It's Friday, January 10th.

I'm Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that is proudly based in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, California, and dang it.

That's the way it's dang.

On today's show, it's Trump Sentencing Day, and a new report says that the death toll in Gaza has been gravely underreported.

Let's get into it.

The Palisades and Eaton fires that began on Tuesday have become some of the most destructive and likely most expensive wildfires in American history.

As of our recording time on Thursday evening, more than 9,000

structures have been damaged or destroyed between the two, and the fires are still raging. And because of

the Santa Ana winds, fires have ignited in other parts of Los Angeles County, including dense places

in and around the city, like Burbank and Hollywood, where our studio is located in where I live.

Altogether, tens of thousands of people

have been under evacuation orders as fires have hit nearly 30,000 acres of land. And like anyone would,

in the midst of a giant, terrifying crisis in which you can see flames jutting out just a few

miles away from where your house is, I spent a lot of yesterday checking news online, which was a mistake, because alongside

some legitimate information, I saw a lot of bullshit, well, blame, and bullshit. Like that the fires

were caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, because this would have never happened

if more white cismen were involved or something. Or that, as Trump said on true social,

this is all Governor Gavin Newsom's fault for not opening a pipeline from Northern California and to Southern California that doesn't

exist. Or a viral claim that L.A. Mayor Karen Bass transferred millions of dollars reserved for fighting

fires to either unhoused people, if you're right-wing, or to the LAPD, if your left-wing.

Neither are true.

At a time when good information is so critical to whether people like me stay in our actual

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