This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app stories that were following Israeli Prime Minister of Bannet Yaho has vowed revenge for what he described as a cruel and malicious violation of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, But Hamas apparently released the body that Israeli authorities found was not that of an Israeli mother of two young boys. HAMA said that it would conduct
a review of the information regarding the body. The group suggested that the mix up was possible because they said Israel bombed the area where the hostages were being held and that they may have grabbed the wrong body. President Trump's envoy Ukraine and Russia has says he held extensive and positive discussions with President Zelenski of Ukraine after about the three year war. He praised the leader as an embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war. This
is retired US Lieutenant General Keith. This is quite a departure from the rebukes of Zelensky that we have seen by Trump and some other senior US officials. A federal judge has allowed President Trump's mass firing of federal workers to move forward. District Judge said he could not grant emotion from unions that represent the workers to stop the layoffs, though he did say that there is some chaos as a result of all of this.
And the fires.
The Palisades fire, the Eton fire wiped out thousands of homes. That has forced all of these families to find places to live, and the tenants who were just getting by before the fires now are facing the search for a new rental home. La rental market had too few affordable homes to start with, and now they're suggesting that there
are a lot of rent gougers out there. Attorney General Rob Bonte has worn property owners against price gouging and said you cannot accept a rent that exceeds a ten percent cap, even if the prospective tenant is willing to pay more. Speaking of our fires, the cleanup is in full swing and we got to get through the cleanup before we can do any sort of recovery. And if you think about the devastation in Altadena or Pacific Palisades,
you're talking about millions of tons of trash. One estimate is that it's about four and a half million tons of ash, of wreckage, of junk, of damage, all of that. That would be one of the largest amounts of disaster debris in the state history. Now we know that everything that burned in people's homes, batteries, metals, appliances, televisions, couches, whatever it is, many of them have toxic chemicals in them that are released as a gas when they burn
or are just spread out. When it comes to the ashes that are left over, and the previous assessment found that the ash did have levels of toxic chemicals that would be considered chemical considered hazardous by state standards. But the debris has been taken to landfills before any of the testing has been performed. As an example, up in Granada Hills, you got the Sunshine Canyon landfill. If you go up the New Hall Pass, it's just to the west of the highway. I go by there every single day,
at least twice. And there are days I haven't figured out the weather pattern yet, like is it on a warm day, is it a cold day? But there are days you can smell that thing because it's a dump. I mean literally, it's a dump. It's a landfill. It's where everybody takes their trash, and there is a concern that, among other things, there's a school about a mile away
van Go Elementary over in Granada Hills. The landfill is up in an area where there are strong winds that come through the New Hall Pass and there's a concern from the people who live in Granada Hills that those winds are going to blow this dust and ash into the community's downwind and one of the people who lives
there says, yeah, it's dangerous to us. And the reason we know that is those guys all wear hazmat suits when they're messing around with it, and that they're depositing the material from six in the morning to seven at night. There are portions of that material that are gonna get dry, and the winds are going to keep blowing and then that's going to disperse this particulate matter across the San Fernando Valley. Another one in Calabasas, they have a landfill.
A bunch of different signs on their policies for toxic matter or dangerous matter that would go into the landfill. One of them just simply says no hazardous waste. Another one says you can't put these electronics, these household items because they may contain toxic substances. Think about batteries or cans of paint or spray paint or something like that.
There's a new sign in front of the Calabass landfill that says any incoming fire debris must have a certificate that verifies its non hazardous.
The problem is that.
Only pertains to the private contractors who have been hauling dirt, not the federally hired crews that are taking part in the debris removal. Guy lives in Agura Hills, president of the Loso virgin A School Board in Calabasses, said you legally cannot throw away a double A battery in this landfill. But now they're allowing hundreds of thousands of tons of burnt batteries, paint chips, and other things into the community and it's incomprehensible. They're not saying just take it somewhere else,
we don't care where it goes. They're saying that there are hazardous waste landfills that are equipped to handle the potential toxic, dangerous material because they have, among other things, sturdy line in the bottom of them. To prevent leakage. They have monitors to detect unintended discharges, etc. LA City Councilman John Lee represents that northwest side of the San
Fernando Valley. He has introduced a measure calling on the city attorney to take legal action to block any of the wildfire debris from being dumped at Sunshine Canyon and said the proposal without sufficient testing and oversight, would be an insult. The proposal for them to accept the debris, he said, it would be an insult to the communities that are located near the landfill. The district has already faced numerous environmental challenges and simply can't allow another one
to make its way into the neighborhoods the landfill. According to the landfill people, Republic Services is the owner of the landfill at Sunshine Canyon. They say they are equipped to handle this. They said, it's a strong community partner. It's responsible option for the non hazardous waste. They have extensive experience firing handling fire waste. Land Bill does have one of those state of the art liner systems, a
cover system, a gas collection system. All of them helped to ensure that the material is managed safely and responsibly.
This is another one of those fights.
There's kind of an aftermath of the disaster that we saw back on January seventh, started on January seventh, that's not going to end anytime soon as this cleanup continues. Speaking of though, yesterday we spent some time talking about how Karen Bass has been in the hot seat, a well deserved hot seat, since she left Ta Ghana when we knew that there was this dangerous wind situation that
was happening in the hills. Gavin Newsom is another one of those guys who's going to be judged by guys, I mean politicians, who's going to be judged based on the response to this disaster. It's not just another wildfire. This is the largest disaster that we've seen in California history, at least monetarily speaking. Gavin Newsom has been seen in and around south southern California, La County, La City specifically since the fire started back on January seventh.
He was here the next day.
He has been living and working out of the Governor's office, the one that exists here in LA for quite a while. And listen, I am not one who is a giant fan of Gavin Newsom, but I got to give him credit for being here. Cal Matters actually wrote up an article that said that a politician at whatever level can rise or fall depending on the way they respond to disasters, and in this case, they're suggesting that because the governor has been so present after the fires, that he might
even be considered the governor of Los Angeles. Interesting title, but this is clearly a crucial moment in whatever legacy he's going to have as a two term governor of the state of California and whatever political future that he's got working around that finally quaffed head of his And as much as he wants to deny that that's on his mind, that's completely on his mind. There's a guy who a journalist wrote a biography about former Governor Brown
and now teaches at UCLA. Said people do turn to leadership state or federal when all hell is breaking loose. We know that, and said it's a time when you can really seal the affections of people by seeming to be there for them. And sometimes it's a term that my father in law used to use or still uses. It's called the ministry of presence. Sometimes people just need to know that you're physically there when they're going through something.
And to his credit, Gavin Newsom has been at every one of these photo ops, every one of these not everyone, but most of these news conferences, the higher profile ones. When cal Matters went to the governor's office and asked for comment on all of this and asked to speak to the governor, they turned him down.
They said, nah, he's too busy.
But the senior advisor for communications did insist that the governor and his staff are not contemplating his legacy as they navigate the response to the fires.
How is that possible.
Gavin Newsom was one of the loudest people, the loudest politicians, the loudest Democratic politicians that was going against a second Trump administration.
Remember the campaign.
He was going to travel around the country and he was going to help safeguard states from the power that was the evil Republican Party. That's what he was planning to do. He's been really quiet on the second Trump administration since it's come to fruition, since inauguration day.
On January twentieth.
He was in southern California on January seventh. Lucky for him because he was already there for an event with Joe Biden.
Joe Biden was in town. You remember that night too.
That event was ultimately scrapped because of the fires that were going on, and Gavin Newsom made it to the fire zones within a couple of hours and said, when it became very clear, this is his communications director, when it became clear that this was one of the worst disasters in California history. We stayed being down there seeing the level of devastation. It was clear that this was
something that was going to take all of his time. Now, think about the difference between that attitude and the attitude that Karen Bass had, And again we talked about it before. She says she was never warned about the potential danger. Gavin Newsom gets lucky by being in southern California. I don't think he would have come down here if he knew just that the red flag warning was considered a
particularly dangerous situation. But he gets to have the slight positive bump, while Karen Bass is dealing with the negative bump for the way that she handled it. And to be honest, and at least part of it is just the bad timing of the Biden request that she go to Ghana to act as a sort of a diplomatic liaison for the United States at that inauguration there in Ghana.
So big stories out of Hollywood today as well. Netflix is going to drop all kinds of money in another country for some of the production for TV and movies.
This is a new one we haven't heard before. That.
And James Bond, the property that is James Bond is now owned by another evil genius. A couple stories that we're following throughout the day today. I don't know what kind of a mess this made, but six elephants were killed when a passenger train collided with a herd in Sri Lanka. They said it was four young elephants and two adult elephants near a wildlife sanctuary there in Sri Lanka. That just sounds absolutely awful. Luigimangioni is doing court today.
Man accused of shooting the CEO of United Healthcare back in New York City and then leading everybody on a manhunt, scheduled to be in court today for the first time since his arraignment on state murder and terror charges in December. Prosecutors and his defense attorneys are expected to do a bunch of updates and stuff, status of the case, etc. But the judge could set the deadlines for some of the pre trial paperwork and possibly even a trial date.
And then Ukrainian intelligence is suggesting that Vladimir Putin is preparing an announcement to declare victory in its war with Ukraine. That he's expected to frame this announcement not only as a triumph over Ukraine but also over NATO and portraying this conflict as a broader defeat for the West. We'll talk a little bit more about that we get in a swamp watch just in terms of this would be similar to what President Trump has been giving to Vladimir Putin.
But these already getting a bunch of pushback from some pretty high high profile Conservatives and Republicans who disagree with the way that he's going about trying to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. All Right, So Netflix is planning to spend a billion dollars in Mexico over the next few years. Ted Sarandos, of course, the head co founder I believe it is co CEO, announced the plan yesterday during a press conference with the President of
Mexico Claudia Shinbaum. They said it could fund about twenty productions per year on average. During the event, they also announced two million dollars in Mexico City's studios called Churubusco Studios to improve their facilities. Mexico, they said, is a key place in Netflix's history because the TV show Club de Quervos, produced in Mexico, premier back in twenty fifteen, was the first Netflix series that was shot outside of the the United States. Since then, they've put a bunch
of projects in Mexico. Have been popular films like Roma and Bardo and Pinocchio by Mexican directors. They've been standouts for Netflix. In twenty twenty, they established the Latin American headquarters for Netflix there in Mexico City, and they said for the last five years, the workforce in that office
has grown tenfold, which is pretty amazing. The CEO Ted Sarandos again revealed that the production of the feature film Pedro Parramo contributed more than eighteen and a half million dollars to the GDP of Mexico and generated thousands of jobs in those sectors, and he spoke very eloquently about the scenes.
There the journey in Mexico. This is Ted Sarando speaking.
Our journey in Mexico has taken us from north to south, from sunsets on the Baja California Peninsula to sunrises on the Caribbean. We have produced more than in more than fifty locations in twenty five states. With this renewed commitment, we look forward to deepening our partnership even more. The business opportunities there are all over the place, and you think about this, just if all you did was look
at the number of potential streaming customers in Mexico. A lot of them, just like we hear in the United States, maintained several subscriptions at a time. They said Netflix is among the three most popular streaming platforms among Mexican people, is the second most used video on demand application, with a market share about twenty one percent. So they're pouring a lot of money into that market.
And then James Bond, this is a shakeup.
They're saying, they could stir the film industry, get it shaken, stirred. Amazon MGM announced that the studio has taken the creative rain of the Double O seven franchise from the family that controlled it for a long time. Michael Wilson and Barbara Brockley said they were going to be stepping back, so Amazon MGM, Wilson, Brockley they formed a new joint venture in which they all co own the intellectual property rights, but it's Amazon that's going to have creative control on this.
They didn't explain how much this is a few hundred million dollars, but they said it's expected to close sometime over the next year. Amazon bought MGM for six billion in change a few years ago. They said it's significantly motivated by the acquisition of one of the movies most beloved and long time franchises. Of course, No Time to Die was the last James Bond. There's a question now
about what they're going to do with this. Do they turn this into sort of the Star Wars, I mean a huge franchise like this, Think think Star Wars, I think Marvel movies.
Whatever.
There's a lot of off shoots that you can do that have never really been done with James Bond. Yeah, the character's been in dozens, if not a couple one hundred different stories in book form, movie forum, et cetera. But they've never done the beginning of James Bond, the life story of this guy. How did he become the world's most handsome secret agent?
And what about the other people that he works with?
Are there backstories to these other characters that are involved that that could have some sort of spin off on all of them? What Joe Russo though Marvel Cinematic Universe co director guy he did Avengers Endgame, he says, don't Cinematic Universe James Bond stick with just James Bond movies. Don't get into those other character discussions and offshoot movies.
All right, changing gears significantly in the next segment, something happened yesterday that I talked about at the beginning of the show yesterday, and this was the turnover of the bodies of Israeli hostages by Hamas. Two of those were of babies, when was nine months old, when was four years old, and then their mother. The problem, according to Israel is that body was not their mother. And Benjamin Netanyaho has basically said, in echoing Trump, all hell is going to break loose.
The story out of Israel got gruesome.
That place has been absolutely showered in blood for year decade. I mean it is a hard place to be. The ceasefire that we've seen between Israel and Hamas has at the very least resulted in some hostages being released.
Yesterday was.
Very sad chapter in that because four dead hostages. The bodies of those four hostages were released, but it didn't go as planned. Talked yesterday about how Hamas was parading these flag draped not flag draped, a cloth, black cloth draped coffins that were apparently locked, and when they were finally handed over to the Red Cross, the Red Cross hands them over to the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF then does forensic tests, autopsy basically on the remains of
those four people. Two of them were Aril and Kafir Bibas, the youngest of the hostages that were taken back on October seventh of twenty twenty three, and Hamas had said that they died in an Israeli air strike. Now we've talked with ABC's Jordana Miller. She filed this report from Jerusalem.
Terris and Gaza murdered quote with their bare hands, nine month old fear Bibus and his four year old brother Aril. Those are the gruesome results from Israel's National forensic institute that identified and did autopsies on the bodies of the
young Israeli hostages. It's another painful blow for the Bebas family and Israeli's at large after Hamas failed on Thursday to return the body of the children's mother, Shiri, handing over instead the body of a Gazen woman Jordana Miller, ABC News Jerusalem.
So it's hard to figure out what is true, what is not true, what's going on back there. Benjamin Etna who recorded a speech to the Israeli people and said, may God avenge their blood and we will also have our vengeance. Now, a lot of people in Israel if those allegations are true, that these kids were literally killed by Hamas, not by an Israeli strike. If that is not the body of Shiri Bibas, their mother, people want Hamas wiped off the face of the earth.
Enough.
Toylie Bennett, a former Prime minister, said that the treatment of that family, the Bebas family, shows the majority of Gozen's want to murder all of the Israelis, and for some of the people who live in Israel, they have said, this is exactly why we need to not stop this war.
They don't like the ceasefire. Now.
The ceasefire itself is supposed to end early in March, and when that happens, at least the way it's gone in the past, is Israel picks up right where they left off and blows up things and breaks things. Buzzel Schmotrich is a far right finance minister in Israel and said the only solution is the destruction of Hamas and this must not be postponed. There are voices that are
calling for calm that the fate of the family. The Bebas family exemplified why they need to extend the ceasefire to bring home the seventy hostages that are still there and in some cases dead. Hamas said in a statement it's investigating the claims that that wasn't Shiri Bibas's body and said that they may have mistakenly confused her body for that of a dead Palestinian woman in the aftermath of the bombing that they said took place late in
twenty twenty three. That they've been sitting on these bodies literally for well over a year before they return them. Nobody has been able to verify the accounts of either side of them of either side here, whether in fact it was a mistaken Palestinian woman, if it was a game that was being played by Hamas, if this was something that Israel is saying simply to stoke up anger, whatever, We just there's really no way to independently verify that.
While that was going on, three buses exploded near Tel Aviv, and what Israeli police said was a suspected coordinated terror attack. The buses where the bombs exploded were empty. They were in separate parking lots about five hundred yards away from each other. No injuries reported from the explosions.
They said.
Another bomb is also found undetonated on a fourth bus. The explosive devices, they said, resembled bombs that Israeli police have seen throughout the West Bank. One person has been arrested, but they haven't given a whole lot of other details. There was a note on one of the bombs that said revenge revenge against the tul Karm camp, referring to one of the Israeli operations in the West Bank last week. So all right, swamp Watch, we'll get into the stories
about what's going on in DC. The importance of using weights in your strength training dogs, sleeping.
I mean, these are all Friday topics, are they not.
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