SoCal’s Wind-Fueled Wildfire

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Firefighters in Southern California battle multiple brush fires fueled by a windstorm, prompting thousands to evacuate. Facebook announces it will reset its fact-checking policies. And a federal judge tells the Justice Department it’s not allowed to release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his Trump investigations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2	It's Wednesday, January 8th, and they couldn't even out drive the flames.
0:35.1	We start here.
0:40.3	Fueled by their strongest winds in years, wildfires explode in California.
0:45.3	The fire behind me burning so hot, you can actually hear it hissing.
0:50.3	What happens when entire cities have to evacuate all at once?
0:53.3	We'll take you there.
0:55.0	Facebook's founder says they're no longer in the business of fact-checking.
0:59.0	We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.
1:03.0	The wave of tech industry concessions just before Donald Trump takes office.
1:07.0	And not only will Trump not be federally prosecuted, you might not even see what the
1:11.2	prosecutors discovered. We are in really murky legal waters. Does a decree from a federal judge
1:17.4	go beyond the rule of law? From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.
1:37.4	Wildfire season in California usually runs through October, maybe November, and you might think, why so late, right?
1:38.7	It gets pretty cool in the fall.
1:40.4	Well, the temperatures are not the biggest issues at play.
1:43.1	It has more to do with how dry conditions are.
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