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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Chrisner. Officials in Los Angeles County are warning of

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Speaker 1: significant fire weather for the region in the days ahead.

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Speaker 1: The death toll from wildfires across LA County is now

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Speaker 1: twenty four, with at least another sixteen people missing. Here

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Speaker 1: is LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley, speaking earlier to reporters.

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Speaker 2: With the impending wins, we got to pay really really

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Speaker 2: close attention to this. This win event is approaching us,

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Speaker 2: and it's approaching us very very quickly. I want to

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Speaker 2: reassure you that you're LAFD, all of our regional partners,

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Speaker 2: every single agency that has come from up and down

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Speaker 2: this state and outside of the state, we are ready.

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Speaker 1: That is Kristin Crowley, chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed additional National Guard troops in

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Speaker 1: the affected areas. Here is Newsom, speaking earlier to NBC's

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Speaker 1: Meet the Press on the road ahead.

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Speaker 3: Is making sure the life safety focus, the property focus

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Speaker 3: is there is at the same time we're addressing the

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Speaker 3: perimeter issues. The challenge is the wins. We got these

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Speaker 3: wins coming back this evening Sunday night. We've got peak

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Speaker 3: wins on Monday. We're going to see fifty plus mile

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Speaker 3: an hour GUS subject to change. So now we're pre

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Speaker 3: positioning assets.

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Speaker 1: That is California Governor Gvin Newsom speaking earlier on NBC's

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Speaker 1: Meet the Press. More than eight point four million people

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Speaker 1: in southern California are currently facing critical fire weather conditions.

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Speaker 1: The deadline for Nipon Steel to abandon its bid for

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Speaker 1: US steal has been extended. The Committee on Foreign Investment

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Speaker 1: in the US has given these companies until June eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: that from the original February second. Now earlier this month,

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Speaker 1: President Biden issued an order to halt this transaction, and

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Speaker 1: subsequently the two companies petitioned the Federal Appeals Court in Washington.

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Speaker 1: They argue SIPHI has failed to consider the deal on

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Speaker 1: national security grounds, and they said that Biden's ordered to

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Speaker 1: block it was made purely for political reasons. Here is

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Speaker 1: outgoing US Ambassador to Japan, Rama Manuel.

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Speaker 4: The relationship is much deeper than a single business transaction.

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Speaker 4: Five years ago, Japan had the same words around Tshiba Second.

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Speaker 4: The United States four months ago awarded a Japanese company

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Speaker 4: twenty billion dollar contract to replace all the cranes at

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Speaker 4: our ports and get the Chinese cranes out. Japan is

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Speaker 4: the only country that produces also a co production on

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Speaker 4: the Patriot Pac three. They've also a series of other

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Speaker 4: weapons systems. Nothing speaks more to trusted ally than those examples.

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Speaker 1: That is outgoing US Ambassador to Japan Rama Manuel.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: The NICK is reporting that Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba is

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Speaker 1: planning to visit the US in the first half of

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Speaker 1: February to meet Donald Trump, and it is likely that

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Speaker 1: the two will discuss the nipon US deeal transaction. This week,

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Speaker 1: President elect Trump's cabinet nominees will be testifying before the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Amy Morris has more from Washington.

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Speaker 5: Pete hag Seth for Defense Secretary, Doug Collins for VA Secretary,

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Speaker 5: and Doug Burgham for Interior Secretary have hearing set for Tuesday.

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Speaker 5: Most hearings will be on Wednesday, including Marco Rubio for

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Speaker 5: Secretary of State and Christy nom for Homeland Security. Pam

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Speaker 5: Bondi's hearing to be Attorney General is on the fifteenth

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Speaker 5: and sixteenth Treasury Secretary designates Scott Besson will testify on

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Speaker 5: the sixteenth, and a few others like RFK Junior, have

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Speaker 5: yet to be scheduled in Washington, Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, President elect Trump's choice to run the US Treasury

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Speaker 1: will sell his stake in his hedge fund if confirmed

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Speaker 1: to the Post. This is according to a document released

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Speaker 1: over the weekend by the Office of Government Ethics. More

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg Saed Colegi.

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Speaker 6: Scott Bessen President Toan Donald Trump's pick to run the

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Speaker 6: US Treasury Department will resign from Key Square Group and

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Speaker 6: sell his share of the partnership to avoid conflicts of interest.

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Speaker 6: If confirmed by the Senate, The resignation would immediately follow

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Speaker 6: his confirmation as Treasury Secretary. He'd sell his interest in

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Speaker 6: Key Square Group the Macro hedge fund he founded and

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Speaker 6: led within ninety days after winning Senate approval. High ranking

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Speaker 6: government officials are required to disclose their holdings and plans

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Speaker 6: to divest those that could post conflicts prior to confirmation

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Speaker 6: by the Senate, which will hold a hearing for Bessent

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Speaker 6: on Thursday. Ed Kleggy Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: In sports, it was a weekend full of action in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, Wildcard Round on Sunday, the Buffalo Bills got

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Speaker 1: a win at home over the Denver Broncos thirty one

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Speaker 1: to seven, and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 1: taking that match up twenty two to ten. Now the

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Speaker 1: Eagles will face off against the Washington Commanders in the

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Speaker 1: Divisional round. This is after the Commander's Edge past Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay twenty three twenty And that is news when you

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Speaker 1: want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Prisoner and

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