maria: welcome back your good monday morning, thank you for joining us. i am maria bartiromo, monday january 13, 7:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. we are breaking news, the death toll has risen, 24 people are dead in california more than a dozen others unaccounted for as devastating wildfires wreak havoc across los angeles county. six fire scorching 43000 acres destroying 12000 ana winds could propel the wildfires even more, the palisades fire right now is 13% contained while the cause remains under investigation, the eaton fire is 27% contained while the hearst fire is 89% contained. they kenneth fire is fully contained, thank god.

gavin newsom has lifted the evacuation orders in some areas but residents are warned to stay away if they can, more than 100,000 others remain under evacuation orders the story is getting worse, what a tragedy. unfortunately i want to point out our regular guest wording chang was raising the red flag about the potential for outsiders and outside agitators to start wildfires. he said this months ago on the program, we were talking about china need talked about chinese nationals we know the individual who was arrested was a mexican national preeti came into america through the open border. here is gordon chang on the program months ago. watch this. >> there are certain chinese coming in that are really disturbing. hacks of chinese male military age unattached pretending not to

speak english. these are saboteurs who are coming in on the first day of war with asia. i think were going to see acts of sabotage, assassination, detonation of bombs, starting wildfires and divided a ministry she was paying no attention to this at all. maria: very concerning, the wide open border is at massive implications. i'm wondering if it's met people coming in starting wildfires. >> is certainly a possibility. our hearts go out to the people of california and those that have lost so much including loved ones in this horrible period of fires. it's inconceivable that anybody would deliberately start a fire. we have this fellow wandering around with a blowtorch which they finally did apprehend, you do wonder how did all these fires start at the same time certainly added time with the

huge winds were bound at causing incredible devastation united of the government of california spends time and effort getting out the source of the horrible event in their state because it's not just a state situation, tragedy is also going to be an issue for the entire country. maria: this goes back to destructive bad policy boom, one thing devin nunes told me when i spoke with in california congressman who's been dealing with the policies of california for a long time he said three things, logging, grazing and water and these are the three things he felt that he did not want the timber industry cutting down trees, he did not want to force management that was required he did not allow the farmers to come in and have their animals grazed any did not store water. >> a lot of that coming from pressure from environmental

groups take the sierra club in california, the policies to your point are what destroy california it's time for the state to understand this is an about climate change is the scapegoat biden used it the minute he was on the ground in california this is about managing the forest, managing the waters. i'm sorry but this is been going on for centuries. the santa ana winds have been there for centuries if not climate change this is the weather not just the environmental side but also the physical side of the state, karen basson gavin newsom need to answer questions, every interview i've seen gavin newsom at the softball interview, i'm ready for hard questions. maria: meanwhile president biden is giving a speech today from the state department is expected to tout the foreign-policy

legacy he did something similar friday about his economic legacy. watch this. >> we created 16.6 million new jobs, the most of any single presidential term in history, there was not a month not a single month when the economy lost jobs. another record for any presidency. in fact last month america lost jobs was a month before i came to office we did about fundamentally changing economic policy of this country after decades of trickle-down economics i primarily benefited those of the very top for ten days our administration will end and a new one will begin we will face another inflection point do we continue to grow the economy from the middle on the bottom up as we have the past four years or do we backslide to economy of an economic theory to benefit those at the very top while working people middle-class people struggle for their fair share of growth. maria: your reaction.

>> honestly everything he says is false and phony about the economy and particularly benefited middle-class americans, somebody asked joe biden by the body for donald trump, they voted because the first three years of this administration they sell real wages go down this is the most ridiculous mantra that joe biden administration and joe biden himself continues to haul out to the american people. it is not true let's have a fact check on joe biden. >> exactly we will slip in a short break, connor hansen is live he's at the pacific palisades right now with the very latest on the wildfires. let's go there. >> good morning, tragically entire neighborhoods across the pacific palisades look at this home ruined, schools,

businesses, people's homes all over the place and that's why fire crews are racing and trying to take advantage of better conditions over the weekend to prevent it from spreading to more areas. right now the concerned about brentwood and other highly populated area of the mandeville we are seeing a lot of airdrop, water different fire retardant to create a barrier but the big concern is strong winds coming back later today and getting worse tomorrow, we're talking about 50 mile-per-hour winds but it can get up to 60 or 70. not as bad as when things started last week was 75 up to 100-mile an hour gusts, part of the reason these fires were so prolific. officials say embers can travel up to 2 miles from the spot of an original fire potentially starting a new one, so many questions about if california is prepared for the next round of wind. officials say no the last press conference, they will be prepared for the wind and water, we saw issue specifically here

pacific palisades. fire crews running out of water, they did not have enough they only had a few tanks, they had millions of gallons but so far they had to bring in dozens and dozens of these huge water tankers where we've seen firetrucks refill but again people starting to digest this disaster when you see those aerial shots and take in comedy homes you start to realize how long this is going to take to clean things up. of course the death toll keeps rising, tragically up to 24 people dead and more missing. on top of that we have law-enforcement dealing with looters, we even heard stories of people trying to dress up like firefighters to gain access to the evacuated communities people coming from other states trying to burglarize some of the homes that are still standing so the national guard is still here trying to help out with that. it's been in all front effort as volunteers and other fire

departments coming to help from other states and even from other countries. maria: thank you very much, connor hansen on the ground of palisades. people have lost everything. fox corporation is made a $1 million donation to the red cross as a california wildfire relief efforts you can visit go.fox/red cross or by scanning the qr code on your screen right there. we're just getting started will slip it a break, investors have an opportunity to own the best technology companies at cheaper evaluations soon were bracketed with the word on wall street panel coming up. fox business. we'll be right back. ...to free birds. ♪ vanguard. we got this. fifty years of helping you invest for every chapter. taking care of mom was becoming a real challenge. i was so grateful to discover visiting angels.

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you i appreciate that. >> take a look at future stocks are going down as the other going up once again, this is going to be a problem. the dow industrials done 133, the nasdaq down to a 273 take a look at the ten year treasury of this morning where we are looking at yields continuing to spike which started early december, now the tenure is up to another basis points hitting a level of 4.78%. of course we have a big week of economic data, the december producer price index tomorrow and december consumer price on wednesday retail sales on thursday, housing starts and building permits on friday, the university of michigan survey shows present electron terrorist threat causing consumer inflation expectations to rise, the highest level since 2008. there are many on wall street is a president trump's agenda is actually anti-inflationary. what is a story on yields, are you worried about the jump at the tenure yield?

>> a little bit but not overly so, this is reminding everybody of 2022 when we had a fed that was intent on fighting frankly runaway inflation and yields going higher nobody knew the stopping place back then for either yield or inflation. today is not that problem. we still had disinflation should rethink as a cop on yields in the 475 - 5% range in the tenure and there is a chance that a hike rates but that's a likely proposition at this point the backdrop even though the markets trading like is 2022 the economic is far from it. >> we have a strong consumer and businesses that are putting money hand over fist frankly, margins are expanding we have a massive a.i. tailwind of productivity, something that we haven't seen in about 25 years and we have a fed that has been a little bit confusing and not being helpful but we don't have this crash economy or stock

market where we don't know where the end is on inflation or rate hikes, this is a place that were debating whether the fed is going to cut once or twice this year were not debating whether the fed is going to hike eight or nine times this year. maria: investors are looking ahead to the fed's first policy meeting of the new year happens in two weeks, the fed is expected to cut rates one time this year after friday strong jobs report i know were not expecting the federal reserve to raise rates, how do you explain the very telegraphed federal reserve telling us they're going to cut rates and real rates going higher. >> this is a problem. part of the confusion is the fact in the last fed meeting the fed people said essentially inflation risk is to the upside, last meeting in september everybody says inflation is balance, the only thing that

changed between the two things was the election, what we have is a fed that looks like the pricing in the possibility of trauma policies, specifically tariffs but those are known yet we don't know what is going to do and frankly the impact of care policy is anything but certain terms of global economic analysis this is about the introduced us to a degree of politicalization and definitely confusion into the reaction function and make eventual place were more worried about inflation than we are about growth and that's a place where good is bad and bad is good and we sought on friday with the jobs report. maria: the whole idea that rates have been spiking have also impacted the growth stories out there, we were talking about risk on a couple of weeks ago with bitcoin a big tech. look at nvidia in the last week it is down most analysts missed the key data point of exponential growth for nvidia and investors will soon have an opportunity to own the best technology company at a cheaper evaluation, what you telling us

will have a big selloff that continues intact? >> the stock standstill. you're looking at 20 or 30 or 51 100% earnings growth for some of the a.i. names over the next 12 months. if the stocks are running in proportion with the earnings growth getting it cheaper and cheaper. my take away from nvidia presentation at ces is the bear argument of hardware for you by nvidia gpu and use that for a long period of time it's totally and completely erroneous. every year the demand for compute, the power needed by these computers to process all the data needed for a.i. is growing annually on accidental basis. if you think about and all the data in the beginning of the history of time and the end of the year 2003 every two days.

in a few years it'll be every day that every 12 hours and six hours in the computing power need to sort through that as the data gets bigger and the computation gets bigger and keep growing and growing in nvidia's chips and more powerful at the same rate. you're at a point where the latest chips you can get the same compute at a third of the cost or you can triple the amount of compute for the same cost. how do it department sit by and let the competition do everything faster, the upgrade cycle is going to be more consistent with the longer run in the most bears analysts on wall street think for nvidia in the amount of it budget and global corporate for a.i. is going to increase at a must enter much faster clip and no larger market because of the pressures that were getting in the dollar strength with rates going up, the key difference between 2017 and 2025 as the u.s. is in better shape

economically than the rest of the world which is leading to a stronger dollar and that leads to the sale of risk assets in the u.s. into multiple compression for a favorite technology names this is a temporary phenomenon, there is no hint that 2026 is going to be slower than 2025. if anything is going to accelerate we may see choppiness. if you miss these moves if you're one 100% invested sit tight it's going to be a roller coaster but this is an unbelievable time of technology investor. are you waiting for stocks to selloff to buy more. >> my favorite stock pollen tears the low '80s to the high 60s starting to add some of the goes cheaper and going to buy as much as i possibly can, these stocks are much cheaper than six month ago because earnings have expanded rapidly and this is likely to be an excellent year the evaluations

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>> here is the reality if we don't have underpass attacks but the cap on salt retires we go back to unlimited the problem it would be associated with the largest tax increase in american history, the rates would go up the alternative minimum tax and come back, there is reason for all of us to negotiate in good faith. the fact is if you lift it to $60000 for an individual it covers most everybody. we are working through this. maria: the cap is 10000, what is your number, what does your gut say. >> i introduced legislation to lifted to 100,000 for individuals, 200,000 for married couples. we will work through the negotiation with the president and with our leadership and come up with a number that works as part of the overall tax bill.

maria: that was near congressman mike lawler with me yesterday on the salt cap deduction on "sunday morning futures" he is one of several house republicans who went to mar-a-lago on saturday to be with president-elect trump on mar-a-lago he says that trump gets it, he supports raising the salt cap and told lawmakers to negotiate a fair number on it. in 2022 new york received 98 cents for every dollar to the federal government compared that to a state like new mexico who salt $2.88 for every dollar s sent. 11 democrat senators sent a letter to senate majority leader john thune and senate finance mike crapo offering to help with the debt ceiling and extend the trump tax cuts, joining us in texas congressman pat fallon a member of the house i'm services and oversight committee. good to see you, thank you for being here, you heard your colleague mott and to mike lawler it sounds he wants $60000 to have the cat, would you vote for that? >> as president trump said

regarding negotiate a fair number and i know my good friend mike lally thinks that's fair but folks from texas don't want to subsidize high taxes that folks in california and new york pay as our estate taxes, why should we do that they want lower taxes they should vote for candidates that will give them lower taxes mainly republican candidates in the state legislatures in the governor's manchin. >> you have to put some pressure on the governor to lower taxes in new york, i agree with you. >> amen. i don't think 60s were really and i think that's where mike and some of the other republican start and will get to a number and we need to extend the tax cut, we will get there. maria: i want to get your take on two items that address your committees i'm services and oversight. let me talk about oversight congress is likely going to have to include money from california wildfires in the march 14 government funding bill, last

month cr include $100 billion for disaster aid in 29 billion for fema's disaster fund but were talking about the cost of the wildfires at $150 billion how does that play into your plan to execute president trump's agenda? >> is going to be challenging there's no doubt about it that is a huge bill i was on the city council and i used to survey folks all the time and i asked what is the most important thing to them, public safety and roads to a lesser extent parks and that was the role of minnesota government. using california the talent is severely lacking and so are the priorities. when you hear stories about state of oregon sending 60 firetrucks, i have not confirmed but they had to go to sacramento to get emissions testing and get them to l.a. where they're needed, this is woke on wild tough i think hopefully california voters will demand that the minnesota government

state fair under care of the functions of minnesota government. maria: i would ask you about outside agitators. already one man was arrested for carrying around a blowtorch in trying to make the fires worse. congressman jan the oversight committee javid evidence that the fires were started by outside agitators and are you investigating the origins of the fires? >> i haven't seen any evidence yet that is conclusive but i think as part of the oversight committee that is our role we need to investigate what happened is not the first and will be the last we need to minimize the effect that goes with forestry management a lot of other things. focusing on what the citizens of their state or city hired you to do which is protect them person prevent things like this. this is not something that should've taken anybody by surprise. maria: a man was detained at the

kenneth fire and we want to know if any of these were started by outside agitators as a result of the wide open border the man who was detained was illegal in a mexican national. we will watch your work we want to know what happens in the investigation but also on your role and oversight special counsel jack smith resigned from the department of justice over the weekend the d.o.j. is pushing for releasing part of smith's investigation into president trump aileen cannon blocked the release of the report and trump posted this untrue social why would deranged jack smith be allowed to issue a report on a complete and total witch-hunt against me strictly for political purposes when he was thrown off the case and dismissed by the d.o.j. your reaction to jack smith resigning? >> two words, good riddance talk about welfare that's what it was president trump is been the most investigated and most persecuted

and lied about president we've ever had. a politician that we've ever had in american history. i hope in a few months we never have to say that man's name again but also on the oversight committee as you point out we need to investigate that as well in the origins of the locker. i don't want to see it happen again otherwise we're going to devolve into a banana republic. maria: let me get to your work on armed services, now what i'm hearing from some of my sources on capitol hill, you are increasing the numbers and when it comes to spending on defense. let me know your thoughts on this are we talking about $120 billion which is going to go into the first reconciliation for defense spending? >> i've recently seen the number is the largest number i was exposed to it's not what we were talking about in the house or chairman mike rogers had mentioned to me either i just became a subcommittee chair on armed services, we know it's a

dangerous world but we need to have the pentagon spending the tax dollars to maximum efficiency it i don't know anybody on armed services committee both republican or democrat to think that is occurring, that's what of the jobs we need to do that we need to make sure that we can get a rise in china so we need to be able to counter them as well and ever increasing dangerous world, it is a challenge. maria: you are expecting to have an increased defense spending number of the first quote unquote big beautiful bill that you're all working on. >> i would suspect we would we would maintain a level that matches inflation. it's great to see you, thank you. >> god bless, pat fallon in texas, stay with us we'll be right back.

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maria: one week away from president trump second term there desperate for an invite for the inauguration, the new york post of chile, peru, nigeria chomping at the bit to attend trump invited xi jinping, the offer was turned down and we know a top chinese adversary will be there instead in his place, italian prime minister giorgia meloni said she will try to get there to the inauguration. argentina's president javier planning to attend and brazil's former president receiving an invitation as well. trump preparing for 100 executive orders right after the inauguration on day one upon taking office. joining me heritage foundation and heritage action president the author of dawn's early light taken back washington to save america kevin roberts back with us. good to see you, thank you for being here. the inauguration is going to be

a big event, a lot of foreign leaders want to be there and right after he swore again he'll go right to the oval office and start with his pen on 100 executive orders, what do you expect this to be. >> i expect the first minutes after president trump being sworn in to be the beginning of the golden era of america as he's been saying in we've been saying the last few years that heritage i think in the executive orders to be specific you will see great substantive rollback of the american administrative state which stands in the way of america's prosperity and self-governance and freedom, that is just the beginning, your great guest from congress today and yesterday on your other show you were talking about the legislative vehicles that will accompany those great executive orders. every american to be very excited about this but also stand at the ready to call their member of the house in the u.s. senate and encourage them to do what they need to do in order to accentuate the trump man's

agenda. maria: i understand i'm told one of his executive orders on monday is going to be a freeze of all pending regulation freezing all abide in the democrats destructive policies, man have they have been destructive. look what were looking at in los angeles today in the wildfires. i spoke with devin nunes yesterday with the former california congressman and has been studying the failed policies of california. he went right to it, the mistakes that gavin newsom has made that led us here. listen to this. >> is pretty simple it is water it is grazing it is logging. those industries have all been hampered. if you look at agriculture, were down because of lack of water. this means windfarms don't get water, the l.a. basin doesn't get water, as you're building out and adding people and homes in the los angeles basin if you

don't have abundant water supply in iraq shooting water the people that are building those homes in the city planners not putting in green areas or building fire breaks in the farmers and ranchers out of the state of california guess what you don't have the animals to sit there and graze. accommodation of the proper land management would solve all of the problem. what's going to happen just like they've done for the last 20 years california is going to run to the federal government and they can ask for money. i think this time hopefully president trump and the republicans in congress will say were not good to do the same thing again. california is going to need a lot of money. >> this is what warren davidson from ohio told us last week they don't think the president is going to allocate more money to california without a promise that policies change. you heard devin nunes this is

about the climate change agenda. because of the climate change agenda nunes said they didn't allow the timber industry to log and cut down trees and they didn't allow the farmers to get the grazing and they didn't store water. now we have people losing everything. buildings burned to the ground. >> a year ago as you remember you and i sat down and talk to doubles of all places where you and i were trying to inject some truth into the climate change agenda. one of the projections that i made and i'm very sorry to be right about this tragedy is that eventually voters in places like california and across europe would come to understand that the climate change agenda would actually cost not just their livelihoods but their lives which is really important for us to understand we usher in the wonderful new administration which will have the greatest cabinet in history, if we have cabinet secretaries like an interior secretary like doug

burgum and asked secretary like brooke rollins these kinds of things would not happen because the federal government would be controlling the forest in using controlled burns as they talk about my book but most importantly the key thing individual voters in california have to understand they have to draw a line in the sand into enough is enough. maria: is a great point will be watching how this plays out. i remember our conversation you were right let's talk about the confirmation hearings and what gets done for president trump's cabinet picks, they begin tomorrow schedule for tomorrow veterans affairs doug collins defense secretary nobody pete hegseth, his hearing will begin tomorrow, interior secretary nominee doug burgum i spoke with roger marshall about this yesterday, here's what he's expecting. >> he met with president trump this week along with your colleagues did you have a chance to speak with your colleagues you believe you have the bill in the senate to confirm all of his

nominees. >> after count my chickens before they hatch but i think they need to go to the hearing process, the good get beat up by the legacy media and the left as well but i think the votes are there and i've interviewed these people one-on-one and they have been great communicators and great leaders, the very accomplished. somewhere outside of the box but i think we have the votes. >> what do you think, outside of the box is what president trump wanted, he wanted to drain the swamp he wanted outsiders. do you think 70 like pete had checked for defense secretary, does he get confirm? >> he does get confirmed is the most awesome defense secretary in our history, the reason why what i hear from hundreds of rank-and-file servicemen and women there fed up with business as usual in washington. we need to develop lethal efficiency in the pentagon. we simply haven't done that in spite of the heroism and sacrifice in the american servicemen and women.

pete's ability to talk about and to explain to the american people what's at stake if we don't initiate in a way, i think the communication ability is true for every single cabinet selection, i applaud president trump for doing that and i think the american people six month or 12 months down the road will be very grateful, not just for president trump and vice president vance himself but the leadership that will be offered by every one of these cabinet secretaries, every one of whom should be confirmed quickly for the sake of national security and domestic needs as is evidenced by the california wildfires. maria: one major stars john ratcliffe. he will push for more accountability from beijing which i think most people agree with. we will be watching the as well

on pete hegseth, liz peek, jumping will be watching what joni ernst does. senator ernst has been critical pete hegseth. >> it does not take much to derail one of the nominations and indeed joni ernst is going to be pivotal here. i think the question of the democrats going to throw roadblocks in the nominating process clearly the media would like to see that happen. one question that i have, catch patel is not up for his hearings until february why is there a delay brigade on many americans think is an incredibly pivotal post right now. >> i'll be blood the deep state is going to deep state in the agency that needs the most urgent reform evidenced by the persecution of donald trump is the fbi and catch patel, this is

why heritage expended over a million dollars running ads in key states, supporting kash patel we dropped her@last week, ultimately it's income to upon said everything was done an excellent job managing the process to expedite the confirmation hearings of kash patel the fbi is in dire need not over of form but overhaul. maria: that's right we lifted as well. on the fbi. what about tulsi gabbard, what are your thoughts? >> i think tulsi of all of the appointees and probably has the most difficult path i don't get the most possible we support her in her confirmation and will be battling for her the deep state is concerned about her skepticism, founded skepticism of the national intelligence apparatus. i think what's going to happen there will be a momentum that happens in the next few days.

maria: great to talk with you, thank you so much. kevin roberts. a quick break, and illegal migrant custody after being found with the blowtorch near the los angeles fire, we have the details. stay with us, you're watching what he said maria live on fox business. ♪ this week on what he said maria tomorrow the ceo back with us on what comes next on that upon saga with trump's over office returning just days away. , can congress use one big bill to accomplish the trump agenda. house ways and means committee jason smith will join me. thursday small business committee roger williams is here on how the republican majority will help struggling american business owners. friday bank of "america reports" third-quarter earnings jim dunbar will join me. it's all right here on "mornings with maria".

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maria: welcome back because the divide in speaking with benjamin netanyahu about a potential cease-fire in the release of hostages. cheryl casone it with the details. >> president biden calling for cease-fire as he takes the call

with benjamin netanyahu, that call happening over the weekend, biden calling for the return of all hostages there will be terror group hamas says it will not release anyone without a clear path to ending the war. negotiations are ongoing in doha and have been tough with hamas all we down the process but israeli negotiators are expressing cautious optimism that a deal could possibly get done. president-elect trump making it clear that the hostages must be released before his inauguration. his pick for middle east envoy steve wycoff attending talks and ohio this weekend. an illegal migrant caught using a blowtorch during the l.a. wildfire under arrest the man was seen riding a bicycle through neighborhoods shooting out planes from a flamethrower, good samaritans detaining him until police could come. ice sources say the suspect is mexican national bond would yell sierra california century state

laws could block his detainer request. santa monica police have arrested 39 people for crimes and wildfire evacuation zones including ten suspected looters, not a single suspect lives locally. maria: that is unbelievable, not a single suspect lives locally and that's a question i've been asking. how much is outside agitators. >> as far as looting where i live in florida if you try to loot during a natural disaster like this there is issue on site mandate. it reduces looting and a friend of mine that lives out there had a picture of his jeep he had to evacuate the rear window is shattered in all of his bags are gone can you imagine your housey possessions that you could take with you are in your car and a

jerk comes along and steals it because you have a state that doesn't prosecute criminals and does not deport illegals and does not do anything to solve the homeless crisis. open drug use on the street. we don't know if this was an accident from a mentally ill person using drugs on the street started a fire accidentally and now we have 150 billion dollar crisis. maria: i understand the looting and what happened sometimes and in times of chaos these people try to take advantage of everything. what i'm referring to is how the fires originated. i would like to know more that's why i wanted investigation from the oversight committee. i want to know if there were more people running around like a blowtorch. the head of the fire in the police department and l.a. they do think the fires were started intentionally in this fellow was in an area where a

fire had just broken out, what is incredible to me, neighborhood people actually detained him and they stopped him but the police could not charge him with arson i guess because he hadn't been successful in starting a fire or they didn't witness him doing that. they did have a lot of felony probation violation thank heavens so he is in custody. come on, let's get over aggressive here, take everybody off the streets who could possibly do something like this, the devastation is pretty much unlimited right now. maria: incredible. what were talking about today is incredible with the fires and we are watching the death toll rise unfortunately, thank you for the. we had 24 people dead as a catastrophic california wildfires are expected to grow into return of the santa ana winds. "fox weather" meteorologist britta merwin with the angle right now.

>> were entering a very critical timeline as we go throughout the day, the winds will pick up the peak will be tonight through tomorrow we have a particularly dangerous situation and elevated fire warning that is a rare set up, with that said that will be the fourth one that we have had in the past several months. the three previous in the mountain fire, the franklin fire in the disaster that is continuing today. you take out what is early happen, we would be very concerned with the forecast today. the amount of wind wind gust above 60 - 70 miles per hour and two of the biggest fires the eaton fire in the palisades fire are burning in the area where we have particularly dangerous situation prior weather warning and place. we've gone from five fires down to three, the firefighters are doing amazing work. the next 48 hours are critical, what we need is rain, we don't have that in the forecast. but we do have onshore winds which is key for bringing back relative humidity, that will happen on thursday. maria: we will be watching all

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