Hey, everybody. It is Thursday, January 9th. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm

Osam Noon. And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts. And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. In this case, watching all the news, Jill, as we record this podcast, monitoring the headlines just behind me,

Anderson Cooper of CNN in a basically the hellscape that is the LA area right now. He's in the

Altadena area reporting on things. We've been trying to monitor all the coverage, Jill, as

these, I should say, multiple fires have escalated and spread in California.

Yeah, one of the eeriest things that he said, as I was watching some of his reporting,

is that it's pitch black because the smoke is so thick.

So even though the sun is technically out and it was daytime, it looks like it's midnight there.

Yeah, really eerie, eerie in California.

Caught our attention.

We'll get into it a bit in the podcast.

They say everyone who lives in L.A. County, the millions and millions of people who live

in L.A. County, all under threat here, given the wind gusts, given the nature of the fire,

given they can't get it under control.

In many cases, Jill, the wind gusts were 60, 70, 80, 90 miles per hour.

They couldn't get up with planes and helicopters to drop water because of the winds.

And so the firefighters left to just try to preserve fire stations in some cases as these embers are flying miles there. So we've heard from a number of you in the Monoos community in the L.A. area. We hope you have gotten out. We hope you're staying safe.

But just it's going to be, you can already see it. One of the most expensive disasters in American

history, if not the most expensive disaster and years, if not longer, to rebuild some of those areas.

All right. And with that, let's get to the headlines here as we were just talking about

apocalyptic scenes from Los Angeles with the most destructive fire in the county's history.

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release Jack Smith's January 6th report, despite objections from President-elect Trump.

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