city
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is filthy, it's utter chaos.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
This is Oh God help us. But come one, come on,
always come visit. Yeah, I'll run out my place. There
you go, sub let it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're listening to KF I am sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News alongside Tiffany Hobbs from
Saturdays with Tiffany. With you together for a few more minutes,
and we've got another guest with us now. Coast to
Coast is coming up next. Host George Norri is on
the line good evening to you, George.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Hello, Michael, Tiffany.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We've got a great pre Halloween show tonight and we're
gonna have some fun on Coast to Coast. Well, I
know our listeners are looking forward to that. Tiffany's been
fangirling over talking to you, and she's looking forward to George.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's been a while, but it's always so good to
hear your voice. Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
You're too, tiff how's everything bad?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Everything has been really good.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I appreciate you asking, and I'm just looking forward to tomorrow.
It's going to be a great time and I can't
wait to hear your show tonight.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
And tomorrow night is Ghost to Ghost.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And how's your mom.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
She's doing fine.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
She's in ninety six, she'll be ninety seven in May.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's awesome. Please give her our best. Oh that's great,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's Coast to Coast with George Norri up next and
Ghosts Ghost tomorrow. We'll look forward to that. Have a
good night, George. Thanks all right, and all right, sorry
for that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Sorry I'm over here. I love I just a door, George,
good dude, you hear from a listener.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Oh okay, Hey, Tiffany. I'm in a word for management
for you. I think you should take over the seven
to ten pm slot weeknight. Wow, miss you missed the
viral load.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Oh go get them girl.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Now I only played that because she said she was
going to management about you. I must have misread the
last part.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You know, thank you. That's so Jane and and it's correct.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh. Tiffany always does a great job. We love listening
to her on Saturday's Big Things Ahead, no doubt. Let's
hear another beautiful message for Tiffany.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
No way, it's time to put Tiffany Hobbs in the
nine o'clock hour. She's smart. I guess she's got a
very good radio voice. She's interesting to listen to. So
I think if KFI doesn't do something pretty soon, they're
going to continue to lose listeners in the evening. So
(31:19):
let's get with it. KFI. Put Tiffany Hobbs in that
nine o'clock hour and do it. Now.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That's in order, give me that hour. That's in order.
You're gonna have to be working nights.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, no, not night's nine o'clock hour. I'm getting that
one hour and strong.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yeah you could handle that.
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Hey, guys uscior Cola for years shared the same home field,
Moral Coliseum. That's why they both wear their home colors
during the rivalry game. So if they did it before,
they might be able to do it again.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, thank you, thanks for that history. Okay, if
you were listening in our previous segment, I was trying
to find that clip of Councilman Timocoscar losing his mind
over for the wind. I think I found it. I
didn't get to listen to it before we even came back,
but this for my own enjoyment. We've been talking about
these the local turf wars over who gets to do
what for the Olympics, and Councilman Timmock Oscar several months
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ago was very upset about sailing events being moved from
San Pedro to Long Beach. I think they've figured out
that situation and reconciled. But back then he was ticked.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Moving sailing to San Pedro is better for the athlete,
it's better for the sport of sailing, it's better for
safety and security, it's better for the viewer, and it's
better for Los Angeles. Every single experienced sailor from Olympians
to folks that run the sale GP event. It's better
tell us that the winds are consistent and better in
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San Pedro. What will it be for the athlete? Better
wind and spectators? What will it be for safety and security?
I guarantee you that San Pedro would be the safest
Olympic event in the history of the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
What I will tell you that selling tickets.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
To the number of maybe ten thousand or selling tickets
to the number of zero has a mathematical and financial difference.
And it's not gonna be born by Long Beach. It's
gonna be born by us.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I love it because it's just it's it's an
argument about wind. I mean, there are obviously other stakes
involved here. You know, it's his district.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
And fired up about that wind out there.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Very very fired up about the wind. And the thing
is that he does get fired up on occasion about
this or that. But like you think about the major
issues facing Los Angeles, if we had that passion about
you know, the cost of living here and maybe building
new housing and maybe cleaning up the streets or making
people feel like they can be safe when they're here,
then you know, I would buy it.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
But I don't want to hear that about the wind.
Take a seat. San Pedro's lovely, Yeah, yes, it's lovely.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
One of my favorite pizza places there Bonello's Pizza. Wonderful places.
I love San Pedro, but I've never considered them to
be the best place for wind.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
This is a new one for me.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It may not be the best place for wind, but
it is definitely better than Long Beach. The wind in
San Pedro. Bring it on Long Beach, not going to
be in Long Beach. Blow it out your bottoms. Long
Beach got the best wind.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Well, I've had the best time. I've had the best time.
How fun, And you got to come do this again
tomorrow night. I will be here tomorrow from seven to
ten years.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I'll just be doing my regular shift, but I'll be
on the shows during the I'm here a lot, but
we'll be we'll be back together on Saturday. You'll be
doing your show at five o'clock Saturday. I come on
at seven, all after the Fork Report with Neil Savadra. Absolutely,
it's gonna be fun. And I appreciate you playing those
couple of talkbacks. I know we ran out of time.
You have a pallethora for yourself of just no, nobody,
nobody said anything about me that's not true. Lies no,
(34:40):
lies all about Tiffany here, lies bad out of time
and you're kind.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
No, no, no, no, no, pat on the head. It's fine.
I get enough pats on the head. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's nice to see you get some love. You never anyway, Look,
that's enough. You got to come back for Halloween tomorrow night.
I hope it's fun. Tuesday's election day. If you haven't voted,
maybe think about voting. If you care about the issue
of Prop fifty. We will be bringing you results live.
Chris Marril and I will be here from seven to ten,
oh yeah, bringing you the results from Prop fifty and
around the country. What's going on with the New York
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City mayor's race and governor's races and all of that,
and what it spells for the future of the nation,
if anything at all, We're gonna have it for you.
Tiffany Hobbs, thanks for spending some time with me.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Thank you, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
My pleasure are thanks to producer Nicki Dobren and our
board operator technical director Tony Sorrentino, and of course, our
news anchor Mark Ronn Mark, Runner, Tiffany Hobbs, Michael Monks
here on KFI AM
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Six four, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand and Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lunks from KFI News with you till ten o'clock alongside
Tiffany Hobbs. You know her from Saturdays with Tiffany and
My show comes on after hers on Saturdays. But here
it is Cabbage Night in America. We're back to this
and then we're together holding down the fort until ten
o'clock tonight, and you'll be back seven to ten for
(00:24):
Halloween tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'll be here tomorrow with all of the goodies and goblins,
goblins and goals and Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Something scary happened today in Cypress Park. A man or
someone man or woman not sure. This person ended up
in a storm drain in Cypress Park and had to
be freed. It forced firefighters to shut down the southbound
Harbor Freeway, the one ten.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That's one way to spend your cabbage night.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Not a good start to the day, and this is
a busy freeway. This happened in the afternoon about one
twenty two on North Arroyo Seco Avenue. Individual in a
confined space needing rescue was the call to the LAFD.
The firefighters show up, They shut down the southbound one
ten right at the transition to the five. The LAFD
(01:12):
says firefighters were able to quickly remove a gate covering
this storm drain and that man was able Oh, they
do identify as a man. That man was able to
climb out. Not clear yet how the person wound up.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
In the drain.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And other terrible news on the one ten. A pedestrian
struck and killed this morning on the one ten freeway
in South LA.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
That's why I brought this up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is almost every other day at posit that this
crosses our wire service from City News service that a pedestrian.
You know there are there's an inordinate number of pedestrians
hit by vehicles in Greater Los Angeles, but every day,
what's really shocking is the number of them that are
hit on the freeway. What are you doing on the
freeway now? When you drive you see a lot of
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people who appear to be homeless, who are crawling out
of the bushes that are doing god knows what behind there,
maybe living there but or maybe under the influence of drugs, yes,
and stumbling out into the lanes of traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
As a quick anecdote, I was in traffic yesterday, just
regular commuter traffic on this side streets, and it was
just after dusk, maybe seven thirty, so dark now, and
there was a person in the middle of the streets,
kind of in that middle lane. There was no median,
and he was visibly out of it completely, how for
whatever reason, out of it, and he was swerving like walking,
(02:28):
but he's like moving into the lanes and cars were
swerving around him. So I called the police, and it
took the police a while to get to him. By
the time they got there, he was gone, thankfully. But
I just kept thinking, what if.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Something that will be the next It's going to be
the next one. Every day I see it frequently on
the one ten. Yeah, you know, I see it on
the one ten a lot. I'm sure you know by
now that one of the world's most famous museums, the
Louver in Paris, which I've had the pleasure of visiting.
It's lovely, of course, it was the target of a heist.
(03:01):
One hundred and two million dollars in loot taken from
that museum. We're bringing it up tonight because now there
are reports out of Oakland that a museum was hit.
But first here's the latest on the Louver situation. They've
made some arrest.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Paris prosecutors say the two men who they believe helped
execute this stunning one hundred and two million dollar heist
of the Louver have partially admitted their involvements. Paris public
prosecutor Lord Becko citing major progress in the investigation. More
than a week after two suspects dressed as construction workers
broke into the Louver and made off with some of
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France's crown jewels, prosecutors say they were watching the key
suspect arrested last night for some time. They say they've
got more and more leads from suspects pones, and they
now believe they have three of the four men suspected
of carrying out that daylight heist here at the Louver
eleven days ago in custody. Two of the men charged
overnight with gang related robbery. Prosecutors say they're now determined
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to recover the jewels as their investigate accelerates.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You've been laughing since the lady said bon time.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Than a week after two suspects dressed as construction workers
broke into the Loove and made off with some of
France's Crown Jewels. Prosecutors say they were watching the key
suspect arrested last night for some time. They say they've
got more and more leads from suspects phones, and they
now believe they have three of the four men suspected
of carrying out that daylight He partially admitted their involvements,
(04:31):
have partially admitted their involvements.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Aren't hitting news right there, bon bon soir. They put
that in there, well a little.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It probably just a style choice because this this reporter
is obviously speaking English. The prosecutors and the police they're
speaking French, so you just add a little piece of
the foreign language. He set some set some stage and
then uh, then you move on from it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's like, you know, every fashion person says, take off
one thing before you leave the house.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That could have been left out, but you loved it
the most. It's the most memorable part. It's definitely bone swam.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Really quick.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Speaking of the people captured, did you see this viral?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was just about to ask about the hot detective.
He's not really a detective. Apparently this I know exactly
what you did. Oh no, there's a there was an
image going around online after this Louver heist of a
very attractive man dressed rather I mean very sophisticated. It's
kind of yes, very period piece, but also very natural
(05:44):
in these clothes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It wasn't like a spectacle at all.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But he looked like the Frenchman that you you've warned
about because like your wife, you're not safe around this man.
He looks like swap and it's over. Just a beautiful man.
But he was standing next to some police cars at
the scene of the heist, and the video and the
picture goes a viral. I'm sure if you search hot
(06:07):
detective Paris, the picture will show up good looking guy.
I think he was just a bystander. Oh, but everyone
was sharing it online like, well, this guy's on the case.
They're getting this guy. Yeah, we were just talking about
AI and you've kind of fallen for a little bit
of a hoax. And now we've got to go to
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Oakland because it's not as big as a heist as
what we experienced in Paris one hundred two million dollars
in stuff stolen, But there has been a theft at
the Oakland Museum of California. Police say a suspect or
suspects stole more than one thousand items from the museum's collection,
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including metalwork, jewelry, Native American baskets, and everyday items like
athletic trophies. This happened a couple of weeks ago at
a storage facility that the museum uses. Museum director and
CEO Lori Fogerty says they're going public now with the
theft in case the artifacts show up at flea markets,
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antique stores, or pawn shops.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
We believe it was a crime of opportunity. We do
not think this was a high value art theft or
a heist of some kind. We think that there was
an intrusion into the building and the thieves ended up
just grabbing what they could get easily and taking off
with it. They did take some items that do have
very important historic value, namely several Native California baskets, some
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really beautiful jewelry by mid century California jewelry maker, some
scrimshaw whalebone artifacts. But they also grab historic memorabilia like
political pins and athletic awards. We imagine a lot of
this kind of material might end up in a pawn
shop or an antique store, or even a flea market or,
(08:00):
which is why it's so important to get the word
out to the public, because people may see something that
looks kind of not like it should be there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So it's different than the Louver in a lot of ways,
of course, But it seems like if you stole some
very old jewels from the Louver that you can't just
go hit up, you know, a pawn shop in all
sauce and run out with some money. Probably don't want
to do that, yeah, Whereas here you might have gotten
something of value that might not be recognizable as priceless
(08:30):
or timeless. And this museum is asking for help. It
is the Oakland Museum of California that got hit as well.
There's only one guy who can solve that crime, and
it's the hot detective guy the photo. Yeah, who's not
really detective, but he looked the part and I would
trust him.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was googling just information about the Louver and the
heist and all the things, and no fewer than five
different stories about other places involved in jewelry heist in
the last from southern California to Oklahoma to Jamaica. Unfortunately,
homes that have been evacuated, people are going in and.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Pillaging just all over the place.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So this seems to be a queen's it happens, has
happened in New York three point two million dollars from
a home and a personal safe. These stories are just
people are robbing, they are stealing.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well, we've had recently here in La County a.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Couple of train robberies basically, I mean they're cargo thefts right,
like they're orchestrated and so it's not like bandits with
bandanas over their faces, you know, on ponies running alongside
the train. But I mean, these are them up twenty
first century train robberies going on.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I don't know, maybe we're in the long long, the
wrong line of work.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I don't know that I would be any good at
that sort of stuff, but I that I would. I
don't like dressing up for Halloween, but I would dress up.
That's a raw little banditry. I could get into that
only on Cabbage night. Cabbage Night is you got to
look out for mischief. Up next, there's a report out
today that says firefighters were cleaning up that Lachman fire
(10:09):
in Palisades and some of them thought they should stay.
Remember that fire ended up being the Palisades for one
week later. We'll talk about that. Coming up next. Michael
Monks and Tiffany Hobbs here, you're.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks filling in until ten o'clock
and then George Nori will be here with his big show.
We'll talk to George later this evening. I just want
to share with you that Carl's Junior is running a
very special promotion, especially at a time just prior to
what's happening on Saturday with the Snap Benefits and cal
(10:46):
Fresh happening, well, Carl's Junior has decided to step up
for their customers and for those of you in southern California.
They want to help families with the government shut down.
And what they're going to be doing is start Saturday,
they'll be offering one dollar meals. Yes, you'll be able
to get a meal for one dollar to families of
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federal government employees, active duty military personnel, and recipients of EBT.
The whole family gets the meal. So here's the example.
Let's say you're in the military and you come in,
you show your ID, and you have a family of four,
(11:29):
each of you will be given one meal for one
dollar each, which means your entire family of four will
eat four four dollars total. This is a beautiful promotion.
Carl's Junior wants to offer a little bit of help
and a lot of love again for families with EBT,
federal government and military. It's all in an effort to
(11:52):
support our community. It starts this Saturday, So get down
there too, Carl's Junior. Make sure you have something that
shows that you are a part of any of those
classifications and you can enjoy one dollar meals.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Way to go, Carls Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
A lot of people going to be in need this
weekend as those food stamp benefits run out the first
of the month. On Saturday, those EBT cards will not
be loaded because of the federal government shutdown. We reported
earlier tonight that police and barstow are expected to go
out to grocery stores and anticipation of potential unrest. So
(12:32):
it's going to be a rough weekend for some folks
and rough for the foreseeable future until this government gets
its act together. Well, speaking of governments and acts together,
there is more fallout from the Palisades Fire. Report out
of the Los Angeles Times Today shows that firefighters who
were cleaning up a brush fire on New Year's Day
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that authorities eventually called the Lockman Fire and that they
also now say turned into the Palisades Fire. A week later,
those firefighters warned a battalion chief that there were signs
that first fire was still burning. You may recall that
just a few weeks ago a man was arrested for
(13:18):
allegedly starting the Lochman Fire on New Year's Day in
the area that the Palisades Fire originated. And what we
learned from that investigation was that the fire we know
as the Palisades Fire was born out of the Lochman Fire.
The Lockman Fire was never fully out. It was still
smoldering underground.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, that's such an interesting development to know that one fire,
if you're not a fire officionado, you're not in the
fire department or study fire, that these things can burn
underground seemingly out of anyone's i view, without any indication
that it's happening for weeks. Remember nine to eleven the
(14:02):
firefighters talking about how fires were smoldering four months underground,
So it's not unheard of by any means, but we
certainly didn't expect it connected to the Palisades fire, but
that it did, and that it reignited in the winds
on January sixth and seventh's just oh my, it's just
so cold.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What the fire department has been saying is that this
Lockman fire was battled to the best of their ability.
That's the official word. And we saw official statements from
the LA Fire Department from their spokesperson online saying that
these things happen, that there are fires that continue to
smolder underground, but the fire department determined that it was
(14:43):
okay to lead. However, what we learned in this report
from the La Times is there were firefighters on the
scene who told commanders that it was a quote bad
idea to leave the scene of the Lockman fire, And
we now know why because that fire re emerged from
the ground, bolstered by the Santa Ana winds of January
(15:07):
seventh and destroyed the Palais Sais.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And all of this has come out in the discovery process.
There's text messages that have now been shared, and those
text messages do show that a different firefighters specifically said
that crew members were upset when they were told to
pack up and leave, but that they could not ignore orders.
(15:31):
And that's because these firefighters were saying that there were
tree stumps that were still hot at the location when
they were starting to pack up, and that they had
even left hoses behind in case any of the hidden
embers sparked a flare up, but that they were reluctant
to go, but they had to follow their command orders.
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They didn't want to leave, and this is what it
resulted in.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
There was going to be a lot of fallout from
this fire, and it is damaged Mayor Karen Bass politically
as well. But on the same day that the La
Times came out with this report related to the Palisades
fire and that investigation, Mayor Bass put out a press
release about arrests in the Subpulvet of Basin in the
San Fernando Valley related to arson fires. And this is
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an area where residents have been complaining four years that
homeless people are setting hundreds of fires a year, and
today Mayor Bass says park rangers from the Department of
Recreation and Parks may be arrest in coordination with the
LA Fire Departments ARSEN Investigation Unit and it was It's
(16:39):
very rare for the mayor to put out a press
release about arresting people, and I think that this may
have been well timed to say that, you know, we
are fighting back in this part of town where so
many residents have said homeless people are starting fires and
the city is not doing anything about it. We just
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had another Santa Ana win red flag warning ester week.
Please do something about this before things get bad.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, this is image recovery at every level of our
city services, starting with the mayor, and the last thing
they want is for people to get closer to the
one year anniversary and remember the faults of city services.
So they're trying to do this image cleanup and make
sure that we know as the public that they're doing
everything they can to mitigate this situation so it doesn't
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happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And we do keep hearing from Rick Caruso, the local
businessman who lost to Karen Bass in the twenty twenty
two mayoral election, and he's got a lot to say
about the response to the fires and the rebuilding effort
and the homeless population and other issues facing Los Angeles.
But one thing he has not said officially yet is
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whether he will be a candidate again. We do know
Mayor bass is running for reelection, but whether there is
going to be anyone beyond Austin Butener, the former superintendent
and deputy mayor, to run against her, it's yet to
be seen. We will continue to follow. We're gonna talk
sports next, but sport in a unique way because sports
(18:12):
is becoming news, and not just because the Dodgers are
going on to Toronto for Game six and I guess
they hope game seven of the World Series if needed seven. Yeah,
it's gonna have to be seven for the Dodgers. And
what's happening is one local city has decided to sue
the Bruins of UCLA over the use of one of
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the stadiums, and also the La City Council is moving
to make sure that the closing ceremonies of the twenty
twenty eight Olympics takes place only in one stadium and
not two the way it was originally announced.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
We'll talk about this stadium.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sagas Sports with sports anchor Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News alongside Tiffany Hobbes. Usually
hear US hosting shows on Saturdays. Saturdays with Tiffany follows. Yeah,
Michael Monks reports every Saturday. But here we are all
hallows eve tired look at us, you know, catching up
to us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It is, and I'm just so happy that we get
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sports we do.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Indeed, the city of Pasadena is suing UCLA to keep
the Bruins out.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, oh, they want to keep them in the wrong move.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Now you're a USC girl, I am yeah, And I
don't know how intense the rivalry is for you. I mean,
is it like thumbs down on the Bruins and all occasions.
You're not on a friendly rivalry at all.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It's weapons up, it's whatever that will move them away
from US. I speak for Petro's Papadacus and all of
the us E people. It doesn't really matter where UCLA
moves to. Because they're five and three. Perhaps they should
concentrate their efforts on their sports.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You inverted that and they're on their U.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So I'm sorry, three and five look for me, I
was see.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'll say this.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You know, because we work on Saturdays and so college
football is usually taking place I follow, and I'll update
the scores throughout the night, and so I'm following the
Bruins and thee times.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But they were zero and four. Who Ucla? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And then they won, they fire their coach, they win
three in a row. I guess they got this hot
assistant that as a UCLA grad and everybody's real hot
on the team again, like we've got some momentum. But
they got their butts whipped at Indiana last Saturday, and
they're off this week, so they've got a little time.
But apparently the bye week is something a little more
(20:43):
dangerous for them because Pasadena is like, let's play ball
and let's play in court. Because the Bruins had signed
a lease to play at the Rose Bowl until twenty
forty four. And there are I guess rumors according to
Pasadena that UCLA is looking to move their games to
Sofi Stadium in Inglewood.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Oh, they want to go big and they maybe want
to be closer to campus.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know, the Rose Bowl is twenty five miles driving
from Westwood. It is from the campus. That's a long
way to go.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It is. It's the tradition of it all, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The Rose Bowl is iconic place. You know it at
every corner of America. You know the Rose Bowl, but you,
as a USC gal, you know Memorial Coliseum. I do.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I do fight on and I can understand the attachment
that people have to spaces and not wanting to have
something new because it does shake up what you're used to.
And UCLA more or less belongs in the Rose in
the Rose Bowl stadium. It's it's synonymous, you know. And
(21:48):
to move them to SOFI, they need to get good
before they.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Even consider something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think they want to get good, and maybe this
is part of that effort. I'm not sure Memorial Coliseum
is actually closer to UCLA than the Rose Bull is
it is?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It is?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There are quite a few other options, and I think
that UCLA has a very enlarged ego to just jump
right over other stadiums into So far.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We can't USC and UCLA share. No, No, don't. The
Lakers and the Clippers show.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Don't do that. No, you stop that right now. They
don't share anymore. The Lakers used to show exactly and
that didn't work out very well for any didn't it
did not. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
UCLA has confessed that we continue to evaluate the long
term arrangement for UCLA football home games, but no decision
has been made now. This lawsuit, fouled by the city
and the Rose Bowl operating company, says that basically UCLA
has notified the city and the Rose Bowl of the
(22:58):
university's intent to take steps that will breach an agreement
that was signed in twenty ten and in twenty fourteen.
But they are supposed to be playing there, according to
this lawsuit, until twenty forty four and it's upset Pasadena
enough to send them to court. But now let's talk
about your home stadium, LA Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It is a classic stadium in its own right, pretty
well known even across the country. Made its debut in
the nineteen thirty two Olympic Games. It has been part
of the nineteen eighty four Olympic Games, yes, and it
will be part of the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games,
making it the first venue to be part of three Olympics.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Look at the Memorial Coliseum. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Very very cool. But it's also at the center of
another little mini controversy, maybe involving Sofi Stadium or as
the official Olympics organization refers to it the stadium in
Inglewood because they don't use the branding on any of these.
That's why when you see Crypto referenced as any Olympic events,
it will be the Arena Downtown or the Downtown Arena.
(23:59):
The plan for the closing ceremonies in twenty twenty eight
was to be this unprecedented dual event, a little bit
going on at Memorial Coliseum and a little bit going
on at so Far at the same time, which might
make for an interesting broadcast, I don't know, but kind
of a weird event to attend in person, and horrible traffic. Uh,
we're a mess. We're not We're so not ready for
(24:21):
the Olympics. But that might be a conversation after this
point is made. There is now an official motion at
LA City Hall was approved by the City Council's ad
Hoc Committee on the twenty twenty eight Olympic and Paralympic
Games that supports the relocation of the Olympic closing ceremony
from both the LA Memorial Coliseum and the Stadium in
(24:44):
Inglewood to solely the LA Memorial Coliseum. They also support
the same for the Paralympic closing ceremony from the stadium
in Inglewood to the LA Memorial Coliseum. They say that
there are more events being added to Memorial Coliseum. Makes
more sense to just have the whole thing going on there.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
There's been like.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I watched these meetings, right, This is what I do
for KF. I watch the local government meetings and even
the council meetings. Yes, I mean that the committee meetings
at council, and they're often very enjoyable.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
If you're into this, sol you got to get out, Michael,
I know, but I like this stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
There's some pretty serious turf force locally about the Olympics.
My favorite story I've done so far this year was
city council and Tim Mcoscar being really upset about some
sailing events being moved out of San Pedro to Long
Beach and this long diatribe he went on about how
the wind is better in San Pedro than it is
(25:38):
in Long Beach.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Anything to qualify I So you' these are neighboring communities
down in the Harbor area, you know, the South Bay,
and you would think that even though LA is the
host city, isn't it right that LA is the host region?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
But LA has so many.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Smaller cities, neighborhoods, and everyone wants their share of the pie.
Everyone wants their bragging rights to say that they had
this event at their stadium because it draws in a
lot of revenue and it can continue making money for
years to come. The reason that we're considered that we
talk about the Memorial Coliseum in terms of years is
(26:21):
because of how much of an impact it made in
was it thirty two eighty four, and then what it
will make in twenty twenty eight. They want their share
of the pie.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
I wonder if I got that which takes more events
out of the city of Los Angeles, and we conditionally
said take those events out of Los Angeles begrudgingly, but
move sailing back in. That was a condition precedent.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That was a councilman temc Oscar explaining his anger at
the time over the relocation of sailing and out of
San Pedro to Long Beach.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
I'll be prepared to invoke motion number one of twenty
eight for twenty eight, which asks what is the process
that takes us to a dispute and how do we
arbitrate or litigate that issue?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean he was threatening like let's go, let's go
to court. And so now you've got, you know, these
little turf wars that are taking I wish I could find.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The jobs in otherwise to people want jobs in their
area and their city, and it will take those jobs
in place them somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, it's true. I mean these boundaries are not invisible.
They do have economic consequences. And yes, if you're Los
Angeles and there's money to be made and you desperately needed,
then I get it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I really wish I could find where he loses his mind.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
A week and a half ago. A week and a
half ago, we unanimously approved their venue plan, which takes
more events out of the city of Los Angeles, and
we conditionally said take those events out of Los Angeles. Begrudgingly,
accurately or inaccurately, purposefully or accidentally presents the plan to
the IOC, and I will be listening to they are
(27:58):
not presenting the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
App im I know, I played it for our listeners.
So Tom, he was so mad, but he can here.
It's not going to be Long Beach. It's not going
to be Long Beach paying for it. It's gonna be us.
I'll find that for another day, and I can't find
in my arm feel the emotion. Yeah, I gotta find
out what I named.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It, tomit what he said. It's one of my all
time favorite sound bites.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Timic oscars so angry that Long Beach thought it had
better wind than San Pedro. But this where we find ourselves.
I don't think we're ready for the Olympics. And obviously
that's tracked all a few years out, well two and
a half years out. Really we're still doing the Shine Lake.
What I mean, what I'm saying is we're not ready
to be ready. We're not ready to even do the
things that are. Traffic is still a disaster. The city
(28:43):
is filthy, it's utter chaos.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
This is Oh God help us. But come one, come on,
always come visit. Yeah, I'll run out my place. There
you go, sub let it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're listening to KF I am sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News alongside Tiffany Hobbs from
Saturdays with Tiffany. With you together for a few more minutes,
and we've got another guest with us now. Coast to
Coast is coming up next. Host George Norri is on
the line good evening to you, George.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Hello, Michael, Tiffany.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We've got a great pre Halloween show tonight and we're
gonna have some fun on Coast to Coast. Well, I
know our listeners are looking forward to that. Tiffany's been
fangirling over talking to you, and she's looking forward to George.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's been a while, but it's always so good to
hear your voice. Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
You're too, tiff how's everything bad?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Everything has been really good.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I appreciate you asking, and I'm just looking forward to tomorrow.
It's going to be a great time and I can't
wait to hear your show tonight.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
And tomorrow night is Ghost to Ghost.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And how's your mom.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
She's doing fine.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
She's in ninety six, she'll be ninety seven in May.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's awesome. Please give her our best. Oh that's great,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's Coast to Coast with George Norri up next and
Ghosts Ghost tomorrow. We'll look forward to that. Have a
good night, George. Thanks all right, and all right, sorry
for that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Sorry I'm over here. I love I just a door, George,
good dude, you hear from a listener.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Oh okay, Hey, Tiffany. I'm in a word for management
for you. I think you should take over the seven
to ten pm slot weeknight. Wow, miss you missed the
viral load.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Oh go get them girl.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Now I only played that because she said she was
going to management about you. I must have misread the
last part.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You know, thank you. That's so Jane and and it's correct.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh. Tiffany always does a great job. We love listening
to her on Saturday's Big Things Ahead, no doubt. Let's
hear another beautiful message for Tiffany.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
No way, it's time to put Tiffany Hobbs in the
nine o'clock hour. She's smart. I guess she's got a
very good radio voice. She's interesting to listen to. So
I think if KFI doesn't do something pretty soon, they're
going to continue to lose listeners in the evening. So
(31:19):
let's get with it. KFI. Put Tiffany Hobbs in that
nine o'clock hour and do it. Now.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That's in order, give me that hour. That's in order.
You're gonna have to be working nights.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, no, not night's nine o'clock hour. I'm getting that
one hour and strong.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yeah you could handle that.
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Hey, guys uscior Cola for years shared the same home field,
Moral Coliseum. That's why they both wear their home colors
during the rivalry game. So if they did it before,
they might be able to do it again.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, thank you, thanks for that history. Okay, if
you were listening in our previous segment, I was trying
to find that clip of Councilman Timocoscar losing his mind
over for the wind. I think I found it. I
didn't get to listen to it before we even came back,
but this for my own enjoyment. We've been talking about
these the local turf wars over who gets to do
what for the Olympics, and Councilman Timmock Oscar several months
(32:12):
ago was very upset about sailing events being moved from
San Pedro to Long Beach. I think they've figured out
that situation and reconciled. But back then he was ticked.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Moving sailing to San Pedro is better for the athlete,
it's better for the sport of sailing, it's better for
safety and security, it's better for the viewer, and it's
better for Los Angeles. Every single experienced sailor from Olympians
to folks that run the sale GP event. It's better
tell us that the winds are consistent and better in
(32:41):
San Pedro. What will it be for the athlete? Better
wind and spectators? What will it be for safety and security?
I guarantee you that San Pedro would be the safest
Olympic event in the history of the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
What I will tell you that selling tickets.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
To the number of maybe ten thousand or selling tickets
to the number of zero has a mathematical and financial difference.
And it's not gonna be born by Long Beach. It's
gonna be born by us.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I love it because it's just it's it's an
argument about wind. I mean, there are obviously other stakes
involved here. You know, it's his district.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
And fired up about that wind out there.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Very very fired up about the wind. And the thing
is that he does get fired up on occasion about
this or that. But like you think about the major
issues facing Los Angeles, if we had that passion about
you know, the cost of living here and maybe building
new housing and maybe cleaning up the streets or making
people feel like they can be safe when they're here,
then you know, I would buy it.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
But I don't want to hear that about the wind.
Take a seat. San Pedro's lovely, Yeah, yes, it's lovely.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
One of my favorite pizza places there Bonello's Pizza. Wonderful places.
I love San Pedro, but I've never considered them to
be the best place for wind.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
This is a new one for me.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It may not be the best place for wind, but
it is definitely better than Long Beach. The wind in
San Pedro. Bring it on Long Beach, not going to
be in Long Beach. Blow it out your bottoms. Long
Beach got the best wind.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Well, I've had the best time. I've had the best time.
How fun, And you got to come do this again
tomorrow night. I will be here tomorrow from seven to
ten years.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I'll just be doing my regular shift, but I'll be
on the shows during the I'm here a lot, but
we'll be we'll be back together on Saturday. You'll be
doing your show at five o'clock Saturday. I come on
at seven, all after the Fork Report with Neil Savadra. Absolutely,
it's gonna be fun. And I appreciate you playing those
couple of talkbacks. I know we ran out of time.
You have a pallethora for yourself of just no, nobody,
nobody said anything about me that's not true. Lies no,
(34:40):
lies all about Tiffany here, lies bad out of time
and you're kind.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
No, no, no, no, no, pat on the head. It's fine.
I get enough pats on the head. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's nice to see you get some love. You never anyway, Look,
that's enough. You got to come back for Halloween tomorrow night.
I hope it's fun. Tuesday's election day. If you haven't voted,
maybe think about voting. If you care about the issue
of Prop fifty. We will be bringing you results live.
Chris Marril and I will be here from seven to ten,
oh yeah, bringing you the results from Prop fifty and
around the country. What's going on with the New York
(35:13):
City mayor's race and governor's races and all of that,
and what it spells for the future of the nation,
if anything at all, We're gonna have it for you.
Tiffany Hobbs, thanks for spending some time with me.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Thank you, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
My pleasure are thanks to producer Nicki Dobren and our
board operator technical director Tony Sorrentino, and of course, our
news anchor Mark Ronn Mark, Runner, Tiffany Hobbs, Michael Monks
here on KFI AM
Speaker 1 (35:36):
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