January 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Huge fires are still burning out of control in Southern California. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on the damage from the deadly fires, and when they are expected to be controlled.
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
Thank you, Mike McCann. Welcome one and all to Thursday,
January the ninth. Dieval Loor to twenty twenty five. At
least five people have now been killed. More than one
hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation is fast moving. Wildfires continue
to golf the Los Angeles area. President Biden canceling his
trip to Italy this week and respond the devastating fires.
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A state funeral plan for the thirty ninth President of
the United States, James Earl carter that'll be held at
the National Cathedral later today, the NC Double A. Remember
we used to live by the This is going to
really show you that I am a man's man. You
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pretty much go from football season and then you know,
you kind of, you know, kick around a little basketball,
little hockey just to keep you occupied for a couple
of weeks until March madness, and then you go to
the Masters and then baseball. We basically lived sports season
to sports season. Sure, it was my childhood. You know,
freshman year, you go from people aren't even in class
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yet two a day's in August into football season. Then
you go right from the football field to the basketball court,
right where you're in your best shape. You could just
run up and down like a gazale and not get tired.
Now you kind of relax a little bit. Some of
the chunk you guys go to track and field and
the rest of us go to baseball. But you pretty
much go up season to season to season. Sure, this
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year it's a little extra special because think about it,
Tonight we start with the semi finals in football, Penn
State Notre Dame. Tomorrow night you'll have the other two
in the semi finals, and then we go into Saturday
and Sunday and Monday wild card football. Right, I'm kind
of slowly getting over the flues. So I see a
lot of your wrong football before you know it, in
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my near future. And I usually I tell my son
this all the time. I don't even bother with hockey
or basketball until after the Super Bowl. But you know,
he's he just shoves the Oklahoma City Thunder down my
throat every night to the point where I love this
team and the best of the West played the best
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of the East last night, and it was the wicked
Witch of the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers topping Oklahoma City.
I think the Calves had now Calves now have a
ten game winning streak. I think the Ridge the same
record overall in the year, running away with the best
record in the NBA. The Thunder had a fifteen game
winning streak snapped last night when they played the Caps.
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So it's a really all eyes are on fire. Jimmy
Carter his national funeral today, and sports really is kind
of setting the table. I'm going to address Donald Trump's criticism,
and I'm going to talk about what, in essence is
the proper size and role of government and what was affordable.
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I think at some point it can be too soon
to get into those criticisms because there's a lot of suffering.
You're going to see that throughout our top stories of
the day. Roy O'Neill is our national correspondent covering this story.
Rory get us up to speed on the fire. Still
far from under control. Good morning, indeed, but the wins
have died down. Some still a long way to go,
but at least the wins have calmed enough that the
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firefighters can use helicopters and aircraft in order to tackle
some of these flames and stop the spread. So that's
been a big development, is the fact that air power
is in use once more, which was is so key
in fighting these things. You know, we got a clip
later with Joe Rogan and it's going to talk about how,
you know, these things happen, how lucky we've been in
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the past based on how winds blow. This really was
when we look back, should not be. There's gonna be
some things people are going to question in terms of
preparation and readiness, and I get that, and there's a
moment for that. But this was the worst case scenario, right,
That's what this one needs to remember this. I guess
you go back to ninety three. But this was the
worst possible way everything could have unfolded, right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, this was all about the winds. Still is so,
and that really is the big factor here. Remember you know,
California had the big drought a couple of years ago,
and then we saw, oh gosh, they got all this rain. Hey,
that's wonderful, the drought may be over. And then that
brought about all all this growth of new brush. Well,
since May of last year, La has gotten point one
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six inches of rain and the add to that than
one hundred miles per hour wind gust yesterday. I mean,
it's just a bad mix.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was looking, you know, I guess Billy Crystal because
I love them. I mean, what's not to love about
Billy Crystal telling the story. He has lived in that
home since nineteen seventy nine, living in New Orleans. You
live in Florida. You see this with hurricanes because we're
watching on television everything. Hey, look you're alive. That's easy
to say. But when it's you and you lose everything
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and with it every place, every memory was made, it
can't be replaced. Where your children first walked that you
envisioned one, you know what I mean, all those emotions
that go into that, that's when these stories get real,
real fast.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, and the ones we see on TV, are you
get well, well they're a millionaire, they're okay, you know,
all right, Well no they're not. I mean, that's still
every Oscar whatever that Billy Crystal would have been preparing for.
But you know they're not necessarily okay, they're damaged emotionally.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This you brought this up yesterday. I know you need
to run, but you brought this up yesterday. Can you
put a dollar amount on what not just the claims,
the insurance claims, but the ripple effect of that kind
of a payout is going to have. I mean, I
know we're looking at insurance claims of seventeen billion, who
knows what, but the ripple goes beyond that, right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, right, And it's going to be what do the
insurance companies what ends up on their that they're going
to end up paying and you know how many more
insurance companies then decide to leave the state. I mean,
it's it's a major problem.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Roy O'Neil, with great reporting, he'll be back in the
third hour, We're going to talk and focus a little bit.
Actually know your second hour today. Late in the second hour,
with only days left in his presidency, Joe Biden says,
if he had stayed in office, he would have beaten
Donald Trump. But then the conversation turned quickly too. But
I don't think I could have finished my four year term.
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The mental state of Joe from the perspective of Joe Biden.
When Rory returns a little bit later on, I mentioned
this because I want to do it without Ror. I
don't put a newsperson in this position, and I want
to preface my positioning. I think this is what Donald Trump,
in Donald Trump's style, was pointing to yesterday. I'd probably
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word it a little different. I'm more of a timing
is really important. You know, you don't stand at a
funeral where someone you know loved to smoke and smoked
three packs of Pall Mall's a day with no filter
and while the widow was crying, you know, talking about that. Well,
you know, if you just wouldn't have smoked, you know,
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you'd probably still be here. You know, that's there's an
insensitivity to that. So people are losing their homes five
have lost their life. I think timing is relevant into
when you have these conversations, but it is an important conversation,
and what happens is in our news cycle society, we
get to a point where the only time you can
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really have people's attention to have these conversations is at
the inappropriate time. I know, I'm kind of slowly recuperating
from the flu, but am I making sense? Because if
we wait and do what is etequately proper, people will
move on to whatever the cycle moves on to, and
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you wouldn't get their attention. So I kind of get
why Donald Trump and others would want to say, well,
in the midst of this, do we ever talk about
I mean, these fires started somewhere. If your home burned down,
guess what the number one thing you would want to
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know and the number one goal of the local fire
department to present to you the origin that's really what
it boiled down. This fire started here on this floor,
in this room, from this cause. And when we get
these fires, we'll talk about what makes them difficult to fight,
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what makes them difficult to stop spreading, what makes the
proclivity for them to happen, dryness, wind, But did it start?
Is it homeless people and it gets chilly and they
start fires, and then they get out of control and
they spread. Is that it? If it is, then you
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can't move forward without addressing homelessness? Can you just using
that as an example? So it may be too soon
to start being critical, But then again, you may not
have a choice if America's attention span keeps moving on.
Catastrophic fires are so horrendous they cannot be ignored. What
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caused such issues? Was it more than mother nature? I'm
just asking out loud. After all, Santa Ana wins are
not new. Let me phrase it a different way. Santa
Anna wins are never going to go away? Was this
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a perfect circumstantial storm? Or mismanagement? Mismanagement of a political
ideological nature? I always talk about it this way. What
is the proper size and role of government? What does
that mean? It means government isn't supposed to be all
things to all people. Certainly supposed to be. God's not
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supposed to be the church. It's not supposed to be.
Every time something goes wrong, it's the government's fault. They
should have kept it from happening, and the government should
now solve it. But in this case, the number one
role of local municipality government is public safety, whether it's
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the police, the fire, emergency personnel. That's the number one goal.
That's what collectively they can do better than you can
do for yourself. Were there things they could have done well?
The Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass she started facing criticism,
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and rightly so. Sooner or later, when everybody's done watching
everything they owned in life burn, it's going to dawn
on them. She cut the city's fire department budget by
seventeen and a half million dollars ahead of this devastating fire.
That's part of why you don't have the personnel. And
what did she prioritize funds for a massive homeless population.
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The largely went unspent. Even that's a whole other can
of worms and may if you have been the origin
of the fire, and in our sounds of the day,
when a sky news reporter wants to ask her a
simple question about personnel and the future of this fight
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against this out of control fire, just ignored him like
he wasn't even there. I don't know that he always
does it in the most clear and effective way, but
my instinct was to criticize Donald Trump. And then the
more I stared at it, the more I thought, if not?
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Now when do we talk about such things? Remember our
lesson of the week. Are we going to be victims
or victor's? A victim's mentality just ignores why these things happen.
And just professionally, I guess we just started to mean
la strong and move on. When we look at government
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ignoring its role, its duty, its responsibility, wokeness over priority,
start changing some things and you'd feel that way too
if it was your house that was gone nineteen minutes
after the hour. What a rough way. Who wants to
wake up like this? Hey, talk about my flu. Top
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five stories of the day, straight ahead. We know you
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It's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Top five stories Well Numero Uno. The fires in southern California.
Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton among the celebrities who have lost
their homes. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Billy and his wife Janis Crystal released a statement saying
the home they've lived in since nineteen seventy nine is gone.
They add that words can not describe the enormity of
the devastation that they're witnessing and experiencing. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton
posted on acts that her Malibu home has burned down
and she's heartbroken beyond words. She says the loss is overwhelming,
but she's holding under gratitude that her family is safe.
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I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Insurance losses from the more than seventeen thousand acre Palisade
fire could reach over ten billion dollars. Daniel Martindale reports.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
That's according to a preliminary estimate from JP Morgan Insurance.
It says most of the losses come from homeowners rather
than commercial building and business owners. At least one thousand
structures have burned and more than thirteen thousand others are
considered at risk. KBCTV estimates fifty to seventy five percent
of Pacific Palisades has been destroyed. I'm Daniel Martindale.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, we don't talk about in the mainstream media, legacy
media about the budget cuts that have lessened the resources
and firefighters to fight these fires, but we will discuss
Oregon sending help from local departments across the state line
to holp battle the fires. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
We are mobilizing twelve Stride teams.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They're made up of two hundred and forty.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Firefighters and sixty engines that will be headed down to
southern California to help out with the wildfires.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
John Hendrix, with the Oregon State Fire Marshal says they'll
work to protect structures like homes and businesses. They'll be
there around two weeks. Oregon and California have a joint
agreement to send firefighters when the other state needs help.
I'm me sa tailor.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Donald Trump is always reminding Hamas all hell will break
loose if you don't release the hostages. The question is
are they even alive? The Israeli military says it recover
the body of another hostage in the Gaza. Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
The Israel Defense Forces recovered fifty three year old Yusuf
Cyaneed's body from an underground tunnel in Rafa and returned
his body to Israel. He was kidnapped when Israel was
attacked by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty three. The
IDF says he was killed in captivity and added that
it has evidence related to his son, Hamza, who was
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also abducted that day, but did not confirm his death.
I'm Brian shuk Well.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosting a playoff game is a
big deal this weekend. It's always a big deal when
they have the gasparrella parade and celebration. Local and federal
officials are stepping up preparations after the New Orleans New
Year's terrorist attack, Tammy Trehila reports.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
FBI Special Agent joshualldel Monzo says they're continuing to investigate
leads after discovering that New Orleans terror suspectam shoot Din
Jabbar visited Tampa in late October, one year after a
mass shooting in Ebor City.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
We are exploiting every lead to determine the reason for
this visit.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
There's no indication at this present time of any significant
contact with persons in the area.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
As for the Los Angeles Ram, they may have to
move their playoff game. It's so fi due to the fires.
King's game was canceled last night. Semi finals Tonight, Orange
Ball Penn State and a notere dame from Miami. And
as I mentioned, the best in the East played the
best in the West, and it was the East that won.
Calves the winner last night over the OKC thunder and
on ice the Caps two to one winners over the
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Canooks in overtime. And that's your top five stories of
the day. Thanks for waking up with your morning show
more after your local news.
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So grab a cup of coffee, sit down at America's
kitchen table, and let's get you up to speed on
what is happening if you're just waking up. A state
funeral for Jimmy Carter will be held at the Washington
National Cathedral today. President Biden is going to be delivering
the eulogy and has canceled his trip to Italy this
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week in response to the devastating fires in the Los
Angeles area. At least five people have now been killed,
more than one hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation as the
fast moving wildfires continue to engulf the Los Angeles area.
We talked about Billy Crystal and his wife Janice their
mourning the loss of their family home that they've lived
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in since nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen seventy nine would bring
me back to freshman year of high school, Keiho Academy,
our house on Chatau Latour. And you know, I don't
know if you've ever done this. I go back to
towns I used to live in. I did it in Chicago,
our very early childhood home in Arlington Heights, and I
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did it in Syracuse, New York with my grandmother's house,
my brother Vick and I. We are not above knocking
on the door and introducing ourselves, and people are so
kind to invite you in. And what will strike you
immediately is how small everything looks. What we grew up
in was so much smaller than what most of us
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live in today. But you know, I think it was
Lino Ritchie in that We Are the World documentary. He
ends it with an expression his father said, you can't
go home, And what he was explaining is you can
go home. The floor will be there, the walls will
be there, but the things that happened in that corner
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or on that floor, those people will be gone. And
of course the documentary ends Michael Jackson was standing right there,
Quincy Jones was right in front of me, right there,
and of course they're all now now dead. It's a
very emotional moving thing. And I'm not one to stay
in a home. Andrew and I've had this conversation. We're
fascinated at people who do, and how financially wise it is.
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If you can resist the urge, because whatever it is,
it's paid off by the time you're in your fifties.
No matter what you bought. I think we've lived well,
this is our third home in sixteen years. I think
it's our tenth home and thirty years. But look, life
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is sacred. Things are not. But I have lived through hurricanes.
I have watched my parents lose everything, including our pictures.
It's devastating. And these are these are pretty big names,
and sooner or later they're going to have to and
I'm not making please don't hear talk radio, but at
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some point, for some of them, not all of them,
they're going to have to put their worldview and policy
and political views and stances, and they're going to have
to put that in some kind of perspective with what
they just lost, because they're going to come to grips
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with how local officials have failed them, how they're they're ignoring,
and the policy views and the miss priorities have failed them.
But the first thing that has to be addressed as
you're waking up, like I care about Billy Christ is
he'll just buy a new hot Look. That's envy. I
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don't live in envy or jealousy. These are human beings.
A home you've been in since nineteen seventy nine, you
raised your children, your grandchildren. Things happen in that home
that cannot be replaced. There were probably things in that
home that cannot be replaced. But here's the bottom line
for all of us to learn from. There were things
at home that may never be replaced because insurance companies
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they don't play games. Red and I were talking off
the ear, and I will not make any mass assumptions.
I am not a fire investigator, nor have I investigated
this fire. I am an American citizen saying well, I
know this, this and this, and I'm seeing this, this
and this, and nobody's even asking this. I know that
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if my house was burned down this morning, what would
be most on my mind? What would be the priority
of the fire department, once everybody was removed safely and
not harmed, would be the cause? And that's what the
insurance company would be waiting for the cause. Now we're
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talking billions and billions of dollars of homes and even
billions more of things policy by policy that are going
to be looked at. If mayors today and governors today
want to ignore presidents in two weeks or certain media outlets,
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that's fine. But the insurance companies aren't going to ignore it.
Sooner or later, we're going to find out what the
heck happened. And I don't think the cause is going
to be winn It started somewhere and nobody even talks
about it. Is it homeless encampments? What was it? Anthony Hopkins,
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Silence of the Lambs, lost his home. Paris Hilton watched
her Malibu home burned down. Ricky Lake shared photos of
her beautiful Malibu property on fire. Brad Paisley revealed that
his first home that he and his wife Kimberly shared
had burned down. Pacific Palisades home of Matthew Perry, who
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recently died, just sold for eight and a half million dollars,
burnt to the ground. Hunter Biden's Malibu home burned to
the ground. American pie star Eugene Levy his home leveled.
James Wood shared footage of his home two blocks a
home two blocks from his property completely set a fire.
John Goodman's home wiped out. These are a lot of
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big names, So yeah, life is everything. There's no worse
part of this story today than five people have been killed.
The second part of the story are more than one
hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation and many homes destroyed, and
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we're looking at already and these are just early estimates.
Insurance losses from more than seventeen thousand acres of Palisades
fire could reach over ten billion dollars. And there is
a headline la Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding
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by seventeen point six million dollars. Well, that couldn't have
helped this, We could it have? And what were the
cuts made to benefit homeless spending? So you cut seventeen
point six million dollars from the budget knowing sant Ana
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wins are always going to be here, knowing these fires happen,
knowing this kind of catastrophe is possible. This is the
most outrageous part of everything in my show prep to
the point where I almost want to not do it.
Who wants to start their morning off with this kind
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of hadji as we say in Italian. So for stars
to everyday people, to the ripple effects of actuaries and
insurance across the country. What was the lesson of the
twenty twenty four election. Policies have consequences, They matter, and
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you don't change your narrative to improve your odds of
winning the next election cycle, you take a look at
your worldview and see how it's working for you and
for everyone else. You look at your policies and how
they've failed, and you change them. Hey, maybe we can't
spend our way out of a span problem. Maybe we
can't be all things. Maybe we can't debt our way
out of debt. But I would think with all of
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the loss of life and loss of property and still
out of control fires in California, a headline like la
Merri Karen Bass cut fire department funding by seventeen point
six million dollars to focus on homeless spending months before
these fires. I oh, by the way, a lot of
that money to even get to the homelessness and we
don't even know if homelessness was the cause. Well that's
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going to get some people's attention. Here's a Sky News
reporter catches up with the Los Angeles Merri Karen Bass
asks some simple questions. Has there pinned in a corner
they get on this? Was that an elevator red? What
were they at or they were waiting at like a
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stair escape or I don't know where they're standing, but
he's right next to her. It looked like the airport. Yeah,
it looks but like she was gonna but not like
the kind where you go down the what do they
call that thing that puts you on the plane of
the ramp. It looked like she was at a door
where she's going to go downstairs to one of those
kinds of planes. I don't know where she was added,
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but I mean they're trapped in this corner. I mean,
it's not like she's walking and ignores him. He's standing
right next to her, kind of like if we run
an elevator together, and she doesn't even acknowledge his existence.
She doesn't look at him and say no cow. She
just he's talking to her and she won't even look
at him. Did I do a proper job in three
minutes of setting up the relevance of this question? It's
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not an outrageous question, it's not a harassing question. It's
a very relevant question in the middle of an out
of control fire where life has been lost and property
lost by billions.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
And listen, Madam Mayor David Levin's from Sky News in
the UK. Far chiefs say that they're really stretched to
the limit and running out of water.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What are people.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
Have you no response to that, do you owe citizen's
an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret coming the fire department budget by millions
of dollars out of there? Have you nothing to say
today that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, souse, it's definitely a ramp, and it's one of
those ramps that is not going to lead to the
front door of a plane. It's gonna eventually the ramp
attached Sugar down the stairs and go to the tarmac
to get on a plane. But he's trapped in this
three square feet with her. And this goes on for
like two minutes. And the way she's he's right in
front of her, just he's about a far as far
away as I am to this microphone, and she's looking
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around pretending like he's invisible and won't answer these relevant questions.
I mean, yeah, obviously that's the sound of the day.
You promise me. This is beat beatproof. This is he's
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also relevant to the conversation. Here's Joe Rogan. No, he's
not a I'm nostradel Jarro. He's not Rogan domis Anybody
with common sense could have made the chilling predictions of
what we're seeing in southern California. So I was talking
to this guy and he was telling me.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
He goes, Dude, one day, he goes, it's just going
to be the right wind and fire is going to
start in the right place, and it's going to burn
through LA all the way to the ocean, and there's
not a thing we can do about it. I go, really,
he goes, yeah, we're just we just get lucky. He goes,
we get lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
With the wind.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
He goes, But if the wind hits the wrong way,
it's just going to burn straight through LA and there's
not going to be a thing we could do about it.
Because these fires are so big, dude, when they're talking
about like thousands of acres that they're burning simultaneously with
like forty mile an hour winds, and the wind's just
blowing embers through the air, and those embers are landing
on roofs, and those houses are going up, and they're
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landing on bushes, and those bushes are going up, and
everything's dry, and once it happens, it happens in a
way where it's so spread out that there's nothing they
can do.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So one narrative is sooner or later, the perfect storm
the perfect wind, you know, assuming you ignore common origins,
access to water, adequate fire resources. The Eli County Sheriff
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sounded off on the California fires and the budget cuts directly.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Listen Governor Newsom declaring a state of emergency. Yet some
are criticizing the local authorities and the response teams. Do
you think that criticism is fair?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one, that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so are hydrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need and only
a fraction of that money has been spent has all
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been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Then you have the workforce itself. You have Fire, LA County,
LA City Fire.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Their numbers are depleted, LAPD, LA Sheriffs their numbers are depleted.
Speaker 13 (31:17):
Where's the National Guard here?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I mean there's a lot of things, a lot of
manpower that is missing.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
And it all goes from twenty twenty four of the whole.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Time that was on the Fox Business News and I
could let that roll for about three and a half minutes,
if I had the times, he lays it out brilliantly. Look,
here's the bottom line. I'd like to be as classy
as the next guy and say there's a time for
these conversations, and this is too soon. Lives are being lost,
properties being lost. But you know what, if we don't
have them right now, we never have them. What is
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the proper size and role of government? What is the
role and responsibility of the self government. These are the
questions we don't ever talk about. We play us versus them,
left versus right games politics, and sometimes it's all the above.
Sometimes it is that perfect wind. But there's things you
can do to the forest to lessen. There are things
(32:11):
you can do for water supply. There's things you can
do by prioritizing police and fire and preparation. And when
you put wokeness above what the priority of your duty is,
and you get this result, you got to do more
than stand near a tarmac and ignore a reporter a
breath away. And I think this time, sure, it's your
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Sounds of the day for Thursday, January the ninth, but
I think it sounds you're going to hear even louder
and louder in the coming days, because once the flames
are out, that's when the flames of answers are really
going to begin. That's your sounds of the day, an
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aspire stop it.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
Speaker 14 (33:08):
God, Please, no, no.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It is by the motto keep calm.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
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As we head to our talkback lines on your iHeartRadio app.
We can't have your morning show without your voice. And
we find first Big John. From what I heard, LA's
May of Bass was on a transfer flight at Scotland
and the reporter from Sky News caught up with her
and she ignored him right in front of you know,
(33:52):
she's as he's asking relevant questions about Los Angeles. I
really like this one. This is James Morning, my old
Jim from Youngstown. Again.
Speaker 14 (34:01):
You're looking at DEI fires from a DEI state.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
This is DEI at its finest.
Speaker 14 (34:07):
They let the water that should be in their water
pipes flow into the ocean, They do not clear cut
their forests, and they are sheer idiots with their management
of the state.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
This is what we see now.
Speaker 14 (34:22):
Maybe that the rich and famous are affected, it will
change have a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I mean, could this be what finally wakes people up.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So hopeful this could help them become But I mean,
whether you're in New Orleans where they took the barricades
down and then put them back up after, or whether
it's the fires in Los Angeles, is this an act
of God? Was this unavoidable? Or were these acts of ignorance?
Were they victims of evil or in tragedy? Were they
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victims of failed policies. It's got the final stay to Iowa.
Speaker 15 (34:58):
Newsome also affected the water flow by destroying dams in
order to help the lamfree eel and the smelt and
some salmon and stuff. But the lamfrey eel are parasites.
So apparently they spend more money on parasites than they
do on the citizens of the state of California.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Have a good day. That's a tough one to do,
but I'll try feeling a little better. I'm just in
a constant state of feel like I'm gonna sneeze ther cough.
But other than that, I think I'm coming out of
the woods again. I just would say there's a time
and a place to have these kinds of appropriate questions
and comments and understanding. But maybe it is now while
(35:37):
we have everyone's attention. I don't know. One hour down,
two hours to go quick break for your local news,
and then we'll come back with more of your morning show.
Next stay with us.
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Thank you, Mike McCann. Welcome one and all to Thursday,
January the ninth. Dieval Loor to twenty twenty five. At
least five people have now been killed. More than one
hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation is fast moving. Wildfires continue
to golf the Los Angeles area. President Biden canceling his
trip to Italy this week and respond the devastating fires.
(01:01):
A state funeral plan for the thirty ninth President of
the United States, James Earl carter that'll be held at
the National Cathedral later today, the NC Double A. Remember
we used to live by the This is going to
really show you that I am a man's man. You
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pretty much go from football season and then you know,
you kind of, you know, kick around a little basketball,
little hockey just to keep you occupied for a couple
of weeks until March madness, and then you go to
the Masters and then baseball. We basically lived sports season
to sports season. Sure, it was my childhood. You know,
freshman year, you go from people aren't even in class
(01:44):
yet two a day's in August into football season. Then
you go right from the football field to the basketball court,
right where you're in your best shape. You could just
run up and down like a gazale and not get tired.
Now you kind of relax a little bit. Some of
the chunk you guys go to track and field and
the rest of us go to baseball. But you pretty
much go up season to season to season. Sure, this
(02:06):
year it's a little extra special because think about it,
Tonight we start with the semi finals in football, Penn
State Notre Dame. Tomorrow night you'll have the other two
in the semi finals, and then we go into Saturday
and Sunday and Monday wild card football. Right, I'm kind
of slowly getting over the flues. So I see a
lot of your wrong football before you know it, in
(02:29):
my near future. And I usually I tell my son
this all the time. I don't even bother with hockey
or basketball until after the Super Bowl. But you know,
he's he just shoves the Oklahoma City Thunder down my
throat every night to the point where I love this
team and the best of the West played the best
(02:50):
of the East last night, and it was the wicked
Witch of the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers topping Oklahoma City.
I think the Calves had now Calves now have a
ten game winning streak. I think the Ridge the same
record overall in the year, running away with the best
record in the NBA. The Thunder had a fifteen game
winning streak snapped last night when they played the Caps.
(03:10):
So it's a really all eyes are on fire. Jimmy
Carter his national funeral today, and sports really is kind
of setting the table. I'm going to address Donald Trump's criticism,
and I'm going to talk about what, in essence is
the proper size and role of government and what was affordable.
(03:33):
I think at some point it can be too soon
to get into those criticisms because there's a lot of suffering.
You're going to see that throughout our top stories of
the day. Roy O'Neill is our national correspondent covering this story.
Rory get us up to speed on the fire. Still
far from under control. Good morning, indeed, but the wins
have died down. Some still a long way to go,
but at least the wins have calmed enough that the
(03:54):
firefighters can use helicopters and aircraft in order to tackle
some of these flames and stop the spread. So that's
been a big development, is the fact that air power
is in use once more, which was is so key
in fighting these things. You know, we got a clip
later with Joe Rogan and it's going to talk about how,
you know, these things happen, how lucky we've been in
(04:16):
the past based on how winds blow. This really was
when we look back, should not be. There's gonna be
some things people are going to question in terms of
preparation and readiness, and I get that, and there's a
moment for that. But this was the worst case scenario, right,
That's what this one needs to remember this. I guess
you go back to ninety three. But this was the
worst possible way everything could have unfolded, right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, this was all about the winds. Still is so,
and that really is the big factor here. Remember you know,
California had the big drought a couple of years ago,
and then we saw, oh gosh, they got all this rain. Hey,
that's wonderful, the drought may be over. And then that
brought about all all this growth of new brush. Well,
since May of last year, La has gotten point one
(05:02):
six inches of rain and the add to that than
one hundred miles per hour wind gust yesterday. I mean,
it's just a bad mix.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was looking, you know, I guess Billy Crystal because
I love them. I mean, what's not to love about
Billy Crystal telling the story. He has lived in that
home since nineteen seventy nine, living in New Orleans. You
live in Florida. You see this with hurricanes because we're
watching on television everything. Hey, look you're alive. That's easy
to say. But when it's you and you lose everything
(05:33):
and with it every place, every memory was made, it
can't be replaced. Where your children first walked that you
envisioned one, you know what I mean, all those emotions
that go into that, that's when these stories get real,
real fast.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, and the ones we see on TV, are you
get well, well they're a millionaire, they're okay, you know,
all right, Well no they're not. I mean, that's still
every Oscar whatever that Billy Crystal would have been preparing for.
But you know they're not necessarily okay, they're damaged emotionally.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This you brought this up yesterday. I know you need
to run, but you brought this up yesterday. Can you
put a dollar amount on what not just the claims,
the insurance claims, but the ripple effect of that kind
of a payout is going to have. I mean, I
know we're looking at insurance claims of seventeen billion, who
knows what, but the ripple goes beyond that, right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, right, And it's going to be what do the
insurance companies what ends up on their that they're going
to end up paying and you know how many more
insurance companies then decide to leave the state. I mean,
it's it's a major problem.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Roy O'Neil, with great reporting, he'll be back in the
third hour, We're going to talk and focus a little bit.
Actually know your second hour today. Late in the second hour,
with only days left in his presidency, Joe Biden says,
if he had stayed in office, he would have beaten
Donald Trump. But then the conversation turned quickly too. But
I don't think I could have finished my four year term.
(06:58):
The mental state of Joe from the perspective of Joe Biden.
When Rory returns a little bit later on, I mentioned
this because I want to do it without Ror. I
don't put a newsperson in this position, and I want
to preface my positioning. I think this is what Donald Trump,
in Donald Trump's style, was pointing to yesterday. I'd probably
(07:19):
word it a little different. I'm more of a timing
is really important. You know, you don't stand at a
funeral where someone you know loved to smoke and smoked
three packs of Pall Mall's a day with no filter
and while the widow was crying, you know, talking about that. Well,
you know, if you just wouldn't have smoked, you know,
(07:39):
you'd probably still be here. You know, that's there's an
insensitivity to that. So people are losing their homes five
have lost their life. I think timing is relevant into
when you have these conversations, but it is an important conversation,
and what happens is in our news cycle society, we
get to a point where the only time you can
(08:00):
really have people's attention to have these conversations is at
the inappropriate time. I know, I'm kind of slowly recuperating
from the flu, but am I making sense? Because if
we wait and do what is etequately proper, people will
move on to whatever the cycle moves on to, and
(08:20):
you wouldn't get their attention. So I kind of get
why Donald Trump and others would want to say, well,
in the midst of this, do we ever talk about
I mean, these fires started somewhere. If your home burned down,
guess what the number one thing you would want to
(08:41):
know and the number one goal of the local fire
department to present to you the origin that's really what
it boiled down. This fire started here on this floor,
in this room, from this cause. And when we get
these fires, we'll talk about what makes them difficult to fight,
(09:03):
what makes them difficult to stop spreading, what makes the
proclivity for them to happen, dryness, wind, But did it start?
Is it homeless people and it gets chilly and they
start fires, and then they get out of control and
they spread. Is that it? If it is, then you
(09:24):
can't move forward without addressing homelessness? Can you just using
that as an example? So it may be too soon
to start being critical, But then again, you may not
have a choice if America's attention span keeps moving on.
Catastrophic fires are so horrendous they cannot be ignored. What
(09:45):
caused such issues? Was it more than mother nature? I'm
just asking out loud. After all, Santa Ana wins are
not new. Let me phrase it a different way. Santa
Anna wins are never going to go away? Was this
(10:07):
a perfect circumstantial storm? Or mismanagement? Mismanagement of a political
ideological nature? I always talk about it this way. What
is the proper size and role of government? What does
that mean? It means government isn't supposed to be all
things to all people. Certainly supposed to be. God's not
(10:29):
supposed to be the church. It's not supposed to be.
Every time something goes wrong, it's the government's fault. They
should have kept it from happening, and the government should
now solve it. But in this case, the number one
role of local municipality government is public safety, whether it's
(10:49):
the police, the fire, emergency personnel. That's the number one goal.
That's what collectively they can do better than you can
do for yourself. Were there things they could have done well?
The Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass she started facing criticism,
(11:09):
and rightly so. Sooner or later, when everybody's done watching
everything they owned in life burn, it's going to dawn
on them. She cut the city's fire department budget by
seventeen and a half million dollars ahead of this devastating fire.
That's part of why you don't have the personnel. And
what did she prioritize funds for a massive homeless population.
(11:34):
The largely went unspent. Even that's a whole other can
of worms and may if you have been the origin
of the fire, and in our sounds of the day,
when a sky news reporter wants to ask her a
simple question about personnel and the future of this fight
(12:01):
against this out of control fire, just ignored him like
he wasn't even there. I don't know that he always
does it in the most clear and effective way, but
my instinct was to criticize Donald Trump. And then the
more I stared at it, the more I thought, if not?
(12:22):
Now when do we talk about such things? Remember our
lesson of the week. Are we going to be victims
or victor's? A victim's mentality just ignores why these things happen.
And just professionally, I guess we just started to mean
la strong and move on. When we look at government
(12:46):
ignoring its role, its duty, its responsibility, wokeness over priority,
start changing some things and you'd feel that way too
if it was your house that was gone nineteen minutes
after the hour. What a rough way. Who wants to
wake up like this? Hey, talk about my flu. Top
(13:06):
five stories of the day, straight ahead. We know you
have a choice and what you listen to. We've got
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It's your morning show with Michael del Chno.
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Top five stories Well Numero Uno. The fires in southern California.
Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton among the celebrities who have lost
their homes. Mark Mayfield has more.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Billy and his wife Janis Crystal released a statement saying
the home they've lived in since nineteen seventy nine is gone.
They add that words can not describe the enormity of
the devastation that they're witnessing and experiencing. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton
posted on acts that her Malibu home has burned down
and she's heartbroken beyond words. She says the loss is overwhelming,
but she's holding under gratitude that her family is safe.
(13:58):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Insurance losses from the more than seventeen thousand acre Palisade
fire could reach over ten billion dollars. Daniel Martindale reports.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
That's according to a preliminary estimate from JP Morgan Insurance.
It says most of the losses come from homeowners rather
than commercial building and business owners. At least one thousand
structures have burned and more than thirteen thousand others are
considered at risk. KBCTV estimates fifty to seventy five percent
of Pacific Palisades has been destroyed. I'm Daniel Martindale.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, we don't talk about in the mainstream media, legacy
media about the budget cuts that have lessened the resources
and firefighters to fight these fires, but we will discuss
Oregon sending help from local departments across the state line
to holp battle the fires. Lisa Taylor has more.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
We are mobilizing twelve Stride teams.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They're made up of two hundred and forty.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Firefighters and sixty engines that will be headed down to
southern California to help out with the wildfires.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
John Hendrix, with the Oregon State Fire Marshal says they'll
work to protect structures like homes and businesses. They'll be
there around two weeks. Oregon and California have a joint
agreement to send firefighters when the other state needs help.
I'm me sa tailor.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Donald Trump is always reminding Hamas all hell will break
loose if you don't release the hostages. The question is
are they even alive? The Israeli military says it recover
the body of another hostage in the Gaza. Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
The Israel Defense Forces recovered fifty three year old Yusuf
Cyaneed's body from an underground tunnel in Rafa and returned
his body to Israel. He was kidnapped when Israel was
attacked by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty three. The
IDF says he was killed in captivity and added that
it has evidence related to his son, Hamza, who was
(15:42):
also abducted that day, but did not confirm his death.
I'm Brian shuk Well.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosting a playoff game is a
big deal this weekend. It's always a big deal when
they have the gasparrella parade and celebration. Local and federal
officials are stepping up preparations after the New Orleans New
Year's terrorist attack, Tammy Trehila reports.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
FBI Special Agent joshualldel Monzo says they're continuing to investigate
leads after discovering that New Orleans terror suspectam shoot Din
Jabbar visited Tampa in late October, one year after a
mass shooting in Ebor City.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
We are exploiting every lead to determine the reason for
this visit.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
There's no indication at this present time of any significant
contact with persons in the area.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
As for the Los Angeles Ram, they may have to
move their playoff game. It's so fi due to the fires.
King's game was canceled last night. Semi finals Tonight, Orange
Ball Penn State and a notere dame from Miami. And
as I mentioned, the best in the East played the
best in the West, and it was the East that won.
Calves the winner last night over the OKC thunder and
on ice the Caps two to one winners over the
(16:47):
Canooks in overtime. And that's your top five stories of
the day. Thanks for waking up with your morning show
more after your local news.
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So grab a cup of coffee, sit down at America's
kitchen table, and let's get you up to speed on
what is happening if you're just waking up. A state
funeral for Jimmy Carter will be held at the Washington
National Cathedral today. President Biden is going to be delivering
the eulogy and has canceled his trip to Italy this
(17:55):
week in response to the devastating fires in the Los
Angeles area. At least five people have now been killed,
more than one hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation as the
fast moving wildfires continue to engulf the Los Angeles area.
We talked about Billy Crystal and his wife Janice their
mourning the loss of their family home that they've lived
(18:17):
in since nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen seventy nine would bring
me back to freshman year of high school, Keiho Academy,
our house on Chatau Latour. And you know, I don't
know if you've ever done this. I go back to
towns I used to live in. I did it in Chicago,
our very early childhood home in Arlington Heights, and I
(18:38):
did it in Syracuse, New York with my grandmother's house,
my brother Vick and I. We are not above knocking
on the door and introducing ourselves, and people are so
kind to invite you in. And what will strike you
immediately is how small everything looks. What we grew up
in was so much smaller than what most of us
(18:58):
live in today. But you know, I think it was
Lino Ritchie in that We Are the World documentary. He
ends it with an expression his father said, you can't
go home, And what he was explaining is you can
go home. The floor will be there, the walls will
be there, but the things that happened in that corner
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or on that floor, those people will be gone. And
of course the documentary ends Michael Jackson was standing right there,
Quincy Jones was right in front of me, right there,
and of course they're all now now dead. It's a
very emotional moving thing. And I'm not one to stay
in a home. Andrew and I've had this conversation. We're
fascinated at people who do, and how financially wise it is.
(19:42):
If you can resist the urge, because whatever it is,
it's paid off by the time you're in your fifties.
No matter what you bought. I think we've lived well,
this is our third home in sixteen years. I think
it's our tenth home and thirty years. But look, life
(20:05):
is sacred. Things are not. But I have lived through hurricanes.
I have watched my parents lose everything, including our pictures.
It's devastating. And these are these are pretty big names,
and sooner or later they're going to have to and
I'm not making please don't hear talk radio, but at
(20:27):
some point, for some of them, not all of them,
they're going to have to put their worldview and policy
and political views and stances, and they're going to have
to put that in some kind of perspective with what
they just lost, because they're going to come to grips
(20:50):
with how local officials have failed them, how they're they're ignoring,
and the policy views and the miss priorities have failed them.
But the first thing that has to be addressed as
you're waking up, like I care about Billy Christ is
he'll just buy a new hot Look. That's envy. I
(21:10):
don't live in envy or jealousy. These are human beings.
A home you've been in since nineteen seventy nine, you
raised your children, your grandchildren. Things happen in that home
that cannot be replaced. There were probably things in that
home that cannot be replaced. But here's the bottom line
for all of us to learn from. There were things
at home that may never be replaced because insurance companies
(21:30):
they don't play games. Red and I were talking off
the ear, and I will not make any mass assumptions.
I am not a fire investigator, nor have I investigated
this fire. I am an American citizen saying well, I
know this, this and this, and I'm seeing this, this
and this, and nobody's even asking this. I know that
(21:53):
if my house was burned down this morning, what would
be most on my mind? What would be the priority
of the fire department, once everybody was removed safely and
not harmed, would be the cause? And that's what the
insurance company would be waiting for the cause. Now we're
(22:17):
talking billions and billions of dollars of homes and even
billions more of things policy by policy that are going
to be looked at. If mayors today and governors today
want to ignore presidents in two weeks or certain media outlets,
(22:39):
that's fine. But the insurance companies aren't going to ignore it.
Sooner or later, we're going to find out what the
heck happened. And I don't think the cause is going
to be winn It started somewhere and nobody even talks
about it. Is it homeless encampments? What was it? Anthony Hopkins,
(23:07):
Silence of the Lambs, lost his home. Paris Hilton watched
her Malibu home burned down. Ricky Lake shared photos of
her beautiful Malibu property on fire. Brad Paisley revealed that
his first home that he and his wife Kimberly shared
had burned down. Pacific Palisades home of Matthew Perry, who
(23:30):
recently died, just sold for eight and a half million dollars,
burnt to the ground. Hunter Biden's Malibu home burned to
the ground. American pie star Eugene Levy his home leveled.
James Wood shared footage of his home two blocks a
home two blocks from his property completely set a fire.
John Goodman's home wiped out. These are a lot of
(23:52):
big names, So yeah, life is everything. There's no worse
part of this story today than five people have been killed.
The second part of the story are more than one
hundred thousand under mandatory evacuation and many homes destroyed, and
(24:13):
we're looking at already and these are just early estimates.
Insurance losses from more than seventeen thousand acres of Palisades
fire could reach over ten billion dollars. And there is
a headline la Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding
(24:37):
by seventeen point six million dollars. Well, that couldn't have
helped this, We could it have? And what were the
cuts made to benefit homeless spending? So you cut seventeen
point six million dollars from the budget knowing sant Ana
(24:58):
wins are always going to be here, knowing these fires happen,
knowing this kind of catastrophe is possible. This is the
most outrageous part of everything in my show prep to
the point where I almost want to not do it.
Who wants to start their morning off with this kind
(25:20):
of hadji as we say in Italian. So for stars
to everyday people, to the ripple effects of actuaries and
insurance across the country. What was the lesson of the
twenty twenty four election. Policies have consequences, They matter, and
(25:45):
you don't change your narrative to improve your odds of
winning the next election cycle, you take a look at
your worldview and see how it's working for you and
for everyone else. You look at your policies and how
they've failed, and you change them. Hey, maybe we can't
spend our way out of a span problem. Maybe we
can't be all things. Maybe we can't debt our way
out of debt. But I would think with all of
(26:08):
the loss of life and loss of property and still
out of control fires in California, a headline like la
Merri Karen Bass cut fire department funding by seventeen point
six million dollars to focus on homeless spending months before
these fires. I oh, by the way, a lot of
that money to even get to the homelessness and we
don't even know if homelessness was the cause. Well that's
(26:31):
going to get some people's attention. Here's a Sky News
reporter catches up with the Los Angeles Merri Karen Bass
asks some simple questions. Has there pinned in a corner
they get on this? Was that an elevator red? What
were they at or they were waiting at like a
(26:52):
stair escape or I don't know where they're standing, but
he's right next to her. It looked like the airport. Yeah,
it looks but like she was gonna but not like
the kind where you go down the what do they
call that thing that puts you on the plane of
the ramp. It looked like she was at a door
where she's going to go downstairs to one of those
kinds of planes. I don't know where she was added,
(27:13):
but I mean they're trapped in this corner. I mean,
it's not like she's walking and ignores him. He's standing
right next to her, kind of like if we run
an elevator together, and she doesn't even acknowledge his existence.
She doesn't look at him and say no cow. She
just he's talking to her and she won't even look
at him. Did I do a proper job in three
minutes of setting up the relevance of this question? It's
(27:35):
not an outrageous question, it's not a harassing question. It's
a very relevant question in the middle of an out
of control fire where life has been lost and property
lost by billions.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
And listen, Madam Mayor David Levin's from Sky News in
the UK. Far chiefs say that they're really stretched to
the limit and running out of water.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What are people.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
Have you no response to that, do you owe citizen's
an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret coming the fire department budget by millions
of dollars out of there? Have you nothing to say
today that?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, souse, it's definitely a ramp, and it's one of
those ramps that is not going to lead to the
front door of a plane. It's gonna eventually the ramp
attached Sugar down the stairs and go to the tarmac
to get on a plane. But he's trapped in this
three square feet with her. And this goes on for
like two minutes. And the way she's he's right in
front of her, just he's about a far as far
away as I am to this microphone, and she's looking
(28:39):
around pretending like he's invisible and won't answer these relevant questions.
I mean, yeah, obviously that's the sound of the day.
You promise me. This is beat beatproof. This is he's
(29:00):
also relevant to the conversation. Here's Joe Rogan. No, he's
not a I'm nostradel Jarro. He's not Rogan domis Anybody
with common sense could have made the chilling predictions of
what we're seeing in southern California. So I was talking
to this guy and he was telling me.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
He goes, Dude, one day, he goes, it's just going
to be the right wind and fire is going to
start in the right place, and it's going to burn
through LA all the way to the ocean, and there's
not a thing we can do about it. I go, really,
he goes, yeah, we're just we just get lucky. He goes,
we get lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
With the wind.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
He goes, But if the wind hits the wrong way,
it's just going to burn straight through LA and there's
not going to be a thing we could do about it.
Because these fires are so big, dude, when they're talking
about like thousands of acres that they're burning simultaneously with
like forty mile an hour winds, and the wind's just
blowing embers through the air, and those embers are landing
on roofs, and those houses are going up, and they're
(29:56):
landing on bushes, and those bushes are going up, and
everything's dry, and once it happens, it happens in a
way where it's so spread out that there's nothing they
can do.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So one narrative is sooner or later, the perfect storm
the perfect wind, you know, assuming you ignore common origins,
access to water, adequate fire resources. The Eli County Sheriff
(30:28):
sounded off on the California fires and the budget cuts directly.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Listen Governor Newsom declaring a state of emergency. Yet some
are criticizing the local authorities and the response teams. Do
you think that criticism is fair?
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one, that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so are hydrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need and only
a fraction of that money has been spent has all
(31:06):
been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Then you have the workforce itself. You have Fire, LA County,
LA City Fire.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Their numbers are depleted, LAPD, LA Sheriffs their numbers are depleted.
Speaker 13 (31:17):
Where's the National Guard here?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I mean there's a lot of things, a lot of
manpower that is missing.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
And it all goes from twenty twenty four of the whole.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Time that was on the Fox Business News and I
could let that roll for about three and a half minutes,
if I had the times, he lays it out brilliantly. Look,
here's the bottom line. I'd like to be as classy
as the next guy and say there's a time for
these conversations, and this is too soon. Lives are being lost,
properties being lost. But you know what, if we don't
have them right now, we never have them. What is
(31:48):
the proper size and role of government? What is the
role and responsibility of the self government. These are the
questions we don't ever talk about. We play us versus them,
left versus right games politics, and sometimes it's all the above.
Sometimes it is that perfect wind. But there's things you
can do to the forest to lessen. There are things
(32:11):
you can do for water supply. There's things you can
do by prioritizing police and fire and preparation. And when
you put wokeness above what the priority of your duty is,
and you get this result, you got to do more
than stand near a tarmac and ignore a reporter a
breath away. And I think this time, sure, it's your
(32:40):
Sounds of the day for Thursday, January the ninth, but
I think it sounds you're going to hear even louder
and louder in the coming days, because once the flames
are out, that's when the flames of answers are really
going to begin. That's your sounds of the day, an
(33:02):
aspire stop it.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
Speaker 14 (33:08):
God, Please, no, no.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It is by the motto keep calm.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Come along, Come along to the top five stories of
your day. Next, it's fifty two minutes after the hour.
Thanks for waking up on the air and on your
iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
This is your morning show with Michael de Chuno.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
As we head to our talkback lines on your iHeartRadio app.
We can't have your morning show without your voice. And
we find first Big John. From what I heard, LA's
May of Bass was on a transfer flight at Scotland
and the reporter from Sky News caught up with her
and she ignored him right in front of you know,
(33:52):
she's as he's asking relevant questions about Los Angeles. I
really like this one. This is James Morning, my old
Jim from Youngstown. Again.
Speaker 14 (34:01):
You're looking at DEI fires from a DEI state.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
This is DEI at its finest.
Speaker 14 (34:07):
They let the water that should be in their water
pipes flow into the ocean, They do not clear cut
their forests, and they are sheer idiots with their management
of the state.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
This is what we see now.
Speaker 14 (34:22):
Maybe that the rich and famous are affected, it will
change have a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I mean, could this be what finally wakes people up.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So hopeful this could help them become But I mean,
whether you're in New Orleans where they took the barricades
down and then put them back up after, or whether
it's the fires in Los Angeles, is this an act
of God? Was this unavoidable? Or were these acts of ignorance?
Were they victims of evil or in tragedy? Were they
(34:53):
victims of failed policies. It's got the final stay to Iowa.
Speaker 15 (34:58):
Newsome also affected the water flow by destroying dams in
order to help the lamfree eel and the smelt and
some salmon and stuff. But the lamfrey eel are parasites.
So apparently they spend more money on parasites than they
do on the citizens of the state of California.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Have a good day. That's a tough one to do,
but I'll try feeling a little better. I'm just in
a constant state of feel like I'm gonna sneeze ther cough.
But other than that, I think I'm coming out of
the woods again. I just would say there's a time
and a place to have these kinds of appropriate questions
and comments and understanding. But maybe it is now while
(35:37):
we have everyone's attention. I don't know. One hour down,
two hours to go quick break for your local news,
and then we'll come back with more of your morning show.
Next stay with us.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Hey, I'm Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jornal.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael Hilt Joe now
Speaker 7 (36:06):
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