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The Beat with Ari Melber

Musk backtracks on pledge to cut $2 trillion in federal spending

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, Jan. 9, and reports on the Southern California wildfires and Elon Musk's reversal on his federal spending cut pledge. Ken Martin, Chai Komanduri, Douglas Holt-Eakin, and Jacob Soboroff join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, everyone. We're going to begin, as we've been covering, these terrible fires

0:05.6

in and around Los Angeles, catastrophic in many places. The forecasters say these winds are

0:10.6

picking back up tonight, potentially spreading the fires, which have now killed five people.

0:16.2

One man was found dead holding a garden hose, 180,000 now evacuated. There are satellite images which show

0:24.1

you the devastation. And there's many different ways to chart this. We've been hearing from people

0:28.5

living through it. We've seen individual photos and videos that show one or a few houses. But this here,

0:34.2

we're leaving this up on the screen, is the before and after of that area,

0:38.6

the neighborhood, the Pacific Palisades.

0:40.6

You can see basically the entire neighborhood areas are reduced to ash.

0:46.8

Officials report that the Palisades fire destroyed thousands of structures.

0:51.0

It is uncontained.

0:52.3

It is actually the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles.

0:57.3

Overnight, more fires were breaking out in the hills. This is in the area just above Los Angeles

1:04.6

landmarks. You hear about the stars, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is in the hills just overlooking

1:09.8

there. It's all dense. It's pretty close together. A lot of houses that dot those hills from the Walk of Fame. This is in the hills just overlooking there. It's all dense. It's pretty

1:11.0

close together. A lot of houses that dot those hills from the Walk of Fame all the way up to those views.

1:17.4

People saw from Hollywood what that looked like. So those are, of course, passers-byes and people on the

1:23.4

streets looking up at what are just these damaging and really uncontained fires.

1:28.8

Helicopters were used. You can see in the top of your screen there, to try to battle the flames.

1:32.7

Residents returning home and finding homes completely destroyed.

1:37.9

You're looking at a wagon with some of your final items.

1:41.8

How are you feeling?

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