Top News of the Day. Update on that officer involved shooting Saturday near Western and MLK Blvd. Update: At least 61 dead in Texas flooding; over two dozen campers missing from Camp Mystic. Some facts about Camp Mystic, where Texas floodwaters swept away dozens of girls. Video captures ICE agents allegedly urinating on Pico Rivera school grounds in broad daylight. LAPD dealing with a surge in 'kidnapping' calls because of ICE enforcement. Fourth of July Roundup. Air quality alert issued across Southern California due to smoke from fireworks and wildfires. Northern California residents to be ‘wildly surprised’ by massive illegal fireworks fines in the mail.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yes, Kissy, I.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you today, filling in for Meryll, who's
out and enjoying his Sunday like I imagine many of you
are doing. Thank you for listening. I'll be here from
four to seven today, followed by doctor Wendy, so make
sure you stay tuned for that glorious, glorious Sunday in
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the Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'd love for you to go to the talk back
on the iHeartRadio app and answer this question. This is
the question I want us to make sure we answer
the entirety of the show so we can play those
answers in the spirit of the fourth of July, even
though it is now the sixth of July, but we're
hanging on to the weekend by its tippy toes. We're
not letting it go just yet. So the question that
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I have for you is what is the most memorable
Fourth of July experience that you you have? I want
you to go to the talkback feature and answer that question.
The most memorable Fourth of July experience that you can
recall whatever it may be, keep it semi clean. This
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is somewhat of a family show. It's a Sunday, so
let's make sure we have some fun and in the
spirit of the Fourth of July, let's get those talkbacks.
And of course we're watching the biggest news stories coming
out from all over the place, starting with did you
know Elon Musk and Trump? They're not buddies anymore? And
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Elon has decided that he's going to start a brand
new political party after falling out with his ex bestie
President Trump. We're going to get into that after five
during our Combined Deeper Dives and La Law segment, so
make sure you stay tuned for that as well. Have
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some updates on that officer involved shooting from yesterday. It
happened just before four p yesterday in south central MLK
Boulevard and Western So what happened was officers were at
a nearby park questioning a person. They were doing a
pedestrian stop and that person ran off, so officers took
chase and unfortunately a gun battle ensued right there Saturday
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afternoon in the park. Officers fired, the suspect fired. Suspect
hit the officers, one of them specifically, sending that officer
to the hospital. Fortunately, that officer is expected to make
a full recovery, so that's good news. We do know
that the suspect was taken into custody, so we'll keep
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up to date on that. Still no real motive behind why,
but you know it happened. And then also we're watching
the biggest fire this year. It's called the Madre Fire
and it's in the San Louis Obispo area. It's now
more than eighty acres that is massive, thirty percent containment
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as of today. So they're making ground, the fire department.
They're making ground, but this thing is moving quickly with
the winds going out there. Again, it's the largest fire
in California this year. Almost six months to the day,
I think the six month anniversary, and I don't think
anyone wants to celebrate it, but the six month commemoration
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of the Palisades and Eaten fires is tomorrow, I think.
So we're six months out from that, and now we're
facing another huge fire in middle California, San Louis Abispo.
There about fifty structures are threatened at this time and
evacuations have been issued around the area of Highway one
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sixty six and the one oh one. It's up there
in the Angelus National Forest. So we're definitely keeping tabs
on that fire and anything else that should come out
of the news room or from any of these many
screens here in the studio. Definitely watching what is making
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to be the biggest story of the weekend, I would say,
which happens to be the flooding in Texas on the
Guadalupe River. This has just ballooned overnight. I remember reporting
on it yesterday on Saturdays with Tiffany, and I think
the number was shy of forty dead at the time,
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which is still an astronomical amount of death. But now
we're looking at seventy nine. Some outlets are saying seventy eight.
CNN is saying seventy nine. I think Reuter's was saying
seventy eight. But still a massive, massive, massive, massive death
toll from what is turning out to be a catastrophic
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flood in that area, including twenty one children. As I'm
watching CNNA and right now, there's a person on a
man saying that he's searching for his missing parents. And
what I've learned from watching these interviews from people who
are actively there, is that the flooding happened overnight. They
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had the storm come in, they had rain, but the
conditions that produced what then has turned out to be
this catastrophic flooding happened into the really really really late
night early morning of that next day, somewhere around three am.
So people are saying it was completely pitch black. So
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this is in Kerr County and according to the sheriff,
they're in Kerr County, Larry Laithe again twenty one children
and continued search for the girls missing from that Mystic
summer camp and a counselor unfortunately missing from that summer
camp as well. So what happened to cause all of this?
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Many people are saying, how could this have happened? Well,
if you know anything about this region, then you do
know that flooding does in fact occur. And I love
to bring Eileen in in the newsroom here because Eileen
actually lived and reported in this exact area and she
has a lot more context about the conditions that produce
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flooding and the regularity of the flooding of the Guadalupe Rivers.
So Eileen, can you shed a bit of light on
what's happening out there.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, we'll start telling you a little. I have a
long career in TV news. Also, I worked at stations
in San Antonio and Austin and Dallas, and it's very
common to have flesh floods in those regions. But to
this effect, this is really unheard of. I've covered. I've
actually covered many floods in that region and seen a
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lot of the destruction, and there have been times where families,
homes have swept away. But I mean, this was just
like I said, the extent is it's catastrophic. It's unheard of.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So they're what they're saying, and that's Eileen here in
the news room. What they're saying is that the Guadalupe
River rose about Oh, the water there rose about twenty
six feet twenty six feet, so that's two stories for context,
and it broke the banks. This is after the rain
fell and the rain is being described as being torrential,
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and then the storm itself dumped about fifteen inches of
rain over that region. Eileen, in your recall of this area,
the water there, is it quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Is it fast rushing? Is it it is so fast moving?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
There's a saying you'll hear this all over the news
in Texas, it's turnaround, don't drown. Once you have heavy rains,
you're constantly telling people, do not go try to go
through the water. I mean just it is extremely strong.
I mean it carries vehicles, it carries houses. You've seen
these houses swept away.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It is. This current is so strong. I mean you
can't swim in it. There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So when it comes to warnings, turnaround, don't drown, being
an anecdote shared of course amongst the community. But when
it comes to warnings from the weather system, from the forecasts,
from the local outlets, what is that like? Are they doing,
you know, a couple of days out make sure you
stay away from the river, doing evacuations of places like
this mystic camp?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What's it like?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, the thing about Texas is there's a saying, if
you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It changes so quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And there's really I mean, you know it's coming, but
I don't know if they knew. I actually no, it's
not true.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I still have a lot of friends on Facebook and
the colleagues that I worked with that have been that
are weathercasters and one retired one. He did I did
see he predicted this.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And then you were saying as well, we were talking
outside of the studio here that you have a friend
who has a daughter who attended the Mystic Camp. Can
you share a little bit of an update on that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You have another Facebook friend that I've stayed in touch
with who also works in the media, and she said
she got her daughter backed and hugged her like she's
never had before, and just told everybody to be grateful
for what they have and their family and their friends
and their loved ones.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Thank you, Eileen for sharing that with us. It's Eileen
Gonzalez right there in the newsroom with some firsthand knowledge
of what's happening there in Kerr County with the flooding
on the Guadalupe River. When we come back, I'm going
to give you a little bit more information about what's
happening there in Texas and some background, a little bit
of background, a little bit of insight on this Mystic camp.
The Camp Mystic is what it's called, where many of
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these girls were attending. It's a beloved camp and now
a big number of them are missing. And then we'll
do a quick kind of recap of what's going on
as it pertains to immigration and customs enforcement in Los Angeles.
Have a couple of stories about that as well. On
the other side of the break, it's k i AM
six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany Hobbs
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sitting in for Meryl today until seven.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
K i AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Tiffany Hobbs here from maryl till four o'clock tonight, and
we're talking about the devastating flooding in Central Texas. And
I was giving you and Eileen in the newsroom was
giving you a very eloquent firsthand account of what that
region is like and why it's so prone to flooding.
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Hearing that this is something that does happen, but never
to this extent. This is definitely again here's that word, unprecedented.
It's unprecedented flooding. So, just to give you a bit
more information, eight hundred and fifty people have been rescued
as of yesterday. That number continues to increase, as does sadly,
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the number of people who have been found dead during
the rescue and recovery phase now of this flooding, CNN
has the number at eighty again, it's fluctuating between seventy
nine and eighty depending on where you look. Reuters is
at seventy eight or seventy nine. CNN just updated to
eighty of the rescued. There were people who were clinging
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to trees who were rescued, and there have been some
questions around the warning system. FEMA has been deployed as
well after President Trump issued a major disaster declaration. But
when it comes to the National Weather Service and their
issuance of flood warnings and advisories, that did happen. But
the former director of NOAH, which is the national Associate
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excuse me, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been a
bit critical of the cutbacks, the rollbacks to these governmental
weather monitoring agencies. They were in fact cut by the
Trump administration and DOGE, and they're saying, the former director
of NOAH, Rick Spinrad, that their offices are greatly understaffed
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right now and that those cuts could definitely factor into
the lack of advanced warnings for things like extreme flooding.
In this region in the future. So not a good
forecast in many ways, especially when it comes to preparedness.
Now again, the camp that's there that had quite a
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few girls in attendance, this summer camp, very popular summer camp.
It's called Camp Mystic, and quite a few of those
young ladies are still missing. Here's some background about Camp Mystic.
It's described as being a Christian camp along the banks
of the Guadalupe River. It's located about eighty five miles
northwest of San Antonio. It's right there in that central
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Texas area. And it was founded by the former Texas
Longhorns football coach EJ. Doc Stewart in nineteen twenty six,
so they would be celebrating their one hundredth anniversary next year.
The camp is described on its website as being very picturesque.
It's in those mountains there, or at the bank there
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of the mountains, or excuse me, the probably the base,
I would say, right there between the river and the mountains.
Beautiful area, nestled amongst cyprus live oak and pecan trees
or pecan depending on where you live. It operates three
sessions each summer. Very busy camp. They have archery canoeing,
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arts and crafts, horseback riding, and a variety of sports.
Sounds like a beautiful place. When the flash flood struck
early on Friday, the camp was less than a week
into its second four week term, with more than seven
hundred children in attendance, very well attended as of right now. Again,
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there are still a number of girls and a camp
counselor who are unaccounted for. So this is again ongoing,
and it seems like every time we look back at
the screen the numbers fluctuate a bit more and in
a negative way. So definitely prayers out and hopefulness for
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this situation. Absolutely horrible, all right, So let's do an
immigration and customs enforcement in La roundup. Okay, it's been
a well quiet, I would say, not if you're in
the communities of course, in which you are experiencing ICE,
but as far as the protesting, as far as things
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that have gotten out of hand, it's been pretty quiet
in the Southland. But there are some stories in fact
that are coming out, including one of a video that
has captured ten ICE agents allegedly got to say this,
allegedly urinating on a Pico rivera school campus. Yes, so
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here's what happened. Surveillance camera footage allegedly captured ICE agents
urinating on the grounds of this Pico Rivera High school
in broad daylight, broad daylight. This is June seventeenth. The
agents were seen urinating in the parking lot of Ruben
Salazar High School, which is immediately adjacent to a preschool
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playground and an elementary school where summer classes were in
session at the time. There were kids present. This is
according to the l Rancho Unified School District, who monitors
those surveillance cameras. Now, the district just that Wednesday, prior
to the situation or during that situation, called for a
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federal investigation into what they say is the quote unquote
deeply disturbing conduct of the agents, who they say trespassed
on school grounds and risked exposing themselves to minors that
day June seventeenth. Now, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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Christy Nome and ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons wrote back
to the district and said that yes, these actions raise
alarming and pressing questions regarding ICE's behavior and judgment, as
well as concerns about the rights and well being of
those involved. Including the er USD community, that school district community.
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A Homeland Security spokesperson went on to say that this
matter is currently under investigation now. The review of the
camera video, the footage was between eight fifty four am
and nine four am, so right there, first part of
the morning, and it revealed these ten agents urinating near
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storage containers in the parking lot. Okay, the district actually
went on to post a condensed version of the video
on YouTube for the public to view. Put it on
YouTube because they said, hey, you know this happened. You
guys can see it for yourself. So the questions now
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about what happened and the consequences therein do in fact
involve whether or not these agents will be held accountable
legally within the agency, however it may shake down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But I do know. I happen to know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
And this is no to say that we all haven't
done it at some point, because we have.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You have, I know I have.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
We all have had to go, and we all have
made the really uncomfortable decision to go, you know, perhaps
when there's not necessarily a toilet ready available for as
a private one anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But if you are caught doing that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And you are on especially school grounds or anywhere where
children or miners are you in fact can be held
for indecent exposure and that then turns into having to
register on that sex offender list. These ten agents are
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in a world of hurt and if they did what
they did, they probably should be allegedly. We have to
say allegedly, although there is video posted on YouTube to
round out this ice kind of second kidnappers or ICE agents. Well,
LAPD is feeling lots of calls. They've had a surgeon
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calls from concerned citizens saying that people are being grabbed
and thrown into cars and potentially kidnapped, and so the
LAPD is arriving and instead of making arrests, they're finding
often that these are in fact immigration and custom enforcement
agents who are being reported as kidnappers. But because of
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the lack of i would say, insignia on the on
the vehicles, you know, the kind of nondescript uniforms, the
interaction with the public, people are saying, we don't know,
we don't know if it's ICE, they could just be anybody.
So LAPD is having to parse through these calls and
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this just lends more credence to the fact that perhaps
these ice agents should in fact where things that are
more easily identifiable, like badges, and perhaps ways in which
they can be more readily identified.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
When we come back.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We're going to do a Fourth of July round up
as well, just a quick one about something that's happening
in northern California that you might want to know because
it could absolutely come here, and something that's happening here
that if it continues to get bad, will spread to
northern California. So we'll look at both sides of that coin.
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On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs sitting
in for Marrow until seven. And remember we are hitting
the talk back to answer the question what is your
most memorable Fourth of July experience?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What do you remember?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
What sticks out in your brain that you can remember,
and we'll share it on the air right here. Also
share some of our memorable Fourth of July experiences kind
of sprinkle.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Throughout the show.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
A lot of show left, a lot to get to
right here on KFI six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand i AM.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs
here for Meryl. You're wondering where's Chris Merril.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
He'll be back.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Don't worry. He's probably listening right now. He's enjoying being
at home. Man works very hard. Let him have a
day off. Okay, But if you want to show him
how much you miss him, then answer the talkback question
that I shared with you at the top of the
show last segment. I'll be sharing with you throughout what's
the most memorable Fourth of July experience that you can recall?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What do you remember? Talk about it? Share it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Hit that talkback button's right there at the top somewhere.
You get like twenty seconds, thirty seconds, whatever it is.
You can leave more than one it elongated. It's fine.
And we'll send him to Chris and he'll be able
to hear too. Okay, and you can tell let me
miss him.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's fine. I won't take it personal.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
As long as you listen on Saturdays to Saturdays with Tiffany,
that's all right. So we're following some big news stories
and top news stories. Of course, that Madre fire and
San Luis Obispo still at eighty thousand acres, which is
way too many thirty percent containment give or take, So
that is absolutely being responded to. It's all hands on
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deck up there. Probably the National Guard there as well,
I think, so those troops there are helping with those efforts.
But it is the biggest fire to date in California,
just one day shy of the exact six month anniversary
or commemoration of the Palisades Fire and the Eaten Fires.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
So can you believe it's been six months? Wow?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
They say as you get older, time goes faster. I
think that may very well be true, but I think
it's going even faster. With all of these unprecedented events.
It seems like there's one after the other, and this
fire is certainly the latest in that round. And also
speaking of rounds, the next round of cease fire talks
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between Israel and Hamas is expected to happen tomorrow in Washington,
DC at the White House between Benjamin net and Yahoo
and President Trump. So I imagine we'll be talking about
that tomorrow right here on the station to see what
comes of those cease fire talks. All right, Fourth of
July round Up, Fourth of July Roundup?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
How was your fourth Was it great?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, if you were one of the people who was
popping illegal fireworks and you thought you did so without
anyone knowing, especially law enforcement, you might be in for
a rude awakening. And here's why in Northern California, which
means this could certainly come to Southern California. Thousands of
illegal firework users who thought they were getting away with
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lighting up those you know whatever it is. They may
be lighting up. And I'll tell you in a second
about somebody that did something really, really stupid last night,
but they were surprised by hefty citations tickets showing up,
or will be surprised by hefty citations showing up in
their mailboxes over the next few weeks. So they were
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doing their fireworks, enjoying themselves and you know whatever, some
having fun, some probably creating a lot of ruckus and
chaos because you can't just have the calm with it all.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And they're going to get tickets.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Because there were drones that were flying around and monitoring
who and where these fireworks were being set off, and
of course a lot of conversation around wildfires and the
risk of fireworks and wildfires. Well, Northern California officials are
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hoping to be able to curtel that sort of explosion
or that sort of source of these wildfires by issuing
these what they say, massive fines. That's from the Sacramento
Fire Department, Captain justin Sylvia. He said, the fines are
going to be massive. Don't know what massive is or
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massive is probably relative, then leuis Obispo. By the way,
massive for them is probably different from massive and massive
for us.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But massive.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Nonetheless, they're gonna get these big tickets. And they said,
despite stern warnings from law enforcement about fines and even
possible jail time, there was no shortage of illegal fireworks
going off throughout the night of the fourth and into Saturday.
I heard them yesterday, I heard them this morning driving in.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
This will be going on until August September, maybe until
people run out. Let me tell you about this idiot
in my neighborhood before we go on with this talk
about fines, and I'll tell you why southern California is
also a world of hurt. In a second as well,
So out walking the dog with Fyance, he's listening hello,
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and we're walking the dogs. We're enjoying ourselves. It's the
evening of the yesterday evening of yesterday Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, so the fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And by now you would think you wouldn't see the
major firework explosions. You might hear a you know, an
MD in the distance, and those are certainly they jar
you they're so loud, but you don't expect to see
like a full on firework presentation.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Because it's the fifth. Right, we're walking the dog.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We're in a residential kind of commercial residential area, and
all of a sudden, we see this guy crouched down
kind of behind a car and he starts setting up
something on the car. The car's parked on the street,
and just on the other side of where he is
is a massive apartment condo complex right with the balcony
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of these tenants facing this side of the street. It's
about twenty stories high, give or take. And again, these
balconies are all on this eastern facing part of the street.
The man is crouching down behind a car. We're across
the street from all of this, looking because we had
heard some popping sounds and we're like, damn, here they
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go again, the fireworks or walking the dogs. Gotta make
sure we keep them safe. Don't want them to run off.
And we look and instead of an M eighty, which
wouldn't necessarily have been better, this guy, this idiot, this
Darwinism candidate sets off a full on like Dodger Stadium
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caliber fireworks show right there behind the car, and it
goes up twenty feet thirty feet forty feet into the
air to the top of this condo complex. And the
sparks these are the real fireworks. These aren't the ones
you get at the twenty dollars stand. No, these are
the ones that you know. These are those The sparks
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are going into people's balconies and people are coming out
and they're looking, because can you imagine being on your
balcony and seeing sparks shoot up ten fifteen stories You're
gonna look, You're gonna be curious. So as people were looking,
here come these sparks shooting at them onto their balconies.
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And he didn't just do one, No, he did about
he lit about three or four. By the second one
on top of my lungs.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Aye, the oh real dig.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Voice changed and everything WHOA call Pola, you know, I'm
just screaming at the top of my lungs and the
first time I yelled, he looked at me and he
kept going.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
He didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That pissed me off even more cause you see me
and you hear me, and you keep going with this.
By the like the second one that went up, I
the bear toe came out, you know that side, the
side I don't show here on air, the non kfi side. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
who am I with top of my lungs?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And he stopped, and he, let me tell you, this
is what was crazier. He stops.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
People are yelling out, stop, hey, stop from the balconies, right,
So it's this whole thing. He scurries away into the
the complex through like a side service door.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So he lived there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Oh wow, you idiots, literal fool. So there's gonna be
an apartment opening up if anybody wants that address. It's
a really nice building because they're gonna get rid of him,
as they should. There's a little bit more to this
story involving a security guard too, and I'll tell you
about that on the other side of the break. Because
we need security that security guards that can actually do security.
And this one was not worth his not worth the dam. Anyway,
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I'll tell you more about that on the other side
of the break. K if I AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Tiffany Hobbs here.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Until seven, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Did I already say KFI AM six forty live on
the iHeartRadio app?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
What it is?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's KFI and we're here. We're live on iHeartRadio app.
We do have a talkback. We're in our Fourth of
July roundup segment because it's the sixth and we need
to move on, but we're holding on to the last
little remnants of it because it feels good and something
like that just amplifies it. Let's hear from Allison. Alison,
what's up? What's your what's your most memorable Fourth of
July experience?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I think my most memorable Fourth of July was going
to a concert in Santa Barbara on the fourth and
watching the fireworks along the way and getting there and
just having that summer feeling. It was a very hot
day and a great memory. Thanks Relie, dude.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You're welcome. I don't really do a lot. Wasn't that right?
Calm relax? It sounds like the song it was. It
was a perfect voice to come out of the outside
of yours. Obviously, Oh thank you. It's just very calming.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
If you put her vocals right there, just that talkback
over that three to eleven track, it would fit perfectly.
AMR I ASMR Allison. You have a whole other career
out there, girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Explore it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Send us more talkbacks, just talking about like anything, so
we can play you on air in between. You know,
it's nice something not so nice. In this fourth of
July roundup the Air.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
The air.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We talked about northern California and hefty fines being issued
to people who thought they were going to circumvent the law,
thought they were going to use illegal fireworks without anyone
knowing well, surprise, surprise, there were drones monitoring their activity
and spotlighting exactly where they were, and tickets will be
issued that are massive, quote unquote according to officials up
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there in northern California. But here in southern California. While
ticket aren't necessarily being issued because of the legal fireworks,
weather alerts alerts, air quality alerts are being issued, and
air quality alert was issued across southern California due to
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smoke from the fireworks and.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
The wildfires, but we don't.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
They're not really counting that. They're just saying the fireworks.
A regional air quality alert was issued for much of
southern California as harmful levels a fine particle pollution spread
across the region after the fireworks celebrations and the wildfires
in the mountain areas. But we're talking about the fireworks specifically.
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The South Coast air Quality Management District announced the alert
on Friday, warning that because of fireworks, they were anticipating
elevated pollution levels that would persist through Saturday night. Just
last night. They haven't gone away yet, those particles as
of today's Sunday, they didn't just magically evaporate and move along.
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It's not like we have these really strong winds down
here in southern California right now. In most areas there's
a slight breeze, but for the most part, those particulates,
that toxic matter in the air. Particle pollution is still
hanging in the atmosphere due to all of the fireworks,
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illegal and legal, so it doesn't really matter. The alert
applies to most of La and Orange Counties and the
Inland Empire and Santa Clarita and the Gabriel and San
Bernardino Mountains. Pretty much everywhere is screwed. Official said pollution
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levels could in fact vary by time and location, depending
on things like emissions and local weather conditions. We've gotten
really lucky this summer, i'd say, south of the Valleys
and west of maybe San Gabriel and kind of the
Inland Empire areas in this basin here it's been pretty moderate.
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Even today here in Bourbank, I think that the high
is like eighty three eighty four, really comfortable, and I
don't want to jinx it, so everyone knock on wood,
because we know how these things can turn.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's not Texas, Eileen.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
The weather doesn't change in five minutes, but we know
it can definitely go like day to day. So while
it's moderate right now, it does in fact help with
the pollution levels. It does make things a bit more tolerable.
You're not necessarily feeling the weight of those particulates in
the air, but they're their official say. And of course
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air quality when it's impacted like that, absolutely has side
effects that you can feel if you have coal morbidities
like asthma or any sort of compromise to your lungs.
Or you know, anything like that, it can be quote
unhealthy for sensitive groups, which means that vulnerable individuals should
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limit prolonged or strenuous outdoor activity. Okay, that's kind of
at the low level. When it's unhealthy at the red level,
like a think of like a stoplight, a speedlight, right, red, yellow, orange,
things like this. There's all these certain colors, but at
the bottom the least i'd say harmful, but still harmful.
It just means limit your outdoor activity. If you're a
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part of the sensitive group section of the community. When
it gets too unhealthy the red level, everyone may experience
health effects and sensitive groups should still keep their butts inside.
When levels get to very unhealthy or purple alerts. If
you see like purple alert on your TV or it
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comes across somewhere purple alert, purple alert, that means again
sensitive groups should avoid all all outdoor activity, and others
should limit outdoor exposure. And at the hazardous level maroon,
all individuals are advised to stay indoors and avoid outdoor
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physical activity inentirely. So the air quality index changes, like
they said, it can change and fluctuate depending on weather
and region, but they are warning that These fine particulates
can get into your lungs and can lead to things
like asthma check, bronchitis check, heart attacks check, and difficulty
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breathing check check check. All those things are horrible and
you don't want that. You definitely don't want those sorts
of things.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
They said.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
To reduce indoor exposure. If you're like me and you
love to have your doors and your windows open and
catch that breeze, it's the summer. You want to sleep
with your stuff open, officials recommend keeping your windows and
your doors closed. They said, don't do that, that's bad.
They also say using air conditioners or air purifiers should
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also be monitored because air conditioners could depending on how
good of quality or air conditioner is, it can make
things worse. But air purifiers are a good go.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Should do that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Avoid the use of fireplaces, candles come on, can't burn
a candle, incense, or gasoline.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Powered equipment cars. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
If possible? Residents should avoid using swamp coolers or whole
house fans that draw in outside air. They want you
to be hot and sweaty because your stupid neighbor was
popping fireworks outside. On July fifth, outside of the apartment
complex and letting the sparks go into people's balconies. People
like that are why we are supposed to stay indoors today,
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can we Yesterday really quick on my Instagram had a
person comment to me and say something like fireworks are
here to stay get over it. Well, no, not going
to get over it. And I said to him, thank
you for listening. That's all I said, thank you for listening,
because he did listen, you know, but we're not going
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to get over it. When you're not going to be
able to breathe, you're going to be under it. You're
going to be very under it and very far under
it if we continue this pattern, because this is really unhealthy.
When we come back, we're going to get into our
deeper dive segment, which we are combining with LA Law.
So I don't know if we have the LA Law
music that Chris Merrill uses, but Raoul is amazing. He
(38:42):
just said I'll find it. He gave the thumbs up,
so we'll try. But we're going to do deeper dives
slash LA Law and I'm going to get into some
big legal stories that are happening around the Southland and
around the United States, so stay tuned for that Tiffany
Hobbs here with you until seven, sitting here for Chris
Merrill a f I AM six forty live everywhere on
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Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
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out and enjoying his Sunday like I imagine many of you
are doing. Thank you for listening. I'll be here from
four to seven today, followed by doctor Wendy, so make
sure you stay tuned for that glorious, glorious Sunday in
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the Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'd love for you to go to the talk back
on the iHeartRadio app and answer this question. This is
the question I want us to make sure we answer
the entirety of the show so we can play those
answers in the spirit of the fourth of July, even
though it is now the sixth of July, but we're
hanging on to the weekend by its tippy toes. We're
not letting it go just yet. So the question that
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I have for you is what is the most memorable
Fourth of July experience that you you have? I want
you to go to the talkback feature and answer that question.
The most memorable Fourth of July experience that you can
recall whatever it may be, keep it semi clean. This
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is somewhat of a family show. It's a Sunday, so
let's make sure we have some fun and in the
spirit of the Fourth of July, let's get those talkbacks.
And of course we're watching the biggest news stories coming
out from all over the place, starting with did you
know Elon Musk and Trump? They're not buddies anymore? And
(01:34):
Elon has decided that he's going to start a brand
new political party after falling out with his ex bestie
President Trump. We're going to get into that after five
during our Combined Deeper Dives and La Law segment, so
make sure you stay tuned for that as well. Have
(01:54):
some updates on that officer involved shooting from yesterday. It
happened just before four p yesterday in south central MLK
Boulevard and Western So what happened was officers were at
a nearby park questioning a person. They were doing a
pedestrian stop and that person ran off, so officers took
chase and unfortunately a gun battle ensued right there Saturday
(02:19):
afternoon in the park. Officers fired, the suspect fired. Suspect
hit the officers, one of them specifically, sending that officer
to the hospital. Fortunately, that officer is expected to make
a full recovery, so that's good news. We do know
that the suspect was taken into custody, so we'll keep
(02:41):
up to date on that. Still no real motive behind why,
but you know it happened. And then also we're watching
the biggest fire this year. It's called the Madre Fire
and it's in the San Louis Obispo area. It's now
more than eighty acres that is massive, thirty percent containment
(03:05):
as of today. So they're making ground, the fire department.
They're making ground, but this thing is moving quickly with
the winds going out there. Again, it's the largest fire
in California this year. Almost six months to the day,
I think the six month anniversary, and I don't think
anyone wants to celebrate it, but the six month commemoration
(03:29):
of the Palisades and Eaten fires is tomorrow, I think.
So we're six months out from that, and now we're
facing another huge fire in middle California, San Louis Abispo.
There about fifty structures are threatened at this time and
evacuations have been issued around the area of Highway one
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sixty six and the one oh one. It's up there
in the Angelus National Forest. So we're definitely keeping tabs
on that fire and anything else that should come out
of the news room or from any of these many
screens here in the studio. Definitely watching what is making
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to be the biggest story of the weekend, I would say,
which happens to be the flooding in Texas on the
Guadalupe River. This has just ballooned overnight. I remember reporting
on it yesterday on Saturdays with Tiffany, and I think
the number was shy of forty dead at the time,
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which is still an astronomical amount of death. But now
we're looking at seventy nine. Some outlets are saying seventy eight.
CNN is saying seventy nine. I think Reuter's was saying
seventy eight. But still a massive, massive, massive, massive death
toll from what is turning out to be a catastrophic
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flood in that area, including twenty one children. As I'm
watching CNNA and right now, there's a person on a
man saying that he's searching for his missing parents. And
what I've learned from watching these interviews from people who
are actively there, is that the flooding happened overnight. They
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had the storm come in, they had rain, but the
conditions that produced what then has turned out to be
this catastrophic flooding happened into the really really really late
night early morning of that next day, somewhere around three am.
So people are saying it was completely pitch black. So
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this is in Kerr County and according to the sheriff,
they're in Kerr County, Larry Laithe again twenty one children
and continued search for the girls missing from that Mystic
summer camp and a counselor unfortunately missing from that summer
camp as well. So what happened to cause all of this?
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Many people are saying, how could this have happened? Well,
if you know anything about this region, then you do
know that flooding does in fact occur. And I love
to bring Eileen in in the newsroom here because Eileen
actually lived and reported in this exact area and she
has a lot more context about the conditions that produce
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flooding and the regularity of the flooding of the Guadalupe Rivers.
So Eileen, can you shed a bit of light on
what's happening out there.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, we'll start telling you a little. I have a
long career in TV news. Also, I worked at stations
in San Antonio and Austin and Dallas, and it's very
common to have flesh floods in those regions. But to
this effect, this is really unheard of. I've covered. I've
actually covered many floods in that region and seen a
(06:56):
lot of the destruction, and there have been times where families,
homes have swept away. But I mean, this was just
like I said, the extent is it's catastrophic. It's unheard of.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So they're what they're saying, and that's Eileen here in
the news room. What they're saying is that the Guadalupe
River rose about Oh, the water there rose about twenty
six feet twenty six feet, so that's two stories for context,
and it broke the banks. This is after the rain
fell and the rain is being described as being torrential,
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and then the storm itself dumped about fifteen inches of
rain over that region. Eileen, in your recall of this area,
the water there, is it quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Is it fast rushing? Is it it is so fast moving?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
There's a saying you'll hear this all over the news
in Texas, it's turnaround, don't drown. Once you have heavy rains,
you're constantly telling people, do not go try to go
through the water. I mean just it is extremely strong.
I mean it carries vehicles, it carries houses. You've seen
these houses swept away.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It is. This current is so strong. I mean you
can't swim in it. There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So when it comes to warnings, turnaround, don't drown, being
an anecdote shared of course amongst the community. But when
it comes to warnings from the weather system, from the forecasts,
from the local outlets, what is that like? Are they doing,
you know, a couple of days out make sure you
stay away from the river, doing evacuations of places like
this mystic camp?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What's it like?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, the thing about Texas is there's a saying, if
you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It changes so quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And there's really I mean, you know it's coming, but
I don't know if they knew. I actually no, it's
not true.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I still have a lot of friends on Facebook and
the colleagues that I worked with that have been that
are weathercasters and one retired one. He did I did
see he predicted this.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And then you were saying as well, we were talking
outside of the studio here that you have a friend
who has a daughter who attended the Mystic Camp. Can
you share a little bit of an update on that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You have another Facebook friend that I've stayed in touch
with who also works in the media, and she said
she got her daughter backed and hugged her like she's
never had before, and just told everybody to be grateful
for what they have and their family and their friends
and their loved ones.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Thank you, Eileen for sharing that with us. It's Eileen
Gonzalez right there in the newsroom with some firsthand knowledge
of what's happening there in Kerr County with the flooding
on the Guadalupe River. When we come back, I'm going
to give you a little bit more information about what's
happening there in Texas and some background, a little bit
of background, a little bit of insight on this Mystic camp.
The Camp Mystic is what it's called, where many of
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these girls were attending. It's a beloved camp and now
a big number of them are missing. And then we'll
do a quick kind of recap of what's going on
as it pertains to immigration and customs enforcement in Los Angeles.
Have a couple of stories about that as well. On
the other side of the break, it's k i AM
six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany Hobbs
(10:10):
sitting in for Meryl today until seven.
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You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
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K i AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Tiffany Hobbs here from maryl till four o'clock tonight, and
we're talking about the devastating flooding in Central Texas. And
I was giving you and Eileen in the newsroom was
giving you a very eloquent firsthand account of what that
region is like and why it's so prone to flooding.
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Hearing that this is something that does happen, but never
to this extent. This is definitely again here's that word, unprecedented.
It's unprecedented flooding. So, just to give you a bit
more information, eight hundred and fifty people have been rescued
as of yesterday. That number continues to increase, as does sadly,
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the number of people who have been found dead during
the rescue and recovery phase now of this flooding, CNN
has the number at eighty again, it's fluctuating between seventy
nine and eighty depending on where you look. Reuters is
at seventy eight or seventy nine. CNN just updated to
eighty of the rescued. There were people who were clinging
(11:29):
to trees who were rescued, and there have been some
questions around the warning system. FEMA has been deployed as
well after President Trump issued a major disaster declaration. But
when it comes to the National Weather Service and their
issuance of flood warnings and advisories, that did happen. But
the former director of NOAH, which is the national Associate
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excuse me, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been a
bit critical of the cutbacks, the rollbacks to these governmental
weather monitoring agencies. They were in fact cut by the
Trump administration and DOGE, and they're saying, the former director
of NOAH, Rick Spinrad, that their offices are greatly understaffed
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right now and that those cuts could definitely factor into
the lack of advanced warnings for things like extreme flooding.
In this region in the future. So not a good
forecast in many ways, especially when it comes to preparedness.
Now again, the camp that's there that had quite a
(12:42):
few girls in attendance, this summer camp, very popular summer camp.
It's called Camp Mystic, and quite a few of those
young ladies are still missing. Here's some background about Camp Mystic.
It's described as being a Christian camp along the banks
of the Guadalupe River. It's located about eighty five miles
northwest of San Antonio. It's right there in that central
(13:05):
Texas area. And it was founded by the former Texas
Longhorns football coach EJ. Doc Stewart in nineteen twenty six,
so they would be celebrating their one hundredth anniversary next year.
The camp is described on its website as being very picturesque.
It's in those mountains there, or at the bank there
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of the mountains, or excuse me, the probably the base,
I would say, right there between the river and the mountains.
Beautiful area, nestled amongst cyprus live oak and pecan trees
or pecan depending on where you live. It operates three
sessions each summer. Very busy camp. They have archery canoeing,
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arts and crafts, horseback riding, and a variety of sports.
Sounds like a beautiful place. When the flash flood struck
early on Friday, the camp was less than a week
into its second four week term, with more than seven
hundred children in attendance, very well attended as of right now. Again,
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there are still a number of girls and a camp
counselor who are unaccounted for. So this is again ongoing,
and it seems like every time we look back at
the screen the numbers fluctuate a bit more and in
a negative way. So definitely prayers out and hopefulness for
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this situation. Absolutely horrible, all right, So let's do an
immigration and customs enforcement in La roundup. Okay, it's been
a well quiet, I would say, not if you're in
the communities of course, in which you are experiencing ICE,
but as far as the protesting, as far as things
(14:59):
that have gotten out of hand, it's been pretty quiet
in the Southland. But there are some stories in fact
that are coming out, including one of a video that
has captured ten ICE agents allegedly got to say this,
allegedly urinating on a Pico rivera school campus. Yes, so
(15:26):
here's what happened. Surveillance camera footage allegedly captured ICE agents
urinating on the grounds of this Pico Rivera High school
in broad daylight, broad daylight. This is June seventeenth. The
agents were seen urinating in the parking lot of Ruben
Salazar High School, which is immediately adjacent to a preschool
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playground and an elementary school where summer classes were in
session at the time. There were kids present. This is
according to the l Rancho Unified School District, who monitors
those surveillance cameras. Now, the district just that Wednesday, prior
to the situation or during that situation, called for a
(16:12):
federal investigation into what they say is the quote unquote
deeply disturbing conduct of the agents, who they say trespassed
on school grounds and risked exposing themselves to minors that
day June seventeenth. Now, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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Christy Nome and ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons wrote back
to the district and said that yes, these actions raise
alarming and pressing questions regarding ICE's behavior and judgment, as
well as concerns about the rights and well being of
those involved. Including the er USD community, that school district community.
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A Homeland Security spokesperson went on to say that this
matter is currently under investigation now. The review of the
camera video, the footage was between eight fifty four am
and nine four am, so right there, first part of
the morning, and it revealed these ten agents urinating near
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storage containers in the parking lot. Okay, the district actually
went on to post a condensed version of the video
on YouTube for the public to view. Put it on
YouTube because they said, hey, you know this happened. You
guys can see it for yourself. So the questions now
(17:41):
about what happened and the consequences therein do in fact
involve whether or not these agents will be held accountable
legally within the agency, however it may shake down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But I do know. I happen to know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
And this is no to say that we all haven't
done it at some point, because we have.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You have, I know I have.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
We all have had to go, and we all have
made the really uncomfortable decision to go, you know, perhaps
when there's not necessarily a toilet ready available for as
a private one anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But if you are caught doing that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And you are on especially school grounds or anywhere where
children or miners are you in fact can be held
for indecent exposure and that then turns into having to
register on that sex offender list. These ten agents are
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in a world of hurt and if they did what
they did, they probably should be allegedly. We have to
say allegedly, although there is video posted on YouTube to
round out this ice kind of second kidnappers or ICE agents. Well,
LAPD is feeling lots of calls. They've had a surgeon
(19:07):
calls from concerned citizens saying that people are being grabbed
and thrown into cars and potentially kidnapped, and so the
LAPD is arriving and instead of making arrests, they're finding
often that these are in fact immigration and custom enforcement
agents who are being reported as kidnappers. But because of
(19:31):
the lack of i would say, insignia on the on
the vehicles, you know, the kind of nondescript uniforms, the
interaction with the public, people are saying, we don't know,
we don't know if it's ICE, they could just be anybody.
So LAPD is having to parse through these calls and
(19:52):
this just lends more credence to the fact that perhaps
these ice agents should in fact where things that are
more easily identifiable, like badges, and perhaps ways in which
they can be more readily identified.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
When we come back.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We're going to do a Fourth of July round up
as well, just a quick one about something that's happening
in northern California that you might want to know because
it could absolutely come here, and something that's happening here
that if it continues to get bad, will spread to
northern California. So we'll look at both sides of that coin.
(20:31):
On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs sitting
in for Marrow until seven. And remember we are hitting
the talk back to answer the question what is your
most memorable Fourth of July experience?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What do you remember?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
What sticks out in your brain that you can remember,
and we'll share it on the air right here. Also
share some of our memorable Fourth of July experiences kind
of sprinkle.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Throughout the show.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
A lot of show left, a lot to get to
right here on KFI six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand i AM.
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Six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs
here for Meryl. You're wondering where's Chris Merril.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
He'll be back.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Don't worry. He's probably listening right now. He's enjoying being
at home. Man works very hard. Let him have a
day off. Okay, But if you want to show him
how much you miss him, then answer the talkback question
that I shared with you at the top of the
show last segment. I'll be sharing with you throughout what's
the most memorable Fourth of July experience that you can recall?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What do you remember? Talk about it? Share it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Hit that talkback button's right there at the top somewhere.
You get like twenty seconds, thirty seconds, whatever it is.
You can leave more than one it elongated. It's fine.
And we'll send him to Chris and he'll be able
to hear too. Okay, and you can tell let me
miss him.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's fine. I won't take it personal.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
As long as you listen on Saturdays to Saturdays with Tiffany,
that's all right. So we're following some big news stories
and top news stories. Of course, that Madre fire and
San Luis Obispo still at eighty thousand acres, which is
way too many thirty percent containment give or take, So
that is absolutely being responded to. It's all hands on
(22:18):
deck up there. Probably the National Guard there as well,
I think, so those troops there are helping with those efforts.
But it is the biggest fire to date in California,
just one day shy of the exact six month anniversary
or commemoration of the Palisades Fire and the Eaten Fires.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
So can you believe it's been six months? Wow?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
They say as you get older, time goes faster. I
think that may very well be true, but I think
it's going even faster. With all of these unprecedented events.
It seems like there's one after the other, and this
fire is certainly the latest in that round. And also
speaking of rounds, the next round of cease fire talks
(23:03):
between Israel and Hamas is expected to happen tomorrow in Washington,
DC at the White House between Benjamin net and Yahoo
and President Trump. So I imagine we'll be talking about
that tomorrow right here on the station to see what
comes of those cease fire talks. All right, Fourth of
July round Up, Fourth of July Roundup?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
How was your fourth Was it great?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, if you were one of the people who was
popping illegal fireworks and you thought you did so without
anyone knowing, especially law enforcement, you might be in for
a rude awakening. And here's why in Northern California, which
means this could certainly come to Southern California. Thousands of
illegal firework users who thought they were getting away with
(23:52):
lighting up those you know whatever it is. They may
be lighting up. And I'll tell you in a second
about somebody that did something really, really stupid last night,
but they were surprised by hefty citations tickets showing up,
or will be surprised by hefty citations showing up in
their mailboxes over the next few weeks. So they were
(24:15):
doing their fireworks, enjoying themselves and you know whatever, some
having fun, some probably creating a lot of ruckus and
chaos because you can't just have the calm with it all.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And they're going to get tickets.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Because there were drones that were flying around and monitoring
who and where these fireworks were being set off, and
of course a lot of conversation around wildfires and the
risk of fireworks and wildfires. Well, Northern California officials are
(24:50):
hoping to be able to curtel that sort of explosion
or that sort of source of these wildfires by issuing
these what they say, massive fines. That's from the Sacramento
Fire Department, Captain justin Sylvia. He said, the fines are
going to be massive. Don't know what massive is or
(25:14):
massive is probably relative, then leuis Obispo. By the way,
massive for them is probably different from massive and massive
for us.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But massive.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Nonetheless, they're gonna get these big tickets. And they said,
despite stern warnings from law enforcement about fines and even
possible jail time, there was no shortage of illegal fireworks
going off throughout the night of the fourth and into Saturday.
I heard them yesterday, I heard them this morning driving in.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
This will be going on until August September, maybe until
people run out. Let me tell you about this idiot
in my neighborhood before we go on with this talk
about fines, and I'll tell you why southern California is
also a world of hurt. In a second as well,
So out walking the dog with Fyance, he's listening hello,
(26:07):
and we're walking the dogs. We're enjoying ourselves. It's the
evening of the yesterday evening of yesterday Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, so the fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And by now you would think you wouldn't see the
major firework explosions. You might hear a you know, an
MD in the distance, and those are certainly they jar
you they're so loud, but you don't expect to see
like a full on firework presentation.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Because it's the fifth. Right, we're walking the dog.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We're in a residential kind of commercial residential area, and
all of a sudden, we see this guy crouched down
kind of behind a car and he starts setting up
something on the car. The car's parked on the street,
and just on the other side of where he is
is a massive apartment condo complex right with the balcony
(27:00):
of these tenants facing this side of the street. It's
about twenty stories high, give or take. And again, these
balconies are all on this eastern facing part of the street.
The man is crouching down behind a car. We're across
the street from all of this, looking because we had
heard some popping sounds and we're like, damn, here they
(27:21):
go again, the fireworks or walking the dogs. Gotta make
sure we keep them safe. Don't want them to run off.
And we look and instead of an M eighty, which
wouldn't necessarily have been better, this guy, this idiot, this
Darwinism candidate sets off a full on like Dodger Stadium
(27:41):
caliber fireworks show right there behind the car, and it
goes up twenty feet thirty feet forty feet into the
air to the top of this condo complex. And the
sparks these are the real fireworks. These aren't the ones
you get at the twenty dollars stand. No, these are
the ones that you know. These are those The sparks
(28:05):
are going into people's balconies and people are coming out
and they're looking, because can you imagine being on your
balcony and seeing sparks shoot up ten fifteen stories You're
gonna look, You're gonna be curious. So as people were looking,
here come these sparks shooting at them onto their balconies.
(28:27):
And he didn't just do one, No, he did about
he lit about three or four. By the second one
on top of my lungs.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Aye, the oh real dig.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Voice changed and everything WHOA call Pola, you know, I'm
just screaming at the top of my lungs and the
first time I yelled, he looked at me and he
kept going.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
He didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That pissed me off even more cause you see me
and you hear me, and you keep going with this.
By the like the second one that went up, I
the bear toe came out, you know that side, the
side I don't show here on air, the non kfi side. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
who am I with top of my lungs?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And he stopped, and he, let me tell you, this
is what was crazier. He stops.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
People are yelling out, stop, hey, stop from the balconies, right,
So it's this whole thing. He scurries away into the
the complex through like a side service door.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So he lived there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Oh wow, you idiots, literal fool. So there's gonna be
an apartment opening up if anybody wants that address. It's
a really nice building because they're gonna get rid of him,
as they should. There's a little bit more to this
story involving a security guard too, and I'll tell you
about that on the other side of the break. Because
we need security that security guards that can actually do security.
And this one was not worth his not worth the dam. Anyway,
(29:53):
I'll tell you more about that on the other side
of the break. K if I AM six forty live
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Speaker 2 (29:59):
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Speaker 1 (30:00):
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Speaker 3 (30:05):
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Speaker 2 (30:08):
What it is?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's KFI and we're here. We're live on iHeartRadio app.
We do have a talkback. We're in our Fourth of
July roundup segment because it's the sixth and we need
to move on, but we're holding on to the last
little remnants of it because it feels good and something
like that just amplifies it. Let's hear from Allison. Alison,
what's up? What's your what's your most memorable Fourth of
July experience?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I think my most memorable Fourth of July was going
to a concert in Santa Barbara on the fourth and
watching the fireworks along the way and getting there and
just having that summer feeling. It was a very hot
day and a great memory. Thanks Relie, dude.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You're welcome. I don't really do a lot. Wasn't that right?
Calm relax? It sounds like the song it was. It
was a perfect voice to come out of the outside
of yours. Obviously, Oh thank you. It's just very calming.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
If you put her vocals right there, just that talkback
over that three to eleven track, it would fit perfectly.
AMR I ASMR Allison. You have a whole other career
out there, girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Explore it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Send us more talkbacks, just talking about like anything, so
we can play you on air in between. You know,
it's nice something not so nice. In this fourth of
July roundup the Air.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
The air.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We talked about northern California and hefty fines being issued
to people who thought they were going to circumvent the law,
thought they were going to use illegal fireworks without anyone
knowing well, surprise, surprise, there were drones monitoring their activity
and spotlighting exactly where they were, and tickets will be
issued that are massive, quote unquote according to officials up
(31:55):
there in northern California. But here in southern California. While
ticket aren't necessarily being issued because of the legal fireworks,
weather alerts alerts, air quality alerts are being issued, and
air quality alert was issued across southern California due to
(32:16):
smoke from the fireworks and.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
The wildfires, but we don't.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
They're not really counting that. They're just saying the fireworks.
A regional air quality alert was issued for much of
southern California as harmful levels a fine particle pollution spread
across the region after the fireworks celebrations and the wildfires
in the mountain areas. But we're talking about the fireworks specifically.
(32:45):
The South Coast air Quality Management District announced the alert
on Friday, warning that because of fireworks, they were anticipating
elevated pollution levels that would persist through Saturday night. Just
last night. They haven't gone away yet, those particles as
of today's Sunday, they didn't just magically evaporate and move along.
(33:07):
It's not like we have these really strong winds down
here in southern California right now. In most areas there's
a slight breeze, but for the most part, those particulates,
that toxic matter in the air. Particle pollution is still
hanging in the atmosphere due to all of the fireworks,
(33:28):
illegal and legal, so it doesn't really matter. The alert
applies to most of La and Orange Counties and the
Inland Empire and Santa Clarita and the Gabriel and San
Bernardino Mountains. Pretty much everywhere is screwed. Official said pollution
(33:49):
levels could in fact vary by time and location, depending
on things like emissions and local weather conditions. We've gotten
really lucky this summer, i'd say, south of the Valleys
and west of maybe San Gabriel and kind of the
Inland Empire areas in this basin here it's been pretty moderate.
(34:09):
Even today here in Bourbank, I think that the high
is like eighty three eighty four, really comfortable, and I
don't want to jinx it, so everyone knock on wood,
because we know how these things can turn.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's not Texas, Eileen.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
The weather doesn't change in five minutes, but we know
it can definitely go like day to day. So while
it's moderate right now, it does in fact help with
the pollution levels. It does make things a bit more tolerable.
You're not necessarily feeling the weight of those particulates in
the air, but they're their official say. And of course
(34:44):
air quality when it's impacted like that, absolutely has side
effects that you can feel if you have coal morbidities
like asthma or any sort of compromise to your lungs.
Or you know, anything like that, it can be quote
unhealthy for sensitive groups, which means that vulnerable individuals should
(35:07):
limit prolonged or strenuous outdoor activity. Okay, that's kind of
at the low level. When it's unhealthy at the red level,
like a think of like a stoplight, a speedlight, right, red, yellow, orange,
things like this. There's all these certain colors, but at
the bottom the least i'd say harmful, but still harmful.
It just means limit your outdoor activity. If you're a
(35:30):
part of the sensitive group section of the community. When
it gets too unhealthy the red level, everyone may experience
health effects and sensitive groups should still keep their butts inside.
When levels get to very unhealthy or purple alerts. If
you see like purple alert on your TV or it
(35:52):
comes across somewhere purple alert, purple alert, that means again
sensitive groups should avoid all all outdoor activity, and others
should limit outdoor exposure. And at the hazardous level maroon,
all individuals are advised to stay indoors and avoid outdoor
(36:15):
physical activity inentirely. So the air quality index changes, like
they said, it can change and fluctuate depending on weather
and region, but they are warning that These fine particulates
can get into your lungs and can lead to things
like asthma check, bronchitis check, heart attacks check, and difficulty
(36:40):
breathing check check check. All those things are horrible and
you don't want that. You definitely don't want those sorts
of things.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
They said.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
To reduce indoor exposure. If you're like me and you
love to have your doors and your windows open and
catch that breeze, it's the summer. You want to sleep
with your stuff open, officials recommend keeping your windows and
your doors closed. They said, don't do that, that's bad.
They also say using air conditioners or air purifiers should
(37:10):
also be monitored because air conditioners could depending on how
good of quality or air conditioner is, it can make
things worse. But air purifiers are a good go.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Should do that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Avoid the use of fireplaces, candles come on, can't burn
a candle, incense, or gasoline.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Powered equipment cars. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
If possible? Residents should avoid using swamp coolers or whole
house fans that draw in outside air. They want you
to be hot and sweaty because your stupid neighbor was
popping fireworks outside. On July fifth, outside of the apartment
complex and letting the sparks go into people's balconies. People
like that are why we are supposed to stay indoors today,
(37:58):
can we Yesterday really quick on my Instagram had a
person comment to me and say something like fireworks are
here to stay get over it. Well, no, not going
to get over it. And I said to him, thank
you for listening. That's all I said, thank you for listening,
because he did listen, you know, but we're not going
(38:20):
to get over it. When you're not going to be
able to breathe, you're going to be under it. You're
going to be very under it and very far under
it if we continue this pattern, because this is really unhealthy.
When we come back, we're going to get into our
deeper dive segment, which we are combining with LA Law.
So I don't know if we have the LA Law
music that Chris Merrill uses, but Raoul is amazing. He
(38:42):
just said I'll find it. He gave the thumbs up,
so we'll try. But we're going to do deeper dives
slash LA Law and I'm going to get into some
big legal stories that are happening around the Southland and
around the United States, so stay tuned for that Tiffany
Hobbs here with you until seven, sitting here for Chris
Merrill a f I AM six forty live everywhere on
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