Scrutiny of Edison Tower

the golf being named Gulf of America. He also said that Mount McKinley, which used to Bednali, and that was the name of that of the mountain in that area for hundreds of years. That became Mount McKinley in nineteen fifteen. That's going back to Mount McKinley again in honor of President McKinley, William McKinley. In the meantime, do you mamer what happened with Cape Canaveral. Cape Canaveral became Cape Kennedy and then went back to Cape Canaveral. And why is that?

Because it was Cape Canaveral for hundreds of years. By the way, you know, when Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of Mexico about four hundred years ago, and now it's the Gulf of America. Yeah, you know, I'm okay for change, but you know, at certain points you go please, you know, you know, really all right, getting a lot more serious in terms of who's going to be to blame for the Eaton fire and is it going to be Southern California? Edison, the transmission lines. We're going to

relive that story of transmission lines. There is a video that show flashes of blue and white light flaring near that equipment and then the hillside explodes into flames. Is that Edison that caused that? Edis then of course says nope, nope, nope, we had nothing to do with it. Well, Sunday, one of the law firms suing Edison released an edited video

shows this blue arcing in the canyon. It's take about a mile away from a security camera, and it shows the suspected ignition point of the fire, strong winds whipping through the area, the flashing on the dark hill side, and then the lights flash into or so they say, into this fire. Okay. Right after that, the hillside begins to burn. As I said, a spokesperson for Edison said, hang on a minute, before we start throwing blame around.

Let's look at all the evidence. It has to be completed before a cause of the fire could be determined. By the way they're right, I mean, do we just don't do we not investigate? Do we just say okay, here it is no we have to investigate, and of course evident as Edison officials, surprising has surprisingly have said, we don't believe our electrical equipment was responsible and early inspections, Our early inspections of the equipment shows no signs of

arcing or power anomalies. No one knows what caused the fire. Edison says, well, it's being investigated by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. They're not going to comment on on it other than we're investigating. Now Here is one of the interesting side stories about this, and we're going to hear a lot more. Edison previously had said that the distribution lines in that area immediately west of

Eaton Canyon were de energized well before the fire started. Therefore, our power lines could not have started those because there was no energy in there. However, the company said that transmission lines on the east side of the canyon remained powered, and the chief executive of Edison also said the winds were not strong enough to merit de energizing that electrical

transmission line. So wait a minute, the line where the fire started was not de energized, and the lines or was ya was not degenerized, but degenerate, degenerate, d genericize. God that I did that energization. You know, I do that, and it drives me completely nuts. You know, you can tell that English is not my first language, Honest to God. There are times they go, Bill, you don't speak English. I go, yeah, Now, you know English is my second language. Anyway,

was it de energized? Right? Winds have to be sixty to eighty miles per hour for the company to consider de energizing those lines, And the readings of Edison show that they were lower than that. They didn't hit sixty miles an hour. They hit fifty nine miles an hour. Oh okay, Well you got to draw the line somewhere, you know, at some point you say no. So the National Weather Service records the fifty nine mile per hour

at the monitoring site there. Now, last week Edison, the attorney said, wait a minute, we also show an encampment about three hundred yards downhill from the suspected ignition point. Well, the attorney suing Edison says, that's right, three hundred yards down. Do you think that matters at all? You've got a bunch of homeless people, and three hundred yards away there's a fire that explodes. I mean, what do I think happened there? It's getting really very testy between everybody, as

you could imagine. Attorneys suing the company have asked the judge to order the company to preserve data and equipment. This happens all the time. That's not to say that Edison is not preserving the data. I don't even know why they asked that, because everybody preserves the data. Although Edison attorneys oppose that motion. Wait a minute, they oppose the motion which asked them to preserve the data, but they already are preserving the data. Why would they oppose

the motion? Just say okay, I don't care. It's like a restraining order. I talk about that all the time. I get asked on handle on the law. I've got a restraining order against me. I'm not allowed to visit my ex wife. I go, where do you live? About four hundred miles away from my ex wife. What do you care? Do you ever plan on seeing her again? No, what do you care? Are you going to fight that

restraining order? That's what's happening here now. Much of the cost of this fire, incidentally, could be absorbed by the state's wildfire fund. But if Edison gets nailed for this, and we're talking about damages in the billions of dollars here, Edison, by the way, doesn't have a good record with liability. Remember the Creek fire in twenty seventeen the Angelus National Forests, Well, they fought it and fought it and fought it, saying

it's not our fault, it's not our fault. Last year, a federal investigator with the US Forest Service made its determination, Yeah, it was your fault after gaining access to Edison's data in twenty twenty two. Here's what the federal complaint was. Here's the language of the federal complaint against Edison in

the Creek fire back in twenty seventeen southern California. Edison breached its duty of care and was negligent in causing the Creek fire, including its failure to construct, maintain, and operate its power lines and equipment in a safe and effective working order. All right? Is that going to be brought into court. It's a civil trial, it's not a criminal trial. But still I don't think it's looking good for Edison personally. But you gotta wait, you know, we

have to wait until the investigation is over. Although what was it? The creek fire took five years before anybody figured it out, all right? Coming up a story about the fires. Remember I talked about private firefighting. You could hire your own fire department firefighters. There's another spin on that that I want to share with you that I'll let you you haven't thought about. And that's coming right up.

like almost like security. Private security comes out to your home or business or these communities and they have nothing to do with the cops. But they come out and they patrol and some are armed in armed security for many buildings. Well, we talked about private firefighters. You can hire private firefighters, and that seems to be a thing. How about this one, Now, private fire hydrants. You can put in your own fire hydrant. Wait a minute, how

do you do that? Well, there's a story in the La Times about this lawyer, Cassandra Rieira, and she soaked the plants in her yard, She moved flammable patio dure inside, did all the stuff you're supposed to do, and then hooked up her private fire hydrant to two long hoses she left coiled on the ground. Years ago, she spend thirteen hundred dollars on a personal hydrant system and an additional thousand bucks for a plumber to install it at

the recommendation of local fire department. Why because her side of the street didn't have a public hydrant. This isn't about replacing hydrants when there are no hydrants. This is when the hydrant is down the street. And far away. If there's a hydrant right next to you, well you should be okay. And if the hydrant runs out of water, do you still get municipal water sometimes? And what this is about is hooking up to your home sprinkler system, home water system, and it turns it into a fire hose.

Now not the kind you see the fireman use, but it's an inch and a half. It pressurizes the water with its system, and all of a sudden, you don't have just a garden hose. You have this inch and a half high pressure water that's going out. Not bad, I mean it sure helps. It's a form of preparedness. Companies are selling these way less expensive than having a

dedicated firefighting crew down the street. Are paying for private firefighters, and customers purchase what they need hoses, nozzles, valves, adapters, and very simply, it increases the water flow rate from the outdoor faucet that supplies water to the house, and I mean increases it dramatically. And they're legal. Private hydrants are perfectly legal now owners are responsible for maintaining them. They have to pay for the water they use, just

like anything else. It's right off the meter. The guy who sells these, President of Brush Fire Battle System says, it's your water, it's behind your meter. And by the way, we began selling these private fire hydrants three years ago. Are there some rules. They have to be painted red, for example, they can't be yellow. That's one thing. So the fire department knows immediately this is a private fire hydrant, all right, that's La County. They have to be a

painted red. And there is a twenty twenty three LA City Fire Code that says any action or project permit is required to install. So you got to hit a permit in La in the city of Los Angeles, and private hydrants are going to be used and are being used and being bought by homeowners all over the place. Now the experts are saying, you don't actually want to fight the fire yourself. You want to leave that the professional firefighters, so you don't actually pick up the hose

and fight the fire. Come on, if there isn't a firefighter anywhere near. If you look at the Palisades fire, how much of that was left alone. There simply weren't enough firefighting trucks. There simply wasn't enough equipment. Of course, people that had these were using them to save their homes. And the problem is that was a gamble. Do you stay? I don't know. If it's putting out spotfires when the embers come down, yeah, if the fire is roaring to

towards you at eighty miles an hour, maybe not. But they're quickly becoming the top requested amenity among wealthy home buyers. And since they're only one thousand dollars fifteen hundred dollars to install, that's not asking too much. Man. I would put one in in a heartbeat. Matter of fact. You know, I have a new home. I think I'm putting one in. I'm gonna paint it fusia or rainbow color. So I don't want to go into that. There's a whole political

thing about that. All right, We're done with that. Coming up? What is deep Seek? Oh? Has that turned the stock market around? And if you haven't heard what deep Seek is, it's a big one and that I'll share with you. Coming up.

just decimated by the news. And not only as a tech technical aspect to it in terms of the cost of AI, because it's an AI, it's an AI program. But also it has a massive political component because this has to do with the US and China developing AI technology. Now, the US government and many tech firms are well simply

scared of China. We have to keep ahead of China technologically, and in many cases the government will not let certain chips be sold to the Chinese because of their ability to, for example, deal with AI, because the government says, we have to keep the US on top of this. Wooh. Also it pulls into question the huge amounts of money tech companies say they plan on spending on data centers and computer chips for AI. AI power is enormous. In order to power AI technology, tons of money has to

be spent. Navidia, I mean, that's the biggest chip maker of this. These AI chips demand unbelievable amounts of money and they're hideously expensive. So what did Deep Seek do Well? It was founded by a Chinese guy in twenty twenty three. He co founded one of China's top hedge funds, and then he got into this manufacturing of this AI technology. I mean this seemed like a bright guy. Yeah, like unbelievable in terms of tech. Oh, by the way, he's

only twelve years old. I'm just kidding. It's just all these new billionaires are twelve or fifteen years old. Anyway. What it does is it uses Navidia's chips but lower power allowed to be sold to China, and it bought about ten thousand of these A one hundred graphics processor chips that are used to build and run its AI systems. They can do it for far less money. They can do it to run it far less power, and it's as good as what America is producing, which is costing

in the billions of dollars to develop. I think they started up with a five and a half million dollars startup fund and they pulled this off. I mean, this is peanuts and now everybody is sweating bullets. I mean, the market reacted it was the biggest one day fall in tech stocks, and the history of the market in Vidio's fall was just astronomical against a little bit. Today, its recent models are built with the lower performing chips not banned in China, so you don't need the fancies.

Hardware may not be needed, isn't needed for cutting edge AI research, and it's supposed to be as good ass man. That is scaring everybody investors in AI technology, and I mean by the billions and billions of dollars Google Amazon, and all of a sudden, they can turn around and go, wait, that's fine, they did this for five and a half

million dollars. What's what the hell's going on? And of course the geopolitical angle of this, all of a sudden, China is developing a technology in what we in the United States consider the future our technological advantage and all of a sudden is gone. And the politicos read the Trump administration is sweating bullets wide because of what are one of the primary primary points of the Trump administration running for office, Because we're enemies with China. We are enemies.

We haven't gone to war, but we are in a trade war, and we can't let him have our technology. Well, guess what, they don't need our technology. They have their own and it doesn't cost them jack. Now the President has gone from we cannot let China have any advantage over us to saying yesterday to House Republicans in Miami that this news is positive and that means you won't be spending as much and you're gonna get the same result.

And he called the development a wake up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win. By the way, do you know how much money was spent by Open Ai, Oracle, and soft Bank on AI technology. It's gonna be about five hundred billion dollars half a trillion dollars. Yeah, they did it,

it's being reported with five and a half million. They were able to pull this off using chips that you buy at your local computer store, You go online, you go on Amazon, you buy a reasonably low cost chip, a gaming chip, and you can pull this off, or at least the Chinese have done it. I mean, it is just incredible what they've been able to do. And I tell you they are well, this guy is unbelievable. I mean, he's going to be one of the pioneers,

one of the visionaries. I'll tell you that. Okay, we're done with that. Now, let's talk about how if you have a kid and you have a caregiver, probably illegal, I mean that's the way it normally goes. I have a little story for you that I want to share. Then, what's going on with this crackdown? Well, you're going to be affected big time and caregivers through the years. I mean, you're going to get old, You're going to need your diapers changed. It's that simple. And who's going to do it?

That is the story coming up. Aha, diaper changing story just for you.

It is now the Gulf of America. And okay, you know, some big changes are afoot, some big changes that we've been reporting on that unless you live under a rock you have been seeing, and that is this immigration crackdown, and I mean immigration crackdown. They are picking up the federal government is picking up illegal immigrants by the bus load. And Trump pet promise and has kept this promise that illegal immigration will not be tolerated. I'm going to this

is Trump speaking to port eleven million illegal immigrants. Now, is he gonna do that? Of course that first he is going after the bad guys, and that seems to be happening. And here is the problem. Now, let's look at the non bad guys. Okay, people who work in healthcare. Like my mother, she didn't work in healthcare. She had

people take care of her. Now, one of the aspects about illegal immigration, as many Americans say, if illegal immigrants were thrown out of this country, then we would have jobs. They are taking away our jobs. I don't know anybody who is out there picking strawberries who is white, no idea. I don't know anybody who's a caregiver. Caregivers are either at home or in their own facilities, and they take

care of elderly people for the most part. Now, according to the Kaiser Foundation, they're saying twenty eight percent of the workers who cared directly for people in nursing homes and other forms of long term care are illegal immigrants. I don't buy that for a second. I think it is far far higher than that, because as my mother was in various facilities and she deteriorated, so I was giving her more and more care. She as I've shared with you before, she died at the age of ninety eight.

She should have died at the age of ninety three because by the age of nine three she no longer knew who I was, who anybody was, and I was spending a lot of money caring for her. Should have put her on the just parked her on the sidewalk. She wouldn't have known the difference. And all the caregivers

in the various facilities she was at were Hispanic or Filipino. Also, by the way, in many cases illegal immigrants and so as more and more are deported, and we're going to see not just the bad guys, but they're going to raid facilities. Are they going to raid healthcare? They're going to raid nursing homes. Who the hell knows? And well, a friend of mine who is a contractor, who's now a friend the contractor who was remodeled my house. As you know, I bought a house and I remodeled it.

And he was saying, and Polo goes to home Depot and Low's to pick up supplies that he needs that he doesn't order, and he walked in there. He was telling me that there used to be people that were in the driveways, you know, the entrances of the stores, and they were Hispanic and virtually all of them being illegal because they worked casual labor. You go into a home depot or a Lows today, that parking lot is empty. There is no one there to help you none. Now

are they going to raid parking lots? The government going to raid the entrances to these massive big home store they store DIY stores. Who the hell knows, They're already raiding factories. We know that. I guess the next step is where illegal migrants congregate. The next step is probably going to be nursing homes where the huge majority of the workers are illegal migrants. And it's going to be tough because we're getting older and old, we are aging.

As a matter of fact. According to the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, by twenty thirty, a quarter of California's population will be at least sixty years old. I'll be a lot older than that. And demand for home healthcare, aids, nursing assistants' personal care is going to go up, up, up, up, And there aren't enough people. There won't be enough people. And why well, because illegal migrants are the majority of the people that work there. Pay is very low. Changing

diapers is not the best work in the world. Cleaning people up, giving them baths, it's no fun. And I don't buy the fact that they're taking away our jobs. I mean they're not. They're the only ones that are doing that job for the most part. So that's the other side of it. You know, do we dislike illegal immigrants in this country? Yes, we do. This is how Trump won, This is how Trump is now the president because he just pegged the feeling. I mean, he grabbed it.

Democrats completely screwed the pooch. Did not understand the strong, strong feelings that the American populace has about illegal immigration. Now, are they all rapists and murderers? No? Are they taking American jobs? Not for the most part, I don't buy that. But are they violating the law? Are they're invading our country. Is our sovereignty being ignored? Yes, yes, so, Neil, you're gonna have to change your own diapers. Sorry, uh okay.

You know what bothers me about that is the assumption that Latinos that come from South America only want to do that, like they don't. No, no, it's the other way. That's that's not true. What it is true is the ones that do that come for the most part from South America. You have to look at it both ways. You cannot say this is what they want to do and only there are some highly skilled people, not illegal immigrants. I will tell you that right now. Illegal migrants are

not highly skilled. We don't have cardiovascular surgeons sneaking over the border that we don't have. It is. It's tough for everybody on this one. And what is the takeaway? You're gonna change your own diverse. Okay, we're done, coming up Rich to Morrow before me? Pardon you before me? Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, coming up Rich to morreaw with Tech Tuesday KFI a M. You've been listening to

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