WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.240 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:12.839 We're ending up this latest daily briefing on what was 5 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:17.079 referred to earlier today as the fire siege that we 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:20.239 have seen at the beginning of twenty twenty five. Out 7 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:24.160 of state resources good news continue to arrive in to 8 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:29.839 this area as we battle these continued fires. The National 9 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:32.240 Weather Service does say that the red flag conditions are 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.399 going to stay in effect through Friday probably. And the 11 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:39.880 number that I was always the number that I was 12 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.399 always questioning, was the thirty thousand people who had been evacuated. 13 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.799 The sheriff said there were one hundred and eighty thousand 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.039 people who are under current evacuation orders, one hundred and 15 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.600 eighty thousand and then another two hundred thousand under evacuation 16 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.399 warnings throughout La counted. 17 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.039 I was listening to Conway last night when the Hollywood 18 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.439 fire broke out, and you could just hear it in 19 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.319 his voice or he was kind of like, oh no, 20 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.560 not another one, not there, And I think everyone had 21 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.359 that gut punch as well. I mean, we talk about 22 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.680 from the Palisades to Altadena and then you know, it 23 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:21.959 just kept getting worse. I mean, usually we're used to 24 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.879 covering these fires, and you know, there's the initial burst 25 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.200 and the initial devastation and the homes lost, and then 26 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:31.280 twenty four hours later, it's a different kind of vibe. 27 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.719 It hasn't been that way. It's been what's next, What's next? 28 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.599 Since the Palisades fire erupted. 29 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.280 Yeah, and the Palisades Fire itself continues to grow. This 30 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.040 is a very I mean today it's what you would 31 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.319 probably consider more normal fire behavior. Yeah, but it's going 32 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.480 the other direction now. I mean when it started. 33 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.359 On Tuesday, what day is today? 34 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:54.400 Today is Thursday? 35 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.040 Today? Thursday. 36 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.519 When it started on Tuesday, it was going from the 37 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.319 hill down to the beach. Now it's going up north 38 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:05.400 towards the valley and east towards the four or five. 39 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:06.599 Much much slower. 40 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.520 I mean, that's the benefit of having very little wind. 41 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.919 But it is going in those uphill areas, which it 42 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.599 tends to go faster than if it were going downhill 43 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:17.319 or on flat lane. 44 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.199 And I'm wondering if they said those backfires to protect 45 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.240 even more homes in the Palisades. It doesn't sound like 46 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:27.520 there's many left. Honestly, the devastation is vast there. I 47 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:32.560 mean there are no roads, really, I mean there are roads, 48 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:34.479 but there's no homes. And you know, we're talking about 49 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.919 it this morning about yeah, okay, so your home survives, 50 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.080 your home, maybe one other home on the road, those 51 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.120 are not inhabitable. 52 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.520 Well, one of the images from this morning was right 53 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:48.159 along pch in Malibu area, where right past Dukes. We 54 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:50.759 were talking about a few dozen homes right along the 55 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.840 strand right along the beach in Malibu, and they were 56 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.840 they're gone, and then there's one still standing or two 57 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:58.639 still standing. 58 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:01.680 And I mean, you're poin. So what do you go 59 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:02.120 back to? 60 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:03.840 You don't I mean, at least you have your stuff 61 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.400 that's in your home. Your home probably smells and your 62 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.960 stuff will always smell like fire. But at least, I 63 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:10.719 guess you have your stuff. But you can't live there. 64 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.919 I mean, it's not safe to live in a neighborhood 65 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.759 where everything's been decimated like that. And why would you 66 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:17.680 why would you want to live in the apocalypse. 67 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:20.280 There's still a lot We talked about this at the 68 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:21.719 end of the show yesterday. There are a lot of 69 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.840 questions that need to be answered. Whether it's by fire officials, 70 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.080 by political officials, whoever, about what it is that's going 71 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.000 on at what caused this, what prompted this, Why we 72 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.159 were so un or should say, incapable of handling it. 73 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.960 I mean a lot of it is just the wind. 74 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:41.960 You could could do anything right. There was no amount 75 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.560 of water in the tanks, There's nothing. There are questions 76 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.240 that simply will go will never have a fulfilling answer. 77 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.439 You'll never be able to pin the blame on anybody. 78 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.719 You were never going to minimize the devastation. But there 79 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.360 are questions that have been addressed. I still think it's 80 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.719 a little too early, but they're surfacing to the fire 81 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.919 department on the city level when you're dealing with the 82 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:08.520 most devastating fire in city history. The lack of water pressure, 83 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.039 and then of course the statewide effort to keep the 84 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.879 water in northern California from coming down here because of 85 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.800 the Baby smelt. 86 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.720 So all of that stuff. 87 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.920 Insurance, I mean, that's another massive issue that we'll be 88 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.839 talking about over of course of the next few days 89 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:25.560 and weeks and probably months. 90 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.079 To be honest, a lot of the insurance policies canceled. 91 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.279 What James Wood said four months ago. 92 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:31.040 Just months ago. 93 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.560 Yeah, And it's not just there, it's not just in 94 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:34.199 the Palisades. 95 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:35.480 This is a California thing. 96 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.120 This is something that's happening throughout the Western United States, 97 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:39.240 concentrated here in Kema. 98 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:41.079 Well, and it's going to keep getting worse because the 99 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.439 fires get worse and we live in these urban wildlife 100 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.879 interface areas all over the California area. 101 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:48.759 A quick rundown of what we know, and we're going 102 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:50.480 to go out to Altadena here in just a second. 103 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.439 The Palisades fires up to seventeen two hundred plus acres 104 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:57.519 as of right now. They said the number of damaged 105 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:03.000 or destroyed buildings is into the thousands, thousands some of 106 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:07.519 Right now, the eastern and northern flanks of the fire 107 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.120 are moving towards the four or five. They're moving north 108 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.160 towards the vout very very slowly compared to what we 109 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.040 saw twenty four forty eight hours ago. But that is 110 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.439 one of the things that is still growing. Eaten fire 111 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:22.560 in Altadena. Pasadena's up at ten thousand, six hundred acres, 112 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:24.639 and they said most of the growth in that one 113 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.240 has been significantly stopped. But you're still talking about over 114 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:32.600 a thousand. Again, they just they don't have a good 115 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.240 count on this yet, but over a thousand structures damaged 116 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.000 or destroyed. The rest of the fires, they're fine, Like, 117 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.240 let's worry about the two big ones. 118 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.639 Those are the ones that we're going to be talking about. 119 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.399 We talked about Alta Dina. I live in a town 120 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.759 over from Alta Dina and it was one of the 121 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.079 areas where I looked when we were looking to buy 122 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.399 a house and move in that area. And the thing 123 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.959 about Alta Dina is it's very special. It's one of 124 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.800 the places with great history in this area. It is 125 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.639 got kind of a small town feel about it. You 126 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.800 brought up yesterday the loss of things like the hardware store. 127 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.720 You've seen a lot of businesses. It's not just wildland, 128 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.000 but there's a lot of wildland in Altadena there. I 129 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.399 go hiking there all the time. That area has all 130 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:22.399 been devastated. But you saw a lot of homes go up. 131 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:26.480 A lot of that checkerboard type style of a home 132 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.439 is here gone across the street. 133 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:30.199 It's fine. 134 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.160 The home next to that one across the street gone 135 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.560 on the flip side of the street, the home is standing. 136 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.399 This was also one of those areas where there were 137 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:41.079 not a lot of first responders seen, and not a 138 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.639 lot of people telling put down your hoses and leave. 139 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.959 In fact, I know at least personally a few people 140 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.199 that stayed behind and were just watering down trees and 141 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.920 fences yesterday because the first responders were spread so thin there. 142 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.920 But the devastation now is just becoming apparent. Michael Monks 143 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.360 is there. He is at the corner of Mariposa there 144 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.959 in El Molino. Is that right, Michael? 145 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.720 That's exactly right right outside where that hardware store used 146 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.000 to be. It is a scene of just utter destruction, 147 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.000 like something out of a Hollywood set. It's just unbelievable 148 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.240 to stand here and absorb this. I mean, we've seen 149 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.319 some of them, will tell you that we've seen some 150 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.399 of the TV. I'm sorry of the neighborhood itself, where 151 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.800 there are just power lines down. You can't recognize which home, 152 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.680 where one home starts and the other one ends because 153 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.720 of the fire and the collapsed nature of the buildings. 154 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:40.240 What is it that you're seeing from that intersection. It's 155 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:45.519 a tale of four corners really, and Shannon really explained 156 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:49.120 it well. I mean, there's it's so random how this 157 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.439 fire chows what to destroy, because there are, of course 158 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.040 blocks that are leveled, and then there are other blocks 159 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.120 where one or two homes were taken in. 160 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.959 The one in the middle wasn't. It's just been so 161 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.279 strange to see that. 162 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.480 I'll tell you right now, it looks and feels like 163 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:08.519 it's the evening already. It's only barely twenty after nine, 164 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.199 and the sun is this weird shade of pink. It's 165 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.800 tucked behind clouds and smoke. The air is thick, it's 166 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:18.399 very difficult to breathe. But here at this intersection, on 167 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.079 one side, one corner, that hardware store in an old 168 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.959 brick strip mall next to an insurance agent's that's gone. 169 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.839 The frame is still standing. Across the street from that, 170 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.960 everything is completely leveled. Then coming over to the other 171 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.279 side of the street, there's a corner, and it's an 172 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:40.360 interesting site because there's this sign, just a small wooden sign, 173 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:46.279 facing the corner advertising rentals in the Mariposa town Homes, 174 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.799 and that sign has not suffered a lick of damage. Meanwhile, 175 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.039 behind the sign, the town homes are gone, completely flattened 176 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.960 and leveled. And then the last corner is particularly interesting 177 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.879 because the buildings, so for no damage at all, and 178 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.240 it just happens to be a fire station. And so 179 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.200 as I'm standing here, I'm watching a lot of the 180 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.240 firefighters who are clearly coming back from the thick of it, 181 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.000 taking a little rest, taking a little break, and I'm 182 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.559 watching them get right back in their trucks and head 183 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.159 back out. Another interesting scene that I saw right here 184 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:19.360 in this neighborhood, in on a side of the street 185 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.879 that does not appear to have suffered any damage at all. 186 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.320 There seem to be a couple I guess that we're 187 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.919 standing out here, likely the homeowners, and there was a 188 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.799 little bit of smoldering in their mault near the curb 189 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.679 on the street, and they were tending to it. They 190 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:34.639 were digging it out and pouring a little bit of 191 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.960 water on there. So there are residents who are still 192 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.080 here despite what has happened to their neighbors across the street, 193 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.519 and it looks like they are playing defense right now 194 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.200 against any of those floating embers. I can tell you 195 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.200 there's lots of smoke coming off the ground. There are 196 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.639 little pockets of flames. The cars on the street just 197 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:57.000 burned out, Utility poles split in half, wires hanging again. 198 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.360 It just looks apocalyptic, something out of a scene from 199 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:01.120 The Walking Dead. 200 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:05.600 I've seen more people in Alta Dina just appearing in 201 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:10.120 shock and in tears, and it's a lot of whiplash 202 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.519 there still. Because this was one of those fires where 203 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.960 there was no time. I think what I've heard from 204 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.399 people who live there is we didn't even know there 205 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.879 was a fire burning there until. 206 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:22.279 It was time. 207 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.600 It was almost too late to evacuate, let alone getting 208 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:29.240 an evacuation warning and an evacuation order. It was just 209 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:33.559 it happened so suddenly, and then coming back to find out, wait, 210 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.080 there was a fire. Wait I had to evacuate, and wait, 211 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:40.080 I don't have a house left, and the businesses are gone. 212 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.879 In a blink of an eye, this beautiful city has 213 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.639 just been decimated. And you characterized it well, Shannon. I mean, 214 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.840 there's this little side street that is a private street. 215 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.600 There's a sign out front that makes that clear, and 216 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.159 you can tell even now that that street led to 217 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.320 some beautiful homes, and the only remnants of those homes 218 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:04.000 there's a white picket fence that is half standing and 219 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.440 also half charred to the ground. 220 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:07.879 And then you have. 221 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:12.639 These beautiful chimneys and fireplaces that once stood inside these 222 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.720 lovely homes and now stand out here like a graveyard. 223 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.879 The other issue I think is, I mean, outside of 224 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.960 the loss of obvious home stuff, in your home memories, 225 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:31.000 all of that, you're talking about people whose place of 226 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:32.960 work is also gone. 227 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.720 In many instances, I mean. 228 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.799 There are people who work here who have lost jobs, 229 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:40.000 but they have a job. 230 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:41.600 I mean, our building is still standing. 231 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.120 They are going to be people who have lost their 232 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.039 home and whatever place of business that they were supposed 233 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:46.639 to be going to. 234 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:51.639 That's right, and so that is very impactful to the workers, 235 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.039 to the owners of the business, to the owners of 236 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.039 the properties. And it also attacks the character of a community. 237 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.879 When you think about a small hardware store, how long 238 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.879 have people been shopping there? How many generations have stories 239 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.879 from when they needed something and got some help at 240 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.679 that place. We see it here in Altadena, we see 241 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.519 the devastation in the palisades. The character of these communities 242 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.039 have been lost as well, in addition to people's personal 243 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.919 items and of course the loss of some lives. 244 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.320 Michael, we'll check back in with you. Thank you for that. 245 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:29.759 Thank you, guys. Michael. 246 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.200 Monks there out there in Altadena, Elmalina and Mariposa Street, 247 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.720 that intersection right next to one of the fire stations. 248 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:40.120 As he was reporting, Amy King made a comment this 249 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.720 morning that I thought that is also one of those 250 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.279 conversations for down the road, but Michael kind of touched 251 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:47.080 on it right there, which is the loss of the 252 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:51.840 character of a neighborhood. And when we were talking yesterday 253 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:56.240 with the head of the Palisades Community Council, she was 254 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:00.799 discussing what the personality of Pacific Palisades, and I mean 255 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.960 this is obviously it's la and a lot of people. 256 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.200 If you're anywhere east of here, you're going to be 257 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.879 reading stories about celebrities that have lost their homes or 258 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.360 because they're the ones who generate the headlines, but just 259 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.279 the sheer number, I mean, the images of these neighborhoods 260 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.320 in the Palisades. There's not a house standing, and the 261 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.240 idea that there are thousands of structures, I mean to 262 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.960 me that seems like it Ell States is gone. They're 263 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.879 just neighborhoods like just as decimated and you're losing with 264 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.919 that what she described yesterday as sort of that Midwest 265 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.039 small town feel on a bluff overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean, 266 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.320 and Alta Dina has that as well in parts of 267 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:43.080 that Pacady and those Some of those homes are built, 268 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:45.240 I mean, one hundred and twenty years ago, and. 269 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.919 It's going to take a decade at least to rebuild 270 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:51.759 and to get businesses back up and all of that. 271 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.480 It's just it's a long road to hoe, you know what. 272 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.279 I'm kind of done with. And I don't mean to 273 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:01.200 be a negative person, but I'm really done with all 274 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:06.879 of the we as Angelino's are strong and we will 275 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.080 overcome and blah blah blah blah. 276 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:09.799 I don't care. 277 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.200 Right now, the freaking smoke is still rising from the 278 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:15.919 homes where families. 279 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.840 Built their lives. Tell us what we're going to do. 280 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.320 Tell us where people can get food and shelter, and 281 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.320 where how you're going to get the water situation fixed 282 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.440 locally and statewide, and where people can go. And tell 283 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:32.440 us more about Airbnb giving away free lodgings, and tell 284 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:35.080 us which hotels are going to be offering free rooms 285 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.480 because not everybody has money that spend displaced. 286 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:38.759 Tell us that stuff. 287 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.679 Enough of your bad sea grade poetry, like nobody needs 288 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:43.679 to hear that crap. 289 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.120 There's no stomach for that crap right now. 290 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.480 What I want to know is and this. 291 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:53.279 For the love, that is the way we stand here united, Jesus, 292 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:54.919 Marian Joseph. 293 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:56.679 United and stand strong. 294 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.200 Only think she said good in that whole thing was Tuesday? 295 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:01.440 Who is that for? 296 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.919 That's what people who do not have any sort of 297 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.519 realization how real people are living right now, that's the 298 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:10.600 same crap. 299 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:11.679 I almost at a bad word. 300 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.399 Eric Garcetti would say, or all the people who live 301 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.399 in their ivory west side towers, you know the stuff 302 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.240 that people are so out of touch with humanity. How 303 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.000 can you be out of touch with somebody who loses 304 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:24.200 their home. Don't you have a home, don't you have stuff? 305 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:25.159 Don't you have a family? 306 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.279 I mean, how can you be that out of touch? 307 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:30.000 Right now? I just don't get it completely. 308 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.480 That's why I pulled that cut, was because I wanted 309 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.679 to make fun of it as just so tone deaf 310 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.320 for what needs to be what we need to see 311 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:40.559 and hear action from them right now? 312 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:44.080 Action. All right, it's gonna be a good day. 313 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:45.200 Is it gonna be a good day? 314 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:46.559 Well, it's gonna be a better day. 315 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.679 Yes, it's gonna Well, I hope. So, yes, the wind 316 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.039 is I'll be happy when the wind event. 317 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.759 Is over, Yes, and that is coming soon. 318 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.879 So we'll talk more about what's going on fire wise, 319 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.360 et cetera throughout the day Today. 320 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:00.360 John cobe elt. 321 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:05.120 In overnight twelve midnight to three am. In fact, I 322 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.279 didn't get a chance to listen because yeah, but I mean, 323 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.720 doesn't that sound kind of nice like going to sleep? 324 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:18.720 John Coe belts on the radio. No, no, sounds soothing. Well, 325 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.679 I don't know what John after dark sounds like. I mean, 326 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.799 I know what John after sunset looks like. But that's 327 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.480 well after I told you I think on Monday or 328 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.919 Tuesday about the BBC shipping news and how that is 329 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:34.200 a big draw for people, people who have no interest 330 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:39.159 in shipping directions or traffic or wind or any sort 331 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.519 of forecast. But yet the guy who does the BBC 332 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:47.360 shipping news for the BBC obviously has such a soothing 333 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.320 voice that people subscribe to this and go to sleep 334 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.840 to the shipping news on the routine. What a nice 335 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.759 compliment for him, isn't it. Yeah, maybe you could do 336 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.480 some sort of shipping news thing. I wouldn't know the 337 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.039 I wouldn't know the first thing. Well, just try to 338 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.159 make it up, wing it and use a British accent. 339 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:04.799 I'll close my eyes and see if I can go 340 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:05.240 to sleep. 341 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.079 There is one giant shipload of oil being shipped through 342 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:11.079 the Suez Canal. 343 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:13.680 See that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I got a 344 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:21.200 little sleepy. Well, that's great. So one of the estimators, 345 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.440 I don't even know what would you would say estimations 346 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.759 an estimation made by an estimator about what kind of 347 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.079 I mean, ballpark we're talking when it comes to damage 348 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.799 from the fires that have broken out in the last 349 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:43.400 couple of days. Between fifty two and fifty seven billion 350 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.359 dollars in damage is what they're and that's this is 351 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.240 the first forty eight hours after this thing broke out. 352 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.680 That's the first number that we've gotten to put that 353 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:58.279 in context. That obviously would be the worst in terms 354 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:03.759 of damage and property damage. The worst disaster in the 355 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:09.240 history of California, the nineteen ninety four Northridge earthquake, by comparison, 356 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:15.920 was somewhere about thirty billion dollars in property damage. Thirty billion, 357 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:19.680 and this we're talking about fifty to fifty seven billion. 358 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.000 Some of the most expensive real estate in the country. 359 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:27.440 But that's not even what makes this that expensive. It's 360 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.559 that it's so widespread, and it's not just one two 361 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.720 million dollar house or a one point four million dollar 362 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:43.599 house in Altadena. This is thousands of them. Chief meteorologists 363 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.720 for ACU Weathers said it's already one of the worst 364 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.039 wildfires in history, and if a large number of additional 365 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.000 structures are burned in the coming days, it would be 366 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:54.480 the worst wildfire in modern history based on not just 367 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.480 the number of structures burned, but also economic loss. 368 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.559 We talked yesterday. CalFire keeps a list. 369 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:06.160 It's just a depressing list of the top twenty wildfires 370 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.799 based on different in the state of California, based on 371 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.000 different metrics. One of them is the size, the top 372 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.440 twenty in size, the top twenty in damage, and then 373 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.200 the top twenty in terms of loss of property and 374 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.480 the campfire. The one that burned through Paradise burned about 375 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:25.960 eighteen thousand structures, I think is what they said, and. 376 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:27.039 Killed eighty five people. 377 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.240 This one could surpass that, if not in the deaths, 378 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.599 then almost certainly in the number of people I'm sorry, 379 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.480 in the number of properties that are lost and. 380 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:40.720 The death toll. 381 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.039 I wanted to mention as well because Sheriff Robert Luna 382 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:47.400 said something at this news conference, which was it was 383 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:51.680 rare and it was important, especially in a situation like this. 384 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.880 The death toll has been reported at five in the 385 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:58.359 Eton fire, the one in Altade in Nepasadena. Yesterday, it 386 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:02.799 was two. Today, the numbers overnight in this morning were five. 387 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:05.640 And when he talked about it, he said, I'm not 388 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.519 going to give you a death toll for a couple 389 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:08.079 of reasons. 390 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.599 Number one, we're not quite sure. 391 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.599 We don't have our trained eyes on whatever it is, 392 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.039 and I don't know if they're finding bodies or whatever. 393 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:18.799 But he said, we need to make sure we get 394 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:23.640 this right, because this is not there's no rush right. 395 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.480 It doesn't like you've said many times about the acreage 396 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.680 of things like this, the acreage doesn't matter. If it's seventeen, 397 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.240 that teny, twelve thousand, that doesn't matter. What matters is 398 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:38.759 people's lives and property. And at this point the exact 399 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.599 death toll, we know people have died. We know that 400 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:43.759 that makes it a deadly fire, and that's what's important. 401 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:44.839