KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

We got the podcast running after 4 o'clock in case you missed any part of the radio show. It's the same thing.

There is a tremendous amount going on. We opened the show because Trump was holding one of his press conferences, you know, from the Oval Office,

and he was just ruminating on all kinds of things.

And he got on California's high-speed rail and said it was the worst project he's ever seen.

And he's seen a lot of bad projects.

And he's right.

It's been 17 years.

It's been at least $10.5 billion with billions more to be spent.

Nothing.

There's no track.

It was supposed to be originally Sacramento to San Diego.

They kept emphasizing L.A. to San Francisco.

And right now, they say, well, maybe Merced to Bakersfield.

And it's not even that.

And we've got an assemblywoman from the Central Valley in Tulare, Alexandria at Macedo,

who says, you know, it's time.

We shut off the funding.

We could use the $2 billion and use it for wildfire prevention and water infrastructure.

Look at all that's happened. Why do we have this situation here in Altadena and of the

palisades? Two biggest causes were a lack of water, including that empty reservoir, and a lack of

water infrastructure, such as a modern piping, modern fire hydrants, and then fire prevention.

...