Residents Flee as Wildfire Races Through Los Angeles Coastal Community

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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CNN's Nick Watt and Natasha Chen are in the Los Angeles community of Pacific Palisades, where more than 30,000 people have been asked to evacuate as a fast-moving wildfire spreads. The city of Los Angeles has declared a state of emergency and will have all resources on deck, said the president of the city council. Plus, President-elect Donald Trump spoke to reporters today and covered a wide range of subjects, including his frustration over the legal cases brought against him and the Biden administration's handling of the transition, his thoughts on special counsel Jack Smith and refusing to rule out using military force to add Greenland to the United States and retake control of the Panama Canal. Kaitlan Collins, anchor of CNN's The Source, and New York Times senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman, break down the new developments. Plus, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook and Instagram will drop fact checkers and replacing them with user generated "community notes.” Donie O'Sullivan has details on the new policy and we get perspective from Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.9	with wildfires in California, seen as Nick Watt is in Pacific Palisades where evacuations
1:03.2	are underway. Nick, uh, explain what's going on. Well, Anderson, the sun has not set here, but you wouldn't know that because you cannot see a thing, but this black acrid smoke.
1:15.6	This house here was fine about 20 minutes ago I was walking down this road.
1:19.6	Suddenly, bang, it was up. These houses on the other side of the road, Chris, you've been over here.
1:23.6	These have been burning for some time now.
1:26.6	You mentioned evacuations,
1:28.2	Anderson. About 30,000 people have evacuated hundreds of firefighters now in trying to save
1:35.1	those people's homes. This place, obviously a goner. But what they're trying to do elsewhere
1:39.9	is they're trying to soak down these beautiful big hedges that they have in this neighborhood?
1:44.7	Because that is just fuel.
1:46.4	The issue, this wind, Anderson, you can see it whipping that smoke.
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