It is spreading through the whole city because possibly someone fucked up the money.

This kind of weather event, a grand national weather service happens once every three to five years on average.

We've had this happen now three times in less than three months.

It makes us realize how fragile we really are.

Hi, I am I. I'm Bialik. I'm Jonathan Cohen. We're in an unusual setup sharing a microphone today because we are in the

in the midst of the LA fires and the tragedy that's happening here.

I literally just packed up my house and came to be with Jonathan.

So we're in a kind of a different setup.

We're very excited to be joined today by someone who has literally been reporting on the fires.

Since they began, in many cases, he was there when there were no firefighters even yet on the scene.

He describes literally what it was like to be a frontline reporter.

Jonathan Vigliotti is a CBS News correspondent.

He's based here in Los Angeles.

He's a very impressive reporter.

He's won Emmys.

He was actually the first national correspondent to report from the scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.

Extensive coverage of the COVID outbreak, the Boston bombing, Hurricane Sandy, among many others.

But he also specializes in stories across this country and across the world relating to the environment.

His new book,

Before It's Gone, is all about the climate crisis and how it impacts small towns, but he is going to come and talk to us about how he has seen the impacts, not just of climate change,

but the impact in a shift in accountability, infrastructure, water supply, and the ability of a city

to manage the fires that we are literally in the middle of experiencing. By the time you

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