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Speaker 3: We're going to go straight to an update on the
Speaker 3: Franklin Fire out of Malibu, four thy thirty seven acres.
Speaker 4: They just said it's at twenty percent containment as of that.
Speaker 5: Of the areas, and that's strictly due to the successful
Speaker 5: efforts of all agency personnel working collaboratively together to start
Speaker 5: bringing containment and make sure the areas are safe.
Speaker 4: Some areas around the fire are.
Speaker 5: Still going to still remain in evacuation orders and warnings.
Speaker 5: It is our number one priority to get residents back
Speaker 5: into their homes and to their communities. However, we have
Speaker 5: to make sure it's safe to do so. The team
Speaker 5: behind me and the multiple firefighters that are out and
Speaker 5: agencies on this incident are constantly and striving to get
Speaker 5: you in back into your communities as quickly as possible.
Speaker 5: But this is a multi agency approach and we do
Speaker 5: need to make sure that the area is safe prior
Speaker 5: to anybody re entering the area. We need to ensure
Speaker 5: that we have the first responder safety along with safety
Speaker 5: for the residents. As we go through the next couple
Speaker 5: of days, we'll continue to work on reopening additional areas
Speaker 5: as it is safe and it's been extinguished and checked
Speaker 5: to make sure it's safe for the public to return.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I was a LA County Assistant Chief Dusty Martin. There
Speaker 3: again an update on the Franklin fire burnout and out everyone.
Speaker 6: My name is Deputy Fire Chief of Lenny Pappus. I'm
Speaker 6: with Los Angeles County Fire Department and I'm one of
Speaker 6: the ICs along with Chief Martin. I'd like to just
Speaker 6: say let you know there was a valiant effort amongst
Speaker 6: the firefighters in this first thirty six to forty eight hours.
Speaker 6: It was an incredible show of commitment that contained the
Speaker 6: fire to the footprint you see today. I'd like to
Speaker 6: say that we have done in assess of the structures
Speaker 6: within the fire footprint. Roughly seventy six hundred structures are
Speaker 6: in the fire footprint. Fifty six hundred are single family
Speaker 6: dwellings their homes. Out of those, fifty six hundred homes
Speaker 6: that we believe. Right now, we've only done twenty five
Speaker 6: percent full assessment of the area. Four homes have been destroyed,
Speaker 6: six homes have been damaged, and we are reporting five
Speaker 6: outbuildings or smaller structures like sheds and things like that
Speaker 6: that have been destroyed. So we have a total of
Speaker 6: nine structures destroyed and four damage. Again, that's only twenty
Speaker 6: five percent of the total assessment. As we get a
Speaker 6: better handle around this fire, will get better clarity, we'll
Speaker 6: be able to complete an assessment of all of our
Speaker 6: structures and get a final report. We just want to
Speaker 6: assure everyone that La County Fire and our partners with
Speaker 6: cal Fire and all of our unified command and supporting
Speaker 6: agencies that we will be there to help get our people,
Speaker 6: get the residents and the communities back into their homes,
Speaker 6: and we will be there to help with support. So
Speaker 6: thank you again and we are looking forward to getting
Speaker 6: everyone back home safely.
Speaker 4: Thank you well.
Speaker 3: We're getting this update out of out of Malibu again
Speaker 3: with a Franklin fire. The assistant chief said that the
Speaker 3: acreage held at four thousand and thirty seven and as
Speaker 3: of right now, they have been able to cut a
Speaker 3: lot more containment line around. It stands at twenty percent contained.
Speaker 3: And as the other assistant chief there was saying nine
Speaker 3: structures destroyed, and they said four of those were homes.
Speaker 3: So in the context of other massive fires that have
Speaker 3: blown through Malibu in the last couple of decades, this
Speaker 3: is actually pretty They got pretty lucky with this one
Speaker 3: in that the wind event that we saw when Monday
Speaker 3: night into Tuesday, which really blew this thing pretty quickly,
Speaker 3: then has slowed down significantly, and there is a chance
Speaker 3: of some showers over the couple next couple of hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they started in northern California this morning and they're
Speaker 1: moving down the coast. They say that into the afternoon,
Speaker 1: in the evening, we're going to have the clouds that
Speaker 1: we're seeing now, and then the chance of rain in
Speaker 1: the mountain and foothill areas.
Speaker 4: So relatively good news. But what else is going on?
Speaker 7: Time four?
Speaker 4: What's happening?
Speaker 3: Stay away, water damage, fire damage, Burglary called public adjuster
Speaker 3: and their death eight one, eight, nine, seven, five, five six.
Speaker 2: Stay away from the what the pink cocaine?
Speaker 4: We did that already.
Speaker 2: Stay away from all the cocaine.
Speaker 1: You can't do drugs anymore kids they put stuff in it,
Speaker 1: they will kill you.
Speaker 3: And if they're trying to market it with fancy colors,
Speaker 3: you know, it's even worse.
Speaker 1: Stick to Core's light, like our friends said earlier, will
Speaker 1: never lead you astray.
Speaker 2: Unless you have twelve it's easy to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pink cocaine, it's making its way into the
Speaker 1: LA drug already seen.
Speaker 3: It's a mix of ketamine, molly, opioids, even some new
Speaker 3: psychoactive substances. There's too many ingredients for me, just a
Speaker 3: sweet smelling powder that triggers hallucinogenic effects. The head of
Speaker 3: the UCLA Police Department, John Thomas, has stepped down because
Speaker 3: of criticism of the security lapses during protests on campus
Speaker 3: earlier this year. A social media post the Police Department
Speaker 3: of UCLA said that Thomas's last day was Tuesday, did
Speaker 3: not specify what prompted the departure, whether this was a
Speaker 3: mutual you quit or we will resign you kind of thing.
Speaker 3: He was reassigned by the university in May after the
Speaker 3: internal and external investigations into how the university handled those protests,
Speaker 3: and to be honest, it was it seems from the
Speaker 3: outside like the fact they let them happen in the
Speaker 3: first place and get out of control.
Speaker 4: It was the problem.
Speaker 3: If they had clamped down on and followed their own
Speaker 3: rules early on, this would not have been an issue.
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey will join Netflix's NFL Christmas Game Day. Mariah
Speaker 1: Carey will kick off its first ever NFL Christmas Game
Speaker 1: Day Live with a performance of.
Speaker 2: What Sean do you think She's gonna sing? Just take a.
Speaker 1: Guess out of the entire catalog of Mariah Carey songs,
Speaker 1: going back to emotions, sweet fantasy, sweet fantasy, that would
Speaker 1: be fun. No, heartbreaker, heartbreaker, something about the Christmas We
Speaker 1: belong together.
Speaker 2: It is the Christmas one, the Christmas one. Yes, and
Speaker 2: now you don't even want to say no.
Speaker 1: It's just funny because like we're hit over the head
Speaker 1: with this song every Christmas and now I can't remember
Speaker 1: what the name.
Speaker 2: Oh all I want for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: You right?
Speaker 1: It's a banger. It's a fun little He'll get you going,
Speaker 1: He'll get you moving.
Speaker 4: No one has ever said that about that song. It's
Speaker 4: not a banger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they have.
Speaker 3: The website for LAX was down this morning because if
Speaker 3: computer system issues now again, that's Lax theflylax dot com website.
Speaker 3: If you have other problems or questions, you can always
Speaker 3: ask your airline. But the Lax website was having some problems,
Speaker 3: so if you tried to get on there.
Speaker 4: Are you singing over there?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: You can still hear you.
Speaker 1: Sorry, A lot going on in Washington this week with
Speaker 1: the resignation of Christopher Ray. We've got Biden going nuts
Speaker 1: when it comes to pardoning people.
Speaker 2: John Decker joins us.
Speaker 1: It's a White House correspondent, of course, a journalist, a lawyer,
Speaker 1: and the White House Press Corps probably the only one, right,
Speaker 1: I think so, John Joys correct, Very cool, John joins us, Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of action over in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Early this morning is when we got word of
Speaker 7: these more than fifteen hundred commutations of sentences that President
Speaker 7: Biden has delivered to individuals who are convicted of non
Speaker 7: violent crimes thirty nine pardons as well. Today again individuals
Speaker 7: who were convicted of non violent felonies and were serving
Speaker 7: time in prison. So a little bit of an early
Speaker 7: Christmas president for those individuals.
Speaker 3: How what's that process? How do these names get in
Speaker 3: front of the president or people who would then present
Speaker 3: them to the president that would be possible for these
Speaker 3: commutations and pardons.
Speaker 7: It's a great question, and it's a question that the
Speaker 7: White House Press Secretary did not provide any additional information
Speaker 7: on today. There is an office within the White House
Speaker 7: Council's Office that handles pardons, and there is a division
Speaker 7: within the Justice Department that handles pardons. And it really
Speaker 7: sometimes is all about who you know. And you think
Speaker 7: about the last administration, former President Donald Trump. If you
Speaker 7: knew Kim Kardashian and all sneeriousness, you could potentially get
Speaker 7: a party because of the fact that the Trump White
Speaker 7: House listened to her when she came forward and said,
Speaker 7: I have some names of individuals that are deserving on
Speaker 7: the second chance, deserving of a presidential pardon, or deserving
Speaker 7: of having their sentence commuted. So it sometimes comes all
Speaker 7: down to that. As you know, with the pardon of
Speaker 7: the President's son, Hunter Biden, that was done outside of
Speaker 7: the White House, that was done outside of the Department
Speaker 7: of Justice. That was a personal decision that was made
Speaker 7: by President Biden.
Speaker 2: Now they say that.
Speaker 1: These are nonviolent crimes, but when you get into what
Speaker 1: nonviolent crimes are, you get into things like theft, arson, robbery, things,
Speaker 1: that there are victims in these crimes.
Speaker 2: They are not victimless crimes.
Speaker 1: We never hear the details, though, of what these people
Speaker 1: have done to get incarcerated. We only hear about the
Speaker 1: good works that they've done post incarceration.
Speaker 7: Well, in the case of the pardons, the White House
Speaker 7: spelled out in the pardon information that was provided to
Speaker 7: us the exact primes that these individuals were convicted of
Speaker 7: in the first place, and the pardons are The language
Speaker 7: is very simple as it relates to those thirty nine
Speaker 7: individuals their pardon for the crimes that they were convicted of.
Speaker 7: That is very different, by the way, from the language
Speaker 7: that was used in the pardon of Hunter Biden. It
Speaker 7: was a blanket pardon, a very unusual pardon because it
Speaker 7: covered eleven full years essentially any activity Hunter Biden was
Speaker 7: involved in over this course of an eleven year period
Speaker 7: from January one, twenty fourteen, through December first of twenty
Speaker 7: twenty four he was given a pardon for by his father,
Speaker 7: the President.
Speaker 3: The other big issue that happened yesterday was this announcement
Speaker 3: that Christopher Ray, the director of the FBI, had been
Speaker 3: telling other members of the FBI that he was in
Speaker 3: fact going to step down as director before Trump comes
Speaker 3: in to be inaugurated. We knew that that was likely,
Speaker 3: or that something like that was going to happen. But
Speaker 3: what was this much of a surprise And does it
Speaker 3: change anything about what goes on with the FBI between
Speaker 3: now and the potential that Cash Pattel becomes the new director.
Speaker 7: Well, there's a deputy director of the FBI who becomes
Speaker 7: interim director for the short period of time between the
Speaker 7: time that Christopher Ray leaves his position as director of
Speaker 7: the FBI and the period in which a new director,
Speaker 7: potentially Cash Battel, is confirmed by the US Senate. It
Speaker 7: wasn't a huge surprise given the fact that in late
Speaker 7: November Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted Cash Battel,
Speaker 7: a loyalist, someone who's served in his first administration, to
Speaker 7: serve as the next FBI director. The writing was on
Speaker 7: the wall for Christopher Ray that Donald Trump did not
Speaker 7: want him serving in that role. And when you're the
Speaker 7: FBI director, you serve at the pleasure of the president.
Speaker 7: And I think that Christopherray recognized that, and that's the
Speaker 7: reason why he told those staff members at the FBI
Speaker 7: yesterday at FBI headquarters that he intends to step down
Speaker 7: before Donald Trump is sworn in as America's forty seventh president.
Speaker 2: And then the timetable for all of these confirmations. How
Speaker 2: does that work?
Speaker 7: Well, when the one hundred and nineteenth Congress is sworn in,
Speaker 7: for both the House and the Senate, they can begin
Speaker 7: that confirmation process, including hearings, so that all will take
Speaker 7: place in the first week in January when the new
Speaker 7: Senate is sworn in, and in the case of cash Gettel,
Speaker 7: his confirmation hearing, just like the hearing for President Elect
Speaker 7: Trump's pick to be the Attorney General, will take place
Speaker 7: before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So the Judiciary Comittee will
Speaker 7: handle both of their confirmation hearings, and then the full
Speaker 7: Senate would vote on their confirmations. By the way, all
Speaker 7: of that could take place before Donald Trump is sworn
Speaker 7: into office, so he could have some of his cabinet
Speaker 7: all ready to go on January twentieth, ready to carry
Speaker 7: out whatever direct is he gives them.
Speaker 3: Here's a question I've never thought of. Is there a
Speaker 3: priority list or a priority order for the Senate to
Speaker 3: go through these different nominations.
Speaker 7: Well, It's an interesting question. But what happens is various
Speaker 7: Senate committees do their confirmation process simultaneously. So, for instance,
Speaker 7: the Senate Armed Services Committee will do their confirmation process
Speaker 7: for Donald Trump's pick to be the next Defense Secretary,
Speaker 7: Pete Hegseath, at the same time that the Judiciary Committee
Speaker 7: is doing their confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, the former
Speaker 7: Florida Attorney General, to be the next Attorney General. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, excellent, great, John, Thanks so much. I hope you
Speaker 1: are successful in evading that arrest.
Speaker 7: That wasn't for me.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what they all say, John, That's what they all.
Speaker 4: We will pardon you, especially in DC.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got squirting cucumbers, We've got the age
Speaker 1: old moving, the sofa problem, a deep sea predator named Darkness.
Speaker 2: It's time for strange.
Speaker 4: Science, strange sens It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 1: So squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of
Speaker 1: times their length, and now scientists know how the plants
Speaker 1: do it. It's a hairy green fruit measures about four
Speaker 1: centimeters long, and the it's a It's a member of
Speaker 1: the Gordon family, relative of a zucchini, squash, and pumpkins,
Speaker 1: but their seed jets are unique in the group. Why
Speaker 1: do you have your hands over your eyes just trying.
Speaker 4: To prevent everything that's about to happen.
Speaker 2: It's very rare among plants.
Speaker 1: The ancient Roman naturist Pliny the Elder, was the first
Speaker 1: to describe squirting cucumbers, warning that yeah, I can't, I
Speaker 1: mean I can't, but anyway, it's all about survival. It's
Speaker 1: related to bottom line this one.
Speaker 3: So these seeds then go and implant somewhere else and
Speaker 3: become new cucumbers. Right, it's more the complex than just
Speaker 3: a simple buildup of liquid and the release of internal
Speaker 3: pressure along with cucumber and and what, I don't think
Speaker 3: i've ever seen that word in print before?
Speaker 4: Where is it? And gorgement? Ah?
Speaker 2: Is this a joke?
Speaker 4: It might be, but it is CNN, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think joked us into doing that story.
Speaker 3: Mathematicians aren't usually the first point of call when you
Speaker 3: need to move a couch, But if you've ever seen
Speaker 3: that classic Friends episode where they're trying to move the
Speaker 3: couch up through the stairs.
Speaker 2: We've ever done there.
Speaker 3: The combinatorics and geometry enthusiast Genon Bake from Yonsai University
Speaker 3: in Korea just put out one hundred page proof on
Speaker 3: the problem of moving a couch around a tight corner
Speaker 3: in your apartment. A Canadian Australian mathematician formed a formalized
Speaker 3: a problem back in nineteen sixty six plaguing humanity ever
Speaker 3: since we had couches, which was basically, what's the largest
Speaker 3: two dimensional object that can successfully make it around an
Speaker 3: L shaped corner.
Speaker 1: Some people really have an eye for this that have
Speaker 1: no math skills, just have that natural eye for how
Speaker 1: to fit something in somewhere. Right, Yeah, when it comes
Speaker 1: to moving or all of it.
Speaker 3: It's very very funny because they talk about the upper
Speaker 3: limit for the design. When you look at all of
Speaker 3: this in terms of the two point two zero seven
Speaker 3: to four units in area and nothing larger than two
Speaker 3: point eight two eight now somewhere mathematicians are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's exactly what we've been saying for years, but that
Speaker 3: there are people who design furniture look at you, Ikea,
Speaker 3: and they know this type of formula that exists so
Speaker 3: that people do not have to take apart their furniture
Speaker 3: once they put it together. Because you know, if you
Speaker 3: take it apart, it will never go back together the
Speaker 3: way you want it.
Speaker 1: Researchers have claimed that Mary Magdalen has been hiding in
Speaker 1: Michaelangelo's sixteen Chapel masterpiece for nearly five hundred years. There's
Speaker 1: an Italian art restorer named Sarah Sarah Penco who's publishing
Speaker 1: this biblical bombshell in her book Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo's Judgment.
Speaker 1: She specializes in Renaissance and broke art. She announced, I
Speaker 1: am firmly convinced that this is Mary Magdalene. It's a
Speaker 1: figure in the right hand corner of the Last Judgment,
Speaker 1: of course, the legendary depiction of the second Coming of Christ,
Speaker 1: God's final judgment. It was painted at the Sistine Chapel
Speaker 1: between fifteen thirty seven and fifteen thirty one.
Speaker 4: Now why would this be so crazy? I mean, why
Speaker 4: is this such a She's.
Speaker 2: A controversial figure in the church.
Speaker 3: Oh, Mary Magdalen. Yeah, oh, oh, so he would have
Speaker 3: snuck it in without the blessing, without the blessing of
Speaker 3: the Vatican.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that all works, but anyway, She's
Speaker 1: a blonde woman seen kissing across toted by a nude
Speaker 1: man who's believed to be Jesus, well camouflaged among the
Speaker 1: other three hundred figures in the Magnum opus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the cross bearer, that would be again this naked
Speaker 3: we believe Jesus in the director is looking in the
Speaker 3: direction of Mary Magdalene as if it is as if
Speaker 3: he is estranged from the composition, looking towards the woman
Speaker 3: peacefully holding the wood and the cross. Obviously, he knew
Speaker 3: a lot about the Bible and would not have left
Speaker 3: such an integral figure out of that scene. And again she.
Speaker 4: Later thought that the the.
Speaker 3: That when you look at it, that something might have
Speaker 3: been missing, said Michael Angelo. Angelo is an expert painter
Speaker 3: who's very cultured. He was someone who knew the dynamics
Speaker 3: of the church very well and knew the gospels. And
Speaker 3: he could not have forgotten her, but may have had
Speaker 3: a little trouble if he had asked permission to put
Speaker 3: her in. Right, he was going to apologize, you know,
Speaker 3: seven hundred years later. Right, It's not the only Easter
Speaker 3: egg hidden. New research suggests that Michael Angelo had etched
Speaker 3: a woman battle breast cancer into one of the Sistine
Speaker 3: Chapel ceiling frescoes.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: And then finally this disgusting creature about seven miles beneath
Speaker 3: the surface, terrifying. The pressure down there is about one
Speaker 3: thousand atmosphere's worth sixteen thousand pounds per square inch. Despite
Speaker 3: all of that, there is something that lives down there,
Speaker 3: a ghostly predator from the Ata Kama Trench off South
Speaker 3: America's western coast. It's named doulce Bela Kamanchaka. The creature
Speaker 3: is an amphipod, a group of shrimp like crustaceans that
Speaker 3: eat detritis and scavenge for food. They said this thing,
Speaker 3: they found four individuals from this species at a depth
Speaker 3: of seven nine hundred meters.
Speaker 2: It should stay down there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a reason why they're calling it darkness, because
Speaker 3: it is an absolute view into the devil's hell.
Speaker 4: Gross, I think.
Speaker 2: I'm having a sugar come down.
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