if you were asleep was paying for it now and then when generation industry can find it feels like there's the rate the you're watching, dw, new who's coming to you live from berlin. firefighters in los angeles are now saying they cannot contain multiple wildfires. authorities say their focus is not on saving homes, but on savings people's lives. tens of thousands of people have been ordered to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. also ahead migration takes center stage in germany's upcoming elections. now the conservative store of leading in the polls have wrapped up talk of deportations. the

i'm quite richardson, thank you so much for joining us. tens of thousands of people in the los angeles area have been ordered to leave their homes as wildfires. a spread rapidly in the cities hillsides, fires, and different parts of the la area have been fanned by fast winds from a storm that hit southern california on tuesday. flames have consumed more than 5 square kilometers in western l. a. in the pacific palisades area alone with the blazes moving further westward, many buildings have already been destroyed, and authorities are now saying they are powerless to keep the fires from spreading . or it is a race against time to bring residents of an elderly cousin to safety. in the middle of the night,

wildfires broke calhoun out to dana in the foothills, northeast of los angeles on tuesday evening. they are now tearing through the neighborhood the brush spies that started hours earlier in the coastal pacific palisades still out of control. the affluent area is home to many los angeles does including the coach of the basketball team, the la, cuz j reddick, the just want to acknowledge and send thoughts and prayers to everyone in the palisades right now. it's where i live, my family and my wife's family. my wife's twin sister have evacuated. i know that a lot of people are um, freaking out right now, including my family and from the sound of things with the winds coming tonight. i

know a lot of people are scared when the fire started, some residents did the best to try to keep it today. tens of thousands let the homes closing traffic jams on the narrow roads. many escapes justin time. i read. i've never seen the fires with this close to the cars. people left their cars and policies drive burning up the hillside, palm trees, everything's going and the wind and the firemen are great, but property damage is property, damage losing lives, dogs, animals, horses, a lot of horses in the neighborhood. so. yeah, so that's, that's really the blazes raged across thousands of acres in a mass of hours of g t firefighters to being called in to help set colleagues on the ground too. and now

facing a bustle on several fronts, we got an update earlier from jason at camp of donia, a journalist with nbc and i heart radio. the issue here that firefighters are facing are what's called the amber cast. so an amber from a palm tree or something to that effect in the pacific palisades may get caught by the winds and then go up to about 3 miles away and started another fire. and then an ember from that fire starts a 1000000 fire. and then what it does is that spreads and firefighters really, really in right now, there's about and a couple of 100 of firefighting personnel, from firefighting crews around southern california who are there to hell. but we've learned it and just the past couple of minutes that some of the embers are actually catching mice guard towers on fire. oh, so there's nothing else on the beach except the sand and a life guard tower. and that amber found that live card tower somehow. so my and

now it's been burned to the ground, so it's very, very difficult for firefighters to be quicker than the wind. uh, earlier today, we saw people trying to get out of the pacific palisades. and unfortunately, the roads, they are very narrow, they're not, they weren't built with a mass evacuation in mind. and people were at some point, ditching their cars and running down the road to safety with suitcases of their lives in there. and that's all they had. and then something i have never seen having covered buyers for the past 2 decades here. and i like is fire crews and to bring in bulldozers to build those all of the a band and cars off of the roadway in order to get more people the safety. so fire crews have opened up evacuation centers, which is normal practice. you're in a, uh, southern california and people are just being asked to avoid the area. if you don't need to go there. if you don't live there, if you're not picking up somebody like an elderly parent or a disabled siblings,

i'm going to that if i stay out of the area, stay away. and they're just trying to get them as much food and water as possible. now we have to worry about air quality in the area as well. and let's hear more now from a meteorologist matthew computer. he's been following those developments in a way as well. matthew authorities are now saying there was no possibility of getting these fires under control. how did this get so out of hand? you know, the rainy season typically begins in like, late october, early november. so every time we get these offshore wind events, there can be fire weather, but usually by like november, december, with the rain. the vegetation isn't desperate to burn, so we wouldn't typically see what we're seeing right now. but you get that this time of year, you know, to have the dry conditions to have extremely strong winds. the worst winds in many places, since 2011. it's a classic recipe for disaster. what's happening right now is that there's high

pressure spinning clockwise north of california. that's pushing air over the top of the mountains. it's kind of squeezed over the mountain, so it accelerates. then it accelerates down hill. it keeps up, it drives out even more, so you have dry weather, hot weather, sapping the ground of moisture and a weight. you have strong winds to stronger than a hurricane in many areas, a causing just such significant impacts. we are in so i guess to a 130 kilometers per hour in burbank. that's a city in the los angeles metro area. they've never seen a gust you over a 170 kilometers per hour. so it's no surprise. these fires are growing so quickly . the policy expire already $1200.00 plus hector's, the entire $900.00. 30 hector's both are growing. and matthew, beyond the very obvious and immediate dangers that these fires post your residents, what kind of health issues do fires of this size present to well, obviously of course there, there's the national infrastructure. they will be suffering. but at the same time to all this vegetation, all the material that is being burnt many which is building materials that are

being burnt. and of course, that's all kind of a setting of the atmosphere. so air quality is a huge issue. los angeles is the 2nd biggest city in the united states, and they are suffering from a very concerning air quality right now, all the particulates in the atmosphere. and one thing it's really concerning. you know, there's so much smoke that we can actually see it on the weather radar. the weather radar is bouncing off those particular it's in the atmosphere. it's up to about 5 to 6 kilometers high right now. so that's a huge concern to and really the fact that this was happening in such a major metro area this time of year is very typical and does bear the fingerprints of climate change. despite the fact that this is so, a typical, i mean, los angeles is no stranger to wild fires. do you think about the scale of the damage that we're seeing could have been prevented in any way? i think that's really tricky. you know, there, there's so much discussion around building and something called the wildland urban interface. so in other words, kind of at the edge of communities,

there's an area where for us, bleed into towns. and of course the air is not super for us. it but they do have trees, they do have scrub brush, they do have visitation, and the question is how much of a buffer do you need on the edges of pounds? in this case, clearly not enough, but it's, it's also problematic to see how many people are struggling to evacuate. the fact that we saw people abandoning their vehicles because the roads were flock, shows to be a road network. the road red might not be sufficient to allow evacuations when they need to happen. and so it will be a big issue for civil engineers down the road to figure out if we're designing towns that are resilience to wildfire episodes like this, particularly as to where it becomes harder and dryer in the winter time in the years ahead. absolutely. now in this particular case, is there any relief insight? what does the weather forecasts look like for the next hours and days ahead? and so the winds right now are beginning to settled back a little bit. that's and they're still screening. they're still bad right now, but i think by this afternoon, local time, they will begin to weekend. thursday will be

a better day. the winds won't be as bad, but remember it will still be very hot. it will still be very dry. and even if no new fires prop up, we already have the extra in fires that will be very difficult to combat. so i don't think the firefighters will get too much of a leg up tomorrow. then into friday, another round of off shore wins pushing those buyers, helping to expand even more and pertain, but potentially igniting new fires. so really friday will be a very bad day and end of the weekend, as well as have been very insightful. thank you so much for taking the time as me, your ologist, matthew. a couple of now here in germany, political parties are launching their campaigns for a general election to do on february 23rd conservative at c d. u party, candidate features marriages. we see here in the middle is tempted to be the next. the chancellor of germany, as the conservative looks that to win the largest share of the vote. they're promising to move germany to the right on social and economic policies. merits himself is also a warrant that europe needs to be prepared for what he called the disruptive

politics of us president elect. donald trump. migration is also high on the conservative agenda for the upcoming election. german is sent to ride christian democrats and the very in partners the c s. u. a talking tough on migration because that's who has been too much migration to germany in recent years. both illegal migration and some legal migration. this needs to change and not just cosmetically put fundamental course made to total conflict. in the last 10 years, germany has taken in many people. from 2015 close to a 1000000 syrians came fling war in the country. and in 2022, a similar number of refugees arrived from ukraine. a badge has led to problems with some local authorities struggling to provide housing, schools, and other services. some polls show votes as c migration as the biggest problem

and the strong support for anti immigration policies. the onset recording to the center, right. see to you and see us, you turning back people at the border. repatriation of those convicted of criminal offenses and the policy of returning syrians to the country following the full of the asset regime. they've even cooled for the removal of gym and nationality from people with dual citizenship, if they have found guilty of crimes. well, our shows is government has made it easier to obtain gym and citizenship. the conservatives want to reverse that trend. the total i turbo naturalization has led to a fundamental change in our country. if we don't change it again, jim and they will look different in 10 to 20 years. some people want that, the greens and the left is but we don't want it in this full volume destination. did that from some say such idea is risk making. naturalized gammons into 2nd class

citizens sending a message. they can never be integrated box in of electro climate where the message of n t emigration policies is attracting, support. jim and a center right. politicians clearly feel they need to tell voters they want to. isaac controls on who comes into the country and he can stay and we do have time to bring you up to speed with some other world news headlines at this hour. palestinian medics say is rarely airstrikes across gauze. i have killed more than 2000 people. one striking killed at least 10 in a multi story building and gaza city of another attack in adair all by last kills at least 7 people. this comes as international mediators step off efforts to seal a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal between israel. and i'm us natalia and journalist arrested in iran in jail for 3 weeks has been freed italian

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