Adrian Florido
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LA County is also saying that before debris cleanup can start in these communities, either by county crews or homeowners themselves, that hazmat teams are going to have to go through parcel by parcel to remove toxic waste.
At a community meeting yesterday in Altadena, LA's Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said county officials are already hearing from people asking when they can get in and start rebuilding, but he said it's way too soon. He did promise that officials are working to streamline the cleanup process and also the construction permitting process that's going to be ahead for a lot of people.
In the meantime, people are scrambling to find temporary housing and also to figure out whether they're covered by their insurance policies.
Well, a lot of people in the areas that were under mandatory evacuation orders have not gone back. And the county fire chief said that the conversation about when they will be allowed to return continues. won't start before Thursday. Officials want to be sure that those evacuated communities are no longer at risk of catching fire because these fires are still burning not too far away.
Those Santa Ana winds are still blowing also, and Los Angeles is still in an active emergency.
Thank you.
Well, both the Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration are working together on this, which is unusual. And they both want the same thing. They Yesterday, Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there is an immediate need for a deal. And we've heard Trump many times say if the hostages are not released by his inauguration, there will be, quote, hell to pay.
Biden's outgoing ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, told me that Trump is driving the momentum here.
What would those principles be? Yeah. We do know the basic framework of the deal. Hamas would release around 33 Israeli hostages. A Palestinian official tells NPR this morning that Israel is discussing the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees, including 22 people serving life sentences in connection with deadly attacks on Israelis, and those prisoners would be
presumably exiled to Turkey, Qatar, or Egypt. And during all of this, there would be a six-week pause in fighting, there would be a surge of aid to Gaza, and more talks about the other hostages and trying to end the war. Daniel, there have been talks before, so what are the chances of this one actually succeeding? There is a lot of pressure on all the parties now to move forward.
Qatar and Egypt are the two Arab mediators want good relations with Trump. And so they're putting a lot of pressure on Hamas. A Hamas official not authorized to speak to the media told us that Hamas is trying to show flexibility and that it's proposed several different ways to try to resolve the points of contention.
As for Israel, there is a key ally of Prime Minister Netanyahu, the finance minister, who is staunchly opposed to to the deal as it's coming out now. But Israel does have motivation to cooperate with Trump on this. Israel wants his help with a couple of big things. It wants Trump's help to pursue diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
And it also wants Trump to potentially support an attack on Iran's nuclear program. So you do see that the talks have reached a crucial phase now. Israel's top security chiefs have traveled to Qatar this weekend to participate. And the president of the Red Cross has come to the region. The Red Cross was the group that facilitated the last hostage prisoner exchange.
Good morning, Michelle.
Well, a lot of the destruction so far is from the Pacific Palisades fire, which is where one of the two biggest fires is burning. News choppers were able to fly over that affluent coastal community yesterday and filmed block after block of homes reduced to ash. Homes in nearby Malibu also burned.
The Hollywood Hills caught fire last night, and that blaze has quickly spread, forcing chaotic evacuations there. I was able yesterday to get into a neighborhood ravaged by the other big fire, the Eaton Fire in Altadena on the east side of Los Angeles. I walked past more than 20 homes burning or already burned to the ground, and that was over just a couple of blocks.
You know, the ruins of many of the houses in the neighborhood where I was were still burning and every so often something under the rubble would explode or a wooden door frame would finish collapsing and it would shoot up this puff of embers. And it was windy, so neighbors were rushing to make sure that those embers didn't set their houses on fire.
I met a Brittany man as she and her brother were hosing down their roof and their lawns before evacuating.
And across the street, Michelle, I met Sarah Rudd. She evacuated on Tuesday night, but while she was gone, her neighbor, who had not evacuated, noticed that her house had caught fire, and she said that he grabbed his hose.
When we spoke, she had just come back to check on her house. She was leaving it again. But as we spoke, other houses were burning on her block, so hers was still at risk, and there were no firefighters around.
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