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Meet the Press NOW – January 8

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and Malibu, Calif. Mayor Doug Stewart join Meet the Press NOW to discuss how California is being impacted by fatal wildfires. Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) discusses the bipartisan effort to cut wasteful spending. NBC News campaign embed Alex Tabet evaluates how President-elect Trump’s pick for border czar Tom Homan might impact the incoming administration.

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0:00.0

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. We begin with breaking news out of Southern California. These are live pictures of the smoke above Los Angeles County where fast-moving wildfires

0:21.7

are burning out of control as emergency officials struggle to combat a lethal combination

0:27.5

of powerful winds and dry conditions.

0:30.0

As you can see here, entire neighborhoods have been leveled by these fires.

0:34.5

At least two people are reported dead so far far and more than 80,000 have been forced

0:39.2

to evacuate. Hundreds of thousands are without power and millions more are in the danger zone.

0:44.7

So right now, local, state and federal officials are fighting four major fires burning along

0:49.7

the coast, which have already burned thousands of acres. Some of the worst devastation so far from

0:54.9

the Palisades fire, which is now the most destructive in L.A. history, it's now more than

0:59.8

11,000 acres destroying at least 1,000 buildings between the Santa Monica Mountains and the

1:04.9

Pacific Ocean. It is 0% contained. And there's also the Eaton fire, which has killed at least two people today.

1:12.4

It's exploded in size going from 3,000 acres to more than 10,000 in the Pasadena and Altadena area.

1:19.7

It's also close to 0% contained. President Biden, who was in South California,

1:25.2

both Southern California before the wildfires broke out,

1:27.8

was briefed by emergency officials this afternoon,

1:30.6

along with Governor Gavin Newsom.

1:32.7

They called the situation right now historic.

1:36.9

What we saw here in the last 24 hours is unprecedented.

1:40.2

I've never seen anything like this.

1:42.1

Fires driven by the type of winds that we saw up to 100 miles an hour.

1:46.2

We knew this was, there was a potential for a significant threat to our constituents due to the weather event.

1:53.4

High, high, high winds.

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