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NPR News: 01-10-2025 7AM EST

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

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0:23.8

Live from NPR news in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the firestorm in the Los Angeles region

0:29.2

continues to rage. The L.A. County Medical Examiner says at least 10 people have been killed.

0:34.5

The largest blaze is the Palisades fire northwest of the city. It's about

0:38.5

6% contained. Another huge blaze is the Eton Fire in Pasadena and Altadena. That is fully uncontained.

0:47.1

NPR's Liz Baker reports on damage from the Eton fire in one neighborhood.

0:51.5

Clusters of colorful bungalows, some 100 years old, used to give this

0:55.2

Altadena neighborhood a lived-in, cheerful character. Whole blocks are reduced to only two colors now,

1:01.3

black and white, char and ash. Everything seems to be gone. Smoke still curls out of the ruins

1:07.3

of the place 21-year-old Brian Jacobo and his parents and six siblings have called

1:11.5

home for a decade. They fled on foot earlier this week, blinded by thick smoke, forced to leave

1:17.1

everything behind. I had three cats right here. I don't know what happened to them. Everything's

1:21.6

going through my head, like they could have ran.

1:23.7

Jacobo and his family are staying in a shelter for now. He says he doesn't know where they're going to go next.

1:28.8

Liz Baker, NPR News, Los Angeles. Video sharing app TikTok goes to the Supreme Court today. It's asking the justices to block a federal law that bans the app. The Justice Department says TikTok's owners based in China and that Chinese ownership poses a huge security risk to Americans' data.

1:46.2

TikTok says it's done a lot to distance itself from its Chinese-based parent company, and that

1:50.8

should be enough. NPR's Bobby Allen says if the law stays in place, the ban takes effect this

1:56.2

month. The Supreme Court upholds the law. It could start very soon. Apple and Google will then be legally

2:02.0

required to remove TikTok from app stores, web hosting firms like Oracle that support TikTok have

2:08.5

to cut ties. It could be the beginning of the end for TikTok. Now, if the Supreme Court strikes

2:14.4

down the law, well, then it's just business as usual for the app.

2:19.2

NPR's Bobby Allen reporting.

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