I'm John Batchew with my good colleague, Jeff Bliss, who's on location in Las Vegas,

but we're going to, Jeff's

haunts in Los Angeles because there's lots of political news. I'll begin with the homeless story.

There are the horrors that the TV reporters discover day by day of people living in conditions

that are not anything that you could ever promote

for human beings.

It's quite shocking.

And it happens every day.

It's commonplace.

They've gotten used to in L.A., but there was one video or shot that I saw that Jeff sent

me that illustrated more than anything else the challenge of the homeless in

Los Angeles. There's a street sweeper coming down. I take it this as central Los Angeles.

And the street sweeper was flummoxed how to get down the street because there were these piles

of rubble, piles of blankets, piles of cardboard, and some of them had

humans in them, or under them, or near them. He couldn't tell. So he was picking his way down,

trying to avoid actually damaging a human being. Jeff, that requires a lot of detail, but I come to the question, because all these items about

the homeless have been so overwhelmingly negative for years, is something new happening because

there's a mayoral race, a gubernatorial race, or a presidential race? Are they giving attention

to it that is fresh? Well, John, for years giving nothing,

excuse me, really, but lip service and having photo ops, Mayor Karen Bass and some of her other

colleagues are making a big deal now about how they're taking care of the homeless situation in Los

Angeles. There seem to have a new photo op every day, which makes sense,

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