LA/Portland Homeless Crisis and Wildfire Preparedness Debate. Jeff Bliss discusses how California hosts at least 50% of the nation's homeless, with numbers increasing, extending from downtown LA to Malibu. Homeless encampments pose a constant wildfire thr
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:40.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch, Los Angeles. Jeff knows Los Angeles very well, so I follow his reporting. It's been some weeks since we did a survey. It's months and |
| 0:47.2 | months and months of promises about the wildfire damage of last winter. But, Jeff, a very good evening |
| 0:54.0 | to you. I want to start downtown |
| 0:55.2 | L.A. because I'm not there, and I depend upon you and reporting of the videos. The campouts by |
| 1:02.7 | the homeless, are they still ringing the center part of Los Angeles? They're still there. They |
| 1:06.8 | didn't move. And are there more than ever. Good evening to you. |
| 1:12.7 | Good evening, John. There are more than ever. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. |
| 1:19.3 | There are more than ever. In fact, a recent report was released saying that we now have at least 50% of all homeless in the nation in California. And you're talking about a vast majority of those |
| 1:27.1 | are in the Los Angeles area. |
| 1:28.7 | We hear about them in San Francisco and other cities, but really Los Angeles is the big home for homeless in the state. |
| 1:36.7 | And they do ring the downtown area. |
| 1:39.4 | It's hard to find a place where they're not setting up encampments in terms of, you know, freeway |
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