This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. President-elect Donald Trump and the courts,

a court in Manhattan, court in Washington, a court in Florida. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein,

teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago, now very much reporting for the University of Texas as a research fellow.

However, I call upon the professor to comment on breaking news about President-elect.

Richard, a very good evening to you.

Before we begin to understand the Department of Justice's decisions, also appeals courts at every level.

I ask you to comment on what you've learned about Los Angeles and the conditions there for the people.

Good evening to you, Richard.

Good evening. Well, one of the things is my son and his family live in Los Angeles, a Silver Lake Echo Park area, which has not yet been

hit.

There was an evacuation order issued last night and then promptly rescinded.

But essentially, they, like everybody else, is leaving because even if the houses are not going

to burn down, the smoke has made it

impossible to be outside, and it's also extremely difficult to be inside. I have relatives on

the east side of Los Angeles who vacated to a hotel and then thought when the danger of the

fire passed, they would go back home. And it was the same story, the smoke was so terrible that they had to go bite back to the hotel

because their homes were not livable.

And what this suggests is that you're talking about deep, deep smoke damage to these premises.

And so even if there's no fire, they're going to be thousands

upon thousands of dollars worth of damages. My guess is large amounts of furniture will have to be

destroyed and removed that they may well have to have some kind of very complicated program

to get the smoke out of the walls, the floors, the carpets, and everything else. And then I've had other friends

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