January 10, 2025 • 31 mins
It's Armageddon in SoCal and it’s the worst week Tim can remember in his life in California; the most tragedies, the most loss, etc. And KFI’s own Michael Monks joins to give us an update on his covering the Palisades fire. // Tim is discussing the California Coastal Commision and the permits that will be needed for those who do have to rebuild. He discusses how things like wood burning fireplaces are no longer going to be approved, and the intensity of damage to the Pacific Palisades. There’s going to be a lot of angry people in the Pacific Palisades. // Fox LA’s Elex Michaelson joins the show to provide the latest updates on the SoCal fires and what to look out for. Tim and Elex discuss Mayor Bass’s responsibility and the realities of her being in Ghana when the fires started. They also talk about Speaker Johnson requesting Governor Newsom’s resignation. // Tim points KFI listeners to kfiam640.com/donate to help. And recounts a story about the building that Dream Center LA occupies (an official partner of iHeart for the SoCal fires).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six.
It is The Conway Show. What a week in Southern California.
It's international news. Everybody around the nation is talking about it.
Ever around the people around the world are talking about it.
(00:22):
The destruction that has happened in this city and this
county and this part of the state unprecedented. Hopefully it
never happens again, and people are on edge.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have a little update here on the Palisades. Good.
This just came across.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm not sure if youre already have it or not,
but an evacuation warning has been issued for the northern
and eastern part.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Of the Palisades Fire. Oh boy, he says.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
There's some flares that kind of been coming up in
that area, so they're telling people no immediate action is required,
but people in the area should be preparing an evacuation
bag and develop a plan to get out quick.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And people are on their last nerve. I hear a
lot more honking. I was in homeb deep Ot today
a guy smashed his cart into mine. I was just stationary,
so I was moving it was his fault. He never
apologized bang and just kept going, and it was a
big bang bo kept going. I went to in and Out.
(01:15):
Two people cut in front of me at in and Out.
Everybody is now scrambling. Everybody on the road acts like
there's no laws anymore. People blow through lights, people don't
stop at four way blinking red lights. Everybody. It is
like it's literally like Armageddon out there. It's it's nuts,
(01:37):
it is. It is the worst week that I've had
in southern California, been here for six decades. It's the
most tragedy, the saddest stories, the most loss. They said
that this thing was going to be fifty billion dollars.
Now it's one hundred and fifty billion. By Monday, it's
(01:57):
probably closer to two to three hundred million dollars in damage.
And the lost mementos, the lost memories, the lost you know,
childhood pictures, videotape, jewelry from mom, dad, grandma, Grandpa that
are gone. It'll never it'll never come back. At least
(02:18):
you have the memories. But just the sadness that's out there.
You can hear it. You can hear it, you can
see it in people's faces. And you can hear it
in the silence out there. People are sad and people
are starting to get angry, and that anger is going
to explode as soon as these fires are out and
(02:40):
people start try to start pulling permits to rebuild and
alt thea Dina, Pasadena, Arcadia, Palisades, Malibu, parts of Santa Monica, Silmar.
So as they start to pull permits and they get denied,
there's gonna be a war, especially in the Palisades. Wealthy
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people they have an order, their whole lives, a lot
of their lives have been in order, and now they're
out of order, and they don't like that. When they
go to pull a permit and they and they're denied exploit,
you're going to see people go crazy, absolutely crazy. And
I was listening to and we're gonna get to Michael
(03:22):
Monks here a second, But I was listening to the
moist line where a guy brought up the Coastal Commission,
and he's right, that Coastal Commission is not going to
I would be shocked if they allow anybody to build
on the ocean, either in in you know, uh, Malibu,
or anywhere along the coast there. If your home burned
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in and you were on the ocean. Man, do you
have a fight in front of you and keep fighting,
Keep fighting. That's what you got to do. I hope
you have the energy. And if you run into any
brick walls, you got this show. You can come on
this show and we can black way. And that's how
you get things done. You come on this shows soon
(04:04):
as you get denied for permits, woril of a line downstairs,
pick a number, come on, give me names, give me agencies,
and we'll go at it. We'll let them know that
we're not going to tolerate that kind of crap. If
your home has been burned down and you run into
any roadblocks with federal agencies, with local permits, with whatever
(04:25):
it is, insurance coumpanies, whatever it is, and you need
little publicity, you always have four to seven pm here
on KFI, as long as it takes, as long as
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You got a home to help you out. Because people
need a lot of help.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And the only way to get these agencies to help
you is to embarrass them and insult them and put
them on blast. As kids say, kids still say that
put them on blasts.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We will help you out. We'll help you out, all right.
Let's talk to Michael Monks here. He's been out there
all day, all week, hasn't slept at all.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Remember on Monday we said it's gonna be windy, and
we thought we're just gonna have Santa Ana winds. Nobody
had any idea this was going to go on. No,
they told us that it was a possibility. But I
think you know, we're eternal optimists, right, that's you're not
going to be as bad as it could be. But
you know, we should have learned though, because the last
three wind events, we've had three fires.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We have indeed before none of them have looked like this.
This is just the worst possible outcome that could have happened.
And you've framed it very well. I mean, you've captured
the sentiment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Now, I've encountered a lot of kindness. I've seen a
lot of folks who have somehow managed to keep their
wits about them and seem to have a sense of
gratitude that they're alive, and that's the most important thing.
But you're you're not wrong, because there is going to
come a time very soon where the process to rebuild
begins and folks are going to be angry about what
led to this.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh yeah, and you wait, you know, look, the Coast
Commission takes you know, three to five years to okay permits.
When they're doing you know, one or two a week.
There's going to be thousands of these people. The way
California has governed, the way LA County has governed, the
way the City of Los Angeles has governed, all of
these are going to be questioned moving forward. And I
(06:18):
think this is something that is a catalyst for some
very significant change to the way that we know how
these things operate, no question about it. Yeah, and look,
I think a lot of people are jumping on Mayor Bass.
I don't know if it's you know, if she deserves
as much, but I think the day of her, you know,
(06:39):
opening up the Olympics or opening up the people mover
at LAX and everybody applauding her, those are over.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
This is something that is now the top concern. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I spend a lot of time covering the LA City
Council and the LA County Board of Supervisors and all
of the projects they have lined up, big and small.
Are back burnered now because the response to this is
going to consume them. This is something that is going
to take years, and the city council has been canceling
their meetings all week, and probably rightfully so so that
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the attention can be diverted to this issue. But when
they come back, I am going to be anxious to
see what the elected officials have to say, but also
what the public has to say when they come up
for those public comment moments.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right now, you've run into some people, You've talked to
some people in the infected area, the affected area, what's
going on with them?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So I spent yesterday in Altadena and talked to a
lot of people who saw their homes gone, and you know,
there's a natural sadness to that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
People who have had.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Family in those areas for generations saw they're not just
their own homes, but their neighborhoods completely leveled. So the character,
the soul of a community ripped out, erased in a
moment gone, and I don't think enough time has passed
yet for that to be fully digested yet. I also
talked to some folks who managed to save their properties,
(08:04):
and they all team together to save their streets. So
one entire street in Altadena that was seriously threatened by
fire is still standing today because of folks who pulled
together and yank stuff out of their fridge to fight
the fires at each other's homes. We're talking about pouring
almond milk perrier on the buildings. Today I was in
the Palisades and this was quite a sight. I mean,
(08:27):
we've all seen the aerial images. This is, you know,
one of the most aspirational neighborhoods in America and it's gone.
And when you see the aerials, you have a certain
feeling about it. It's shock, but to walk among it,
it's an image that won't leave your mind anytime soon.
And you know, today, while I was there, I was
(08:48):
parked up on the on Pacific Coast Highway, and even
amidst all of the terror and destruction, you can't help
but take in why people wanted to live there in
the first place. Now it's such a beautiful place. You
have the tranquility of the ocean, you have the birds,
the streak of sunshine flickering on the water, and then
(09:11):
you recognize that the horizon is gone or it's very
very close to you because of the haze of the smoke.
You see the smoldering embers still on the hillside, and
it's just a shocking scene. And there were so many
police cars parked up against the ocean. It looked like
LAPD moved its headquarters there, right. And it's been described
as a war zone. But when the National Guard rolled
(09:33):
in this morning and I saw this, I saw their arrival,
it really looked like a war zone because now the
military is there.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's just unfathomable.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, and you know what Pacific Palace say, it's along
without thea Dina and you know parts surrounding communities, they're
gonna they need everything. You know, it's not just rebuilding
the home, but the streets have to be redone. There's
no trees left. You got to bring all new trees,
you know, all new grass, all new foliage.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Everything has to be brought in.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And you know, right it's going to change, like like
even right down to the type of landscaping that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All of that is going to be reassessed.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And and I and I hope you know that they
don't force uh. You know this Arizona look on everybody.
You know, it's sand and cactus in the front yard.
If we wanted that, we'd live in Phoenix. You know,
we want the we want the big lawns. We want
to we want this to look like the Midwest, but
with better weather. You know, you want a big, nice,
fresh green lawn in front there. It's really you know,
(10:34):
that's sort of really indicative of uh. You know, you
made it in California and and you take care of
it and you and you have it mode, and you
smell it and you put your you walk out with
the dog on it, and people like that. And I
hope they don't go nuts with when when you go
to UH to pull a permit. I hope they don't
make you do all electric you know, dryer, electric oven,
(10:58):
electric stove, all that, and and you know what, and
I hate to bring this up now because it's probably
horrible timing, but you know when you read when you
build a house now in California, you can't put a
fire burning I mean a wood burning fireplace in your house.
So all those old homes in the Palisades and Altadena
that had wood burning fireplaces, those are all gone. You'll
(11:19):
never have that again.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
What was so scary to see was the chimneys in
the fireplaces. It's it's often the only thing that are
still standing. It looks just on the graveyard monks.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We got to take a break. I appreciate you coming on.
Thank you this week, and we'll talk to you on Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You got it, all right? Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
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Speaker 2 (11:59):
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Speaker 1 (12:00):
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Speaker 6 (12:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (12:26):
We have some bad news for you.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Look, if you're in Altadena, you don't have to deal
with the California Coastal Commission. You're fine, But if you
live near the coast, you have to deal with the
with the CCC, the California Coastal Commission. It's a state agency.
It's under the California Natural Resources Agency, and the control
they control land.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Through the entire coast of California, one thousand, one hundred
miles of coastline eleven hundred miles. It's mission, as defined
in the California co Act, is to protect, conserve, restore,
and enhance the environment of the California Coastline. If you
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own a home on the coast, where do you fall
in here? Raise your hand when when I'm talking about you,
to protect is that you live on the coast. No conserve,
no restore, Nope, enhance the environment of the California coastline. No, no, no,
(13:32):
and no. Now Here is the rub. Here's where a
lot of people in the Palisades are going to be
really really angry. You've never you've never had a deal
with with this California Coastal Commission. But they regulate land
use as defined in the coastal zone, extending inland up
to five miles five miles from from the edge of
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the ocean, from where that white foamy water is and
sometimes feces. They control inland up to five miles. Well,
guess what, that's all of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
All of it. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
There are some areas where they don't have five miles
in their zone where they control, but it goes up
to five miles. It has the authority to control construction
of any type, including buildings, housing, roads, as well as
fire and erosion abatement structures, and can issue fines for
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unapproved construction. Those are coming also. There's twelve members on
this board. Six are chosen from the general public and
six appointed from elected officials. But their goal is to
restore California to where it was in the fifteen hundreds.
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They would love to see every single home taken off
the coast and moved inland, every single one of them.
There's a law professor, I think Jonathan Zaslov. Have you
heard of this guy? He stated that the Commission is
the single most powerful land use authority in the United
States by far, and their jurisdiction and its high environmental
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assets make it number one by far. The Commission reflex
how important it is to them to restore the coast
of California to what it was two hundred years ago,
and they're going to run into a lot of angry
(15:45):
people in Pacific Palisades, a lot of angry people. The
state authority controls construction along the state's eleven hundred miles.
One of the provisions passed under this seventeen I'm sorry,
the nineteen seventy six California Coastal specifically prohibits State one
Route one PCH from being widened beyond one lane in
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each direction within rural areas inside the coastal zone. The
Coastal Commission has had the power to block a proposed
southern extension of State Route two four one two four
to one and Interstate five. So that's why when you
go down to San Diego, there's always traffic when you
(16:30):
come up from Ocean Side to Orange County. As a
matter of fact, Angel you know about this, are there?
I think there's still two lanes in some of that
area between Ocean Side and Orange County, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You know?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
They in ocean Side. Ocean Side is probably the oldest
part of the five freeway, and they're actually expanding at currently.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh good, Okay, excellent. Yeah, Okay, maybe they got the message.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Yeah, they finally did, because it's always just a huge
mess down there, and especially now that they're working on
the freeway, it's going to be really tough for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Toccount Yeah, and they fought that for a long, long,
long time. But anyway, so I wish you well, but
you're gonna have to deal with these twelve people and
this Coastal Commission, the California Coastal Commission. They're not answerable
to anybody. They don't have to answer to the governor
or anybody. They're more powerful than the governor of the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So good luck. I hope that you get your way.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I hope that in you know, there's so many they're
overwhelmed by so many people trying to draw permits that
they just give up. Because people who owned homes a
long pch especially on the beach, you should be given
the right to rebuild one hundred percent exactly the way
that house was, exactly the way it was. All Right,
we gotta take a break. When we come back, we'll
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talk to Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven. He's been on
the air I think twenty hours every single day.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We'll be talking to Alex Michaelson. He's not up by yeah,
right stuffoosh, okay, we'll chat with him. But right back
to the Coastal Commission here, because this is going to
be a big deal with the California Coastal Commission the CCC.
In twenty nineteen, the Commission find a hotel builder almost
sixteen million dollars after replace two of the only low
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cost motels in Santa Monica with a luxury boutique hotel
without a permit. The Commission said in the statement, we
are an agency and we have a mandate to encourage
public access on the California coast, and that means doing
everything we can to ensure people actually can afford to
stay there. Jeff Jennings, the mayor of Malibu, this is
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years ago, he said, the Commission, the California Coastal Commission,
basically tells us what to do and we're expected to
do it. And many cases that extends down to the
smallest details imaginable. Listen to this the California again, the
California Coastal Commission has the ability in some areas of California.
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It extends five miles inland, that's all of Pacific Palisades,
every house and in the past, I don't know if
they still do this, but they tell you what color
you can paint your house, what kind of light bulbs
you can use in certain places.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's the power that they have.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
There's twelve members on it, and they are the most
powerful agency in America. And now the people in Pacific
Palisades and Malibu, you've got to deal with them. It
is going to be a long, really tough experience and
hopefully with enough people complaining that we can.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Change this because they have.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Way too much much power, way too much power, and
I don't know how they're they're going to accommodate all
the permits. You know, in a normal week, you may
have one or two permits along the coast to rebuild
your home. There are some weeks where there may be none,
but on a typical week there might be one or two,
you know for a new construction. Well, now there's gonna
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be thousands, and with all the with all the regular
load of work that they have, they're gonna be thousands
of permits they're gonna have to be okayed by the
California Coastal Commission to rebuild your home. And in uh
in the swiftest, the quickest that I've read is three
(20:44):
years of fighting the California Coastal Commission and now with
thousands more lined up behind you or in front of you,
it's gonna be unbelievable. All right, Alex Michaelson is with us.
He's been on fuck seleven News all week long.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Alex, what a week?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
What a week? Ken Ding Gong with you. I just
got back a few moments ago, just did an exclusive
interview with Governor Newsom in Pacific Palisades and was in
the zone myself seeing it up close and personal, obviously
watching it on the anchor desk, and it just is
heartbreaking to see a neighborhood that I love and have
(21:27):
spent so much time in, and I know so many
of your listeners love, and to see what it actually
looks like up close is just unbelievable. It's like one
of those scenes that you would see at Universal Studios
of one of those war movies, but it's all too real.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, you know, I don't know you know much about
national politics.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
This is not good for him, though.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You know, the Republicans are going to show house after
house after house destroyed and they're going to pin it
on this guy.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, they're trying to, that's for sure, and that has
been the strategy so far from from President elect Trump,
who has been very explicit in doing that. The Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson as also doing that, blaming
it on him, asking for Newsom to resign. Newsom sort
(22:21):
of suggesting that there may be I heard today from
some of the organizers of the previous Newsom recall to
say they want to try to recall him again. So yes,
that effort is underway. You know. He's pushing back on that, saying, look,
you got you know, eighty nine my per hour wins,
(22:43):
you know in some cases like there's not much you
can do, and he's trying to It's interesting he put
out a letter today to the DWP asking for an
investigation into how was it that there wasn't water for
the firefighters in a lot of cases and Pacific palisades,
And I think part of that is him trying to
highlight the fact that it was the dwt's job and
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not the State of California's job. But there's a lot
of people that don't really pay attention to all the
jurisdictional issues. They know that he's the leader of the
state and they want to hold somebody accountable.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Sure, and I think that Mayor Bass is getting a
lot of heat as well. You know, obviously it's not
her fault that she was in Ghana. You know, she
couldn't have predicted these these winds and these fires. But
if you look at the last three wind events we've had,
we've had fires every single one of them.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I don't know if if I totally I mean, look,
we were predicting these wins on the news, and I
know you guys were talking about it on K five
before it happened, what was before it happened, before it happened,
talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Exactly they say that the worst wind event we've ever
had in California.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So so she, knowing that, you know, made the choice
to go to Ghana. So it wasn't like this this
popped up comply out of nowhere. Now, you know, she
claims that she was able to be in communication. She's
on a military plane, and some of the folks that
worked on and say that she was in communication that
we know in a crisis, there is nothing like being
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there on the scene and sending a message to everybody
that you're there and in charge, and when you're literally
not there, that is that sends a message to a
lot of people who are looking for leadership and desperate
for clarity and answers.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I think you're right, And I don't know how
she recovers from this. There are so many people out
there that want to, you know, that wants a shoe
to drop and want someone to resign or someone to
be fired over this. And you know, because we've gone
through this before during COVID there was thirty billion dollars
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taken out of the unemployment fund thirty billion with to
be thirty billion. Nobody was suspended, nobody was fired, nobody
was even reprimanded over that.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It was interesting to me. I don't know if you
saw an interview that my colleague Gigi Grafiette did today
with Kristin Crowley, the LA Fire chief, who came and
said on camera that the budget cuts that were Mayor
Bath's budget cuts seventeen million dollars hurt the department and
were a part of the reason why the response looked
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the way that it did. And it's interesting because Kristin
Crowley is somebody who was appointed by Mayor Bath. I
know in fact that she she's She came out and
said that the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Person for the guys and gals on the trucks.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It was was pretty bold and also means I think
in a lot of these press conferences she's been holding
her home about that and trying to do the right
political thing, and I think she's just sort of run
out of patience. I think at this point a lot
of people are just out of patience and tired and
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just sort of saying that the way that it is,
and it's been up for so many days.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
We you know, if you live in the city of
Los Angeles, the city of LA which doesn't exist in Burbank,
it doesn't exist in Lakenyata or West Hollywood or Manhattan Beach,
they spend more on homeless than they do on the
fire department.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, and there's a lot more homeless. And you know
what's crazy is you know it's the number one people
that start fires. Yes, homeless people, that's right, right, I
mean most of the fires are near freeways at night.
That's right, and homeless people start them. We know you could,
you could fixed that problem. You might have to spend
as much on the fire department.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
We had Steve Krieger on yesterday. He's retired La County
fire captain, and he said, there are only three people.
There's only three reasons in the world why these fires start.
They're started by a man, a woman, or a child.
That's who starts. That's it. That's it. Occasionally the down
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power line, but that's pretty pretty rare.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, and that only happens here.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Those wins were really bad and there it doesn't take
much to get going. And you saw the difference in
just like what we saw in the Hollywood Hills what
we saw. Right, Vallee, we're up on a clock.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
We've got to take a break here.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
What's on the issue is roderc We Well, we technically
are going to be doing a regular newscast tonight, but
we'll have more of our conversation with Governor Newsom tonight
and then Bill Maher as well. I had a conversation
with him earlier this week, and then we'll be in
special coverage tonight. I so hope you can join us
on Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate. Okay. Alex Michaelson with
Fox eleven News.
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I think it is. Yeah, that big building, Yeah, the
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Yes, I got a pretty crazy story about that building.
That building used to be a drug rehab place and
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I was in high school.
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I think he was also, and he was a I
don't want to say which brother, so I'll just say
he was also in school and he was locked up
there detoxing, and I was at a party and I
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sure if the Dream Centers, I don't think they do
that anymore. It used to be an old hospital and
he was stuck in the like the top floor, detoxing.
And I walked in to the lobby, and you know,
I had to register and say who I was and
who I was visiting. And then a nurse comes out
with a clipboard and she asked me like forty questions
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and I was assuming she was asking me about my brother,
you know, about about different drugs and all this stuff.
And then she said, okay, she goes, I want you
to come with me, and uh, we're gonna put you
into a into a robe and pajamas.
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I'm like, wait, what the hell? She thought I was
checking myself in. I need some help. Yeah, and I said,
I said, I said, I'm not checking in. She said, well,
I thought you were. That's why you're here. I said, now,
I'm here to visit my brother. I'm not checking in. Crozer.
That was a close call. I'm happy that they believed you.
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I was.
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I was buzzed.
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I just got caught. Those got caught in that web.
I put on my hockey skates. I got the hell
out of the.
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Visit in moment, loving that much. Yeah, he'll be fine.
I'll be fine. Back to the party, who a yeah, gone,
never went back.
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I turning on leadership Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley.
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We've had her on the program before.
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It seems like a very nice lady knows what she's doing,
been with the department for twenty two years or so,
and she finally has had it. She finally said, look,
we did not have the resources. We need more money,
we need more people, we need more equipment to keep
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It is The Conway Show. What a week in Southern California.
It's international news. Everybody around the nation is talking about it.
Ever around the people around the world are talking about it.
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The destruction that has happened in this city and this
county and this part of the state unprecedented. Hopefully it
never happens again, and people are on edge.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have a little update here on the Palisades. Good.
This just came across.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm not sure if youre already have it or not,
but an evacuation warning has been issued for the northern
and eastern part.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Of the Palisades Fire. Oh boy, he says.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
There's some flares that kind of been coming up in
that area, so they're telling people no immediate action is required,
but people in the area should be preparing an evacuation
bag and develop a plan to get out quick.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And people are on their last nerve. I hear a
lot more honking. I was in homeb deep Ot today
a guy smashed his cart into mine. I was just stationary,
so I was moving it was his fault. He never
apologized bang and just kept going, and it was a
big bang bo kept going. I went to in and Out.
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Two people cut in front of me at in and Out.
Everybody is now scrambling. Everybody on the road acts like
there's no laws anymore. People blow through lights, people don't
stop at four way blinking red lights. Everybody. It is
like it's literally like Armageddon out there. It's it's nuts,
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it is. It is the worst week that I've had
in southern California, been here for six decades. It's the
most tragedy, the saddest stories, the most loss. They said
that this thing was going to be fifty billion dollars.
Now it's one hundred and fifty billion. By Monday, it's
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probably closer to two to three hundred million dollars in damage.
And the lost mementos, the lost memories, the lost you know,
childhood pictures, videotape, jewelry from mom, dad, grandma, Grandpa that
are gone. It'll never it'll never come back. At least
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you have the memories. But just the sadness that's out there.
You can hear it. You can hear it, you can
see it in people's faces. And you can hear it
in the silence out there. People are sad and people
are starting to get angry, and that anger is going
to explode as soon as these fires are out and
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people start try to start pulling permits to rebuild and
alt thea Dina, Pasadena, Arcadia, Palisades, Malibu, parts of Santa Monica, Silmar.
So as they start to pull permits and they get denied,
there's gonna be a war, especially in the Palisades. Wealthy
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people they have an order, their whole lives, a lot
of their lives have been in order, and now they're
out of order, and they don't like that. When they
go to pull a permit and they and they're denied exploit,
you're going to see people go crazy, absolutely crazy. And
I was listening to and we're gonna get to Michael
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Monks here a second, But I was listening to the
moist line where a guy brought up the Coastal Commission,
and he's right, that Coastal Commission is not going to
I would be shocked if they allow anybody to build
on the ocean, either in in you know, uh, Malibu,
or anywhere along the coast there. If your home burned
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in and you were on the ocean. Man, do you
have a fight in front of you and keep fighting,
Keep fighting. That's what you got to do. I hope
you have the energy. And if you run into any
brick walls, you got this show. You can come on
this show and we can black way. And that's how
you get things done. You come on this shows soon
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as you get denied for permits, woril of a line downstairs,
pick a number, come on, give me names, give me agencies,
and we'll go at it. We'll let them know that
we're not going to tolerate that kind of crap. If
your home has been burned down and you run into
any roadblocks with federal agencies, with local permits, with whatever
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it is, insurance coumpanies, whatever it is, and you need
little publicity, you always have four to seven pm here
on KFI, as long as it takes, as long as
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You got a home to help you out. Because people
need a lot of help.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And the only way to get these agencies to help
you is to embarrass them and insult them and put
them on blast. As kids say, kids still say that
put them on blasts.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We will help you out. We'll help you out, all right.
Let's talk to Michael Monks here. He's been out there
all day, all week, hasn't slept at all.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Remember on Monday we said it's gonna be windy, and
we thought we're just gonna have Santa Ana winds. Nobody
had any idea this was going to go on. No,
they told us that it was a possibility. But I
think you know, we're eternal optimists, right, that's you're not
going to be as bad as it could be. But
you know, we should have learned though, because the last
three wind events, we've had three fires.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We have indeed before none of them have looked like this.
This is just the worst possible outcome that could have happened.
And you've framed it very well. I mean, you've captured
the sentiment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Now, I've encountered a lot of kindness. I've seen a
lot of folks who have somehow managed to keep their
wits about them and seem to have a sense of
gratitude that they're alive, and that's the most important thing.
But you're you're not wrong, because there is going to
come a time very soon where the process to rebuild
begins and folks are going to be angry about what
led to this.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh yeah, and you wait, you know, look, the Coast
Commission takes you know, three to five years to okay permits.
When they're doing you know, one or two a week.
There's going to be thousands of these people. The way
California has governed, the way LA County has governed, the
way the City of Los Angeles has governed, all of
these are going to be questioned moving forward. And I
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think this is something that is a catalyst for some
very significant change to the way that we know how
these things operate, no question about it. Yeah, and look,
I think a lot of people are jumping on Mayor Bass.
I don't know if it's you know, if she deserves
as much, but I think the day of her, you know,
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opening up the Olympics or opening up the people mover
at LAX and everybody applauding her, those are over.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
This is something that is now the top concern. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I spend a lot of time covering the LA City
Council and the LA County Board of Supervisors and all
of the projects they have lined up, big and small.
Are back burnered now because the response to this is
going to consume them. This is something that is going
to take years, and the city council has been canceling
their meetings all week, and probably rightfully so so that
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the attention can be diverted to this issue. But when
they come back, I am going to be anxious to
see what the elected officials have to say, but also
what the public has to say when they come up
for those public comment moments.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right now, you've run into some people, You've talked to
some people in the infected area, the affected area, what's
going on with them?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So I spent yesterday in Altadena and talked to a
lot of people who saw their homes gone, and you know,
there's a natural sadness to that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
People who have had.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Family in those areas for generations saw they're not just
their own homes, but their neighborhoods completely leveled. So the character,
the soul of a community ripped out, erased in a
moment gone, and I don't think enough time has passed
yet for that to be fully digested yet. I also
talked to some folks who managed to save their properties,
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and they all team together to save their streets. So
one entire street in Altadena that was seriously threatened by
fire is still standing today because of folks who pulled
together and yank stuff out of their fridge to fight
the fires at each other's homes. We're talking about pouring
almond milk perrier on the buildings. Today I was in
the Palisades and this was quite a sight. I mean,
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we've all seen the aerial images. This is, you know,
one of the most aspirational neighborhoods in America and it's gone.
And when you see the aerials, you have a certain
feeling about it. It's shock, but to walk among it,
it's an image that won't leave your mind anytime soon.
And you know, today, while I was there, I was
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parked up on the on Pacific Coast Highway, and even
amidst all of the terror and destruction, you can't help
but take in why people wanted to live there in
the first place. Now it's such a beautiful place. You
have the tranquility of the ocean, you have the birds,
the streak of sunshine flickering on the water, and then
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you recognize that the horizon is gone or it's very
very close to you because of the haze of the smoke.
You see the smoldering embers still on the hillside, and
it's just a shocking scene. And there were so many
police cars parked up against the ocean. It looked like
LAPD moved its headquarters there, right. And it's been described
as a war zone. But when the National Guard rolled
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in this morning and I saw this, I saw their arrival,
it really looked like a war zone because now the
military is there.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's just unfathomable.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, and you know what Pacific Palace say, it's along
without thea Dina and you know parts surrounding communities, they're
gonna they need everything. You know, it's not just rebuilding
the home, but the streets have to be redone. There's
no trees left. You got to bring all new trees,
you know, all new grass, all new foliage.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Everything has to be brought in.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And you know, right it's going to change, like like
even right down to the type of landscaping that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All of that is going to be reassessed.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And and I and I hope you know that they
don't force uh. You know this Arizona look on everybody.
You know, it's sand and cactus in the front yard.
If we wanted that, we'd live in Phoenix. You know,
we want the we want the big lawns. We want
to we want this to look like the Midwest, but
with better weather. You know, you want a big, nice,
fresh green lawn in front there. It's really you know,
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that's sort of really indicative of uh. You know, you
made it in California and and you take care of
it and you and you have it mode, and you
smell it and you put your you walk out with
the dog on it, and people like that. And I
hope they don't go nuts with when when you go
to UH to pull a permit. I hope they don't
make you do all electric you know, dryer, electric oven,
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electric stove, all that, and and you know what, and
I hate to bring this up now because it's probably
horrible timing, but you know when you read when you
build a house now in California, you can't put a
fire burning I mean a wood burning fireplace in your house.
So all those old homes in the Palisades and Altadena
that had wood burning fireplaces, those are all gone. You'll
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never have that again.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
What was so scary to see was the chimneys in
the fireplaces. It's it's often the only thing that are
still standing. It looks just on the graveyard monks.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We got to take a break. I appreciate you coming on.
Thank you this week, and we'll talk to you on Monday.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You got it, all right? Thanks man.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
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Speaker 2 (12:26):
We have some bad news for you.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Look, if you're in Altadena, you don't have to deal
with the California Coastal Commission. You're fine, But if you
live near the coast, you have to deal with the
with the CCC, the California Coastal Commission. It's a state agency.
It's under the California Natural Resources Agency, and the control
they control land.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Through the entire coast of California, one thousand, one hundred
miles of coastline eleven hundred miles. It's mission, as defined
in the California co Act, is to protect, conserve, restore,
and enhance the environment of the California Coastline. If you
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own a home on the coast, where do you fall
in here? Raise your hand when when I'm talking about you,
to protect is that you live on the coast. No conserve,
no restore, Nope, enhance the environment of the California coastline. No, no, no,
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and no. Now Here is the rub. Here's where a
lot of people in the Palisades are going to be
really really angry. You've never you've never had a deal
with with this California Coastal Commission. But they regulate land
use as defined in the coastal zone, extending inland up
to five miles five miles from from the edge of
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the ocean, from where that white foamy water is and
sometimes feces. They control inland up to five miles. Well,
guess what, that's all of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
All of it. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
There are some areas where they don't have five miles
in their zone where they control, but it goes up
to five miles. It has the authority to control construction
of any type, including buildings, housing, roads, as well as
fire and erosion abatement structures, and can issue fines for
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unapproved construction. Those are coming also. There's twelve members on
this board. Six are chosen from the general public and
six appointed from elected officials. But their goal is to
restore California to where it was in the fifteen hundreds.
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They would love to see every single home taken off
the coast and moved inland, every single one of them.
There's a law professor, I think Jonathan Zaslov. Have you
heard of this guy? He stated that the Commission is
the single most powerful land use authority in the United
States by far, and their jurisdiction and its high environmental
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assets make it number one by far. The Commission reflex
how important it is to them to restore the coast
of California to what it was two hundred years ago,
and they're going to run into a lot of angry
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people in Pacific Palisades, a lot of angry people. The
state authority controls construction along the state's eleven hundred miles.
One of the provisions passed under this seventeen I'm sorry,
the nineteen seventy six California Coastal specifically prohibits State one
Route one PCH from being widened beyond one lane in
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each direction within rural areas inside the coastal zone. The
Coastal Commission has had the power to block a proposed
southern extension of State Route two four one two four
to one and Interstate five. So that's why when you
go down to San Diego, there's always traffic when you
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come up from Ocean Side to Orange County. As a
matter of fact, Angel you know about this, are there?
I think there's still two lanes in some of that
area between Ocean Side and Orange County, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You know?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
They in ocean Side. Ocean Side is probably the oldest
part of the five freeway, and they're actually expanding at currently.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh good, Okay, excellent. Yeah, Okay, maybe they got the message.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Yeah, they finally did, because it's always just a huge
mess down there, and especially now that they're working on
the freeway, it's going to be really tough for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Toccount Yeah, and they fought that for a long, long,
long time. But anyway, so I wish you well, but
you're gonna have to deal with these twelve people and
this Coastal Commission, the California Coastal Commission. They're not answerable
to anybody. They don't have to answer to the governor
or anybody. They're more powerful than the governor of the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So good luck. I hope that you get your way.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I hope that in you know, there's so many they're
overwhelmed by so many people trying to draw permits that
they just give up. Because people who owned homes a
long pch especially on the beach, you should be given
the right to rebuild one hundred percent exactly the way
that house was, exactly the way it was. All Right,
we gotta take a break. When we come back, we'll
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talk to Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven. He's been on
the air I think twenty hours every single day.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
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Speaker 1 (18:03):
We'll be talking to Alex Michaelson. He's not up by yeah,
right stuffoosh, okay, we'll chat with him. But right back
to the Coastal Commission here, because this is going to
be a big deal with the California Coastal Commission the CCC.
In twenty nineteen, the Commission find a hotel builder almost
sixteen million dollars after replace two of the only low
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cost motels in Santa Monica with a luxury boutique hotel
without a permit. The Commission said in the statement, we
are an agency and we have a mandate to encourage
public access on the California coast, and that means doing
everything we can to ensure people actually can afford to
stay there. Jeff Jennings, the mayor of Malibu, this is
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years ago, he said, the Commission, the California Coastal Commission,
basically tells us what to do and we're expected to
do it. And many cases that extends down to the
smallest details imaginable. Listen to this the California again, the
California Coastal Commission has the ability in some areas of California.
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It extends five miles inland, that's all of Pacific Palisades,
every house and in the past, I don't know if
they still do this, but they tell you what color
you can paint your house, what kind of light bulbs
you can use in certain places.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's the power that they have.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
There's twelve members on it, and they are the most
powerful agency in America. And now the people in Pacific
Palisades and Malibu, you've got to deal with them. It
is going to be a long, really tough experience and
hopefully with enough people complaining that we can.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Change this because they have.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Way too much much power, way too much power, and
I don't know how they're they're going to accommodate all
the permits. You know, in a normal week, you may
have one or two permits along the coast to rebuild
your home. There are some weeks where there may be none,
but on a typical week there might be one or two,
you know for a new construction. Well, now there's gonna
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be thousands, and with all the with all the regular
load of work that they have, they're gonna be thousands
of permits they're gonna have to be okayed by the
California Coastal Commission to rebuild your home. And in uh
in the swiftest, the quickest that I've read is three
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years of fighting the California Coastal Commission and now with
thousands more lined up behind you or in front of you,
it's gonna be unbelievable. All right, Alex Michaelson is with us.
He's been on fuck seleven News all week long.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Alex, what a week?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
What a week? Ken Ding Gong with you. I just
got back a few moments ago, just did an exclusive
interview with Governor Newsom in Pacific Palisades and was in
the zone myself seeing it up close and personal, obviously
watching it on the anchor desk, and it just is
heartbreaking to see a neighborhood that I love and have
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spent so much time in, and I know so many
of your listeners love, and to see what it actually
looks like up close is just unbelievable. It's like one
of those scenes that you would see at Universal Studios
of one of those war movies, but it's all too real.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, you know, I don't know you know much about
national politics.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
This is not good for him, though.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You know, the Republicans are going to show house after
house after house destroyed and they're going to pin it
on this guy.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, they're trying to, that's for sure, and that has
been the strategy so far from from President elect Trump,
who has been very explicit in doing that. The Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson as also doing that, blaming
it on him, asking for Newsom to resign. Newsom sort
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of suggesting that there may be I heard today from
some of the organizers of the previous Newsom recall to
say they want to try to recall him again. So yes,
that effort is underway. You know. He's pushing back on that, saying, look,
you got you know, eighty nine my per hour wins,
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you know in some cases like there's not much you
can do, and he's trying to It's interesting he put
out a letter today to the DWP asking for an
investigation into how was it that there wasn't water for
the firefighters in a lot of cases and Pacific palisades,
And I think part of that is him trying to
highlight the fact that it was the dwt's job and
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not the State of California's job. But there's a lot
of people that don't really pay attention to all the
jurisdictional issues. They know that he's the leader of the
state and they want to hold somebody accountable.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Sure, and I think that Mayor Bass is getting a
lot of heat as well. You know, obviously it's not
her fault that she was in Ghana. You know, she
couldn't have predicted these these winds and these fires. But
if you look at the last three wind events we've had,
we've had fires every single one of them.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I don't know if if I totally I mean, look,
we were predicting these wins on the news, and I
know you guys were talking about it on K five
before it happened, what was before it happened, before it happened,
talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Exactly they say that the worst wind event we've ever
had in California.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So so she, knowing that, you know, made the choice
to go to Ghana. So it wasn't like this this
popped up comply out of nowhere. Now, you know, she
claims that she was able to be in communication. She's
on a military plane, and some of the folks that
worked on and say that she was in communication that
we know in a crisis, there is nothing like being
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there on the scene and sending a message to everybody
that you're there and in charge, and when you're literally
not there, that is that sends a message to a
lot of people who are looking for leadership and desperate
for clarity and answers.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I think you're right, And I don't know how
she recovers from this. There are so many people out
there that want to, you know, that wants a shoe
to drop and want someone to resign or someone to
be fired over this. And you know, because we've gone
through this before during COVID there was thirty billion dollars
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taken out of the unemployment fund thirty billion with to
be thirty billion. Nobody was suspended, nobody was fired, nobody
was even reprimanded over that.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It was interesting to me. I don't know if you
saw an interview that my colleague Gigi Grafiette did today
with Kristin Crowley, the LA Fire chief, who came and
said on camera that the budget cuts that were Mayor
Bath's budget cuts seventeen million dollars hurt the department and
were a part of the reason why the response looked
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the way that it did. And it's interesting because Kristin
Crowley is somebody who was appointed by Mayor Bath. I
know in fact that she she's She came out and
said that the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Person for the guys and gals on the trucks.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It was was pretty bold and also means I think
in a lot of these press conferences she's been holding
her home about that and trying to do the right
political thing, and I think she's just sort of run
out of patience. I think at this point a lot
of people are just out of patience and tired and
(26:00):
just sort of saying that the way that it is,
and it's been up for so many days.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
We you know, if you live in the city of
Los Angeles, the city of LA which doesn't exist in Burbank,
it doesn't exist in Lakenyata or West Hollywood or Manhattan Beach,
they spend more on homeless than they do on the
fire department.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, and there's a lot more homeless. And you know
what's crazy is you know it's the number one people
that start fires. Yes, homeless people, that's right, right, I
mean most of the fires are near freeways at night.
That's right, and homeless people start them. We know you could,
you could fixed that problem. You might have to spend
as much on the fire department.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
We had Steve Krieger on yesterday. He's retired La County
fire captain, and he said, there are only three people.
There's only three reasons in the world why these fires start.
They're started by a man, a woman, or a child.
That's who starts. That's it. That's it. Occasionally the down
(27:06):
power line, but that's pretty pretty rare.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, and that only happens here.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Those wins were really bad and there it doesn't take
much to get going. And you saw the difference in
just like what we saw in the Hollywood Hills what
we saw. Right, Vallee, we're up on a clock.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
We've got to take a break here.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
What's on the issue is roderc We Well, we technically
are going to be doing a regular newscast tonight, but
we'll have more of our conversation with Governor Newsom tonight
and then Bill Maher as well. I had a conversation
with him earlier this week, and then we'll be in
special coverage tonight. I so hope you can join us
on Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate. Okay. Alex Michaelson with
Fox eleven News.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demyan from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It is the Conway Show. Hey, We're iHeart is partnering
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people can go to KFI AM six forty dot com
slash donate to the Dream Center. Is that the Dream
Center that's near downtown LA, right off the one on
(28:17):
one Freeway.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I think it is. Yeah, that big building, Yeah, the
big building.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes, I got a pretty crazy story about that building.
That building used to be a drug rehab place and
my brother was in there detoxing.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I was in high school.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I think he was also, and he was a I
don't want to say which brother, so I'll just say
he was also in school and he was locked up
there detoxing, and I was at a party and I
wanted to go visit him. I thought it was horrible
he had to sit there by himself. So I go
to visit him at the Dream Center. And I'm not
(28:52):
sure if the Dream Centers, I don't think they do
that anymore. It used to be an old hospital and
he was stuck in the like the top floor, detoxing.
And I walked in to the lobby, and you know,
I had to register and say who I was and
who I was visiting. And then a nurse comes out
with a clipboard and she asked me like forty questions
(29:13):
and I was assuming she was asking me about my brother,
you know, about about different drugs and all this stuff.
And then she said, okay, she goes, I want you
to come with me, and uh, we're gonna put you
into a into a robe and pajamas.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I'm like, wait, what the hell? She thought I was
checking myself in. I need some help. Yeah, and I said,
I said, I said, I'm not checking in. She said, well,
I thought you were. That's why you're here. I said, now,
I'm here to visit my brother. I'm not checking in. Crozer.
That was a close call. I'm happy that they believed you.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
I was.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I was buzzed.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I just got caught. Those got caught in that web.
I put on my hockey skates. I got the hell
out of the.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Visit in moment, loving that much. Yeah, he'll be fine.
I'll be fine. Back to the party, who a yeah, gone,
never went back.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't know if you ever got out, never went back,
but yeah, go to KFIM six forty dot com slash
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Speaker 2 (30:21):
Donate all right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I turning on leadership Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
We've had her on the program before.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
It seems like a very nice lady knows what she's doing,
been with the department for twenty two years or so,
and she finally has had it. She finally said, look,
we did not have the resources. We need more money,
we need more people, we need more equipment to keep
this city safe. And when we come back, I'm gonna
(30:52):
play that audio for you. It's pretty damn it. We're
live on caf I AM sixty Conway Show go on
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