as they should have to wait for trumps rise to power usa to rights starts january 18th on d w. the you're watching the w news coming to you live from berlin, firefighters in los angeles, say they cannot contain multiple wildfire. authorities say their focus is now not on saving homes, but on saving people's lives. tens of thousands has been ordered to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. also ahead, we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico incoming us president donald trump threatens to change the map after already setting his sites on canada and greenland the

i'm quite richardson, thank you so much for joining us. the los angeles fire chief says at least 2 people have been killed and many more injured by wildfire, as he called 8 widespread disaster fires are raging out of control across at least 3 parts of the la area. authorities say more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed and if the blazes continue to grow with quote 0 percent containment, it is a race against time to bring residents of an elderly cousin to safety. in the middle of the night, wildfires broke out who now to dana in the foothills, northeast of los angeles on tuesday evening. they are now tearing through the neighborhood the bra spies that store 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 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 their best to try to keep it today. tens of thousands let their homes causing traffic jams on the narrow roads. many escapes justin time. i read. i've never seen the fires with this close to the fires.

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 as in a matter of hours of g. t firefighters being called in to help the colleagues on the ground too. and now facing a bustle on several fronts with an update on the situation from jason camp jonya, a local journalist with nbc and i heart radio. the issue here that firefighters are facing are what's called the ember 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 the number from that fire starts a 1000000 fire. and then what it does is that spreads the firefighters really, really then, 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 in just the past couple of minutes that some of the embers are actually catching life guard towers on fire. oh, so there's nothing else on the beach except the sand and a live card 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 there 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 fires for the past 2 decades here. and i like is fire crews and to bring in bulldozers to bulldoze 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 a normal practice here in uh, 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 sibling, something to that effect, 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. we also heard from

meteorologist matthew puts you on the developments in a way. i asked him how these walls fires got 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 just right 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 and 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 and many areas causing just such a significant impacts. we already sawgrass to a 130 kilometers per hour in burbank. that's

a city in the los angeles metro area. they've never seen a gust 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, as 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 a, 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 burned. 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 particularly it's 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, particularly 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 and 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 wildfire, as 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's, 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 that areas not super for us. it, but they do have trees. they do have spread breast, they do have vegetation. and the question is, how much of a buffer do you need on the interest of the towns 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 cloud shows to be a road network. there was a road rid 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 whether it becomes harder and dry or 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 accident 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 by or something and expand even more in percent, but potentially igniting new fires. so really friday will be a very bad day and end of the weekend as well. but have been very insightful. thank

you so much for taking the time as me. your ologist matthew cup of tea. and let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. or a russian attack on the city of zapper regional in south eastern crane has left at least 13 people dead. that according to the regional governor around 30 other people have been injured and hospitalized. russia has intensified attacks and eastern ukraine in recent months with severe impacts on civilians. policy and metix . they is really air strikes across and cause i have killed more than 2 dozen people. one strike killed at least 10 in a multi story building and gaza city. another attack and there of a law killed at least 7 people. this comes as international mediators step up efforts to seal a ceasefire and hosted release deal between israel. item us and austria and foreign minister. alexander sheldon barrack has been named interim chancellor, had of new coalition talk led by the far right freedom party,

schellenberg i demanded assurances that the party would keep all 3 up 3 from russian influence. the euro sceptic party won over 29 percent of the vote in september's parliamentary election. coalition talks between other parties have so far failed. well, european leaders are warning us president elect donald trump not to invade other countries. after he returns to office later this month. trump has said he wants the us to take control of canada, greenland, and the panama canal. he also announced that he would be changing the name of the gulf of mexico. donald trump has yet to take orders at the white house. but oh, really, he's facing his sites much further to we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. the gulf of america, what a beautiful name and its appropriate it's appropriate board started from statement

did not come with any explanation about how or why he planned to change the name. it's just the latest in a string of claims he's made about us expansionism. in addition to the gulf of mexico, he's also stages sites on the panama canal, claiming to us will take control of the crucial shipping lane. canada is also on trump's wish list. he wants to absorb the know the neighbor and green button. the resource rich danish directory is also in his sites. his son, donald trump junior touch down in greenland capital nukes this week, supposedly on a tourist visit. in macs, prime minister says greenland future, it is from greenland. people to decide from it as a very close ally to the us. there is a reason to be pleased with the growing interest, but it has to take place in a way that is respectful to of the population of green. the other leaders have been

more beloved, tended as prime minister justin true doses. there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of canada, becoming part of the us and panama leaders say via canal will remain panamanian. so at any of our canals sovereignty is not negotiable. yes. and as part of our history of struggle and then your reversible conquests are able to see. but don't the trump does not appear to be detected. speaking to reporters, he refused to roll out using military. it's unknown like action to take control of the panama canal. your green loan, a lot of as his bid said, growing global rage seemingly escalating a heat of his, an old duration in less than 2 weeks. earlier we ask benjamin, tell us from the democratic strategy initiative, how the you might respond if trump really were to put his words into action. first of all, that's important to emphasize that we don't know how donald trump would act. we

don't know that he would necessarily turn any of these words into action, so it's important not to overreact before we actually know what would really happen . but it does indicate a really significant potential departure in us policy. if trump were to enact these words and it would be a sad time for, for the us, it would be a sad time for the democratic well and for the nato alliance as well as for the european union. the question then comes, what could the european union and its members states actually do about this? and that really highlights the problem of having made ourselves considerably dependent upon the united states for security. there's nothing wrong with being good allies, but that means really paying your way and doing your share. and that's why your opinions and canadians have been rather delinquent. so we've left ourselves without the true capabilities to stand up for ourselves with a couple of exceptions about products and u. k with nuclear weapons. so they've,

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