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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ an iHeartRadio podcast. Good

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Speaker 1: morning everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: January ninth.

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ. Holmes.

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Speaker 1: My partner Amy Robach is out this morning and on

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Speaker 1: the run today. It's not going from bad to worse,

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Speaker 1: but bad to not so bad, and right now.

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Speaker 2: The people of la will take it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you the good news, but it's

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Speaker 1: going to be accompanied by more devastating news as well.

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Speaker 1: About those fires in La. Plus Hollywood halts a slew

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Speaker 1: of major event postponements and cancelations because of the fires

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Speaker 1: to tell you about. Also Billy Crystal among the celebrities

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Speaker 1: who've lost their homes in the fires, and I am

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Speaker 1: going to share with you his words after finding out

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Speaker 1: his house that he's been in for nearly fifty years

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Speaker 1: is gone. Also, those fires, they're prompted President Biden to

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Speaker 1: cancel his final foreign trip. Also on the run this morning,

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Speaker 1: Resident elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to help him

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Speaker 1: out of a legal situation. Who else isn't sure Biden

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Speaker 1: could have made it through a second term. Well, Biden

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Speaker 1: and a proposal to rename the United States of America

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Speaker 1: but we do begin on the run this morning. The

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Speaker 1: first leg we do have to be in in La

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Speaker 1: where the death toll has gone up. Structures destroyed, that

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Speaker 1: number has gone up, to the number of evacuations, power outages,

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Speaker 1: acres burned, all gone up. But the winds have gone

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Speaker 1: down finally, and that is the good news. We will

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Speaker 1: start with those hurricane force winds. Those wind gusts that

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Speaker 1: have been fueling these disastrous fires began to subside later

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Speaker 1: in the day yesterday in Los Angeles, and this morning

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Speaker 1: the people of Los Angeles will be waking up to

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Speaker 1: calmer wind conditions. So what are we talking about here, Well,

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Speaker 1: the meteorologists are telling us that the winds will be

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Speaker 1: is going to be much much lower than that in

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Speaker 1: a lot of spots today as well. That's great to hear. Also,

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Speaker 1: the wind gusts are forecast to just be in a

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Speaker 1: few places of fifty to sixty miles per hour. That

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Speaker 1: is also good because you compare that to the eighty

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Speaker 1: plus mile per hour gusts that they've been experienced in.

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Speaker 2: The past few days. Now, though the.

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Speaker 1: Winds will still be an issue in the coming days

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Speaker 1: they won't be as severe. That could give fire crews

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Speaker 1: getting their firefighting aircraft up in the air. But even

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Speaker 1: with the winds getting better, a lot of the news

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Speaker 1: this morning is worse. The latest five people now confirmed

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Speaker 1: deaths were associated with the so called Eton fire, which

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Speaker 1: is the second largest behind the Palisades fire out there

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Speaker 1: in La. Also, more people were forced to flee yesterday

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Speaker 1: and into the night, and now at least one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty thousand people are under evacuation order. Authorities now

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Speaker 1: And despite the winds going down, last night, another fire

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Speaker 1: This one's been dubbed the Sunset Fire. It prompted mandatory

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Speaker 1: evacuations as it lurked ever closer to Hollywood Boulevard, where

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Speaker 1: Tussau's and so on and so on. So we got

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Speaker 1: the Palisades and Eaten fires. Those two are the largest

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Speaker 1: We also have the Hurst, Lydia and Sunset fires that

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Speaker 1: are still burning. The Lydia fire, which is about three

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Speaker 1: They're hoping to get all those containment numbers going out

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Speaker 1: of the zero if you will, today with these fires,

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Speaker 1: still incredibly dry, red flag conditions out there. Even if

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Speaker 1: President Biden has canceled his plan trip to Rome. This

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Speaker 1: It will not happen. He's instead going to remain in

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Speaker 1: southern California. Hollywood, of course, is a sports and entertainment mecca,

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Speaker 1: Premiers for movies like The Wolfman and Unstoppable were canceled.

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Speaker 1: They were both canceled. They were supposed to happen this

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Speaker 1: week the Critics' Choice Awards scheduled for this weekend. It's

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Speaker 1: Remains to be seen if they'll have a taping tonight.

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Speaker 1: Shows like NCIS, Hacks, Suits, LA, even The Price Is

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Speaker 1: still on, but the NBA said it was monitoring the situation.

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Speaker 1: We also know that the LA school districts they are

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Speaker 1: the Oscars voting. Academy of Motion Pictures announced they are

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Speaker 1: Those flames, of course, don't discriminate whether it's the home

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Speaker 1: The flames don't care. But yes, we do know. La

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Speaker 1: going to read it verbatim. Here he says, Janice and

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Speaker 1: We pray for the safety of the firefighters and first responders.

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Speaker 1: The Pacific Palisades is a resilient community of amazing people,

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Speaker 1: It is our home. Of course, we have seen a

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Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to get into some other news,

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Speaker 1: He's almost out of time, but he's trying everything up

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Speaker 1: If the sentencing goes forward on Friday as schedule, the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's come out that President Trump was on

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Speaker 1: Alito now this raised a lot of eyebrows, and it's

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Speaker 1: And with that, folks, we appreciate you as always running

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Speaker 1: Amyen TJ podcast that is up on our feet. You

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Speaker 1: And everybody please be hind to each other today, take

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