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🗓️ 8 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm John Batchel with Jeff Bliss, my colleague who is Pacific Watch. |
| 0:14.8 | It is a year plus for the Palisade-Eaten L.A. fires. |
| 0:25.6 | The celebration of surviving has now been replaced by what really happened. And I learned from Jeff and all the articles he's sending to my attention |
| 0:31.3 | that cannot be completely answered. But it does begin to tell a story that is profoundly different than the one we had in the first weeks and months and even year after the event. |
| 0:43.6 | Jeff, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:45.0 | You are Pacific Watch, and a year ago, day by day, starting in early January, you led me through the fires of L.A., stretching from the Palisades up to an arm of the Malibu, |
| 0:58.2 | over the hills, to a place called Eaton, near the JPL, and even down towards San Diego. |
| 1:04.0 | But the big one is Palisades. |
| 1:05.6 | A year afterwards, what's the mood in L.A. about this? |
| 1:09.1 | What do people want to know? |
| 1:10.3 | Good evening to you, Jeff. Good evening, John. Well, the mood is in L.A. about this? What do people want to know? Good evening to you, Jeff. |
| 1:12.0 | You didn't need, John. Well, the mood is not good. Just yesterday, they had an anniversary |
| 1:17.4 | remembrance event in the Palisades, and thousands of people turned out. Most of them, of course, |
| 1:23.6 | are in the Palisades, West L.A. area. And they were there to not just remember the 12 |
| 1:29.1 | people that died and the neighborhoods that were lost in the Palisades area, but also to |
| 1:35.6 | voice their anger at city and state government for the lack of support as they've tried to rebuild. |
| 1:47.0 | And really, you know, the story of the Palisades fire, you've got the Eaton fire, which you mentioned, and that was really, |
| 1:50.8 | looks to be caused by a local utility, Southern California, Edison. We'll find out more as |
| 1:57.2 | that progresses through the courts. But the Palisades fire, which was originally started |
| 2:01.4 | by an arsonist and then made worse by the city and the state. And then when the fire started, |
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