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Karen Bass: “The winds reach close to 100 miles an hour and the planes…”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

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He talked about the winds. That is just completely inaccurate. If that were accurate, then the planes would have been able to fly. And so The winds reach close to 100 miles an hour and the planes were unable to fly. So if there were reservoirs, if that reservoir had been open, it would not have worked. We had two other reservoirs totaling 8 billion, 8 billion gallons that were available. (07:01–07:07)

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Asserts that winds reached close to 100 miles per hour, affecting flight operations.

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