LA Mayor Stumbles as She Returns to City, and Personal Stories of the Devastation, with James Woods and Adam Carolla | Ep. 979
The Megyn Kelly Show
SiriusXM
4.4 • 38.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. |
| 0:15.8 | Utter devastation in Los Angeles as fires continued overnight. And we were said to be zero percent contained. |
| 0:23.1 | I mean, they've been zero percent contained basically since this thing started. |
| 0:27.6 | We told you how bad the fires were yesterday. Things have only gotten worse. Now at least five people |
| 0:32.2 | are dead. More than 25,000 acres have burned and hundreds of thousands are under mandatory evacuation orders. |
| 0:41.0 | Over a thousand structures have been destroyed. These are people's homes, children's schools. |
| 0:47.7 | Think about these little kids who have their books and their art projects and their schools completely burned to the ground with nowhere |
| 0:54.9 | to go now. They've suffered enough, especially out in L.A., where they closed schools forever during |
| 1:00.0 | COVID. It is hard to describe the destruction. So many devastating videos and images, this one here |
| 1:07.5 | encapsulates what our fellow Americans are dealing with right now. This is a photo |
| 1:12.2 | from Altadena, California. And just for the listening audience, it's satellite. It's a satellite |
| 1:18.4 | image taken by MaxR Technologies before the fires. It looks like a normal city. And then this is the same |
| 1:24.8 | area in a photo, an image taken yesterday after the entire neighborhood was destroyed. |
| 1:30.9 | Look at that. Just fire. Destruction. It's just you can't help but ask yourself, how could this happen in an American city? |
| 1:46.5 | It's not like a tornado that comes through in minutes and no human can do much about it. Fires are a known risk in California. |
| 1:55.5 | Water supply is a known issue in Los Angeles. Like, none of this is a mystery. |
| 2:02.1 | The Santa Ana Wins come every year, |
| 2:04.6 | and they do bring serious threats of fire |
| 2:07.3 | and the spreading of it. |
| 2:09.2 | I don't, like, the level of incompetence |
| 2:12.1 | to have not been prepared, |
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