January 31, 2025 • 26 mins
Tim kicks off the show with breaking news out of Philadelphia where reports of a small plane crash that has reportedly left homes on fire is just breaking. Then, ABC’s Alex Stone joins the show to discuss the capture of the man who flew his drone during the SoCal fires which took a Super Soaker Plane out of commission for a couple of key days in the firefighting effort. // Tim continues to cover the breaking news of the plane crash that just occurred in Northeast Philadelphia. // Mayor Bass is considering fully reopening the Pacific Palisades as well as reopening the PCH again as the rebuild from the fire starts to take shape. Also, a lot of the contaminated waste/debris is going to be headed to Topanga near the PCH. // Conway gives the latest update on the Philadelphia plane crash. And then Tim recaps last night’s FireAid concert benefiting fire victims in the SoCal area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Conway Show. Before
we get to Alex Stone, we have emergency crews in Philadelphia.
A plane in northeast Philadelphia leads multiple houses on fire.
Emergency crews responding to an explosion near northeast Philadelphia after
(00:22):
a small plane crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard
and Cottman Avenue Cottmam maybe another area. Philadelphia Police confirmed
a CBS News two people were aboard the plane. According
to the police, there were no other injuries reported on
the ground. Multiple homes are on fire in the Cottman
Avenue area and Roosevelt Boulevard that's following this crash.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's unclear what.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Led to the crash, and the victim's status was also
not immediately available. But a lot of the kids online,
you know, they jumped to conclusions and they thought that
it was it was Saint Joseph's East Hill Shopping Center
and a lot of them were a lot of kids
were putting up tributes to this mall. But it's it's
(01:09):
the wrong mall. It's not even the same state that
mall was in. Saint Louis. That Saint Joseph's East Hill
Shopping Centers in Saint Louis, Missouri. It's nowhere near Philadelphia,
but that mall is famous for that commercial that they
made up. No, don't get to alex Stone, but here's
the commercial that those kids made up. They got twenty
five million views. It cost them twelve dollars to make
(01:30):
this commercial. Twelve bucks to make this commercial, and these
guys got twenty five million views.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Is that school.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Deenham he backpacks, backpacks, Come get your backpack, foot sand
pants and boots, sandpants, Lucious.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Get yourself an outfit Tenham.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Foot sand pants and boots, sandpans.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Hair Colucious can't shut out.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
A lot of you may remember that Stephuchi. Have you
ever heard that commercial, that the East Hills maul commercial.
I think yeah, it's kind of popular. We're gonna get well,
any details we have in that Philadelphia plane crash, we
will have it for you. Speaking of planes, Alex Stone
is with us and the Long Arm of the Law
got their guy. Huh say Lewis or Philly pretty close right?
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know what, But kids out nowadays, they don't know
where Bakersfield is you know, here's a quick story. We
used to have a young lady who worked here, and
maybe I shouldn't say, okay. Her name is Misty and
every summer would go to Laguna Hills with her family.
But her mom and dad didn't drive, so they'd walk
(02:45):
to the train and they'd take the train to Laguna.
Then they'd take a bus and a taxi and it
was an all day offended eight hours to get there.
So when she had her fiancee and says, hey, let's
go to Laguna Hills, she said, well, are we staying overnight?
That's an eight hour drive and he's like, nah, it's
like forty five minutes strong with you. But people kids
today don't know where things are.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
They don't they follow GPS and just it tells you
to turn right, you turn right. I'm the same right though,
They go, how'd you get here?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just did whatever that woman on the Apple Maps
told me to do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Turn right here. I always like to try to beat ways.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You know, you said it, and then you try to
beat it by like three or four five minutes.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Make up a couple of minutes. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Hey, So what's going on? With this guy flying the drone.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so we all know living around here, it's illegal
to fly a drone around wildfire, and the reason being
pretty simple that you have all these helicopters and air
tankers and they're diving into canyons in the right above
the flames, dumping water and the fire retardant, and if
they suck in a drone, that's not going.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
To be all that great. Yet people keep doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And then we reported extensively on the one over the
Palisades fire where Super Scooper hit the drone, made that
three and a half or three by six hole in
the left wing, and then they'd grounded for five days.
There was an FBI investigation, you know, all the TMZ
articles of look through outside of Ben Affleck's house. Maybe
he was involved, Now he wasn't involved, but they did
(04:04):
find pieces of the drone in neighborhoods in Palisades and
over Brentwood, and so they were able to track this
all down, and the FBI went from the drone pieces
to the owner of the drone. And today the announcement
was this.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Today we announced the filing of a federal criminal charge
against one individual who was engaged in that conduct a
Los Angeles area man who launched a drone lost sight
of it, and that drone eventually collided with a Super
Scooper firefighting aircraft.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That's the acting US attorney here, Joe McNally. And so
this guy fifty eight years old, Peter Ackerman, of Culver City,
he's now been charged this afternoon. He agreed to plead guilty.
He admits in his guilty plea that he went to
a parking garage on the promenade in Santa Monica and
went up to the top and launched his own personal
hobby drone because he wanted to see the damage from
(04:57):
the wildfire while it was still raped. Shot that thing off.
It went out about a mile and a half and oh,
he lost control over it, and then a Super Scooper
came in and hit his conduct post.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
An imminent threat to firefighting crewis. Once he enterances his
guilty plea, mister Ackerman will face up to one year
in federal prison.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And they don't think he did this intentionally, tim hitting
the plane intentionally, but that he was curious. And we
we see it on wildfires all the time. People either
don't know the law or they ignore it and they
want to put their drones up. But as part of
the plea deal, he's got to payback the Quebec government
because that Quebec aircraft, the Super Scooper, had about sixty
five thousand dollars worth of damage, so he's got to
(05:39):
pay that back. He's got to do one hundred and
fifty hours of community service which will be in the
form of wildfire relief, and then the judge can We
don't know what it'll be yet. We had sentencing could
do one year in federal prison against mister Ackerman for
flying that drone off of the parking garage. One other thing,
Akil Davis over at the FBI, the Assistant director in
charge over the FBI, He's saying, look here in La
(06:02):
between wildfires and everything we got coming up over the
next couple of years, these hobby drones of people fly.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
They're going to be a problem going forward.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
We're going to be dealing with more drones and the
likelihood of a disastrous result will increase. As you all know,
we have World Cup coming up to the south Land,
we have the Super Bowl followed on that, and then
culminating in twenty twenty eight with the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So he's you know, if it's a no fly zone,
if it's a restricted area, you just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
But this guy could get a year. They took it
very seriously.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I mean, obviously it created a big hole on the
side of that Super Scooper at a time when we
needed that Super Scooper and everything that we had. But
he's going to be doing a lot of community service,
paying a lot of money, and maybe a year in prison.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I don't think the guy should have flown
the drone. I think we all know that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I would like to see the readout on the sixty
five thousand dollars for the damage that plane now, because
they did fix it in a day, and yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Mean it took him a couple of days. They had
to bring in the parts from Quebec because we don't
have the stuff for Super Scoopers here since you're not you.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Know, they don't we don't own them.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Airplanes are expensive because then you've got to get it
up to FAA or the Canadian government equivalent of it
up to They're okay that it's you know, it's not
just they call it speed tape, but that stuff that
looks like duct tape that they can put a temporary
patch on airplanes. This was a pretty serious patch they
had to do. It was a good hole in that wing.
So okay, you know what, even your car, I rarely
(07:28):
do this. I'm going I'm flip flopping on this. I
think that I think it's probably worth I think it's
two hundred thousand dollars. But you know when you bring
in your car and you're like, there's a tiny dent
and they're like, that's eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Always always the guy who owns the shop gets down
on one knee and he starts shaking his head, going,
oh man, this is not gonna get good. Oh my god,
what did you do? Oh look at this. I've never
seen anything like this. Hey, Bobby kame here the same
thing like this. Man, oh man, this is gonna be
a lot of dough. So that's fifty eight is a
little old to be in the drone game, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, you know, I guess maybe a tech guy I
don't know up there on the on the promenade on
one of those parking garages and thought, well, I'm just
gonna put this thing up. Let's take a look. See
at this wildfire and.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
The right boom.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You know, maybe there's footage of it too.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Those things are always videotaping or video, yeah, video.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But also he probably should have come forward. He would
have gotten a much leanier, more lenient sentence.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Instead of them having to track him. Yeah. Probably.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I mean, I don't know if he made an attempt,
but we know was the FBI agent's out of Lax.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
They've got a team.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Led by one guy at Lax where they do aviation stuff,
and they led this for the FBI, and they were
able to figure out from that down to track him down,
and they did it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But to find that drone, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That plane flew around for three hours after it was
hit and nobody even knew.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah, but to find out that, you know, on the.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Ground in the burn area, to find that drone is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah, and they found it. It was in pieces, but
they found it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's that's incredible, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Have
a great weekend, and next weekend is the big game.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You'll be ready for the big game, that's right, Okay,
all right, say all right, Alex Stone prepping for the
Big Game.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do we have to call it the Big Game? Or
can we call it the Super Bowl when we're not
selling anything.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I think we can call it, though, this is to
be safe, let's just say the Big Game, A big game,
big game?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right? The Big Game is coming up.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, you have a small plane that's crashed, and
it probably wouldn't have been breaking news and headline news
unless we had that accident and that collision in Washington,
d C. And now everybody's sort of on the radar
when it comes to plane crashes, and this one happened
in Philadelphia. So let's get some details in what happened
(09:45):
in Philadelphia just moments ago, I think within the hour,
within the last hour, you're breaking.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
News to tell you about it of northeast Philly. Right now,
we have reports of a plane crash at Cottman Avenue
and Bustleton Avenue. Details just coming into our Fox newsroom
right now. Eyewitnesses are telling us there are multiple cars
on fire. We have several crews on the way right now.
We'll try to get some more information here, but it's
not too far from the Northeast Philly Airport. We don't
(10:12):
know what type of aircraft is down, injuries, what led
to all of this, we do not know. Again, a
Bustleton and Common right by the Roosevelt Mall here reports
of a plane crash in this area with possible fire
and a major response coming as soon as we can
bring you ground pictures.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, we'll keep an eye on that. But Michael
Monks is in for Michael Krozer. And you're a news junkie, right,
you know I like the news. It's my life, my career.
Here I am with you today, all right, let me
I'll help you through this because I know the answers.
And maybe you know you're younger than I am. Maybe
you don't know. Okay, But the last big plane crash
(10:49):
before Washington, d C. With the helicopter ran into the
American airliner was in what city?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Buffalo?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh, yeah, you're right, okay, Buffalo, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And the playing the crash in Washington, d C was
coming from Kansas, yes, Wich Italk Kansas and this and
it was going to Washington, d C. Yes, this playing
the crash within the hour was in Philadelphia. Yeah, what
what is Buffalo, Kansas, Washington, d C, and Philly have
(11:22):
in common? All four of those teams played last weekend
in the AFC and the NFC Championship. Okay, wichital is
in Kansas, though, Yeah, but I mean Kansas, you know,
I mean it's the city's Missouri. I understand that, but
it's it's like, which is a completely different city, right,
there is a Kansas. I'm really hoping Krozer's back, the
Crozier coming back by about four.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Thirty or so.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But that's that's it's Kansas. Yeah, Buffalo, Washington, d C,
and Philly.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Now they say the odds of it, They say the
NFL is scripted. Do you think that that script has
moved into domestic life?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No way, no way, no way. I just think it's
really strange. I mean, all of those that that happened,
it's just odd. It's odd. It's odd, odd odd. So
we're going to have any details that come out of
Philly for you. But it looks like nobody on the
ground was hurt, which is fantastic. There were two people
in the small plane, the private plane in Philadelphia.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
I had seen some reports that there were possible injuries
on the ground coming from our national partners, So we're
just trying to get some clarity. The AP is only
reporting right now that the governor has confirmed this plane crash. Obviously,
we can see our friends in TV on the ground
there and it's quite a scene.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So it's horrible. It's still early, so it's.
Speaker 13 (12:39):
Just that period where a lot of different pieces of
information are coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A lot of houses on fire there in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And this has been a really weird year.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We started with the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and
we thought that was going to be the big story
of the year, and then the fires hit, and then
we're consumed by fires for you know, to an hour,
three weeks, and now it's plane crashes.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
It's the last day of January. You know, it's been
thirty one days. What a year this month has been.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's really really rough out there. All Right, we're gonna
take a break, We're gonna come back. We got a
lot more here for you. We got the Alex Michaelson
coming up. Also, Peter Greenberg, a travel detective. I've flown
into DC Airport many, many times in the Reagan Airport
and can get to discuss all the flight details and
Jason Selaka real estate expert and people battling with insurance companies.
(13:32):
He has some answers for you, and what do you
do if you're a renter, You know, if you're renting
and you can't live in your rented apartment or rented condo,
He's gonna have some advice for you. That's at six
h five tonight right here on KFI.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
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Speaker 1 (13:52):
I in my defense of bringing up Kansas where that
plane came from, they crashed and washed it in DC.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The Kansas City Chiefs don't play in Kansas, but they're
called the Kansas City Chiefs and they're one of many teams.
The New York Giants and New York Jets. They don't
even play in the state of New York. They play
in New Jersey. And the Dallas Cowboys they don't play
in Dallas, they still call the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They play in I think they're in Arlington.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The San Francisco forty nine Ers no longer play in
San Francisco. They're in Santa Clara. The Miami Dolphins play
in Miami Gardens, which is a suburb of Miami. Sort
of a ticky tack there. The Washington football team, the Commanders,
I think they play in Maryland. I don't even think
they play in Washington, d C. I don't even think
they play in They playing it in a different state.
(14:46):
They play outside of DC. And the Las Vegas Raiders.
A lot of people think, well, they're the Las Vegas Raiders.
They play in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They play in Paradise, Nevada. They don't play in Las Vegas.
They play in Paradise. Technically, I mean that stadium is
in you know, most of the Vegas casinos are in Paradise,
and Paradise is a big chunk of the strip that
includes the football stadium and a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of the casinos. So I know it seems sticky tag.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But we're all on edge with the fires and now
we're all talking about plane crashes, and this has been
just an awful, awful month, a horrible month. But there
are some good signs. There are some good signs that
we are moving forward Palisades to reopen. How about this right,
(15:42):
And we're looking for these good signs. We're looking for
these little tiny, you know, baby steps forward, and.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I think this is one. I think we were onto
one here.
Speaker 15 (15:51):
With the palisades, coming from the very top of City
Hall talking about the mayor involved, you're the LAPD chief
and others having some very serious conversations, very serious thinking
about possibly opening everything up, meaning checkpoints like that one
right over there at sunset and PCH could.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Soon be checked out watch.
Speaker 15 (16:13):
Checkpoint Charlie, as the locals call this security stop on PCH.
But many of these security checkpoints, especially the ones set
up by LAPD in the palace Ades, could soon be gone.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
After this bombshells drop that City Hall.
Speaker 16 (16:26):
There are plans afoot to generally reopen PCH and the
Pacific Palisades in the coming days.
Speaker 15 (16:33):
The city council woman Tracy Park reacting to a controversial
plan reportedly being considered seriously considered by Mayor Karen Bass
to reopen Pacific Palace Age to everybody, even reopening PCH.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How about that PCH has been closed ever since these fires,
and now the thing about opening it.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Up, it's now still down to just one.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And that's going to be that's going to releave a
lot of pressure off the one oh one because people
live out in Malibu or Oxnard, you know Ventura. A
lot of times, if you worked in Santa Monica and
you lived in Malibu or or a Ventura, ox On,
you just take PCH home.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So the one oh one has been jammed ever since
these fires started, and so maybe some relief for the
one oh one when PCH finally does open up.
Speaker 15 (17:20):
It's now still down the just one lane in each direction,
but much of the heavy equipment blocking the closed off lanes,
like the humbies from the National Guard or the convoy
of fire engines, are now all gone, clearing the way,
but not clearing the controversy.
Speaker 16 (17:34):
I have serious concerns about a general public reopening of
the Pacific Palisades, from the toxic environment to landslides and
debrisf flow, to the need to keep our roadways clear
for the multitude of utility and other workers.
Speaker 15 (17:52):
That as yet another controversy is hitting the fire zone.
The Fed's working fast, urgently, working to set up this
lot on PCH near Topanga. It'll be a staging area
for all the hazardous materials li theon batteries in the other.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, remember where this is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You may want to avoid this area, or if you
have any waste, may want to know about this area.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
To set up this lot on PCH New Topanga.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
PCH near Topanga. That's where a lot of the waste
is going to go. PCH Near Topanga.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
It'll be a staging area for all the hazardous materials,
lithon batteries and the other dangerous debris. It is all
the first step of cleaning up after that deadly Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Not wild about them bringing contaminated stuff so close to
the beach.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
It's all got to get cleaned up fast as possible.
Whatever gets it done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of that out there.
A lot of people worried about the debris.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Contaminated stuff so close to the beach.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
It's all got to get cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, it's got to get cleaned up fast as possible.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Whatever gets it done.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So we'll see the fights that go on and it
just sort of continues. The headache continues for everybody in
the Palisades area and and everybody in the Eaton fire area.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Don't forget tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There's a big event going on tomorrow thanks to the
Los Angeles Mission. They're putting on a huge event tomorrow
and we come back. I'll give you the details on that,
but they have a big deal going on in Pasadena.
I know it was brought to our attention by TWALA.
It's gonna be the LA Mission Saturday Tomorrow, eleven am
to four pm, eight fifty five North Orange Grove. There's
(19:26):
gonna be meals out there, clothes, food, toilet trees, and
the most important, I think are lawyers, legal experts out
there to help you out with your insurance, help you
out with your claims, what your rights are. So the
LA Mission setting up tomorrow Saturday, eleven am to four pm,
(19:46):
eight fifty five North Orange Grove. Eight fivey five North
Orange Grove. Buzz on out there. If you need help,
don't be afraid to ask when you need help.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's there for you.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And that's the reason it is there, because any people
do need help. Don't feel like you're above asking for help.
It's going to make your life easier, it's going to
make your life better. And so jump over there, get
some expert advice and any kind of supplies that you need.
Again eight to fifty five North Orange Grove Tomorrow eleven
am to four pm. Thanks to the LA Mission doing
(20:19):
great work out there.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
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Speaker 1 (20:27):
We're keep an eye on that plane crash in Philadelphia,
and otherwise a small private plane that flew into a
couple of buildings wouldn't be national international news. It's horrific,
but it would have been, you know, sort of just
a local story. But now that we had that plane
(20:50):
crash from Wichita to Washington, DC, ran into a helicopter
and sixty seven people passed away. Now everybody's hype sensitive
to this type of accident. And so here's an update
happening in Philadelphia, just outside I believe of Philadelphia, and
(21:10):
this accident happened about an hour agoll.
Speaker 17 (21:13):
Enforcement sources, multiple of them, are telling me and CNN's
Mark Morales that, as you noted, a small, single engine
plane has crashed in northeast Philadelphia. You're looking at these
images from WPVII, CNN's affiliate there on the ground. Folks
who know Philadelphia will know Roosevelt Boulevard and this particular
area very well. Like you noted, it's a very active
(21:34):
shopping and retail area. What I can tell you is
that the Philadelphia Emergency Management Office they're calling this a
major incident near Cotman and Buston Avenues. Again, a large area,
a large both residential and retail area.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
At the moment.
Speaker 17 (21:49):
There was an all hands call from Philadelphia Fire back
at six twelve pm. That's been upgraded to a three
alarm fire at last look from some of the public
alerts that are coming out from Philadelphia Fire. But again,
you know, I'm here at Riga National Airport talking about
one airline incident. Now we're talking about another one in
Philadelphia this Friday evening. A scary scene there and like
(22:11):
I said, a very populated area.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
But at this point, all we.
Speaker 17 (22:14):
Know for sure is that this was a single engine
plane crash erin and we're still waiting to hear more
from both fire and law enforcement who are on the
ground right now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, we got a lot going on, lot going on
this month again. It started in New Orleans with a
terrorist attack, then the fires happened, and then these couple
of plane crashes, and it just seems to be a horrible,
awful month, awful awful month. But there was a positive
last night. iHeartMedia was involved with that big concert. I
(22:44):
was listening on the radio with my wife, sort of
old school something you do in the nineteen sixties, you know,
listening to a concert on the radio instead of going
to it. But they raised a lot of money for
the Fire Aid concert, tons and tons of cash, a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
So many incredible musicians volunteered their time and talent. This
fundraising show spilled over into two arenas, raising sixteen million
dollars in ticket sales in the days leading up to it.
Fire Aid was both uplifting and emotional to say I
Love You, Run Out Love Overnight, an all star tribute
(23:27):
to the City of Angels, featuring rock legends, reunions.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
This j Buntin, Don't You to See, and.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
Surprise collaborations, all to help those who lost everything in
the La Area wildfires. Legendary comedian Billy Crystal bringing laughter
(24:13):
to the evening but also a stark reminder, wearing the
very clothes he had on when he escaped his home
just before it burnt to the ground.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
But everybody's been so supportive. This young girl's must have
been twenty, came up to me and said she understood
my pain because she had lost TikTok for.
Speaker 18 (24:30):
A day, California showing its love.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But God's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
There are very few people that can make a horrible
incident like that funny, and Billy Crystal is one.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Of them, and said she understood my pain because she
had lost Maybe back it up here support of this
young girl's must have been twenty, came up to me
and said she understood my pain because she had lost.
TikTok for a day.
Speaker 18 (25:00):
California showing its love.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But guess what else I got?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Man, everybody who didn't go to this, you're kicking yourself
in the ass that you didn't get out there and
go to this. I'm the same way, man. It would
have been unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Night for its first responders and firefighters.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well I to keep hearing is this We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
We will rebuild.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Like Pasadena firefighter Chen Yu who was fighting the Eaton
fire as it claimed its own home.
Speaker 18 (25:33):
We met him during so Cal Strong.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
They took me off the rig just to get some relief,
you know, get some rest. Asked him, Hey, can we
please go to my house and see if it's still standing.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
So we came up and it was gone.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh man, The final count isn't in just yet, but
a couple of highlights. The band You Two donated one
million dollars, and Steve and Connie Balmer, who owned the
La Clippers, vowed match that and every other donation made
during the telecast.
Speaker 18 (26:04):
I just got shells.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's incredible. Steve Bomber steps up and donated matched every single.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Dollar that was raised for with fire Aid, So that
was cool.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It was on last night he was on Kiss FM
all ninety eight point seven, My FM one A four
point three real ninety two point.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Three in coast.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Everybody played last night.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
We slipped around to see who the clearest station was,
couldn't figure it out, so stayed with I don't know,
I think it was my FM and listened to that
for a while. And it was cool to drive around
the city and listen to a concert going on in
this town, in our home, in our backyard, raising money
for really terrific costs. What Month's Conway Show Live on
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KFI AM six forty
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Conway Show. Before
we get to Alex Stone, we have emergency crews in Philadelphia.
A plane in northeast Philadelphia leads multiple houses on fire.
Emergency crews responding to an explosion near northeast Philadelphia after
(00:22):
a small plane crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard
and Cottman Avenue Cottmam maybe another area. Philadelphia Police confirmed
a CBS News two people were aboard the plane. According
to the police, there were no other injuries reported on
the ground. Multiple homes are on fire in the Cottman
Avenue area and Roosevelt Boulevard that's following this crash.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's unclear what.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Led to the crash, and the victim's status was also
not immediately available. But a lot of the kids online,
you know, they jumped to conclusions and they thought that
it was it was Saint Joseph's East Hill Shopping Center
and a lot of them were a lot of kids
were putting up tributes to this mall. But it's it's
(01:09):
the wrong mall. It's not even the same state that
mall was in. Saint Louis. That Saint Joseph's East Hill
Shopping Centers in Saint Louis, Missouri. It's nowhere near Philadelphia,
but that mall is famous for that commercial that they
made up. No, don't get to alex Stone, but here's
the commercial that those kids made up. They got twenty
five million views. It cost them twelve dollars to make
(01:30):
this commercial. Twelve bucks to make this commercial, and these
guys got twenty five million views.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Is that school.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Deenham he backpacks, backpacks, Come get your backpack, foot sand
pants and boots, sandpants, Lucious.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Get yourself an outfit Tenham.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Foot sand pants and boots, sandpans.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Hair Colucious can't shut out.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
A lot of you may remember that Stephuchi. Have you
ever heard that commercial, that the East Hills maul commercial.
I think yeah, it's kind of popular. We're gonna get well,
any details we have in that Philadelphia plane crash, we
will have it for you. Speaking of planes, Alex Stone
is with us and the Long Arm of the Law
got their guy. Huh say Lewis or Philly pretty close right?
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know what, But kids out nowadays, they don't know
where Bakersfield is you know, here's a quick story. We
used to have a young lady who worked here, and
maybe I shouldn't say, okay. Her name is Misty and
every summer would go to Laguna Hills with her family.
But her mom and dad didn't drive, so they'd walk
(02:45):
to the train and they'd take the train to Laguna.
Then they'd take a bus and a taxi and it
was an all day offended eight hours to get there.
So when she had her fiancee and says, hey, let's
go to Laguna Hills, she said, well, are we staying overnight?
That's an eight hour drive and he's like, nah, it's
like forty five minutes strong with you. But people kids
today don't know where things are.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
They don't they follow GPS and just it tells you
to turn right, you turn right. I'm the same right though,
They go, how'd you get here?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just did whatever that woman on the Apple Maps
told me to do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Turn right here. I always like to try to beat ways.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You know, you said it, and then you try to
beat it by like three or four five minutes.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Make up a couple of minutes. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Hey, So what's going on? With this guy flying the drone.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so we all know living around here, it's illegal
to fly a drone around wildfire, and the reason being
pretty simple that you have all these helicopters and air
tankers and they're diving into canyons in the right above
the flames, dumping water and the fire retardant, and if
they suck in a drone, that's not going.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
To be all that great. Yet people keep doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And then we reported extensively on the one over the
Palisades fire where Super Scooper hit the drone, made that
three and a half or three by six hole in
the left wing, and then they'd grounded for five days.
There was an FBI investigation, you know, all the TMZ
articles of look through outside of Ben Affleck's house. Maybe
he was involved, Now he wasn't involved, but they did
(04:04):
find pieces of the drone in neighborhoods in Palisades and
over Brentwood, and so they were able to track this
all down, and the FBI went from the drone pieces
to the owner of the drone. And today the announcement
was this.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Today we announced the filing of a federal criminal charge
against one individual who was engaged in that conduct a
Los Angeles area man who launched a drone lost sight
of it, and that drone eventually collided with a Super
Scooper firefighting aircraft.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That's the acting US attorney here, Joe McNally. And so
this guy fifty eight years old, Peter Ackerman, of Culver City,
he's now been charged this afternoon. He agreed to plead guilty.
He admits in his guilty plea that he went to
a parking garage on the promenade in Santa Monica and
went up to the top and launched his own personal
hobby drone because he wanted to see the damage from
(04:57):
the wildfire while it was still raped. Shot that thing off.
It went out about a mile and a half and oh,
he lost control over it, and then a Super Scooper
came in and hit his conduct post.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
An imminent threat to firefighting crewis. Once he enterances his
guilty plea, mister Ackerman will face up to one year
in federal prison.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And they don't think he did this intentionally, tim hitting
the plane intentionally, but that he was curious. And we
we see it on wildfires all the time. People either
don't know the law or they ignore it and they
want to put their drones up. But as part of
the plea deal, he's got to payback the Quebec government
because that Quebec aircraft, the Super Scooper, had about sixty
five thousand dollars worth of damage, so he's got to
(05:39):
pay that back. He's got to do one hundred and
fifty hours of community service which will be in the
form of wildfire relief, and then the judge can We
don't know what it'll be yet. We had sentencing could
do one year in federal prison against mister Ackerman for
flying that drone off of the parking garage. One other thing,
Akil Davis over at the FBI, the Assistant director in
charge over the FBI, He's saying, look here in La
(06:02):
between wildfires and everything we got coming up over the
next couple of years, these hobby drones of people fly.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
They're going to be a problem going forward.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
We're going to be dealing with more drones and the
likelihood of a disastrous result will increase. As you all know,
we have World Cup coming up to the south Land,
we have the Super Bowl followed on that, and then
culminating in twenty twenty eight with the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So he's you know, if it's a no fly zone,
if it's a restricted area, you just can't do it.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
But this guy could get a year. They took it
very seriously.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I mean, obviously it created a big hole on the
side of that Super Scooper at a time when we
needed that Super Scooper and everything that we had. But
he's going to be doing a lot of community service,
paying a lot of money, and maybe a year in prison.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I don't think the guy should have flown
the drone. I think we all know that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I would like to see the readout on the sixty
five thousand dollars for the damage that plane now, because
they did fix it in a day, and yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Mean it took him a couple of days. They had
to bring in the parts from Quebec because we don't
have the stuff for Super Scoopers here since you're not you.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Know, they don't we don't own them.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Airplanes are expensive because then you've got to get it
up to FAA or the Canadian government equivalent of it
up to They're okay that it's you know, it's not
just they call it speed tape, but that stuff that
looks like duct tape that they can put a temporary
patch on airplanes. This was a pretty serious patch they
had to do. It was a good hole in that wing.
So okay, you know what, even your car, I rarely
(07:28):
do this. I'm going I'm flip flopping on this. I
think that I think it's probably worth I think it's
two hundred thousand dollars. But you know when you bring
in your car and you're like, there's a tiny dent
and they're like, that's eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Always always the guy who owns the shop gets down
on one knee and he starts shaking his head, going,
oh man, this is not gonna get good. Oh my god,
what did you do? Oh look at this. I've never
seen anything like this. Hey, Bobby kame here the same
thing like this. Man, oh man, this is gonna be
a lot of dough. So that's fifty eight is a
little old to be in the drone game, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, you know, I guess maybe a tech guy I
don't know up there on the on the promenade on
one of those parking garages and thought, well, I'm just
gonna put this thing up. Let's take a look. See
at this wildfire and.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
The right boom.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You know, maybe there's footage of it too.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Those things are always videotaping or video, yeah, video.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But also he probably should have come forward. He would
have gotten a much leanier, more lenient sentence.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Instead of them having to track him. Yeah. Probably.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I mean, I don't know if he made an attempt,
but we know was the FBI agent's out of Lax.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
They've got a team.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Led by one guy at Lax where they do aviation stuff,
and they led this for the FBI, and they were
able to figure out from that down to track him down,
and they did it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But to find that drone, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That plane flew around for three hours after it was
hit and nobody even knew.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah, but to find out that, you know, on the.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Ground in the burn area, to find that drone is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah, and they found it. It was in pieces, but
they found it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's that's incredible, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Have
a great weekend, and next weekend is the big game.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You'll be ready for the big game, that's right, Okay,
all right, say all right, Alex Stone prepping for the
Big Game.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do we have to call it the Big Game? Or
can we call it the Super Bowl when we're not
selling anything.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I think we can call it, though, this is to
be safe, let's just say the Big Game, A big game,
big game?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right? The Big Game is coming up.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, you have a small plane that's crashed, and
it probably wouldn't have been breaking news and headline news
unless we had that accident and that collision in Washington,
d C. And now everybody's sort of on the radar
when it comes to plane crashes, and this one happened
in Philadelphia. So let's get some details in what happened
(09:45):
in Philadelphia just moments ago, I think within the hour,
within the last hour, you're breaking.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
News to tell you about it of northeast Philly. Right now,
we have reports of a plane crash at Cottman Avenue
and Bustleton Avenue. Details just coming into our Fox newsroom
right now. Eyewitnesses are telling us there are multiple cars
on fire. We have several crews on the way right now.
We'll try to get some more information here, but it's
not too far from the Northeast Philly Airport. We don't
(10:12):
know what type of aircraft is down, injuries, what led
to all of this, we do not know. Again, a
Bustleton and Common right by the Roosevelt Mall here reports
of a plane crash in this area with possible fire
and a major response coming as soon as we can
bring you ground pictures.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, we'll keep an eye on that. But Michael
Monks is in for Michael Krozer. And you're a news junkie, right,
you know I like the news. It's my life, my career.
Here I am with you today, all right, let me
I'll help you through this because I know the answers.
And maybe you know you're younger than I am. Maybe
you don't know. Okay, But the last big plane crash
(10:49):
before Washington, d C. With the helicopter ran into the
American airliner was in what city?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Buffalo?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh, yeah, you're right, okay, Buffalo, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And the playing the crash in Washington, d C was
coming from Kansas, yes, Wich Italk Kansas and this and
it was going to Washington, d C. Yes, this playing
the crash within the hour was in Philadelphia. Yeah, what
what is Buffalo, Kansas, Washington, d C, and Philly have
(11:22):
in common? All four of those teams played last weekend
in the AFC and the NFC Championship. Okay, wichital is
in Kansas, though, Yeah, but I mean Kansas, you know,
I mean it's the city's Missouri. I understand that, but
it's it's like, which is a completely different city, right,
there is a Kansas. I'm really hoping Krozer's back, the
Crozier coming back by about four.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Thirty or so.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But that's that's it's Kansas. Yeah, Buffalo, Washington, d C,
and Philly.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Now they say the odds of it, They say the
NFL is scripted. Do you think that that script has
moved into domestic life?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No way, no way, no way. I just think it's
really strange. I mean, all of those that that happened,
it's just odd. It's odd. It's odd, odd odd. So
we're going to have any details that come out of
Philly for you. But it looks like nobody on the
ground was hurt, which is fantastic. There were two people
in the small plane, the private plane in Philadelphia.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
I had seen some reports that there were possible injuries
on the ground coming from our national partners, So we're
just trying to get some clarity. The AP is only
reporting right now that the governor has confirmed this plane crash. Obviously,
we can see our friends in TV on the ground
there and it's quite a scene.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So it's horrible. It's still early, so it's.
Speaker 13 (12:39):
Just that period where a lot of different pieces of
information are coming out.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A lot of houses on fire there in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And this has been a really weird year.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We started with the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and
we thought that was going to be the big story
of the year, and then the fires hit, and then
we're consumed by fires for you know, to an hour,
three weeks, and now it's plane crashes.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
It's the last day of January. You know, it's been
thirty one days. What a year this month has been.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's really really rough out there. All Right, we're gonna
take a break, We're gonna come back. We got a
lot more here for you. We got the Alex Michaelson
coming up. Also, Peter Greenberg, a travel detective. I've flown
into DC Airport many, many times in the Reagan Airport
and can get to discuss all the flight details and
Jason Selaka real estate expert and people battling with insurance companies.
(13:32):
He has some answers for you, and what do you
do if you're a renter, You know, if you're renting
and you can't live in your rented apartment or rented condo,
He's gonna have some advice for you. That's at six
h five tonight right here on KFI.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I in my defense of bringing up Kansas where that
plane came from, they crashed and washed it in DC.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The Kansas City Chiefs don't play in Kansas, but they're
called the Kansas City Chiefs and they're one of many teams.
The New York Giants and New York Jets. They don't
even play in the state of New York. They play
in New Jersey. And the Dallas Cowboys they don't play
in Dallas, they still call the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They play in I think they're in Arlington.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The San Francisco forty nine Ers no longer play in
San Francisco. They're in Santa Clara. The Miami Dolphins play
in Miami Gardens, which is a suburb of Miami. Sort
of a ticky tack there. The Washington football team, the Commanders,
I think they play in Maryland. I don't even think
they play in Washington, d C. I don't even think
they play in They playing it in a different state.
(14:46):
They play outside of DC. And the Las Vegas Raiders.
A lot of people think, well, they're the Las Vegas Raiders.
They play in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They play in Paradise, Nevada. They don't play in Las Vegas.
They play in Paradise. Technically, I mean that stadium is
in you know, most of the Vegas casinos are in Paradise,
and Paradise is a big chunk of the strip that
includes the football stadium and a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of the casinos. So I know it seems sticky tag.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But we're all on edge with the fires and now
we're all talking about plane crashes, and this has been
just an awful, awful month, a horrible month. But there
are some good signs. There are some good signs that
we are moving forward Palisades to reopen. How about this right,
(15:42):
And we're looking for these good signs. We're looking for
these little tiny, you know, baby steps forward, and.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I think this is one. I think we were onto
one here.
Speaker 15 (15:51):
With the palisades, coming from the very top of City
Hall talking about the mayor involved, you're the LAPD chief
and others having some very serious conversations, very serious thinking
about possibly opening everything up, meaning checkpoints like that one
right over there at sunset and PCH could.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Soon be checked out watch.
Speaker 15 (16:13):
Checkpoint Charlie, as the locals call this security stop on PCH.
But many of these security checkpoints, especially the ones set
up by LAPD in the palace Ades, could soon be gone.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
After this bombshells drop that City Hall.
Speaker 16 (16:26):
There are plans afoot to generally reopen PCH and the
Pacific Palisades in the coming days.
Speaker 15 (16:33):
The city council woman Tracy Park reacting to a controversial
plan reportedly being considered seriously considered by Mayor Karen Bass
to reopen Pacific Palace Age to everybody, even reopening PCH.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How about that PCH has been closed ever since these fires,
and now the thing about opening it.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Up, it's now still down to just one.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And that's going to be that's going to releave a
lot of pressure off the one oh one because people
live out in Malibu or Oxnard, you know Ventura. A
lot of times, if you worked in Santa Monica and
you lived in Malibu or or a Ventura, ox On,
you just take PCH home.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So the one oh one has been jammed ever since
these fires started, and so maybe some relief for the
one oh one when PCH finally does open up.
Speaker 15 (17:20):
It's now still down the just one lane in each direction,
but much of the heavy equipment blocking the closed off lanes,
like the humbies from the National Guard or the convoy
of fire engines, are now all gone, clearing the way,
but not clearing the controversy.
Speaker 16 (17:34):
I have serious concerns about a general public reopening of
the Pacific Palisades, from the toxic environment to landslides and
debrisf flow, to the need to keep our roadways clear
for the multitude of utility and other workers.
Speaker 15 (17:52):
That as yet another controversy is hitting the fire zone.
The Fed's working fast, urgently, working to set up this
lot on PCH near Topanga. It'll be a staging area
for all the hazardous materials li theon batteries in the other.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, remember where this is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You may want to avoid this area, or if you
have any waste, may want to know about this area.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
To set up this lot on PCH New Topanga.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
PCH near Topanga. That's where a lot of the waste
is going to go. PCH Near Topanga.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
It'll be a staging area for all the hazardous materials,
lithon batteries and the other dangerous debris. It is all
the first step of cleaning up after that deadly Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Not wild about them bringing contaminated stuff so close to
the beach.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
It's all got to get cleaned up fast as possible.
Whatever gets it done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of that out there.
A lot of people worried about the debris.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Contaminated stuff so close to the beach.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
It's all got to get cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, it's got to get cleaned up fast as possible.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Whatever gets it done.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So we'll see the fights that go on and it
just sort of continues. The headache continues for everybody in
the Palisades area and and everybody in the Eaton fire area.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Don't forget tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There's a big event going on tomorrow thanks to the
Los Angeles Mission. They're putting on a huge event tomorrow
and we come back. I'll give you the details on that,
but they have a big deal going on in Pasadena.
I know it was brought to our attention by TWALA.
It's gonna be the LA Mission Saturday Tomorrow, eleven am
to four pm, eight fifty five North Orange Grove. There's
(19:26):
gonna be meals out there, clothes, food, toilet trees, and
the most important, I think are lawyers, legal experts out
there to help you out with your insurance, help you
out with your claims, what your rights are. So the
LA Mission setting up tomorrow Saturday, eleven am to four pm,
(19:46):
eight fifty five North Orange Grove. Eight fivey five North
Orange Grove. Buzz on out there. If you need help,
don't be afraid to ask when you need help.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's there for you.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And that's the reason it is there, because any people
do need help. Don't feel like you're above asking for help.
It's going to make your life easier, it's going to
make your life better. And so jump over there, get
some expert advice and any kind of supplies that you need.
Again eight to fifty five North Orange Grove Tomorrow eleven
am to four pm. Thanks to the LA Mission doing
(20:19):
great work out there.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
We're keep an eye on that plane crash in Philadelphia,
and otherwise a small private plane that flew into a
couple of buildings wouldn't be national international news. It's horrific,
but it would have been, you know, sort of just
a local story. But now that we had that plane
(20:50):
crash from Wichita to Washington, DC, ran into a helicopter
and sixty seven people passed away. Now everybody's hype sensitive
to this type of accident. And so here's an update
happening in Philadelphia, just outside I believe of Philadelphia, and
(21:10):
this accident happened about an hour agoll.
Speaker 17 (21:13):
Enforcement sources, multiple of them, are telling me and CNN's
Mark Morales that, as you noted, a small, single engine
plane has crashed in northeast Philadelphia. You're looking at these
images from WPVII, CNN's affiliate there on the ground. Folks
who know Philadelphia will know Roosevelt Boulevard and this particular
area very well. Like you noted, it's a very active
(21:34):
shopping and retail area. What I can tell you is
that the Philadelphia Emergency Management Office they're calling this a
major incident near Cotman and Buston Avenues. Again, a large area,
a large both residential and retail area.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
At the moment.
Speaker 17 (21:49):
There was an all hands call from Philadelphia Fire back
at six twelve pm. That's been upgraded to a three
alarm fire at last look from some of the public
alerts that are coming out from Philadelphia Fire. But again,
you know, I'm here at Riga National Airport talking about
one airline incident. Now we're talking about another one in
Philadelphia this Friday evening. A scary scene there and like
(22:11):
I said, a very populated area.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
But at this point, all we.
Speaker 17 (22:14):
Know for sure is that this was a single engine
plane crash erin and we're still waiting to hear more
from both fire and law enforcement who are on the
ground right now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, we got a lot going on, lot going on
this month again. It started in New Orleans with a
terrorist attack, then the fires happened, and then these couple
of plane crashes, and it just seems to be a horrible,
awful month, awful awful month. But there was a positive
last night. iHeartMedia was involved with that big concert. I
(22:44):
was listening on the radio with my wife, sort of
old school something you do in the nineteen sixties, you know,
listening to a concert on the radio instead of going
to it. But they raised a lot of money for
the Fire Aid concert, tons and tons of cash, a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
So many incredible musicians volunteered their time and talent. This
fundraising show spilled over into two arenas, raising sixteen million
dollars in ticket sales in the days leading up to it.
Fire Aid was both uplifting and emotional to say I
Love You, Run Out Love Overnight, an all star tribute
(23:27):
to the City of Angels, featuring rock legends, reunions.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
This j Buntin, Don't You to See, and.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
Surprise collaborations, all to help those who lost everything in
the La Area wildfires. Legendary comedian Billy Crystal bringing laughter
(24:13):
to the evening but also a stark reminder, wearing the
very clothes he had on when he escaped his home
just before it burnt to the ground.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
But everybody's been so supportive. This young girl's must have
been twenty, came up to me and said she understood
my pain because she had lost TikTok for.
Speaker 18 (24:30):
A day, California showing its love.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But God's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
There are very few people that can make a horrible
incident like that funny, and Billy Crystal is one.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Of them, and said she understood my pain because she
had lost Maybe back it up here support of this
young girl's must have been twenty, came up to me
and said she understood my pain because she had lost.
TikTok for a day.
Speaker 18 (25:00):
California showing its love.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But guess what else I got?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Man, everybody who didn't go to this, you're kicking yourself
in the ass that you didn't get out there and
go to this. I'm the same way, man. It would
have been unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Night for its first responders and firefighters.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well I to keep hearing is this We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
We will rebuild.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Like Pasadena firefighter Chen Yu who was fighting the Eaton
fire as it claimed its own home.
Speaker 18 (25:33):
We met him during so Cal Strong.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
They took me off the rig just to get some relief,
you know, get some rest. Asked him, Hey, can we
please go to my house and see if it's still standing.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
So we came up and it was gone.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh man, The final count isn't in just yet, but
a couple of highlights. The band You Two donated one
million dollars, and Steve and Connie Balmer, who owned the
La Clippers, vowed match that and every other donation made
during the telecast.
Speaker 18 (26:04):
I just got shells.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's incredible. Steve Bomber steps up and donated matched every single.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Dollar that was raised for with fire Aid, So that
was cool.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It was on last night he was on Kiss FM
all ninety eight point seven, My FM one A four
point three real ninety two point.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Three in coast.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Everybody played last night.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
We slipped around to see who the clearest station was,
couldn't figure it out, so stayed with I don't know,
I think it was my FM and listened to that
for a while. And it was cool to drive around
the city and listen to a concert going on in
this town, in our home, in our backyard, raising money
for really terrific costs. What Month's Conway Show Live on
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