Mid-Day Update： January 9, 2025
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Summary
5 dead, 180,000 forced to flee their homes in the latest fires that have ravaged the greater Los Angeles area, California. The latest blaze, the Palisades Fire, has burned through more than 17,000 acres and destroyed 1,000 structures, making it the most destructive in LA history.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, January 9th.
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Those California wildfires that are rip-roaring through LA and the greater county area,
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Here's what we know so far about those wildfires.
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They're out of control in the greater Los Angeles area,
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and they've killed at least five people and forced nearly 180,000 people from their homes.
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At least five fires are burning covering more than 45 square miles.
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Sparked by dry conditions and powerful winds, causing unprecedented scenes in areas not known for fires.
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What the Marxist mainstream media is leaving out is that there's something called wildfire management and forest management
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where the governor and the mayors and the local municipalities are supposed to take care of their areas
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This is something President Trump has been speaking about in his first term,
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and then as recent as just a few months ago when he was in California,
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blaming Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to get his act together.
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They have many issues in the counties with fire staffing, budgets.
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The list goes on about things that are wrong in California and specifically in LA.
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The Palisades Fire, the one that started, has burned through more than 17,000 acres,
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It's destroyed 1,000 structures, and it's entirely uncontained,
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The latest blaze, the Sunset Fire, started yesterday shortly before 6 p.m. in the Hollywood Hills.
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Folks, this latest fire has grown to 60 acres and it's threatening iconic landmarks.
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More than 350,000 energy customers were out power early today,
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including 200,000 in LA County, the most populous county in the country.
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The intense Santa Ana winds have eased compared to the past two days,
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but wind gusts are still forecast to be 40 to 50 miles per hour today
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Folks, that's bad news because the wind is what is fueling these fires
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and pushing it further off into areas that are, like I said,
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not generally known to be in conditions that they're in right now
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Folks, not to make this political, but elections have consequences.
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We need to start electing people in these Marxist blue areas.
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but we need to continue to go on into the new year and to the next year in 2026
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Their priorities are all over the place, you know,
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and they're not good for our counties, for our societies.
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You look and see this, folks are turning on the fire hydrants
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and there's no water coming out of them in some of these places in LA
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Folks, that's unacceptable, especially for LA and California
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The reason and part of the reason I believe this is happening
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is because the LA Fire Department has used their precious time and funds
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and to hold Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, also known as DEI, training seminars
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under the leadership of its first female chief,
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promoting backlash as the department struggles to fight these devastating wildfires.
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As I said, the fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades areas ran dry
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as firefighters attempted to put out the raging flames,
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while the LA Times is reporting that scores of them had little to no water flowing for them
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on Wednesday morning, throughout Wednesday afternoon, and now into Thursday morning.
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These folks in California really needed to get it together.
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When you have DEI overtaking your departments, your fire departments,
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when people's lives are in danger, people died, houses gone, pets killed,
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As these fires continue to burn, folks, we still don't know how the fire started.
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There's some people reporting that it was arsonists lighting a garden on fire somewhere
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Reports are also surfacing now that a Los Angeles County official
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who's responsible for the simple task of overseeing fire hydrant maintenance
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is raking in an astonishing, are you ready for this, folks?
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$750,000, the highest paid position in LA, for a government official, I should say.
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In April of 2024, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass nominated Ms. Janice Quinoez
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as the new head of the Department of Water and Power, also known as the DWP,
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with an approved annual salary of, as I said, $750,000 a year.
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Now, this is nearly double the salary of her predecessor, Marty Adams,
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And I don't mean only made, but significantly lower than this $750,000
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When are we going to wake up that enough is enough with these Marxist Dems?
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Because the people in LA had the opportunity to get Karen Bass out of there last year
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to start over with the Republican and Independent, anybody but these Marxist Dems,
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So, as we so often hear, and, you know, like I said, this is not a time to play politics,
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but elections have consequences, and I think a lot of these situations and scenarios
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are preventable with the right people in power.
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There is no reason that your fire hydrants should be running dry
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in the most populated area in the country, folks.
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President-elect Donald Trump's current favorability rating
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Now, it's obviously not Walt Disney Grooming Company,
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but that's what we like to call them here on The Great America Show.
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An exclusive Rasmussen Reports poll for Breitbart News shows that
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Disney Grooming Syndicate favorability is only 49%,
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Okay, Disney is plus six above water favorability,
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but the incoming President Trump is plus 11 in the Real Clear Politics average poll
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Current Insider Advantage gives Trump a 50% favorability rating,
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while Harvard-Harris gives Trump a 54% favorability rating.
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Trump's unfavorability rating is also lower than Disney's 43%.
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Insider Advantage shows Trump at 42% unfavorable,
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while Harvard-Harris shows Trump with just a 40% unfavorable opinion.
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and President Trump's going to head into office
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with the highest approval rating of a Republican
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So, you know, the Marxist Dems wanted to tell you
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nationally syndicated radio host, I should say,
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how we can save them right here where we are in New York,
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can save them from further destruction over there.