Hazmat Situation at the site of the woman living in the sewer

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Speaker 1: And very happy Wednesday to you.

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Speaker 2: At twelve oh seven in the West, it's the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wang's in Culver City.

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Speaker 1: John. Once again, the city of Los Angeles is broke. At today's LA City Council meeting the city's legislative officer says that LA is facing a ninety one million dollar budget deficit.

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Speaker 2: No good job, Karen, No, could you imagine what that deficit would be if the Socialists were to be elected?

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Speaker 1: Which one? There's two running. That's true.

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Speaker 3: It's not a namsy pamsy thing.

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Speaker 1: I listened to that debate, the one that Karen and Spencer Pratt didn't go to. So it was between Nithia and Ray Huang and this guy Adam Miller. And it was.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating, fascinating in what way fascinating that I actually made it through the entire thing without turning it off. Now, wasn't this debate sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: What this debate was sponsored by a worst group, the streets for all people, the ones that are pushing all the road diets. Oh god, But here's the good thing. They sponsored this debate, They put it forth, they streamed it on the Internet, and nobody checked to see if the connection was working, so the audio crapped out the entire time, So a whole bunch of people that thought they were going to watch this debate did not watch this debate. There you go.

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Speaker 2: You put a bunch of socialists in a room and you schedule a debate that's supposed to be broadcast on the internet, and the only people who get to hear it are the people in the room.

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Speaker 1: And it was packed. Every single response, no matter what the question was, This guy Adam Miller, who owns a nonprofit would get no applause, Nithia would get golf collapse, and then Ray Huang, the full blown socialist who wants free buses, would get cheers for every single answer. We are so doomed, I got to move.

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. We'll have an update for you on the state of the gubernatorial race coming up later on in the program, but first we're going to give you an update on a story we brought you yesterday. La Mayor Karen Bass said that she was going to get the homeless off the streets in Los Angeles. They're not exactly moving into housing, but now we know she's kind of keeping her promise because she's moving them off the streets and into the sewers.

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Speaker 1: This was a story that Matthew Sedorf at Fox eleven broke after he got a tip from Juan Nala, the guy who does clean La with me, who is every single day stepping up and even though he doesn't mean to do this, embarrassing the crap out of the failures of the city of Los Angeles. Storm found the lady living in the sewer, and not twenty four hours later that story an election year was so damning and so embarrassing to everything that Karen Bass is trying to frame as a success story. Then Ellie's Sanitation went down there to shut it down as a hazmat situation. Thank God, good work, Matthew Seedorf. Our local reporters get more done in a day than our politicians do all year long. And that's the same in the Bay Area too. For more on the situation with the lady living in the sewer in South LA let's start with this report from Matthew Seedorf, and then if we have time we'll get into Christina Gonzalez, who had a full on conversation with sewer lady. Oh mind. Here's Fox eleven today, follow.

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Speaker 4: Up to a story you saw first here on Fox eleven a homeless woman living in a storm drain in South La. Well, tonight, that same drain is now a hazmat zone. Fox Love is Matthew Sudorf is back again tonight Developments.

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Speaker 5: Matthew, Oh, Christine, those sanitation workers left about ten minutes ago, but I'll show you what was left behind. They were here for the better part of five hours. There's a massive cleanup effort you can see.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, just think about this. This is another situation where the residents of this neighborhood have complained about the conditions for weeks and months and nothing would happen. The city move with zero urgency. You embarrass them on the TV and La sands out there the next day. And you know what's so sad about this is typically, if you have a problem with your city, you have a problem with some company, you have a problem with your employer, whatever the case may be, you're supposed to handle it by going through the chain of command.

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Speaker 2: The chain of command is there for a reason. And when you go through the chain of command, and the chain of command is designed to make sure that you can't fix the problem. What it does is it trained you to go out side the chain of command, which is exactly what you don't want of five hours.

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Speaker 5: There's a massive cleanup effort. You can see the road out here is still wet. They have this massive rock now on top of that storm drain, so no one else can sneak inside.

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Speaker 1: So a little backstory, how did the woman get into the sewer? Somebody stole the manhole cover, probably to sell it to a scrapper, and then they put a doghouse on top of the open hole and that's what you lift up to go live in the sewer. The city has now put a giant boulder on top of the sewer hole. This is so chaotic.

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Speaker 5: A deep cleanup underway in South la.

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Speaker 1: Hey that rhyme seedorf can you run for mayor?

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Speaker 5: A deep cleanup underway in South la sanitation cruise and has Matt here sucking up?

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Speaker 1: I gotta say his reporting career when he was in Houston was never this exciting, now, was it?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: It was also never this disgusting.

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Speaker 5: Annotation cruise and has matt gear sucking up human waste and trash from a storm drain, calling it a hot zone, keeping the public one hundred feet back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what a hot zone is, but it does not sound good.

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Speaker 2: Now, in theory, doesn't all of this in the sewer eventually go to the ocean?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it does. And that's when Barbara Ferrara, every time you want to go to the beach, says you can't, there's too much poop in the ocean. Well, this is where it's coming from.

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Speaker 5: This the same drain where we first met a woman living underground waterfoodd after our exclusive report Monday. Firefighters responded Tuesday, but the woman walked away with no clear help offered the area.

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Speaker 2: We're going to need a translator from meth to English.

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Speaker 5: The area flooded with tents, r v's even a boat.

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Speaker 1: There's a boat in the sewer, in the street above the sewer. The area is flooded with tents and r vs, and there's one guy living in a boat.

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Speaker 2: Imagine being a realtor who's selling in that neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: The area flooded with tents, RV's even a boat.

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Speaker 1: This is the exact image that Karen Bess does not want plastered all over the TV three months away from the election.

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Speaker 2: Well, how about Gavin Newsome running for president?

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Speaker 5: No tickets, no enforcement as a street sweeper maneuvers through.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Sedorf put out this video and it's fabulous. It shows you everything that's wrong with Los Angeles. If you've lived in LA you have gotten one of these street sweeper tickets, even though you never saw a street sweeper. Used to happen in front of my apartment in Valley Village all the time, where if it was ten oh one and your car wasn't moved, they'd ticket you, even though the street sweeper never came to Kling Street and Valley Village. That being said, the street sweeper is literally maneuvering around all the RVs and the tents and the boats, and nobody's getting a ticket.

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Speaker 2: Well, how insulted would that be if your car got a ticket because it was street sweeping day the street was never swept, and then right behind your car you have a dozen bums living in the ss mino and they don't get ticketed.

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Speaker 5: Tickets, no enforcement, as a street sweeper maneuvers threw across the one ten open prostitution along Figure Aura.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, we're back on fig Could you imagine what those ladies must look like?

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Speaker 5: Long standing complaints from neighbors, Well.

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Speaker 1: Like a little city or something on there. Because yeah, people constantly just coming up and down. So we're about three people are constantly going in and out of the sewer. There's a whole society of underground people.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you this could be a sequel to the teenage mutant Ninja turtles.

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Speaker 5: So we're about three miles away where the homeless seem pretty plugged in. They've got a wires stretching down this street to an encampment over here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, why is it, of all the things that we say we can't enforce, why is it when the homeless are literally stealing power from utility poles. You have evidence that shows you where the poll is, the line that goes into their tent.

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Speaker 2: Nothing happens. No one at the city has time to deal with this. Yet they have all the time in the world to make life miserable for people in Pacific Palisades and Alta Dina trying to rebuild their homes.

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Speaker 5: We talk to you all for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Nope, se do or be careful, dude.

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Speaker 2: We want you to have a healthy and happy career here in LA. Yeah, and after health insurance is not that good.

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Speaker 5: We take you all for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Nope, pretty matter of fact.

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Speaker 5: People living on the street near forty fifth and Grand not talking.

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Speaker 3: They sell stave well.

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Speaker 5: Neighbors are too afraid to show their faces.

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Speaker 1: Retaliation and stuff like that.

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Speaker 6: You never know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not forget that. The same situation going on in South LA is similar to what we see in a lot of encampments. This is true in places where Nithia Ramen is the city council person. It's also true in places like MacArthur Park. You might think all the people that are in these tents are just you know, people who are addicted to drugs, are mentally ill. This is also where the gangs operate in the tents living among Who do you think is selling them all the drugs? The gangs are also in the encampments, and they have the cover of we don't enforce our homeless codes that neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: And you have certain ideas in your head as to what South Los Angeles is in what it looks like, it's not your father's South La. The only way to clean this up is to take all of these homeless people who are living on the streets or in the sewers and put them in institutions and deport about half the population.

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Speaker 1: Well, we haven't done that. What we have done is a consistent campaign of rebrand because this area used to be called South Central, but that had a bad connotation because of all the gang wars, so then we called it South La. And then do you remember, Johnny when Holly Mitchell tried to start that campaign last year of trying to change this neighborhood to South loss.

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Speaker 2: Right, because by changing the name of the neighborhood they think they're going to change the image as opposed to, oh, I don't know, getting people out of the sewers, a fire.

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Speaker 5: Hydrant used for water and the utility box tapped for electricity.

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Speaker 1: How is none of that enforced. We are literally in a city where the fire hydrants weren't working and the worst fire we've ever seen, and several of them have been vandalized and destroyed because the homeless are tapping into them. And I doubt the people that are fooled around with the electric grid there have any kind of degree in electric and they're also risking burning the entire neighborhood down. We know that the LAFD responds to like thirty homeless fires a day. How many of those fires are started because of all the illegal things they're doing tapping into the utility polls.

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Speaker 2: This is a problem with the city government because the city government tells code enforcement, they tell the cops, they tell everyone who's supposed to deal with this to look the other way because it's a protected class of people who are doing this. It's homeless, it's drug addicts, and it's criminals.

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Speaker 5: A fire hydrant, use for water in the utility box, tapped for electricity.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll see people seriously, Spencer Pratt, you don't even need to hire an ad campaign. Just post this video.

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Speaker 2: Do what Vira Gosa did with one of those videos during the gubernatorial campaign.

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Speaker 1: Just take Seator's report. Have your campaign people buy some time where people can see this all day long. It's everything you need to know about why Karen's gotta go. There's not even one percent of this that's defensible put up, and this is her signature issue that she is claiming success on. Are you seeing success in any of the neighborhoods where it's been the worst, you're seeing zero and in a certain instances it's gotten worse.

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's not just her failure. This is Holly Mitchell's district in theory. Isn't this something that the Department of Public Health should be all over if people are living in the sewers? But of course the county government's not going to do anything about it because Satan running the department doesn't care about this. She just wants to make sure that everyone's wearing the mask.

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Speaker 1: Well, she probably went down there and made sure that everyone got a free meth pipe.

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Speaker 6: No, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And how about Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 2: You're telling everyone that Florida is effed up, and you're telling everyone that Texas is leffed up. This is happening in your state. This is happening in the largest city in your state. You can't do anything to clean this up. Well, localism is determinative.

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Speaker 3: Pulling up, pulling the copper.

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Speaker 5: How long have you been with our street life by a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: The amount of money people pay to live in this city and they get nothing for it. This is the complete breakdown of civilization.

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Speaker 5: All next to another storm drain also being used as shelter leading.

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Speaker 1: So three miles down there's more people living in the sewer. There's probably more people underground than above ground. I'm telling you what this report is uncovering is that all of Karen Bass's BS statistics are exactly that BS. She didn't take anyone off the street. They're just living underground.

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Speaker 5: Pop that lead in them and they go inside.

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Speaker 1: I guess they got beds of they.

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Speaker 5: A spokesperson for Mayor Karen Bass telling Fox eleven those impacted are being offered resources.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, send the social workers in.

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Speaker 5: Adding this is so tragic and it's emblematic of the tough challenges that Mayor Bass is taking on that were ignored for decades.

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Speaker 2: Sure, that's the problem, Antonio Virago said, do you have anything to say about that?

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Speaker 1: She's blaming you. That's awkward because they've endorsed each other. He endorsed her for reelection and she endorsed him for governor. But of course, yes, these problems, I'll go back decades, so many except she's been in charge for the past four years, So shouldn't you have anything to show for it?

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Speaker 5: You'd think so many issues impact.

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Speaker 1: She bankrupted the city by spending all of her money on her homeless programs, and they haven't done a damn thing.

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Speaker 5: So many issues impact in this area. Michael, show you another one. You can see the street lights are out here and over here in it's car all over this general area again right next to where that woman was living underneath the storm drain. Reporting a lot of time in South La. Matthew Sedorf Fox Levenues.

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Speaker 1: There you go, one of the best young reporters in the entire state of California. Matthew Sedor of getting the city to do more in one day because of how damning all that video was, and that video is going everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're gonna hear from sewer woman in her own words. Well, I guess they're not really words but grunts. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mail bag.

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Speaker 1: Got a whole bunch of emails on the sewer situation at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. John writes in, is it a has meat situation because of the city or the lady living in the sewer was the city's goal to clean up the sewer so she could move back in. Ron writes in and says, hey, John and Randy, a hot zone and a has maat incident is where the hazardous product in case in this case the poop, drugs, and needles are at. So that's what the hot zone is. Matt writes in When it comes to a manhole cover for the homeless, a doghouse on top of the cover is just like lebo on Hopkin's Heroes. That's a throwback. And Kenneth writes in at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com. These are called mole people. In New York, the homeless live in the subway tunnels. A reporter didn't believe the report she heard of communities living in the tunnels, so she had a cameraman go undercover and went down to see for herself. What she reported was put into a book called The Mole People. It is sad and also fascinating.

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Speaker 2: Reading eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two and Randy after we signed off at three today. If you want to continue listening to us, that's easy to do.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's time to go against our better judgment, and here directly from sewer Woman.

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Speaker 1: Now, we don't know if she's just completely insane or completely drug addicted or both, so let's not be too hard on sewer Woman herself. This is more about it, John, This is more about the city allowing the conditions for sewer women to exist. You do you somebody's got to be the adult on this show sometimes. For more on the lady living in the sewer in South LA here is Fox eleven and Christina Gonzalez, who had a one on one weather.

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Speaker 4: You saw this first on Fox eleven last night. A woman living in the storm drains in South Los Angeles. Do many calls the city?

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Speaker 1: Polly, should we still rebranded to South Loss?

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Speaker 2: You know, the local news should actually like this woman a lot, because if you live in the sewer, my guess is you never miss a weather report.

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Speaker 4: Do many calls? The city officials, including the mayor cruise come out to help. Fox eleven's Christina Gonzalez picks up the story on the scene now with the latest.

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Speaker 6: Christina, Yeah, we've been calling since my colleague Matt sed Or broke the story last night. And you know, I will say that while we're I.

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Speaker 1: Wonder how those phone calls go. Karen, you saw what seed or for it done? Right? Are you really going to do nothing about this?

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Speaker 2: And Karen goes, well, she's inside and safe, So that's kind of a brand for me, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know if sewers count is inside, and they definitely don't count as safe.

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Speaker 6: I will say that, while we're not getting any answers from the mayor or city council about the bigger pictures, how did this got to this point? They did send out people from the city. What you're looking at right now is has mad clad sanitation people trying to figure out how to get in there.

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Speaker 1: They don't even know.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna need Donna Tello and Michelangelo and the rest of them.

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Speaker 6: A place where a woman has been living for quite some time. Take a look trying to help a woman hiding in a storm drain, the same woman you saw on Fox eleven living in a hot drain packed with trash and smelling of human waste.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get that they had to use that again. That's where Seedorf couldn't take it anymore.

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Speaker 2: If that was your job and you had to go deal with that, and you came home after a long day at the office, would you drink the whole bottle or would you drink two whole bottles?

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Speaker 1: Bless Matthew Seedorf and all of our great reporters for putting themselves in harm's way, whether that be something really dangerous or just something real foul.

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Speaker 6: We can right here living in a hot drain packed with trash and smelling of human waste.

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Speaker 4: I gotta get back.

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Speaker 6: She's been living in the storm drain for quite some time, according to Juan Nola, who spends his days trying to clean up the neighborhood around South Grand and eighty eighth Street.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, this guy is the one of the biggest heroes we have in Los Angeles. And what's so funny about clean La with me? He started about a year ago, and he's gotten a lot of profiles on local TV. Every single time he's cleaning up all the illegal dumping himself and makes the city look terrible. So what does Karen Bass do At her State of the City address honors one Nala says, we should all be more like you and we want to partner with you, when in reality, every single time he calls the city to pick up the garbage, they ignore him. Why does it he run for city council? Down there?

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Speaker 5: She's still there, the trush is there.

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Speaker 3: I saw another person living over there.

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Speaker 6: People living everywhere around here in tents and RVs, even a boat.

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Speaker 2: That's just the cherry on top of the Sunday, isn't it.

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Speaker 6: One woman sets herself up on boulders next to the freeway. A man against a sidewall on the other side, cable's routing up.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like this is worse than any third world country I've ever heard of.

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Speaker 2: No, this sounds like what you do after your country gets bombed. You know, John, you used to play that game on the radio. Florida or not Florida, I got a new one.

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Speaker 1: You gone? Or Los Angeles.

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Speaker 6: Cables routing electricity run down the street for blocks.

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Speaker 1: That's not illegal. It's like anything goes down there. We've seen in some of these encampments they've got a big screen TV in there because they're stealing the power.

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Speaker 2: Well, didn't one of them in Koreatown have pickleball courts?

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Speaker 1: Yes? They did.

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Speaker 6: Police cars drive by the encampments checking things out. People say, everything's fine, please drive on.

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Speaker 1: We kisses what the city told the cops to do.

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Speaker 2: They do not want residents to have negative interactions with the cops, which means the cops can't enforce the law.

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Speaker 1: Well, and this is right here. What might be central to the LAPD staffing crisis, because how many times can you be demoralized of getting calls for help, knowing that you're not allowed to do anything. You can't even arrest the person stealing power, and you say screw this, transferring to El Segundo, or you.

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Speaker 2: Do exactly what they're doing. You drive by and wave. That's what I would do.

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Speaker 6: A street sweeper moves the dust. Parking enforcement deals with the abandoned vehicles.

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Speaker 3: But people say off camera they're on their own.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I mean the position of the city because they won't let the cops go in there and take care of it.

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Speaker 1: They won't force these people.

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Speaker 2: To get out of the sewers, to get off the streets, to stop stealing the electricity. What is the plan here to just wait until they all get tuberculosis?

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Speaker 1: Some would think that. Some would think that what the city is doing is waiting for all these people to die from overdose or exposure.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but if their goal is to just kill them, having them die of tuberculosis is going to take forever.

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Speaker 6: A woman talking to herself when she comes out of the drain, is nothing unique went into the source.

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Speaker 1: She's living in the sword. Oh my god, that's that's opair.

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Speaker 6: The woman is chasing people getting video of her with their cell phones.

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Speaker 1: This is a new tourist attraction in South La Again.

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Speaker 2: The Olympics are coming here in twenty twenty eight. The World Cup's coming here in two months. At Karen Bass says we're ready, but.

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Speaker 6: Goes back into the drain where we try talking to her.

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Speaker 3: It talked to me Han, what's going on ready? I've done trying.

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Speaker 1: To talk hard to make no idea. That's not English. I don't think that's any language.

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Speaker 3: It talked to me Han, what's going on ready?

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Speaker 6: I've got trying hard to make out, but something about she has new clothes and shows her friends.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, what do you think the friends are like imaginary? Do you think there's an ethel Mertz inside that sewer? Maybe this is like Cinderella and she made friends with the rats.

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Speaker 6: There.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was free with Italian like four. I saw how many people are living down there with you walked out. There's another guy. If I found you a.

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Speaker 1: Place to stay, which she had a roommate in the sewer.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know the high cost of housing is really causing totally normal people to do things like this.

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Speaker 1: Do you split the utilities.

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Speaker 3: There's another guy. If I found you a place to stay, would you go? Yeah, sure you would. No, maybues I would.

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Speaker 1: This is so embarrassing. This is the second largest city in the country. This city is a massive budget and with all the money that we have spent on homelessness, we allow this well.

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Speaker 2: And here's the crazy part. There is zero embarrassment at city Hall. Zero embarrassment that this is what's on the television, this is what's on the radio, this is what your constituents are seeing, hearing about, and reading, and you just don't care.

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Speaker 3: Those words are very clear.

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Speaker 6: After many calls to city officials, what you see is Yes, LAPD the Fire Department Sanitation.

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Speaker 3: Quite a few cruise out here.

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Speaker 6: Eventually she comes out. Firefighters quickly move in to block the manhole cover. As she walks past us, she is mumbling.

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Speaker 1: Hard to make that's either mental illness, math or both.

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Speaker 2: Okay, if we're going to do another update on this, we're going to need to bring in Gary Busey, our translator.

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Speaker 6: Hard to make out what she was saying, but something about being homeless and where's she going to go? I know they were trying to help her or get her to accept help. Now back here, live again.

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Speaker 1: Even in this situation where you're living in the sewer, we're begging the people who are not in their right mind to say yes to help, because we can't compel them to do anything.

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Speaker 2: And Karen Bass will look you right in the eye and say, we have a homeless problem because of the high cost of housing. And anyone who says it drugs an alcohol is lying to you.

00:28:33
Speaker 6: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get.

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Speaker 1: Help for you, or apparently not help her or get her to accept help.

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Speaker 3: Now back here, live again.

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Speaker 6: They have actually declared this, and I quote them a hot zone. They're keeping us a block away, a yellow tip included, and they're wearing you know, the suits.

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Speaker 3: They have to get in there clean it out.

00:28:54
Speaker 1: How would you like to be on La sans Hazmat team? Oh my god, Katie, you can smell it right here. Well, if she loses, that's a career opportunity.

00:29:06
Speaker 3: They have to get in there, clean it out.

00:29:08
Speaker 6: And then the most important thing is that manhole cover. They have to replace it with one that will not be easily moved away, because that's what started the problem. Somebody stole the manhole cover and that's how she got in.

00:29:21
Speaker 1: And of course, our upstanding recycling and smelters out there, they just bought a manhole cover from some meth head and said, sure, I'll melt this down for the bronze. This is totally above board.

00:29:35
Speaker 2: And how much do you want to bet that if someone at city Hall is listening to this right now, their takeaway from this story is going to be manhole, that sexist.

00:29:47
Speaker 1: We need to cancel that word. What do you call it? You know what? I don't even want you to think.

00:29:55
Speaker 6: And if they don't secure it well enough, they're gonna steal it again and she'll be.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: Right back in there there.

00:30:00
Speaker 1: That's where they put the giant boulder on it. What happened to the doghouse? They got rid of the doghouse they're afraid of.

00:30:07
Speaker 6: So that is what is going on here live in South Los Angeles. Obviously a very difficult situation. And again as to the bigger picture, what you saw happening all around here. If we get an answer from the Mayor's office or the council member out here, we'll be sure to put it on our website at Foxholate dot com.

00:30:25
Speaker 3: I'm Christina concent No.

00:30:26
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure which district this is in, because this could either be Current Price Territory who's in the middle of a corruption trial, or this is Marquesiland Marquesy, who is in a whole situation with trying to get out of an illegal U turn ticket. By claiming LAPD's racist.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: How in the world can Gavin Nooso and run for president? Localism is determinative. None of this is his fault. I mean, you just sit here and you look at the news every day. It's like when you see these people who you know are in marriages that have a million in one problems. They're cheating, they're mean to each other, they speak horribly about one another, constant fighting, constant conflict, try to turn the kids against one another. And then you go, okay, what is your job, sir, Oh, I'm a marriage and family counselor, And you go you're giving advice to other people and this is your life. Well, yeah, that's what my degrees are in. Gavin Newsom thinks that he should be running the entire country when this is his portfolio.

00:31:44
Speaker 1: He'll be like, hey, I was never mayor of La San Francisco's on the upswing. That's exactly what he would do.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: He would just blame someone else, not by name, because then he'd have to say Karen Bass is a baffoone. But he would just say it's unfair to blame me for this. I have no control. I'm not the mayor of California. I'm the governor.

00:32:07
Speaker 3: I'm Christina Gonzales.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: Back to in the studio, Christina seem's a whole lot is going on there with her. Can't help but feel the humanity there. I'm wondering. So she said she would go somewhere. We've done a lot of stories on rooms that have been offered up or hotel space. Was there's somebody like that from the city to actually talk specifics with her?

00:32:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, where's all of Karen Bass's inside safe outreach workers nowhere to be seen?

00:32:35
Speaker 4: You can go here today right now.

00:32:40
Speaker 6: There were people here. I only saw fire people trying to talk to her in one of the police officers.

00:32:45
Speaker 1: But again, maybe so police and fire out there. What exactly do all of these NGO nonprofit outreach workers get paid to do if nobody is giving outreach to the clearly.

00:32:59
Speaker 2: Woman in christ and these are groups who pay their people handsomely.

00:33:04
Speaker 6: People trying to talk to her in one of the police officers. But again, maybe the city will get back to us and tell us, hey, we found her a place here, we're helping her this way. I would love to hear that answer.

00:33:15
Speaker 1: Christina, You've been in this business a long time. You know that's not coming.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: No social workers, no homeless advocacy organizations, none of them wanted to touch this with a ten foot poll. Who do they send in when they get embarrassed on the news, The cops. That's who The same people they all want to defund.

00:33:34
Speaker 5: This is an.

00:33:35
Speaker 1: Indictment of not just the city of La, but this is also the County of La. Because this woman is clearly mentally ill. And this is where the county, with all of their money and all the people that they're paying, with all their outreach workers, how is nobody actually going to talk to this woman.

00:33:51
Speaker 6: I would also love to hear what they plan to do about an entire neighborhood where people are living in siege under siege, and they've been doing so.

00:33:58
Speaker 1: They say for years, Well, well that's just how LA works. Of course, we can't go in and break up these encampments where gang members are embedded and people are fearing for their lives to even speak out on the television about it. We just have to allow all this rampant illegal activity to happen all day and all night and just deal with it.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: You know, I have limited sympathy for these people. Limited sympathy because you look at how they vote, and they vote for the absolute worst people every single time. So why are you surprised when this is how you live.

00:34:33
Speaker 6: This is nothing new and this is not the only person living in this kind of situation.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: I've covered it before, So.

00:34:39
Speaker 1: Feel like we got to update our twenty twenty six loss of numbers. We got to get down there with a pen and a pad and find out how many sewer people there are. Got a calculator.

00:34:50
Speaker 6: So you know, it's a very difficult situation I have to admit, and there's no easy answer to it.

00:34:58
Speaker 1: I feel like there's easier answers than doing nothing, and.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: There's easier answers than bankrupting the city with the signature program that doesn't work and continuing to do so.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: But at some point an answer has to be come up with.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people watching this might also be questioning the issues of mental health and the services available or not there.

00:35:21
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much. Thanks for all the billions and billions of dollars in the city and the county and the state that we spend on mental health, that we spend on outreach, that we spend on helping the homeless. And nobody is anywhere except the fire department to talk to this lady. If you were to weigh in on any of this, give us a call at eight hundred two two two five two two two. What eight hundred two two two five two two two show. Let's go to Jerry and Long Beach. Jerry.

00:35:52
Speaker 7: Hello, Hey, guys, how you going look the show? Thanks for picking my call. Sure, sure, So this one was actually personal to me. I lived in the district for long each you know, right up to the four or five Lakewood kind of area. There's about I don't know, I'd say a forty acre parcel that's Army mainheads facilities, right. So this, you know, when it got word that the government was going to provide this parcel of highly valuable commercial land to the city under what's called the BRAT lab b r A C based Relocation and Closure Act. It had to have a homeless component, a homeless drop of facility. So okay, fast forward, plenty of city council meetings, picketing events, the whole. We had a group that was called Neighborhoods first about colass. Okay, what we found out and it goes back and I remember the city council meeting years ago. My opening remarks were soubre leon jean, which is Lucy translated French, or follow the money. What we found out is that the city council members in La got together behind closed doors with the city council members of Long Beach said Hey, we're gonna flush the skin row toilet. We're gonna put them all down into that new dropping facility.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: Oh no, sure, we're out of time. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to cut you off. But that sounds like a complete disaster.