. >> well, and here we are, fifinally.imately, we hope that this trip will raisese consciousness about the l.a. river. even on the way here, i was stuck in traffic, and i was thinking "i can't wait to get to that river..." >> [laughing] >> "and get my feet in that beauautiful water." >> on your marks. get set. >> go! >> i feel like it's--uh, it's just crazy to keep people from their rivers. you knknow, no matter the condition of the rivers, they deseserve, uh, a fight foror th, and, uh, if we have to take some of the brunt of that, then we're willing to do that. personallyly, what i'd like to e in thehe future with the l.a.a. river is, , first of a alla vever wher people e engad cleaning up the water, um, reusing it in smart ways, having it be sustainable for l.a., so we don't have t to keep stealing water from upstate, and the cocolorado, and all these other places where we're notoririous for taking our w war from. if we can turn the l.a. river around, there's probably no river in the world that can't be turned around. it