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Karen Bass: “We had never experienced this before. We didn't know if the…”

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

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Discusses Homelessness, Federal Waivers, and City Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 11:09

I'm happy that we were extremely prepared. And I have to tell you, our fire chief, Kristen Crowley, just did a wonderful job in sounding the alarm, bringing everybody on board. But We had never experienced this before. We didn't know if the hurricane was going to shift in our direction or go someplace else. I'm sure people in the other, other parts of the country that experience this all the time looked at us and said, let's see what they're going to do over there. (11:09–11:16)

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Asserts that Los Angeles had never experienced a hurricane before and was uncertain about its path.

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