August 5, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Monks says a DTLA homeless encampment was cleared—then reappeared. LA County landlords must now keep apartments under 82 degrees. A solar boom is heating up Kern County.
Two arrests may be tied to the Encino burglary ring. The Gifford Fire is threatening hundreds of homes along the Central Coast. And don’t miss the Teacher of the Day, or Bellio’s sparkling water addiction. Plus, a must-watch Billy Joel doc on HBO Max: So It Goes.
Two arrests may be tied to the Encino burglary ring. The Gifford Fire is threatening hundreds of homes along the Central Coast. And don’t miss the Teacher of the Day, or Bellio’s sparkling water addiction. Plus, a must-watch Billy Joel doc on HBO Max: So It Goes.
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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 appf I AM
six forty. It is Conway Show. We got two pieces
of great news. We've got the suspect in the Tennessee
quadruple murder has been caught, this guy Austin Drummonds, whatever
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the dope's name is. And then we also have a
some of these lads who've been attacking homes in the
Hills Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Cino Tarzan wooland Hills
high Speed Chase and the cops have them. So we
got two pieces of great news. Let's cover the suspect
with the with the quadruple murder first. And here's our
(00:40):
own Alex Stone from ABC News. How you bumming dong?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And they got those guys and guys yeah wow, man
messing around now?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, they finally Look, they've been looking for him since January,
so they finally got their guy. Now there's like five
other rings that have been doing it too, that's right, yeah,
all over the place. Hey, So what's going on? So
we got you murderers out there? Right, We've got the
Montana guy, Yes, and then we've got the Tennessee guy. Yeah,
but Tennessee, he's underrest now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's this thing's been haunting Jackson, Tennessee, between Nashville and
Memphis for about a week. July twenty eighth, there was
a baby that was found in a car seat that
the baby was alive but found abandoned, strapped in this
car seat on the front lawn of a random house.
And police were figuring out whose baby it was. And
then they found the family of four dead on the
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side of a road and they had been murdered. The
baby had been kidnapped and then dumped, and through the
investigation they identified that the killer was Austin Drummond. And
it has been a big man hunt trying to find
this guy running around in the woods. Seems like that's
kind of the story that we've got. I remember a
couple of days ago there was the couple that was
murdered on the hiking truck, right, Yeah, and that in
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front of the kids. Yeah, and then the guy in Montana.
They're all running around in the woods, but this Austin
Drummond was as well. And a little while ago this announcement,
we're here today.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
To confirm that Austin Drummond has been taken into custody.
More importantly, his capture occurred without any further harm to
the public or to any law enforcement offers.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So he was wrested out in the woods. He apparently
he appeared really sweaty or wet in the photo that
they gave us of him being captured. He had been
seen in the area. This was where people lived in
the area. One man told our teams that there was
a greenhouse that the door was never open, and it
was weirdly opened this morning, and he watched it for
a little while and then Drummond walked out of it,
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and from news coverage he knew that that was Austin
Drummond and he called nine one one. Police said, yeah,
this was all about witnesses who had seen the media
coverage and called to say here he is.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This morning. However, a couple of encounters with Drummond changed
that methodical search to a dynamic one. Just after eight
o'clock am, we received multiple calls of sightings of the.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Suspect, and they said they have no idea on a motive,
but there was a family connection between Drummond and his
four victims. His girlfriend was related to three those who
were killed, so yeah, that thing. Yeah, but they don't
know if he was defending her or if there was
an argument, But they they it was targeted, it was
not random. They've arrested four of his what they call
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associates who are allegedly part of the murders as well,
So they have they say, they still put together the why,
but they've got him in custody. And but but why
he allegedly committed the murders, they don't know. You know, Alex,
you've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Does it seem like murders season in the summer because
it's so hot? Or are we just getting you know,
more of these more information out because of you know,
the you know, information super Highway. Yeah, I mean, I
think it definitely is.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We get a lot more crime during the summer, And
any cops will tell you that because people are out
and about, they're not you know, hunkered down because it's
it's snowing. But then look like you remember the University
of Idaho killings that was in late November, early November
when it was cold and snowy out, so and yeah,
you think back just all kinds like John Banay Ramsey
was in December, so it could be any time of
the year, but it uh yeah, and these have definitely
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been this summer.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I think people are pis in the summer because you know,
they're so hot. Heat makes you crazy. Yeah, And so
like my philosophy, and I think I'm only alive today
because I practice this on a daily basis. If it's
more than ninety ninety five degrees outside, I never honk
in a guy who's windows down in his car because
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he doesn't have air condition he doesn't have air conditions, right, Yeah,
and he's on edge. And you think about like the
street violence in Chicago right in other areas where some
of those apartments they may not have air conditions, right,
it all comes into play and they're out in the
streets overnight because that's or in Phoenix where that's when
it's safe to come out because you're not gonna roast
that you get a lot more violence at nighttime. I
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also have a theory that I've not seen in practice yet,
but I think next time we go bomb a country,
if we do in the Middle East, if we just
drop air conditioners instead of bombs, I think it would
be over in a week all of a sudden, World peace.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's right, there's too much air conditioner kill a lot
of people when those air conditioners land on them.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The world peace. Put a little AC in the guy's
you know house, and he's good. He's good to go. Man,
we're gonna come out because you know what I know,
like when I'm sleeping, I know when it gets to
seventy five degrees, there's a big difference between like seventy
three and seventy five. Right, what do you set your
thermostat to at night? When my wife's side of town,
I'm at sixty eight. Ooh, that's nice. I go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We go seventy. And if it's like seventy one or
seventy two, I'd like to go lower. But still the
air conditioning. We've got an old AC unit's in our
house and they run all night when it's not out,
and they never turn off. It can't go any lower.
I'd probably save a lot of money if I just
got a new AC. But it's relative. But yeah, we
go seventy. But if it's seventy one or seventy I
can feel that. Yeah, when you're sleeping, you can. That's
why when you go to a hotel, isn't it great?
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You be like pep all the way down to like
fifty five, and you're like, I'm gonna freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Everything's cold, the sheets are cold, your break up just freezing.
But I even bought, you know, because my room, our
room doesn't it faces the sun, so it can't really
get in the summer, doesn't get down below seventy three.
So I bought a portable unit to stick in the window,
you know, like it's you know, like nineteen seventy two. Right.
I cranked that up. I crank up the AC you know,
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the central air condition. I roll you know, I love
it absolutely freezing. I think most people do, you know,
you sleepy? You got those people who love to sleep
in like eighty degree. I just I can't do that.
Crazy yeah, crazy crazy. And he update on the Montana
chap that, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Got an update on him today as well. So that
guy Michael Paul Brown. They said that he nobody has
seen him since Friday and Anaconda when he went in
and opened fire in the bar, killing everybody inside, three customers,
one bartender. No homes, no cabins have been broken into,
They say they do believe he is alive, though, and
that there is evidence that he has quote unquote what
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they call present, but nobody has seen him. This is
what the Attorney General said.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The last concrete time we can say for sure he
was seen was Friday. Now, there is certainly evidence in
our search area that that he he's present, and that
you know, we're we're hunting in the right haystack.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Hunting in the right haystack. But they say they want
the public staler and where this guy has mental issues
and he's got PTSD, he's got guns.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This is clearly an unstable individual. He's he's had access
to firearms, numerous firearms in his home, and he used
a firearm to commit and released Hane a series of crimes.
We don't have specific information, but look, he was able
to escape and get up in the mountains. We are
absolutely operating under the assumption that he is armed and
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extremely dangerous.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And no, no, no motive in that one either other than
mental health and PTSD from being in the army and
serving in a rock that they say that he's had
all kinds of problems with that and that may have
played a role and why he went in and you know,
obliterated everybody in the bar. But they don't know, so
they've got large effort. They're changing him more to fugitive
recovery than an active search because they're getting to a
point where he's either hunkering down in a location or
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hiding out in a home somewhere whatever. But they haven't
found any buildings that he's broken into. He did steal
out of a car, a bunch of camping gears or
so we maybe just be out there camping.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They don't know. You know, the population of Anaconda's I'm
right around ninety eight hundred. Yeah, so everybody knew somebody
that was killed. Oh, like you said, everybody knew him too.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, it's just dreadful. It's unblow but I appreciate you
coming on, Matt. All right, Alex Stone with ABC News
our murder update. We usually don't do that, go to
the murder desk so quickly, but we got a lot
lot going on, man, a lot of people out there,
really angry, really desperate, and they're they're they're popping, they're popping,
and and we're hearing it all the time. You got
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the four that were killed up in Montana, Tennessee. Another
four people and it's just and then you had, you know,
the one guy who's killed to parents in front of
the kids. There's a lot of craziness out there right now,
so you got to keep it on KFI because you
got to know where the craziness is. It might keep
you alive. And also when you go to a party,
you don't want to be like the dope that doesn't
know what's going on. Then we got the two people
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killed last night in the in the Santa Ana crash,
or yesterday in the sane and a wrong way crash.
This guy's doing eighty eighty five miles an hour on
the wrong way on main Street down in Santa Anna
and killed a couple of people. Man, it's unbullied, dangerous
out there. You just got to stay home. I guess
that's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
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Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh we got mugs. Good. Hey, It's always a pleasure
to be with you on a Tuesday or any day.
Always nice to see you. I heard through a little
birdie through the grapevine that they cleaned up the tents
on your block in downtown Los Angeles. They did.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know if it was officially an inside safe operation,
but the whole crew was down there. LA's annotation big
construction equipment. Because my block, which is adjacent to skid Row,
but it's not technically part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's skid row.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Nears what you would say if you were a bad
real estate agent, I'm in the fashion district. And if
that's ever used, like the term skid row adjacent bell
Air near, yeah, it doesn't have the same kind of
ring to No. So the tents have been piling up
for months and the whole block was encircled with them
around my parking area. And yesterday morning on my way in,
(10:08):
this cleanup was taking place. And I mean these tents
were marvels of construction engineering, just materials from.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All over two stories.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh yeah, it was really nice, really bigger than my
apartment creative. Yeah, but they were gone.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
And then I got home after my shift here at
the old KFI and the beautiful hunh they were back.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
New residents had already moved in. That's how it is
the skid road. Jason Man And was it all filled
or is it just these were new tents. I guess
they moved about eight. By the time I got home,
there were at least four new ones there. I don't
know what hell awaits when I get home today. Do
you get to know the guys on the street, like
you see familiar faces?
Speaker 7 (10:50):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
The humanity in me wants to do that, but they
don't always look very approachable. Ah, I see, I'm not
into the same vices that they are. Let's put it
that way. I don't know that we have anything in common.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I get it, I get it. A nice way to
warm them up is they put a maga head on
and walk around. They like that. You might be surprised
who they vote for, really, is okay?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I would be surprised. All right. So air conditioning and
apartments in Los Angeles County or city.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
This is the county. In fact, it's the unincorporated part.
What we're talking about is what the Board of Supervisors
did today. They have mandated that apartments and the unincorporated
parts of Los Angeles County be kept at eighty two
degrees wow or less eighty two Still warm? That's warm. Yeah,
you're sweating in there. But they have to be somewhat reasonable.
I suppose what do you keep yours at?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I was telling Alex Stone, I like to keep my
bedroom at sixty eight and the rest of the house
at seventy three. Yeah, that's pretty typical for me.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I won't turn it on until it feels like, you know,
the mojave in there and so like, I have the
windows open all the time until this week we finally
turned the air on, and I keep it about the
same seventy seventy two. It's great because you don't want
to get the bill, but there are a lot of
folks who don't have the option of flipping a switch,
and so their units will get pretty hot. LA County
said they needed to do something about this. You may
be asking yourselves why. Here's what Supervisor Hill does the
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lease said about what motivated this legislation and as.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
We continue to face warmer summers. The ordinance is meant
to provide relief to our unincorporated residents and to protect
them from the dangers of extreme heat in their homes,
which we know will impact and can impact their health
and well being. The ordinance is simply clear and based
on the needs of our community, and it would require
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rental units to be kept at or below eighty two
degrees fahrenheit because research has demonstrated that anything higher is dangerous.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So the number wasn't pulled out of thin air. Apparently
research backs that once it gets above eighty two, that's
when you're in the danger zone and folks can get
sick from the heat. Now, landlords naturally oppose this is
yet another regulation.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What does it kick.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
In January first, twenty twenty seven, So they're giving these
folks some time to comply. This will be a complaint
based enforcement, so they're not going to be knocking on
your door. He'll just the lease is not knocking on
your door with a thermometer to check things out. This
will be the tenant, Okay, it will be the onus
of the tenant to call.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Here's why I knew something was coming, and something big.
Every time I go to Low's or home depot, which
is often, I would say, at least five times a week,
probably for each What do you work for ice? Not yet,
not yet, But I see nothing but these air units everywhere,
and that's what they're doing. They assume. I bet they
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knew this was coming and they loaded up. There's thousands
of them. Yeah, you know, the portable ones. Everything is
an opportunity. Yeah, and so you're going to see a
lot of landlords perhaps following you into that parking lot
that's looking for some equipment because that's what they're going
to need to do. But it's expensive. You know, those
are three four hundred bucks each, that's right.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
And it's very expensive to be a landlord, especially a
smaller landlord in the city or the County of Los Angeles,
because there are a lot of protections for tenants that
other jurisdictions do not extend. Of course, you can have
policy debates about whether they're necessary, but the fact of
the matter is they exist, and so it is expensive
on top of the property maintenance, the property taxes, the
mortgage that you might have by all these little rules
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that you have to follow in order to stay in compliance.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And then they're going to slap rent control eventually, and
people just say screw it.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Rent control already exists in some capacity in some places,
and it's a challenge you and a place that really
needs housing.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
They don't always make it easy, that's right, all right.
The second story you're working on is up in Kern
County Solar.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's Kern County Mojave to be exact, a unincorporated part
but the desert of Kerrn County. But this is about
the City of Los Angeles because there is a brand
new Eland Solar Plus Storage Center project. This thing is
thousands of acres big, eighty four miles north of the
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City of Los Angeles, but it is expected to supply
power to more than two hundred and six d six
thousand Angelinos.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's creating power or storing power.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
It's it's storing the power that will generate, oh be
generated for these homes. It will it will transmit it
into the city limits. So Mayor Bass hopped in a
car or chopper today and headed out eighty four miles
towards Kerrent County for this press conference.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And here's what she had to say about it.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
All of the energy generated here will connect to transmission
lines and power infrastructure upgraded by law LADWPIVEW Local eighteen
crews and carried back to Los Angeles to serve more
than two hundred thousand homes across the city every year.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's strange they couldn't move that closer because a lot
of electricity gets lost during transmission, does it? Yeah, I
would say about eighty percent of it.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
We should let her know that because she's very excited
about this. She says, this is part of the city's
goal of being powered by one hundred percent clean energy
by twenty thirty five, which will be here before you
know it. There were one point three million solar panels. Wow,
that are part of this thing. It's a big, big operation,
and it's significant enough to draw the Mayor of Los
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Angeles out to the depths of Kern County today.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
When she became mayor, I remember, I think it was
the freeway underpass that caught on fire off the ten
Freeway near downtown, and she took a helicopter ride over
to observe it and see what's going on. And she
looked down and there was a camera crew with her,
and she looked down and she said to the pilot,
she goes, what is that? And he said, that's the
one ten Freeway. And I thought, it's odd that the
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mayor doesn't know the one ten Freeway, which is a
pretty popular freeway that runs literally three blocks from where
she will be working every day.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah, it does. I'm on that thing every day. It's
not a pleasant ride. But she spent a lot of
time in Washington, so I guess so, I guess so,
but still it's odd. It was odd. What is that?
That's the one ten man, Miss Mayor, that's the one ten.
But I appreciate you coming in Saturday. I was listening
to you on Saturday. Hey, you had who do you
have on chef? Senator I did. Senatorship joined me on
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Saturday to talk about some legislation he has related to
wildfire recovery.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's right. Also weighed on this.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Congressional redistricting battle that's brewing across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
At this point, I was sitting in my car outside
of Low's listening to them. So there you go. I'm glad.
Were you crying? No, okay, everything all right? I was.
I was finishing a bowl of chili from Wendy from Wendy's.
I'd like to follow you around one day because your
wife know you don't want to him. No, it's not great.
It's not great at all. Nothing is great about it.
But I appreciate coming in my place. Monks Saturday seven
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Speaker 5 (17:42):
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Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh Well, Well, LAPD got a couple of these guys
that are breaking into home south of Venture Boulevard, Studio City,
Sherman Oaks and Cino Tarzana, Woodlandhills. That's the attack zone
north of I guess, north of Mulholland and south of
Entur Boulevard. That's where all the action is. And they've
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got some undercover cops in that area sniffing around and
they saw these four guys breaking into a house at
around ten o'clock and the chase was on. The chase
was on, so at least they got one of these crews,
at least one.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Our law enforcement contacts tell us this is one of
several suspected burglary teams or crews that could be behind
some of those break ins that have had residents in
Encino and other parts of the valley very nervous. The
group today of at least four men in a tesla
did not know they were being watched when they allegedly
smashed their way into a home in Woodland Hills. This
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is video from News Chapter four of workers examining a
smashed window or door in the backyard of the home
that was burglarized this morning. It happened around ten am.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, it happened right where Taft High School is. If
you grew up in the valley, you know where Taft
High School is. Right there off a Ventur Boulevard. There
used to be a Charlie Brown's restaurant there, a vagabond hotel.
I mean that, I'm going back to the seventies. Jem
Coe was there as well, and that's where this burglary
was happened, was happening, and then the cops saw it
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and gave chase on these lads.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
South of Venture Boulevard, near the Taft High School campus. Yes,
and according to our context.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Ralphs right there too, really good Ralves, nice raups
right there on the corner.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And according to our contacts, undercover officers from the La
Impact Surveillance Team were in the neighborhood and saw it happen.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
After the break in.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
The alleged burglary crew was followed onto the freeway and
down into La Here we Go. Uniformed officers were called
in to stop the car, but the driver took off.
There was a high speed chase through mid City that
went south along the one ten Freeway. It eventually ended
near ninety eighth and Wall Streets when the fleeing tesla
crashed into a parked car and the men inside ran away.
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At least one of the men was arrested. Close to
the crash scene. The LAPD brought in its search dogs.
They say they were able to arrest a second person.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, that means two got away, all right, So they
got fifty percent of these guys a couple of hours later.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Now, our law enforcement contacts say this is all part
of the LAPD's efforts to stop that recent series of
burglaries and Encino and in other parts of the valley.
They say this group is also suspected of burglarising homes
in the San Gabriel Valley, including in Arcadia and Glendale.
Detectives are still out there working the case right now.
They're serving some search warrants. We expect to learn much
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more in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
All right, so you might be able to sleep a
little easier tonight. At least one of these crews are
out of business, at least for tonight. You know, God
only knows what happens. How soon these two guys that
were caught will be released, and will they drop a
dime on the other two guys that they couldn't find,
And will there be enough evidence in the car to
go after the other two guys. I don't know. I
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don't know. It's got a fire update. Fire update. We
have got several fires burning here in southern California. Might
be able to see it in the air, you can
smell the smoke, and we're back to bat air and
smoke and craziness.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
More than eight hundred structures being threatened in Santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo County is by the massive Gifford
Fire burning in the Los Padras National Forest. The fire
has burned more than eighty two thousand acres and is
now seven percent contained. That fire grew from smaller fires
that erupted Friday along State Route one sixty six between
Santa Maria and Bakersfield. We could tell you that three
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people have been injured. Evacuation orders are in place. Smoke
from the Gifford to fire and other fires burning in
the Inlet Empire are impacting our air quality.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, it's going to We're just going to have, you know,
have to deal with this. All summer long. You know,
fire season used to be you know, literally, you know
it was it was like three or four months, five
months a year, and now it's you know, twelve months
a year. It's everywhere. So if you if you haven't
downloaded this app yet, it's great to it's a great
(21:55):
source of information. It's called watch Duty. And you literally
it has ever single fire in southern California or around
you know, the United States. But we've got the Keith
fire that's burning out near Wildemar out there. That one
is not as big as the obviously the ones burning
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up in Santa Barbara sixteen acres and it's still active.
And then we have another fire burning the Grand Fires
what they're calling that, And the Grand Fire is off
the fifteen where the fifteen and the two fifteen merged
there where there's that Glen Helen I don't know if
it's still there or not. Let that Glen Helen Auditorium
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or outdoor arena, and that fire they're calling that the
Grand Fire, and that's yeah, Glen Helen Parkway and it's
at not even a full acre yet, but that one
has the potential to expand. And then you've got the Goldfire,
the goldfire, and that's one acres. It's about a mile
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northwest of of Holcombe Valley, which is up near Lucerne
Valley and just east of Apple Valley. And that one
has the potential to be really bad. That one is
burning south and southwest and if that gets in, if
it continues burning southwest, that means Big Bear is in
(23:21):
the line of fire. Big Bear Lake. It is directly
north of Big Bear Lake. If you are literally standing
on the shore of Big Bear Lake where the grocery
store is out there, I think it used to be
in Albertsons. I don't know what it is still. But
let's say you're at Snow Summit. You know that's your
Bear Valley, very Snow Summit. That's something that people know.
(23:41):
So if you're standing on Snow Summit at the base
there at the lodge, directly north of that is exactly
where that fire is. So where those eagles, you know
those eagles we've been watching forever, Directly north of that
is where that fire is going on. And that's a
pretty big fire, nine hundred and ninety one acres in
that area. I'm surprised it's not getting more attention it's
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five percent contained, and this is updated a couple hours ago,
so it might even be bigger than that now. But
the fire has been mapped at nine and ninety one
acres by the intel at aircraft out there, and the
perimeter is visible on the watch Duty map. So you've
got to get the watch Duty app. And it's a
(24:25):
great tool, especially if you live up in the up
in the hills, or in the mountains or even in
the low lying, you know, hills around southern California. It's free.
They ask you occasionally to donate, and some people do.
You know, there's a way to support our mission and
you can click on ways to give. Membership includes you know,
for twenty five bucks a year. That's the high end
(24:46):
membership or the pro membership. I should say one hundred
bucks a year, that's the big one. But it's great.
It's really worth having on your phone, especially again if
you live up in Big Bear, Arrowhead, Arrowbear, Big Bear,
Big Arrows. All those communities up there got to get
watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
A six.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Hey we have Today's teacher of the day is Juliet Fleming.
Who teaches fifth grade at McKinley Avenue Elementary School, brings energy, compassion,
and creativity to our teaching every single day. So congratulations,
Juliet Fleming. You're in the running to win a thousand
(25:32):
dollars for your classroom. Wow, all right, that's a cool deal.
Teachers are the greatest in the world. I bet you
can think back to, you know, four or five teachers
that changed your life when you were in school. I
can do the same thing.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Isn't it five thousand?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh it is? Yes, Maybe I should go back to
McKinley Elementary. How dare you sorry? Yeah? It is five
thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars in your classroom. Wow.
Speaker 12 (26:05):
Man, that's awesome. They deserve it.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:07):
My wife asked me if she could win. I said,
she could win.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
Why can't she win?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, she's a teacher and change she can't win? Why
she's my wife? Well, that just mean she just be
a loser.
Speaker 13 (26:20):
Kind of does.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's horrible. By the way, I've been I downloaded and
and you know, I think we had Netflix for a while,
then we didn't have it, so I wanted to get
it back to watch Billy Joel and then after I paid,
I realized, Oh, it's not on Netflix, so it's grilled
about that.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
It is so good. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Have you watched? Both both had Yes, it's.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
So good it is you have to see it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
It's worth watching it, just the history of some of
the songs and the history of music.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
Crusier was right, it's can.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You record it off your HBO Max and then bring
it in. I don't want to pay for another service.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Yeah, you can pay for another service, all right, You're okay.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Krozier, did you get emotional on the second half too?
Speaker 14 (27:09):
It was much better than than I was expecting because
my preferences for his much earlier stuff. And plus I'm
one of those people when it comes to documentaries, especially
music wise, I like to see the earlier part of
what made that person who they were, that really kind
of contributed to that. But the second part was just
as good, just as well, and even more similarities with my.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Dad that realist there.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
There was a part of it where they they had
Christy Brinkley was being interviewed and she talks about how
she was looking at the finances of Billy Joel and
his ex brother.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
In law or whatever.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
Who was his manager with all the money, right, and
she said she went to Billy Joel and said, he's
ripping you off. He's stealing all your money.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Wait, and it's her brother that's doing that.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
It's it's no his Joel.
Speaker 14 (27:55):
Wife's oh I see yeah, brother right, and his his
whole answer. His reply to her was I don't believe
that whatsoever, And she like tearfully says, he believed his
friend over me.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Wow.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
And that's exactly what happened to my dad. And really
at the exact same time, late eighties, early nineties, she
told him that she she was put in charge of
the finances for the company my dad was running with
his best friend, oh, his bandmate also, and she said
she discovered. She says he's stealing all your money. And
my dad said, no, he's not it and they got
divorced over wow.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Almost And was he stealing the money?
Speaker 13 (28:30):
He absolutely was. He disappeared.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm talking about Krozer's, not Billy Joel. And I think,
are Bellio are you? Are you a student of Krozer's
dad's finance. Maybe maybe I spoke.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Too soon, you didn't know, Yeah I am, but that
but for people to know this and maybe you're tuning in,
you just you know, discover the program.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We appreciate you listening. But Krozer's father at one point
was going to be the lead keyboard for Fleetwood back.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
He was he was asked to come to to sit
in a studio because they needed a keyboardist at the
time in the early seventies before they hit big, and
he was in a very popular band playing in Miami,
and they asked him to come into a studio and
just just sit in front of a piano and just
give us some stuff. And he has to go to
the bathroom and never went back.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Wow, that is wild and what a story all.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
Of the circumstances and details regarding both his and Billy
Joel's life or early on same times the same Hammond
b three organ to join a band and both of
them dropped out of high school before graduation and they
both got hooked up with a woman who had a
son from a previous relationship in their early twenties and incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Have you have you thought about doing a documentary on
your dead book?
Speaker 13 (29:48):
Right?
Speaker 14 (29:48):
And yeah, I guess that's great, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And they may turn it into a documentary, you know.
Speaker 14 (29:53):
The way they play, they're very they that kind of
sloppy piano play, but so good. Got that he's got
that rhythm, me and him and my dad playing the
exact same one. Even his voice sounds almost identical to
Billy Joel when he sings some of the songs.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And I also I saw Billy Joel being interviewed about
a year ago. He can play any song in the
world that he's heard before. Yeah, any song a lot. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Billy I wozen.
Speaker 12 (30:17):
I'll just sit this one out.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
Well she was, She's She's absolutely right, they pointed.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I was right, not she.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
I brought that out right, go ahead, making an excellent
point here.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
It's brought up numerous times in the documentary.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If you would watch it, you have incredible ear.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I couldn't find it on on on my Netflix flick. Yes,
it's not on Netflix anymore.
Speaker 12 (30:39):
I'm going home.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's on Max.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Netflix is twenty five ninety nine a month. Who yeah,
I got expensive. It seems high.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
It really, it's more than I'm paying. I got to
check my bills.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, twenty four for you know, commercial free, and.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I don't go commercial free.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Billy Joel free and all that stuff Bill, You don't
have commercial free when you when you get a service.
Speaker 12 (31:04):
Oh I'm allowed to talk now.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, yeah, it was directed at you.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
I get the commercials say the extra.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Money, Well how much extras? Like six bucks?
Speaker 12 (31:13):
You're the one complaining about how expensive it is, and you're.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Pounting those periers. You know all day long.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
It's Pellegrino buying them. So I have extra money?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I mean, yeah, if you just had one less Pellegrino
a month, you could afford no commercials. Got the strange
moves you and John make with your money? I find
that fast?
Speaker 12 (31:34):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 13 (31:34):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I find it to be more of an interesting documentary
than Billy Joel.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Oh, but you will sit at a video poker for hours.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
On end throwing your money away. But John and I
have bad choices, and I don't know how John got
looped into it. What's gendue with her money?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
There's two cheap people sitting in the dark watching commerce
on IMAX or HBO Max or whatever it is. Like,
you like that commercial? Yeah, yeah, it wasn't for Pellegrina.
We wouldn't have to watch I know, I know, I know,
I'm gonna go play with Mays You.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Actually do make an excellent point.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
If I would drop a couple of pellegrinos a month,
I could get.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The ad for you can enjoy it. It's your pellegrino
habit that's keeping you into the commercial business crew. All right,
We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio appf I AM
six forty. It is Conway Show. We got two pieces
of great news. We've got the suspect in the Tennessee
quadruple murder has been caught, this guy Austin Drummonds, whatever
(00:20):
the dope's name is. And then we also have a
some of these lads who've been attacking homes in the
Hills Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Cino Tarzan wooland Hills
high Speed Chase and the cops have them. So we
got two pieces of great news. Let's cover the suspect
with the with the quadruple murder first. And here's our
(00:40):
own Alex Stone from ABC News. How you bumming dong?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And they got those guys and guys yeah wow, man
messing around now?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, they finally Look, they've been looking for him since January,
so they finally got their guy. Now there's like five
other rings that have been doing it too, that's right, yeah,
all over the place. Hey, So what's going on? So
we got you murderers out there? Right, We've got the
Montana guy, Yes, and then we've got the Tennessee guy. Yeah,
but Tennessee, he's underrest now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's this thing's been haunting Jackson, Tennessee, between Nashville and
Memphis for about a week. July twenty eighth, there was
a baby that was found in a car seat that
the baby was alive but found abandoned, strapped in this
car seat on the front lawn of a random house.
And police were figuring out whose baby it was. And
then they found the family of four dead on the
(01:29):
side of a road and they had been murdered. The
baby had been kidnapped and then dumped, and through the
investigation they identified that the killer was Austin Drummond. And
it has been a big man hunt trying to find
this guy running around in the woods. Seems like that's
kind of the story that we've got. I remember a
couple of days ago there was the couple that was
murdered on the hiking truck, right, Yeah, and that in
(01:50):
front of the kids. Yeah, and then the guy in Montana.
They're all running around in the woods, but this Austin
Drummond was as well. And a little while ago this announcement,
we're here today.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
To confirm that Austin Drummond has been taken into custody.
More importantly, his capture occurred without any further harm to
the public or to any law enforcement offers.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So he was wrested out in the woods. He apparently
he appeared really sweaty or wet in the photo that
they gave us of him being captured. He had been
seen in the area. This was where people lived in
the area. One man told our teams that there was
a greenhouse that the door was never open, and it
was weirdly opened this morning, and he watched it for
a little while and then Drummond walked out of it,
(02:30):
and from news coverage he knew that that was Austin
Drummond and he called nine one one. Police said, yeah,
this was all about witnesses who had seen the media
coverage and called to say here he is.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This morning. However, a couple of encounters with Drummond changed
that methodical search to a dynamic one. Just after eight
o'clock am, we received multiple calls of sightings of the.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Suspect, and they said they have no idea on a motive,
but there was a family connection between Drummond and his
four victims. His girlfriend was related to three those who
were killed, so yeah, that thing. Yeah, but they don't
know if he was defending her or if there was
an argument, But they they it was targeted, it was
not random. They've arrested four of his what they call
(03:11):
associates who are allegedly part of the murders as well,
So they have they say, they still put together the why,
but they've got him in custody. And but but why
he allegedly committed the murders, they don't know. You know, Alex,
you've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Does it seem like murders season in the summer because
it's so hot? Or are we just getting you know,
more of these more information out because of you know,
the you know, information super Highway. Yeah, I mean, I
think it definitely is.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We get a lot more crime during the summer, And
any cops will tell you that because people are out
and about, they're not you know, hunkered down because it's
it's snowing. But then look like you remember the University
of Idaho killings that was in late November, early November
when it was cold and snowy out, so and yeah,
you think back just all kinds like John Banay Ramsey
was in December, so it could be any time of
the year, but it uh yeah, and these have definitely
(03:58):
been this summer.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I think people are pis in the summer because you know,
they're so hot. Heat makes you crazy. Yeah, And so
like my philosophy, and I think I'm only alive today
because I practice this on a daily basis. If it's
more than ninety ninety five degrees outside, I never honk
in a guy who's windows down in his car because
(04:20):
he doesn't have air condition he doesn't have air conditions, right, Yeah,
and he's on edge. And you think about like the
street violence in Chicago right in other areas where some
of those apartments they may not have air conditions, right,
it all comes into play and they're out in the
streets overnight because that's or in Phoenix where that's when
it's safe to come out because you're not gonna roast
that you get a lot more violence at nighttime. I
(04:43):
also have a theory that I've not seen in practice yet,
but I think next time we go bomb a country,
if we do in the Middle East, if we just
drop air conditioners instead of bombs, I think it would
be over in a week all of a sudden, World peace.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's right, there's too much air conditioner kill a lot
of people when those air conditioners land on them.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The world peace. Put a little AC in the guy's
you know house, and he's good. He's good to go. Man,
we're gonna come out because you know what I know,
like when I'm sleeping, I know when it gets to
seventy five degrees, there's a big difference between like seventy
three and seventy five. Right, what do you set your
thermostat to at night? When my wife's side of town,
I'm at sixty eight. Ooh, that's nice. I go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We go seventy. And if it's like seventy one or
seventy two, I'd like to go lower. But still the
air conditioning. We've got an old AC unit's in our
house and they run all night when it's not out,
and they never turn off. It can't go any lower.
I'd probably save a lot of money if I just
got a new AC. But it's relative. But yeah, we
go seventy. But if it's seventy one or seventy I
can feel that. Yeah, when you're sleeping, you can. That's
why when you go to a hotel, isn't it great?
(05:43):
You be like pep all the way down to like
fifty five, and you're like, I'm gonna freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Everything's cold, the sheets are cold, your break up just freezing.
But I even bought, you know, because my room, our
room doesn't it faces the sun, so it can't really
get in the summer, doesn't get down below seventy three.
So I bought a portable unit to stick in the window,
you know, like it's you know, like nineteen seventy two. Right.
I cranked that up. I crank up the AC you know,
(06:07):
the central air condition. I roll you know, I love
it absolutely freezing. I think most people do, you know,
you sleepy? You got those people who love to sleep
in like eighty degree. I just I can't do that.
Crazy yeah, crazy crazy. And he update on the Montana
chap that, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Got an update on him today as well. So that
guy Michael Paul Brown. They said that he nobody has
seen him since Friday and Anaconda when he went in
and opened fire in the bar, killing everybody inside, three customers,
one bartender. No homes, no cabins have been broken into,
They say they do believe he is alive, though, and
that there is evidence that he has quote unquote what
(06:44):
they call present, but nobody has seen him. This is
what the Attorney General said.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The last concrete time we can say for sure he
was seen was Friday. Now, there is certainly evidence in
our search area that that he he's present, and that
you know, we're we're hunting in the right haystack.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Hunting in the right haystack. But they say they want
the public staler and where this guy has mental issues
and he's got PTSD, he's got guns.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This is clearly an unstable individual. He's he's had access
to firearms, numerous firearms in his home, and he used
a firearm to commit and released Hane a series of crimes.
We don't have specific information, but look, he was able
to escape and get up in the mountains. We are
absolutely operating under the assumption that he is armed and
(07:31):
extremely dangerous.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And no, no, no motive in that one either other than
mental health and PTSD from being in the army and
serving in a rock that they say that he's had
all kinds of problems with that and that may have
played a role and why he went in and you know,
obliterated everybody in the bar. But they don't know, so
they've got large effort. They're changing him more to fugitive
recovery than an active search because they're getting to a
point where he's either hunkering down in a location or
(07:53):
hiding out in a home somewhere whatever. But they haven't
found any buildings that he's broken into. He did steal
out of a car, a bunch of camping gears or
so we maybe just be out there camping.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They don't know. You know, the population of Anaconda's I'm
right around ninety eight hundred. Yeah, so everybody knew somebody
that was killed. Oh, like you said, everybody knew him too.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, it's just dreadful. It's unblow but I appreciate you
coming on, Matt. All right, Alex Stone with ABC News
our murder update. We usually don't do that, go to
the murder desk so quickly, but we got a lot
lot going on, man, a lot of people out there,
really angry, really desperate, and they're they're they're popping, they're popping,
and and we're hearing it all the time. You got
(08:34):
the four that were killed up in Montana, Tennessee. Another
four people and it's just and then you had, you know,
the one guy who's killed to parents in front of
the kids. There's a lot of craziness out there right now,
so you got to keep it on KFI because you
got to know where the craziness is. It might keep
you alive. And also when you go to a party,
you don't want to be like the dope that doesn't
know what's going on. Then we got the two people
(08:56):
killed last night in the in the Santa Ana crash,
or yesterday in the sane and a wrong way crash.
This guy's doing eighty eighty five miles an hour on
the wrong way on main Street down in Santa Anna
and killed a couple of people. Man, it's unbullied, dangerous
out there. You just got to stay home. I guess
that's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh we got mugs. Good. Hey, It's always a pleasure
to be with you on a Tuesday or any day.
Always nice to see you. I heard through a little
birdie through the grapevine that they cleaned up the tents
on your block in downtown Los Angeles. They did.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know if it was officially an inside safe operation,
but the whole crew was down there. LA's annotation big
construction equipment. Because my block, which is adjacent to skid Row,
but it's not technically part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's skid row.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Nears what you would say if you were a bad
real estate agent, I'm in the fashion district. And if
that's ever used, like the term skid row adjacent bell
Air near, yeah, it doesn't have the same kind of
ring to No. So the tents have been piling up
for months and the whole block was encircled with them
around my parking area. And yesterday morning on my way in,
(10:08):
this cleanup was taking place. And I mean these tents
were marvels of construction engineering, just materials from.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All over two stories.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh yeah, it was really nice, really bigger than my
apartment creative. Yeah, but they were gone.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
And then I got home after my shift here at
the old KFI and the beautiful hunh they were back.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
New residents had already moved in. That's how it is
the skid road. Jason Man And was it all filled
or is it just these were new tents. I guess
they moved about eight. By the time I got home,
there were at least four new ones there. I don't
know what hell awaits when I get home today. Do
you get to know the guys on the street, like
you see familiar faces?
Speaker 7 (10:50):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
The humanity in me wants to do that, but they
don't always look very approachable. Ah, I see, I'm not
into the same vices that they are. Let's put it
that way. I don't know that we have anything in common.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I get it, I get it. A nice way to
warm them up is they put a maga head on
and walk around. They like that. You might be surprised
who they vote for, really, is okay?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I would be surprised. All right. So air conditioning and
apartments in Los Angeles County or city.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
This is the county. In fact, it's the unincorporated part.
What we're talking about is what the Board of Supervisors
did today. They have mandated that apartments and the unincorporated
parts of Los Angeles County be kept at eighty two
degrees wow or less eighty two Still warm? That's warm. Yeah,
you're sweating in there. But they have to be somewhat reasonable.
I suppose what do you keep yours at?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I was telling Alex Stone, I like to keep my
bedroom at sixty eight and the rest of the house
at seventy three. Yeah, that's pretty typical for me.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I won't turn it on until it feels like, you know,
the mojave in there and so like, I have the
windows open all the time until this week we finally
turned the air on, and I keep it about the
same seventy seventy two. It's great because you don't want
to get the bill, but there are a lot of
folks who don't have the option of flipping a switch,
and so their units will get pretty hot. LA County
said they needed to do something about this. You may
be asking yourselves why. Here's what Supervisor Hill does the
(12:08):
lease said about what motivated this legislation and as.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
We continue to face warmer summers. The ordinance is meant
to provide relief to our unincorporated residents and to protect
them from the dangers of extreme heat in their homes,
which we know will impact and can impact their health
and well being. The ordinance is simply clear and based
on the needs of our community, and it would require
(12:34):
rental units to be kept at or below eighty two
degrees fahrenheit because research has demonstrated that anything higher is dangerous.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So the number wasn't pulled out of thin air. Apparently
research backs that once it gets above eighty two, that's
when you're in the danger zone and folks can get
sick from the heat. Now, landlords naturally oppose this is
yet another regulation.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What does it kick.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
In January first, twenty twenty seven, So they're giving these
folks some time to comply. This will be a complaint
based enforcement, so they're not going to be knocking on
your door. He'll just the lease is not knocking on
your door with a thermometer to check things out. This
will be the tenant, Okay, it will be the onus
of the tenant to call.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Here's why I knew something was coming, and something big.
Every time I go to Low's or home depot, which
is often, I would say, at least five times a week,
probably for each What do you work for ice? Not yet,
not yet, But I see nothing but these air units everywhere,
and that's what they're doing. They assume. I bet they
(13:34):
knew this was coming and they loaded up. There's thousands
of them. Yeah, you know, the portable ones. Everything is
an opportunity. Yeah, and so you're going to see a
lot of landlords perhaps following you into that parking lot
that's looking for some equipment because that's what they're going
to need to do. But it's expensive. You know, those
are three four hundred bucks each, that's right.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
And it's very expensive to be a landlord, especially a
smaller landlord in the city or the County of Los Angeles,
because there are a lot of protections for tenants that
other jurisdictions do not extend. Of course, you can have
policy debates about whether they're necessary, but the fact of
the matter is they exist, and so it is expensive
on top of the property maintenance, the property taxes, the
mortgage that you might have by all these little rules
(14:13):
that you have to follow in order to stay in compliance.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And then they're going to slap rent control eventually, and
people just say screw it.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Rent control already exists in some capacity in some places,
and it's a challenge you and a place that really
needs housing.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
They don't always make it easy, that's right, all right.
The second story you're working on is up in Kern
County Solar.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's Kern County Mojave to be exact, a unincorporated part
but the desert of Kerrn County. But this is about
the City of Los Angeles because there is a brand
new Eland Solar Plus Storage Center project. This thing is
thousands of acres big, eighty four miles north of the
(14:54):
City of Los Angeles, but it is expected to supply
power to more than two hundred and six d six
thousand Angelinos.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's creating power or storing power.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
It's it's storing the power that will generate, oh be
generated for these homes. It will it will transmit it
into the city limits. So Mayor Bass hopped in a
car or chopper today and headed out eighty four miles
towards Kerrent County for this press conference.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And here's what she had to say about it.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
All of the energy generated here will connect to transmission
lines and power infrastructure upgraded by law LADWPIVEW Local eighteen
crews and carried back to Los Angeles to serve more
than two hundred thousand homes across the city every year.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's strange they couldn't move that closer because a lot
of electricity gets lost during transmission, does it? Yeah, I
would say about eighty percent of it.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
We should let her know that because she's very excited
about this. She says, this is part of the city's
goal of being powered by one hundred percent clean energy
by twenty thirty five, which will be here before you
know it. There were one point three million solar panels. Wow,
that are part of this thing. It's a big, big operation,
and it's significant enough to draw the Mayor of Los
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Angeles out to the depths of Kern County today.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
When she became mayor, I remember, I think it was
the freeway underpass that caught on fire off the ten
Freeway near downtown, and she took a helicopter ride over
to observe it and see what's going on. And she
looked down and there was a camera crew with her,
and she looked down and she said to the pilot,
she goes, what is that? And he said, that's the
one ten Freeway. And I thought, it's odd that the
(16:34):
mayor doesn't know the one ten Freeway, which is a
pretty popular freeway that runs literally three blocks from where
she will be working every day.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah, it does. I'm on that thing every day. It's
not a pleasant ride. But she spent a lot of
time in Washington, so I guess so, I guess so,
but still it's odd. It was odd. What is that?
That's the one ten man, Miss Mayor, that's the one ten.
But I appreciate you coming in Saturday. I was listening
to you on Saturday. Hey, you had who do you
have on chef? Senator I did. Senatorship joined me on
(17:06):
Saturday to talk about some legislation he has related to
wildfire recovery.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's right. Also weighed on this.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Congressional redistricting battle that's brewing across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
At this point, I was sitting in my car outside
of Low's listening to them. So there you go. I'm glad.
Were you crying? No, okay, everything all right? I was.
I was finishing a bowl of chili from Wendy from Wendy's.
I'd like to follow you around one day because your
wife know you don't want to him. No, it's not great.
It's not great at all. Nothing is great about it.
But I appreciate coming in my place. Monks Saturday seven
(17:35):
to nine pm the number one talk show in the
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Speaker 5 (17:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh Well, Well, LAPD got a couple of these guys
that are breaking into home south of Venture Boulevard, Studio City,
Sherman Oaks and Cino Tarzana, Woodlandhills. That's the attack zone
north of I guess, north of Mulholland and south of
Entur Boulevard. That's where all the action is. And they've
(18:11):
got some undercover cops in that area sniffing around and
they saw these four guys breaking into a house at
around ten o'clock and the chase was on. The chase
was on, so at least they got one of these crews,
at least one.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Our law enforcement contacts tell us this is one of
several suspected burglary teams or crews that could be behind
some of those break ins that have had residents in
Encino and other parts of the valley very nervous. The
group today of at least four men in a tesla
did not know they were being watched when they allegedly
smashed their way into a home in Woodland Hills. This
(18:45):
is video from News Chapter four of workers examining a
smashed window or door in the backyard of the home
that was burglarized this morning. It happened around ten am.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, it happened right where Taft High School is. If
you grew up in the valley, you know where Taft
High School is. Right there off a Ventur Boulevard. There
used to be a Charlie Brown's restaurant there, a vagabond hotel.
I mean that, I'm going back to the seventies. Jem
Coe was there as well, and that's where this burglary
was happened, was happening, and then the cops saw it
(19:15):
and gave chase on these lads.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
South of Venture Boulevard, near the Taft High School campus. Yes,
and according to our context.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Ralphs right there too, really good Ralves, nice raups
right there on the corner.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And according to our contacts, undercover officers from the La
Impact Surveillance Team were in the neighborhood and saw it happen.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
After the break in.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
The alleged burglary crew was followed onto the freeway and
down into La Here we Go. Uniformed officers were called
in to stop the car, but the driver took off.
There was a high speed chase through mid City that
went south along the one ten Freeway. It eventually ended
near ninety eighth and Wall Streets when the fleeing tesla
crashed into a parked car and the men inside ran away.
(19:54):
At least one of the men was arrested. Close to
the crash scene. The LAPD brought in its search dogs.
They say they were able to arrest a second person.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, that means two got away, all right, So they
got fifty percent of these guys a couple of hours later.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Now, our law enforcement contacts say this is all part
of the LAPD's efforts to stop that recent series of
burglaries and Encino and in other parts of the valley.
They say this group is also suspected of burglarising homes
in the San Gabriel Valley, including in Arcadia and Glendale.
Detectives are still out there working the case right now.
They're serving some search warrants. We expect to learn much
(20:27):
more in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
All right, so you might be able to sleep a
little easier tonight. At least one of these crews are
out of business, at least for tonight. You know, God
only knows what happens. How soon these two guys that
were caught will be released, and will they drop a
dime on the other two guys that they couldn't find,
And will there be enough evidence in the car to
go after the other two guys. I don't know. I
(20:49):
don't know. It's got a fire update. Fire update. We
have got several fires burning here in southern California. Might
be able to see it in the air, you can
smell the smoke, and we're back to bat air and
smoke and craziness.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
More than eight hundred structures being threatened in Santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo County is by the massive Gifford
Fire burning in the Los Padras National Forest. The fire
has burned more than eighty two thousand acres and is
now seven percent contained. That fire grew from smaller fires
that erupted Friday along State Route one sixty six between
Santa Maria and Bakersfield. We could tell you that three
(21:23):
people have been injured. Evacuation orders are in place. Smoke
from the Gifford to fire and other fires burning in
the Inlet Empire are impacting our air quality.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, it's going to We're just going to have, you know,
have to deal with this. All summer long. You know,
fire season used to be you know, literally, you know
it was it was like three or four months, five
months a year, and now it's you know, twelve months
a year. It's everywhere. So if you if you haven't
downloaded this app yet, it's great to it's a great
(21:55):
source of information. It's called watch Duty. And you literally
it has ever single fire in southern California or around
you know, the United States. But we've got the Keith
fire that's burning out near Wildemar out there. That one
is not as big as the obviously the ones burning
(22:16):
up in Santa Barbara sixteen acres and it's still active.
And then we have another fire burning the Grand Fires
what they're calling that, And the Grand Fire is off
the fifteen where the fifteen and the two fifteen merged
there where there's that Glen Helen I don't know if
it's still there or not. Let that Glen Helen Auditorium
(22:39):
or outdoor arena, and that fire they're calling that the
Grand Fire, and that's yeah, Glen Helen Parkway and it's
at not even a full acre yet, but that one
has the potential to expand. And then you've got the Goldfire,
the goldfire, and that's one acres. It's about a mile
(23:00):
northwest of of Holcombe Valley, which is up near Lucerne
Valley and just east of Apple Valley. And that one
has the potential to be really bad. That one is
burning south and southwest and if that gets in, if
it continues burning southwest, that means Big Bear is in
(23:21):
the line of fire. Big Bear Lake. It is directly
north of Big Bear Lake. If you are literally standing
on the shore of Big Bear Lake where the grocery
store is out there, I think it used to be
in Albertsons. I don't know what it is still. But
let's say you're at Snow Summit. You know that's your
Bear Valley, very Snow Summit. That's something that people know.
(23:41):
So if you're standing on Snow Summit at the base
there at the lodge, directly north of that is exactly
where that fire is. So where those eagles, you know
those eagles we've been watching forever, Directly north of that
is where that fire is going on. And that's a
pretty big fire, nine hundred and ninety one acres in
that area. I'm surprised it's not getting more attention it's
(24:03):
five percent contained, and this is updated a couple hours ago,
so it might even be bigger than that now. But
the fire has been mapped at nine and ninety one
acres by the intel at aircraft out there, and the
perimeter is visible on the watch Duty map. So you've
got to get the watch Duty app. And it's a
(24:25):
great tool, especially if you live up in the up
in the hills, or in the mountains or even in
the low lying, you know, hills around southern California. It's free.
They ask you occasionally to donate, and some people do.
You know, there's a way to support our mission and
you can click on ways to give. Membership includes you know,
for twenty five bucks a year. That's the high end
(24:46):
membership or the pro membership. I should say one hundred
bucks a year, that's the big one. But it's great.
It's really worth having on your phone, especially again if
you live up in Big Bear, Arrowhead, Arrowbear, Big Bear,
Big Arrows. All those communities up there got to get
watch Duty.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
A six.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Hey we have Today's teacher of the day is Juliet Fleming.
Who teaches fifth grade at McKinley Avenue Elementary School, brings energy, compassion,
and creativity to our teaching every single day. So congratulations,
Juliet Fleming. You're in the running to win a thousand
(25:32):
dollars for your classroom. Wow, all right, that's a cool deal.
Teachers are the greatest in the world. I bet you
can think back to, you know, four or five teachers
that changed your life when you were in school. I
can do the same thing.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Isn't it five thousand?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh it is? Yes, Maybe I should go back to
McKinley Elementary. How dare you sorry? Yeah? It is five
thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars in your classroom. Wow.
Speaker 12 (26:05):
Man, that's awesome. They deserve it.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:07):
My wife asked me if she could win. I said,
she could win.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
Why can't she win?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, she's a teacher and change she can't win? Why
she's my wife? Well, that just mean she just be
a loser.
Speaker 13 (26:20):
Kind of does.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's horrible. By the way, I've been I downloaded and
and you know, I think we had Netflix for a while,
then we didn't have it, so I wanted to get
it back to watch Billy Joel and then after I paid,
I realized, Oh, it's not on Netflix, so it's grilled
about that.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
It is so good. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Have you watched? Both both had Yes, it's.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
So good it is you have to see it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
It's worth watching it, just the history of some of
the songs and the history of music.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
Crusier was right, it's can.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You record it off your HBO Max and then bring
it in. I don't want to pay for another service.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Yeah, you can pay for another service, all right, You're okay.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Krozier, did you get emotional on the second half too?
Speaker 14 (27:09):
It was much better than than I was expecting because
my preferences for his much earlier stuff. And plus I'm
one of those people when it comes to documentaries, especially
music wise, I like to see the earlier part of
what made that person who they were, that really kind
of contributed to that. But the second part was just
as good, just as well, and even more similarities with my.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Dad that realist there.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
There was a part of it where they they had
Christy Brinkley was being interviewed and she talks about how
she was looking at the finances of Billy Joel and
his ex brother.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
In law or whatever.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
Who was his manager with all the money, right, and
she said she went to Billy Joel and said, he's
ripping you off. He's stealing all your money.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Wait, and it's her brother that's doing that.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
It's it's no his Joel.
Speaker 14 (27:55):
Wife's oh I see yeah, brother right, and his his
whole answer. His reply to her was I don't believe
that whatsoever, And she like tearfully says, he believed his
friend over me.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Wow.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
And that's exactly what happened to my dad. And really
at the exact same time, late eighties, early nineties, she
told him that she she was put in charge of
the finances for the company my dad was running with
his best friend, oh, his bandmate also, and she said
she discovered. She says he's stealing all your money. And
my dad said, no, he's not it and they got
divorced over wow.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Almost And was he stealing the money?
Speaker 13 (28:30):
He absolutely was. He disappeared.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm talking about Krozer's, not Billy Joel. And I think,
are Bellio are you? Are you a student of Krozer's
dad's finance. Maybe maybe I spoke.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Too soon, you didn't know, Yeah I am, but that
but for people to know this and maybe you're tuning in,
you just you know, discover the program.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We appreciate you listening. But Krozer's father at one point
was going to be the lead keyboard for Fleetwood back.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
He was he was asked to come to to sit
in a studio because they needed a keyboardist at the
time in the early seventies before they hit big, and
he was in a very popular band playing in Miami,
and they asked him to come into a studio and
just just sit in front of a piano and just
give us some stuff. And he has to go to
the bathroom and never went back.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Wow, that is wild and what a story all.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
Of the circumstances and details regarding both his and Billy
Joel's life or early on same times the same Hammond
b three organ to join a band and both of
them dropped out of high school before graduation and they
both got hooked up with a woman who had a
son from a previous relationship in their early twenties and incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Have you have you thought about doing a documentary on
your dead book?
Speaker 13 (29:48):
Right?
Speaker 14 (29:48):
And yeah, I guess that's great, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And they may turn it into a documentary, you know.
Speaker 14 (29:53):
The way they play, they're very they that kind of
sloppy piano play, but so good. Got that he's got
that rhythm, me and him and my dad playing the
exact same one. Even his voice sounds almost identical to
Billy Joel when he sings some of the songs.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And I also I saw Billy Joel being interviewed about
a year ago. He can play any song in the
world that he's heard before. Yeah, any song a lot. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Billy I wozen.
Speaker 12 (30:17):
I'll just sit this one out.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
Well she was, She's She's absolutely right, they pointed.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I was right, not she.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
I brought that out right, go ahead, making an excellent
point here.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
It's brought up numerous times in the documentary.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If you would watch it, you have incredible ear.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I couldn't find it on on on my Netflix flick. Yes,
it's not on Netflix anymore.
Speaker 12 (30:39):
I'm going home.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's on Max.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Netflix is twenty five ninety nine a month. Who yeah,
I got expensive. It seems high.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
It really, it's more than I'm paying. I got to
check my bills.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, twenty four for you know, commercial free, and.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I don't go commercial free.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Billy Joel free and all that stuff Bill, You don't
have commercial free when you when you get a service.
Speaker 12 (31:04):
Oh I'm allowed to talk now.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, yeah, it was directed at you.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
I get the commercials say the extra.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Money, Well how much extras? Like six bucks?
Speaker 12 (31:13):
You're the one complaining about how expensive it is, and you're.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Pounting those periers. You know all day long.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
It's Pellegrino buying them. So I have extra money?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I mean, yeah, if you just had one less Pellegrino
a month, you could afford no commercials. Got the strange
moves you and John make with your money? I find
that fast?
Speaker 12 (31:34):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 13 (31:34):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I find it to be more of an interesting documentary
than Billy Joel.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Oh, but you will sit at a video poker for hours.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
On end throwing your money away. But John and I
have bad choices, and I don't know how John got
looped into it. What's gendue with her money?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
There's two cheap people sitting in the dark watching commerce
on IMAX or HBO Max or whatever it is. Like,
you like that commercial? Yeah, yeah, it wasn't for Pellegrina.
We wouldn't have to watch I know, I know, I know,
I'm gonna go play with Mays You.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Actually do make an excellent point.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
If I would drop a couple of pellegrinos a month,
I could get.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The ad for you can enjoy it. It's your pellegrino
habit that's keeping you into the commercial business crew. All right,
We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
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