9/11 Remembrance – Marking 24 years since the attacks; a striking stat that 250 current NFL players were born after 9/11 sparks the question: Where were you that day? Kobe Bryant, Shaq and Magic all knew Bellio by name. Port Backlog – Efforts continue to remove containers from the Port of Long Beach, with ripple effects on local businesses. The Pantry Returns – Downtown L.A.’s iconic Pantry Café is
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is
the anniversary of nine to eleven. I think most adults
remember where they were when that happened. But here's the
startling number. The number is two hundred and fifty. Two
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hundred and fifty, and you're probably thinking, Okay, we got
the number. Now what does it mean? All right, I'll
tell you. It's gonna make you feel a little old.
There are two hundred and fifty current NFL players National
Football League players who were playing in the National Football
League today that were born after nine to eleven. Two
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hundred and fifty National Football League players born after nine
to eleven. They didn't experience nine to eleven. That is remarkable.
It's unbelievable. Belly O is belly you got a mic
on there, belly on you had headphones.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You're so great.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I tell you, thanks when you get some sleepier as
sharp as they come.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank you for noticing where were you during nine eleven?
Were you in Colorado? No, I had just moved out
here and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was sleeping and heard just screaming my neighbors screaming, and
of course like turned on the television and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Bad vibes es. Yeah, I was I live.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I was living in Encino on Enfield with my lovely
girlfriend at that time, turned out to be my wife,
thank you very much. And I got a phone call
and the voice the answer machine picked up. That was
back when we had answer machines, and it picked up, Hey,
it's Tim and Jen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're not here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The message will call you back. And I heard Doug McIntyre,
who was a very popular talk show host on KBC
for a long time. Bur good friend of mine, and
he said, Conway, you got to pick up the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's my Doug back, entire impression. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He says a plane has flown into the World Trade
Center on purpose, and I remember that on purpose, and
I jumped up. I turned the TV on. I got
my wife up and then girlfriend and we watched and
we couldn't believe what was going on. And then we
(02:31):
watched for it seemed like hour after hour after hour,
and then went outside. Back then, I was young and
dumb and smoked cigarettes. So I went outside to have
a cigarette and I couldn't hear a helicopter, an airplane, nothing.
It was deadly quiet in the San Fernando Valley. Do
(02:53):
you remember that bellyo that nothing was allowed to fly
for days?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yes? And it was quiet, very very eerie and quiet. Angel.
Where were you on nine to eleven? Were you?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Were you? Born? Barely?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Barely barely?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I was actually working on Morning Drive and I was
walking into the studio and the way that the studio
was set up was that you walk down this hallway
and it's just these you know, Florida ceiling glass panels,
so you can see everything going on in the studio,
and on all the monitors, I could see, you know,
these two It was hard to tell what it was
(03:30):
because the cameras on these news cameras were just zoomed
in onto the first plane that had crashed into a building,
and I'm like, what's that? What did it crash into?
And nobody really knew because it had just happened, and
they're like, I'm not sure, and it kind of looked
like a silo or something, and it was hard to
even tell it was in New York City. And then
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you know, they pan out and you're like, oh, it's
the World Trade Center and I'm like, that's that's crazy.
It must be a terrible accident. And then as we're
all just sitting around and kind of trying waiting for
more information to come in. You know, you see that
second plane make that turn happening and alive on television
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and you know, just watching watching that second plane plow
into the World Trade Center. But it was in the
studio I was working, and you know, of course that's
what we were all talking about for days to come.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, it was crazy to.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Piggyback on what you were saying about, you know, the
airs or all the all planes being grounded for you know,
I don't remember how many days a week. Maybe afterwards.
It was the weirdest thing not to see any airplane
fly by. On occasion, you'd see like a military plane
or something, but no commercial flights at all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, and especially if you live you know, closed Orange
County Airport or lax.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It was earring. Man oh man, it was crazy. Brigeta,
Where were you on nine level? Were you born? I
was I was a high school or you weren't high school?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I think I was a junior or sophomore out here. No,
in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
In the Bay Area, okay, and man oh man, but
you still remember where you were though.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh yeah, I totally remember.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
I was actually in my history class and our teacher,
she was pretty young, and she was just so shocked
and we were all just watching the footage.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it was a scary, shocking as hell. Where were
you and Tony? Were you retired? I just got home
from here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You were working at what at Coast or KFI.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Overnights back then.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
So I just got home at like six am, crashed out,
and then my roommate the time, she's knocking my doors like, hey,
can you get the TV work into something's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh man? And I basically just got it out.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Because I didn't have antenna for it, you know, I
had cave money, so I had to like get a
Tanna to kind of work, and it got a channel,
and like within minutes that's when the second plane happened.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I'm like, well, I guess I'm going to work
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, too bad. You know, Crowser's not here. He's got
a great story. He was working I think on either
on Coast or KFI. I by they went to all
I mean, Bill Handle was live on the air when
it happened, and all the FM stations at iHeart went
to KFI.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Krozer was probably doing the third station we had for
a little while. I can't remember the name of it now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, but he would he yeah, he was doing
like like overnights into the mornings and then everybody. And
I still get people who when we do remote they'll
say that they started listening to KFI on nine to
eleven because they that's the first time they heard Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
When that happened, that was a crazy day.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
And there was one plane that flew in my neighbor
because I lived right by, uh close to the Flourishing airport,
you know, the tiny little airport. Yeah, yeah, one FA
eighteen hornet landed there and that thing was loud.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Must have been comforting though, you know the coming Yeah,
that was nothing took off later like that week.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
It shook all the houses. That thing went on full
after burner out. Yeah, we saw.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I went out to Burbank Are a couple of years
ago to see one of those F eighteen hornets take
off and it's almost vertical when it takes off, I mean,
got it might and loud.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Every window shook my house.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, they landed one we used to live in Burbank
in a different house, and we were in the flight
path at Burbank Airport and when that fateen came in,
it felt like an earthquake. I mean, the whole house
shook and we were it was probably you know, five six,
seven hundred feet above us, and yet the entire house shook.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, We're still waiting for the possible press conference
with any more information coming out on Charlie Kirk. I'm
sorry that they told us five o'clock and they keep
putting it off. It may or may not even happen now,
and if it does, you'll hear it first right here
on KFI. No matter what we're doing, we'll we'll jump
in and get get you that information.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's wild to hear Gary talk about tomorrow is Friday.
We were all, you know, so overloaded this week with
news that we lost track of days.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Man oh man, Tomorrow's Friday. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, we're still waiting for the news conference. I mean,
I know, Belly, you're on all over this. Any word
on the news.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They're saying six thirty, So six thirty, I'm gonna and
they're showing photos of the podium, so are a live video?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
All right, Well, while we're waiting for the Charlie Kirk
press conference on the latest information that they have, let's
all wander down to the Port of Los Angeles and
see how the cleanups go. They said it might take
just a few days. I am going to stay on
high alert. I am not getting down on the dock
(08:47):
workers gotten some of that email. I'm just saying I've
seen the damage and it's going to take a lot
of work because a lot of those those containers that
fell off that cargo ship. They and you can't just
pull seven, eight, nine, ten of those out in an hour.
It takes a long time to do that and to
secure them, and then to have cameras go down and
(09:12):
to make sure nothing else is down there when another
ship comes in. It takes a lot of work to
clean that port up a lot. So let's find out
when this thing's going to open again.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
The US Coast Guard says there are still about thirty
containers underwater they need to retrieve, and as you mentioned,
I spoke to one business owner he had products on
this ship, and so far, he says he's just desperate
for any answers. He doesn't know if his container is
on board, in the water, or even damaged.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Cleanup continues, Well, I think I know this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This guy's in the chocolate business and he has boxes
that are coming from China that he puts his chocolate
in for Christmas. And he can't find his chocolate boxes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Cleanup continues at the port of Long Beach after seventy
five shipping containers tumbled off the cargo ship Mississippi and
into the water at pure g Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You imagine him going down to the port, you know,
this little guy from the valley and talking to longshoreman.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Ah, my chocolate boxes. Where me chocolate boxes? Boys saving that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know there's Delta slippers and furniture and mouse pads,
but I'm missing me chocolate boxes.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
I've been watching the Mississippi going, oh, this is the guy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, this is the guy. He's been watching. This guy
is great. This guy's like me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Man if I had the chocolate business, I'd be watching
my containers. You can watch with ship track when that
ship leaves China. You can watch it all the across
the entire ocean, and you can track it across the
entire Pacific until it comes to LA and then your
chocolate boxes go to the bottom of the harbor.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
I've been watching the Mississippi going across the sea waiting
for my boxes to come. So yesterday when I heard
the news that there was this.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Accident, Now this is the the chocolate box guy.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
I right away went online and found out that, yes,
my container is on this boat.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Jonathan Graham owns Comparte's Chocolates in Los Angeles. He had
about fifty thousand packages and boxes for his holiday chocolate line.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Wow, this guy's doing big chocolate numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Fifty thousand boxes of holiday chocolates.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
And advent calendars on board in a shipping container.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
They're not telling us if our containers were affected or not.
That's really the heartbreaking part because I don't know what
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, might be a light chocolate season.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
There were about twenty four hundred containers with general cargo
from China on board the Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And look, I don't want to make light of this
guy in his business. I'm sure he works his ass off.
This guy makes up out I think that he said
seventy percent of his nut comes in on Christmas chocolate boxes.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
This guy's got to get his boxes, this chocolate boxes.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
The US Coast Guard is still investigating what caused the
cargo to fall off, and all operations have been suspended
while they've work to stabilize the remaining containers. Officials say
this spill also damaged the ship and there's a light
oil machine in the water they're working to clean up.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh no, oh, no, diesel fuel in your chocolate boxes.
Speaker 12 (12:17):
We believe that it could be coming either.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
From such a child, to say, a nine year old
who works for the Coast Guard.
Speaker 12 (12:26):
We believe that it could be coming either from the
generator on board the barge or the tank. And we
have an oil spill response organization on scene to do
the best that they can to prevent the machine from spreading.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, it's spreading. I saw it on TV. It's spreading.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
As Graham waits for answers, he's also worried about the
potential financial impact.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, this is gonna be a bad chocolate season for this.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Dude, since he makes more than fifty.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Percent Okay, more than fifty percent, I said, seventy than
fifty percent on his Christmas chocolates. And man, there's a
lot of businesses out there that survive on stuff on
like giveaways and handouts and small ticket items. Remember like
the guy, the Iranian guy who is in the balloon business. Uh,
(13:17):
elegant balloons and studio City. The guy for twenty years
has been selling balloons. That's his business, selling balloons, and
he gets by on balloons. Balloons are something that you
it's an also grab. You know, you go to get flowers, Oh,
also get a balloon. I'm getting groceries. Oh also get
(13:38):
a balloon. Go to Disneyland, Oh, also get a balloon.
But this guy survives solely on balloons. He's in the
balloon game.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Since he makes more than fifty percent of his sales
for the year during the holiday season.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
They don't know when the cargo is going to be released.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I will say this of this chocolate guy. I saw
his chocolates last night on Channel five. They look great.
He spent a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
With these chocolates.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
So I think it's the fact that you just don't know.
That's all these variables that make it very difficult in
the moment, and.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
There's no timeline on when this investigation will wrap up
or the cleanup will be finished.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Didn't we put a pole out there, belly O. We
had asked that the listeners how long this thing would take?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, we sure did. What were the results of that?
You have that handy? Are you at the pole desk?
I'm not at the poll des All right, well let
me finish this up here while you were run over
the pole desk. Okay, get over there.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Graham also tells me he paid a premium to get
his items shipped on the Mississippi because it guarantees they'll
arrive before the holidays, and it's faster than any other ship.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, the Mississippi hall's ass they got an extra prop.
I don't know they got an extra engine or I
don't know. A guy who's rowing on the side and
he gets those chocolate boxes two days in advance recording live,
how about flying them next year? They can't be that heavy,
you know, a couple thousand boxes. The chocolates aren't in them.
(15:00):
He puts the chocolates in when they get here. So
I'd go maybe American Airlines or China Air Delta or FedEx.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
You're reporting live in Long Beach trac ling Long NBC.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
For News ANDBC four. They're on top of those chocolates. Man, I, Matthew,
you're at the poll desk. How you doing there?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
What with the poles?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So here was the poll.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It was sixty seven containers fell from the vessel Mississippi
at the port of Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
How long before the ship leaves the port back to China?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And the winner is forty nine percent said Halloween?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh okay, what were the options?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And we had Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's or Labor Day?
And so Thanksgiving was second and then New Year's in
Labor Day tied at fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I like that somebody actually went for Labor Day. Yeah, yeah,
all right. We're waiting for this press conference. I see
somebody at the podium now, so it might be just
a matter of minutes before they start that press conference.
And we will carry that live right here on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Apologize, we told you at five o'clock there would be
a press conference. We have no control over it, and
it looks like it's about to begin with the Charlie
Kirk assassination. So if it happens between now and seven,
we'll have that for you live. And if it happens
after seven, I imagine, Moe Kelly, we'll run that lot.
So I keep it here on KFI. In other news
(16:29):
here in Los Angeles, and there is, you know, some
other news. We have the Pantry, which is a very
popular restaurant downtown LA. Used to be owned by Mayor Rearden,
and it closed due to some I don't know, there's
some financial difficulties, difficulties that they had, and I think
(16:50):
when the owner passed away, it was supposed to be
split up between some of the kids. Some of the
kids wanted other ones wanted to get out. And then
I remember at one point they had in festation in
downtown LA, which is very difficult to avoid. Lots of
rats downtown LA. But let's find out if it's back
(17:11):
the pantry. I think it's reopening dog with this pantry.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh my gosh. When people heard that the Pantry was
going to be reopening, a lot of people came down here.
You can see behind me that they are having kind
of a press conference, doing a little ribbon cutting. We
don't know exactly when they're going to be start cooking
up those pancakes again, but a lot of people can't
wait for that moment. Let me show you some video
of the pantry when it was open earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
This year, because it sounds like a nice, calm place
to have pancakes on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
The pantry when it was open earlier this year, because
it is an institution here in Los Angeles, and that's
why so many people have been waiting to see what's
going to happen next. As you said, the pantry has
been opened here in downtown LA for more than one
hundred years. It was surviving through fires.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Through earth COVID.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
But the pantry used to be owned by the former mayor.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Isn't this say kind of ironic that that is opening
up on the same day that that actress died, the
one that was popular for her saying.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, kiss my grits. Yeah, flow, you know we had
her on.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
When when I was working at klis X and we
had her on what was her first name, Polly Holiday, right,
I said, oh, Polly, We'd love to hear kiss my Grits.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I used to love that.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I watched that show with my mom and dad and
my grandparents.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And you know what her response that was, kiss my grits.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
She goes, I haven't said that since the day I
left the set.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I go, come on, give us one more, kiss my grids,
and she goes, I don't do that anymore, Like, oh,
that's the wrong move.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She should have embraced that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Oh, I can understand if she was trying to get
other roles and she just.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was always but that's her ding dog, it is her
ding dong. But even you wanted to get away from that. Yeah,
my new one is not taken off.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, sure, good, okay, all right, it's not taking off.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Wick Rear did and his estate earlier this year said
that they were trying to sell the property here in
downtown LA and they did not think that they could
continue to operate and can keep everybody employed while they
were looking for a new owner, so they closed in March.
A lot of people were very upset that they thought
that not only was this an institution in LA, but
the people who worked here were really the thing that
(19:25):
made it special. So those workers, as part of the
Union eleven, kept fighting, kept trying to put their case
out and the new owner had a real estate developer
named Leo Pustine, just wrote down so that he will reopen,
he will hire all those workers that we have to
talk to a longtime customer about what makes this place
so special.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I've been coming here since I was five years old.
This place has so much history with La it Is
La And to see when it was closed, it was
just devastating.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It was heartbreaking for like all of us.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I was here at four thirty in the morning, the.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Day had closed, the last day, and to see that
my friends that were here forever, the cooks, the waiters,
it was just a heartbreaking day. And to see that
now there's like a spark, a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, that's the first time I ever heard the term,
and I've not heard it associated with any other establishment,
restaurant or business or anything. That's the first time I
ever heard the term pony rats. And I said, that guy, so,
what's a pony rat? It was the rats are the
size of ponies down here? Oh my oh my lord.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
A lot of people really excited because they said this
is one of the few places that it didn't matter
who you were, what you did, how much money you've had.
This was a place that was opened for everybody in LA. Again,
we're still waiting for those details on exactly when they'll
be able to get everybody back in and to start
cooking up those eggs and pancakes.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There is uh you're been there, belly on the pantry.
You probably were. You were a Laker for a while.
I had gone a few times after Laker games.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or did you go by yourself? Did you go with
sportscasters or yes? But what sportscasters? Were you close with?
Fred Rogan, Jim Hill? Who would you hang out with?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
More of like the writers? The beat writers?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I see yeah, Rachel and Jamie. There is a cake
over there that looks like a stack of pancakes. I
feel like it is.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You've got to I think you don't talk about this
enough because I think you're you know, you're very humble
and you're shy and you don't want to ever have
the spotlight on you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But I don't know if the audience knows this.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I know we got to take a break here, but
I'm going to tell you something that is I think
is is really super cool that Kobe Bryant knows and
knew Sharon Bellio by name. If he saw Sharon Belly,
he would say, Hi, Sharon Bellio. Kobe Bryant knew you
by name? Isn't that correct? Yes, that's that's a big
(21:50):
that's a great brag. You know how many Laker fans
or or you know, people that are that go downtown
all the time would love to say that that Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Knew my name. Yeah, No, I understand the It's huge,
the gravity of it. I think that's what attracted Johnny
Belli o to you. That and James Worthy, that's who
his guy was. He loved James Worthy.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But James Worthy knew you too, Yeah, by name? Yeah,
and so do Kareem Abdul Jabbar ye and Shaq and
Magic Johnson. Yes, they knew you by Sharon Bellio. Yes,
that's a that's a huge brag. I think you got
to lead with that lead whenever you're on the air. No,
ladies and gentlemen, Sharon who, by the way, Kobe Bryant
(22:34):
knew her first and last name.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What's the weather going to be like this weekend? That's
how we should start everything with you think. So, it's
a great brag. But Chick Hern that chick hearn knew
your name? Yeah, and Matt money Smith did he still does?
They all do? Yeah, that's it's a really it was
a great time.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I feel very fortunate that I and you should had
the chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All right, if that press conference happens between now and seven,
will have it. If not, I think Mo Kelly will
run it after seven o'clock and we're waiting for it.
The Charlie Kirk press conference was supposed to start at five,
but they've had some delays. I don't know if that's
good or bad, but we'll have it if they come
on between now and six.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Nation's director for the Utah Department Apartment. Here we go
press conference this evening. We have FBI Director Patel, FBI.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Special Agent in Charge Robert Bowles,
Governor Spencer Cox, Lieutenant Governor Didra Henderson, and Commissioner Anderson,
as well as I'm so sorry Commissioner Commissioner Boat Mason,
as well as some local partners here present with US today,
Governor will kick it off.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
The Charlie Kirk Press conference.
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Is weaits gentlemen, thank you for joining us here tonight.
We appreciate the media and the partnership we have with
you in helping us to get information out to the
public so that we can we can catch this assassin
and hold him accountable.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
We are going to share a portion.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Of a video and that we have of the of
the suspect, as well as some new stills. Those have
already been released, but we want to make sure that
they get as much attention as possible so that we
can get help from from the public in tracking down
this this this evil human being. So we're going to
(24:25):
We're going to queue up the video right now, show
that I've asked Commissioner Beau Mason if he would narrate
to you what is happening in this video.
Speaker 15 (24:37):
Thank you, Governor Beau Mason, Commissioner for the Utah Department
of Public Safety. If you look up to the top left,
you'll see the building where the shooter was proned out
in the top left corner. We'll go ahead and play
that video on narrate as we walk through that. So
here you see the suspect ran behind that upper upper building.
(25:01):
He's going to come out on the right, moves to
this far right corner. As he does, he's going to
climb off the edge and then drop down to the ground.
As he did that, he left some palm impressions. There's
some smudges some places we're looking to collect DNA. There's
a shoe imprint where we leave. The suspect is clearly
(25:23):
identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes. Again, we'll replay that
against you can get another view of that. It's important
to note his black T shirt, his black pants, and
there appears to be some white on the soles of
those Converse tennis shoes. Those are all identifiable items that
we're looking for. In the stills that are going to
(25:44):
follow this, you're going to see a very distinctive T
shirt with an American flag and appears to have an
eagle on it. There's also a baseball cap with a
triangle on it, and a pair of sunglasses, all distinctive,
all things that we would ask the public to look
for and try to identify if they know someone who
has those items, who has been seen wearing those items.
(26:05):
We're looking for all that information. Here you see the
suspect after dropping off the building, he moved around across
this grass area around the parking lot. We're going to
pan to the right after he crosses the street. This
(26:25):
is where he moves over into the wooded area. This
is the video evidence that we utilize to track his
movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area
following the discovery of this evidence. Good, you want to
go to the stills. So here's the still photographs I mentioned.
(26:47):
These have been enhanced, so these are slightly different than
what we introduced earlier. Please play close attention to the
T shirt, like I said, very distinctive with that American
flag and that eagle, the hat with the triangle, and
the sunglasses.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
If you'll go to the next picture, please.
Speaker 15 (27:05):
The backpack as well, all identifying features that we're hoping
the public can help us identify and lead us to
this suspect.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Next picture, and again.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
There's a better picture of the hat with that triangle logo,
and again the T shirt, blue jeans, and you get
a good look at those Converse tennis shoes as well.
We have pushed these out, we'll continue to push these out,
and we just ask for the public cooperation. Through the public,
the tips that have been coming in are what are
giving us our next leads and enabling us to continue
(27:40):
to further this investigation. We've had great cooperation from the
public and we're continuing to ask for that as we
move forward. Thank you, and I'll turn the time back
over to Governor Cox.
Speaker 14 (27:51):
Thank you so much, Commissioner Mason. I want to I
want to thank Director Patel and his team. It's great
to have them on the ground with us tonight. We've
had several briefings and he's had an opportunity to walk
the crime scene. We appreciate our local law enforcement here again.
We have Mike Smith, who is the county sheriff here.
(28:13):
We have all of our local chiefs of police that
are here as well, all working hand in hand with
the state and with the FBI as we as we
move forward with this investigation. Now, just give you a
little more We will not be taking any questions at
this time that we're giving you the latest information we have,
being as transparent with everything that we have, but I
(28:36):
do want to share a couple things that I think
are important.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
We cannot do our job without the public's help. Right now.
Speaker 14 (28:44):
The public has answered our call for action. So far,
we've received more than seven thousand leads and tips. I
would just note that the FBI hasn't received this many
digital media tips from the public since the Boston Marathon bombing.
In case also highlights the dedication of our law enforcement community.
We have twenty federal, state, and local law enforcement partners
(29:07):
that are working shoulder to shoulder to find the person
who committed this horrific crime. With their support, we've completed
nearly two hundred interviews.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
As you're aware.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
As has already been reported, the FBI is offering a
one hundred thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
identification and arrest of the person responsible for the murder
of Charlie Kirk. We also continue to implore the public
to support this investigation and come forward with any information.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
We are truly hopeful.
Speaker 14 (29:38):
That this video and new photos will lead to even
more tips we are processing. We have an incredible team
as state and federal team working together to process those tips.
We are going out in tandem to interview any potential.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Person of interest or suspects.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
But we need again, we need as many as much
help as we can possibly get any videos or photos
that you might have the public should be submitted to
our digital media tip line, which is www dot FBI
dot gov. Forward slash Utah Valley shooting all lowercase. Again,
that is FBI dot gov forward slash Utah Valley Shooting
(30:17):
all lowercase. You can also provide general tips about the
shooting by calling one eight hundred call FBI. That's one
eight hundred c a l L FBI, or.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
At tips dot FBI dot gov.
Speaker 14 (30:31):
This is I would just say this is not just
a local matter here in Utah. We have people all
over the country that are helping to bring this perpetrator
to justice for Charlie Kirk and his family. And we'll
just add as well that as was mentioned, there is
there is a lot of forensic evidence that is being
processed right now at both the state Lab and the
(30:53):
and federal labs and Federal Lab in on the East Coast,
so we are working in tandem together. I would also
just add a word of note for for those uh
for those people who are spending so much time on
on social media. I think Charlie said it best that
when when things get get bad, we should put our
(31:13):
phones down and spend a little time with our our families.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
There is a tremendous amount of disinformation. UH. We are
tracking our our.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Our our team, the state team, and I'm sure the
federal team as well. What we're seeing is our adversaries
want violence, UH, China. We have bots from Russia, China,
all over the world that are trying to instill disinformation
and encourage violence. I would encourage you to ignore those
to UH, to turn off those streams and UH and
(31:47):
to spend a little more time with it with our families.
We we desperately need some healing. We'll have more to
say about that in the in the days and weeks
to come.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
More than anything, we are going to catch this person. UH.
Speaker 14 (32:00):
Last thing I will just say is we've been working
with our attorneys getting everything that we need affidavits ready
so that we can pursue the death penalty in this case,
and that will happen here in the state of Utah. Again,
to the public, to those who are grieving, thank you
for your prayers. I know we are feeling those prayers.
(32:22):
I know the Kirk family is feeling those prayers as well.
We pray that God will bless our nation at this
very dark time. We can start healing by finding this
perpetrator and holding him accountable, and we need your help
to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is
the anniversary of nine to eleven. I think most adults
remember where they were when that happened. But here's the
startling number. The number is two hundred and fifty. Two
(00:22):
hundred and fifty, and you're probably thinking, Okay, we got
the number. Now what does it mean? All right, I'll
tell you. It's gonna make you feel a little old.
There are two hundred and fifty current NFL players National
Football League players who were playing in the National Football
League today that were born after nine to eleven. Two
(00:50):
hundred and fifty National Football League players born after nine
to eleven. They didn't experience nine to eleven. That is remarkable.
It's unbelievable. Belly O is belly you got a mic
on there, belly on you had headphones.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You're so great.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I tell you, thanks when you get some sleepier as
sharp as they come.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thank you for noticing where were you during nine eleven?
Were you in Colorado? No, I had just moved out
here and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was sleeping and heard just screaming my neighbors screaming, and
of course like turned on the television and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Bad vibes es. Yeah, I was I live.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I was living in Encino on Enfield with my lovely
girlfriend at that time, turned out to be my wife,
thank you very much. And I got a phone call
and the voice the answer machine picked up. That was
back when we had answer machines, and it picked up, Hey,
it's Tim and Jen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're not here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The message will call you back. And I heard Doug McIntyre,
who was a very popular talk show host on KBC
for a long time. Bur good friend of mine, and
he said, Conway, you got to pick up the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's my Doug back, entire impression. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He says a plane has flown into the World Trade
Center on purpose, and I remember that on purpose, and
I jumped up. I turned the TV on. I got
my wife up and then girlfriend and we watched and
we couldn't believe what was going on. And then we
(02:31):
watched for it seemed like hour after hour after hour,
and then went outside. Back then, I was young and
dumb and smoked cigarettes. So I went outside to have
a cigarette and I couldn't hear a helicopter, an airplane, nothing.
It was deadly quiet in the San Fernando Valley. Do
(02:53):
you remember that bellyo that nothing was allowed to fly
for days?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yes? And it was quiet, very very eerie and quiet. Angel.
Where were you on nine to eleven? Were you?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Were you? Born? Barely?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Barely barely?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I was actually working on Morning Drive and I was
walking into the studio and the way that the studio
was set up was that you walk down this hallway
and it's just these you know, Florida ceiling glass panels,
so you can see everything going on in the studio,
and on all the monitors, I could see, you know,
these two It was hard to tell what it was
(03:30):
because the cameras on these news cameras were just zoomed
in onto the first plane that had crashed into a building,
and I'm like, what's that? What did it crash into?
And nobody really knew because it had just happened, and
they're like, I'm not sure, and it kind of looked
like a silo or something, and it was hard to
even tell it was in New York City. And then
(03:52):
you know, they pan out and you're like, oh, it's
the World Trade Center and I'm like, that's that's crazy.
It must be a terrible accident. And then as we're
all just sitting around and kind of trying waiting for
more information to come in. You know, you see that
second plane make that turn happening and alive on television
(04:13):
and you know, just watching watching that second plane plow
into the World Trade Center. But it was in the
studio I was working, and you know, of course that's
what we were all talking about for days to come.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, it was crazy to.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Piggyback on what you were saying about, you know, the
airs or all the all planes being grounded for you know,
I don't remember how many days a week. Maybe afterwards.
It was the weirdest thing not to see any airplane
fly by. On occasion, you'd see like a military plane
or something, but no commercial flights at all.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, and especially if you live you know, closed Orange
County Airport or lax.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It was earring. Man oh man, it was crazy. Brigeta,
Where were you on nine level? Were you born? I
was I was a high school or you weren't high school?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I think I was a junior or sophomore out here. No,
in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
In the Bay Area, okay, and man oh man, but
you still remember where you were though.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh yeah, I totally remember.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
I was actually in my history class and our teacher,
she was pretty young, and she was just so shocked
and we were all just watching the footage.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it was a scary, shocking as hell. Where were
you and Tony? Were you retired? I just got home
from here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You were working at what at Coast or KFI.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Overnights back then.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
So I just got home at like six am, crashed out,
and then my roommate the time, she's knocking my doors like, hey,
can you get the TV work into something's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh man? And I basically just got it out.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Because I didn't have antenna for it, you know, I
had cave money, so I had to like get a
Tanna to kind of work, and it got a channel,
and like within minutes that's when the second plane happened.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I'm like, well, I guess I'm going to work
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, too bad. You know, Crowser's not here. He's got
a great story. He was working I think on either
on Coast or KFI. I by they went to all
I mean, Bill Handle was live on the air when
it happened, and all the FM stations at iHeart went
to KFI.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Krozer was probably doing the third station we had for
a little while. I can't remember the name of it now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, but he would he yeah, he was doing
like like overnights into the mornings and then everybody. And
I still get people who when we do remote they'll
say that they started listening to KFI on nine to
eleven because they that's the first time they heard Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
When that happened, that was a crazy day.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
And there was one plane that flew in my neighbor
because I lived right by, uh close to the Flourishing airport,
you know, the tiny little airport. Yeah, yeah, one FA
eighteen hornet landed there and that thing was loud.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Must have been comforting though, you know the coming Yeah,
that was nothing took off later like that week.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
It shook all the houses. That thing went on full
after burner out. Yeah, we saw.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I went out to Burbank Are a couple of years
ago to see one of those F eighteen hornets take
off and it's almost vertical when it takes off, I mean,
got it might and loud.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Every window shook my house.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, they landed one we used to live in Burbank
in a different house, and we were in the flight
path at Burbank Airport and when that fateen came in,
it felt like an earthquake. I mean, the whole house
shook and we were it was probably you know, five six,
seven hundred feet above us, and yet the entire house shook.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, We're still waiting for the possible press conference
with any more information coming out on Charlie Kirk. I'm
sorry that they told us five o'clock and they keep
putting it off. It may or may not even happen now,
and if it does, you'll hear it first right here
on KFI. No matter what we're doing, we'll we'll jump
in and get get you that information.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's wild to hear Gary talk about tomorrow is Friday.
We were all, you know, so overloaded this week with
news that we lost track of days.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Man oh man, Tomorrow's Friday. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, we're still waiting for the news conference. I mean,
I know, Belly, you're on all over this. Any word
on the news.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They're saying six thirty, So six thirty, I'm gonna and
they're showing photos of the podium, so are a live video?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
All right, Well, while we're waiting for the Charlie Kirk
press conference on the latest information that they have, let's
all wander down to the Port of Los Angeles and
see how the cleanups go. They said it might take
just a few days. I am going to stay on
high alert. I am not getting down on the dock
(08:47):
workers gotten some of that email. I'm just saying I've
seen the damage and it's going to take a lot
of work because a lot of those those containers that
fell off that cargo ship. They and you can't just
pull seven, eight, nine, ten of those out in an hour.
It takes a long time to do that and to
secure them, and then to have cameras go down and
(09:12):
to make sure nothing else is down there when another
ship comes in. It takes a lot of work to
clean that port up a lot. So let's find out
when this thing's going to open again.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
The US Coast Guard says there are still about thirty
containers underwater they need to retrieve, and as you mentioned,
I spoke to one business owner he had products on
this ship, and so far, he says he's just desperate
for any answers. He doesn't know if his container is
on board, in the water, or even damaged.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Cleanup continues, Well, I think I know this guy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This guy's in the chocolate business and he has boxes
that are coming from China that he puts his chocolate
in for Christmas. And he can't find his chocolate boxes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Cleanup continues at the port of Long Beach after seventy
five shipping containers tumbled off the cargo ship Mississippi and
into the water at pure g Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You imagine him going down to the port, you know,
this little guy from the valley and talking to longshoreman.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Ah, my chocolate boxes. Where me chocolate boxes? Boys saving that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know there's Delta slippers and furniture and mouse pads,
but I'm missing me chocolate boxes.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
I've been watching the Mississippi going, oh, this is the guy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, this is the guy. He's been watching. This guy
is great. This guy's like me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Man if I had the chocolate business, I'd be watching
my containers. You can watch with ship track when that
ship leaves China. You can watch it all the across
the entire ocean, and you can track it across the
entire Pacific until it comes to LA and then your
chocolate boxes go to the bottom of the harbor.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
I've been watching the Mississippi going across the sea waiting
for my boxes to come. So yesterday when I heard
the news that there was this.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Accident, Now this is the the chocolate box guy.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
I right away went online and found out that, yes,
my container is on this boat.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Jonathan Graham owns Comparte's Chocolates in Los Angeles. He had
about fifty thousand packages and boxes for his holiday chocolate line.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Wow, this guy's doing big chocolate numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Fifty thousand boxes of holiday chocolates.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
And advent calendars on board in a shipping container.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
They're not telling us if our containers were affected or not.
That's really the heartbreaking part because I don't know what
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, might be a light chocolate season.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
There were about twenty four hundred containers with general cargo
from China on board the Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And look, I don't want to make light of this
guy in his business. I'm sure he works his ass off.
This guy makes up out I think that he said
seventy percent of his nut comes in on Christmas chocolate boxes.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
This guy's got to get his boxes, this chocolate boxes.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
The US Coast Guard is still investigating what caused the
cargo to fall off, and all operations have been suspended
while they've work to stabilize the remaining containers. Officials say
this spill also damaged the ship and there's a light
oil machine in the water they're working to clean up.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh no, oh, no, diesel fuel in your chocolate boxes.
Speaker 12 (12:17):
We believe that it could be coming either.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
From such a child, to say, a nine year old
who works for the Coast Guard.
Speaker 12 (12:26):
We believe that it could be coming either from the
generator on board the barge or the tank. And we
have an oil spill response organization on scene to do
the best that they can to prevent the machine from spreading.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, it's spreading. I saw it on TV. It's spreading.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
As Graham waits for answers, he's also worried about the
potential financial impact.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, this is gonna be a bad chocolate season for this.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Dude, since he makes more than fifty.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Percent Okay, more than fifty percent, I said, seventy than
fifty percent on his Christmas chocolates. And man, there's a
lot of businesses out there that survive on stuff on
like giveaways and handouts and small ticket items. Remember like
the guy, the Iranian guy who is in the balloon business. Uh,
(13:17):
elegant balloons and studio City. The guy for twenty years
has been selling balloons. That's his business, selling balloons, and
he gets by on balloons. Balloons are something that you
it's an also grab. You know, you go to get flowers, Oh,
also get a balloon. I'm getting groceries. Oh also get
(13:38):
a balloon. Go to Disneyland, Oh, also get a balloon.
But this guy survives solely on balloons. He's in the
balloon game.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Since he makes more than fifty percent of his sales
for the year during the holiday season.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
They don't know when the cargo is going to be released.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I will say this of this chocolate guy. I saw
his chocolates last night on Channel five. They look great.
He spent a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
With these chocolates.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
So I think it's the fact that you just don't know.
That's all these variables that make it very difficult in
the moment, and.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
There's no timeline on when this investigation will wrap up
or the cleanup will be finished.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Didn't we put a pole out there, belly O. We
had asked that the listeners how long this thing would take?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, we sure did. What were the results of that?
You have that handy? Are you at the pole desk?
I'm not at the poll des All right, well let
me finish this up here while you were run over
the pole desk. Okay, get over there.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Graham also tells me he paid a premium to get
his items shipped on the Mississippi because it guarantees they'll
arrive before the holidays, and it's faster than any other ship.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, the Mississippi hall's ass they got an extra prop.
I don't know they got an extra engine or I
don't know. A guy who's rowing on the side and
he gets those chocolate boxes two days in advance recording live,
how about flying them next year? They can't be that heavy,
you know, a couple thousand boxes. The chocolates aren't in them.
(15:00):
He puts the chocolates in when they get here. So
I'd go maybe American Airlines or China Air Delta or FedEx.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
You're reporting live in Long Beach trac ling Long NBC.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
For News ANDBC four. They're on top of those chocolates. Man, I, Matthew,
you're at the poll desk. How you doing there?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
What with the poles?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So here was the poll.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It was sixty seven containers fell from the vessel Mississippi
at the port of Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
How long before the ship leaves the port back to China?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And the winner is forty nine percent said Halloween?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh okay, what were the options?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And we had Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's or Labor Day?
And so Thanksgiving was second and then New Year's in
Labor Day tied at fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I like that somebody actually went for Labor Day. Yeah, yeah,
all right. We're waiting for this press conference. I see
somebody at the podium now, so it might be just
a matter of minutes before they start that press conference.
And we will carry that live right here on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Apologize, we told you at five o'clock there would be
a press conference. We have no control over it, and
it looks like it's about to begin with the Charlie
Kirk assassination. So if it happens between now and seven,
we'll have that for you live. And if it happens
after seven, I imagine, Moe Kelly, we'll run that lot.
So I keep it here on KFI. In other news
(16:29):
here in Los Angeles, and there is, you know, some
other news. We have the Pantry, which is a very
popular restaurant downtown LA. Used to be owned by Mayor Rearden,
and it closed due to some I don't know, there's
some financial difficulties, difficulties that they had, and I think
(16:50):
when the owner passed away, it was supposed to be
split up between some of the kids. Some of the
kids wanted other ones wanted to get out. And then
I remember at one point they had in festation in
downtown LA, which is very difficult to avoid. Lots of
rats downtown LA. But let's find out if it's back
(17:11):
the pantry. I think it's reopening dog with this pantry.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh my gosh. When people heard that the Pantry was
going to be reopening, a lot of people came down here.
You can see behind me that they are having kind
of a press conference, doing a little ribbon cutting. We
don't know exactly when they're going to be start cooking
up those pancakes again, but a lot of people can't
wait for that moment. Let me show you some video
of the pantry when it was open earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
This year, because it sounds like a nice, calm place
to have pancakes on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
The pantry when it was open earlier this year, because
it is an institution here in Los Angeles, and that's
why so many people have been waiting to see what's
going to happen next. As you said, the pantry has
been opened here in downtown LA for more than one
hundred years. It was surviving through fires.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Through earth COVID.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
But the pantry used to be owned by the former mayor.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Isn't this say kind of ironic that that is opening
up on the same day that that actress died, the
one that was popular for her saying.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, kiss my grits. Yeah, flow, you know we had
her on.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
When when I was working at klis X and we
had her on what was her first name, Polly Holiday, right,
I said, oh, Polly, We'd love to hear kiss my Grits.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I used to love that.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I watched that show with my mom and dad and
my grandparents.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And you know what her response that was, kiss my grits.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
She goes, I haven't said that since the day I
left the set.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I go, come on, give us one more, kiss my grids,
and she goes, I don't do that anymore, Like, oh,
that's the wrong move.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She should have embraced that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Oh, I can understand if she was trying to get
other roles and she just.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was always but that's her ding dog, it is her
ding dong. But even you wanted to get away from that. Yeah,
my new one is not taken off.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, sure, good, okay, all right, it's not taking off.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Wick Rear did and his estate earlier this year said
that they were trying to sell the property here in
downtown LA and they did not think that they could
continue to operate and can keep everybody employed while they
were looking for a new owner, so they closed in March.
A lot of people were very upset that they thought
that not only was this an institution in LA, but
the people who worked here were really the thing that
(19:25):
made it special. So those workers, as part of the
Union eleven, kept fighting, kept trying to put their case
out and the new owner had a real estate developer
named Leo Pustine, just wrote down so that he will reopen,
he will hire all those workers that we have to
talk to a longtime customer about what makes this place
so special.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I've been coming here since I was five years old.
This place has so much history with La it Is
La And to see when it was closed, it was
just devastating.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It was heartbreaking for like all of us.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I was here at four thirty in the morning, the.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Day had closed, the last day, and to see that
my friends that were here forever, the cooks, the waiters,
it was just a heartbreaking day. And to see that
now there's like a spark, a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, that's the first time I ever heard the term,
and I've not heard it associated with any other establishment,
restaurant or business or anything. That's the first time I
ever heard the term pony rats. And I said, that guy, so,
what's a pony rat? It was the rats are the
size of ponies down here? Oh my oh my lord.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
A lot of people really excited because they said this
is one of the few places that it didn't matter
who you were, what you did, how much money you've had.
This was a place that was opened for everybody in LA. Again,
we're still waiting for those details on exactly when they'll
be able to get everybody back in and to start
cooking up those eggs and pancakes.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There is uh you're been there, belly on the pantry.
You probably were. You were a Laker for a while.
I had gone a few times after Laker games.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or did you go by yourself? Did you go with
sportscasters or yes? But what sportscasters? Were you close with?
Fred Rogan, Jim Hill? Who would you hang out with?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
More of like the writers? The beat writers?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I see yeah, Rachel and Jamie. There is a cake
over there that looks like a stack of pancakes. I
feel like it is.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You've got to I think you don't talk about this
enough because I think you're you know, you're very humble
and you're shy and you don't want to ever have
the spotlight on you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But I don't know if the audience knows this.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I know we got to take a break here, but
I'm going to tell you something that is I think
is is really super cool that Kobe Bryant knows and
knew Sharon Bellio by name. If he saw Sharon Belly,
he would say, Hi, Sharon Bellio. Kobe Bryant knew you
by name? Isn't that correct? Yes, that's that's a big
(21:50):
that's a great brag. You know how many Laker fans
or or you know, people that are that go downtown
all the time would love to say that that Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Knew my name. Yeah, No, I understand the It's huge,
the gravity of it. I think that's what attracted Johnny
Belli o to you. That and James Worthy, that's who
his guy was. He loved James Worthy.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But James Worthy knew you too, Yeah, by name? Yeah,
and so do Kareem Abdul Jabbar ye and Shaq and
Magic Johnson. Yes, they knew you by Sharon Bellio. Yes,
that's a that's a huge brag. I think you got
to lead with that lead whenever you're on the air. No,
ladies and gentlemen, Sharon who, by the way, Kobe Bryant
(22:34):
knew her first and last name.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What's the weather going to be like this weekend? That's
how we should start everything with you think. So, it's
a great brag. But Chick Hern that chick hearn knew
your name? Yeah, and Matt money Smith did he still does?
They all do? Yeah, that's it's a really it was
a great time.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I feel very fortunate that I and you should had
the chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All right, if that press conference happens between now and seven,
will have it. If not, I think Mo Kelly will
run it after seven o'clock and we're waiting for it.
The Charlie Kirk press conference was supposed to start at five,
but they've had some delays. I don't know if that's
good or bad, but we'll have it if they come
on between now and six.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
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Speaker 2 (23:14):
Nation's director for the Utah Department Apartment. Here we go
press conference this evening. We have FBI Director Patel, FBI.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Special Agent in Charge Robert Bowles,
Governor Spencer Cox, Lieutenant Governor Didra Henderson, and Commissioner Anderson,
as well as I'm so sorry Commissioner Commissioner Boat Mason,
as well as some local partners here present with US today,
Governor will kick it off.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
The Charlie Kirk Press conference.
Speaker 14 (23:43):
Is weaits gentlemen, thank you for joining us here tonight.
We appreciate the media and the partnership we have with
you in helping us to get information out to the
public so that we can we can catch this assassin
and hold him accountable.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
We are going to share a portion.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Of a video and that we have of the of
the suspect, as well as some new stills. Those have
already been released, but we want to make sure that
they get as much attention as possible so that we
can get help from from the public in tracking down
this this this evil human being. So we're going to
(24:25):
We're going to queue up the video right now, show
that I've asked Commissioner Beau Mason if he would narrate
to you what is happening in this video.
Speaker 15 (24:37):
Thank you, Governor Beau Mason, Commissioner for the Utah Department
of Public Safety. If you look up to the top left,
you'll see the building where the shooter was proned out
in the top left corner. We'll go ahead and play
that video on narrate as we walk through that. So
here you see the suspect ran behind that upper upper building.
(25:01):
He's going to come out on the right, moves to
this far right corner. As he does, he's going to
climb off the edge and then drop down to the ground.
As he did that, he left some palm impressions. There's
some smudges some places we're looking to collect DNA. There's
a shoe imprint where we leave. The suspect is clearly
(25:23):
identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes. Again, we'll replay that
against you can get another view of that. It's important
to note his black T shirt, his black pants, and
there appears to be some white on the soles of
those Converse tennis shoes. Those are all identifiable items that
we're looking for. In the stills that are going to
(25:44):
follow this, you're going to see a very distinctive T
shirt with an American flag and appears to have an
eagle on it. There's also a baseball cap with a
triangle on it, and a pair of sunglasses, all distinctive,
all things that we would ask the public to look
for and try to identify if they know someone who
has those items, who has been seen wearing those items.
(26:05):
We're looking for all that information. Here you see the
suspect after dropping off the building, he moved around across
this grass area around the parking lot. We're going to
pan to the right after he crosses the street. This
(26:25):
is where he moves over into the wooded area. This
is the video evidence that we utilize to track his
movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area
following the discovery of this evidence. Good, you want to
go to the stills. So here's the still photographs I mentioned.
(26:47):
These have been enhanced, so these are slightly different than
what we introduced earlier. Please play close attention to the
T shirt, like I said, very distinctive with that American
flag and that eagle, the hat with the triangle, and
the sunglasses.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
If you'll go to the next picture, please.
Speaker 15 (27:05):
The backpack as well, all identifying features that we're hoping
the public can help us identify and lead us to
this suspect.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Next picture, and again.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
There's a better picture of the hat with that triangle logo,
and again the T shirt, blue jeans, and you get
a good look at those Converse tennis shoes as well.
We have pushed these out, we'll continue to push these out,
and we just ask for the public cooperation. Through the public,
the tips that have been coming in are what are
giving us our next leads and enabling us to continue
(27:40):
to further this investigation. We've had great cooperation from the
public and we're continuing to ask for that as we
move forward. Thank you, and I'll turn the time back
over to Governor Cox.
Speaker 14 (27:51):
Thank you so much, Commissioner Mason. I want to I
want to thank Director Patel and his team. It's great
to have them on the ground with us tonight. We've
had several briefings and he's had an opportunity to walk
the crime scene. We appreciate our local law enforcement here again.
We have Mike Smith, who is the county sheriff here.
(28:13):
We have all of our local chiefs of police that
are here as well, all working hand in hand with
the state and with the FBI as we as we
move forward with this investigation. Now, just give you a
little more We will not be taking any questions at
this time that we're giving you the latest information we have,
being as transparent with everything that we have, but I
(28:36):
do want to share a couple things that I think
are important.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
We cannot do our job without the public's help. Right now.
Speaker 14 (28:44):
The public has answered our call for action. So far,
we've received more than seven thousand leads and tips. I
would just note that the FBI hasn't received this many
digital media tips from the public since the Boston Marathon bombing.
In case also highlights the dedication of our law enforcement community.
We have twenty federal, state, and local law enforcement partners
(29:07):
that are working shoulder to shoulder to find the person
who committed this horrific crime. With their support, we've completed
nearly two hundred interviews.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
As you're aware.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
As has already been reported, the FBI is offering a
one hundred thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
identification and arrest of the person responsible for the murder
of Charlie Kirk. We also continue to implore the public
to support this investigation and come forward with any information.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
We are truly hopeful.
Speaker 14 (29:38):
That this video and new photos will lead to even
more tips we are processing. We have an incredible team
as state and federal team working together to process those tips.
We are going out in tandem to interview any potential.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Person of interest or suspects.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
But we need again, we need as many as much
help as we can possibly get any videos or photos
that you might have the public should be submitted to
our digital media tip line, which is www dot FBI
dot gov. Forward slash Utah Valley shooting all lowercase. Again,
that is FBI dot gov forward slash Utah Valley Shooting
(30:17):
all lowercase. You can also provide general tips about the
shooting by calling one eight hundred call FBI. That's one
eight hundred c a l L FBI, or.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
At tips dot FBI dot gov.
Speaker 14 (30:31):
This is I would just say this is not just
a local matter here in Utah. We have people all
over the country that are helping to bring this perpetrator
to justice for Charlie Kirk and his family. And we'll
just add as well that as was mentioned, there is
there is a lot of forensic evidence that is being
processed right now at both the state Lab and the
(30:53):
and federal labs and Federal Lab in on the East Coast,
so we are working in tandem together. I would also
just add a word of note for for those uh
for those people who are spending so much time on
on social media. I think Charlie said it best that
when when things get get bad, we should put our
(31:13):
phones down and spend a little time with our our families.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
There is a tremendous amount of disinformation. UH. We are
tracking our our.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Our our team, the state team, and I'm sure the
federal team as well. What we're seeing is our adversaries
want violence, UH, China. We have bots from Russia, China,
all over the world that are trying to instill disinformation
and encourage violence. I would encourage you to ignore those
to UH, to turn off those streams and UH and
(31:47):
to spend a little more time with it with our families.
We we desperately need some healing. We'll have more to
say about that in the in the days and weeks
to come.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
More than anything, we are going to catch this person. UH.
Speaker 14 (32:00):
Last thing I will just say is we've been working
with our attorneys getting everything that we need affidavits ready
so that we can pursue the death penalty in this case,
and that will happen here in the state of Utah. Again,
to the public, to those who are grieving, thank you
for your prayers. I know we are feeling those prayers.
(32:22):
I know the Kirk family is feeling those prayers as well.
We pray that God will bless our nation at this
very dark time. We can start healing by finding this
perpetrator and holding him accountable, and we need your help
to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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