now be allowed to attend philip l reports from the pacific palisades. the, the scale of the loss is certainly unprecedented. chris harvey has been through some of california is west wild fires. but even, hey, we shocked by how much the policy expired. destroyed. and in such a short space of time, this is, you know, literally street after street after street 4 or 4 miles in all directions where almost every homeless for a week after the start of the play, use that tool through this entire los angeles community. he took us past the barricades and into the evacuations. are going to show us the devastation house is gone. driveway spilled with cause ben so badly. it is impossible to make out which make or model they was. you know, once a vehicle catches fire and is fully in engulf that obviously is putting out a lot of sparks and a lot of embers. and those can carry in a very strong when the fire started in the hills spreading across the whole area

with tara flying speed, it seems that will hold those who lives here for the rest of their lives. hurricane force winds gave it an extra charge. you have home 0 stair stepped up a hillside and so the steeper the train, the more the fire will act. like it's just going up the chimney. we're having to walk as people try to flee in the cause. they filed themselves trapped. so people were coming down in that cause, trying to get away from the fire. that's correct. you can see the direction all these vehicles were pointed initially they were coming down this direction and the fire was coming down the hill and starting to impinge across the road here. and i think people has the vehicles were stopped realized. they weren't, they were in their vehicles. as the fire was getting closer, they made the decision to jump out and run and see missed on the ground for that. the wheels have melted. i mean, it shows how intense there's legs left. yeah. the flames get so hot as the as the as the metal melting just pools and then pedals and runs downhill. every way you look signs of what once was the picket fences still standing,

but the houses behind them gone. christmas decorations still hiding from the trees at every now and again. a house that looks out of place because it still exists. this one's own is covered in crosses. it's some kind of divine intervention. sped that people here are very nervous because full cost is a warning of extreme winds ahead. potentially more hurricane force winds, just like we saw last week. we all know what that can lead to everybody here. not just in los angeles, but across the southern california, fully away. this may be fall from over phil laval. i'll just say we're in the pacific palisades. well, that's all the news for the moment. you can find much more information on our website. the news does continue after what hotels which is up next the is there any sign is the lead to the millions of palestinians and gaza for now

stuck between an outgoing fighting administration and an incoming trumpet to industries. now that americans have decided to put forth back in the white house, what kind of country in the world expect a quizzical look at us politics. the bottom line, the. ready the, the hotel holiday devora hotel was our house. people were shot dead on the entrance, the hotel i do remember time in hotels was a shelter and started for any reason you come for the rest of us to the can remember i said look, this getting out of here. how have this place continued to function? getting 3 and a half years of seat again was the best to to tell the people

of the world what was happening. sorry the a. ready sorry, a bo city of love, arts and music. but on the banks of the many at square river, the lifeline of bosnia herzegovina, history as also being carved in the hall to the balkans. this place has given birth to civilizations and peoples unwitting. this was that of shape to

europe. but this historic city where races, religions and s initiatives have mold its together, was toner punch in 1992 by a beloved. it lasted for 3 and a half years until the lives of thousands of most of the most lens subs and crow at the this distinctive yellow building on the front line. so the siege and blood shed close up, but it also became a fortress for the world's media. this is the story of sorry, a boost in from a small hotel. the holiday in the the, in 1982, sorry eva was preparing to host the 14th winter olympic games. 2 years later,

the holiday inn designated for v like peas and the senior olympic committee. sega's was under construction. before the hotel was built, the land was cold and sealed, splats because visiting circuses used to set up for kenneth morris and is a professor of modern history. less does dom on foot university in the u. k. he's written full books on the balkans, including one about, sorry, a bose landmark holiday in the design of the building was quite controversial. it was designed by this not able architect, events that i've seen, buildings you can find all over the city. the scale, most of the original scale model of the hotel was and was built in. you have it was constructed of yellow plastic. but when the builders were working on the building actually started to construct the facade, and they saw that the facade was actually yellow. the events that are said that they, it came as quite

a shock. they didn't expect the building itself actually to be yellow. both in the kitchen, t boned stress came up with a new hotel concept which he called a city in a hotel, which you have no need to leave fluids and cover doors which will open into a spacious low be giving the illusion is great to size the holiday in grand opening was on the 6th of october, 1983 with the president of the international olympic committee. when antonio, similar branch in attendance one of the few people, he's worked at the hotel since the start is high. real rough chinese. he's now the hotels executive director dom penciling piece. can you get a very smart sentence here? so the project has been a little bit below the voice, a beautiful woman, so skipped to 6. need to be less than a year ago. then no, it is not. she said,

well, no, as of now, let me say what i was on the ship to see about bo ballistic, worked as a translator for, for a media. and he's very familiar with the holiday. and she and kenneth morris and visited the hotel while he was working on his new book about the reporting of the siege of sorry, april to meet the hot to holidays was always very important. first for the olympic games side was really young girl who worked for the, for the guests house translator and hotels. and in fact, for the 1st time when it gets to the heart of holiday was during during the game or the event fiscal golf the you for your religious. how are you a the winter olympics? we sure made all the diesel as it's your old and the mental use it brows. tito had led the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia since 1944. this is destined 1980 left to political vacuum, a worsening economic crisis and led to

a wave of nationalism in the early 19 ninety's. it'd be a correlation, slovenia, bosnia, herzegovina, a month to negro and macedonia, pulled themselves violently upon off to the 1990 elections in bosnia herzegovina, 3 main nationalists parties should power the most of them as the lead by idea is a bank of which the sub sds under other bank carriage and a branch of from you to germans correlation h d that the s d a h d 's ed wanted independence. while this a s d s. wanted to remain in the realm of yugoslavia along with serbia and montenegro. so their relationships between these 3 parties soon deteriorated dramatically. on the 29th, so february 1992 above and independence referendum was held. the muslim was known

as buzz me. x and the correlations took a full part. but the bosnian serbs loan surely boy, you quoted the vote and rejected the yes result. on the 1st of march, the same day a sub wedding, tante was bolting this, being flag in downtown san diego, when it was fined, owned by a bosnian muslim gangster killing the grooms father. the sub family made for the holiday inn where a number of rooms had become the temporary h q of the bosnians bleed rather than carriage. the bloody wedding episode may have offered the bosnian serbs the opportunity they'd been waiting for. that same night, they began implementing what was effectively a dress rehearsal for the siege of sorry april barricades appeared, and the masked man stoked the streets from his hub. but the holiday inn,

rather than carriage of a soul, the action this room room 5 to the suite was also used by the other one cottage as the leader of the serbian democratic party. last yes, he lived here with his family in this sweet cottage, his wife and his 2 children. and they stayed here until the shootings on the 6th of april. at 1992 square after cottage escaped from the hotel with his family. on monday, the 6th of april, a lodge, but peaceful protest. football is in unity. had made its way from the parliament towards the holiday inn. encourage you to face the facility because on the upper floors open fire. most of the engine list, somebody had coverage was nearby when the shooting started. i remember when the shots came from the holiday and actually we heard corrects. we heard some noise and then we so people, you know, falling down stairs you through running every there,

you know, hiding behind trees, be find some small buildings and never think site better sequoia. so the little bottle was turned out in a proud. so for them and so forth, sally pointed to frame a good idea and my name is spelled. i'm into frontier stewardship frontier dot com . if so a deal with swat it was about 6 civilians were killed on that 1st day of the siege . carriage it cheese guards and family escaped from the hotel, boston and police arrested sub snipers in the lobby of the holiday inn, which then remain closed for several months. from here, the free into ha, if you will erupt it and spread across all of bosnia herzegovina, the

in april, and may 1992 dozens of gen. lists had arrived in san diego among the experienced mountain belts for the bbc be here. tomorrow the go shooting for this very hotel. i don't see that. he and his crew stayed here at the hotel, both in elite, you knew the mountain bell lives in north london. he left the bbc in 1997 to become a member of parliament. and these now were unicef ambassador, but to those who knew and then both knew it, always be the man in the white suit. we arrived in a great rush because of wood already broken out. as in frank freebird, daylight, we drove in from belgrade. and the of this place stopping place was our job us to

and elijah the 1st major battle of the war took place on the 22nd of april, 1992 in and around the hotel. most of the between the bosnian serbs and you can see on the, on one side of the emerging bosnian, muslim on groups on the other. it lasted for 10 days. one camera man was wounded and other tv cruise rooms were hit by snipers and shelley mounting bell and his crew with trapped inside the hotel, with all the gentlest guests and stuff. these red pitches shopped by the bbc's, eric pound, showed the crew doing a live link from the london we may have going on around so we were on the balcony of the hotel above. and while we were there,

a huge battle erupted all around us. boston, excuse me, but it is, it is the thing to see that working at the moment because it is not as you can get around me the whole thing. you know, sometimes things happen and i filled the air above my head. somebody was happening to it, a bulletin whistle by and, and, and sucked the arch of it and it hit the wall behind me. it's an excuse me, i just want to break off because we had some of the names of the crew i to under that point, i turned to the camera man and i said look, let's get the hell out of here for our own safety. and we just place down and went inside. and that was the last time we did a live to wait in a public space in boston. if i've heard of them all on the 15th of may 1992 mountain bell and all the other journalists left the hotel,

both by the set up the new base at the holiday inn. by the summer of 1992, the subs were tightening the news around. sorry, eva, i'm just showing that it's not like this where relentless, indiscriminate the holiday inn had become the permanent home for hundreds of correspondence, photographers and crews. among them was pulled low, unimposing, the engine list of the judge, who would become his wife after the war. hi, real rough china and welcome to his old friends back to the holiday. and i think maybe to hold in became the wall hotel in, sorry, but because of a kind of accident, but also by design because of its unique location of a sense of a city almost like this kind of fortress that you could look out from old sites onto the rest of the terrain, somehow or other were not,

but never quite sure why the hotel managed to keep the supplies of food coming in. and it managed to keep itself relatively safe for the shells and shots out on occasion. but in general, it was seen as this kind of safe haven in the central pacific. the hotel was very strange place. i remember when i came here for the 1st on it it, it was just amazing that will all this a journalist that was the, you know, lots of the more experienced it was like a little town in itself. by the time i came back, which is a but the 2nd week in june, the holiday inn was more or less put together, but i stayed. and a flat rejection, a has a better views on the holiday and of the nightly pyrotechnics of the fighting. the top, the that i felt i needed to be closer to the go sick for the press. cool. so i also took a room in the new,

the reopened holiday and followed by the 22nd of june. and that's how i 1st came to lift that and i left the, the people of san diego consider the 22nd of july 1992. the fee assist in bloody is the day of the siege. more than 3500 shells were fund across the city that day. most pictures and video of the bump arguments of the city were filled with from the holiday and the hotel was hit directly several times by heavy fire from sub posts and go to events and mount trib, which decided the hotel that you can see behind me was very badly damaged by shell and sniper fire. there was completely uninhabitable. so german listened. didn't use that side of the hotel or you sent me your bill or your complex something with the rest. the last thing actually,

stocks on our system got easy to be said. we don't want these rad pictures filmed in may 1993 show the scale of the destruction inside the hotel, where the main entrance and reception were the most dangerous areas. here was the 1st floor restroom, directly facing the front line. and here, an expos side entrance, a virtual no go area. the basement general itself which shelton and so was packed with press cards and on the vehicles the getting in and out every day was extremely dangerous. so there was a sense of as being a concrete cause, which is completely false because people were shot dead on the entrance to the hotel. but you know, do what kind of setting on a sudden unwritten rules. so you didn't come in through different tensions, and that was what happens to people who were shot. they came into the wrong entrance. basically i thought to myself, i've got

a better chance of surviving if i don't enter the hotels through the main door, which was in the line to 5 themselves opposite. and i had a feather superstition that i was always walk to my room in the clockwise direction . i was a long it took was in the entry clockwise direction and it sort of helped to keep me alive. on the night of the 13th of november, 1994, the hotel was hit by a biology of shelves and smelling for rooms, causing a huge fire until more and among the gentlest. i do remember time and hotel was both assailed and started, but i think at the time i wasn't to go to the office and very sick smoke basically over to the whole soul. people on the 5th floor and the money somehow to crawl out for me myself. i spent a lot of time outside anyway, you know, so i felt the safer when i came to a hotel than on the streets of the river. but the no, no,

we didn't feel safe. there was no, no way we could have felt the same. the main streets between the holiday in the parliament building became known as nice as the behind me is my old boss name or the dragon and voice mail is the name of the street. but 25 years ago. this was known as a sniper valley. this is one of the most dangerous intersections in inside able the hotel set immediately on sniper valley. and of course, the journalists were living in, in proximity of much of the sniper fire, which is one of the reasons why so much footage amity to some journalists around this particular area. they were located in the hotel slide 1st. we're particularly active in the city of the, according to 1995

u. n. c goes to 125 people were killed here. 60 of them children on over a 1000 things. during the siege, the foreign correspondents and photographers became a part of people's daily lives in san diego. on the ground, the conflict was relentless. but the world became increasingly de sensitized to people's pain and suffering. so like mountain bo pull marshal and bobo lives, dec stopped wearing flat jackets and helmets, while reporting amongst civilians need a pulls on myself. lab subjected during the war on our regular work commissions during the day. because for him, as for me, was really on decent to last like jackets in front of the unprotected people from who the industry eats and who will completely expose the snipers and settings every

single day. the k a k for security for cnn in august to get the focus in which is most model of the sort of so whether it on a donor. so set up the vehicle or k i slighted scope, sucks basically like chrome data out of many. and so they will call those to me for probably maybe at the still for talk there's a pull know also kept should moments of great power and poignancy his prime location was at the notorious sniper, intersection by ali pasha most on marshall tito street. here she took one

of the conic pictures of the siege of san diego where it was done and now it was probably the most dangerous place to me and ty, switching to sun. so when people want us to come join the war to get into the main part of the city, they have to cross this intersection. the only way you could do that was the sprint for your life. otherwise you would have been killed. the so i sort of exactly this position because i was protected from the snipers in the hills. if i move forward just a couple of sentences, then i could have been shots from, here's protected by the room. and by this rule, i could stay here relatively safely. i'm susan. sure thing shoots it shoots, the stories

about involving generalists and the people that, sorry, a, the church sure was an american journalist, whom everyone of the holiday inn knew well as one of the most dramatic scenes of the siege took place at lyon cemetery on the 4th of august 1992 shoke was the with a team from really just covering the funeral of 2 children killed by snow. despite the shelling he tended to a badly wounded woman. then go to inventories, agency. com and took her to the hospital. could show reported on another tragic story. it took place close to the holiday end of the notorious, but then your bridge became known as the san diego romeo and juliet shawl could about 2 bodies lying at the bridge. and he and so me

a cool rich when to get to a closer look we went to the scene, we had, we had to hire that because it was on the front line. very, very frontline. and we so 2 young people playing next, each to other targets and obviously that that was the same us very well known story of survival, romeo and juliet bush go. and anita the couple who one day decided they want to leave through a siege survivor. he was a so she was and was when they loved each other very much and they decided to leave somebody probably told them that safely, you know, they were killed. good show became very emotionally attached to the families of bosco birdcage. and that's near the east, which he dunst with death again, 5 years later,

when he and free royce has an ac colleagues, what ambushed by militiaman in sierra leone in may 2000 show can his camera man produces what killed instantly as his request. humph! schultz asked, she is what buried in san diego, the city of his beloved romeo and juliet. the main road to the airport is now named of taking the siege of san diego, lost in 1425 day of 11541 citizens were killed and many more hinges. the siege was lifted on the 29th of february 1996, following the signing of the dates and peace agreement that ended the bosnian conflict. the holiday inn is still standing under new management

and with the new name remains a landmark and rejuvenated city. a symbol of the endurance and fortitude of the people of sarajevo. remembering their icon a cool hotel holiday in sorry is it? it was the alternate was in the hotel, is south side blown away by shots and shell upon him through the login page on the hills. and yet away from where the motor's fell. it did not just survive, but the cost it spelled. it was all refuge and it served as well to those who ran away that seemed a catch more like drown 0 than a place of rest by normal standards. it was quite the west, but it to us was info could sing the best way to believe those they, the infidels in this most dangerous of all hotels. and those who stayed with uniquely pressed the

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the no less often as well as the tax across goals. so just find a safe spot of deal being closer than it is. if it be we have reached a point where the major issue is that what preventing it from happening, what are the rest and we have a language. but they need to be say issue the content mccrae. this is they'll just hear a line from top. and so coming up.