December 11, 2025 • 33 mins
A federal judge has ruled the National Guard, who were sent to the state earlier this year to quell protests against ICE, must get out of California, and President Trump is pushing back against that order. Today in Anaheim, a group of students on a school track team who were on a group run were ploughed into by an out-of-control vehicle. The driver is under investigation for a DUI. And in Sunland, an electric school bus caught fire below an underpass. We’re not used to having fires with this new technology, and Tesla engineers even gave fire training to law enforcement, in case the lithium-ion battery caught fire. Merrill reminisces about that time in the early ’90s when Dateline placed rockets on a Chevy truck. This week, at a John Wayne Airport in Orange County, a security guard got behind the vehicle of a civilian Camry and sped down the tarmac, overtaking taxying airplanes, due to an apparent “medical emergency.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tim Conway Junior hanging out with Jay Leno at a
Cadillac dealership.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm just eating peanut butter out of a jar with
a spoon I found in the break room that may
or may not have been cleaned at any time in
the last decade. But no, I have fun, have fun
hanging with Jay and the brand new Cadillacs.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
That's cool, that's fun. That's great.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Roner.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's nice to see you, my friend, bless you, my son.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's always nice when we get to, you know, spend
time with the jars of peanut butter together.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, who doesn't love a jar of peanut butter in
you're underpants? Yeah, yeah, you're not far off.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, one of these days you and I are going
to be at a Yugo dealership and we're really.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Going to be living the life. What in the trunk?
What do you know that I don't I see the boys.
I think they're in the trunk.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, that's what I always expected. Probably better for listenership
if they're just stuffed in the trunk.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've I've seen good fellows and casino. I know how
things end for people like us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hey, I heard your I heard your story about the
the judge saying no to the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That's kind of a big deal. That did seem like
a big story to me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, it is a big I mean from a local standpoint,
that's a that's a big one. And uh and this
this started at last last summer. And I got a
phone call just behind the scenes. I got a phone call.
So I normally do the the Sunday afternoon show on
on CAF I uh from the Yugo dealership and and
(01:31):
I got a phone call and it was the boss
and he said, hey, man, I said. He said, things
might be popping off today. Can you be on standby?
And I went, uh, yeah, what's going on? He said, well,
you know, we got National Guard at the at the
detention center, and we've got we've got protesters. They're playing
this protests gonna be a city hall and then there's
gonna be this protesting down there too, And he said,
(01:53):
can you just be on standby.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We might have to do some some live local late
breaking coverage. Yeah, hang it, let me see if I
can do that too. I can do that right, live
local late breaking no, are you hosting a Monster Truck
show live? No, I didn't work either, I get to
(02:18):
it just gets worse when I do it that way.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I feel like I'm a high and b talking to God.
I mean, it's the best of both worlds. Don't let
it go to your head. So, uh So I get
this phone call and I said, hey, can you be
on standby? And I said yeah, what do you What
do you want me to do? They said, Michael Monks
is going to be on scene. Uh and we just
need you to be ready to go if something happens.
(02:40):
And I said sure, you know, so I started scrambling
and I started prepping as best you can.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And Mark, you know how it is.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
When you have to prep for a live show when
things are going on, there's only so much you can do.
What you do is you just research as much background
as you can because you don't know what's going to
happen in the moment. It's sort of like election night coverage.
You don't know what the results are going to be.
The best that you can do is just prepare yourself.
Know the issues, know the know the races, that sort
of stuff, and then you know, wait for the information
(03:08):
to develop in real time, and so that's exactly what
it was. So uh, they said, hey, uh, there's people
showing up. It looks like this is going to be
a story. Let's go live. And I said, okay, you
got it. So I go on, and I'm anybody who's
been on this side of the mic during a live thing,
you do your best to sort of we call it
tap dancing in the business. You're sort of going, I
(03:29):
think this is I think I think we're doing that.
I think this, you know, this is what's happening, and
you're kind of waiting for something to happen. At the
same time, you're sort of giving that background you're you're
trying to lay out the groundwork for everybody that's listening.
And I said, well, let's go. Let's let's hear from
Michael Monks. He's live on the scene. And I go
to Michael and I think we did one or two
hits with Michael from the scene, and and we went
(03:51):
back to him and we're talking. He says, yeah, it's
starting to He says, more and more people are starting well,
hang on, hang on, they're starting to walk, all right.
This crowd is moving toward the guards. The crowd is
they're moving, They've got they've got pepper balls out. Now
they've got pepper balls, and and all of a sudden
he gets like, not hit directly with it, but all
of a sudden he caught at pepper ball or pepper
(04:13):
spray or something, right, and you just hear this kind
of crash and I I'm just on the end of
the microphone, you know, from the studio, and I'm going,
I said, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You know you are right? What what's happening?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Because my mind immediately is thinking, first ratings, you know
how that goes. But then I was thinking, oh my god,
is Michael okay? I mean, how how awful would that
be if if the reporter got genuinely hurt while we
were on the on the scene.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, he did catch some of that pepper.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We went to a commercial break, and in the meantime,
we're communicating with him and he's he's you know, he's
got the bottle of water and he's trying to trying
to clear his eyes. And now they weren't aiming at him,
but he was. He was sort of engulfed by the
crowd and then they were shooting the stuff at the crowd.
So it was pretty tense that day. And that's that's
also the day you may remember that Mark was out
out there lighting Waymos on fire and they're blaming it
(05:02):
on the protesters.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You know how he feels about the weymos. Well, I
believe in the injustice.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That was the weirdest thing that the people started letting
Waymos on fire. And I was watching it go on
because of course all the monitors in the studio went
right to what was happening downtown, and I thought, this
is so bizarre to see these guys and they weren't
They weren't people that were there with the protests. It
was basically, uh, I'm gonna say late teens, early twenties,
(05:33):
skater punk guys, you know, no shirts on with skateboards,
jumping on the Waymos. And I'm just looking for an
opportunity to raise hell Hooligan's chaos agents. Yeah, all of
those things, soft laws. Of course, we're gonna bring that
word back from last night. Yeah and so, and then
what ends up happening is the reports end up going out.
(05:55):
Can you believe the protesters and how they started attacking
the Waymos and they, you know, whatever, this stuff was,
and I thought, you know, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It wasn't the people carrying signs and saying, you know,
justice for immigrants. It was people who were running around
and they looked like, I mean, if this has been
thirty years ago, we would have said they just got
a red hot chili Peppers concert, you know, But that
wasn't the case. So anyway, the National Guard ends up
sticking around and sticking around and sticking around. So Fox
(06:24):
had the story similar to what Mark was telling us.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
For the second time, has ruled that Trump administration has
to return control of the Guard to the state, saying
the administration did not prove there was any justification to
continue to federalize those National Guard troops. Remember that very
controversial move earlier this year, the administration sending thousands of
National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
At that time, the same.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Judge ruled the deployment illegal. Since then, the number of
Guard members in southern California has dwinned it about one hundred.
Still wanting them all gone, the state returned asking for
another court ruling, arguing that conditions in Los Angeles have changed.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
The judge. The same judge agreed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, so the judge agrees and says, yeah, there is
no exigent circumstance.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There is no threat right now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Now the administration would say, well, that's because we've got
guard there. That's because we have a show of force
that's happening right now. And Trump, now, according to the
New York Post, is refusing to back down. Now, that's
not to say that he's still ordering the Guard to
be there. In fact, what he's going to do is
they're going to they're going to appeal this. So, according
(07:33):
to a White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, saying, President Trump
exercises lawful authority to deploy National Guard troops to support
federal officers and assets following violent riots that local leaders
like new Scum refuse to stop. We look forward to
ultimate victory on the issue. So that's where we stand
for Now, what is that going to mean going forward?
(07:57):
Gavin Newsom saying today's ruling is abundantly clear. The federalization
of the National Guard in California is illegal and must
and the President deployed these brave men and women against
their own communities, removing them from essential public safety operations.
We look forward to all National Guard service members being
returned to state service. So the standoff continues. And what
this does is it gives this isn't about a win
(08:22):
today or about this particular issue. What this is Newsome
is going to be able to say I stood up
to Trump as the twenty twenty eight election nears. The
Democrats will not be able to resist running on the
platform of we're not Trump right, and it was successful.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They said, look, we need a steady hand, and they
brought in Joe Biden, and then it looked like Joe
Biden his hands weren't very steady, quite literally, and then
things shifted back to Trump. Knewsom was going to say, look,
I am a steady hand and I'm not the chaos
agent that we have with the Trump administration. Watch that
Democratic campaign on affordability in the next year, and even
(09:07):
Trump on his affordability tour said there's no problem with affordability.
That was in I think Pennsylvania yesterday. But then moving forward,
it's they just will not be able to resist saying
we can't. This country will not survive another four years
of a Trump's successor. So that's that's gonna be their
pitch against Jade Vance or Rubio or whomever it is.
(09:28):
So just watch that as it plays out. Meanwhile, you're
getting dinner ready and you're waiting for your young and
to wrap up there after school run and boom, got
a twist on an Anaheim sidewalk, starting into something that
no parent wants to imagine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Imagine getting this phone call. That's next Chris Merril KFI.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're listening to KFI Am sixty on demand on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Anytime the iHeartRadio app. And remember when you're on that app.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You can always hit the talk back button and tell
us what you think add to the story, whatever it
might be.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Always I always read.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Those and and I listened very carefully, and I take
the heart for those of you that offer advice. You
want to hear something different, I listened. I listened carefully.
It doesn't mean I'm going to change, but I do
listen everything you say. Like like yesterday there was a
guy that called for Mark.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
You sir are an Idia?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Yeah, off the radio, And.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So we had a meeting about that after the show
and decided we'd give it another shot tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well that was helpful. I mean you'll want constructive criticism, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean I really bore right down to brass tacks,
didn't it. I like the specifics of it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah? Really, are you sure that was for me? Because
he didn't mention my name. I mean, who else could
it have been for you?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Sir are An Idia?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Off the radio?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, I don't know that that was for me. That's
where I'm hedging. I mean he could call back, because
how could you get enough of that?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Could you? Ever?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I mean, it's a good thing. My self esteem is
so healthy. Yeah, even though it couldn't possibly be for me.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, this is the worst business to be. Show business
is the worst if. Here's the here's the weird irony
of show business. We get into it because we need affirmation.
And yet, and yet, all it takes is one person
to tell you how much your life is worth.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Nothing, and we just take that. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We could have one hundred people call and say, oh
my gosh, you're the best thing. And by the way,
we did get some very complimentary phone calls last night,
by the way, but those aren't entertaining, so I don't
play him on the air.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But it's the one that's like that that I.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Just I go to bed, going there's some random guy
that thinks I should get off the radio.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Maybe he's right, Maybe I should call his boss. Oh yeah, boy,
maybe I should see that he doesn't have a job.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, I told I was texting with our program director
last night and right after the show, and you know,
he was nice. He was like, how things going. Yeah,
I think it was a good show, he says, But
I'm glad to hear that. He's he's a nice supporter.
He's a good guy. And I said, well, except one
guy that told me I needed to get off the radio.
And I told him of my new Year's resolution. Here's
(12:16):
here's what it is. My nearest resolution is to not
to assume that the people that send those messages are normal,
but that they're far more likely off kilter weirdos. Because really,
wouldn't normal people just go, Okay, I'll find something else,
one would think, one would think. Now, I used to
have a friend, uh my first uh the job I
had for a long time before I moved here was
(12:36):
at the Seattle Times, and one of my friends there
was a columnist and when she got hate mail, it
absolutely destroyed her and we'd have to have these conversations
all the time where I was like, why would you
be in this line of work if you didn't have
skin thickeners.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Isn't that weird? I mean, you know it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It doesn't matter what you write, because if you write
something boring enough that it's not going to make anybody angry,
you shouldn't be in this business for that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's kind of what he said too.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He's like, hey, man, just as long as long as
people are engaged, that's it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. I did want to cover
this too.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There was a nasty deal that happened this afternoon in Anaheim.
So high school track and field kids are out practicing, right,
They're just doing their their after school run. They're in
Harbor Boulevard, and all of a sudden, like the most
horrific thing happened.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
An active scene out here.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Were actually joined from Katie leraned by Sergeant Matt Sutter
with the Anaheim Police Department, and he's going to give
us an update now, So tell us what you know.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
So far, several people injured in this accident.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yeah, very unfortunate.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Just before three o'clock this afternoon, there was a car
accident here at Harbor and North here in the city
of Anaheim. Several students were on the track team for
Anaheim High School were sanding on in the southwest corner
when they were hit by a resident that went off
the road.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Very tragic.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
We have eight students that were injured.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Three of them were transported right away and several more
were transported after that.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
The driver of the vehicle that hit them was also transported.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Driver was injured. He is en route to the hospital now.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And we don't know, you know, it's too early. We
don't know what to deal. I mean, it could have
been a mechanical failure. Driver could have been drunk, driver
could have been text We'd have no idea.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
He is under investigation for DUI H.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We have a little bit of an idea that.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Hasn't been confirmed, but it's something we're looking into.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
I was talking to some people who were on scene
right after it happened and when it happened, and they
said it looked like the car did not stop and
it just crashed into the students who were on the
sidewalk when this happened.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 11 (14:33):
They were on the sidewalk waiting for the light return
so they can continue their practice run, and we're still
we're still interviewing witnesses to determine what exactly happened and
why this.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Can you imagine being a parent getting that phone call.
I mean, that's the night, but that's that's the kind
of thing that keeps parents up at night.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And this is the kind of thing that freaks me
out as I had a kid that ran track and
you know, I've got three kids, and it wasn't necessarily
specific of a you know a but it's always it's
always that worry of your kid getting hurt and and
this is one of those one in a million type
freak accidents. I guess when you've got some goober who
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may or may not be drunk behind the wheel. I'd
like to hope that it's some sort of a mechanical failure,
although that doesn't make me feel a whole lot better
because that just reinforces that, you know, there's this weird
cosmic randomness that could immediately put your child in the hospital.
The whole thing just terrifies me as a parent. Worst
phone call you can get, worse, you can get. So
heart goes out to everybody involved there. I don't know
(15:37):
what you can do. But I know what kind of
other solutions there are to that, I honestly don't know.
There isn't much else. There isn't there isn't There aren't
many places I can go with the topic. Just to
extend my heart felt best wishes to the family and
to the kids into the school and too everybody in Anaheim.
Just a bad deal, gang, bad deal, right, So it
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wasn't just the those kids today that faced kind of
a freak danger. Imagine cruising along with your coffee in hand.
You're jamming out to Chapel Roone as one does, and
all of a sudden, wait a minute, so what you
think it is? And you got to hope the kids
are okay. What happened under an LA freeway has people
asking new questions now about safety and what we're putting
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on the road.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We'll we'll get into the boat strike, the taking of
the tank or that sort of thing coming up here
after marks eight o'clock news.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
In the meantime.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
As I mentioned, if you're listening on demand, you can
always hit that talkback button. Here's something you like, you
don't like something that sparks a thought, feel free to
hit us up on that, and I do read all
of them, and some people send some compliments.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You guys are your nest Chris Merrill about that crash
on Harbor. Do you remember when the LA Sheriff's Academy
class they were on their practice run in the morning
and someone struck them and he was supposed we lost
or he forgot his way to work or something. He
had some excuse why he drove right into the police recruits.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, God, I do remember that. Wasn't that was
in That was in Whittier, wasn't it. I think I
was in Whittier if I remember correctly. It hit like
a two dozen recruits at the time, and I know
they had some people that some people got hurt pretty
(17:31):
bad on that too. Yeah, that's a boy. That's a
good point. It was a young guy that did that.
If I recall young guy. Let me see if I
can just let me see if I can bing this
real fast?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Man? Uh Mark sing a song while I bing this
real fast.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I don't think any listener would appreciate the sound of
my voice singing, so let's just hurry along with the bing.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I was right, Whittier their own investigation, YadA, YadA, YadA.
According to the sheriff, Alex Bilding a Waiva, the investigator,
the investigations.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Left to Thores believing the crash was intentional. Yeah but yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Jail records site of California law that is from Fox eleven,
from back then Fox eleven. California law that authorizes the
police to release someone from custody without first being arraigned
if there are insufficient grounds to make a complaint. Therefore,
investigators not legally allowed to hold a suspect from other
forty eight hours without presenting a case. They did an investigation, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Believed that to be intentional, he accelerated toward the group. Yeah, yeah,
(18:40):
I don't remember how that turned down.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'll keep banging during the commercial breaker find out a
little bit more. I do remember that happening. That was
a bad deal. Well, I imagine if you were driving
to work and all of a sudden you look over
and you see a school bus on fire. What a
horrifying moment. That's got to be. So that happened today
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Lakeview Terrace, and I don't think anybody got hurt, but well,
the footage was terrified. You can see a bus on.
Speaker 12 (19:11):
Fire here on the Foothill Boulevard from kul underpass of
the two ten freeway in Sunland.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
You can see La City.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Firefighters and CHP have shut this area down for that
report of a school bus underneath that overpass. There lots
of smoke and a little bit of flame. Also, when
Skycow was just arriving. You're seeing live pictures right here
as firefighters are still standing back pretty far.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
From that bus.
Speaker 12 (19:39):
Now what we've seen down there under there, that bus
has got green trim around, green bumpers. If you can
barely see it there underneath it's pretty dark.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
That indicates this is an electric vehicle.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And uh it's the walk Fire.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Electric school bus.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
LAUST has been using these over the past year or so,
so this is a clean emissions vehicle.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
But I want to show you.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Some video from when Skycow was first getting overhead.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
This was just about twenty minutes ago. Look at the
huge amount.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Of smoke that I can't radio.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
It was alarming everybody there on the two ten freeway.
This is when the roads had not been closed yet.
Skycow came around to the other side of the two
ten freeway there in Sunland, right at Foothill Boulevard, and
you can see that fire at the front of that
school bus all the way to the rear underneath.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Now, yeah, how fires work.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
But if this is a battery fire, you know when
those when the batteries catch on fire. And this was
a big deal when Tesla had some issues with this
years ago. You recall that they had teslas were catching fire.
It became an issue. In fact, I think Tesla started
training fire departments on how to put out the lithium
ion battery fires for their cars. And the temperatures in
(20:47):
there they get up like two thousand degrees and how
do you put that out? Water doesn't do it. It's
electrical fire. Water's not doing it. I think they had
to have a specialty foam sort of deal to to
try to put that off, to put that out, excuse me,
and and many fire departments didn't have that that sort
of thing. So now you've got parents that are freaking
(21:10):
out and they're going, I don't want my kids getting on,
you know, the the electric bus because it's it's a
bomb waiting to happen. Well, I don't think that's really
the case, but I mean, the evidence is there that
it can happen. It's not like I can say no,
that doesn't happen. I mean it happened to a school bus.
(21:31):
Fortunately again nobody got hurt on that. But we're seeing
more and more of the electric vehicles, the electric buses,
this kind of stuff going on, and this is going
to have an impact on the rollout of the zero emissions.
You know are stating across the country, and you know,
Nuisance pushing again to get rid of the sales of
(21:53):
all gas powered vehicles in the next ten years. I
don't think that's going to happen, but the push is significant.
Californ is way ahead of the rest of the country
when it comes to adopting electric vehicles. Now, if you'll recall,
there have been controversies over other gas powered vehicles internal
combustion engines ICE cars, not to be confused with the
(22:14):
other ice uh.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There were always issues.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
About could something happen, could these catch fire in an accident?
In fact, if I recall correctly, was it was it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I want to say dateline, but that might not be right.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You remember back in the eighties when they were they
added like rockets to the side mounted gas tanks on
the Chevy Silverados too, to show how they could explode
in a in a car crash.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
No, oh, you don't remember this. No, it was a
big controversy. So the report what There were reports that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
The Silverados with the side mounted gas tanks and and
back in the eighties you had you could get the
option with two tanks, so one tank runs out of
you just flip a switch in the cabin and then
you're pulling fuel from the other tank. So there were
reports that these these these trucks were getting into accidents
and they were exploding. So it was one of those
(23:09):
I want to say again, I want to say it
was like dateline, but I could be I could be.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Wrong on other it date was it Dayline? Yes, good,
I got it right.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Uh, thank you, Nikki. So what they did is they said, look,
we have to we want to show the danger here.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't know if it's that they couldn't get it
to work when they were hitting the car, or if
it's that they didn't want to keep going through like
dozens and dozens of pickup trucks until they could get
when to finally blow up. So they they added like
incendiary device like rockets in there so that when the
impact happened for their for their news story, the truck
would explode.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And then they got caught doing that. People are like, oh,
it's the lying media.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well yeah they were, but also it was a demonstration
of what could happen on the street, but it's not
really an accurate demonstration.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Because they used these incendiary devices.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Anyway, my point is is that vehicle fires are not new,
but this technology is new, and so when we have
fires with the new technology, we go, WHOA.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
How could this possible?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
How could you let this happen while completely ignoring, you
know what, the stuff that we are hip because we've
become familiar with that. The same way that we talk
about car accidents with autonomous vehicles and they are ninety
percent safer than human piloted vehicles, but it doesn't matter
because we expect the car to be better. And so
(24:34):
we see an accident happen with a weymou and we go, oh,
the waymouth. We got to ban the weymou because the
waymo is very dangerous. I mean, the evidence again is there,
but is it more dangerous? So when it becomes a
statistical game, the answer is pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
When it's an emotional game, it's not so obvious.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And if it's you that's in the waymou or you
that's in the electric bus, or it's you that's that's
suffering those consequences, doesn't really matter what the stats.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Say right at all.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So imagine now, speaking of airplanes, imagine being in an airplane.
You taxi out to the runway and then you see
something that's racing towards you, that is definitely not supposed
to be there, and you're probably thinking terrorists in a sedan.
What the four door was doing on the tarmac is
next time, Chris.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Maryland, you're listening to KFI Am sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I was reminiscing about the fire, the school bus fire
that happened it it was an electric veal, I said,
I said, look, you're going to have a fire in
a gas powered vehicle. And then I was thinking about
this report. I saw where Dateline got caught doing stuff,
and I looked up NICKI actually found some info. She
(25:44):
binged it for me, and I guess the story ran
in the early nineties, but it was about the Chevy
pickups from the seventies and eighties, which, by the way,
I had one of those. I loved it. It's a
great truck, a lot of fun. I hit a turkey
with it. Okay, completely unnecessary information. Well, but at the
time media they had they had rigged the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
They and then I was reading the backstory out it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They put basically bottle rockets in there, or model rocket
model rockets, you know, like if you're sending like when
you're a kid and you're sending rockets up in the
sky three four hundred feet. Yeah, that's that's they did
to try to rig it so that they could have
the news story. What a joke. Crazy, But I mean
we've all seen mcguiver. Yea, yeah, you got things blow up.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It happens. It happens.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Meanwhile, uh, you do have some nutty drivers out there.
And I don't know about you. I got my drive
home from work. I only live like five miles from
my office, and I swear to you I must see,
I must see at least three times a day between
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the way they are and the way home, somebody doing
something that could cause an accident. Or I see an
accident I have witnessed. It's a five mile drive. I've
witnessed a couple of accidents happened yesterday. I came up
on one that had just happened that the occupants had
just gotten out.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Occupants kind of sound like a cup.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Uh. The drivers just got out and they were swapping
insurance info. Saw somebody else passing the turn lane this morning.
People are crazy. And so when you see a story
like what happened at the John Wayne Airport about somebody
who all of a sudden has their car on the runway,
you think, what is this?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Nutter up to this from NBCLA.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Yeah, if you think you're working on the on the
on the tarmac like that, on the on the you
know where the planes are, and you're doing what you're
supposed to be doing, and then you could just feel
something coming and then it just zips past you like that.
That's exactly the feeling that he had. We actually got
some audio two from the tower control.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, so this car just goes flying by on this tartet,
goes driving past planes that were taxing. That's weird. Imagine
being a passenger and you look out and pretty sure
that cameras supposed to be there, but.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's mean, it's a pretty good deeper.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And then there's a vehicle person.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That was very clear.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
Yeah, they kept calm, cool and collected, but it was
a very dangerous moment yesterday afternoon, all this was happening.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
We understand the person.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
Behind the wheel apparently a contracted security guard.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Who was working at the airport at the time.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Still unsure exactly why it started like this, why they
ended up in that car and then taking off and
zipping through Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
There were some estimates about eighty miles an hour going
down the lanes like there.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
And then we heard from this baggage handler who was
the one that actually shot this video.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, imagine being a baggage handler and what do we do,
because it's twenty twenty five, We grab our phones and
we record it.
Speaker 14 (28:45):
It was just a wild thing to witness. I was
getting ready to work on a flight and all of
a sudden, you see me and my coworkers behind me,
we see this white camera that zooms.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It was a camera. I just made that up.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
That's great past us at first and we were all
just like, you know, what was that there? Was an unbadged,
no siren car like nothing we've ever seen like. And
it's you know, spielim. It's fifteen miles an hour on
the airport. So this guy going like, you know, eighty
ninety miles an hour, weaving out into the taxi way
completely should not be doing this.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, completely should not be doing that. And out they're like, well,
he suffered a medical emergency.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean, I don't know. I don't know why he
had the car. Why was there just a civilian vehicle
out there? No idea? Was he going from one gate
to another and he had a heart attack and his
foot went down on the pedal.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't know. I don't have any idea.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I'm kind of waiting for more information on that, but
I mean, my first thought on this, if I'm on
that plane, I'm old enough to remember nine eleven, and
I'm enough to remember what we did after nine to eleven.
In the in the immediate uh weeks after nine eleven,
every vehicle that went to every airport was getting searched.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Did you have to go to the airport at all?
Did you have to do this?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I go to this little rinky dink airport. I had
dropped my dad off at the Muskegan Airport, Miskegan, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's uh big airport. It's not,
it's tiny.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But of course the thought is that if someone wants
to do ill that they would probably seek a smaller
airport with limited security capabilities, and then they would take
a larger plane that they could do anywhere. Right, So
I mean, it's not like it's not like you have
to leave Laguardi or Lax or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So every airport was big.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And I go to drop my father off and we
had to uh wait to have the car searched.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I haven't had anything like that since I had to
did some things on base when I was in San Diego,
and it's like, you know, they just go, they come out.
They'd run the mirror underneath, you know, like when you're
crossing the border. But I thought, oh, that's weird. And
then they put in those those ballards so you couldn't
get a vehicle on the tarmac on any airport anywhere.
So when I see a car that's on the tarmac,
(31:13):
I'm thinking, how did he get there?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And I mean, is this terrorism?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Is this why we put those ballards into the first place.
So I'm relieved that it's not. I hope that whoever
the security guard is is okay, little concerned that we
have the security gap that allowed it to happen in
the first place, though, And shouldn't there be governors on
any vehicle that's that's out there? I mean, if the
speed limit is fifteen, shouldn't there be governors on all
(31:39):
those vehicles so that you can't drive faster than that?
Maybe I'm crazy. I'll tell you what role would be
a safer place and Bob was in charge. Everybody would
hate it. Oh, you would hate it. I'd be putting
governors on everything.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You'd have a speed limit sign and I would enforce it.
Now I know, I think the speed limit is a law,
not a recommendation. This is why I can never get elected.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
In fact, if I were running for office, that would
be my campaign strategy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Unelectable. Don't even bother old nanny state merrill. That's me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No, you know what, I believe in that rule of law,
like we discussed yesterday, rule of law, especially when it
comes to speed limits.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm such an old man when it comes to driving,
Just like, where are you're going to show fast?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
By the way, that car I saw passing the turn
lane today, they passed the car that was behind me,
and then they got stuck behind me at a red light,
and the car that they passed pulled.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Right up behind it. I like that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Oh and then of course I was distracted when the
light turned green, so I may have delayed them a
few extra seconds.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
What do you know? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
We got Epstein files, we got tax returns, I got
medical records. Starting to feel like there's a pattern of
promising to release documents that we never actually see and
then lo and behold, footage just disappears, and everybody in
Washington denies that they ever promised to show it what
we said we.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Were gonna show that. Nah, the truth beyond the boat
strikes and are we at war with Venezuela. That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Chris Merril kf I AM six forty. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (33:15):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tim Conway Junior hanging out with Jay Leno at a
Cadillac dealership.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm just eating peanut butter out of a jar with
a spoon I found in the break room that may
or may not have been cleaned at any time in
the last decade. But no, I have fun, have fun
hanging with Jay and the brand new Cadillacs.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
That's cool, that's fun. That's great.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Roner.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's nice to see you, my friend, bless you, my son.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's always nice when we get to, you know, spend
time with the jars of peanut butter together.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, who doesn't love a jar of peanut butter in
you're underpants? Yeah, yeah, you're not far off.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, one of these days you and I are going
to be at a Yugo dealership and we're really.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Going to be living the life. What in the trunk?
What do you know that I don't I see the boys.
I think they're in the trunk.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, that's what I always expected. Probably better for listenership
if they're just stuffed in the trunk.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've I've seen good fellows and casino. I know how
things end for people like us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hey, I heard your I heard your story about the
the judge saying no to the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That's kind of a big deal. That did seem like
a big story to me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, it is a big I mean from a local standpoint,
that's a that's a big one. And uh and this
this started at last last summer. And I got a
phone call just behind the scenes. I got a phone call.
So I normally do the the Sunday afternoon show on
on CAF I uh from the Yugo dealership and and
(01:31):
I got a phone call and it was the boss
and he said, hey, man, I said. He said, things
might be popping off today. Can you be on standby?
And I went, uh, yeah, what's going on? He said, well,
you know, we got National Guard at the at the
detention center, and we've got we've got protesters. They're playing
this protests gonna be a city hall and then there's
gonna be this protesting down there too, And he said,
(01:53):
can you just be on standby.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We might have to do some some live local late
breaking coverage. Yeah, hang it, let me see if I
can do that too. I can do that right, live
local late breaking no, are you hosting a Monster Truck
show live? No, I didn't work either, I get to
(02:18):
it just gets worse when I do it that way.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I feel like I'm a high and b talking to God.
I mean, it's the best of both worlds. Don't let
it go to your head. So, uh So I get
this phone call and I said, hey, can you be
on standby? And I said yeah, what do you What
do you want me to do? They said, Michael Monks
is going to be on scene. Uh and we just
need you to be ready to go if something happens.
(02:40):
And I said sure, you know, so I started scrambling
and I started prepping as best you can.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And Mark, you know how it is.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
When you have to prep for a live show when
things are going on, there's only so much you can do.
What you do is you just research as much background
as you can because you don't know what's going to
happen in the moment. It's sort of like election night coverage.
You don't know what the results are going to be.
The best that you can do is just prepare yourself.
Know the issues, know the know the races, that sort
of stuff, and then you know, wait for the information
(03:08):
to develop in real time, and so that's exactly what
it was. So uh, they said, hey, uh, there's people
showing up. It looks like this is going to be
a story. Let's go live. And I said, okay, you
got it. So I go on, and I'm anybody who's
been on this side of the mic during a live thing,
you do your best to sort of we call it
tap dancing in the business. You're sort of going, I
(03:29):
think this is I think I think we're doing that.
I think this, you know, this is what's happening, and
you're kind of waiting for something to happen. At the
same time, you're sort of giving that background you're you're
trying to lay out the groundwork for everybody that's listening.
And I said, well, let's go. Let's let's hear from
Michael Monks. He's live on the scene. And I go
to Michael and I think we did one or two
hits with Michael from the scene, and and we went
(03:51):
back to him and we're talking. He says, yeah, it's
starting to He says, more and more people are starting well,
hang on, hang on, they're starting to walk, all right.
This crowd is moving toward the guards. The crowd is
they're moving, They've got they've got pepper balls out. Now
they've got pepper balls, and and all of a sudden
he gets like, not hit directly with it, but all
of a sudden he caught at pepper ball or pepper
(04:13):
spray or something, right, and you just hear this kind
of crash and I I'm just on the end of
the microphone, you know, from the studio, and I'm going,
I said, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You know you are right? What what's happening?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Because my mind immediately is thinking, first ratings, you know
how that goes. But then I was thinking, oh my god,
is Michael okay? I mean, how how awful would that
be if if the reporter got genuinely hurt while we
were on the on the scene.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, he did catch some of that pepper.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We went to a commercial break, and in the meantime,
we're communicating with him and he's he's you know, he's
got the bottle of water and he's trying to trying
to clear his eyes. And now they weren't aiming at him,
but he was. He was sort of engulfed by the
crowd and then they were shooting the stuff at the crowd.
So it was pretty tense that day. And that's that's
also the day you may remember that Mark was out
out there lighting Waymos on fire and they're blaming it
(05:02):
on the protesters.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You know how he feels about the weymos. Well, I
believe in the injustice.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That was the weirdest thing that the people started letting
Waymos on fire. And I was watching it go on
because of course all the monitors in the studio went
right to what was happening downtown, and I thought, this
is so bizarre to see these guys and they weren't
They weren't people that were there with the protests. It
was basically, uh, I'm gonna say late teens, early twenties,
(05:33):
skater punk guys, you know, no shirts on with skateboards,
jumping on the Waymos. And I'm just looking for an
opportunity to raise hell Hooligan's chaos agents. Yeah, all of
those things, soft laws. Of course, we're gonna bring that
word back from last night. Yeah and so, and then
what ends up happening is the reports end up going out.
(05:55):
Can you believe the protesters and how they started attacking
the Waymos and they, you know, whatever, this stuff was,
and I thought, you know, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It wasn't the people carrying signs and saying, you know,
justice for immigrants. It was people who were running around
and they looked like, I mean, if this has been
thirty years ago, we would have said they just got
a red hot chili Peppers concert, you know, But that
wasn't the case. So anyway, the National Guard ends up
sticking around and sticking around and sticking around. So Fox
(06:24):
had the story similar to what Mark was telling us.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
For the second time, has ruled that Trump administration has
to return control of the Guard to the state, saying
the administration did not prove there was any justification to
continue to federalize those National Guard troops. Remember that very
controversial move earlier this year, the administration sending thousands of
National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
At that time, the same.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Judge ruled the deployment illegal. Since then, the number of
Guard members in southern California has dwinned it about one hundred.
Still wanting them all gone, the state returned asking for
another court ruling, arguing that conditions in Los Angeles have changed.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
The judge. The same judge agreed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, so the judge agrees and says, yeah, there is
no exigent circumstance.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There is no threat right now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Now the administration would say, well, that's because we've got
guard there. That's because we have a show of force
that's happening right now. And Trump, now, according to the
New York Post, is refusing to back down. Now, that's
not to say that he's still ordering the Guard to
be there. In fact, what he's going to do is
they're going to they're going to appeal this. So, according
(07:33):
to a White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, saying, President Trump
exercises lawful authority to deploy National Guard troops to support
federal officers and assets following violent riots that local leaders
like new Scum refuse to stop. We look forward to
ultimate victory on the issue. So that's where we stand
for Now, what is that going to mean going forward?
(07:57):
Gavin Newsom saying today's ruling is abundantly clear. The federalization
of the National Guard in California is illegal and must
and the President deployed these brave men and women against
their own communities, removing them from essential public safety operations.
We look forward to all National Guard service members being
returned to state service. So the standoff continues. And what
this does is it gives this isn't about a win
(08:22):
today or about this particular issue. What this is Newsome
is going to be able to say I stood up
to Trump as the twenty twenty eight election nears. The
Democrats will not be able to resist running on the
platform of we're not Trump right, and it was successful.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They said, look, we need a steady hand, and they
brought in Joe Biden, and then it looked like Joe
Biden his hands weren't very steady, quite literally, and then
things shifted back to Trump. Knewsom was going to say, look,
I am a steady hand and I'm not the chaos
agent that we have with the Trump administration. Watch that
Democratic campaign on affordability in the next year, and even
(09:07):
Trump on his affordability tour said there's no problem with affordability.
That was in I think Pennsylvania yesterday. But then moving forward,
it's they just will not be able to resist saying
we can't. This country will not survive another four years
of a Trump's successor. So that's that's gonna be their
pitch against Jade Vance or Rubio or whomever it is.
(09:28):
So just watch that as it plays out. Meanwhile, you're
getting dinner ready and you're waiting for your young and
to wrap up there after school run and boom, got
a twist on an Anaheim sidewalk, starting into something that
no parent wants to imagine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Imagine getting this phone call. That's next Chris Merril KFI.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're listening to KFI Am sixty on demand on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Anytime the iHeartRadio app. And remember when you're on that app.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You can always hit the talk back button and tell
us what you think add to the story, whatever it
might be.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Always I always read.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Those and and I listened very carefully, and I take
the heart for those of you that offer advice. You
want to hear something different, I listened. I listened carefully.
It doesn't mean I'm going to change, but I do
listen everything you say. Like like yesterday there was a
guy that called for Mark.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
You sir are an Idia?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Yeah, off the radio, And.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So we had a meeting about that after the show
and decided we'd give it another shot tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well that was helpful. I mean you'll want constructive criticism, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean I really bore right down to brass tacks,
didn't it. I like the specifics of it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah? Really, are you sure that was for me? Because
he didn't mention my name. I mean, who else could
it have been for you?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Sir are An Idia?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Off the radio?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, I don't know that that was for me. That's
where I'm hedging. I mean he could call back, because
how could you get enough of that?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Could you? Ever?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I mean, it's a good thing. My self esteem is
so healthy. Yeah, even though it couldn't possibly be for me.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, this is the worst business to be. Show business
is the worst if. Here's the here's the weird irony
of show business. We get into it because we need affirmation.
And yet, and yet, all it takes is one person
to tell you how much your life is worth.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Nothing, and we just take that. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We could have one hundred people call and say, oh
my gosh, you're the best thing. And by the way,
we did get some very complimentary phone calls last night,
by the way, but those aren't entertaining, so I don't
play him on the air.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But it's the one that's like that that I.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Just I go to bed, going there's some random guy
that thinks I should get off the radio.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Maybe he's right, Maybe I should call his boss. Oh yeah, boy,
maybe I should see that he doesn't have a job.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, I told I was texting with our program director
last night and right after the show, and you know,
he was nice. He was like, how things going. Yeah,
I think it was a good show, he says, But
I'm glad to hear that. He's he's a nice supporter.
He's a good guy. And I said, well, except one
guy that told me I needed to get off the radio.
And I told him of my new Year's resolution. Here's
(12:16):
here's what it is. My nearest resolution is to not
to assume that the people that send those messages are normal,
but that they're far more likely off kilter weirdos. Because really,
wouldn't normal people just go, Okay, I'll find something else,
one would think, one would think. Now, I used to
have a friend, uh my first uh the job I
had for a long time before I moved here was
(12:36):
at the Seattle Times, and one of my friends there
was a columnist and when she got hate mail, it
absolutely destroyed her and we'd have to have these conversations
all the time where I was like, why would you
be in this line of work if you didn't have
skin thickeners.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Isn't that weird? I mean, you know it's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It doesn't matter what you write, because if you write
something boring enough that it's not going to make anybody angry,
you shouldn't be in this business for that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's kind of what he said too.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He's like, hey, man, just as long as long as
people are engaged, that's it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. I did want to cover
this too.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There was a nasty deal that happened this afternoon in Anaheim.
So high school track and field kids are out practicing, right,
They're just doing their their after school run. They're in
Harbor Boulevard, and all of a sudden, like the most
horrific thing happened.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
An active scene out here.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Were actually joined from Katie leraned by Sergeant Matt Sutter
with the Anaheim Police Department, and he's going to give
us an update now, So tell us what you know.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
So far, several people injured in this accident.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yeah, very unfortunate.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Just before three o'clock this afternoon, there was a car
accident here at Harbor and North here in the city
of Anaheim. Several students were on the track team for
Anaheim High School were sanding on in the southwest corner
when they were hit by a resident that went off
the road.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Very tragic.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
We have eight students that were injured.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Three of them were transported right away and several more
were transported after that.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
The driver of the vehicle that hit them was also transported.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Driver was injured. He is en route to the hospital now.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And we don't know, you know, it's too early. We
don't know what to deal. I mean, it could have
been a mechanical failure. Driver could have been drunk, driver
could have been text We'd have no idea.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
He is under investigation for DUI H.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We have a little bit of an idea that.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Hasn't been confirmed, but it's something we're looking into.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
I was talking to some people who were on scene
right after it happened and when it happened, and they
said it looked like the car did not stop and
it just crashed into the students who were on the
sidewalk when this happened.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 11 (14:33):
They were on the sidewalk waiting for the light return
so they can continue their practice run, and we're still
we're still interviewing witnesses to determine what exactly happened and
why this.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Can you imagine being a parent getting that phone call.
I mean, that's the night, but that's that's the kind
of thing that keeps parents up at night.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And this is the kind of thing that freaks me
out as I had a kid that ran track and
you know, I've got three kids, and it wasn't necessarily
specific of a you know a but it's always it's
always that worry of your kid getting hurt and and
this is one of those one in a million type
freak accidents. I guess when you've got some goober who
(15:13):
may or may not be drunk behind the wheel. I'd
like to hope that it's some sort of a mechanical failure,
although that doesn't make me feel a whole lot better
because that just reinforces that, you know, there's this weird
cosmic randomness that could immediately put your child in the hospital.
The whole thing just terrifies me as a parent. Worst
phone call you can get, worse, you can get. So
heart goes out to everybody involved there. I don't know
(15:37):
what you can do. But I know what kind of
other solutions there are to that, I honestly don't know.
There isn't much else. There isn't there isn't There aren't
many places I can go with the topic. Just to
extend my heart felt best wishes to the family and
to the kids into the school and too everybody in Anaheim.
Just a bad deal, gang, bad deal, right, So it
(15:59):
wasn't just the those kids today that faced kind of
a freak danger. Imagine cruising along with your coffee in hand.
You're jamming out to Chapel Roone as one does, and
all of a sudden, wait a minute, so what you
think it is? And you got to hope the kids
are okay. What happened under an LA freeway has people
asking new questions now about safety and what we're putting
(16:20):
on the road.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We'll we'll get into the boat strike, the taking of
the tank or that sort of thing coming up here
after marks eight o'clock news.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
In the meantime.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
As I mentioned, if you're listening on demand, you can
always hit that talkback button. Here's something you like, you
don't like something that sparks a thought, feel free to
hit us up on that, and I do read all
of them, and some people send some compliments.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You guys are your nest Chris Merrill about that crash
on Harbor. Do you remember when the LA Sheriff's Academy
class they were on their practice run in the morning
and someone struck them and he was supposed we lost
or he forgot his way to work or something. He
had some excuse why he drove right into the police recruits.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, God, I do remember that. Wasn't that was
in That was in Whittier, wasn't it. I think I
was in Whittier if I remember correctly. It hit like
a two dozen recruits at the time, and I know
they had some people that some people got hurt pretty
(17:31):
bad on that too. Yeah, that's a boy. That's a
good point. It was a young guy that did that.
If I recall young guy. Let me see if I
can just let me see if I can bing this
real fast?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Man? Uh Mark sing a song while I bing this
real fast.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I don't think any listener would appreciate the sound of
my voice singing, so let's just hurry along with the bing.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I was right, Whittier their own investigation, YadA, YadA, YadA.
According to the sheriff, Alex Bilding a Waiva, the investigator,
the investigations.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Left to Thores believing the crash was intentional. Yeah but yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Jail records site of California law that is from Fox eleven,
from back then Fox eleven. California law that authorizes the
police to release someone from custody without first being arraigned
if there are insufficient grounds to make a complaint. Therefore,
investigators not legally allowed to hold a suspect from other
forty eight hours without presenting a case. They did an investigation, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Believed that to be intentional, he accelerated toward the group. Yeah, yeah,
(18:40):
I don't remember how that turned down.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'll keep banging during the commercial breaker find out a
little bit more. I do remember that happening. That was
a bad deal. Well, I imagine if you were driving
to work and all of a sudden you look over
and you see a school bus on fire. What a
horrifying moment. That's got to be. So that happened today
(19:02):
Lakeview Terrace, and I don't think anybody got hurt, but well,
the footage was terrified. You can see a bus on.
Speaker 12 (19:11):
Fire here on the Foothill Boulevard from kul underpass of
the two ten freeway in Sunland.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
You can see La City.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Firefighters and CHP have shut this area down for that
report of a school bus underneath that overpass. There lots
of smoke and a little bit of flame. Also, when
Skycow was just arriving. You're seeing live pictures right here
as firefighters are still standing back pretty far.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
From that bus.
Speaker 12 (19:39):
Now what we've seen down there under there, that bus
has got green trim around, green bumpers. If you can
barely see it there underneath it's pretty dark.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
That indicates this is an electric vehicle.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And uh it's the walk Fire.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Electric school bus.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
LAUST has been using these over the past year or so,
so this is a clean emissions vehicle.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
But I want to show you.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Some video from when Skycow was first getting overhead.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
This was just about twenty minutes ago. Look at the
huge amount.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Of smoke that I can't radio.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
It was alarming everybody there on the two ten freeway.
This is when the roads had not been closed yet.
Skycow came around to the other side of the two
ten freeway there in Sunland, right at Foothill Boulevard, and
you can see that fire at the front of that
school bus all the way to the rear underneath.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Now, yeah, how fires work.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
But if this is a battery fire, you know when
those when the batteries catch on fire. And this was
a big deal when Tesla had some issues with this
years ago. You recall that they had teslas were catching fire.
It became an issue. In fact, I think Tesla started
training fire departments on how to put out the lithium
ion battery fires for their cars. And the temperatures in
(20:47):
there they get up like two thousand degrees and how
do you put that out? Water doesn't do it. It's
electrical fire. Water's not doing it. I think they had
to have a specialty foam sort of deal to to
try to put that off, to put that out, excuse me,
and and many fire departments didn't have that that sort
of thing. So now you've got parents that are freaking
(21:10):
out and they're going, I don't want my kids getting on,
you know, the the electric bus because it's it's a
bomb waiting to happen. Well, I don't think that's really
the case, but I mean, the evidence is there that
it can happen. It's not like I can say no,
that doesn't happen. I mean it happened to a school bus.
(21:31):
Fortunately again nobody got hurt on that. But we're seeing
more and more of the electric vehicles, the electric buses,
this kind of stuff going on, and this is going
to have an impact on the rollout of the zero emissions.
You know are stating across the country, and you know,
Nuisance pushing again to get rid of the sales of
(21:53):
all gas powered vehicles in the next ten years. I
don't think that's going to happen, but the push is significant.
Californ is way ahead of the rest of the country
when it comes to adopting electric vehicles. Now, if you'll recall,
there have been controversies over other gas powered vehicles internal
combustion engines ICE cars, not to be confused with the
(22:14):
other ice uh.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There were always issues.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
About could something happen, could these catch fire in an accident?
In fact, if I recall correctly, was it was it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I want to say dateline, but that might not be right.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You remember back in the eighties when they were they
added like rockets to the side mounted gas tanks on
the Chevy Silverados too, to show how they could explode
in a in a car crash.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
No, oh, you don't remember this. No, it was a
big controversy. So the report what There were reports that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
The Silverados with the side mounted gas tanks and and
back in the eighties you had you could get the
option with two tanks, so one tank runs out of
you just flip a switch in the cabin and then
you're pulling fuel from the other tank. So there were
reports that these these these trucks were getting into accidents
and they were exploding. So it was one of those
(23:09):
I want to say again, I want to say it
was like dateline, but I could be I could be.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Wrong on other it date was it Dayline? Yes, good,
I got it right.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Uh, thank you, Nikki. So what they did is they said, look,
we have to we want to show the danger here.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't know if it's that they couldn't get it
to work when they were hitting the car, or if
it's that they didn't want to keep going through like
dozens and dozens of pickup trucks until they could get
when to finally blow up. So they they added like
incendiary device like rockets in there so that when the
impact happened for their for their news story, the truck
would explode.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And then they got caught doing that. People are like, oh,
it's the lying media.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well yeah they were, but also it was a demonstration
of what could happen on the street, but it's not
really an accurate demonstration.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Because they used these incendiary devices.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Anyway, my point is is that vehicle fires are not new,
but this technology is new, and so when we have
fires with the new technology, we go, WHOA.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
How could this possible?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
How could you let this happen while completely ignoring, you
know what, the stuff that we are hip because we've
become familiar with that. The same way that we talk
about car accidents with autonomous vehicles and they are ninety
percent safer than human piloted vehicles, but it doesn't matter
because we expect the car to be better. And so
(24:34):
we see an accident happen with a weymou and we go, oh,
the waymouth. We got to ban the weymou because the
waymo is very dangerous. I mean, the evidence again is there,
but is it more dangerous? So when it becomes a
statistical game, the answer is pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
When it's an emotional game, it's not so obvious.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And if it's you that's in the waymou or you
that's in the electric bus, or it's you that's that's
suffering those consequences, doesn't really matter what the stats.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Say right at all.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So imagine now, speaking of airplanes, imagine being in an airplane.
You taxi out to the runway and then you see
something that's racing towards you, that is definitely not supposed
to be there, and you're probably thinking terrorists in a sedan.
What the four door was doing on the tarmac is
next time, Chris.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Maryland, you're listening to KFI Am sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I was reminiscing about the fire, the school bus fire
that happened it it was an electric veal, I said,
I said, look, you're going to have a fire in
a gas powered vehicle. And then I was thinking about
this report. I saw where Dateline got caught doing stuff,
and I looked up NICKI actually found some info. She
(25:44):
binged it for me, and I guess the story ran
in the early nineties, but it was about the Chevy
pickups from the seventies and eighties, which, by the way,
I had one of those. I loved it. It's a
great truck, a lot of fun. I hit a turkey
with it. Okay, completely unnecessary information. Well, but at the
time media they had they had rigged the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
They and then I was reading the backstory out it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They put basically bottle rockets in there, or model rocket
model rockets, you know, like if you're sending like when
you're a kid and you're sending rockets up in the
sky three four hundred feet. Yeah, that's that's they did
to try to rig it so that they could have
the news story. What a joke. Crazy, But I mean
we've all seen mcguiver. Yea, yeah, you got things blow up.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
It happens. It happens.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Meanwhile, uh, you do have some nutty drivers out there.
And I don't know about you. I got my drive
home from work. I only live like five miles from
my office, and I swear to you I must see,
I must see at least three times a day between
(26:50):
the way they are and the way home, somebody doing
something that could cause an accident. Or I see an
accident I have witnessed. It's a five mile drive. I've
witnessed a couple of accidents happened yesterday. I came up
on one that had just happened that the occupants had
just gotten out.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Occupants kind of sound like a cup.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Uh. The drivers just got out and they were swapping
insurance info. Saw somebody else passing the turn lane this morning.
People are crazy. And so when you see a story
like what happened at the John Wayne Airport about somebody
who all of a sudden has their car on the runway,
you think, what is this?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Nutter up to this from NBCLA.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Yeah, if you think you're working on the on the
on the tarmac like that, on the on the you
know where the planes are, and you're doing what you're
supposed to be doing, and then you could just feel
something coming and then it just zips past you like that.
That's exactly the feeling that he had. We actually got
some audio two from the tower control.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, so this car just goes flying by on this tartet,
goes driving past planes that were taxing. That's weird. Imagine
being a passenger and you look out and pretty sure
that cameras supposed to be there, but.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's mean, it's a pretty good deeper.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And then there's a vehicle person.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That was very clear.
Speaker 13 (28:14):
Yeah, they kept calm, cool and collected, but it was
a very dangerous moment yesterday afternoon, all this was happening.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
We understand the person.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
Behind the wheel apparently a contracted security guard.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Who was working at the airport at the time.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Still unsure exactly why it started like this, why they
ended up in that car and then taking off and
zipping through Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
There were some estimates about eighty miles an hour going
down the lanes like there.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
And then we heard from this baggage handler who was
the one that actually shot this video.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, imagine being a baggage handler and what do we do,
because it's twenty twenty five, We grab our phones and
we record it.
Speaker 14 (28:45):
It was just a wild thing to witness. I was
getting ready to work on a flight and all of
a sudden, you see me and my coworkers behind me,
we see this white camera that zooms.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It was a camera. I just made that up.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
That's great past us at first and we were all
just like, you know, what was that there? Was an unbadged,
no siren car like nothing we've ever seen like. And
it's you know, spielim. It's fifteen miles an hour on
the airport. So this guy going like, you know, eighty
ninety miles an hour, weaving out into the taxi way
completely should not be doing this.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, completely should not be doing that. And out they're like, well,
he suffered a medical emergency.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean, I don't know. I don't know why he
had the car. Why was there just a civilian vehicle
out there? No idea? Was he going from one gate
to another and he had a heart attack and his
foot went down on the pedal.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't know. I don't have any idea.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I'm kind of waiting for more information on that, but
I mean, my first thought on this, if I'm on
that plane, I'm old enough to remember nine eleven, and
I'm enough to remember what we did after nine to eleven.
In the in the immediate uh weeks after nine eleven,
every vehicle that went to every airport was getting searched.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Did you have to go to the airport at all?
Did you have to do this?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I go to this little rinky dink airport. I had
dropped my dad off at the Muskegan Airport, Miskegan, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's uh big airport. It's not,
it's tiny.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But of course the thought is that if someone wants
to do ill that they would probably seek a smaller
airport with limited security capabilities, and then they would take
a larger plane that they could do anywhere. Right, So
I mean, it's not like it's not like you have
to leave Laguardi or Lax or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So every airport was big.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And I go to drop my father off and we
had to uh wait to have the car searched.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I haven't had anything like that since I had to
did some things on base when I was in San Diego,
and it's like, you know, they just go, they come out.
They'd run the mirror underneath, you know, like when you're
crossing the border. But I thought, oh, that's weird. And
then they put in those those ballards so you couldn't
get a vehicle on the tarmac on any airport anywhere.
So when I see a car that's on the tarmac,
(31:13):
I'm thinking, how did he get there?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And I mean, is this terrorism?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Is this why we put those ballards into the first place.
So I'm relieved that it's not. I hope that whoever
the security guard is is okay, little concerned that we
have the security gap that allowed it to happen in
the first place, though, And shouldn't there be governors on
any vehicle that's that's out there? I mean, if the
speed limit is fifteen, shouldn't there be governors on all
(31:39):
those vehicles so that you can't drive faster than that?
Maybe I'm crazy. I'll tell you what role would be
a safer place and Bob was in charge. Everybody would
hate it. Oh, you would hate it. I'd be putting
governors on everything.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You'd have a speed limit sign and I would enforce it.
Now I know, I think the speed limit is a law,
not a recommendation. This is why I can never get elected.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
In fact, if I were running for office, that would
be my campaign strategy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Unelectable. Don't even bother old nanny state merrill. That's me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No, you know what, I believe in that rule of law,
like we discussed yesterday, rule of law, especially when it
comes to speed limits.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm such an old man when it comes to driving,
Just like, where are you're going to show fast?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
By the way, that car I saw passing the turn
lane today, they passed the car that was behind me,
and then they got stuck behind me at a red light,
and the car that they passed pulled.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Right up behind it. I like that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Oh and then of course I was distracted when the
light turned green, so I may have delayed them a
few extra seconds.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
What do you know? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
We got Epstein files, we got tax returns, I got
medical records. Starting to feel like there's a pattern of
promising to release documents that we never actually see and
then lo and behold, footage just disappears, and everybody in
Washington denies that they ever promised to show it what
we said we.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Were gonna show that. Nah, the truth beyond the boat
strikes and are we at war with Venezuela. That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
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