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NPR News: 01-11-2025 5PM EST

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

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0:00.0

This is Eric Glass.

0:01.3

On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

0:06.1

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me?

0:13.2

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

0:17.6

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

0:19.4

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week.

0:25.2

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwaalisei Kautau. More communities are under threat

0:32.7

in Los Angeles as the Palisades fire continues to burn and now inches closer to new neighborhoods.

0:39.5

Elise Hugh reports.

0:41.1

Flames are stretching into the communities of Brentwood, West L.A., and Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles.

0:47.4

Firefighters are conducting airdrops and digging lines on the ground in an effort to stop the flames from spreading.

0:53.4

They are racing to contain the

0:54.9

Palisades Fire, which is already the biggest of the wildfires in the county ahead of

0:59.9

more wind events forecast for Monday. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney gave an update

1:05.2

Saturday morning. L.A. County Fire will be prepared. These winds, combined with dry air and dry vegetation, will keep the

1:16.0

fire threat in Los Angeles County high. Dusk to dawn curfews are in effect for Palisades and

1:21.8

Eaton fire evacuation zones. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hugh in Los Angeles.

1:26.5

Groups of House Republicans are visiting Mar-a-Lago this weekend to meet with President-elect

1:31.3

Trump just over a week before he takes office.

1:34.8

NPR's Amy held reports the GOP is strategizing over how to push through its priorities.

1:41.0

As they prepare to take the trifecta of power in Washington, the GOP has a lot of issues

1:46.2

they want to address, like immigration and border security, tax and spending cuts. And they want Trump

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