Davis. And closing us out. Holly
Hanson, Houston based political
begin. What this love. I don't
know what to do with that. Well
you have to live with my baby
bad. Give me but bad. Please
wait. Good. Maybe. Grief the
never experience it emanated in
a heart rending flow of sorrow
from the mother of Bharti
Shahani, who succumbed to
monstrous crush of humanity,
which was the Travis Scott
concert and after world. Nine
lives have now been lost as our
community seeks definitive
answers to essential questions.
Why did this happen? Who was
most responsible? Could it have
been prevented and ultimately
death and maiming of innocence
is never repeated on Harris
County Ground. Panel this week,
plaintiffs lawyers launched a
Greg Abbott created a task force
on concert safety. I want to
start with you tomorrow, Bell.
What's your take? I don't want
ever again? Uh one of the things
that I look back. I talked to my
siblings. I don't think I've
ever been to a general
ever. And if you're going to
have this, you have to do the T
shaped at all times. That is a
exit down the middle exit on
each side, just in case
something happened. When you
know you're going to have 1000
people packed in together, You
have no idea who's asthmatic.
You don't know where it's hard
issues. You don't know what
happened. So you have to prepare
for what you you cannot.
Thinking that you hope I should
say doesn't happen, but you
still they stay a pound of
prevention is worth, uh,
insecure and that is the
problem. We have. Who's
responsible. Let me tell you
what the lawyers everybody they
think. I don't care down to
whoever opened the gate to let
them in. They are going to tag
them in this lawsuit. I mean,
that goes from the county.
Whoever was doing up. Safety but
cautions they're going to take
everybody. This should have
never happened at a concert that
mothers broken heart. Saying how
daughter asked her this one
thing and the reason she said
yes was because she don't never
ask for herself and broke my
heart as a mother that they
broke my heart. Because it is no
way in her mind because she
thinks she would not see her
baby again if she said Yes. So
it my deepest prayers to all of
them. Bill King. You've been
looking at the facts as they
been unfolding this week. What's
your take? I mean, it just
appears to be gross negligence
by a whole lot of people that
put this concert together.
There's been several other
concert promotion companies have
talked about all the precautions
that were not taken better
standard in this industry. Look
um, this Houston is a bad place
to do something like this
because we have world class
finance lawyers here. Uh this is
going to be hundreds of millions
of dollars in settlements and
judgments. In my opinion I
suspect we'll see some
individuals and entities up in
bankruptcy court before this is
all over. Marcus Davis. You deal
with thousands of people through
this was a major topic of
conversation. As you have
watched this unfold all water.
it's a major conversations I
have avoided quite frankly, just
because I think that, um it's
one that shouldn't be going on
in the media space and in the
public space. I have. I have the
utmost simple before those
families that lost their lives.
Um I'm I am disgusted with being
a hot button topic. On every
news media all across the
country. Um that's just you know
words from that, except we get
some sort of sensationalism. Uh
because nobody knows, right.
Nobody knows what could have
should have water. At the end of
the day. This is all about
whether or not the who, who's at
fault because nobody knows
nobody knows what you know. The
attorneys will do that thing and
people will get their
compensation and we'll find the
next topic to highlight. Uh the
next news cycle. But it's time
to just let these chambers B and.
And you know, stop monetizing
the, uh. You know the pain that
I see this experiencing in that
these families are experiencing
Howley Hansen. It wasn't that
long ago that you had young men
who would go to events and
concerts as a mother and as a
reporter, Uh, what's your take?
You know what? As a mother, I
will tell you. I was kind of
surprised to hear that There are
very young Children at this
event, and, uh, you know,
there's not a single simple
cause for what happened, and
there's not going to be a single
simple solution. There's
multiple factors. I think that
contributed him, and Marcus has
a great point. You know, we need
to make sure that we're not just
sensationalizing the event but
letting the investigations take
place and taking a look at what
done to prevent this in the
future. Let's keep in mind that
there are large scale large
venue concerts that take place
all the time. Prior to the
Across the country every year
and you know, with better
controls. We don't have deaths.
Typically you know, some of you
folks. Remember there were some
guns and roses concerts back in
the day where there were some
deaths. Some bad things happened
and there were repercussions and
there will be with us as well.
I'm quite sure. All right, Bob
Price been working with you over
five years. Now you have a
strong analytical eye as you
watched the reporting that's
your take? Oh, Greg, I certainly
think that there's an absolute
need for Responsible journalism
in this public has an interest
in what happened. We, as Holly
mentioned we have thousands of
concerts that take place every
year and any time whether it's a
concert, a professional sporting
event at college football game
anywhere where you've got tens
of thousands of people crammed
into small spaces. That when
something goes wrong and panic
and sues, you're going to have
this opportunity for Something
tragic like this to happen. We
How we're going to fix that. I
was glad to see Governor Abbott
come out and call for a
investigation at the state level
to increase measures for concert
security and to help prevent
some of these types of things
from happening in the future.
It's not the first time that
this has happened, although
seconds. The city needs to be at
beginning. From the very
beginning. And we need to be
able to have the final say.
telegraphing a forthcoming
demand in the wake of the deadly
after World debacle panel. This
disaster occurred on county own
How are those two fundamental
facts play out for the
leadership of both governmental
entities? I'm asking you
needs to be at the table. But
let me be clear with it. This
happened on county property with
county governance. Okay The
Houstons Harris County Sports
Authority. That's what we run
that site along with Judge
Lina Hidalgo the city you should
be in the conversation because,
as I said before, I don't want
not just at the county, a county
facility anywhere. So everybody
needs to see what solutions they
can come up with to keep it from
happening. So yeah, everybody
needs to be at the table, but
that that's the county stuff.
Hello handsome. You cover county
government. You think they're
worried over there? Uh,
worried. I believe that there is
a special meeting tomorrow. The
Harris County Commissioners
court to discuss the problem. Um
they're certainly going to be
worried about it. If I did sort
of interesting to that up to a
few days prior to this festival,
we were still on red alert here
in the county for our COVID
threat level, So it's a little
bit interesting that. You know
permits were issued for such a
large event. Um you know, and
again, you're going to have
issues when you have a large
have good crowd control measures
in place. So be interesting to
see what they come up with. Bill
King. What was your read on the
the hypocrisy here at every
level is just so rich. I mean,
if you recall, uh
Sylvester Turner standing with
Travis Scott in the middle of
the rodeo a couple of years
calling for the asked them and
declaring Travis Scott they and
now all of a sudden he wants to
be in charge of the
investigation. Of his buddy,
the Aga says We're still at stay
home. Don't go anyplace, but by
the way, we'll let 50,000 people
crowd into a, uh, facility and
Greg Abbott is going to set up a
task force for this. Marcus and
I were talking about this during
the break had the same reaction.
We can investigate the grid and
break. All right, Marcus, jump
in here. You did say that.
Listen I, uh I will say this
right and this is no finger
pointing just going to point
something out if I would try to
open a restaurant, and so if I
get a visit, you all know why.
If I were trying to open a
restaurant, then nobody's going
to tell me you need to fire
sprinkler. And we're gonna let
you open anyway. And then after
the restaurant burns up, then
they say, Well, we sat down with
Mr Davis before and told him he
needed five Sprinkle they're
gonna say no from the job. Right