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Speaker 1: Moistline where you get to vent your fury. And we're

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Speaker 1: so much damage. It may not be who you're thinking.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that next hour. All right, let's take a

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Speaker 1: break briefly for something that affects far more lives in

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Speaker 1: America than the Palisades and Altadena fires, and it is

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Speaker 1: the possible death of TikTok. On Sunday, there's one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy million Americans who may see their TikTok screen

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll play you a little montage of people crying over

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Speaker 1: the demise of TikTok Royal Oaks. ABC News legal analyst

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Speaker 1: is going to discuss this now. A Supreme Court upheld

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Speaker 1: the law that Congress passed and Biden signed to ban TikTok.

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Speaker 1: It's going to happen on Sunday. Trump doesn't take over

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Speaker 1: until Monday. Let's uh, let's talk to royal right now,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, and you know, you're right. One hundred

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Speaker 3: and seventy million people. That's a lot of folks. And

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Speaker 3: you know, the interesting thing is that the US Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court was unanimous. I mean, John, when how often do

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court? Very rare. But they all said, look, we

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Speaker 3: see the two issues. There's a free speech issue and

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Speaker 3: TikTok is saying you're censoring us and so on, and

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Speaker 3: we kind of are. But all of the justices said

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Speaker 3: it's vastly outweighed. But the danger that the Chinese government

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Speaker 3: is getting also, it's interesting factoids about a hundred seventy

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Speaker 3: You know, let's just have an American company own this thing.

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Speaker 3: And of course it may they may not turn into

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe you can wheel and deal. I'm pretty

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Speaker 3: good at negotiations. So he's going to try to find

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Speaker 3: a buyer to take it over. But at the moment,

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Speaker 3: it's like the Supreme Court is saying, TikTok, TikTok, your

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Speaker 3: time is up on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are business entities that want to buy, but

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Speaker 1: is the Chinese government willing to sell?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, you know, they have no choice because they're

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Speaker 3: in poking around thinking about buying it. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: Really wondering if all purpose is setting this up was

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Speaker 1: and maybe they're they're not going to sell and they're

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. And of course the app is

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Speaker 3: not going to disappear immediately Sunday, even if it just

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Speaker 3: and the new updates, the new shuffle dances won't be available,

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Speaker 3: you know, there are several million shovel dances people can

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Speaker 2: No idea what a shuffle dance is.

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Speaker 3: Two people having a lot of fun eye smiles on

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Speaker 1: Because this is something that I've looked for and it

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Speaker 1: With they did they think the Chinese are not just

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Speaker 1: did they have some kind of virus that can suck

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Speaker 3: People are talking about maybe having a firewall so that China,

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Speaker 1: all right, the people who gave you COVID are now

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Speaker 3: You you bet, thanks, Royal.

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Speaker 1: Oaks, ABC News legal correspondent. All right, let us let's

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Speaker 1: play the mentage here of Tiktoker's emoting crying because TikTok's

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Speaker 4: The US government, I'm never forgiving you for this and

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Speaker 5: And who does that Supreme Court kept the band?

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Speaker 6: Supreme Court said, Nope, doesn't violate your First Amendment rights.

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Speaker 6: I was not even planning on making this video. This

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Speaker 2: I just think a lot of people who don't do

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Speaker 5: It's so so time consuming.

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Speaker 4: You dedicate so much of your life to this job.

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Speaker 1: So anyone else just been crying on this app all

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Speaker 1: these people, they're grieving like you know, their their parents

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of emotional insanity going on.

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Speaker 2: Shuffle Dance.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, the LA government has completely crumbled, but since it

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Speaker 1: didn't crumble on TikTok, a lot of people aren't following that.

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Speaker 1: So Karen Bass is having another press briefing, and who.

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Speaker 2: This is Steve sober Off.

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Speaker 8: So he just called her the cizar and somebody, somebody

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm watching the close caption and I also I'm

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Speaker 8: Well it's you know, it's either so Cow strong, Southern

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Speaker 1: Can we drop that lame cliche that started god over

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Speaker 5: Why do we have to have branding? You know it?

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Speaker 1: This is a cover to distract people from us getting

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Speaker 2: They're all rhetoric.

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Speaker 2: But when you need, you need.

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Speaker 1: Grown men with a lot of testosterone to fight fires

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Speaker 1: time into that. No more woke sensitivity training. Somebody is

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Speaker 1: out of line than fire them. Do you have an

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Speaker 1: individual and he's he's he's he's acting up and making

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Speaker 1: life difficult for people, Just get rid of him, move on.

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Speaker 1: Hire somebody new who's uh more decent. But we've got

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Speaker 1: we've got to we've got to stop the way we

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Speaker 1: handle the fire department, in the police department. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're not meant to be priests and ministers. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're meant to be guys who are willing to save

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Speaker 1: my life and give up their own life in the

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Speaker 1: face of enormous danger. And that that's the way it's

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Speaker 1: got to be again, And everybody ought to get off

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Speaker 1: the woke train. Give it up already. You're killing us,

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Speaker 1: You're literally killing us, you're literally destroying the city. That

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Speaker 1: that phrase is always used as hyperbole, or you're destroying

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Speaker 1: the city. Knowing this case, it's destroying the city. We

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Speaker 1: come back. I want to get to those newspaper clips

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Speaker 1: because we got we got much planned for the three

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI A six.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, we're gonna talk with Matt Hymes.

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Speaker 1: He lost his Pacific Palisades home. He's a writer and

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Speaker 1: editor former liberally says, and the leader's bass knew some

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Speaker 1: and the rest of them are so in neth he said,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are changing sides. They're they're done

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Speaker 1: with the one party rule in California because it's incompetent

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Speaker 1: and dangerous. We'll talk with Matt coming up. You may

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Speaker 1: have heard the Karen Bass defenders. If they're not claiming

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Speaker 1: it's racism and sexism or claiming that well one hundred

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Speaker 1: mile an hour wins, there's nothing you can do. This

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Speaker 1: is unprecedented, never happened before. Who would have expected this, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of crap because a few people online.

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Speaker 1: Steve Maloy, he runs an online side about junk science,

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Speaker 1: and he's described as the most influential climate science contrarian, Like.

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Speaker 2: He's not buying this nonsense.

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Speaker 1: So he spent some time going into the newspaper archives

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Speaker 1: and finding out that let's go to January thirteenth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine. Wow, almost exactly to the day Napa Valley

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Speaker 1: Register headline, one hundred mile prior winds rip southern California.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm telling you. Sant Ana winds always

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Speaker 1: blow in January, and there have been bad fires in January.

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Speaker 2: This was about the wind.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of truckers and air travelers were stranded. One hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand residents lost power. Santa Ana wins tore through southern

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Speaker 1: California up to one hundred miles an hour, closing Ontario

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Speaker 1: Airport for ten hours, shredding one of the world's largest blimps,

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Speaker 1: damaging an airliner. There toppled a dozen tractor trailers. Maybe

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Speaker 1: some of you out in an empire, remember this? Let

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Speaker 1: me see here. Then people started posting other things. Ah,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Somebody went back to November twenty second,

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty seven, the La Times big headline. Extra addition,

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Speaker 1: eighteen thousand acre fire flames driven by one hundred mile

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Speaker 1: per hour gusts. Mount Wilson gets an evacuation alert. It's

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Speaker 1: the same stories, over and over through time. Relentless hurricane

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Speaker 1: forest winds blasted across southern California yesterday, causing untold property damage,

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Speaker 1: fanning an eighteen thousand acre mountain fire in the San

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Speaker 1: Gabriel Mountains wildly out of control, lifting clouds of dust

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Speaker 1: and debris and wrecking homes. Uh sixteen people were injured.

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Speaker 1: And it goes on and on. Here's another one, Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Times, March seventeenth, nineteen sixty four. Thirty five homes

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Speaker 1: lost one hundred mile per hour gusts spread fires.

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Speaker 2: That's the headline.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five homes lost one hundred miles per an hour gusts.

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Speaker 1: Structures perled in Glendale, Burbank, Eagle Rock and Pasadena. This

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Speaker 1: you had nineteen sixty one, the bel Air fire, and

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Speaker 1: they had the same problems. Dry conditions, extream winds, low

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Speaker 1: water pressure in the fire, hydrants. In fact, there's a

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Speaker 1: documentary from nineteen sixty two entitled LAFD Design for Disaster.

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Speaker 1: Here's another clip. I don't know the time of this

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Speaker 1: fire started when hurricane force wins down to Parol line

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Speaker 1: burned one hundred and sixty acres of brush near Ramona.

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Speaker 1: Let me look at another one here, ah nineteen thirty eight.

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Speaker 1: Somebody has a clip damage near Los ange list rated

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Speaker 1: at three million nowadays that would be one house. Malibu

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Speaker 1: Beach threatened two thousand men fought desperately. Wow, they had

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Speaker 1: two thousand firefighters in nineteen thirty eight. A fully funded

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Speaker 1: fire department back then burned over five hundred thousand burned,

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Speaker 1: over fifty thousand acres of land destroyed, between six hundred

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Speaker 1: and seven hundred homes. The homes destroyed and in danger

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Speaker 1: included the country estates of many movie stars. The five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars Will Rogers Ranch in the Riviera District

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Speaker 1: was evacuated by Missus Rogers and her sons. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Will Rogers State Park suffered a big loss. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the historic buildings they're burned last week. So

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Speaker 1: you get stories here from nineteen thirty eight, nineteen fifty seven,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, nineteen eighty nine, all about one hundred

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Speaker 1: mile an hour winds and big fires. So it's not unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: It's not unexpected. It has been seen before. And if

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Speaker 1: anybody ever sits Karen Bass or Kristin Crowley down, you

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Speaker 1: can model these situations. Now, did you ever sit at

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Speaker 1: a meeting and model these worst case scenario fires with

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Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour. When did you come up

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Speaker 1: with a battle plan. This is what I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: is the forecast. They had five days in advance, and

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Speaker 1: when wind day finally arrived, Kristin Crowley, the fire chief,

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Speaker 1: did not send the thousand firefighters up or the extra

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Speaker 1: forty engines and disperse them throughout the Santa Monica Mountain

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Speaker 1: footholes on the so south and north side.

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Historically this happens, maybe every decade or so. It happens,

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Speaker 1: And you could do the computer modeling the way they

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Speaker 1: do computer modeling with hurricanes. If you watch, if you

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Speaker 1: go to the weather channel, right hurricanes coming, and you

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Speaker 1: see they have twelve colored lines sewing different paths. Those

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Speaker 1: are twelve different computers taking all the data, looking at

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Speaker 1: the historical paths that hurricanes take based on the data,

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Speaker 1: and usually a few of them are right, and you

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Speaker 1: could preposition your resources. You think Gavin Newsom and Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass and Kristin Crowley ever sat together at one of

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Speaker 1: those meetings where the scientists revealed the computer modeling and

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Speaker 1: they crafted a strategy to have enough engines and firefighters

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Speaker 1: in place. You could schedule it on a day when

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Speaker 1: Bass is not traveling to Africa. Really, you could break

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Speaker 1: that out. We come back two rounds of the moistline,

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Speaker 1: the first Hack in a Dumpster of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and next we're going to talk to Matt Himes, writer

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Speaker 1: and editor, lost his Pacific Palisades home last week and

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Speaker 1: he's fed up. And he says a lot of his

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Speaker 1: friends and neighbors are fed up with Bass News, them

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Speaker 1: and the whole democratic machine in this state, and they're

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Speaker 1: switching sides. Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four

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Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt

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