i think in the 24 years i have known him, i have only seen him cry twice and one of those times was when he introduced john lewis. he got all choked up. it was in front of a crowd in d.c. and he got to introduce him at an event and said he was an absolute american hero and how brave he was to do what he did. he served as a representative in the house of representatives for a very long time and still is active in trying to make sure that we continue to progress on these issues. it doesn t matter whether u you re black or white, latino, aszian american, or native american, whether you re gay or straight, we re one people, we re one family, we all live in the same house, not just the american house, but the world house. if you ever meet john lewis,
kind of scary aspects of his life, he was raised in a house of prostitution, his grandmother was a madam who ran a brothel, and that s where he was raised. my grandmother was the lady that used to discipline me, beat my ass. when we were traveling, he would laugh outloud and i would say what were you thinking about when you laughed? and he says, something richard pryor said once, and he would do it and do it in such and an mated way, you could see richard pryor doing it. he s been dead some time now, but without richard pryor we would not have chris rock or dave shap pell, you talk about how these absurdities affect our lives now. kareem s next choice was also
the facility to somebody else. we had a moratorium on that location. we re not going to issue massage permits there. all the potential human trafficking at that location. unable to get another city permit for a massage establishment, the new owners at this address decided to get creative in rebranding their business. the first one opened under the guise of, what did they call themselves? relaxation spa. whatever that is. that is a common term now. it is actually just came up with it in the last year and a half. so by simply calling themselves a relaxation spa, the new owner secured a new business permit and got into the so-called business of relaxation. they are saying, there are girl that will give you a towel to set up your room. you take bath, a hot tub, you lay down and relax. seriously? that s what they say they do. do you believe them? no. no. it s a house of prostitution. okay. go for it. despite their efforts, the new relaxation spa is not exempt from rout
house. to see if there is anything that can cause our crew harm. when alexander reaches the front door, firefighter mike okason is already there, and the cloud of thick black smoke is rolling above his head. and you could see that there are flames not far from me. he put on the helmet, and the breathing apparatus, and mike and i made entry into the house. once inside, smoke surrounds them. as soon as you go from outside into the fire, it becomes black and there is zero visibilit visibility. it is not like hollywood where you can see all of the flames and everything looks pretty. it is dark and it is ugly. and basically, we are on the hands and knees crawling to fight the fire, and searching out the victim in the house. we can t see anything. everything is by feel. for us to keep from becoming disoriented and basically going in circles, you keep one arm on
the wall at all times, and then you reach around to see if you will bump into anything. that is how you do a search crawl through the house. the firefighters can sense the fire around them, but they can t pinpoint the victim s e location, and they are running out of time. we could hear the rumbling of the flames over our head, and crackling of the wood in the structure. as it is getting louder, we know that we are getting closer to the seed of the fire mike started to hit the fire with the stream, and then i pushed to the leftf of him. i came across the victim down in the back bedroom. i yelled to the mike to assist me in removing the individual from the house. mike! give me a hand. we had to get him out as quickly as we could, but as low as we could out of the heat.