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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here

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Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: Karen, we begin well with the latest on the wildfires

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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. The death toll remains at twenty four,

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Speaker 3: with at least three active fires still raging across the area.

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Speaker 3: Another round of dangerous weather is in the forecast today

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Speaker 3: for wind gusts as high as fifty miles an hour.

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief Robert Harris says people

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Speaker 3: need to be ready.

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Speaker 4: Severe weather conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be assured

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Speaker 4: that the Los Angeles County Fire Department is prepared and

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Speaker 4: we are anticipating winds and humidity and low moisture which

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Speaker 4: will be a threat to the Los Angeles County area.

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Speaker 3: Deputy Fire Chief Robert Harris says that threat extends north

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Speaker 3: to Ventura County as well. At the White House, President

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Speaker 3: Biden is looking ahead to the recovery.

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Speaker 5: To cover.

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Speaker 6: The costs over the next one hundred and eighty days

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Speaker 6: for making my firefront.

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Speaker 2: Overtime, pay you breath and rumal temporary shelters.

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Speaker 6: It's going to cost tens of billions of dollars.

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Speaker 3: The presidents spoke at a White House briefing. Wells Fargo

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Speaker 3: and Goldman Sachs estimate the insured losses alone could top

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Speaker 3: thirty billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Nathan officials are still looking into what could have

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Speaker 2: caused these fires. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says they're

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Speaker 2: investigating whether power lines owned by Southern California Edison could

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Speaker 2: have sparked the Eton fire that's devastated Alta Dina, But

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Speaker 2: the CEO of Edison's parent company, Pedro Bizarro, tells Bloomberg,

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Speaker 2: there's no evidence to lines we're having any issues.

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Speaker 5: Typically, when you have a fire cost by electrical infrastructure,

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Speaker 5: you do see a signature of voltage dropping, current increasing.

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Speaker 6: We have not seen that in our study.

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Speaker 2: CEO Pedro Pizarro's Edison International is facing a lawsuit over

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Speaker 2: the Eton fire. Residents have also filed a lass against

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Speaker 2: the LA Department of Power and Water over limited water

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Speaker 2: supplies to fight the Palisades fire.

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Speaker 3: Well, Karen. Another developing story we're following this morning is

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Speaker 3: the release of part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report.

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Speaker 3: He says President ELEC. Donald Trump could have been convicted

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Speaker 3: for trying to overturn the twenty twenty election. We get

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Speaker 3: the details from Bloomberg's Genis Cervetti.

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Speaker 5: The DOJ released Smith's one hundred thirty seven page report

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Speaker 5: after a week of legal wrangling over whether the document

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Speaker 5: could be made public. Trump's team had made emergency requests

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Speaker 5: to federal courts to block it from being released. Had

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Speaker 5: they succeeded, the new administration could have buried it for good.

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Speaker 5: The report details Trump's efforts to pressure Vice President Mike

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Speaker 5: Pence to reject congressional certification of the twenty twenty election,

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Speaker 5: including a deadly attack on the US Capitol on January sixth,

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty one. The report also highlights Trump's refusal to

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Speaker 5: help stop the riot and his continued support for those

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Speaker 5: who attacked the Capitol, which Smith sees as further evidence

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Speaker 5: of Trump's gill Trump and his allies have long railed

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Speaker 5: against Smith's investigation and findings, saying they represent a baseless

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Speaker 5: political attack. Gina Cervetti, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Gina, thank you all. Turning now to the

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Speaker 2: Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that

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Speaker 2: Israel and Hamas are finalizing terms on a ceasefire deal

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Speaker 2: that could be announced as soon as today. Both sides

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Speaker 2: are warning, however, that talks could still fall apart if

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Speaker 2: all those comments are in President elect Trump and President Biden,

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Speaker 2: who both say a pause and fighting could come before

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Speaker 2: inauguration day next week. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

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Speaker 2: told Bloomberg he's also optimistic about a deal.

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Speaker 7: I think the pressure is building for Hamas to come

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Speaker 7: to yes. I think Israel also has achieved a huge

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Speaker 7: amount of its military objectives in Gaza, and therefore they

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Speaker 7: So there is a distinct possibility that we can get

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Speaker 7: this deal done this week before President Biden leaves office.

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Speaker 2: And despite progress, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan still

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Speaker 2: urges caution about a possible sea fire. The proposed deal

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Speaker 2: would involve a forty two day truce with Hamas releasing

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Speaker 2: thirty three hostages in its first phase. According to senior

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Speaker 2: Israeli officials, Palestinian prisoners would be released from Israeli jails

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Speaker 2: and a buffer zone established in Gaza, with further negotiations

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Speaker 3: Now Karen a Bloomberg News exclusive some of President elect

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's economic team is considering a plan to gradually

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Speaker 3: increase trade tariffs. Sources say the discussions are looking at

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Speaker 3: ratcheting up levies by about two to five percent each month.

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Speaker 6: That we get more from Bloomberg's Critty Gupta, This.

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Speaker 8: Of course, is still a proposal that's being reported on.

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Speaker 8: It's not official yet, and it's also being proposed by

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Speaker 8: people who are not in power just yet, so there

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Speaker 8: are a lot of ifs and butts involved, But the

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Speaker 8: crux of the idea simply that it uses an act

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Speaker 8: that grants emergency powers to the president when declaring that

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Speaker 8: the country is in a national emergency.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Pretty Gupta says Scott Bessen, Kevin Hassett, and Steven

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Speaker 3: Moran are working on the plan, but the gradual tariff

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Speaker 3: hike proposals in its early stages and has not yet

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Speaker 3: been presented to Trump. A spokesman for the transition team

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Speaker 3: referred to the president to likes previous public comments and

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Speaker 3: social media posts about tariffs.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: Nathan Elon Musk will continue to have major access to

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump when he takes office. The New York Times

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Speaker 2: is reporting Musk is expected to use office space adjacent

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Speaker 2: to the White House as he launches the Department of

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Speaker 2: Government Efficiency. Musk owns companies with billions of dollars in

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Speaker 2: contracts with the federal government.

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Speaker 3: And could the world's richest person be in line for

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Speaker 3: another business Karen Bloomberg News has learned Chinese officials are

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Speaker 3: evaluating the possible sale of TikTok's US operations to Musk.

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Speaker 3: We are told it is one option being explored if

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Speaker 3: TikTok fails to fend off a US ban or from

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Annabelle Drulers, this is a.

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Speaker 9: Potential deal that possibly does hold some appeal for the

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Speaker 9: Chinese government, which does of course have say over whether

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Speaker 9: TikTok is ultimately sold. The deal value of this I

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Speaker 9: mean Bloomberg intelligence. Again, it's very difficult to say, but

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Speaker 9: last year they were saying TikTok's the US operations could

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Speaker 9: be worth something to magnitude of forty to fifty billion dollars.

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Speaker 9: And it's also not sure what sort of structure the

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Speaker 9: deal could take either, but it would certainly be a

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Speaker 9: very complex process.

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Speaker 6: It's Bloomberg's anabel Droolers.

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Speaker 3: Last week, the Supreme Court signal that is likely to

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Speaker 3: uphold the law that would ban the app in the

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Speaker 3: US on national security grounds.

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Speaker 2: Well, we turned to the markets now, Nathan, and futures

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Speaker 2: are higher following yesterday's later turnaround on Wall Street. Today's

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Speaker 2: trading could be impacted by the first of this week's.

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Speaker 6: Key inflation reports.

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Speaker 2: We get a preview of the Producer Price Index with

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Michael McKee.

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Speaker 10: Economists see further proof coming that disinflation has paused, if

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Speaker 10: not ended, Rising monthly prices will be in significant jumps

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Speaker 10: on an annual basis, something which might scare already nervous investors.

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Speaker 10: While the PPI doesn't directly correlate to Wednesday's consumer price report,

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Speaker 10: several of its components feed into the Fed's preferred inflation indicator,

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Speaker 10: the PCE index. Bloomberg Economics sees portfolio management and airfares

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Speaker 10: continuing to drift higher. All healthcare gains are muted ahead

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Speaker 10: of January's cost resets. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: And it's time now for look at some of the

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Speaker 2: other stories making news in New York and around the world.

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Speaker 2: And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's John Tucker.

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Speaker 11: John, Good Morning, Good Morning, Karen, New York city's first

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Speaker 11: in the nation, congestion pricing appears to be working. Let's

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Speaker 11: get the story this morning from Bloomberg Jeff Bellinger.

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Speaker 12: Traffic on New York's busiest streets dropped by seven and

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Speaker 12: a half percent, and morning travel times fell on most

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Speaker 12: major crossings into Manhattan during the first work week of

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Speaker 12: the city's congestion pricing plan. The preliminary data from the

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Speaker 12: Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the first glimpse into how the

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Speaker 12: new charge is impacting commuting patterns. The early data follows

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Speaker 12: a week of social media postings and reports of residents

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Speaker 12: and drivers enjoying easier flowing traffic, and average five hundred

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Speaker 12: and thirty nine thousand vehicles drove into the toll zone

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Speaker 12: each day during the first work week of the program.

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Speaker 12: That's about forty three thousand fewer than before congestion pricing began.

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Speaker 12: Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 11: President Biden touted his foreign policy accomplishments and a speech

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Speaker 11: aimed at burnishing his luncacy before he departs office next week.

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Speaker 3: BI administration is leaving the next administration with a very

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Speaker 12: More friends, strong reliance, xavasars are weaker and under pressure.

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Speaker 11: Biden also reflecting on the competition with China, saying we

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Speaker 11: expect China and everyone to abide by the international rules.

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Speaker 11: Special Counsel David Weiss got the last word leading the

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Speaker 11: investigation into Hunter Biden and the President's decision to part

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Speaker 11: in his son. Weiss's final report was released yesterday. The

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Speaker 11: President said the Hunter was treated differently and single out

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Speaker 11: because he is his son. Weiss fired back, saying those

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Speaker 11: baseless accusations have no merit and rescuers were sending a

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Speaker 11: cage like structure into one of South Africa's deepest minds. Today,

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Speaker 11: it's an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds. If

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Speaker 11: more than one hundred or believed to have died of

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Speaker 11: starvation or dehydration. Global News twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 11: Whatever he wanted, we have Bloomberg News.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 11: I'm John Tucker, and this is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 6: Karen, Right, John Tucker, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Time now for the Bloomberg Sports up Day, brought to

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Speaker 6: Here's John Stanshawer. John, Good morning, Good morning, Karen.

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Speaker 13: Sports is back in Los Angeles first time since the

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Speaker 13: fires broke out home games last night for the Lakers,

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Speaker 13: who lost and the Clippers, who won, and the Rams

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Speaker 13: had their playoff game of the Vikings. It was moved

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Speaker 13: Rams will now play Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia. This contract expired,

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Speaker 13: the Dallas Cowboys cut ties with coach Mike McCarthy. Dallas

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Speaker 13: just went through an injury ravage seven and ten season.

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Speaker 13: They won twelve games each of the previous three. McCarthy's

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Speaker 13: now free to pursue other jobs. Cowboys had previously prevented

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Speaker 13: last night Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has already spoken with

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Speaker 13: Australian Open first round straight said victories for Americans Taylor Fritz,

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager on another very challenging day in store

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Speaker 3: for the Los Angeles area after now a week of

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Speaker 3: deadly wildfires, more punishing winds or in the forecast today,

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Speaker 3: but Los Angeles County Fire Captain Sheila Kelleher says they're

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Speaker 10: We have cruiseworthy belong everybody's in place, everybody knows the mission,

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Speaker 10: everybody knows a game plan because when the winds start blowing,

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Speaker 10: we will have our hands full.

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Speaker 6: But we are ready for what's coming our way and

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Speaker 6: from more.

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Speaker 3: We are joined this morning by Bloomberg's Derek Wallbank. Derek,

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Speaker 3: good morning, Let's talk about what is coming their way

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Speaker 3: up to fifty mile an hour wind gusts and continued

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, you're talking about some

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Speaker 14: conditions here that are going to mirror over the next

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Speaker 14: little while the conditions that were in place at the

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Speaker 14: start of the Palisades fire. This has a lot of

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Speaker 14: people officials in the area on edge, and that's that's

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Speaker 14: going to be the situation that we're facing for the

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Speaker 14: next little while. As I say, at the same time,

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Speaker 14: you know, we're getting accounts of exactly how much this

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Speaker 14: is going to cost. The estimates keep going up. Acueathers

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Speaker 14: overall estimate toll now somewhere around two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 14: billion dollars billion, with a B dollars the insured losses

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Speaker 14: rise as well. And you know that's just sort of

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Speaker 14: Nathan where we stand right now. The more that you

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Speaker 14: have fire conditions like this that prevent these from getting

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Speaker 14: put out, that maybe put new ones in new areas,

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Speaker 14: the more those totals may rise.

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Speaker 3: And when you think, Derek about the human total in

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Speaker 3: the economic toll, you have to wonder what the overall

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Speaker 14: Yeah, and you know, we saw we saw one one

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Speaker 14: estimate that said that you could have a small effect

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Speaker 14: on the on the jobless rate, that is, that is

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Speaker 14: certainly something that's in play. You also could have a

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Speaker 14: somewhat smaller effect on overall GDP. I think the main

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Speaker 14: thing is that you have a little bit of a

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Speaker 14: sectoral concentration. Right. We've written extensively. My colleague Lucashow particularly

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Speaker 14: he has written extensive, extensively about the effects on the

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Speaker 14: entertainment industry. Uh uh, you know, productions are generally shut

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Speaker 14: You know, you're not necessarily getting the permits. Well, you know,

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Speaker 14: if you need police or something else to be at

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Speaker 14: So there's going to be some of those I mentioned. Insurers,

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Speaker 14: that all raises the question, does it not of what

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Speaker 14: you know, President Joe Biden has talked about a potential

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Speaker 14: And at the same time, we're hearing Republicans start to

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Speaker 14: universal Republican control of Congress in the not too dissidant future,

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Speaker 14: They already have universal control of Congress. So that's going

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Speaker 3: Forward as we continue to ask those questions and monitor

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Speaker 3: the wildfire situation. We got the report dropped overnight from

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Speaker 3: the Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty election interference. How much of an impact could this

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Speaker 3: President elect Trump becomes president?

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Speaker 6: Trump again got about a minute.

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Speaker 14: Well, Nathan, I don't think that it's going to prevent

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Speaker 14: Trump from becoming president, right, And I think that a

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Speaker 14: lot of this stuff this report. Our listeners will have

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Speaker 14: the American public was very well aware of all of that.

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Speaker 14: It factored into people's votes where they thought it ought to,

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Speaker 14: and Trump was elected. Anyway. Trump is walking in here,

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