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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Wildfire near Malibu explodes in size overnight

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, California fire crews are working to contain a wind-driven wildfire that exploded in size near Malibu, Albertsons terminated its multi-billion dollar merger attempt and is now suing Kroger, Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes killed at least 29 people in Gaza and Saudi Arabia will host the World Cup in 2034. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start the day's other headlines in Malibu, California, where fire crews are working to contain a wind-driven wildfire that exploded in size overnight.

0:10.3

Stephanie Sy has our report.

0:13.6

In Malibu, the night sky was bright orange.

0:18.2

Strong winds fanned the Franklin fire as it burned for a second night along a stretch of coast 30 miles west of Los Angeles.

0:27.0

The flames inching toward roads engulfing cars and turning palm trees into tender.

0:34.1

As of this morning, the Franklin fire has burned approximately 3,9803 acres and is 7% contained.

0:43.3

This is a 39% increase in acreage overnight.

0:48.3

Today, officials said weather conditions appeared to improve, giving 1,500 firefighters a chance to stop the rapid spread.

0:58.0

Still, the fire scorched a handful of structures and remains a threat to thousands more.

1:04.0

Celebrities like Cher and Dick Van Dyke evacuated their seaside homes,

1:09.0

as well as residents who described the blaze as something

1:12.4

out of Hollywood come to life.

1:14.7

That's night, it felt like a movie, because the images that I was seeing was like the craziest

1:19.7

looking fire ever saw my life, and the smell and the smoke, seeing palm trees I've seen for

1:25.5

10 years that are just lit like a candle nestled in the hills

1:32.3

along the fire's path Pepperdine University home to some 3,000 students final exams were

1:39.7

interrupted yesterday by a sudden shelter-in-place order. You just saw the flames coming up over the hill.

1:46.7

And at first, it was not a problem because they were like,

1:48.8

the wind is blowing parallel and not in our direction.

1:51.3

And I think about maybe five minutes later, they were like,

1:54.0

it's in our direction.

1:54.9

Last night, we were here for all of it,

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