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Speaker 2: President Jimmy Carter given an elaborate national sendoff that starts
Speaker 2: today's on his should say, the body is on its
Speaker 2: way from Georgia to Washington.
Speaker 3: D C.
Speaker 2: Taken to the US Navy Memorial in Downtown d C.
Speaker 2: Before the casket is delivered to the US Capital by
Speaker 2: a horse drawn casson than in the rotunda. He will
Speaker 2: lie in state for a day and a half before
Speaker 2: the formal state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.
Speaker 2: The other big news, politically speaking, District Judge A. Ling
Speaker 2: Cannon has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing Special
Speaker 2: Counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's two prosecutions. This was
Speaker 2: a request from his legal team comes after Trump's two
Speaker 2: code defendants in the document's case asked her to bar
Speaker 2: the release of both sections of Smith's report, including one
Speaker 2: that dealt with the election interference case. Trump's lawyers went
Speaker 2: to Attorney General Mayrick Garland to ask him to stop
Speaker 2: this release, saying it would simply be a political move
Speaker 2: if they did so before the inauguration.
Speaker 1: You've noticed it all morning long, probably woke you up
Speaker 1: sometime in the middle of the night if you're in
Speaker 1: the valleys. This windstorm it's been called destructive, life threatening.
Speaker 1: These gusts could last for days, up to one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour. We wanted to get an update from
Speaker 1: Mike Wafford with the National Weather Service about when we
Speaker 1: can expect the peaks to be, what we should be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for, and when we can put this
Speaker 1: all behind us.
Speaker 3: Mike, what's going on today?
Speaker 4: Well, as you see and I've heard, we have a
Speaker 4: strong wind event in the area of Santa Ana. Wind
Speaker 4: event that's been generating some winds anywhere from forty to
Speaker 4: sixty miles per hour in through the two ten corridor,
Speaker 4: including the Rose Bowl area, and upwards of eighty eighty
Speaker 4: five miles per hour up into some of the foothills
Speaker 4: and mountains. We're expecting to continue through the day when
Speaker 4: I see a little bit of a decrease through the afternoon,
Speaker 4: but then the strongest part of the wind is supposed
Speaker 4: to be tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been a weird weather pattern, at least
Speaker 2: for the lay person because when I got up this morning,
Speaker 2: I was expecting to see a lot of clear skies
Speaker 2: just based on the fact that the winds were going
Speaker 2: to be kicking up. But there's plenty of clouds out there,
Speaker 2: and we saw some light rain and some snowfall up
Speaker 2: in the mountains.
Speaker 4: That's right. This is this windstorm is coming from this
Speaker 4: particular storm system that does have a little bit of
Speaker 4: moisture with it. That's not too unusual to see something
Speaker 4: like this. We do have, as you said, some light showers,
Speaker 4: including some light snow up and right Wood, and we
Speaker 4: even had some light showers down into some of the
Speaker 4: basin and also the Animal Valley.
Speaker 1: You bring up showers here in the areas. You did
Speaker 1: not just mention we usually start getting weather sometime around
Speaker 1: after October, a little bit of rain, not real weather,
Speaker 1: but a little bit of rain. We haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: for months. How's that playing into this.
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's a very big factor because normally our
Speaker 4: fireweather season is over by now. But because we've had
Speaker 4: such little rain across the area, and we have very
Speaker 4: low humidities coming as we move into this event tonight
Speaker 4: and tomorrow, and that's going to play into a very
Speaker 4: strong fireweather concern. If a spark were to generate somehow,
Speaker 4: that could take off quite quickly and spread rapidly. So
Speaker 4: we're hoping that doesn't happen, but the conditions are right
Speaker 4: for something that to that to that, What does that happen?
Speaker 2: What does it look like in your office? Are you
Speaker 2: guys all hands on deck keeping an eye on this thing.
Speaker 4: Yes, we've been watching this for the last week or so,
Speaker 4: this development, and yeah, we've been prepared. We've you know,
Speaker 4: put out a bunch of statements over the last few
Speaker 4: days highlighting this. So we're ready and we're hoping it
Speaker 4: doesn't you know, isn't as strong as it as it looks,
Speaker 4: but it certainly has the potential to be an event
Speaker 4: similar to what we had in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Mike, have you noticed in lace recently lately with with
Speaker 1: weather coverage or maybe it's just me, but I feel
Speaker 1: like there's been this catastrophized, catastrophized catas catastrophe, catastrophizing thank
Speaker 1: you of weather events, you know, whether it's the polar
Speaker 1: vortex or the atmospheric river.
Speaker 5: Now this week we heard.
Speaker 1: About the Arctic outbreak going through Kansas to the east coast.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is not a crying wolf type
Speaker 1: of wind event here for this area. But have you
Speaker 1: noticed an uptick and maybe like the hysteria level when
Speaker 1: it comes to coverage for sure?
Speaker 4: And you know, part of that is just, you know,
Speaker 4: the advent of the technology that we have out there
Speaker 4: in terms of computers and people. You know, we've got
Speaker 4: a lot of people out there who are their own
Speaker 4: meteorologists and they come up with some interesting terms, but
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of these are very valid and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, we've across the country, we've seen mini events
Speaker 4: not just during the winter, but also strong, very strong
Speaker 4: hurricanes have been strongest that we've ever seen. So it's
Speaker 4: certainly valid, and we're certainly seeing event weather events that
Speaker 4: are stronger than we've ever recorded.
Speaker 2: All right, Mike, we'll check in if anything happens. Mike
Speaker 2: Wafford there, National Weather Service. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're very welcome.
Speaker 3: A busy day in the background.
Speaker 1: There the only debt you can kind of hear? Can
Speaker 1: I hear the energy back there?
Speaker 2: Usually it's guys playing darts.
Speaker 3: Darts.
Speaker 5: I've never seen a dartboard at a National Weather Service.
Speaker 2: Maybe ground up, ground up, waded up paper into a
Speaker 2: waste basket.
Speaker 1: I think they're like radar people, where they're just like
Speaker 1: obsessed with the radar.
Speaker 2: A lot of TV screens, a lot of oh yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of beeps and boots. Can someone please please,
Speaker 2: and I mean this in all honesty, if you have
Speaker 2: any way to justify high speed rail in California, please
Speaker 2: tell me how well.
Speaker 1: Excla, let me just walk that back a couple steps.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be high speed. It's gonna be low speed.
Speaker 1: I love trains. I've ridden the high speed trains in Europe.
Speaker 1: I love a train. I ride the train every chance
Speaker 1: I can get. I just rode the train from Providence
Speaker 1: to Boston just for the sake of riding a train.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: But this train in California doesn't make sense for a
Speaker 1: couple reasons. Number one, there's too much bureaucracy, so this
Speaker 1: thing would never reach a high speed.
Speaker 5: It would only be low speed, and.
Speaker 1: It would have to go through all of the people
Speaker 1: who need their balls washed along the way from La
Speaker 1: to San Francisco or what have you. Everyone wants a
Speaker 1: little piece of the pie for their little town, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have way too many stops.
Speaker 5: It's gonna take way too long.
Speaker 1: It's much more easy to just make the drive or
Speaker 1: hop on a Southwest flight for thirty nine dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, and even if it was high speed rail, I
Speaker 2: still don't understand it. I still don't understand the value
Speaker 2: of it in a place like California.
Speaker 1: I do because I love high speed rail. It just
Speaker 1: wouldn't be high speed. It would take longer than it
Speaker 1: would take to drive.
Speaker 2: Well, Gavin Newsom had a huge announcement about high speed
Speaker 2: rail yesterday. We'll talk about that and hear from good
Speaker 2: old Gaff.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for bringing out ball washing in the ten
Speaker 1: o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no restrictions. I mean, you can do whatever
Speaker 2: you need to whenever they get gamey. Facebook and Instagram
Speaker 2: are ending there fact checking and they're going to remove
Speaker 2: restrictions on speech across their platforms.
Speaker 3: According to Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 2: He announced that they're going to be getting rid of
Speaker 2: fact checkers and replace them with community notes, just like
Speaker 2: they do on x starting here in the United States.
Speaker 2: Some tech watchers are saying that this is just Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: sucking up to Trump. It comes with a million dollar
Speaker 2: donation to the inaugural fund. He's not a lot in
Speaker 2: that donation, but there have been a bunch of tech
Speaker 2: companies have stepped up with some money for that.
Speaker 1: Let me just circle back really quick. Okay, the way
Speaker 1: political wrote this up about Trump going after Carter the
Speaker 1: day his body's lying and stayed over the Panama Canal
Speaker 1: and him saying he gave it to him for a dollar.
Speaker 1: The Politico article says that Carter signed this Treaties Act
Speaker 1: in seventy seven, setting in motion in the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine transfer of the US built infrastructural wonder to the
Speaker 1: country of Panama. And then they say no, part of
Speaker 1: those agreements included a one dollar sale, taking him literally
Speaker 1: to your point as opposed to it's just a throwaway line.
Speaker 5: He gave it to him for a dollar. He doesn't
Speaker 5: mean they he gave it to him for a dollar,
Speaker 5: you guys.
Speaker 3: Good lord.
Speaker 2: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is going to launch
Speaker 2: its first orbital rocket soon. They say, no earlier than Friday,
Speaker 2: but it's called the New Glen One. Mission expected to
Speaker 2: carry a prototype of Blue Ring, which is a Defense
Speaker 2: Department spacecraft that has a satellite deployment platform it's not
Speaker 2: actually going to be deployed. They're going to actually keep
Speaker 2: it on the second stage for the duration of this
Speaker 2: test flight. But Blue Origin says they have a three
Speaker 2: hour launch window at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in
Speaker 2: Florida that will open just after midnight Friday morning, Florida time.
Speaker 1: Out of the Straight to Hell folder comes the Tale
Speaker 1: of Three Women in Colton. There was an eighty five
Speaker 1: year old woman who was enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: sitting on her porch.
Speaker 5: This was in Colton.
Speaker 1: It's about two fifteen on your birthday, January fifth, so Sunday, got.
Speaker 5: To connect it to me or Saturday Sunday Sunday. Well,
Speaker 5: because it was your birthday.
Speaker 1: She was maybe enjoying the fact that it was your birthday,
Speaker 1: sitting on the porch joining an ice little afternoon. Margarita
Speaker 1: was and she was approached by a there on the porch.
Speaker 1: She had a ring camera and there is footage and
Speaker 1: in the footage you can see an unknown woman ask Margarita,
Speaker 1: eighty five year old Margarita questions like is someone in
Speaker 1: the house or are you alone?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Out of precaution, Margerita's Noah, dumb, dumb. She told the
Speaker 1: woman that her son was inside the house. Her daughter said,
Speaker 1: at one point, my mom said she put her hand
Speaker 1: in her purse. The woman did, and that's when mom
Speaker 1: worried she thought she might have a weapon or something. However,
Speaker 1: instead of grabbing a weapon, the woman grabbed her phone
Speaker 1: and asked Margherita to call her son, but Margarita refused,
Speaker 1: so then she proceeded to ask about the alavera plants
Speaker 1: outside and ask for them, persistent in keeping eighty five
Speaker 1: year old Margarita in her attention, saying with specific plants
Speaker 1: she may have wanted to purchase from Margarita. The moment
Speaker 1: she got more agree to turn away from the front door,
Speaker 1: two more women appeared from hiding behind the bushes, and
Speaker 1: one of them quickly went inside the house.
Speaker 2: The three women didn't know that Martinez's daughter and husband
Speaker 2: were also home at the time, so at that point,
Speaker 2: the daughter starts yelling, you got to get out of
Speaker 2: this house.
Speaker 3: Get out of my house.
Speaker 2: The husband also started yelling, and they quickly left as
Speaker 2: Martinez in the family called police. Other than plants, they said,
Speaker 2: it wasn't clear if they were able to take anything else.
Speaker 1: But like praying on an eighty five year old woman
Speaker 1: sitting on her porch, and women on women crime too
Speaker 1: adds another layer.
Speaker 3: Why because girls are nasty? You went to junior high.
Speaker 5: I know they are. They're awful.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is sort of arrested development, these these but they're.
Speaker 1: Awful to their contemporaries. Have a little respect for your elders.
Speaker 1: An eighty five year old woman being mean to an
Speaker 1: eighty five year old woman as a as a younger woman,
Speaker 1: that's despicable.
Speaker 2: This may be a ring, by the way, because she
Speaker 2: know police are looking at a similar group of women
Speaker 2: that match the descriptions. They broke into a home back
Speaker 2: just before Christmas. This wasn't their first time.
Speaker 3: You got to schedule that out. You got to work
Speaker 3: on that one. Yeah, pretty carefully.
Speaker 5: Anyway, straight to hell.
Speaker 3: Somebody took issue with something we said earlier.
Speaker 6: Hey I got one for you, Gary, Yeah, like you.
Speaker 6: You started it, but you didn't finish it. As dust
Speaker 6: to dust, did you drink good booze? Your pipes won't rust.
Speaker 2: I don't think offering up little right anecdotes to h
Speaker 2: to offer it the burial.
Speaker 1: Of my parents, I don't think that that's on brand.
Speaker 1: For your parents. Maybe for someone else it's not, but
Speaker 1: not for yours.
Speaker 3: It is not up next that high speed rail story.
Speaker 2: What it is that Gavin Newsom said what he said
Speaker 2: fourteen years ago, what he said yesterday, and and other
Speaker 2: people that are trying to put it endo this debacle.
Speaker 1: All right, We've got reports out of the Santa Monica area.
Speaker 1: We've got a brush fire in the Palisades Highlands right now.
Speaker 1: You can see the smoke. Not sure about the size
Speaker 1: of this baby. They're usually quick to step to those
Speaker 1: there near the Palisades. Also, La County and City fire
Speaker 1: crews on the scene of a fire that is spread
Speaker 1: to brush started in a structure on West Sunset in
Speaker 1: West Hollywood. Huge gusting winds there. They say that brushfires
Speaker 1: at about a quarter acre, but now they say as
Speaker 1: the crews have been arriving, the fire has grown to
Speaker 1: more than an acre. They are using structure protection units
Speaker 1: to help prevent the flames from impacting any other buildings
Speaker 1: in the area. As you know, we've got gusts like this,
Speaker 1: it can carry those embers miles away.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: We will keep an eye on both of these and
Speaker 2: hope that none no others will pop up, but that's
Speaker 2: seems pretty unlikely. Ope in one hand and the bucket
Speaker 2: of water in the other. Sure, something like that. So
Speaker 2: yesterday Gavin Newsom unveiled his annual ideal state budget.
Speaker 3: It's a balanced budget.
Speaker 2: It includes the modest surplus three hundred and twenty two
Speaker 2: billion dollars in propose spending. He says this is an
Speaker 2: effort at maintaining fiscal discipline in a time of deep
Speaker 2: uncertainty because he's talking about the big boogeyman that is
Speaker 2: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: The budget, by the way, it's kind of like crime stats.
Speaker 1: You can fudge them to get them to say what
Speaker 1: you want them to say. And their big headline yesterday
Speaker 1: was the budget has no deficit and it's the first
Speaker 1: time in a long time. And look at Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: when he's been able to balance the budget.
Speaker 5: Maloney, he didn't do it.
Speaker 3: What he did was that he.
Speaker 2: Took the what's he is reveling in the largesse of
Speaker 2: our wealthiest people in California who made a killing in
Speaker 2: the stock market in the last year.
Speaker 3: That's how he did it.
Speaker 2: But he's you know, he's saying that he's got to
Speaker 2: shore up the defense against the Trump administration and all
Speaker 2: the whatever whatever he thinks he's going to do. Also,
Speaker 2: yesterday he was out somewhere in the Central Valley talking
Speaker 2: about how great it is that we have high speed
Speaker 2: rail and guys, so we don't, well, we don't. He
Speaker 2: went on to say this very important thing. Apologies for
Speaker 2: the muddy audio. This came from the Governor's office. I
Speaker 2: cannot find a cleaner version of it anywhere. Good on
Speaker 2: you tech guys. But here was here was Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: talking about we are, I mean, on the verge of
Speaker 2: throwing open the station doors and getting people from Bakersfield.
Speaker 3: Were said very quickly, and.
Speaker 7: Finally, we're at the point where we're going to start
Speaker 7: laying down this track in the next couple of years.
Speaker 7: Finally the where we're gonna start laying down the high
Speaker 7: speed rail track after the track itself, that will allow
Speaker 7: us to get the equipment and the track equipment specifically
Speaker 7: to lay down that track gets moved. We're finally at
Speaker 7: that place.
Speaker 3: You understand what he's saying.
Speaker 2: No, he's saying, we're gonna lay down railroad tracks to
Speaker 2: bring equipment in to lay down the railroad tracks. That
Speaker 2: the tracks, they're almost almost gonna lay down. Are not
Speaker 2: even the wrath, are not even the high speed rail tracks.
Speaker 2: They're the tracks that we use for construction on the
Speaker 2: tracks right now. That's what he's saying. And he's talking
Speaker 2: about how great it is and what a wonderful thing,
Speaker 2: and why it is that this is so important.
Speaker 3: This was the end of his speech yesterday.
Speaker 7: And anything like this exists anywhere in the United States
Speaker 7: of America.
Speaker 3: You want to be big, you got to be big
Speaker 3: in big things.
Speaker 7: This is the biggest economy in the United States of America,
Speaker 7: three point eight six billion dollars. It's about damn time
Speaker 7: we have a high speed rail system in the great
Speaker 7: state of California. Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: It would be wonderful if we at a high speed
Speaker 1: rail in the great state of California.
Speaker 5: We don't, We're not going to.
Speaker 1: This is a project that has been a complete, to
Speaker 1: use everybody else's word, boondoggle. For the politicians, for the
Speaker 1: friends of the politicians. Nothing has got done, has gotten done.
Speaker 1: There's too much rud tape. There's too much pork in
Speaker 1: this thing as well in terms of who's getting their
Speaker 1: genitals washed when it comes to the federal money that's
Speaker 1: been poured into this. Nothing's been done. We've been talking
Speaker 1: about this for twenty years. The tracks to the tracks
Speaker 1: to the tracks have.
Speaker 5: Not been laid.
Speaker 1: The way this is written up California is poised to
Speaker 1: lay down the tracks that will lead to the tracks
Speaker 1: is insane. How is a journalist? Can you write down
Speaker 1: that sentence and not realize you're just peddling their bs.
Speaker 3: You're just you're falling for it.
Speaker 2: Kevin Kylie, congressman out of the fullsome area alsome rancho
Speaker 2: up in the Sacramento area, we'll call it. That has
Speaker 2: introduced legislation, or at least plans to introduce legislation, to
Speaker 2: pull every dime of federal money out of high speed
Speaker 2: rail because it's going nowhere.
Speaker 8: The high speed rail project was originally projected in two
Speaker 8: thousand and eight to cost thirty three billion dollars. It
Speaker 8: is now projected to cost up to one hundred and
Speaker 8: twenty seven point nine billion dollars. Its estimated completion date
Speaker 8: was twenty twenty. Of course, we are past twenty twenty now.
Speaker 8: As of twenty twenty four, zero passengers have been transported. Indeed,
Speaker 8: the majority of the system has not even been fully defined, designed,
Speaker 8: and yet it has received six point eight billion dollars
Speaker 8: in federal funds and they're requesting an additional eight billion
Speaker 8: in federal funds.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm serious when I ask if there's anybody who
Speaker 2: knows or supports continued work on high speed rail in
Speaker 2: the state of California, because we clearly see that government
Speaker 2: is awful at doing this.
Speaker 5: That's what I was just gonna say.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't the government in charge of this, if
Speaker 1: this was a private project, I would be one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten percent ready for.
Speaker 3: This, like the one that's going to go to Vegas exactly. Now.
Speaker 3: Granted it's a short line.
Speaker 1: I don't want the government, especially California government, to have
Speaker 1: any of their dirty fingerprints on what has now become
Speaker 1: a crime scene.
Speaker 3: It's it's the end. Listen. People did leave a couple
Speaker 3: of messages.
Speaker 2: People are like, well, they want high speed rail because
Speaker 2: they want to shuttle illegal immigrants up and down the
Speaker 2: Central Valley or whatever. Which Listen, I got it. It's
Speaker 2: an easy dig to take, But I'm serious. Is there
Speaker 2: anyone anyone that doesn't have a financial.
Speaker 3: Stake in it?
Speaker 2: Is there anyone who thinks that high speed rail is
Speaker 2: a good thing, a profitable thing, a necessary thing in
Speaker 2: the state of comps I do.
Speaker 1: If it's done by a private company, but it could
Speaker 1: be very profitable. It could be great for tourism. I
Speaker 1: mean it would be wonderful. I mean I've planned trips
Speaker 1: like Paris, Madrid, different different trips I've planned, and I've
Speaker 1: gone to different cities that I would not have gone
Speaker 1: to if there wasn't train travel that went to them.
Speaker 1: If I'm somewhere in Europe and i want to come
Speaker 1: to California, I'm probably going to choose between you can't
Speaker 1: take a train, thinks I'm probably gonna I don't know.
Speaker 1: I might choose between LA and San Francisco, just because
Speaker 1: there's so much to do in San Francisco with the
Speaker 1: Wine country and the just San Francisco alone and northern
Speaker 1: California and the Redwoods and all of that, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to do that, but then I don't want to.
Speaker 5: Deal with going to LA and doing all that.
Speaker 1: If I could get on a train with all my
Speaker 1: luggage and stuff and head down to LA, then I'm
Speaker 1: going to spend some money in LA.
Speaker 3: I mean, it works for.
Speaker 2: Tourism, and if what we voted on in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight.
Speaker 5: Was exactly what it was going to be, then, yes, if.
Speaker 2: It was that fairy tale of just running up and
Speaker 2: down I five, right.
Speaker 5: But that's not what it's become. And that's why I'm
Speaker 5: against it.
Speaker 1: Because it's become a slow speed rail and because there's
Speaker 1: so many stops and it would take so long.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: And there's a point where you have to realize you
Speaker 2: just got to pull the.
Speaker 1: Plug right, and now it's just when the body's just
Speaker 1: spits the that's it has become spike.
Speaker 2: I mean, my point about Trump, Gavin Newsom saying that
Speaker 2: he's got to write this budget with Trump in mind,
Speaker 2: that he's got to protect the state of California and
Speaker 2: he's going to use millions of dollars to do that
Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, it's just it's a waste of
Speaker 2: his breath to say things like that. This is that
Speaker 2: pride thing he wants to fight over high speed rail
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump, right, and Donald Trump's gonna win that
Speaker 2: one every time, because this is stupidity.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, this is about Gavin Newsom's genitals.
Speaker 5: That's all it's about.
Speaker 1: Stop with the genital Well, did you hear how he
Speaker 1: was like, it's going to be so big, it's going
Speaker 1: to be the biggest. We need a big we need
Speaker 1: to do big big in California, big big. It's like
Speaker 1: it's all about his big ego. That's what it's about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all he cares about, is number one. He doesn't
Speaker 1: care about the idea that it could bring in. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe he does, maybe he wants that victory lap
Speaker 1: if it was done successfully. But when it's not done
Speaker 1: successfully and it's a mess and it's just a money pit,
Speaker 1: you don't want that on your record. Palisades fire is
Speaker 1: what they're calling it. It is approximately ten acres, but
Speaker 1: it is burning in heavy fuel, they say, aligned with
Speaker 1: the wind. There is a potential for two hundred acres
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes. Per a La County Fire Department copter
Speaker 1: at the scene. Structures are immediately threatened. This one is
Speaker 1: a southeast of Palisades Drive at Kaye Victoria in the Palisades.
Speaker 2: There there was another one you had mentioned over off
Speaker 2: a sunset in some place that they were trying to
Speaker 2: get a handle on as well.
Speaker 3: And we knew this was coming.
Speaker 2: I mean we've seen in the last couple of Santa
Speaker 2: Ana events where fires pop up, whether it's out in
Speaker 2: Malibu or out in the camerarioor moor Park area.
Speaker 3: So this is going to be a long couple of days.
Speaker 2: As we get through this, there's a camera right at
Speaker 2: the Temescal trailhead and you could see pretty clearly what
Speaker 2: is burning and it's just all that scrub brush the land.
Speaker 2: And the thing is it is moving be based on
Speaker 2: the direction of the wind, it is moving towards the ocean,
Speaker 2: which would put it in put through homes and neighborhoods well.
Speaker 5: Throughout Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1: They do do an excellent job of structure protection in
Speaker 1: that area real everywhere in La County Fire Department is unparalleled.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is this has the potential to be
Speaker 1: a big one.
Speaker 2: You said again Palisades Drive in Kaye, Victoria.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Yes, it erupted in the area of Piedra Marauda Drive
Speaker 1: in the Palisades. But they say that this thing it's
Speaker 1: getting it's scary close to homes, is what it is,
Speaker 1: to be honest, and with the wind and the potential
Speaker 1: when they say it can cut it's at ten acres,
Speaker 1: but it could cover two hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for those in those the Ridgeview Country estates
Speaker 2: sort of down towards as you go back down Palisades Drive,
Speaker 2: of course, towards towards the ocean. There's one hundred there's
Speaker 2: a couple of thousand homes that are down there that
Speaker 2: are potentially threatened.
Speaker 3: Buy this, and again this is up.
Speaker 2: Fire that has just started, and the Palisades Drive, Kay
Speaker 2: Victoria area up north, I'm sorry, up above the Palisades
Speaker 2: in the hills there.
Speaker 1: Multiple agencies are responding, including the Sheriff's office for evacuations
Speaker 1: in the area. Again, that was kind of the vibe
Speaker 1: this morning with people in the fire prone area saying,
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to work today because I know
Speaker 1: there's a great potential for me to be evacuated, and
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to get my stuff
Speaker 1: and go because there won't be time for you to
Speaker 1: come back home, get your stuff and go. Obviously, with
Speaker 1: the rate of speed, when you've got these gusts of winds,
Speaker 1: how easily these things will grow and take off. And
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, we've seen those embers fly one two
Speaker 1: miles away, got the winds looking like this.
Speaker 2: Again, this is up in the Palisades hoa area that
Speaker 2: the Summit Park area above Palisades, in the hills there.
Speaker 2: The fire itself looks like it started just to the
Speaker 2: south of a big neighborhood where Palisades Drive, kind of
Speaker 2: winds up and around, and it looks like it's moving
Speaker 2: down towards the ocean from there. But so they are,
Speaker 2: as you said, the fire crews that are in the
Speaker 2: helicopters above it have already said that there are immediate
Speaker 2: there is an immediate threat to some of the structures.
Speaker 8: In the air.
Speaker 1: Remember when we talked to Henry de Carlo from KTLA,
Speaker 1: he talked about how usually the winds are blowing, they're
Speaker 1: blowing from the shore inland, right, so usually we'll see
Speaker 1: a fire like this burn towards, you know, towards inland,
Speaker 1: towards that wildland area, away from homes. But because the
Speaker 1: winds are coming from the north and the east, this
Speaker 1: thing is burning towards the water, towards those homes from
Speaker 1: atop the hill there. So that is the danger of
Speaker 1: And this thing is this thing is growing, It is
Speaker 1: growing exponentially, and they say that when he also told
Speaker 1: us that the biggest winds were going to be this evening.
Speaker 1: There is a forecast for this very area to get
Speaker 1: winds sustained winds between thirty five and fifty miles per
Speaker 1: hour sustained winds, not the gusts which we're seeing eighty
Speaker 1: miles per hour at times.
Speaker 5: So this is going to be a fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, just in a few minutes here that we've
Speaker 2: been talking about it, you can tell that it's grown
Speaker 2: quite a bit again, this fire near the palisades in
Speaker 2: the hills above it, but is burning down towards it,
Speaker 2: and you could tell, just if nothing else, by the
Speaker 2: direction of the smoke it's coming off almost horizontally. That
Speaker 2: smoke is before it rises into the air. To give
Speaker 2: you an idea of just how strong the winds are
Speaker 2: in that area.
Speaker 1: There's just no time. When you've got winds like this.
Speaker 1: It's really hard time, really hard to get on top
Speaker 1: of things like this, despite the fact that they're usually
Speaker 1: able to get on top of things like this in
Speaker 1: this area, is so quick. Time when you've got wins
Speaker 1: like this, and then you wonder about what they can
Speaker 1: do with the air power. You know, when you've got
Speaker 1: gusts of eighty miles an hour, and just how sustainable
Speaker 1: is an air attack at this point. Now, the winds
Speaker 1: are supposed to do, as Henry was telling us, die
Speaker 1: down in the afternoon before they pick back up again
Speaker 1: this evening, so there might be a sweet spot in
Speaker 1: there where they can come in and attack this thing
Speaker 1: from the sky. But this is going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of work for hand crews all day, maybe days.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll keep an eye on this and again
Speaker 2: we'll come back with any of the updates that we have.
Speaker 2: This fire that's burning in the Palisades area moving down
Speaker 2: towards the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 3: If you're in that area, you may not have heard
Speaker 3: anything about.
Speaker 2: We don't have any words on evacuation warnings yet, but
Speaker 2: this is one of those that they're not going to
Speaker 2: have a lot of time once they do make that decision.
Speaker 2: So if you're there, now might be the time to
Speaker 2: kind of think about backing that car into the driveway
Speaker 2: so you can get out quickly.
Speaker 1: We'll stay on top of it to get all the
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