>> oh, there's no doubt about it. i mean, think about the whole frame of the speech. it's about what he inherited from the previous trump administration and how he believes he brought it to better standing, both economically in terms of the global economy and in terms of the nation's security. so he's already in the frame of that speech, not just tying a bow around his legacy, which you would expect any president to do at the end of their term. but in contrast to what was handed to him, and he's handing it back to those same people, or at least the same president, and maybe some other people will populate it. but it's hard to think about this moment without recognizing. i mean, listen, i don't consider myself a spring chicken, right? joe biden has been in washington at the center of foreign policy debates and policy making for longer than i've been alive. and when you think about that, you know, 52 years ago, a 30 year old senator was starting out, and here he is in his preferred milieu, right. the state department. and as he even referenced, chair of senate

foreign relations committee, eight years as vice president, four years as president. this is the stuff that animates joe biden's public career, probably more so than anything else domestically or politically. this is the stuff that has been the real life force of his public life. and so seeing him in this moment to try and of course, put his spin on it as to why he believes he was a good steward, is a moment that i think, as you know, we're going to have a farewell speech from in the oval office on wednesday night. we're going to see him a little bit more this week. and then, of course, he's participating in all the formal tea at the white house and right up to capitol hill for the inauguration to attend his successor's inauguration, because he believes in those traditions and institutions. but this speech was one that he hopes will be left with the history writers. >> and i want to quote, because it's relevant from his usa today interview with susan page. i think the only advantage of being an old guy is that i've known every major world leader for a long time, and i think that's fair to say. he was trying to bring that to the forefront there. and look,

one of the countries in dynamics we've been talking about a lot is ukraine and russia. i want to bring in fred pleitgen, who's reported extensively from ukraine over the course of this war. and fred, you know, one of the lines that the president had in that in that speech is that i'm the only one that stood in the center of kyiv, not him. in regards to vladimir. slated to morale, to the president's office in what has been, we know, a grueling ongoing war with russia. >> a grueling on going war, omar, and certainly one that's becoming more and more difficult for the ukrainians. and i think that president biden is, of course, right, that he was the only one who was standing there in that square in kyiv. but at the same time, while there has been a lot of aid from the united states, while no doubt the

biden administration has also enabled a lot of nato allies to do things that they never thought they'd be capable of doing. if you look at, for instance, where i am right now in berlin, the germans, they started out in all of this offering 5000 helmets to the ukrainians. and it was then when the biden administration, the biden administration, stepped in and offered leadership that the germans really started offering up a lot of heavier weapons. the biden administration gave the ukrainians high mobility artillery rocket systems, the germans gave the ukrainians their version of that when it came to main battle tanks. the only reason why the germans gave the ukrainians leopard two main battle tanks is because the biden administration offered up the m1 abrams tank. when you look at air defense, which president biden spoke about, that is a key aspect where the germans are giving. for instance, patriot anti-aircraft systems, which are made in the u.s., but the u.s. is giving most of the missiles. so enabling the alliance to give as much as they have to. ukraine certainly was was definitely an achievement of the biden administration. at the same time as we're seeing on the ground, it certainly isn't

enough. if you look at the front lines, pretty much all of them right now, the ukrainians are on the back foot. and while a lot of that is a lack of manpower on the part of the ukrainians, a lot of that is also a lack of ammunition, which has been a real issue among western countries. and certainly the biden administration as well. and then also, of course, a lack of weapons. so there there can definitely be a case made that the biden administration did a lot to help the ukrainians. but at the same time, right now, it's the russians that are advancing. and if you allow me, there's three areas or two areas that i think are still very important to speak about and that the president didn't really speak about at all. and one of them is when he says that russia is on the back foot, china is on the back foot. if you look at africa, for instance, that simply isn't the case right there. the u.s. is losing ground. and if you look at iran and north korea, for instance, certainly iran is losing ground in the middle east. russia is as well. but there are defense agreements right now between russia, iran and north korea that certainly weren't there before. and that's definitely something that the trump administration, when it comes in, is definitely going to have

to contend with. guys. >> yeah, no doubt, as china is seeking influence in africa. but you heard as well. biden making the case for ukraine, helping build up weapons expansion. just sort of that drumbeat of production in america. a lot of people say that is going to be crucial to be prepared for a potential conflict. very with an eye to china.

>> running, because this obviously is a hazard to have these power lines down here like this. but this is all the effects of what we see after a really big fire comes through. and when you look over to my right here, you can see some of the destruction of where the fire just rolled through here a couple of nights ago and just demolished this business here, charring everything and coming across that hillside you see back there and rolling all the way to the ocean. i went down there to check there's a tree in the sand that is charred. it basically burned until it couldn't burn anything else here. and it's demolished. these small businesses, it's demolished homes. it's demolished big businesses. the amount of devastation from the palisades fire and the eaton fire in particular is astronomical. if you're at the

other fire there where i was earlier this week, the eaton fire, it's block after block that has been demolished. and when you look at the infrastructure that is impacted by this, even if your house did survive or your business did survive, do you even have sewer lines? do you have water lines? do you have power? do you have a grocery store? that's how massive this is and how it's so. it's fundamental things that we need just to exist. and that's why it's going to take a long time. and that's what you see here is the leftover of these questions for people, as they're trying to figure out what their next step is going to be. >> and as we show the progress of some of the fires on the screen as well, progress has been made. but again, windy conditions ahead could complicate some of those, some of those efforts. stephanie elam, really appreciate the reporting. i want to go to a major development on capitol hill where house speaker mike johnson now says he believes conditions should be placed on california wildfire aid. i want to bring in cnn's manu raju, who joins us from capitol hill.

manu, you just spoke to the speaker about this issue. what is he saying? >> yeah, i just spoke to him just moments ago about all of this. remember, typically aid to rebuild after natural disasters typically does not have conditions. typically it's done by significant bipartisan support. but this has been a different situation with donald trump coming into office with donald trump and republican criticism over the leadership, the democratic leadership in california, and a sign that the aid to california could come with strings attached and could become a big fight in congress. >> we've got to have a serious conversation about that. obviously, there has been water resource mismanagement, forest. management mistakes, all sorts of problems. and it does come down to leadership. and it appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty and in many respects. so that's something that has to be factored in. i think there should probably be

conditions on that day. that's my personal view. we'll see what the consensus is. i haven't had a chance to socialize that with any of the members over the weekend, because we've all been very busy, but it'll be part of the discussion for sure. >> what about the debt limit increase? what about tying the debt limit increase to. >> there's some some discussion about that, but we'll see where it goes. >> and that last point has come up in a private meetings as well about how to raise the national debt limit to avoid a debt default. the suggestion there from the speaker that that's potentially could be tied to an aid to california, he said. this has been part this is just a discussion. we'll see where it goes. he was noncommittal about that, but certainly not ruling that out. so expect it to be a live discussion. now, democrats pushed back at some of the accusations made about their leadership of the state of california, and some already are pushing back at his suggestion that there should be some strings attached to it. one congressman, jared moskowitz of florida, said that about johnson's comments. he said, this is a mistake. if you start this, it will never end.

when dems retake the house, they will condition aid to florida and texas. disaster aid must stay nonpartisan. and that has been really the tradition for many, many years. even though sometimes it's subject to negotiation, some of the aid to rebuilding after natural disasters. typically it's done. it's approved as a major disaster relief package was approved to deal with the hurricanes and natural disasters that hit last year through parts of the country, including in the southeast of the united states. so how will this be resolved? that's going to be a major question and a crisis that the incoming president, donald trump, will confront, and how the single party, republican single party gop rule of congress, how will they deal with that? all big questions in the weeks ahead. >> it was one of the rare moments of bipartisanship where you would see president biden standing along. florida governor ron desantis, for example. manu raju really appreciate the reporting. joining me now to talk more about the personal impact of these devastating fires is natalie davidian. she's a

reporter for knx radio in los angeles, and she sadly lost her childhood home to these catastrophic fires. i'm so sorry. thank you for being here. i saw you write about your house on social media. you said this is where i took my first steps, spoke my first words. losing it is the worst pain i felt. second to losing my 58 year old dad just three years ago. i know you've been working as a reporter on these fires, but for you personally, what did you feel when you when you confirmed with your own eyes that your childhood home was gone? >> omar i feel it in my gut the way you just told me. it is the worst pain ever. and i know i'm not alone in this. when? when i first got the news, i was up working till about two in the morning and i was covering the palisades fire and then the the altadena one broke out and i, i just couldn't wrap my mind around it and i needed, i needed a couple hours to even process what happened to bring myself to going to my childhood

home and looking at it. it's in rubble. it's in ashes. and i know i'm not the only one. there are thousands of people going through this right now, but it is very, very painful to both cover this as a story and to tell my own story and to see what everybody is going through. >> and as you were talking, we were literally showing some before and after images of your home that, again, have mirrored so many images of people who have lost their homes and more lost people in this, as well. as i understand, you were the one that had to tell your mom that your childhood home was gone. what was that conversation like? >> that was so difficult because i found out at about 4 a.m., after working till two in the morning, and another friend of mine from a different television station actually called to tell me, and when she called me, i could hear it in her voice how horrible the damage was. and like i said, i couldn't believe it. i wanted

to be like, can i salvage anything? can you go inside? there is no inside, there is no outside. and i had to wait for a couple hours for both my mom and my brother to wake up so i can break the news to them. and it's it's it's a death. it's the worst news to break to anyone to say this is the home that you and dad built together. this is the home that my parents, they brought me home from the hospital. they closed escrow on pretty much the same day. and it is. it is gone. it's 36 years of memories. just gone. my mom was hysterical. i can't even put into words how painful it was to see her pain, how painful it continues to be, to see her pain and to see so many people's pain and and even people whose houses, whose homes were spared. when i'm speaking with some of my friends who say, you know, we won the lottery, but it doesn't feel good because and this is our this is our childhood. this is where we

grew up. and entire towns are gone. and it is just it is just heartbreaking on a level that i can't even put into words, you know? >> and at this point, it's hard to even start to think about what comes next after all this. but but the fema administrator, deanne criswell, told cnn it's going to take more than six months to clear the debris left by these fires. but but to your point, the memories and the. community and that never comes back, or at least not in six months. it's going to take years, decades. and for someone like you who's born and raised in l.a., i can only imagine what you're going through. you and your family really appreciate you being here. thank you for sharing your story, and thank you for continuing to report on your community. >> thank you. >> of course. all right. still to come for us, we're going to have more coverage of what have been really devastating wildfires in southern california. at least 24 people have died and dozens are still missing. >> and later, president-elect trump's cabinet picks set to face the white hot spotlight of

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>> back now to the breaking news right now, firefighters in los angeles are making a desperate push to stop deadly wildfires as dangerous wind and weather conditions over the next few days threaten to upend some of the progress made in this nearly week long battle to save homes, communities and lives. the eaton fire is now 33% contained, while the palisades fire continues to burn out of control at just 14% containment. a much larger fire there. now, those killing at least 24 people so far. and fears are growing today that the number of victims will rise as dozens more remain missing. more than 92,000 remain under evacuation orders, and it's unclear when many of them are going to be able to return to their homes. cnn's veronica miracle is live in altadena, the site of the eaton fire. so, veronica, what are you seeing there now? >> omar, i you know, i'm losing service. we're kind of in and out of service. it's a touchy area right now as they're repairing all the power lines.

so i didn't hear your question. however, we are in the middle here of the damage in altadena at the eaton fire where the eaton fire burn. and you can see behind me just home after home has been destroyed. and a lot of what's happening right now is crews are out here. we have seen crews, electrical crews out here all day trying to repair some of the power lines. but i was talking with a lineman and he said that, you know, they're repairing the power for the homes that are still standing. unfortunately, these power, these power lines are not going to be serving a lot of customers. there's just nothing left really in this block. but they're still wanting to make sure that those who do have a home are able to come back to something, to some power. now, the authorities today, they have been saying they need people to be patient because it's just so unsafe to come back, not only because we have all the repairs going on, the downed power lines, there's toxic ash in the air. there are gas lines that they're taking a look at to make sure that everything is safe. they're also going home by home to see

if there were human remains in these houses. and they are finding remains, and they expect to find more remains as there are people missing in terms of the investigation right now, authorities are saying here for the eaton fire that the cause is still under investigation. however, the l.a. times is reporting that there's an electrical transmission tower in eaton canyon that is currently blocked off, that is being investigated as the possible source of the origin of the fire. now, socal edison did put out a statement yesterday saying that all of their electrical equipment in eaton canyon was working fine and is not the cause of the fire. but again, there is a reportedly an electrical transmission tower that is cordoned off right now as the possible source of this fire. there are many people who are waiting to come back in, but officials are saying the worst is not over yet. you can see the winds are picking up just a little bit here. there's another wind event that ends on wednesday, and authorities are saying people from ventura all the way to san

diego, essentially all of southern california, need to be prepared to evacuate omar. >> and of course, keeping an eye on the on those conditions is critical for for those firefighting efforts. veronica miracle in altadena, california. thank you so much, brianna. >> amid all of the death and devastation in california, the blame game is intensifying claims promoted by president-elect trump on his truth social platform. include this repost on the wildfire, saying, quote, it's not climate change. it's democrats. trump directly blames california governor gavin newsom, who he called newscum in a separate post, and elon musk also weighing in. he's blaming diversity, equity and inclusion policies for the fires. posting on his social media platform x die means people die and conspiracy theorists are baselessly claiming that the fires were deliberately set by the government, which has been controlling the weather, they're saying, and directing strong winds to spread the

fires. no basis in fact there. in case you were wondering. joining us now is porter fox, author of category five, superstorms and the warming oceans that feed them. porter, you know, sometimes we debate, should we say what conspiracy theorists are saying? but i think that once it becomes, in a way, kind of a conflagration in itself, we have to let people know what a lot of folks are saying online. we have to be clear, though, with these fires, there is a uniqueness to the conditions that southern california has been facing. there's also the effects of climate change. can you just set the record straight here about why these fires are so bad? >> i mean, it's just math. it's just science. anyone that doesn't believe in that is essentially saying two plus two doesn't equal four, and i don't really have time for that. >> like there is real actual change happening on our planet right now. the noaa and copernicus reports came out yesterday. we just breached the 1.5 c threshold for the first time ever, ever. that was the safety threshold we were not

supposed to pass. and what you're seeing in california is 30 trillion gallons of water fall in these atmospheric rivers. this vegetation dries out in a drought. we have 100 mile per hour santa ana winds. and all of this out of season. and that is just a fact that is undeniable. and that is what has created this massive fire in this terrible catastrophe in los angeles. >> yeah, i mean, we covered those atmospheric rivers, like you said. then there's vegetation, and then that vegetation becomes kindling. but this has become such a political hot potato. and you have those in trump's sphere saying it's actually about forest mismanagement, that that kindling should have been better dealt with. it's about water policy. what's the truth, though? because we need to know what can be done to try to prevent this from happening again. >> well, absolutely. and there's we're not dealing

with a forest here. we're dealing with a with a wildfire here. and you look at the statistics on wildfires that are spiking out of control right now. a huge element is we've lost 1,000,000mi÷ of snowpack in the northern hemisphere that used to water these fields, and these grasses all through the spring and summer, keeping the ground moist and the vegetation alive. that snow is gone. the sierra nevada is going to lose 65% more snow in the next 50 years, likely. so you're looking at even drier and drier conditions, warmer and warmer conditions. and this is just in los angeles. you look at miami with the hurricanes and the sea level rise. you look at new york city with the hurricanes and sea level rise. more tornadoes last year than ever before in the midwest. you're looking at the wind speeds of hurricanes helene that were so devastating. and hurricane milton, i mean, the writing is on the wall. there are certain parties that want to ignore this for essentially profit reasons, but science and math

is explaining this very well and an amazing statistic i uncovered while writing category five is that, you know the parts per million of co2 in the atmosphere correlate almost directly with extreme weather. when that ppm goes up, your wind speed goes up, your rainfall goes up, devastation goes up. when it goes back down, it goes down in lockstep. within a year or so. so you bring that down to 350 where it was in, say, 1986, you're going to see fewer massive hurricanes, lower wind speeds, a slower santa ana winds. it's it's a very simple equation. it's simply math. and we really need to wake up and start following it. >> yeah. so interesting. as you talk about what you learned as you reported out your book, porter fox, thank you so much. really appreciate you kind of straightening out some of those narratives out there. thank you. and we'll be right back

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back together and to prepare to rebuild our city. i also want to again remind angelenos that l.a. city governor newsom is now a one stop shop for assistance for those who are impacted and a place to help angelenos find a way to get involved. >> i want to bring in michael flood. he is the ceo of the los angeles regional food bank, which is working with government agencies, nonprofit and faith based partners and others to respond to the fires throughout l.a. county. thanks for being here. i guess, for starters, how is the food bank responding to this crisis? what are you all seeing as the biggest need so far? >> water. food? ready to eat food items. >> non food. >> essential items are critical. >> you know we have people who are evacuated and going to evacuate evacuation centers and being served i think as well as possible, especially by the red cross and other partners. >> but we have a lot of people who have been evacuated from homes and are dealing

with power outages that need help and need assistance. so that's where this network of nonprofit organizations comes into play to provide that help and provide that assistance. the food bank focuses on the food, water and non-food items. we have other partners that are key as part of our l.a. network that are critical also in providing help and assistance to families and individuals struggling with what's going on here. >> and look, fair to say that there's a big need for what you do during more normal times in the l.a. area, but can you quantify sort of the increased need you've seen since these fires have broken out? did you all need to scale up operations on your end? just take me into the last week. >> yes, we've had to. i'm at one of our two distribution centers here in the city of industry. our other distribution center is in l.a. every day has been a very busy day with incoming. as you mentioned, or the piece

mentioned earlier. the public has responded really well. neighbors helping neighbors. also, we've seen corporate community step up, government step up. so the the point of the food bank side is we have the scale to bring in large scale donations and then get that out to agencies and where it's needed. we had a large mobile distribution in east l.a. in conjunction with the county of los angeles on saturday. so we have seen absolutely large amount of food, water and other donations come in. the demand has increased markedly to, you know, we're kind of at day seven, right, of this response. and the fires are still going on. so, you know, poundage has increased by, i'd say, 30% in the last week as far as volume. and as you mentioned, our volume is very high in just kind of regular times. so that's what we're seeing here. and we expect that to build in the coming days and weeks. >> and you know, we heard from the fema administrator, deanne

criswell today, who told cnn she expects just the debris removal process to take six months. but but i guess even as we are in these fires right now, you know, with threats of winds that could make some of these firefighting efforts a little bit more difficult. i mean, when you look ahead, i mean, we are talking about a long term recovery process, not just debris removal, but also in regards to your work, food insecurity, but a lot of aspects of insecurity for for people here. i wonder how you all are sort of looking at what the long term recovery process is going to look like throughout the l.a. area and just how you're approaching it on that end. >> well, it feels like another version of the pandemic to us, where demand has spiked up overnight, as it did when the pandemic hit in 2020. but for different circumstances in dealing with the fires. so that's what it feels like. and, you know, we're responding in that regard as far as bringing in more resources

food, water, other grocery, non-food item resources. the volunteer response has been huge, but we also have agency partners who've lost volunteers because they've lost their homes. you know, the number of homes and structures and businesses that have been lost here is massive. and the impact of that is significant. so yeah, we see this as not just the short term, immediate term over the next number of days and weeks, it's going to be months and months. >> yeah. and we got to go, michael. but really quickly, for those who want to donate, how can they help. >> go to l.a. food bank.org. go to l.a. dot org. check out. there are a lot of great community based organizations helping here in l.a. and coming together to respond. >> michael flood, really appreciate you being here. best of luck in the work that you're doing. >> thank you. >> all right. when we come back, support for los angeles from the australian open tennis superstar and l.a. resident naomi osaka among those sending a message to victims and firefighters. we'll tell you what she said about how close

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