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Speaker 1:
[00:00] And we continue at 2.05 in the afternoon on The John Phillips Show. Mr. Randy Wang's in Culver City.
Speaker 2:
[00:07] Henry Lee's gonna need to move down to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3:
[00:09] It's happened yet again.
Speaker 2:
[00:11] We are now at 20 burglaries in the last two weeks in the San Fernando Valley. 20.
Speaker 1:
[00:20] Are you looking at property in Orange County too?
Speaker 2:
[00:23] It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1:
[00:27] 800-222-5222 is Jellifo number 1-800-222-5222. Well, we know that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is having a tough time winning a second term as mayor of America's second largest city. According to recent polls, if the election were held today, under half of city voters would give her high marks and she would be likely to be headed to a runoff. The candidate who's been polling in second place most consistently is reality TV Spencer Pratt, who has appeared on this program. If she is held under 50%, she would then go into a runoff on the November ballot, mano a mano, one on one with her and whoever finishes second, which if the polls are correct, would be Spencer Pratt. So she's trying to right the ship. And what better way to right the ship than to go to Washington DC and bring money back for fire victims? The problem is that she's trying to win another four years by exclusively running against Donald Trump. Well, as it so happens, Donald Trump is in charge of the federal government right now, at least the executive branch. If she wants any money out of Washington DC, she has to go through him. So what did LA Mayor Mother Goose do? She went to Washington DC in the White House with a tin cup in hand.
Speaker 2:
[01:54] She went to kiss the ring and then she spoke on the phone to NBC4 about it. So here's NBC LA.
Speaker 4:
[02:01] Right now at 430, Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump just wrapped up a conversation about funding to rebuild following the Palisades fire.
Speaker 5:
[02:09] Mayor Bass joins us live on the phone with the exclusive details of her conversation with the president that you're going to hear for the first time. Mayor Bass, we appreciate your time this afternoon.
Speaker 2:
[02:18] By the way, this is three days in a row where Karen Bass is trying to insert herself into the headlines because she is scared to death that she is going to get knocked out. So you had the press conference on the burglaries on Monday, you had the press conference on Film LA on Tuesday, and here it is Wednesday and she flies to DC.
Speaker 1:
[02:40] She is under water.
Speaker 3:
[02:42] Thank you, thank you, thank you. Glad to have the opportunity to speak.
Speaker 2:
[02:46] And she's asking every reporter that'll talk to her to interview her about this. She even, she had been stonewalling Seedorf forever and ever and ever about homelessness and she calls Seedorf and says, hey, I'll talk to you for two minutes about meeting Trump.
Speaker 5:
[03:01] Let's talk about it. What specifically did you ask the president for and what will the money be used for?
Speaker 3:
[03:06] Sure. Well, the bottom line is, is that in order for the Palisades to be rebuilt, there is a lot of money needed to put the infrastructure back together again, whether we were talking about the streets or what's underneath the streets, undergrounding the electrical. So there's a lot of infrastructure work that needs to be done and the city cannot afford it. So getting the resources.
Speaker 2:
[03:34] You can hear the anchors are googling something.
Speaker 1:
[03:36] Oh yeah. There's a fact check coming.
Speaker 3:
[03:39] So getting...
Speaker 2:
[03:41] Or they're shopping.
Speaker 1:
[03:44] That happens sometimes.
Speaker 3:
[03:45] So getting the resources from the federal government, which is normal, is absolutely essential because our general fund could never withstand the hit because we are talking about several billion dollars. And so Catherine Barger and I have been working with the administration on...
Speaker 1:
[04:04] So Catherine Barger is the one Republican in Los Angeles in elected office. So anytime they need something from Donald Trump or Republican Congress, they go to her because she is the one person who has an open line of communication. It's so weird what kind of relationship they have with her because they constantly vote against her. She loses many votes, Board of One. And I'm sure they would prefer to have a Democrat in that seat. But oh boy, does she come in handy when they need something from Washington. She is the most valuable player on that Board of Supervisors by far.
Speaker 2:
[04:48] The question that I have is, did Catherine Barger utter the phrase that pays inside the Oval Office?
Speaker 1:
[04:56] Quite frankly, my guess is yes.
Speaker 3:
[05:00] The funding that is needed as well as, of course, the governor has been working on this as well.
Speaker 2:
[05:05] Well, Gavin's been sending out mean tweets.
Speaker 1:
[05:10] Well, is it Gavin or is it Izzy?
Speaker 2:
[05:13] Gavin through Izzy has been sending out mean tweets.
Speaker 3:
[05:18] And so that was the nature of our meeting. It was a very positive meeting. I do believe that we will get the resources that we need. The individuals in the meeting was the president's chief of staff as well as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, which is essentially where the resources would come from. Russ Voigt was in the meeting. And so it was very positive. And the fact that Russ was there sends the signal from the president.
Speaker 2:
[05:47] When she flew to DC, do you think for a second she thought, what the hell did I leave Congress for?
Speaker 1:
[05:54] She had the easiest job in the world. She had a safe district in Los Angeles. No one was ever going to beat her. Even if they did redistricting, all of the neighboring areas were also deeply blue. She had a job for life and she gave that up.
Speaker 2:
[06:13] She was relatively, she was relatively anonymous. She had a lot of passion projects in Africa, could have flown to Ghana as many times as she wanted to. And nobody would have blinked an eye.
Speaker 1:
[06:26] Yep. But that job was here today, Ghana tomorrow.
Speaker 3:
[06:29] That he wants to get this done. So there's a lot of follow-up for us to do, but we had been working with the administration ever since he sent EPA administrator Lee Zeldin out to help us. And we've been working closely with him.
Speaker 2:
[06:44] For me, Hey Lee, can you get down to the teal on a river?
Speaker 1:
[06:50] Katie Porter can give you a tour.
Speaker 3:
[06:53] And we've been working closely with him. For me, it was very, very helpful because Zeldin administrator Zeldin was a colleague of mine in the house of representatives.
Speaker 2:
[07:04] We worked on this interview is quickly turning into a campaign commercial.
Speaker 1:
[07:08] It is, and it sounds like the anchors are, I don't know, playing Grand Theft Auto or something.
Speaker 3:
[07:13] We worked on very controversial issues together. Obviously our politics are.
Speaker 2:
[07:18] Well, you know what probably happened? Typically, you know, the human brain works in interesting ways. You get associated with something and something pops in your head. So maybe, just maybe, the anchors at NBC4 got Karen Bass on the line and they thought about looking up a place to get fish for dinner.
Speaker 3:
[07:43] We worked on very controversial issues.
Speaker 2:
[07:45] Chilean Sea Bass sounds good tonight.
Speaker 1:
[07:48] You know, I think the Angel broadcasters do that every time Mike Trout comes up to bat.
Speaker 3:
[07:53] We worked on very controversial issues together. Obviously, our politics are very, very different, but-
Speaker 2:
[07:59] See, this is Karen Bass trying to tell everyone, hey, I'm not some left-wing lunatic. I work across the aisle.
Speaker 1:
[08:05] I'm getting things done.
Speaker 3:
[08:07] We worked on the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.
Speaker 2:
[08:10] That didn't pass.
Speaker 1:
[08:14] She is trying to play any angle she can to get money.
Speaker 2:
[08:19] I've never seen in LA an incumbent that is this underwater. It is as awful as things are in the city. Her struggling right now is a little delicious.
Speaker 1:
[08:29] The last time I could remember this happening was with Jim Hahn, and he ended up losing to Virgoza.
Speaker 3:
[08:36] When the president appointed him, I immediately started talking to him, and we've been able to work together. So I think...
Speaker 2:
[08:45] Now, do you think that Zeldin and Karen Bass, they're on a first-name basis? Like when she calls Zeldin, it just comes up on the phone, Karen?
Speaker 3:
[08:57] No! So I think what's important is, in spite of the profound differences that I have with the administration, there's no city around that can function without federal support, and especially in the wake of the disaster that we experience in our city and in our county. And so it is imperative that...
Speaker 2:
[09:20] I think one of them is writing a novel now.
Speaker 1:
[09:22] I think so.
Speaker 3:
[09:26] And so it is imperative that we do have a line of communication while pushing back where it's needed.
Speaker 4:
[09:35] And Mayor Bass, there are still a lot of complaints. We've heard them. I know you have to, about the speed of the rebuild. Only a few dozen homes have been rebuilt. They're permitting the insurance process. It's really frustrating. And it's something that's handled on the local levels. So any...
Speaker 2:
[09:54] So it's your fault.
Speaker 4:
[09:59] So any word how the president is going to help from Washington?
Speaker 3:
[10:04] Yes. Well, let me just say, too, that it's important to know the numbers. So we have issued over 2,000 permits.
Speaker 2:
[10:10] 12,000 homes burned down.
Speaker 1:
[10:15] That's not a great batting average, is it?
Speaker 2:
[10:17] And in fact, it was either CalMiders or the PPIC. One of them did a report showing that while Karen Bass was touting over and over and over again that, yes, it's slow, but it's faster than paradise, the state that we are of rebuild is now slower than the Parrot Campfire, slower than the Tubbs Fire, slower than the Woolsey Fire.
Speaker 1:
[10:38] And if you think about it, there's no excuse for it because in Los Angeles, you have a gazillion contractors. The city of Los Angeles in theory has larger departments with more resources to fast track these things. We have the ability that small towns in the middle of nowhere that are isolated do not. Yet, they are real rebuilding faster than Los Angeles. That tells you everything you need to know about the bureaucracy in the city.
Speaker 2:
[11:13] Well, Shange was telling us about this for years and we just didn't listen.
Speaker 4:
[11:17] The bureaucracy is real.
Speaker 1:
[11:20] That's true.
Speaker 2:
[11:21] I miss her.
Speaker 3:
[11:23] There are 450 homes actively under construction.
Speaker 2:
[11:28] 6,000 in the Palisades burned down and it is almost a year and a half later.
Speaker 3:
[11:38] Now and we have expedited, as you know, everything possible. But what we needed most from the president was his advocacy around the insurance industry and the banking industry. You may or may not know that we had...
Speaker 2:
[11:54] They're writing a new chapter.
Speaker 1:
[11:56] You know, California has an entire Department of Insurance that's supposed to do this. We have an Insurance Commissioner who is gallivanting around the world going from hot vacation destination to hot vacation destination to DJ Kitty Glitter instead of doing his job. No one is willing to call him out because he's a fellow Democrat and you're going to go to a Republican president to beg for help on how to get the insurance companies to fulfill their contractual obligations.
Speaker 3:
[12:29] You may or may not know that we had worked so that he would do essentially call on the carpet the insurance industry. He did a tweet, a very harsh tweet about the insurance industry.
Speaker 2:
[12:45] And I know he's done harsher tweets probably today tweet about the insurance industry.
Speaker 3:
[12:53] And I know in talking to several Palisadians that all of us...
Speaker 2:
[12:58] Do people in the Palisades even call themselves that?
Speaker 1:
[13:01] That sounds like something from outer space.
Speaker 2:
[13:03] Like maybe it's just me. I am born and raised in Los Angeles. I have never been or ever wanted to be called an Angelino.
Speaker 3:
[13:14] All of a sudden the insurance industry is being a bit more responsive, returning phone calls. And hopefully that will result in the payments that people need.
Speaker 2:
[13:23] Not yet.
Speaker 1:
[13:26] You talk to any of the fire victims. It's been a nightmare all the way around with the banks, with the insurance companies and OES, with departments that are directly under your umbrella, like building and safety and everyone else that has the permits.
Speaker 3:
[13:43] But we also need the banking industry to extend forbearance. So it's very hard to pay a mortgage on a vacant lot when you're trying to rebuild. We want those mortgages extended.
Speaker 2:
[13:54] Well, you had said that everything was going to get built so quickly that one year probably seemed like plenty.
Speaker 1:
[14:01] Oh, yeah. Remember that big meeting that she had with Trump when Trump came to town, and Trump was telling her that he wanted everything rebuilt, lickety-split. And she said, oh, yes. Oh, yes, Mr. Trump. Yes, Mr. Trump. We'll get it done fast. We'll do everything we can. We'll move heaven and earth and look at us now.
Speaker 3:
[14:20] So if you have a 30 year mortgage, then now you have a 32 or 33 year mortgage.
Speaker 2:
[14:26] How long are you expecting these homes to take?
Speaker 1:
[14:30] Well, didn't we talk to someone who called in who was an expert in this, who said it's going to be five, six, seven years before they're moved back in.
Speaker 2:
[14:39] Oh, yeah. And a lot of them, they're just not going to do it.
Speaker 1:
[14:43] No.
Speaker 3:
[14:44] So in other words, you don't have to pay your mortgage while you are rebuilding. It's added on to the end of your mortgage.
Speaker 2:
[14:52] So I mean, I know people have attachments to their neighborhoods, but do you really want to live in a trailer for seven years while you're rebuilding your house?
Speaker 1:
[15:03] I would be in Orange County so fast your head would spin.
Speaker 2:
[15:07] You got to remember, from 2025 to 2026, the County of Los Angeles lost a population of 55,000 people. Some of those were probably the fire victims.
Speaker 1:
[15:23] That's enough to fill Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3:
[15:26] Of your mortgage. So asking him now to do advocacy with the banking industry, like he did with the insurance industry, and I frankly think three ways that he can impact things in a profound way that will help people in the Palisades and in Altadena is one, obviously, the resources in terms of the FEMA reimbursement and then additional...
Speaker 2:
[15:49] Yeah, but who's going to be in charge of doling that money out? Because we saw what happened with the concert for LA and Fire Aid.
Speaker 1:
[15:56] Yeah, none of you can be trusted...
Speaker 3:
[15:59] .reimbursement and then additional resources in, you know...
Speaker 2:
[16:03] You know what that is. Producer told the anchor, Hey, we got to wrap this up. Bass isn't coming up for air.
Speaker 3:
[16:13] And then additional resources in, you know, on top of that. And the other way is his bully pulpit on these two private industries that we of course are unable to impact on a local level. I did...
Speaker 2:
[16:28] You could be calling out State Farm every day and you're not...
Speaker 1:
[16:35] You could be calling out the Insurance Commissioner for not sitting on them.
Speaker 2:
[16:39] It's the weirdest thing. We played that sound yesterday of all the candidates, including Steve Hilton. Nobody wants to go after Ricardo Lara.
Speaker 6:
[16:47] I'm very kind of sketch.
Speaker 3:
[16:51] On a local level, I did take a delegation of Palisadians up to Sacramento. We are advocating for state legislation, but at the end of the day, the advocacy coming from the White House about the insurance industry and the banking industry, he has the ability to move those two industries. As we know, he works very closely with banking and insurance because he is a builder. And so we need that advocacy. And I think that we'll watch in the coming days and we will see tweets related to the banking industry and the insurance industry.
Speaker 2:
[17:26] We're not advocating for policy. We're advocating for tweets.
Speaker 1:
[17:30] She's taking anything she can get.
Speaker 2:
[17:32] Oh boy.
Speaker 3:
[17:33] Related.
Speaker 2:
[17:34] She is this trip means that she is desperate, but this might backfire on her because the Nithya people are going to look like what she did. She met with the enemy.
Speaker 1:
[17:46] Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:
[17:47] This gives them an opening related to the banking industry and the insurance industry. Those tweets have already had impact and we want it to continue and now be extended to banking.
Speaker 5:
[17:58] Mayor Bass, we have about 10 seconds left, but I have to ask you, did the president all wish you well on your mayoral run?
Speaker 3:
[18:09] We were not trying to talk politics.
Speaker 5:
[18:11] All right. We'll leave it there. Mayor Bass, we appreciate your time here this afternoon. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3:
[18:16] Thank you. Bye.
Speaker 1:
[18:20] Mother goose goes to Washington.
Speaker 2:
[18:22] You know, I learned at the end of that piece, we've got this week, we had the next star debate. Next week, we got the CBS debate that we were invited to. The week after that, you've got on Tuesday, the CNN debate. And then on Wednesday or Thursday, NBC is having a mayoral debate and a governor debate.
Speaker 1:
[18:45] It's a debate of Palooza.
Speaker 2:
[18:47] It means, you know, how busy things are going to be in two weeks. We're going to be, have to be talking debates on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Speaker 1:
[18:58] We're going to be putting a lot of miles on our car to going to be all over the place. 800-222-5222 is a telephone number. 800-222-5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com. That's johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com and Randy, you can listen to the podcast all weekend long.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
[19:46] The John Phillips Show, 800-222-5222 is the telephone number 1-800-222-5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at johnnydontlikeshowatgmail.com. That's johnnydontlikeshowatgmail.com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mailbag.
Speaker 2:
[20:06] Susan writes in at johnnydontlikeshowatgmail.com with the subject line, Palisadians. Hey, John and Randy, I can't stand that name. I grew up in Westchester. What would my name be? Westchesterians? That sounds dirty.
Speaker 1:
[20:23] Yeah, it does. Let's go to Petri in Rio Vista. Petri, hello.
Speaker 7:
[20:34] Hey, Johnny, John, John or Randy Ran Ran. So that comment from that emailer just a second ago about the last name. Well, that ties into my reason for calling because all that talk about Karen Bass. Well, it made me think about, you know, like when she loses, she's not going to have a paycheck. So she might as well come here to Rio Vista and serve. So they get a small gig promoting the Bass Derby Festival that we have in the beginning of October. Ah, ah, ah.
Speaker 1:
[21:06] Well, there you go.
Speaker 7:
[21:09] Now, if that wasn't a bad enough joke, I got one that's even worse. Oh, I can't wait. So I was bracing, brace yourselves. So Katie Porter, yesterday at the debate in San Francisco, man, she lost a lot of weight. She's kind of looking good, huh? Oh, my God, I said that.
Speaker 1:
[21:32] Thank you for the call.
Speaker 7:
[21:36] Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots.
Speaker 2:
[21:38] I'm not going to comment on that last comment.
Speaker 1:
[21:41] Let's go to Jim in LA. Jim, hello.
Speaker 8:
[21:45] Hi, I was just wondering if the ratings have come in on the debate last night, which I didn't watch. And I also want to know what you think of the Angels this year.
Speaker 1:
[21:54] Well, I'm always optimistic about the Angels this time of year. But if you talk to me around August and you ask me what I think I'll be doing in October, my answer will be watching reruns of Judge Judy.
Speaker 8:
[22:10] Yeah, they got to do something about the bullpen. Seems when the bullpen comes in, they lose. But let us know when you hear anything about the ratings on the debate last night.
Speaker 2:
[22:20] I'm looking it up right now, and I haven't found anything. Maybe next star is in a fight with Nielsen, too.
Speaker 8:
[22:26] All righty. All right. Thank you.
Speaker 1:
[22:32] Let's go to Greg and Napa. Greg, hello.
Speaker 9:
[22:36] Hey, if you would have used the name Trump for your drinking game last night, you would have been passed out drunk halfway through that debate.
Speaker 1:
[22:47] If we did the drinking game last night and took a shot every time the name Trump came up, let me tell you, if Eric Swalwell were around, he'd try to take advantage of us.
Speaker 9:
[23:01] One other question. I can't believe the questions that were on Cron were pretty good, but then when they went streaming, they were so bad. I was just waiting for someone to come up with the bullet train scam. Who is going to be in favor of it? Because that is very important to me as a Californian. Do not want to fund that anymore.
Speaker 1:
[23:23] Yeah, I'm over that train too.
Speaker 2:
[23:24] I've got to imagine that it wasn't addressed at this debate, but I know the CBS debate, they're probably going to bring that up, and that debate is on Tuesday.
Speaker 9:
[23:35] Yeah, Wayne.
Speaker 8:
[23:36] Thanks, guys.
Speaker 2:
[23:37] All right.
Speaker 1:
[23:39] Right now, it's time to open up the California crime blotter.
Speaker 10:
[23:42] If the cashier is dummy.
Speaker 1:
[23:46] We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 8:
[23:48] I said, hell no, baby boy.
Speaker 9:
[23:50] Let me get up on out of here.
Speaker 2:
[23:53] It's the California crime blotter.
Speaker 1:
[23:57] And the first edition takes us to the Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 2:
[24:01] Someone tried to smash a car into a Chinese restaurant to steal wontons? For more, here's Fox 40 in Sacramento.
Speaker 11:
[24:12] Yeah, that's right, Eric, we're here off of 24th Street. You can see it right behind me. We're at Wayne's Walk, the Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 2:
[24:18] You can see their front door here is all Wayne's Walk, like a Chinese restaurant take on Wayne's World.
Speaker 1:
[24:27] Remember Yan Can Cook when he had his cooking show and he would have all the play on words with the word walk, walk like an Egyptian. Oh, no, walk the dog, walk this way.
Speaker 2:
[24:43] I can think of a few of those that are very inappropriate.
Speaker 1:
[24:47] I bet you can.
Speaker 11:
[24:48] Yeah, that's right, Eric. We're here off of 24th Street. You can see it right behind me. We're at Wayne's Walk, the Chinese restaurant. You can see their front door here is all boarded up after that car crash burglary this morning. You can see some of the damage that took place as well. We have all these kind of bent metal door frames and some broken glass over there as well. This was one of two businesses that were burglarized this morning, but thanks to the Sacramento Police Department, a suspect has now been arrested. Early this morning, a burglary suspect allegedly put the smash in smash and grab using a car to...
Speaker 1:
[25:24] You know what it sounded like when the car went through the wall?
Speaker 2:
[25:27] What did it sound like?
Speaker 1:
[25:28] Kung Pao.
Speaker 2:
[25:33] That's your first warning. You do three lame Chinese jokes in this story and we're moving on.
Speaker 11:
[25:44] Early this morning, a burglary suspect allegedly put the smash in smash and grab using a car to break through the front doors of two restaurants overnight.
Speaker 12:
[25:53] The door was completely smashed in and the whole entire front wall was also just barged in. There was motion in the dining room.
Speaker 11:
[26:02] Alan Kuang, the manager at Wayne's Walk, who he spoke with over the phone, says he was woken up around 330 this morning by an ADT alert.
Speaker 12:
[26:10] And I just saw a...
Speaker 2:
[26:12] Hey, there's a giant hole in your restaurant.
Speaker 1:
[26:15] Shaped like a Kia.
Speaker 12:
[26:16] And I just saw a person going through the store with a flashlight and they were masked, they had a hoodie on. They were just going through the store and just destroying everything.
Speaker 11:
[26:31] Wayne's wasn't the only business hit.
Speaker 12:
[26:33] And I saw another one, the Baskin-Robbins and Togo.
Speaker 2:
[26:40] Were they trying to steal all 31 of the flavors?
Speaker 1:
[26:45] Well, certainly the Rum Raisin.
Speaker 2:
[26:47] By the way, it wasn't a full Baskin-Robbins, it was a half Baskin-Robbins, half Togo's, which is an interesting combo.
Speaker 1:
[26:55] Yeah, what's the deal with that?
Speaker 2:
[26:56] They must be owned by the same people. It's like a Kentucky Hut.
Speaker 12:
[27:01] Togo, store got hit too.
Speaker 2:
[27:03] Sacramento Police said, I didn't know Togo's was still a thing, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:
[27:07] What's the point of destroying the Chinese restaurant after you drive a car through the wall? You're looking for a safe, you can't find it. You're going through all their stuff. Let's see, what do we have here? Okay, we got MSG here, we got MSG here, we have MSG here. Where's the safe? No, there's more MSG.
Speaker 11:
[27:28] Sacramento police say the same suspect then drove to the 1400 block of Meadowview Road where he again, rammed a car through a storefront.
Speaker 2:
[27:35] Is this all the same car because that car should be advertising how durable it is?
Speaker 1:
[27:41] Yeah, no kidding. Car and driver, take note.
Speaker 11:
[27:44] Fox 40 captured officers on scene at that location this morning. Police now say burglary detectives using the public safety camera network were able to track down a suspect locating the vehicle and after a.
Speaker 2:
[27:55] This is why all these privacy advocates need to shut up. Having these license plate reading cameras in a real time information center is making the police able to do their jobs.
Speaker 1:
[28:06] Well, come on. How how much information do you need to find a car that has an indentation of Wayne's walk in the front?
Speaker 11:
[28:16] Locating the vehicle and after a brief pursuit, detaining the driver, 20 year old Rodney Foster of Sacramento, who's since been arrested in connection with both burglaries. But the damage left behind, including shattered glass, was clear at both locations. We were there as staff at Wayne's walk worked to clean up sweeping, vacuuming and dragging out broken glass panels, trying to reopen after yet another burglary at this location.
Speaker 2:
[28:43] It's already happened before.
Speaker 1:
[28:47] Times are tough.
Speaker 12:
[28:48] We were notified that the foundation was kind of messed up. So it's not as stable now. We've been open for over 20 years. So we've been there for a long time. But every time it happens, it's just kind of, it hurts, definitely hurts. Not only just fixing it, but it also hurts the business because people might be more hesitant to come by.
Speaker 2:
[29:14] Well, you feel a little less safe eating lunch at a Chinese restaurant when any minute a car could come crashing through it.
Speaker 1:
[29:25] Yeah, I think as good as that wonton soup might be, I don't know if the risk-reward thing is working out in my favor.
Speaker 11:
[29:36] Never something that you want to have happen to your business. But the good news is that you can see right there is that Wayne's Walk is now back open. That sign is all lit up right now. They're only asking that instead of using the front door there, that you come around here and you use their side door.
Speaker 2:
[29:52] Because the front door is currently a hole.
Speaker 11:
[29:57] Instead, but as for Togo's, the Baskin-Robbins combo, they were also able to open back up today. We saw customers going in there when we were over there earlier today. So really kind of a silver lining with the incidents that took place earlier this morning. Live here in Sacramento covering local news that matters, Gail Anderson Fox 40 News.
Speaker 2:
[30:16] There you go. The Chinese restaurant that got smashed into and then they smashed into the Baskin-Robbins and Togo's and they wanted to smash into another place after that.
Speaker 1:
[30:27] And the restaurant was called Wayne's Walk, right?
Speaker 2:
[30:30] Yes. And Johnny, I want to applaud you. After that first warning, you showed some real restraint. As I was walking my dogs this morning, listening to the story, I was convinced that you were going to do the dumbest, oldest joke in the book and say that, well, after he smashed into the Chinese restaurant, he was still hungry, so he smashed into another one.
Speaker 1:
[30:49] Nope, didn't do it.
Speaker 2:
[30:51] I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:
[30:52] Didn't do it. After listening to this whole report, I'm just thankful after they hit Wayne's Walk, at least they didn't drive a car through Garth's General Sous Chicken.
Speaker 2:
[31:07] By the way, the e-mailers love your dumb cow and pow joke.
Speaker 1:
[31:14] Clearly they have great taste and wisdom. All right, let's open up the California Crime Blotter.
Speaker 9:
[31:23] It's happened yet again.
Speaker 1:
[31:26] I see.
Speaker 8:
[31:28] Time for the California Crime Blotter.
Speaker 1:
[31:33] And this one takes us to the grocery store.
Speaker 2:
[31:37] A woman was shopping at Viarta for probably some carne asada. That they have really good carne asada there. I don't know what you're assuming. And she got panced and groped by some creep.
Speaker 1:
[31:49] Was it Eric Swalwell?
Speaker 2:
[31:52] I don't think so. But apparently this guy is a serial assaulter and did it like six more women all in the same day. For more, here is KTLA.
Speaker 13:
[32:02] Tonight, the LAPD is detailing several incidents, including the one caught on camera in Winnatka.
Speaker 4:
[32:08] KTLA's Carlos Sancedo live in Winnatka with details for us tonight. Carlos.
Speaker 14:
[32:14] Michael Scherrer, six women were targeted on Sunday, but police fear there could be more victims. Now, one of the incidents happened behind me inside the Vallarta Supermarket Grocery Store here in Winnatka. Tonight, police have identified the suspect who was wanted for multiple sex crimes.
Speaker 2:
[32:31] And by the way, if you're not sure exactly where this is, it's on Van Owen and Corbin, which is just a few blocks away from Victory and Tampa, which is the Vaughn's where this happened.
Speaker 1:
[32:45] Have you ever been to one of those Vallarta grocery stores before?
Speaker 2:
[32:49] Oh, all the time. In fact, they re-built one on Woodley and Sherman Way, and it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1:
[32:56] Okay, so there's one in my area. And in the front, there is a literal cage with bars, like you'd see in jail, where they have a... I don't know if it's a Western Union or something along those lines, where I guess you can also get your passport done.
Speaker 2:
[33:16] Maybe you're remitting some cash.
Speaker 1:
[33:18] I've never seen one of those in a grocery store before. Not once have I seen a cage.
Speaker 14:
[33:27] A serial sexual assault suspect is on the loose in the valley after he allegedly targeted six different women at various locations Sunday in just a matter of hours. LAPD detectives have identified the man as 29-year-old Damien Denzel Robinson.
Speaker 2:
[33:43] Oh, he's got three names. By the way, he's under 30 and his middle name is Denzel. That is not a family name.
Speaker 1:
[33:55] Oh, no, but we know what mommy's into.
Speaker 14:
[33:58] A convicted sex offender.
Speaker 8:
[34:00] Damn.
Speaker 2:
[34:01] We know who mommy was thinking about when she was impregnated.
Speaker 1:
[34:05] It wasn't Montel Williams.
Speaker 8:
[34:07] Damn.
Speaker 14:
[34:08] He is seen in this cell phone video inside the Vallarta Supermarket on Van Owen and Corbin in Winnicka, fleeing after allegedly grabbing a shopper from behind, sexually assaulting her. The victim is heard screaming for security as a bystander records the aftermath.
Speaker 10:
[34:26] It's instinct, drop everything and just kind of rush over there real quick. And as soon as I come around the turn, I notice this large man like rushing past me.
Speaker 14:
[34:37] Jason Perrio was shopping when he heard the commotion from the next aisle over and says he had to do something.
Speaker 10:
[34:43] This man just touched me on my my my butt and my breast.
Speaker 2:
[34:48] Oh, no.
Speaker 1:
[34:53] Oh, dear.
Speaker 10:
[34:54] And I'm like, oh, God, and I'm just trying to get what I can, you know, with my camera. Next thing you know, he starts heading out towards the door.
Speaker 14:
[35:02] The LAPD says the incident was one of six sexual assaults committed by the same man that day. The crime spree started just after 9 a.m. targeting women, some of whom were elderly, the suspects MO pulling down the victim's pants.
Speaker 2:
[35:17] Wait, he's pantsing grannies?
Speaker 1:
[35:21] What a sick, sick pervert.
Speaker 14:
[35:25] Some of whom were elderly, the suspects MO pulling down the victim's pants, grabbing them from behind and in some cases, recording the incident on his cell phone.
Speaker 2:
[35:35] What is going on here?
Speaker 1:
[35:37] OK, this person has to be on meth, correct?
Speaker 2:
[35:41] It's definitely possible, but this isn't your typical meth behavior. Meth usually involves stabbing, not pantsing somebody and filming it.
Speaker 14:
[35:51] The assaults occurred inside of multiple businesses, such as retail and grocery stores, even inside a restroom. Some shoppers now say they no longer feel comfortable.
Speaker 2:
[36:02] Just another notch on the belt for the Valley this week. Yeah, maybe it's time for Orange County.
Speaker 6:
[36:11] I came with the kids and I want to feel like comfortable to be here.
Speaker 14:
[36:19] Police describe Robinson as six feet, three inches tall.
Speaker 2:
[36:23] Wait, oh, OK. Six feet, three inches.
Speaker 1:
[36:26] Yeah, that was an awkward pause, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:
[36:30] I wasn't sure what they were describing.
Speaker 14:
[36:35] Police describe Robinson as six feet, three inches tall, weighing roughly 200 pounds, lasting wearing eyeglasses, a black baseball cap, white shirt, tan pants with blue and white Nike shoes.
Speaker 2:
[36:50] That is a very detailed description.
Speaker 1:
[36:53] With everything but his race.
Speaker 14:
[36:55] Tonight, that suspect is still at large. Again, police believe there could be more victims out there. They encourage additional victims to come forward. We're live in Winnicka, Carlos Alcedo, KTLA 5 News.
Speaker 2:
[37:08] If you have been pantsed by somebody and groped in the grocery store and you're over 60, call the LAPD. They want to talk to you.
Speaker 1:
[37:18] Well, it's a Viardia grocery store. So I don't know if he's taken down their panties or their chonies.
Speaker 2:
[37:32] I like those Viartas, really good salsa bars.
Speaker 1:
[37:37] Yeah, I like the tamales.
Speaker 2:
[37:39] Oh yeah, and usually they've got a fresh thing of tortillas there, and their corn tortillas are always solid, they're not super breakable or flimsy, and they're like a dollar for a 16-pack, it's great.
Speaker 1:
[37:54] So if you go in there hankering for a tamale, make sure there are eyes in the back of your head.
Speaker 2:
[38:01] You might want to wear suspenders, harder for you to get pantsed, especially if your name's Millie.