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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody from Los Angeles. Welcome to the Morning

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Speaker 2: Run on this Monday, January thirteenth. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach. And on the run this morning,

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Speaker 1: progress made against the wildfires as the death toll rises,

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Speaker 1: and an anxious couple of days ahead because the fire

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Speaker 1: forecast looks just awful. Plus thousands are signing a petition

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Speaker 1: to remove the LA mayor from office.

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Speaker 2: Also, we'll let you know how the famed Hollywood Sign

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Speaker 2: is doing, because the Internet shows it burning down.

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Speaker 1: Also on the run this morning, new hope of a

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Speaker 1: ceasefire in the Middle East, Two fans get kicked out

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Speaker 1: of baseball indefinitely, And why a fifteen year old song

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Speaker 1: is number one on iTunes this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one you pointed out to me. It

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Speaker 2: is actually crazy as it sounds related to these fires

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Speaker 2: as well. Just one of a number of stories to

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Speaker 2: come out of this tragedy in this kind of a

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Speaker 2: heartwarming one to a certain degree, just to see how

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Speaker 2: people are coming to the aid of somebody else.

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Speaker 1: You know, people want to help, especially people who aren't

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Speaker 1: here and don't know how they can help. They can't

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Speaker 1: donate their clothes or their time, and so they want

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Speaker 1: to do their part. They might not have a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. Well this is one way you can do it.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we got here to LA late yesterday, and

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Speaker 2: even before we landed, you could get a sense of, frankly,

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Speaker 2: the impact the fires were having. First of all, the

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Speaker 2: plane was almost empty. There's a plane going from New

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Speaker 2: York to LA A lot of those seats were not occupied.

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Speaker 2: And then RBS, we were getting closer, the pilot actually

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Speaker 2: started making announcements, which lets you know something was up.

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Speaker 2: We're already all aware, but just the pilot had to

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Speaker 2: give everybody kind of a heads up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was saying we might as we descend or

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Speaker 1: made our final descent, that we might go through a

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Speaker 1: layer of smoke, and that we might actually even smell

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Speaker 1: the smoke in the cabin of the plane, which we

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Speaker 1: did not, thankfully, but he prepared us for that. And

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Speaker 1: then it didn't take long before we got into the

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Speaker 1: uber heading to our hotel, where your phone started going

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Speaker 1: off tj oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it scared the hell out of you because that

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Speaker 2: loud alert. I think a lot of people mostly were

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Speaker 2: used to getting them.

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Speaker 1: When the Amber alerts, Amber Alerts.

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Speaker 2: And sure enough I got them back to back to

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Speaker 2: back telling me I needed to evacuate. It was giving

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Speaker 2: me evacuation orders for certain zones, and it was so

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Speaker 2: specific of streets and this far and the driver as well,

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Speaker 2: he's giving almost a tour see this area here that

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Speaker 2: is all covered in smoke yesterday. It's just all that

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Speaker 2: anyone can talk about here.

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Speaker 1: And when, yes, when you're far removed from it, you're

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Speaker 1: not realizing how folks here now on a minute by

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Speaker 1: whether or not they're safe or they're not, and that

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Speaker 1: changes by the hour based on how the winds are shifting. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: the area were staying in apparently had been covered in

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Speaker 1: smoke the day before. It was cleared out pretty much yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see what today brings.

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Speaker 2: And you know what the nice point is, Well, again,

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Speaker 2: it's all the conversation anybody's talking about. But the way

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Speaker 2: we went and got a bite to eat, and even

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Speaker 2: the way the waiter spoke to us is like, be

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Speaker 2: safe out, stay safe. Yeah, And then every conversation, every

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Speaker 2: table we passed, did you have to evacuate?

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Speaker 1: And people had their pets with them wherever they were

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Speaker 1: in restaurants, not in places you typically see them. All

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Speaker 1: of the outside cafes. Even though the airs seemed like

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Speaker 1: it was okay where we are, they were all closed down.

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Speaker 1: Because again, things can change in a moment's notice. So

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Speaker 1: things are very different here in LA than they've ever

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Speaker 1: been that I've ever seen them, but also very communal

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Speaker 2: So on that point, you just made right. Things can

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Speaker 2: change on a moment's notice, and that is where we

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Speaker 2: will begin here in La. On this morning run, we'll

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Speaker 2: give you the very latest first on these wildfires. As

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Speaker 2: of this morning, Monday morning, but twenty four people are

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Speaker 2: now confirmed dead. That is a significant jump in the

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Speaker 2: death toll, and officials caution that number could continue to rise.

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Speaker 1: They certainly do. They're bringing in cadaver dogs to do

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Speaker 1: some grid searches in the burned out neighborhoods. Sixteen people

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Speaker 1: right now we know are still unaccounted for. Twelve thousand

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Speaker 1: structures have been either damaged or destroyed, and at least

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Speaker 1: sixty two square miles have burned. That is an area

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Speaker 1: nearly the size of Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: And around one hundred thousand people are still under evacuation orders.

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Speaker 2: We should say, the first place we were going to

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Speaker 2: because we got word that the fires were moving that direction.

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Speaker 2: And yes, the area where we were supposed to be

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Speaker 2: staying is actually under evacuation orders now. Now, the winds

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Speaker 2: did give firefighters a break over the weekend and they

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Speaker 2: were able to make progress. The largest fire, the Palisades

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Speaker 2: Fire you've heard so much about, it's now thirteen percent

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Speaker 1: And the next largest fire, that's called the Eton Fire,

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Speaker 1: that was twenty seven percent contained as of this morning,

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Speaker 1: Monday morning. Both of those fires, though stubbornly, remained at

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Speaker 1: zero percent containment just up until recently. Meantime, fire crews

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we keep throwing that around zero percent containment.

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Speaker 2: It's like oftentimes you hear a fire and it's like

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Speaker 2: you don't really exactly know what that means. But the

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Speaker 2: containment here is not If it's say, thirteen percent contained,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that thirteen percent of that fire has

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Speaker 2: been put out. What it means is eighty seven percent

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Speaker 2: of that fire could still explode and go a direction

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Speaker 2: they have no control over. So when you hear all

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Speaker 2: these containment numbers zero percent contained, that means there's no

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Speaker 2: part of that fire that they have any control over.

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Speaker 2: But those percentages just mean that's a section of the

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Speaker 2: fire at least they don't have to worry about exploding.

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Speaker 2: But with those numbers, keep getting thrown around and thrown

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Speaker 2: about and trying to make sense of them. So I

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Speaker 2: thought we'd at least offer that. But that's progress.

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Speaker 1: Yep, that is progress, and we'll take it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're going to continue though our run here

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Speaker 2: in La where there is a renewed anxiety, renewed fear

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Speaker 2: this morning because those dangerous winds are forecast to return,

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Speaker 2: which could threaten all the gains that firefighters have made

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Speaker 2: in recent days.

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Speaker 1: Southern California is going to remain in quote critical fire

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Speaker 1: danger over the next several days. That means more than

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Speaker 1: eight million people are in the fire risks zone. Red

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Speaker 1: flag warnings expected to remain in place through Wednesday, and

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Speaker 1: officials are prepping for what they are calling another major

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Speaker 2: And the National Weather Service dubs this a particularly dangerous

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Speaker 2: situation a PDS. That is an official distinction, which is

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Speaker 2: the strongest warning of its kind that the National Weather

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Speaker 2: Service can issue. Win gus are expected to be seventy

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Speaker 2: plus miles per hour. That's awful. However, it's still not

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Speaker 2: as bad as we saw last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And this is all combined with what

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Speaker 1: the weather conditions are like here in the area. Ten

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Speaker 1: dry the air is here and LA tied for the

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Speaker 1: driest six month period. This is between July and January

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Speaker 1: on record, there have only been zero point one six

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Speaker 1: inches of rain in those six months. It's tied for

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty three years. So that

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Speaker 1: conditions on top of the wind that are fueling this

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Speaker 2: It's worth since you mentioned that, So when is possible

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Speaker 2: relief coming you all? They're saying, don't even think about

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Speaker 2: potential rain or possibility of it before the eighteenth. They

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Speaker 2: think there's a window between the eighteenth and the twenty

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Speaker 2: not saying for sure, but the only possible relief. So

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Speaker 2: this is just a wind situation right now because no rain.

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Speaker 1: Is coming and everything is just so dry, and you know,

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Speaker 1: to make matters worse. And we always hear about these stories.

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Speaker 1: I even hate to report them, but we need to.

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Speaker 1: At least twenty nine people have been arrested in these

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Speaker 1: fire zones for looting and other crimes, and this one

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Speaker 1: is appalling, including one man who was busted wearing a

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Speaker 1: firefighter jacket. The governor sent in the National Guard to

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Speaker 1: help patrol evacuated neighborhoods where it seems criminals are yes

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The county sheriff recalled a story when he was

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Speaker 2: in Malibu. I saw a man in a firefighter jacket

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Speaker 2: better than I can. This is how he put it quote.

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Speaker 2: I saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter, and

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Speaker 2: dressed like a fireman and he was not. He just

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Speaker 2: got called burglarizing a home. So those are issues that

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Speaker 2: our frontline deputies and police officers are dealing with. And yeah, robes,

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Speaker 2: we've seen some of the video of people going into homes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the homes that aren't burned down have been abandoned. There's

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Speaker 1: Shameful. Shameful, that's the only way to put it. And

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of fingers being pointed at officials,

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Speaker 1: as you can imagine, as everyone is trying to not

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Speaker 1: just deal with the fires but figure out what caused them,

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Speaker 1: how they could have prevented them. All that finger pointing

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Speaker 1: already going on criticizing one another, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: continue for a while now. They're continuing to criticize over

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Speaker 1: the fire preparedness and the response, and most of it

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Speaker 1: is directed at California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass. There is talk of recalls, There is

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Speaker 1: talk of resignations, and a couple of online petitions are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, change dot org there's a petition that calls for

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Speaker 2: mayor Baths to resign. It's now garnered one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand signatures as of this recording on Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: A lot of.

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Speaker 2: Scrutiny and focus is now on the Santa Ynez Reservoir.

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Speaker 2: All Right, you'm gonna hear that name probably a little

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Speaker 2: bit over the next few weeks and maybe even a

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Speaker 2: year or so, because there's an investigation into it. This

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Speaker 2: is a water reservoir that sits in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the Palisades neighborhood, a water reservoir, and it is empty.

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Speaker 2: It sits empty right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was empty when the fires started last week.

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Speaker 1: But this is the big head scratcher. It's been empty

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Speaker 1: for nearly a year. Governor Newsom has now ordered an

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Speaker 1: investigation into finding out why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was potentially a one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 2: gallon bowl of water. Think of it that way. If

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Speaker 2: you just got a big old bowl of water sitting

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Speaker 2: that bowl of water is just the bowl because the

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Speaker 2: water is gone. That's what we're talking about. It sat empty.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and seventeen million gallons of water that could

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Speaker 1: That's right. So the name of the song, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: It's called Superficial by a Heidi Montagu and it finally

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Speaker 2: That's what these people are looking at. That is their livelihood,

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Speaker 1: That's right. The secret of happiness, you see, is not

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Speaker 1: one more time. The secret of happiness, you see, is

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Speaker 1: not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity

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Speaker 1: to enjoy less.

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Speaker 2: I think that the truth It is. I'll be happy

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Speaker 1: Always want something, and then you got more problems. The

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Speaker 1: more things you have, the more problems you have. Ain't

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Speaker 1: that true?

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Speaker 2: To just enjoy less? So, folks, we certainly hope you

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Speaker 2: take that with you throughout the day and put it

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Speaker 2: to good use, but we as always appreciate you running

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Speaker 2: with us. But for now, from Los Angele's Science TJ Moms.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Amy Robot. Have a wonderful day everyone,