May 22, 2025 • 32 mins
Soil testing in the Eaton Area / News Whip: Homeowner vs. Land in RPV. Selena Gomez comes out with Horchata Oreos / #SelenaGomez #Oreos #RanchoPalsVerdes // Breakdown of Metro budget and all the safety concerns. PCH to reopen #PCH // Memorial Weekend travel. Today is the busiest travel day. Where are you going? #MemorialWeekend
Stu Mundel flies over the best beaches and what is named best state beach? Crystal Cove in Orange County. #CrystalCove #NewportBeach #OrangeCounty #Ocean // Seattle Space Needle getting a $100 million renovation #SpaceNeedle #Seattle First double decker elevator in North America. Skyliner is double deck elevator glass floor to ceiling #Skyliner
Stu Mundel flies over the best beaches and what is named best state beach? Crystal Cove in Orange County. #CrystalCove #NewportBeach #OrangeCounty #Ocean // Seattle Space Needle getting a $100 million renovation #SpaceNeedle #Seattle First double decker elevator in North America. Skyliner is double deck elevator glass floor to ceiling #Skyliner
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, all right,
we have soil testing in LA because of the fires.
Everybody is rightfully concerned about levels of arsenic, of lead,
of all kinds of contaminants inside the soil. So let's
(00:22):
find out where it is and how it's going to
affect us, all all of us.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's speaking brutal speaking with residents.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Over the past few months.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know, many have had concerns about how safe their
environment is, especially those with homes still standing.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They're concerned about whether or not.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
To return home.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, the county is trying to help with some of that.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
They rolled out a free program today, a residential soil
testing program, and they started at the first house this morning.
The reason we started this program was when we did
our initial representative soil testing, we did find a down
win effect from the fire with some elevated lead readings
that are sort of in our priority area here outside
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of the Eaton area.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
All right, all right, man, it's just a mess.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, let's get into the NewsWhip here with five oh
five every day we do the NewsWhip.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Let's row.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Go back to it.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
This is the five oh five newswith Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Every day we give everybody here an opportunity to talk
about maybe an event, maybe a story that we didn't
cover or we should have covered more.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Crozier, let's start with you. What's going on in the world,
bub Well.
Speaker 8 (01:39):
China's announced they've got a drone mothership.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
They're about to release it.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
China says it's GEO ten drone will be able to
launch one hundred small drones like bees from a hive.
China says it's also this this big ass plane is
a modular so it can be used for civilian or
military use, and it's able to be used for electronic warfares,
striking support, or emergency rescue. The Drome mothership's got a
range of more than forty three hundred miles. It's got
(02:06):
an eighty two foot wing span, which experts say makes
it a big target. It's got a maximum altitude it's
about the same as a commercial aircraft goes up about
as high. That also means it's also well within range
of air defense systems around the world, like US Patriot missiles. Ah,
so it's US officials right now say they're not too
worried about it. Joe Tian makes its first test flight
(02:26):
at the end of June. The Defense Department says it's
aware of the behemoth, but as of right now, they
just say, this just looks like a giant target.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
So the United States could easily take that down.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Yeah, as with a lot of countries. And like I said,
they're air defense systems. It's not just Patriot missiles, but
many air defense systems and countries around the world can
take it out. So they say, even if this thing
as big as it is, it would need air support
around it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, I'd say, okay, all right, so we're not worried
about it, all right, Yeah, okay, I'd love to see
that though. All right, Steph WUIs what's going on out there?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Bob? So we like oreos, right, Yes.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Selena Gomez came out with her own flavor and her
Chota flavor, and this new flavor features a completely innovative
profile affusion of chocolate and cinnamon with a sweet and
condensed milk base and cinnamon sugar inclusions and conclusions included
in the all sandwich between the two chocolate cinnamon flavored wafers.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
So it's not even the regular chocolate wafers in the
in the oreo.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh it sounds great, So I can't wait? All right, Angel,
what's going on in the world we don't know about?
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Well, Over the next few mornings, a mini planet parade
will be visible on the eastern horizon. That's Venus, Saturn, Neptune,
and a lovely crescent moon will be on their best
display May third and twenty fourth. But this is just
before sunrise. So tomorrow the sun rises at five forty six,
(03:57):
so you gotta get up kind of early before the
sign phase out this display. So set your alarm and
get yourself some celestial action.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Excellent, all right, belly yah, we bet and clean up?
What's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So?
Speaker 11 (04:11):
So cal Edison is restoring gas to the seaview community
of Rancho Palace Verdes. Finally, Yes, it's expected to take
four to five weeks for residents who are eligible. Cities
also moving forward with a buyout program and the Portuguese Bend.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Twenty three homeowners were.
Speaker 11 (04:28):
Shortlisted for appraisals as part of a forty two billion
dollar FEMA funded buyout. Here's the catch, though, Getting that
money could take months or even years, and only a
fraction of the homeowners are eligible. Out of eighty five
who applied, just twenty three made the cut. The city
prioritizes homes that are red or yellow tagged and those
with major structural issues or no utility access. The goal
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is to demolish those homes and turn the land into
open space to prevent future disasters. The land is still shifting,
although they saved. They're restoring the gas that has stabilized.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But that's cool deal. All right, we got to take
an early break here. I just realized I left my
phone in the car. Yeah, I went to call my
wife about something, and I realized, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (05:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We had Michael Monks in. He was talking about the
Metro's budget.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You see the you know, the trains, the light rail,
the bus is the whole run. Their budget is nine
point four billion dollars a year. There are seven million
people I look this up, seven million adults that live
in La County. Seven million people over the age of
eighteen that live in Los Angeles County. If they just
(05:48):
got rid of Metro and just said so long Metro's done,
they could they could get give everybody in La County
a check for one thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars,
and then you find your own way to.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Wherever you're going.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And if you don't commute, then they don't give you
a check. So I wouldn't get a check because I
don't commute. You know, I'm a mile so I wouldn't
get one. Krozier, he makes good enough money, he's not
going to get one.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Steph ushe might get it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, she could quickly double those checks as well,
and then everybody takes super lyft stikes more money in
people's pockets, and that's a solution for you. There you go,
all right, let's let's get into this. PCH is going
to reopen. A lot of people who live out there
are not excited about this.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
They think it's too early.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
There's still a lot of traffic out there, there's still
a lot of lookie lose. But the people own businesses
out there, they love this idea. They need to reopen
or else they're all going to go out of business.
Speaker 13 (06:54):
In eleven mile stretch here along Pacific Coast Highway open
to the public starting at eight am on Friday, following
January's LA wildfires, which prompted major closures, with debris removal
taking months to clear. While some drivers will relieve this
limited access will be lifted in time for the Memorial
Day weekend, many residents have majored traffic concerns.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
You're looking at maybe an hour an hour and a
half just to get through the checkpoints as it is,
do you see it? It's busy now just with us.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Can you imagine when it's open to the public and
people coming to the beach and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Or well, if it's open to the public, there's not
gonna mean more checkpoints. I don't know if this man understands.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
That or not.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
As it is, you see it, it's busy now just
with us.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, but there the checkpoints are coming down, is what
the opening up means.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You're looking at maybe an hour an hour and a
half just to get through the checkpoints. They're coming down.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Can you imagine when it's open to the public and
people are coming to the beach.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
And stuff, or there'll be no more checkpoints. Kids loukilus
that want to go see what's going on. Yeah, it's
gonna be.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Long, Yeah, it's gonna be long because it's gonna be traffic,
but they're all will be no more checkpoints. That's what
opening up is in reference to there's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Still restricted access to the Palisades.
Speaker 13 (08:06):
Only residents in the fire impacted areas, business owners and
contractors will be allowed into those neighborhoods. Mayor Karen Bass
calling the reopening an important step in recovery efforts, the
fastest in the state history. But keep in mind restrictions
are so no.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Wait, what did she call it the fastest?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
What and contractors will be allowed into those neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Okay, that's in Pallisades. Now what did Mayor Basque call this?
Speaker 13 (08:28):
Mayor Karen Bass calling the reopening an important step in
recovery efforts the fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What's the fastest in the state history. I don't understand that.
What's that in reference to the fastest that we've opened
up pch after a fire. That's probably not true.
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Mayor Karen Bass calling the reopening an important step in
recovery efforts, the fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Doesn't doesn't don't any reporters ask her what she means
by that? Or they just write it down. She says it,
and they write it down, then they use it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
The fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
There is no state history of PCH being closed. Because
fourteen thousand homes burned down. This is the largest fire
in the history of California. PCH has never had that
experience before. So, yeah, it is the fastest, but it's
also the slowest, and so it's everything.
Speaker 13 (09:19):
Fastest in the state history. But keep in mind restrictions
are still in place along pH with debris efforts continuing
along construction zones.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
There is no parking or stopping allowed in the work zone.
Please remember that there may be slow vehicles moving in
and out of the lanes. Law enforcement will be sighting motorists.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, and twenty five miles an hour, I think is
the speed limit right now.
Speaker 13 (09:43):
The US Army Corps of Engineers removed more than nine
hundred and fifty thousand tons of debris from the area,
but the work continues about sixty percent completion and the
Palace its fire impacted areas.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
They tell us, we've.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Been able to clear debris from all of the parcels
available to us be finished through this weekend. There's still
some where we're working access issues.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
And there are also people who chose to opt out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And are clearing on their own.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know, that's going to be a problem, the people
who opt it out and they're going to clear it
on their own. Because there's no timetable for that, they
can clear it whenever they want, so they can literally
sit on that property, leave that mess there for five years,
watch the property value go up around them for five years,
and then have and then sell it in five years.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But that was the case, why wouldn't they just have
the government do it then?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Because because they I think they just don't trust government.
You know, there are a certain amount of people that
just don't trust They think there's loopholes or they think
that you know, if the government comes in and helps
you out, then you know you owe them something else,
or you know they're not going to do a great job,
or there's a real distrust for government. And and I
(10:55):
I don't understand it. If the government offered to clean
my house up after it burned down, I'd say have
at it, man, Yeah, clean it up. Please buy you
a cup of coffee or a six pack or whatever.
But it is odd. You're right that people did opt
out of it. And yet they're not going to clean
their property up. They're going to sit there. It'll sit
there with all the contaminants and all, and it's private property,
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so you can't really go in and force the guy
to clean it up. And they'll let it hang, you know,
because they don't need the money. A lot of people
who live out there, not a lot, but many people
out there don't need the money. They'll let that property
sit there for five years, they'll rebuild up the area
around it, and then they'll sell it for three times
more than it's worth now, and so they don't really
have to clean it up.
Speaker 13 (11:37):
As we're concerns regarding property and safety for residents in
Malibu and the Pacific Palisades, there will be new checkpoints
for some roads leading from the highway into neighborhoods. More
than one hundred LPED officers are deployed to staff checkpoints
in the Palisades. Also CHP officers focused on crime suppression
and patrol.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Here's a bit more on what to expect tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Again, it's amazing that we need, you know, one hundred
LAP the fifty Highway Patrol, the Sheriff's Department just to
keep idiots out of there. You know, if we all behaved,
if we all were of the same mindset. But these
people lost a home, Let's not go and try to
rob them, Let's not steal their stuff. Let's not go
(12:17):
out there and be looky lose and impede their cleanup efforts.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Then they wouldn't need all those cops.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But because there are so many a holes in LA,
we need cops everywhere, everywhere, everywhere we look.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Here's a bit more on what to expect tomorrow again,
guidance from the City of Malibu.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Up to two lanes will open in each direction.
Speaker 13 (12:38):
And don't forget the speed limit is twenty five miles
per hour. You definitely don't want to go above that
stopping in the burn areas that's prohibited. Also, use caution
in the area which remains an active work zone, so
keep an eye out for those workers and their vehicles.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
You know, I have a feeling and who is this?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
That's latest here? Long PCCh careed Winter five News.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Great job, Kareem Winters.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think that they're going to keep the twenty five
mile an hour speed zone forever. I think this will
be the silver lining that comes out of this fire.
There's been no accidents, no fatal accidents. Yes, it does
take another twenty minutes to get home, but nobody's died.
And I think they're going to keep that speed limited
twenty five, maybe thirty, but it's not going back to
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fifty five. It's not going back to sixty sixty five.
Those days are over. That's not going to happen anymore,
and fewer people are going to die. It'll take a
few more minutes to get home, but everyone's going to
get home.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Ding Dong.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This is the Thursday before Memorial Day. A lot of
people are out on the roads. A lot of people
are moving around. They're going to Vegas, they're going to Morongo,
they're going up north.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But it looks like the freeways are pretty open.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
If you're going from La to San Francisco, that five
is completely wide open, with the exception of a little
tiny area. Oh that's southbound, okay, so that's yeah, a
little northbound about halfway through there's about a mile and
a half of traffic, But otherwise the five is wide open,
and so is the ninety nine. So if you're going
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to Sacramento, San Francisco, maybe going all the way up
to Oregon. The five Freeway from Los Angeles to Portland,
Oregon is wide open, wide open, once you get out
of LA once you get out of Los Angeles, once
you pass Santa Clarita, actually even before you get Santa Clarita,
it's it's wide open, all right. This was sent to
(14:34):
me by a friend. Are the beaches is stupandell did
this about the Orange County beaches?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Orange County? You gotta going on? And here is proof.
Speaker 15 (14:45):
One of my favorite things to do is to fly
to Orange County. Something happens when you pass that Orange Line,
get across that Orange curtain. All of a sudden, the
waters get clearer and bluer, and everything just gets nicer.
And you know what, me saying that means nothing. What
happened is we got the official nod from the California
State Parks Foundation saying that Crystal Cove are very o well,
the Orange Counties. Crystal Cove is one of the best
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state beaches in California, and it is look at how
beautiful that is down there, That blue water and that
little cove area makes it all that much better now.
There are actually some cozy cottages down there over one
hundred and thirty years old. The blue water definitely is
one of the things is that is attracting everybody. But
there's also help forests down there as well. You can
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actually see some of them from sky fox right there.
That water out here, for some reason, it's just always
just a little bit bluer. Now our beaches have competing
with a lot of California state beaches. Have you been
up north? There are some beautiful beaches up there, but
this one is the one that got the nod.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's terrific that Orange County, ma'am. They got it going
on with those beaches. I think we're sort of we
have a handicap because the Santa Monica Bay area is
it sort of it gets entrapped from Moulta all the
way to Palaceford is it's a big bay in there.
We don't get the circulation. But in Orange County they
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get all that circulation of the water, and so the
beaches remain beautiful and clean, and people down there they
demand that they're not going to settle for crap like
we do in Venice Beach or in Santa Monica. You know,
this Santa Monica Pier is always the worst water in
Southern California, and we tolerate that.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
It's you know, for the.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Last twenty thirty forty years and nobody's doing anything clean
that up. It's always the worst water in Southern California.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Always.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What beach did you hang out when you were growing up.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Right there, Santa Monica?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You know, yeah, with that all the crap there, and
we used to take the beach bus and you know,
from the valley, we used to get on the beach bus,
go to Westwood, then take another beach bus to go
out to Santa Monica and then walk down the California
Incline and just go to that beach.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
It was said that is the beach where you would
read the La Times in your socks.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
That's correct, That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Kind of a Stutley move back then, I thought, you know,
I don't think it's uh it holds up in twenty
twenty five. But I used to bring a La Times
with Maine to the beach. All my other friends, you know,
they're chasing girls and playing frisbee and going in the
water body surfing losers. Yeah, and I just sit there
and read Jim Murray's article, his column with the La Times.
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And I remember a friend of mine gun named Matt McDaniel.
He said, why do you always bring the paper to
the beach. I like to read the news And he says, yeah,
but doesn't don't those stories change all the time. Yes,
that's exactly why, exactly why I read it, because those
stories do change all the time, especially those sports stories.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
They change all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, every time you watch another game, there's a new
story coming out of there, and a lot of it
has to do with the score.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That's a funny line.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, that's a true story. He said, why do you
bring those newspapers? Those stories change all the time?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Me about the rover on when are they going to
get out of that?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, my my wife, we're watching the Mars rover and
and it landed on Mars and they're buzzing around for
a while and we're watching. I was fascinated by it,
you know, I mean literally to put you know, a robot,
a rover on Mars successfully and drives around collecting information.
I was I couldn't stop watching that. And I'm watching
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on TV one day and my wife's looking at it
and she said, hey, one of the astronauts going to
get out.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I'm like halfway through she knew. She She's like, she's like, god, sorry,
don't this isn't going on the air is like, I
don't know. Maybe maybe it did to the point where
Bellio knows the story.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Sorry, up, it did, and it did again, It did again,
and it will and she doesn't mind.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, She's like, cute.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
We all have that.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We all have stupid things that we do that all
the time.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Where so you ask a dumb question and as you're
asking it, it clicks right exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, look I'm the king of it. You know, I
was born Irish negative you know. Yeah, yeah, I'm the
dumbest man in the world. All right, this is Memorial
Day weekend, Memorial Weekend coming up. It's kind of a
shame that it's been turned into just ways for you know,
stores to sell us more crap.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
But that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
But the travel today is the busiest day, busiest day
in the in the travel season.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
The unofficial start of summer means a trip to Las
Vegas for Veronica and Juan Velasquez, and they're extending the
long Memorial Day weekend a bit.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
We're gonna avoid a little the royals of the Monday,
So we are getting on Thursday morning.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And there will be crowds.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
American Airlines expects today and tomorrow to be its busiest days.
United is planning for about three hundred thousand more passengers
compared to last year.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
We see a really strong summer actually coming up.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Andrew Nucella is United It's chief commercial officer. Have you
seen any impact in people's willingness to fly out of
Newark given what's been going on?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yes, I think the answer should be absolutely.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We are adjusting our schedule in Newark to make sure
that we put the appropriate number of airplanes in there
for what the airspace can handle.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Like zero.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm willing to bet you on June fifteenth and after,
when this runway construction is over, you're going to see
Newark rebound really, really quickly.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Overall, TRIPLEA expects a record forty five point one million
Americans to travel this Memorial Day weekend, breaking a record
set in two thousand and five.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
While the vast majority will drive, they.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Expect the number of flyers to edge up about two
percent over last year.
Speaker 16 (20:37):
Holiday times are always going to be high volume travel time,
So even when you see travel going down during the
rest of the year, you're always going to have big
numbers over Memorial data.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, and then you also have to worry about having
a real ID and how what I kind of hassle
that's going to be. If you show up the airport
you have a plane ticket, but you don't have that
little real ID stamp fun your license or your ID,
you're going to be You're gon be delayed.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
For Tracy Rowls, a lead mechanic at Delta's Atlanta hub,
the summer season started months ago as his team works
to get the airline's newest planes and their interiors ready
to go.
Speaker 15 (21:14):
Try our best to get them in the best shape
we can prior to summer schedule.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
When our workloads, our passenger loads pick up, we don't
want them sitting out here on the rail.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
And as busy as this weekend will be, American Airlines
says its busiest day of the summer won't come until
July sixth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So where are people going?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Yeah, where are people going this Memorial Day weekend?
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Well, domestically, it's places like Orlando, in Las Vegas, San Diego.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And Boston.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Internationally, some pretty good destinations London, can Coon, Paris.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And Rome top the list.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But look, we're watching weather, not only here in Newark,
but pretty much from DC all the way up to Boston.
Could see weather delays, also watching for some disruptions potentially
in Florida, Dallas, even out in Los Angeles. So certainly
some risk for delays today.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yep, gonna be delays. But the traffic is great. I
thought it was gonna be jammed. It is in Los
Angeles and you know a lot of the areas. But again,
if you're traveling on the five, you're going up north
San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, it's wide open, wide open.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I should really get out on the road and check it.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Out for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, probably try to get home by about eight eight thirty.
You know what time do you get home when you
leave at seven?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Like eight oh five.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh that's not bad. Oh it's not no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, I got home. Okay, I feel horrible about this,
but I got home last night. Yeah, and parked my
car before mo Kelly came on here.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, that annoys me. Oh that really annoys me.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I was still listening to commercials, but I parked the car, so.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
Isn't that well that was the same for me, But
it was just Mow's second hour. The first hour, right, yeah,
get home right the second hour started.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
That's classic.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
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Speaker 6 (23:21):
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Speaker 7 (23:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's a lot of people who live in southern California.
You're from Seattle, you spend some time in Seattle, maybe
mom and dad live up there, and you wanted to
get the hell out of that depressed area.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
She came down to LA to make it big.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And you still want to know what's going on in Seattle, though,
Well they have. They're doing one hundred million dollar renovation
of Seattle's Space Needle. And if you're from Seattle, you've
been to the Space Needle. You take out of towners there,
they go up in the needle, they look around, they
come down, they've had a good time, and you probably
rarely go up because you've seen it your whole life.
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You've been up there once and wasn't a big. Well,
now it's one hundred million dollar renovation. It's gonna look
pretty cool once it's all completely.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's one of the most recognizable buildings in the world
and a signature part of the Seattle Skyline, the Space Needle.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
The theme of the fair is that by the Space Needle.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
At six hundred and five feet tall, the iconic landmark
was first built in nineteen sixty two for the World's Fair.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
The Seattle World's Fair is underway.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The theme celebrating the age of Space, and according to
the Space Needle's chief operating officer, Karen Nelsen, it was
constructed to symbolize just that.
Speaker 17 (24:32):
The space Needle was designed as a flying sposer on
a stick. When they're building it, no one thought it
was possible. People came down, they had picnics and made
the cover off magazine twice.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
At the time, this space Needle was considered an architectural feat.
All built from start to finish in just four hundred days.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Wow, is that right? Four hundred days to build that thing.
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
They built it really quick.
Speaker 17 (24:53):
It took teams of engineers who were entiresly overnight to
build a space nail in the first place.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And now this renovation historys arepeating itself.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Sixty three years later, yet again, construction crews are working
overtime to complete a massive one hundred million dollar renovation
of the popular tourist attraction. Major changes have already been made,
including adding one hundred and seventy six tons of glass
to the observation decks, giving visitors the feeling that they're
floating above the city. All part of the Space Needle's
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original design that never actually happened.
Speaker 17 (25:24):
They envisioned Florida ce Lane portoskuide glass everywhere, but back
in the day they didn't have that much glass. They
didn't have the technology.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But we've done over the years is peel.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
That away and really open up the view.
Speaker 17 (25:34):
Whenever there's structure that we can we're replacing it with glass.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You know, I've been to Las Vegas a couple of times.
I've gone up in the stratosphere the big tower there
in the stratosphere, and it's expensive to go up there.
I think it's like forty or fifty dollars to go
up the elevator in the stratosphere are the big tower,
And I always do it, and I always regret it
because you get up there, you look around for five minutes,
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and you can't wait to get the hell off it.
There's nothing really to do, and once you get once,
the thrill wears off of you looking down and that
ends pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
There's nothing else to do.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There's a little coffee shop up there, and there's a
couple of rides that I wouldn't do, the roller coaster
on top of it, you know, the stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's just not for me. That's not the way I
want to go out.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
When that thing breaks and it falls, and I'm not
going to free fall off that thing in a controlled
way or a you know, a suicidal way or a
daring way, whatever. That's not the way I'm going to
go out. But maybe the Seattle one is going to
be cooler than the one in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That includes converting the rotating restaurant into the world's first
ever revolving glass floor. This definitely isn't for someone who's
scared of height.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I know.
Speaker 17 (26:51):
Is this amazing?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And another big change replacing the building's three elevators, making
them double decker to increase capacity, and adding floor to
ceiling glass all the way around.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Welcome to the preview.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It's a project. Architect Blair Paysin has been working on
for years. What was so cool about going back to
the original blueprints from nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Well, one of the joys was finding that they had
wanted to do a double stack elevator in the sixties and.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
They just couldn't. And so it's really only now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Sixty years later, with the team we have that we
can realize that vision.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Now, after three years of construction, the first set to
open to the public Friday, it's the only elevator like
it in North America.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I think the space scle's all I'm going to challenge that.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Now, after three years of construction, the first set to
open to the public Friday, it's the only elevator like
it in North America.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think the Stratosphere is a double decker elevator, and
as a matter of fact, I'm a hundred percent sure
it is. And so that's not the first double decker
elevator in North America. I don't know where she got
that fact from, but it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's the only elevator like it in North America.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
That's not true.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
I think the space stole is all about getting people
to the edge, and this experience.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Really lets you do that.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I think that people are going to come away totally thrilled.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
They're going to find their limit and then push past it.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
To say I did that maybe an understatement. After our
official tour, they let us check everything out. All right,
let's have some fun, But all this wasn't even the
high point. Seattle from a whole new perspective, it was
so cool.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It is beautiful. Seattle is one of those beautiful cities
in the world. If you're six hundred feet above it.
If you're at ground level, it sucks. It's filthy, it's dirty.
There's a lot of people who haven't discovered showers filthy
as hell. But if you're six hundred feet above it,
you can't see that. Man, is it spectacular?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh gosh, guys, that was one of the scariest but
also the most thrilling things I have ever done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
If you're wondering.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Unfortunately, going all the way up to this fire is
not open to the public, but all of the other
fun things we just showed you are so hey. If
you're in the Pacific Northwest, you got to make a
tre to the space. They'll check all those renovations out
and of course those incredible views.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, I gotta look this up and see if
that's true. I think the double decker elevator, I think
this is not the first one in North America. I'm
I'm one hundred percent sure that they have one in
the Stratosphere one hundred percent. Well, it makes it a
double decker elevator just the way it's built or no,
there's so you they do this for convenience and for speed.
You can get on on the second floor and the
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first floor and they both open at the same time.
And then when they go up, you get off at
the fifty fourth floor and the fifty fifth floor, so
it's two elevators just on top of each other.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Yeah, and which.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Is weird because it's a two story, two story elevator,
that's right, That's right. Ye, I was gonna say, yeah,
And what's weird is that And the Stratosphere has one
of these. Is you go up in the elevator and
they shut the door. You know, you get off, and
then they shut the door, and then the people that
get back on the door opens, and it's a different
elevator operator because you're you're getting on the upper deck,
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but you got off on the lower deck. So the
door is opening, Like, wait a minute, I just saw
a man in here operating.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Now I get it. Yeah, I just saw a man
in here. Now there's a woman here. How that happened?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I was I couldn't believe it, and plus I was
little buzz and I couldn't figure it. I couldn't figure
out how that was done. But I'm one hundred percent
sure of the stratusphere has a double decker, This says.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
The first double decker elevator in North America was installed
in nineteen thirty one at seventy Pine Street in New
York City. Otis Elevator Company, the company that first installed it,
later expanded the technology, including placing the first double decker
elevator in Detroit at the First National Bank Building in
nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
So she's wrong.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I think maybe she meant to sit it.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Might it come? Let me see what she.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Said seattle from a whole new perspective.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
WHOA, that was so cool.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I think she just space stills all about getting people
to the edge, and this experience really lets you do that.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I think that people are going to think she just
booted it.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well to say I did that maybe an under after
our official tour, they let us check everything out. All right,
let's have fun. But all this wasn't even the high
point Seattle from a whole new perspective.
Speaker 17 (31:11):
Who it was so cool.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh gosh, guys, that was one of the scariest but
also the most thrilling things I have ever done. If
you're wondering, Unfortunately going all the way up to this
fire is not open to the.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
P oh, okay that we can realize that I.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Can't find it the new Skyliner.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
That elevator is a double deck floor to ceiling glass elevator.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Ah, maybe that's it. Okay, maybe that's it. Okay, all right,
but that is a cool place.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I love the I don't know why, but I've always
been fascinated by going up into like the CN Tower
in Toronto or the Space Needle in Seattle. I was
one of those goofy kids that you know, really couldn't
wait to get up and go, you know, look at
one of those towers. All my other friends are like, hey,
let's go you know, gamble and go to strip bars.
Like no, let's go to the tower. So the tower.
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Let's go up to the tower.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I did.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I did an actual a What is it the groomsman's
party before the wedding, bachelor part Yeah, Bat's thank you
bachelor party at the top of the stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Oh was that right with Phil Hendry Because it was
his wedding.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
We did a live broadcast from the the stratosphere with Phil.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, that is pretty cool. I
was at the last time I was in the stratosphere.
There's people getting married at the Stratosphere, but not up
in the tower, right at the base of the tower.
Oh my god, am mighty. It is low end, not
even in the top of the tower, at the bottom.
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Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, all right,
we have soil testing in LA because of the fires.
Everybody is rightfully concerned about levels of arsenic, of lead,
of all kinds of contaminants inside the soil. So let's
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find out where it is and how it's going to
affect us, all all of us.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's speaking brutal speaking with residents.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Over the past few months.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know, many have had concerns about how safe their
environment is, especially those with homes still standing.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They're concerned about whether or not.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
To return home.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, the county is trying to help with some of that.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
They rolled out a free program today, a residential soil
testing program, and they started at the first house this morning.
The reason we started this program was when we did
our initial representative soil testing, we did find a down
win effect from the fire with some elevated lead readings
that are sort of in our priority area here outside
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of the Eaton area.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
All right, all right, man, it's just a mess.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, let's get into the NewsWhip here with five oh
five every day we do the NewsWhip.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Let's row.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Go back to it.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
This is the five oh five newswith Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Every day we give everybody here an opportunity to talk
about maybe an event, maybe a story that we didn't
cover or we should have covered more.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Crozier, let's start with you. What's going on in the world,
bub Well.
Speaker 8 (01:39):
China's announced they've got a drone mothership.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
They're about to release it.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
China says it's GEO ten drone will be able to
launch one hundred small drones like bees from a hive.
China says it's also this this big ass plane is
a modular so it can be used for civilian or
military use, and it's able to be used for electronic warfares,
striking support, or emergency rescue. The Drome mothership's got a
range of more than forty three hundred miles. It's got
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an eighty two foot wing span, which experts say makes
it a big target. It's got a maximum altitude it's
about the same as a commercial aircraft goes up about
as high. That also means it's also well within range
of air defense systems around the world, like US Patriot missiles. Ah,
so it's US officials right now say they're not too
worried about it. Joe Tian makes its first test flight
(02:26):
at the end of June. The Defense Department says it's
aware of the behemoth, but as of right now, they
just say, this just looks like a giant target.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
So the United States could easily take that down.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Yeah, as with a lot of countries. And like I said,
they're air defense systems. It's not just Patriot missiles, but
many air defense systems and countries around the world can
take it out. So they say, even if this thing
as big as it is, it would need air support
around it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, I'd say, okay, all right, so we're not worried
about it, all right, Yeah, okay, I'd love to see
that though. All right, Steph WUIs what's going on out there?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Bob? So we like oreos, right, Yes.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Selena Gomez came out with her own flavor and her
Chota flavor, and this new flavor features a completely innovative
profile affusion of chocolate and cinnamon with a sweet and
condensed milk base and cinnamon sugar inclusions and conclusions included
in the all sandwich between the two chocolate cinnamon flavored wafers.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
So it's not even the regular chocolate wafers in the
in the oreo.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh it sounds great, So I can't wait? All right, Angel,
what's going on in the world we don't know about?
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Well, Over the next few mornings, a mini planet parade
will be visible on the eastern horizon. That's Venus, Saturn, Neptune,
and a lovely crescent moon will be on their best
display May third and twenty fourth. But this is just
before sunrise. So tomorrow the sun rises at five forty six,
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so you gotta get up kind of early before the
sign phase out this display. So set your alarm and
get yourself some celestial action.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Excellent, all right, belly yah, we bet and clean up?
What's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So?
Speaker 11 (04:11):
So cal Edison is restoring gas to the seaview community
of Rancho Palace Verdes. Finally, Yes, it's expected to take
four to five weeks for residents who are eligible. Cities
also moving forward with a buyout program and the Portuguese Bend.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Twenty three homeowners were.
Speaker 11 (04:28):
Shortlisted for appraisals as part of a forty two billion
dollar FEMA funded buyout. Here's the catch, though, Getting that
money could take months or even years, and only a
fraction of the homeowners are eligible. Out of eighty five
who applied, just twenty three made the cut. The city
prioritizes homes that are red or yellow tagged and those
with major structural issues or no utility access. The goal
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is to demolish those homes and turn the land into
open space to prevent future disasters. The land is still shifting,
although they saved. They're restoring the gas that has stabilized.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But that's cool deal. All right, we got to take
an early break here. I just realized I left my
phone in the car. Yeah, I went to call my
wife about something, and I realized, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (05:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We had Michael Monks in. He was talking about the
Metro's budget.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You see the you know, the trains, the light rail,
the bus is the whole run. Their budget is nine
point four billion dollars a year. There are seven million
people I look this up, seven million adults that live
in La County. Seven million people over the age of
eighteen that live in Los Angeles County. If they just
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got rid of Metro and just said so long Metro's done,
they could they could get give everybody in La County
a check for one thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars,
and then you find your own way to.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Wherever you're going.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And if you don't commute, then they don't give you
a check. So I wouldn't get a check because I
don't commute. You know, I'm a mile so I wouldn't
get one. Krozier, he makes good enough money, he's not
going to get one.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Steph ushe might get it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, she could quickly double those checks as well,
and then everybody takes super lyft stikes more money in
people's pockets, and that's a solution for you. There you go,
all right, let's let's get into this. PCH is going
to reopen. A lot of people who live out there
are not excited about this.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
They think it's too early.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
There's still a lot of traffic out there, there's still
a lot of lookie lose. But the people own businesses
out there, they love this idea. They need to reopen
or else they're all going to go out of business.
Speaker 13 (06:54):
In eleven mile stretch here along Pacific Coast Highway open
to the public starting at eight am on Friday, following
January's LA wildfires, which prompted major closures, with debris removal
taking months to clear. While some drivers will relieve this
limited access will be lifted in time for the Memorial
Day weekend, many residents have majored traffic concerns.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
You're looking at maybe an hour an hour and a
half just to get through the checkpoints as it is,
do you see it? It's busy now just with us.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Can you imagine when it's open to the public and
people coming to the beach and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Or well, if it's open to the public, there's not
gonna mean more checkpoints. I don't know if this man understands.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
That or not.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
As it is, you see it, it's busy now just
with us.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, but there the checkpoints are coming down, is what
the opening up means.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You're looking at maybe an hour an hour and a
half just to get through the checkpoints. They're coming down.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Can you imagine when it's open to the public and
people are coming to the beach.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
And stuff, or there'll be no more checkpoints. Kids loukilus
that want to go see what's going on. Yeah, it's
gonna be.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Long, Yeah, it's gonna be long because it's gonna be traffic,
but they're all will be no more checkpoints. That's what
opening up is in reference to there's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Still restricted access to the Palisades.
Speaker 13 (08:06):
Only residents in the fire impacted areas, business owners and
contractors will be allowed into those neighborhoods. Mayor Karen Bass
calling the reopening an important step in recovery efforts, the
fastest in the state history. But keep in mind restrictions
are so no.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Wait, what did she call it the fastest?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
What and contractors will be allowed into those neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Okay, that's in Pallisades. Now what did Mayor Basque call this?
Speaker 13 (08:28):
Mayor Karen Bass calling the reopening an important step in
recovery efforts the fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What's the fastest in the state history. I don't understand that.
What's that in reference to the fastest that we've opened
up pch after a fire. That's probably not true.
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Mayor Karen Bass calling the reopening an important step in
recovery efforts, the fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Doesn't doesn't don't any reporters ask her what she means
by that? Or they just write it down. She says it,
and they write it down, then they use it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
The fastest in the state history.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
There is no state history of PCH being closed. Because
fourteen thousand homes burned down. This is the largest fire
in the history of California. PCH has never had that
experience before. So, yeah, it is the fastest, but it's
also the slowest, and so it's everything.
Speaker 13 (09:19):
Fastest in the state history. But keep in mind restrictions
are still in place along pH with debris efforts continuing
along construction zones.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
There is no parking or stopping allowed in the work zone.
Please remember that there may be slow vehicles moving in
and out of the lanes. Law enforcement will be sighting motorists.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, and twenty five miles an hour, I think is
the speed limit right now.
Speaker 13 (09:43):
The US Army Corps of Engineers removed more than nine
hundred and fifty thousand tons of debris from the area,
but the work continues about sixty percent completion and the
Palace its fire impacted areas.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
They tell us, we've.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Been able to clear debris from all of the parcels
available to us be finished through this weekend. There's still
some where we're working access issues.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
And there are also people who chose to opt out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And are clearing on their own.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know, that's going to be a problem, the people
who opt it out and they're going to clear it
on their own. Because there's no timetable for that, they
can clear it whenever they want, so they can literally
sit on that property, leave that mess there for five years,
watch the property value go up around them for five years,
and then have and then sell it in five years.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But that was the case, why wouldn't they just have
the government do it then?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Because because they I think they just don't trust government.
You know, there are a certain amount of people that
just don't trust They think there's loopholes or they think
that you know, if the government comes in and helps
you out, then you know you owe them something else,
or you know they're not going to do a great job,
or there's a real distrust for government. And and I
(10:55):
I don't understand it. If the government offered to clean
my house up after it burned down, I'd say have
at it, man, Yeah, clean it up. Please buy you
a cup of coffee or a six pack or whatever.
But it is odd. You're right that people did opt
out of it. And yet they're not going to clean
their property up. They're going to sit there. It'll sit
there with all the contaminants and all, and it's private property,
(11:17):
so you can't really go in and force the guy
to clean it up. And they'll let it hang, you know,
because they don't need the money. A lot of people
who live out there, not a lot, but many people
out there don't need the money. They'll let that property
sit there for five years, they'll rebuild up the area
around it, and then they'll sell it for three times
more than it's worth now, and so they don't really
have to clean it up.
Speaker 13 (11:37):
As we're concerns regarding property and safety for residents in
Malibu and the Pacific Palisades, there will be new checkpoints
for some roads leading from the highway into neighborhoods. More
than one hundred LPED officers are deployed to staff checkpoints
in the Palisades. Also CHP officers focused on crime suppression
and patrol.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Here's a bit more on what to expect tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Again, it's amazing that we need, you know, one hundred
LAP the fifty Highway Patrol, the Sheriff's Department just to
keep idiots out of there. You know, if we all behaved,
if we all were of the same mindset. But these
people lost a home, Let's not go and try to
rob them, Let's not steal their stuff. Let's not go
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out there and be looky lose and impede their cleanup efforts.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Then they wouldn't need all those cops.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But because there are so many a holes in LA,
we need cops everywhere, everywhere, everywhere we look.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Here's a bit more on what to expect tomorrow again,
guidance from the City of Malibu.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Up to two lanes will open in each direction.
Speaker 13 (12:38):
And don't forget the speed limit is twenty five miles
per hour. You definitely don't want to go above that
stopping in the burn areas that's prohibited. Also, use caution
in the area which remains an active work zone, so
keep an eye out for those workers and their vehicles.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
You know, I have a feeling and who is this?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
That's latest here? Long PCCh careed Winter five News.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Great job, Kareem Winters.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think that they're going to keep the twenty five
mile an hour speed zone forever. I think this will
be the silver lining that comes out of this fire.
There's been no accidents, no fatal accidents. Yes, it does
take another twenty minutes to get home, but nobody's died.
And I think they're going to keep that speed limited
twenty five, maybe thirty, but it's not going back to
(13:20):
fifty five. It's not going back to sixty sixty five.
Those days are over. That's not going to happen anymore,
and fewer people are going to die. It'll take a
few more minutes to get home, but everyone's going to
get home.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
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Speaker 6 (13:40):
Ding Dong.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This is the Thursday before Memorial Day. A lot of
people are out on the roads. A lot of people
are moving around. They're going to Vegas, they're going to Morongo,
they're going up north.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But it looks like the freeways are pretty open.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
If you're going from La to San Francisco, that five
is completely wide open, with the exception of a little
tiny area. Oh that's southbound, okay, so that's yeah, a
little northbound about halfway through there's about a mile and
a half of traffic, But otherwise the five is wide open,
and so is the ninety nine. So if you're going
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to Sacramento, San Francisco, maybe going all the way up
to Oregon. The five Freeway from Los Angeles to Portland,
Oregon is wide open, wide open, once you get out
of LA once you get out of Los Angeles, once
you pass Santa Clarita, actually even before you get Santa Clarita,
it's it's wide open, all right. This was sent to
(14:34):
me by a friend. Are the beaches is stupandell did
this about the Orange County beaches?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Orange County? You gotta going on? And here is proof.
Speaker 15 (14:45):
One of my favorite things to do is to fly
to Orange County. Something happens when you pass that Orange Line,
get across that Orange curtain. All of a sudden, the
waters get clearer and bluer, and everything just gets nicer.
And you know what, me saying that means nothing. What
happened is we got the official nod from the California
State Parks Foundation saying that Crystal Cove are very o well,
the Orange Counties. Crystal Cove is one of the best
(15:08):
state beaches in California, and it is look at how
beautiful that is down there, That blue water and that
little cove area makes it all that much better now.
There are actually some cozy cottages down there over one
hundred and thirty years old. The blue water definitely is
one of the things is that is attracting everybody. But
there's also help forests down there as well. You can
(15:29):
actually see some of them from sky fox right there.
That water out here, for some reason, it's just always
just a little bit bluer. Now our beaches have competing
with a lot of California state beaches. Have you been
up north? There are some beautiful beaches up there, but
this one is the one that got the nod.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's terrific that Orange County, ma'am. They got it going
on with those beaches. I think we're sort of we
have a handicap because the Santa Monica Bay area is
it sort of it gets entrapped from Moulta all the
way to Palaceford is it's a big bay in there.
We don't get the circulation. But in Orange County they
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get all that circulation of the water, and so the
beaches remain beautiful and clean, and people down there they
demand that they're not going to settle for crap like
we do in Venice Beach or in Santa Monica. You know,
this Santa Monica Pier is always the worst water in
Southern California, and we tolerate that.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
It's you know, for the.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Last twenty thirty forty years and nobody's doing anything clean
that up. It's always the worst water in Southern California.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Always.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What beach did you hang out when you were growing up.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Right there, Santa Monica?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You know, yeah, with that all the crap there, and
we used to take the beach bus and you know,
from the valley, we used to get on the beach bus,
go to Westwood, then take another beach bus to go
out to Santa Monica and then walk down the California
Incline and just go to that beach.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
It was said that is the beach where you would
read the La Times in your socks.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
That's correct, That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Kind of a Stutley move back then, I thought, you know,
I don't think it's uh it holds up in twenty
twenty five. But I used to bring a La Times
with Maine to the beach. All my other friends, you know,
they're chasing girls and playing frisbee and going in the
water body surfing losers. Yeah, and I just sit there
and read Jim Murray's article, his column with the La Times.
(17:24):
And I remember a friend of mine gun named Matt McDaniel.
He said, why do you always bring the paper to
the beach. I like to read the news And he says, yeah,
but doesn't don't those stories change all the time. Yes,
that's exactly why, exactly why I read it, because those
stories do change all the time, especially those sports stories.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
They change all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, every time you watch another game, there's a new
story coming out of there, and a lot of it
has to do with the score.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That's a funny line.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, that's a true story. He said, why do you
bring those newspapers? Those stories change all the time?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Me about the rover on when are they going to
get out of that?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, my my wife, we're watching the Mars rover and
and it landed on Mars and they're buzzing around for
a while and we're watching. I was fascinated by it,
you know, I mean literally to put you know, a robot,
a rover on Mars successfully and drives around collecting information.
I was I couldn't stop watching that. And I'm watching
(18:27):
on TV one day and my wife's looking at it
and she said, hey, one of the astronauts going to
get out.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I'm like halfway through she knew. She She's like, she's like, god, sorry,
don't this isn't going on the air is like, I
don't know. Maybe maybe it did to the point where
Bellio knows the story.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Sorry, up, it did, and it did again, It did again,
and it will and she doesn't mind.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, She's like, cute.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
We all have that.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We all have stupid things that we do that all
the time.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Where so you ask a dumb question and as you're
asking it, it clicks right exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, look I'm the king of it. You know, I
was born Irish negative you know. Yeah, yeah, I'm the
dumbest man in the world. All right, this is Memorial
Day weekend, Memorial Weekend coming up. It's kind of a
shame that it's been turned into just ways for you know,
stores to sell us more crap.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
But that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
But the travel today is the busiest day, busiest day
in the in the travel season.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
The unofficial start of summer means a trip to Las
Vegas for Veronica and Juan Velasquez, and they're extending the
long Memorial Day weekend a bit.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
We're gonna avoid a little the royals of the Monday,
So we are getting on Thursday morning.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And there will be crowds.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
American Airlines expects today and tomorrow to be its busiest days.
United is planning for about three hundred thousand more passengers
compared to last year.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
We see a really strong summer actually coming up.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Andrew Nucella is United It's chief commercial officer. Have you
seen any impact in people's willingness to fly out of
Newark given what's been going on?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yes, I think the answer should be absolutely.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We are adjusting our schedule in Newark to make sure
that we put the appropriate number of airplanes in there
for what the airspace can handle.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Like zero.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm willing to bet you on June fifteenth and after,
when this runway construction is over, you're going to see
Newark rebound really, really quickly.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Overall, TRIPLEA expects a record forty five point one million
Americans to travel this Memorial Day weekend, breaking a record
set in two thousand and five.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
While the vast majority will drive, they.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Expect the number of flyers to edge up about two
percent over last year.
Speaker 16 (20:37):
Holiday times are always going to be high volume travel time,
So even when you see travel going down during the
rest of the year, you're always going to have big
numbers over Memorial data.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, and then you also have to worry about having
a real ID and how what I kind of hassle
that's going to be. If you show up the airport
you have a plane ticket, but you don't have that
little real ID stamp fun your license or your ID,
you're going to be You're gon be delayed.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
For Tracy Rowls, a lead mechanic at Delta's Atlanta hub,
the summer season started months ago as his team works
to get the airline's newest planes and their interiors ready
to go.
Speaker 15 (21:14):
Try our best to get them in the best shape
we can prior to summer schedule.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
When our workloads, our passenger loads pick up, we don't
want them sitting out here on the rail.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
And as busy as this weekend will be, American Airlines
says its busiest day of the summer won't come until
July sixth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So where are people going?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Yeah, where are people going this Memorial Day weekend?
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Well, domestically, it's places like Orlando, in Las Vegas, San Diego.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And Boston.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Internationally, some pretty good destinations London, can Coon, Paris.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
And Rome top the list.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But look, we're watching weather, not only here in Newark,
but pretty much from DC all the way up to Boston.
Could see weather delays, also watching for some disruptions potentially
in Florida, Dallas, even out in Los Angeles. So certainly
some risk for delays today.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yep, gonna be delays. But the traffic is great. I
thought it was gonna be jammed. It is in Los
Angeles and you know a lot of the areas. But again,
if you're traveling on the five, you're going up north
San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, it's wide open, wide open.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I should really get out on the road and check it.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Out for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, probably try to get home by about eight eight thirty.
You know what time do you get home when you
leave at seven?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Like eight oh five.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh that's not bad. Oh it's not no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, I got home. Okay, I feel horrible about this,
but I got home last night. Yeah, and parked my
car before mo Kelly came on here.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, that annoys me. Oh that really annoys me.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I was still listening to commercials, but I parked the car, so.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
Isn't that well that was the same for me, But
it was just Mow's second hour. The first hour, right, yeah,
get home right the second hour started.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
That's classic.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
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Speaker 6 (23:21):
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Speaker 7 (23:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's a lot of people who live in southern California.
You're from Seattle, you spend some time in Seattle, maybe
mom and dad live up there, and you wanted to
get the hell out of that depressed area.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
She came down to LA to make it big.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And you still want to know what's going on in Seattle, though,
Well they have. They're doing one hundred million dollar renovation
of Seattle's Space Needle. And if you're from Seattle, you've
been to the Space Needle. You take out of towners there,
they go up in the needle, they look around, they
come down, they've had a good time, and you probably
rarely go up because you've seen it your whole life.
(23:58):
You've been up there once and wasn't a big. Well,
now it's one hundred million dollar renovation. It's gonna look
pretty cool once it's all completely.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's one of the most recognizable buildings in the world
and a signature part of the Seattle Skyline, the Space Needle.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
The theme of the fair is that by the Space Needle.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
At six hundred and five feet tall, the iconic landmark
was first built in nineteen sixty two for the World's Fair.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
The Seattle World's Fair is underway.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The theme celebrating the age of Space, and according to
the Space Needle's chief operating officer, Karen Nelsen, it was
constructed to symbolize just that.
Speaker 17 (24:32):
The space Needle was designed as a flying sposer on
a stick. When they're building it, no one thought it
was possible. People came down, they had picnics and made
the cover off magazine twice.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
At the time, this space Needle was considered an architectural feat.
All built from start to finish in just four hundred days.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Wow, is that right? Four hundred days to build that thing.
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
They built it really quick.
Speaker 17 (24:53):
It took teams of engineers who were entiresly overnight to
build a space nail in the first place.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And now this renovation historys arepeating itself.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Sixty three years later, yet again, construction crews are working
overtime to complete a massive one hundred million dollar renovation
of the popular tourist attraction. Major changes have already been made,
including adding one hundred and seventy six tons of glass
to the observation decks, giving visitors the feeling that they're
floating above the city. All part of the Space Needle's
(25:21):
original design that never actually happened.
Speaker 17 (25:24):
They envisioned Florida ce Lane portoskuide glass everywhere, but back
in the day they didn't have that much glass. They
didn't have the technology.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
But we've done over the years is peel.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
That away and really open up the view.
Speaker 17 (25:34):
Whenever there's structure that we can we're replacing it with glass.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You know, I've been to Las Vegas a couple of times.
I've gone up in the stratosphere the big tower there
in the stratosphere, and it's expensive to go up there.
I think it's like forty or fifty dollars to go
up the elevator in the stratosphere are the big tower,
And I always do it, and I always regret it
because you get up there, you look around for five minutes,
(26:01):
and you can't wait to get the hell off it.
There's nothing really to do, and once you get once,
the thrill wears off of you looking down and that
ends pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
There's nothing else to do.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There's a little coffee shop up there, and there's a
couple of rides that I wouldn't do, the roller coaster
on top of it, you know, the stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's just not for me. That's not the way I
want to go out.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
When that thing breaks and it falls, and I'm not
going to free fall off that thing in a controlled
way or a you know, a suicidal way or a
daring way, whatever. That's not the way I'm going to
go out. But maybe the Seattle one is going to
be cooler than the one in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That includes converting the rotating restaurant into the world's first
ever revolving glass floor. This definitely isn't for someone who's
scared of height.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I know.
Speaker 17 (26:51):
Is this amazing?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And another big change replacing the building's three elevators, making
them double decker to increase capacity, and adding floor to
ceiling glass all the way around.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Welcome to the preview.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It's a project. Architect Blair Paysin has been working on
for years. What was so cool about going back to
the original blueprints from nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Well, one of the joys was finding that they had
wanted to do a double stack elevator in the sixties and.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
They just couldn't. And so it's really only now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Sixty years later, with the team we have that we
can realize that vision.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Now, after three years of construction, the first set to
open to the public Friday, it's the only elevator like
it in North America.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I think the space scle's all I'm going to challenge that.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Now, after three years of construction, the first set to
open to the public Friday, it's the only elevator like
it in North America.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think the Stratosphere is a double decker elevator, and
as a matter of fact, I'm a hundred percent sure
it is. And so that's not the first double decker
elevator in North America. I don't know where she got
that fact from, but it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's the only elevator like it in North America.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
That's not true.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
I think the space stole is all about getting people
to the edge, and this experience.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Really lets you do that.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I think that people are going to come away totally thrilled.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
They're going to find their limit and then push past it.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
To say I did that maybe an understatement. After our
official tour, they let us check everything out. All right,
let's have some fun, But all this wasn't even the
high point. Seattle from a whole new perspective, it was
so cool.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It is beautiful. Seattle is one of those beautiful cities
in the world. If you're six hundred feet above it.
If you're at ground level, it sucks. It's filthy, it's dirty.
There's a lot of people who haven't discovered showers filthy
as hell. But if you're six hundred feet above it,
you can't see that. Man, is it spectacular?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh gosh, guys, that was one of the scariest but
also the most thrilling things I have ever done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
If you're wondering.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Unfortunately, going all the way up to this fire is
not open to the public, but all of the other
fun things we just showed you are so hey. If
you're in the Pacific Northwest, you got to make a
tre to the space. They'll check all those renovations out
and of course those incredible views.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, I gotta look this up and see if
that's true. I think the double decker elevator, I think
this is not the first one in North America. I'm
I'm one hundred percent sure that they have one in
the Stratosphere one hundred percent. Well, it makes it a
double decker elevator just the way it's built or no,
there's so you they do this for convenience and for speed.
You can get on on the second floor and the
(29:26):
first floor and they both open at the same time.
And then when they go up, you get off at
the fifty fourth floor and the fifty fifth floor, so
it's two elevators just on top of each other.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Yeah, and which.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Is weird because it's a two story, two story elevator,
that's right, That's right. Ye, I was gonna say, yeah,
And what's weird is that And the Stratosphere has one
of these. Is you go up in the elevator and
they shut the door. You know, you get off, and
then they shut the door, and then the people that
get back on the door opens, and it's a different
elevator operator because you're you're getting on the upper deck,
(30:01):
but you got off on the lower deck. So the
door is opening, Like, wait a minute, I just saw
a man in here operating.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Now I get it. Yeah, I just saw a man
in here. Now there's a woman here. How that happened?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I was I couldn't believe it, and plus I was
little buzz and I couldn't figure it. I couldn't figure
out how that was done. But I'm one hundred percent
sure of the stratusphere has a double decker, This says.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
The first double decker elevator in North America was installed
in nineteen thirty one at seventy Pine Street in New
York City. Otis Elevator Company, the company that first installed it,
later expanded the technology, including placing the first double decker
elevator in Detroit at the First National Bank Building in
nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
So she's wrong.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I think maybe she meant to sit it.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Might it come? Let me see what she.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Said seattle from a whole new perspective.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
WHOA, that was so cool.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I think she just space stills all about getting people
to the edge, and this experience really lets you do that.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I think that people are going to think she just
booted it.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well to say I did that maybe an under after
our official tour, they let us check everything out. All right,
let's have fun. But all this wasn't even the high
point Seattle from a whole new perspective.
Speaker 17 (31:11):
Who it was so cool.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh gosh, guys, that was one of the scariest but
also the most thrilling things I have ever done. If
you're wondering, Unfortunately going all the way up to this
fire is not open to the.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
P oh, okay that we can realize that I.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Can't find it the new Skyliner.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
That elevator is a double deck floor to ceiling glass elevator.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Ah, maybe that's it. Okay, maybe that's it. Okay, all right,
but that is a cool place.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I love the I don't know why, but I've always
been fascinated by going up into like the CN Tower
in Toronto or the Space Needle in Seattle. I was
one of those goofy kids that you know, really couldn't
wait to get up and go, you know, look at
one of those towers. All my other friends are like, hey,
let's go you know, gamble and go to strip bars.
Like no, let's go to the tower. So the tower.
(31:57):
Let's go up to the tower.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I did.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I did an actual a What is it the groomsman's
party before the wedding, bachelor part Yeah, Bat's thank you
bachelor party at the top of the stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Oh was that right with Phil Hendry Because it was
his wedding.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
We did a live broadcast from the the stratosphere with Phil.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, that is pretty cool. I
was at the last time I was in the stratosphere.
There's people getting married at the Stratosphere, but not up
in the tower, right at the base of the tower.
Oh my god, am mighty. It is low end, not
even in the top of the tower, at the bottom.
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