September 26, 2025 • 23 mins
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- City of Bakersfield to fund mobile spay and neuter
- SoCal Edison upgrades equipment in Kern River Valley
- KHSD opens new hydroponics garden
- Ex-FBI director James Comey indicted on false statement and obstruction charges
- Rodeo makeover with 17's Lauren Holcomb and Vincent Demonte
- Battalion Chief Agee to continue to recover, GoFundMe created
- Jailhouse interview with man accused of killing woman in State Rd trailer park in Oildale
- Alleged escapee inmate had help from his girlfriend in escape
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, Kern County. This is the seventeen News at
Sunrise podcast, Your News on your Schedule, presented by Rod
Riquez and Associates.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Turning things over to Kern's dog crisis. Thousands of adoptable
pets are put down every year because our shelters are overcrowded.
But one local dog rescue is working to change that,
and it's getting some help from the City of Bakersfield.
Seventeen's Jacob Clark spoke with veterinarians and staff about a
new funding package set to be approved.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
With additional funding from the city. You can come get
your pet spade or neutered right here at the Snip Bus.
Veterinary surgeons like Erica Torres say mobile spaying and neutering
services like snip are the key to keeping pets off
the street.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Actually, I'm not even from Bakersfield, and that was the
first thing I noticed when I moved here was the
amount of stray dogs and cats that are out in
the streets, and so spaying and neutering is going to
pretty much solve the root of that problem.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So far, the mobile Snip Bus has performed just over
eight thousand surgeries in Bakersfield, with tens of thousands completed
across Kerrn County. Operations Director Jennifer Hartani says these surgeries
are also key to preventing overcrowding and euthanasia in shelters.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
So the shelters are taking in about an average of
forty per day, that's crazy, right, and about twenty two
percent of those are being euthanized just for space. So
if we can get them all fixed, they're not running
the streets now, they're not being going into the shelter,
which you'll save those budgets as well.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Not only does the SNIP program help keep pets off
the street, it saves money.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Yeah, because it again, when you have an animal that's
running the street, whether it's owned or whether it's stray
and it's out running the street, you're now involving multiple
agencies from multiple municipal budgets. The police department can be
involved if there's a traffic accident, EMS is involved if
it injures somebody, or again an accident, col Trans is
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involved for cleanup.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The City at Bakersfield will recommend one hundred thousand dollars
to keep spay and neuter operations running.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
So recently, we brought to the city that we would
match them with one hundred thousand dollars if they came
up with one hundred thousand dollars for low cost mobile
span Neuter, and they actually met a in the middle
and it's happening.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Founder Robbie Miller hopes these funds can be a constant,
annual contribution made by the city, so.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Moving forward, I hope next year we won't have to
make as much noise and it's something just on the
budget so we can continue. Span Neuter usually takes about
three to five years before you start seeing results. It's
not something that you get instant gratification. You have to
let it play out for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
The recommendation will be presented to the Bakersfield City Council
for approval in the near future, with no date yet,
said Jacob Clark seventeen.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
News Southern California. Edison has been installing upgrades to its
equipment in the Kern River Valley to reduce the need
for future public safety power shutoffs. See customers have expressed
frustration at the frequent power shutoffs. In June, around seventy
six hundred customers in Kern County were impacted by PSPs.
As part of its wildfire mitigation plan sees upgrading hundreds
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of miles of equipment in the Kernville area. According to
the company, that involves replacing bear wire with covered conductor
to help reduce wildfire risk. So far, crews have installed
more than thirty three miles of covered conductor near Lake
Isabella and replaced the original wooden cross arms with fiberglass material.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
In your seventeen follow up file, this morning, an update
on the Kern County firefighter who was critically injured on
the job. The accident happened in Romero Canyon August. Eighth
Battalion Chief James Ag was battling the canyon fire when
his pickup truck rolled over Chief Age. He was thrown
from the truck and rushed to the hospital. The local
firefighters' union says Chief Ag spent about a month at
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Henry Mayo Hospital before he was taken to another hospital
in Colorado to continue his recovery and rehabilitation. His fight
is far from over, though. A GoFundMe has been launched
to help ease the financial burden on Chief AG's family
while he's on the long road to recovery.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
And in your education news. This morning, the current high
school district opened a new garden that will feed more
than fifteen hundred students every month. The district partnered up
with Blue Zones Project, Valley Children's Healthcare and Inventist Health
to create a new hydroponics garden. Hydroponics uses water instead
of soil to grow fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
So our ultimate goal is to actually get eat one
hydroponics center into each high school so that way they're
able to produce their fresh produce, so we can actually
in turn get it inside the cafeteria so the students
have the freshness with their entrees each day.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
Until that happens, high school's in the district will receive
produce from the garden on a rotating basis.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Southern California, Edison has been installing upgrades to its equipment
in the Kern River Valley to reduce the need for
future public safety power shut offs.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
SEE customers have expressed frustration at the frequent power shut offs.
In June, around seventy six hundred customers in Kern County
were impacted by PSPs as part of its wildfire mitigation plan.
SEES upgrading hundreds of miles of equipment in the Kernville area.
According to the company, that involves replacing bear wire and
covered conductor to help reduce wildfire risk. So far, crews
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have installed more than thirty three miles of covered conductor
near Lake Isabella and replaced the original wooden cross arms
with fiberglass material. Welcome back to Sunrise and a news
breaking around the nation. Former FBI director James Comy has
been indicted, charged with making a fall statement and obstruction.
The unprecedented move comes days after President Trump publicly suggested
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Attorney General Pam Bondi should move forward with prosecutions against
Komy and other political adversaries. NBC's Alice Barr has the
latest on this breaking story.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Incidences of obstruction of justice.
Speaker 11 (06:08):
This morning a former director of the FBI waking up
as a felony defendant, James Comy now indicted by a
grand jury on charges of making a false statement and
obstruction of a congressional proceeding. It is a major escalation
against someone President Trump sees as a political enemy.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump.
Speaker 11 (06:31):
Call me posting this video overnight.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
As the President celebrated the news with the words justice
in America. The charges stem from congressional testimony Comy gave
in September twenty twenty, when he was pressed over whether
he lied to Congress years earlier about authorizing a leak
to the press involving investigations into Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. I stand by what the testimony you summarized.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
The statute of limitations for the charges was set to
run out next week. On Saturday, President Trump publicly pressed
Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against Comy and
other perceived political opponents who've investigated him. Yesterday before the indictment,
saying this, I.
Speaker 12 (07:17):
Think I'd be allowed to get involved in the one,
but I don't really choose to do so. I can
only say that Komy's a bad person.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
The top prosecutor tasked with leading the Comy investigation resigned
last week rather than seeking an indictment, While a senior
DOJ official tells NBC News, career prosecutors laid out why
they believe there was not enough evidence to charge in
a memo to President Trump's hand picked replacement and former
personal attorney Lindsay Halligan, who has no experience as a
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prosecutor and is now the only one to sign Comy's
charging papers. Call Me is now ordered to appear in
court and just under two weeks as Attorney General Pam
Bondi says, the Justice Department will we'll follow the facts
in this case. In Washington, Alis BARNBC News.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, today's the day, everybody Happy National Pancake Day. Some
local spots are celebrating. Tina Maurice Cafe is offering a
ten dollars flight of various flavors of pancakes, including blueberry
and pumpkin, justin time for the autumn season. The flight
consists of three pancakes. Scrambled is offering fifty percent off
its pancake combo. A short stack of two pancakes will
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be ninety nine cents at Wake Up Cafe, and Cracker
Barrel is offering all you can eat pancakes for just
five bucks. For a full list of deals, head to
our website kget dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
This current County Fear update is brought to you by
Rodriguez An Associates.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Welcome back to Sunrise Everybody last night kicked off the
rodeo at the current County Fair and from riding to roping,
you could get the full Western experience right here in Bakersfield.
And to help out one of our own, I tooksventeens
at Vincent Demante to downtown's Emporium Western Store to help
saddle them up. Hey, y'all, seventeenth Lauren will come here
today at Emporium Western Store with another reporter, my friend
(09:10):
Vincent DeVante. We're gonna take you along with us and
right now to go a shop around and see what
we can find to get Vincent rodeo ready. Here's what
we're working with. First things first, we had to switch
out the sneakers and laces to his first pair of boots.
With hundreds of styles to shoes from narrowing down a
favor was tough, but we landed on a square toed
brown leather and after trying on a few variations, Vincent
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slid on the perfect fit. So next up, we are
going to shape Vincent's head because I don't know if
you knew this, but hats a lot of times are shaped,
especially if you get a custom hat. So this hat
right here that I got from e and d at
the fair. If you look inside, it is measured and
shaped to my head shape, so it'll last you your
whole life and fit you well. Now it may look silly,
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but head measurements are a crucial part of the process
because if you don't get the sizing right, pull out
right here. You see how the hat's kind of moving out,
and I can put my finger up in there. Now
came the decision between a straw build or felt and
with this current County heat, Vincent made a smart decision
and leaned towards the more breathable of the two.
Speaker 13 (10:12):
Probably gonna go for the second one.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Okay, I really liked this pattern on it, and I
really liked the band of this langage.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Yeah, with two pieces down, we still had some more
shopping to do, and what makes a classic cowboy outfit
without a big old belt buckle in the best part
of the buffles are the designs. Vincent found one to
showcase his roots even while wearing Western wear.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You guys surfing right there, that's so see if I've
ever seen it.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
And finally, of course, we had to find a pearl
snapshirt between the long and short sleeve options that we
truly could not pig wrong, so we settled on a
short sleeved red patterned button up to match my outfit.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
I think I can jump on a bowl right now.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I don't know about that. Just like that, we turned
a Southern Californian into a Southern country man. Although we
had a makeover, we made sure to find a rodeo
fit that would reflect his personality, which was easy considering
the boatload of items to choose from hats, boots, the
belt buckles, the shirts, I mean everything. There's so much
stuff so you can really personalize it and make it
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yourself for sure.
Speaker 13 (11:10):
Hey, Bob Price, how does this look for that?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
I may be biased, but I think Bob will be pround.
The PRCA Rodeo will run at the current County Fair
until Saturday, September twenty seven. Holds your Horses Partners. Vincent
has some new boots made for walking and new at
the fair this year. E and D Custom Hat Company.
If you liked my hat and nut story, you could
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head to their booth during normal fair hours. They customize color, design, branding,
and of course they'll size you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Like Vincent, we specialize in customizations from A to Z,
from fitting to trimming to shaping and all the accessories.
Everything that leaves here is one of one. Everything is
a representation of our customers.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Not us.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
The fair runs for three more days, including today. You
can also find A and D on Instagram and the
fair is open today from three pm to eleven pm,
Tomorrow from noon to eleven pm, and Sunday from noon
to ten pm. It's fifteen dollars for adults, ten dollars
for seniors, six dollars for children, and children five and
under get in free. Those are the military ID. You
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also get in free and a little tip. Ticket prices
are discounted. Online parking is ten dollars and we put
all the fair information in one place for you on
our website kget dot com slash Kern County Fair. You
can scan the QR code on your screen to go
straight to that page and check out the concert lineups, attractions,
daily hours and mission prices and special promotions.
Speaker 14 (12:37):
I'm proud to be part of the Bakershield community, the culture,
the arts and the music. I'm so glad my parents
taught me to speak Spanish and to honor our heritage
by singing traditional music. As an attorney with Rodriguez and Associates.
I'm proud to work in harmony with our community, helping
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others and celebrating what makes us unique at Rodriguez in Associates.
When you need us, we'll be here for.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Your recapping your Friday morning top stories. Southern California, Edison
has been installing upgrades to its equipment in the Kern
River Valley to reduce the need for future public safety
power shutoffs. In June, around seventy six hundred customers in
Kern County were impacted by PSPs. As part of its
wildfire mitigation plan sees upgrading hundreds of miles of equipment
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in the Kernville area. So far, crews have installed more
than thirty three miles of covered conductor near Lake Isabella
and replaced the original wooden cross arms with fiberglass material.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
An update this morning on the Kern County Firefighter Battalion
Chief James Age, who was critically injured battling the Canyon fire.
He spent a month at Henry Mayo Hospital before he
was taken to another hospital in Colorado to continue his
recovery and rehabilitation. A go fundme has been launched to
help ease the financial burden on Chief AG's family while
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he's on the long road to recovery.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
The current high school district partnered up with the Blue
Zones Project, Valley Children's Healthcare, and Inventist Health to create
a new hydroponics garden, which uses water instead of soil
to grow fruits and festivals. Now their goal is to
get one hydroponic garden in each high school, but until
that happens, high schools in the district will receive produce
from the garden on a rotating basis. The new garden
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will feed more than fifteen hundred students every month.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Turning out to your seventeen Crime Watch. Superior Mobile Home
Park in Oildale has been the scene of arson fires,
murders and shootings over the past few months. Yesterday, forty
one year old Daniel Graham a suspect in the killing
of sixty two year old Roxanna Joe Kelly and mits
he did it. He spoke exclusively to seventeen's Connor Door
in a jailhouse interview where he also claimed to be
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responsible for five additional killings.
Speaker 13 (14:56):
We met in jail after going through various checkpoints, leaving
my IDEA phone at the front desk. We were brought
into a room with a deputy and Graham. He was
unshackled and uncuffed. I sat arm's length away from him
and he immediately started talking before we even hit record.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I felt sorry about what happened to Roxane, but you know,
it is what it is.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
I could be your best friend, I could be your
worst nightmare.
Speaker 13 (15:20):
Graham said he killed Kelly because she owed him a
significant amount of money. He confronted her at her mobile home.
He said she refused to pay him and called him
various slurs. He said at that point he lost control.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I just choked her out.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
I'm not behind her and put her in headlock and I.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Just blacked out.
Speaker 12 (15:48):
So that that happens to me when I get it
get angry.
Speaker 13 (15:52):
And that's the only female that I've ever got with
like that, and took her life.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
All my other victims of males.
Speaker 13 (15:58):
Graham is from Gallup, Neumac, a small mountain town off
of Historic Route sixty six with a population just over
twenty thousand people. He said he started his seventeen year
crystal meth addiction in Gallup. He's racked up a criminal
history there, twenty cases spanning two thousand and four to
this year. Most are burglary and drug possession. The only
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accusations of violence are battery on a peace officer and
an aggravated assault. However, he said he's killed three people
in Gallup three people in California, including Kelly, but he
wouldn't name the victims and only gave vague details on
his first murder. I haven't seen myself as his normal
human being in a long time, since I was seventeen
years old, since I took my first life.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
He said.
Speaker 13 (16:44):
A man was molesting a child and his family, and
he decided to shoot him once he learned about it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I kept minding me close and invited him to go
to a lake with me, and.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
Well, now I had some beers and I'm gonna take
a piss, walked up behind him and popped him.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Graham said he wanted to do this interview to exonerate
his co defendant, Misha Allen. He said she was not
there the night he killed Kelly, but another woman was.
He would not give her name or whereabouts. Throughout our
hour long interview, Graham described himself as quote monster or
beast multiple times. You feel guilty for all the people
who killed him.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Couple, Yeah, but couple.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
So I didn't even lose any sleepoverder.
Speaker 13 (17:28):
If you were to pick your sons, what would you
give your song?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I don't know, it's up to me. I'd probably get
rid of me.
Speaker 13 (17:40):
He says his drug problems in killings stem from childhood
sexual abuse. So how did he get to Kern County
when he killed Kelly? He was reportedly on parole from
a case in twenty twenty. He said he was working
as a bodyguard for a meth dealer at the Superior
Mobile Home Park, Ohs.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Basically one of her bodyguards.
Speaker 10 (17:59):
One of her other bodyguards is actually in here.
Speaker 13 (18:01):
Codyella's thirty five year old Cody Ellis has been charged
with attempted murder after deputies say he shot a man
at the trailer park on August twenty fifth, unrelated to
Kelly's murder. Connor door seventeen News.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You can see Connor's full jailhouse interview with Daniel Graham
on our website kget dot com.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Now to our continuing coverage of the inmate who escaped
from custody on Saturday. New court document show he managed
to avoid law enforcement with the help of his girlfriend
the Current County Sheriff's office as twenty three year old
Francisco Garcia took off during an appointment at Current Medical
Saturday night. At the time, he was a waiting sentencing
following a conviction for attempted murder, where he faced eighty
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years in prison. Detectives learned Garcia had planned the escape
and was with twenty year old Electra Espinoza. The two
were arrested on Monday at her parents' home in Lamont.
Garcia has been charged with escaping and Espinoza has been
charged with accessor after the fact. The two pleaded not
guilty yesterday. Espinoza posted bail and has not and has
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been released. Their due back in court next week.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Turning to news around California, nine months after January's devastating wildfires,
and independent review finds a series of weaknesses that hampered
Los Angeles County's efforts to alert residents to evacuate. The
La County Board of Supervisors commissioned the study by the
McCrystal group weeks after the Eton and Palisades fires killed
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more than thirty people and destroyed thousands of homes in
highly dense areas of LA County. The causes of the
two fires are still under investigation. The report released yesterday
points to the county's outdated emergency alert policies that delayed
evacuation warnings for people living there. Some residents reportedly did
not get any alerts at all until hours after the
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blaze started. They say understaffing was another issue, including for
sheriff's deputies and the offer of emergency management.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And I know it's going to be people disappointed.
Speaker 15 (20:05):
I know it's pointing out that we didn't focus on
the lives loss, but this report was more about finding
out about the alert system. The deep dive is going
to be done by we're doing it with the state apps.
The State's putting in there after incident report, I hope
people shed more light on the response, but the Mcrystal
report was strictly to look at how we dealt with
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evacuation orders and how the county responded because people were
saying they did not get notices.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to
review the one hundred and thirty three page report when
it meets next Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And our continuing coverage of the inmate who escaped from
custody on Saturday. A new Core document show he managed
to avoid law enforcement with the help of his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
The Current County Sheriff's office as twenty three year old
Francisco Garcia took off during an appointment at Current Medical
Saturday night. At the time, he was awaiting sentencing falling
a conviction for attempted murder, where he faced eighty years
in prison. Detectives learned Garcia had planned the escape and
was with twenty year old Electra Espinosa. The two were
arrested on Monday at her parents' home in Lamont. Garcia
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has been charged with escaping and Espinosa has been charged
with accessory after the fact. The two pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Espinosa posted bail and has been released. Their due back
in court next week.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Welcome back, and in your seventeen business watch, some positive
news for the economy this morning. New number show the
US economy grew more than initially estimated in the second quarter.
Revised GDP that stands for GROS Gross domestic product data
from the Commerce Department puts a second quarter economic growth
at three point eight percent. That's the point zero five
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percentage points higher than the most recent estimate. It's also
the strongest reading since the third quarter of twenty twenty four.
The revision largely reflects stronger growth and consumer spending, which
was also advise upward almost a full percentage point to
two point five percent. Economists say this all suggests the
economy is still doing just fine despite the slowdown in
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labor market growth.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
The United States and China are one step closer to
finalizing a TikTok deal. President Donald Trump signed in executive
order in the Oval Office yesterday, paving the way for
a TikTok deal that could transfer majority ownership of the
app to Americans, but it could be a while before
all sides close the deal. Though the terms of the
agreement appear to be set, but they're still hammering out
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the legal and financial points still, the president says, Chinese
President shi Jinping has given his stamp of approval.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
We talked about TikTok and other things, but we talked
about TikTok and he gave us to go ahead. You know,
it's run by American investors and American companies, great ones,
great investors or the biggest. You don't get bigger.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't imagine we still do not know all the
investors involved, but President Trump says Oracle and its co
founder Larry Ellison will play a big role. He also
says tech entrepreneur Michael Dell and media mogul Rupert Murdoch
will also be involved.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast, presented
by Rodriguez and Associates, a production of KGET and Nexstar
Media Group. For more local news and weather, visit KGET
dot com.
Good morning, Kern County. This is the seventeen News at
Sunrise podcast, Your News on your Schedule, presented by Rod
Riquez and Associates.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Turning things over to Kern's dog crisis. Thousands of adoptable
pets are put down every year because our shelters are overcrowded.
But one local dog rescue is working to change that,
and it's getting some help from the City of Bakersfield.
Seventeen's Jacob Clark spoke with veterinarians and staff about a
new funding package set to be approved.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
With additional funding from the city. You can come get
your pet spade or neutered right here at the Snip Bus.
Veterinary surgeons like Erica Torres say mobile spaying and neutering
services like snip are the key to keeping pets off
the street.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Actually, I'm not even from Bakersfield, and that was the
first thing I noticed when I moved here was the
amount of stray dogs and cats that are out in
the streets, and so spaying and neutering is going to
pretty much solve the root of that problem.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So far, the mobile Snip Bus has performed just over
eight thousand surgeries in Bakersfield, with tens of thousands completed
across Kerrn County. Operations Director Jennifer Hartani says these surgeries
are also key to preventing overcrowding and euthanasia in shelters.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
So the shelters are taking in about an average of
forty per day, that's crazy, right, and about twenty two
percent of those are being euthanized just for space. So
if we can get them all fixed, they're not running
the streets now, they're not being going into the shelter,
which you'll save those budgets as well.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Not only does the SNIP program help keep pets off
the street, it saves money.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Yeah, because it again, when you have an animal that's
running the street, whether it's owned or whether it's stray
and it's out running the street, you're now involving multiple
agencies from multiple municipal budgets. The police department can be
involved if there's a traffic accident, EMS is involved if
it injures somebody, or again an accident, col Trans is
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involved for cleanup.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The City at Bakersfield will recommend one hundred thousand dollars
to keep spay and neuter operations running.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
So recently, we brought to the city that we would
match them with one hundred thousand dollars if they came
up with one hundred thousand dollars for low cost mobile
span Neuter, and they actually met a in the middle
and it's happening.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Founder Robbie Miller hopes these funds can be a constant,
annual contribution made by the city, so.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Moving forward, I hope next year we won't have to
make as much noise and it's something just on the
budget so we can continue. Span Neuter usually takes about
three to five years before you start seeing results. It's
not something that you get instant gratification. You have to
let it play out for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
The recommendation will be presented to the Bakersfield City Council
for approval in the near future, with no date yet,
said Jacob Clark seventeen.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
News Southern California. Edison has been installing upgrades to its
equipment in the Kern River Valley to reduce the need
for future public safety power shutoffs. See customers have expressed
frustration at the frequent power shutoffs. In June, around seventy
six hundred customers in Kern County were impacted by PSPs.
As part of its wildfire mitigation plan sees upgrading hundreds
(03:25):
of miles of equipment in the Kernville area. According to
the company, that involves replacing bear wire with covered conductor
to help reduce wildfire risk. So far, crews have installed
more than thirty three miles of covered conductor near Lake
Isabella and replaced the original wooden cross arms with fiberglass material.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
In your seventeen follow up file, this morning, an update
on the Kern County firefighter who was critically injured on
the job. The accident happened in Romero Canyon August. Eighth
Battalion Chief James Ag was battling the canyon fire when
his pickup truck rolled over Chief Age. He was thrown
from the truck and rushed to the hospital. The local
firefighters' union says Chief Ag spent about a month at
(04:06):
Henry Mayo Hospital before he was taken to another hospital
in Colorado to continue his recovery and rehabilitation. His fight
is far from over, though. A GoFundMe has been launched
to help ease the financial burden on Chief AG's family
while he's on the long road to recovery.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
And in your education news. This morning, the current high
school district opened a new garden that will feed more
than fifteen hundred students every month. The district partnered up
with Blue Zones Project, Valley Children's Healthcare and Inventist Health
to create a new hydroponics garden. Hydroponics uses water instead
of soil to grow fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
So our ultimate goal is to actually get eat one
hydroponics center into each high school so that way they're
able to produce their fresh produce, so we can actually
in turn get it inside the cafeteria so the students
have the freshness with their entrees each day.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
Until that happens, high school's in the district will receive
produce from the garden on a rotating basis.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Southern California, Edison has been installing upgrades to its equipment
in the Kern River Valley to reduce the need for
future public safety power shut offs.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
SEE customers have expressed frustration at the frequent power shut offs.
In June, around seventy six hundred customers in Kern County
were impacted by PSPs as part of its wildfire mitigation plan.
SEES upgrading hundreds of miles of equipment in the Kernville area.
According to the company, that involves replacing bear wire and
covered conductor to help reduce wildfire risk. So far, crews
(05:32):
have installed more than thirty three miles of covered conductor
near Lake Isabella and replaced the original wooden cross arms
with fiberglass material. Welcome back to Sunrise and a news
breaking around the nation. Former FBI director James Comy has
been indicted, charged with making a fall statement and obstruction.
The unprecedented move comes days after President Trump publicly suggested
(05:55):
Attorney General Pam Bondi should move forward with prosecutions against
Komy and other political adversaries. NBC's Alice Barr has the
latest on this breaking story.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Incidences of obstruction of justice.
Speaker 11 (06:08):
This morning a former director of the FBI waking up
as a felony defendant, James Comy now indicted by a
grand jury on charges of making a false statement and
obstruction of a congressional proceeding. It is a major escalation
against someone President Trump sees as a political enemy.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump.
Speaker 11 (06:31):
Call me posting this video overnight.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
As the President celebrated the news with the words justice
in America. The charges stem from congressional testimony Comy gave
in September twenty twenty, when he was pressed over whether
he lied to Congress years earlier about authorizing a leak
to the press involving investigations into Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. I stand by what the testimony you summarized.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
The statute of limitations for the charges was set to
run out next week. On Saturday, President Trump publicly pressed
Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against Comy and
other perceived political opponents who've investigated him. Yesterday before the indictment,
saying this, I.
Speaker 12 (07:17):
Think I'd be allowed to get involved in the one,
but I don't really choose to do so. I can
only say that Komy's a bad person.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
The top prosecutor tasked with leading the Comy investigation resigned
last week rather than seeking an indictment, While a senior
DOJ official tells NBC News, career prosecutors laid out why
they believe there was not enough evidence to charge in
a memo to President Trump's hand picked replacement and former
personal attorney Lindsay Halligan, who has no experience as a
(07:47):
prosecutor and is now the only one to sign Comy's
charging papers. Call Me is now ordered to appear in
court and just under two weeks as Attorney General Pam
Bondi says, the Justice Department will we'll follow the facts
in this case. In Washington, Alis BARNBC News.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, today's the day, everybody Happy National Pancake Day. Some
local spots are celebrating. Tina Maurice Cafe is offering a
ten dollars flight of various flavors of pancakes, including blueberry
and pumpkin, justin time for the autumn season. The flight
consists of three pancakes. Scrambled is offering fifty percent off
its pancake combo. A short stack of two pancakes will
(08:27):
be ninety nine cents at Wake Up Cafe, and Cracker
Barrel is offering all you can eat pancakes for just
five bucks. For a full list of deals, head to
our website kget dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
This current County Fear update is brought to you by
Rodriguez An Associates.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Welcome back to Sunrise Everybody last night kicked off the
rodeo at the current County Fair and from riding to roping,
you could get the full Western experience right here in Bakersfield.
And to help out one of our own, I tooksventeens
at Vincent Demante to downtown's Emporium Western Store to help
saddle them up. Hey, y'all, seventeenth Lauren will come here
today at Emporium Western Store with another reporter, my friend
(09:10):
Vincent DeVante. We're gonna take you along with us and
right now to go a shop around and see what
we can find to get Vincent rodeo ready. Here's what
we're working with. First things first, we had to switch
out the sneakers and laces to his first pair of boots.
With hundreds of styles to shoes from narrowing down a
favor was tough, but we landed on a square toed
brown leather and after trying on a few variations, Vincent
(09:32):
slid on the perfect fit. So next up, we are
going to shape Vincent's head because I don't know if
you knew this, but hats a lot of times are shaped,
especially if you get a custom hat. So this hat
right here that I got from e and d at
the fair. If you look inside, it is measured and
shaped to my head shape, so it'll last you your
whole life and fit you well. Now it may look silly,
(09:53):
but head measurements are a crucial part of the process
because if you don't get the sizing right, pull out
right here. You see how the hat's kind of moving out,
and I can put my finger up in there. Now
came the decision between a straw build or felt and
with this current County heat, Vincent made a smart decision
and leaned towards the more breathable of the two.
Speaker 13 (10:12):
Probably gonna go for the second one.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Okay, I really liked this pattern on it, and I
really liked the band of this langage.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Yeah, with two pieces down, we still had some more
shopping to do, and what makes a classic cowboy outfit
without a big old belt buckle in the best part
of the buffles are the designs. Vincent found one to
showcase his roots even while wearing Western wear.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You guys surfing right there, that's so see if I've
ever seen it.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
And finally, of course, we had to find a pearl
snapshirt between the long and short sleeve options that we
truly could not pig wrong, so we settled on a
short sleeved red patterned button up to match my outfit.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
I think I can jump on a bowl right now.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I don't know about that. Just like that, we turned
a Southern Californian into a Southern country man. Although we
had a makeover, we made sure to find a rodeo
fit that would reflect his personality, which was easy considering
the boatload of items to choose from hats, boots, the
belt buckles, the shirts, I mean everything. There's so much
stuff so you can really personalize it and make it
(11:09):
yourself for sure.
Speaker 13 (11:10):
Hey, Bob Price, how does this look for that?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
I may be biased, but I think Bob will be pround.
The PRCA Rodeo will run at the current County Fair
until Saturday, September twenty seven. Holds your Horses Partners. Vincent
has some new boots made for walking and new at
the fair this year. E and D Custom Hat Company.
If you liked my hat and nut story, you could
(11:34):
head to their booth during normal fair hours. They customize color, design, branding,
and of course they'll size you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Like Vincent, we specialize in customizations from A to Z,
from fitting to trimming to shaping and all the accessories.
Everything that leaves here is one of one. Everything is
a representation of our customers.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Not us.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
The fair runs for three more days, including today. You
can also find A and D on Instagram and the
fair is open today from three pm to eleven pm,
Tomorrow from noon to eleven pm, and Sunday from noon
to ten pm. It's fifteen dollars for adults, ten dollars
for seniors, six dollars for children, and children five and
under get in free. Those are the military ID. You
(12:14):
also get in free and a little tip. Ticket prices
are discounted. Online parking is ten dollars and we put
all the fair information in one place for you on
our website kget dot com slash Kern County Fair. You
can scan the QR code on your screen to go
straight to that page and check out the concert lineups, attractions,
daily hours and mission prices and special promotions.
Speaker 14 (12:37):
I'm proud to be part of the Bakershield community, the culture,
the arts and the music. I'm so glad my parents
taught me to speak Spanish and to honor our heritage
by singing traditional music. As an attorney with Rodriguez and Associates.
I'm proud to work in harmony with our community, helping
(12:59):
others and celebrating what makes us unique at Rodriguez in Associates.
When you need us, we'll be here for.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Your recapping your Friday morning top stories. Southern California, Edison
has been installing upgrades to its equipment in the Kern
River Valley to reduce the need for future public safety
power shutoffs. In June, around seventy six hundred customers in
Kern County were impacted by PSPs. As part of its
wildfire mitigation plan sees upgrading hundreds of miles of equipment
(13:28):
in the Kernville area. So far, crews have installed more
than thirty three miles of covered conductor near Lake Isabella
and replaced the original wooden cross arms with fiberglass material.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
An update this morning on the Kern County Firefighter Battalion
Chief James Age, who was critically injured battling the Canyon fire.
He spent a month at Henry Mayo Hospital before he
was taken to another hospital in Colorado to continue his
recovery and rehabilitation. A go fundme has been launched to
help ease the financial burden on Chief AG's family while
(14:00):
he's on the long road to recovery.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
The current high school district partnered up with the Blue
Zones Project, Valley Children's Healthcare, and Inventist Health to create
a new hydroponics garden, which uses water instead of soil
to grow fruits and festivals. Now their goal is to
get one hydroponic garden in each high school, but until
that happens, high schools in the district will receive produce
from the garden on a rotating basis. The new garden
(14:23):
will feed more than fifteen hundred students every month.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Turning out to your seventeen Crime Watch. Superior Mobile Home
Park in Oildale has been the scene of arson fires,
murders and shootings over the past few months. Yesterday, forty
one year old Daniel Graham a suspect in the killing
of sixty two year old Roxanna Joe Kelly and mits
he did it. He spoke exclusively to seventeen's Connor Door
in a jailhouse interview where he also claimed to be
(14:52):
responsible for five additional killings.
Speaker 13 (14:56):
We met in jail after going through various checkpoints, leaving
my IDEA phone at the front desk. We were brought
into a room with a deputy and Graham. He was
unshackled and uncuffed. I sat arm's length away from him
and he immediately started talking before we even hit record.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I felt sorry about what happened to Roxane, but you know,
it is what it is.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
I could be your best friend, I could be your
worst nightmare.
Speaker 13 (15:20):
Graham said he killed Kelly because she owed him a
significant amount of money. He confronted her at her mobile home.
He said she refused to pay him and called him
various slurs. He said at that point he lost control.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I just choked her out.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
I'm not behind her and put her in headlock and I.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Just blacked out.
Speaker 12 (15:48):
So that that happens to me when I get it
get angry.
Speaker 13 (15:52):
And that's the only female that I've ever got with
like that, and took her life.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
All my other victims of males.
Speaker 13 (15:58):
Graham is from Gallup, Neumac, a small mountain town off
of Historic Route sixty six with a population just over
twenty thousand people. He said he started his seventeen year
crystal meth addiction in Gallup. He's racked up a criminal
history there, twenty cases spanning two thousand and four to
this year. Most are burglary and drug possession. The only
(16:19):
accusations of violence are battery on a peace officer and
an aggravated assault. However, he said he's killed three people
in Gallup three people in California, including Kelly, but he
wouldn't name the victims and only gave vague details on
his first murder. I haven't seen myself as his normal
human being in a long time, since I was seventeen
years old, since I took my first life.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
He said.
Speaker 13 (16:44):
A man was molesting a child and his family, and
he decided to shoot him once he learned about it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I kept minding me close and invited him to go
to a lake with me, and.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
Well, now I had some beers and I'm gonna take
a piss, walked up behind him and popped him.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Graham said he wanted to do this interview to exonerate
his co defendant, Misha Allen. He said she was not
there the night he killed Kelly, but another woman was.
He would not give her name or whereabouts. Throughout our
hour long interview, Graham described himself as quote monster or
beast multiple times. You feel guilty for all the people
who killed him.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Couple, Yeah, but couple.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
So I didn't even lose any sleepoverder.
Speaker 13 (17:28):
If you were to pick your sons, what would you
give your song?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I don't know, it's up to me. I'd probably get
rid of me.
Speaker 13 (17:40):
He says his drug problems in killings stem from childhood
sexual abuse. So how did he get to Kern County
when he killed Kelly? He was reportedly on parole from
a case in twenty twenty. He said he was working
as a bodyguard for a meth dealer at the Superior
Mobile Home Park, Ohs.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Basically one of her bodyguards.
Speaker 10 (17:59):
One of her other bodyguards is actually in here.
Speaker 13 (18:01):
Codyella's thirty five year old Cody Ellis has been charged
with attempted murder after deputies say he shot a man
at the trailer park on August twenty fifth, unrelated to
Kelly's murder. Connor door seventeen News.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You can see Connor's full jailhouse interview with Daniel Graham
on our website kget dot com.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Now to our continuing coverage of the inmate who escaped
from custody on Saturday. New court document show he managed
to avoid law enforcement with the help of his girlfriend
the Current County Sheriff's office as twenty three year old
Francisco Garcia took off during an appointment at Current Medical
Saturday night. At the time, he was a waiting sentencing
following a conviction for attempted murder, where he faced eighty
(18:45):
years in prison. Detectives learned Garcia had planned the escape
and was with twenty year old Electra Espinoza. The two
were arrested on Monday at her parents' home in Lamont.
Garcia has been charged with escaping and Espinoza has been
charged with accessor after the fact. The two pleaded not
guilty yesterday. Espinoza posted bail and has not and has
(19:07):
been released. Their due back in court next week.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Turning to news around California, nine months after January's devastating wildfires,
and independent review finds a series of weaknesses that hampered
Los Angeles County's efforts to alert residents to evacuate. The
La County Board of Supervisors commissioned the study by the
McCrystal group weeks after the Eton and Palisades fires killed
(19:32):
more than thirty people and destroyed thousands of homes in
highly dense areas of LA County. The causes of the
two fires are still under investigation. The report released yesterday
points to the county's outdated emergency alert policies that delayed
evacuation warnings for people living there. Some residents reportedly did
not get any alerts at all until hours after the
(19:54):
blaze started. They say understaffing was another issue, including for
sheriff's deputies and the offer of emergency management.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And I know it's going to be people disappointed.
Speaker 15 (20:05):
I know it's pointing out that we didn't focus on
the lives loss, but this report was more about finding
out about the alert system. The deep dive is going
to be done by we're doing it with the state apps.
The State's putting in there after incident report, I hope
people shed more light on the response, but the Mcrystal
report was strictly to look at how we dealt with
(20:26):
evacuation orders and how the county responded because people were
saying they did not get notices.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to
review the one hundred and thirty three page report when
it meets next Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And our continuing coverage of the inmate who escaped from
custody on Saturday. A new Core document show he managed
to avoid law enforcement with the help of his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
The Current County Sheriff's office as twenty three year old
Francisco Garcia took off during an appointment at Current Medical
Saturday night. At the time, he was awaiting sentencing falling
a conviction for attempted murder, where he faced eighty years
in prison. Detectives learned Garcia had planned the escape and
was with twenty year old Electra Espinosa. The two were
arrested on Monday at her parents' home in Lamont. Garcia
(21:13):
has been charged with escaping and Espinosa has been charged
with accessory after the fact. The two pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Espinosa posted bail and has been released. Their due back
in court next week.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Welcome back, and in your seventeen business watch, some positive
news for the economy this morning. New number show the
US economy grew more than initially estimated in the second quarter.
Revised GDP that stands for GROS Gross domestic product data
from the Commerce Department puts a second quarter economic growth
at three point eight percent. That's the point zero five
(21:49):
percentage points higher than the most recent estimate. It's also
the strongest reading since the third quarter of twenty twenty four.
The revision largely reflects stronger growth and consumer spending, which
was also advise upward almost a full percentage point to
two point five percent. Economists say this all suggests the
economy is still doing just fine despite the slowdown in
(22:10):
labor market growth.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
The United States and China are one step closer to
finalizing a TikTok deal. President Donald Trump signed in executive
order in the Oval Office yesterday, paving the way for
a TikTok deal that could transfer majority ownership of the
app to Americans, but it could be a while before
all sides close the deal. Though the terms of the
agreement appear to be set, but they're still hammering out
(22:36):
the legal and financial points still, the president says, Chinese
President shi Jinping has given his stamp of approval.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
We talked about TikTok and other things, but we talked
about TikTok and he gave us to go ahead. You know,
it's run by American investors and American companies, great ones,
great investors or the biggest. You don't get bigger.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't imagine we still do not know all the
investors involved, but President Trump says Oracle and its co
founder Larry Ellison will play a big role. He also
says tech entrepreneur Michael Dell and media mogul Rupert Murdoch
will also be involved.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast, presented
by Rodriguez and Associates, a production of KGET and Nexstar
Media Group. For more local news and weather, visit KGET
dot com.
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