California Catastrophe | 1-9-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, the wildfires incinerating southern California only worsened overnight, with the body count being at least five dead as of this morning. The utter disregard that elected officials and emergency personnel generally have for their citizens in California is partially to blame, with firefighters and water supply inventory being alarmingly low for a state that has always been prone to droughts and subsequently, wildfires. In other news of the day, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are doing away with fact-checking on the social media platform Facebook, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum claps back at incoming President Donald Trump for saying he'll rename the Gulf of Mexico, and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop floats the idea of a "reverse" congestion pricing fee for those entering The Garden State. Curtis Sliwa, Rich Lowry, Elizabeth Barcohana, Bill O'Reilly, Eleonora Srugo and Taylor Middleton Scavo join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:09.2	77 Wabc.
0:14.4	Federal resources are being diverted to Southern California's dry conditions and powerful Santa Ana winds fuel several wildfires
0:21.9	forcing thousands of people to evacuate.
0:24.8	Fox News correspondent Connor Hansen joining us live from Los Angeles with more on this story,
0:30.1	Connor.
0:33.1	Sabira and Matthew, I'm standing just on the edge of that Palisades fire.
0:37.9	You've heard so much about closer to the Beverly Hills side of it.
0:41.5	This is the Pacific Coast Highway right next to me, and you can see all of these first responders lined up here.
0:47.8	They've been working nonstop since early yesterday trying to push back these wildfires, but they keep expanding.
0:56.6	Their job being made so much harder by dry conditions and these extreme Santa Ana winds
1:02.2	that you can probably still see right now sparking fires all over the L.A. area,
1:07.7	some so close to the city in people's neighborhoods, forcing thousands to flee for safety.
1:15.6	With flames and smoke billowing, just feet away, an 85-year-old man and his son-in-law made a desperate escape from burning homes in Los Angeles.
1:24.6	The man used a walker to head down a hill with dozens of others trying to escape after
1:30.2	police ordered evacuees to abandon their cars and run.
1:34.3	Turn around.
1:35.5	You got it.
1:36.0	Keep walking down the hill.
1:37.3	Among the evacuees were several celebrities, including one who helped people trying to
1:41.8	escape.
1:42.1	They were little kids.
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