it could hit hard here in pensacola, florida. it was september 2017. a school administrator named casandra waller went about the usual preparations. schools would be closed for this one. and one unusual preparation-- the love of her life, taylor wright, was moving in with her, here in her tidy little ranch house until, storm bearing down, taylor announced she was running an errand, and she didn't come back. it started that way, as a simple missing person case. keith morrison (voiceover): but if you ask chad wilhite and jeff brown, then detectives and partners, they'll tell you nothing is simple in police investigations. and this one? far from it, though, at first, it didn't look like a case at all, except maybe the case of a lover who'd changed her mind and a jilted party who'd chosen to file a police report. still, the detective who received it followed standard procedure. he handles it like any other missing person case. he tries to reach out to the reporting person, which was casandra waller, who was the girlfriend of taylor wright at the time. keit

the last i can think of was the military base in pensacola, florida, which was not islamic state buteda in the arabian peninsula. christian: how do you think this affects those big events coming up, notably the inauguration, funeral of jimmy carter? >> for the average person watching tv, there have not been a lot of successful attacks, thank god, it maybe this threat is not so big. for people that follow it closely, the fbi and others, you mentioned director wray, this is an ongoing day-to-day threat. we have about a dozen major cases a year that are thwarted and many more ongoing. from the law enforcement and intelligence perspective, the surprise is that these attacks were both successful, devastating. the surprise is not that a perpetrator try to carry them out. for me, what the big take away is, there is no such thing as 100 percent success among law enforcement and intelligence. the bad guys have to get it right once and will carry out an attack. we have to get it right every single time and that is just not possible. we will find out if something was missed. that may not necess

few of those in the united states, the last i can think of was the attack at the military base in pensacolae arabian peninsula. how do ou in the arabian peninsula. how do you think _ in the arabian peninsula. how do you think this _ in the arabian peninsula. how do you think this affects - in the arabian peninsula. how do you think this affects those big events that are coming out, notably the inauguration and funeral ofjimmy carter? i think it's more of an issue for the public, for the average person watching tv. there haven't been a lot of successful attacks, thank god, and therefore may be this threat isn't so big. for people who followed this very closely, it certainly does and the fbi and others that you just mentioned from director ray, this is an ongoing day—to—day offence. so from law enforcement and intelligence perspective, the surprise of course is that these attacks go through —— were both successful, devastating. it was not that a perpetrator tried to carry them out. for me, the big take away is that there is no such thing as 100% success even among the best of the best. the ba

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. >> you know, because of the proximity of where i lived in pensacola, florida, i was over in louisiana and mississippi every day after katrina. i've got to say, there are a lot of parallels here. >> aren't there? aren't there? >> there really are. we don't know the exact causes for the complete failure of government to be able to protect these homes. i don't think we can say it's the smelt alone. we don't know what it is. but i do think it is going to be like hurricane katrina. i mean, the infrastructure has been slashed. you can't just say it is karen bass. you can't just say it is gavin newsom. this has been a trend for 30 years. >> yeah. >> infrastructure has been slashed across america. you do have climate change, so you have wildfires sweeping into urban areas. they're kind of like fighting the last war. but i just -- the longer we get into this, the more i think about how new orleans didn't invest in their levy system. how they didn't invest in critical infrastructure, and people died because of it. it's just hard to hear people say in one of the richest cities in the world, oh,

but of course that didn't happen because the chiefs always figured out a way to beat pensacola catholic in a last second safety. i mean, it's just crazy. >> now, of course, we had a game being moved up because of the devastating wildfires. our news begins there. powerful santa ana winds have returned to the los angeles area, bringing the potential for explosive fire growth. nbc news senior national correspondent tom llamas has the latest reporter. >> fire crews working nonstop, waging an all out battle from the air and the ground as they brace for the worst of those punishing santa ana winds. >> the national weather service warning conditions to be as bad as it gets, with the potential for hurricane force winds over the next 48 hours, 13 million are under red flag warnings stretching north of santa barbara to san diego county, with more than 8000 firefighters now on the front lines, officials insist they're better prepared with more ground and air resources this time around. just behind us here, you can see a massive burn scar. there's no more smoke, no more fire. but there's still a da

i saw, you know, i was over every day because i lived in pensacola.rst thing you did is you looked at the immediate failure of the government to step in and do the right thing. but then as you get further away from it, you understood that new orleans had cut infrastructure, they'd taken money that was meant for the levees. they had left the people of the ninth ward vulnerable. and this was not just on mayor nagin, who did a terrible job, or i think it was governor blanco blanco who did a terrible job. this was on 30 years of mismanagement. and when you have urban sprawl going into wild lands, right, going into wild lands, and you add on top of that just years of drought, climate change, you, you and then you have at the same time cuts in infrastructure and you have the same time a system firefighting system that is meant to douse some houses in urban centers but not handle wildfires. right. this is a systemic breakdown over a generation. >> yeah it is. >> and i know, you know, one of the joys of being the one in office at the time is that you're the o

raymond is in pensacola, florida on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. not sure i'm either pessimistic or optimistic because of the last bill that was passed. there was so much extra stuff in there rather than trying to help people like in north carolina, the people hurt by forest fires. and we've got the same people in congress who i believe right now , the democrats are trying to make sure they face is again in two years. that's what they are going to work on. that's all. host: you are mentioning the recent government funding bill. speaker johnson was speaking with reporters at the capital after that vote on the government funding bill on december 20, talking about president elect trump, elon musk and the position of speaker of the house. >> so i was in constant contact with president trump throughout this process, most recently about 45 minutes ago. he knew exactly what we were doing and why, and this is a good outcome for the country. i think he is certainly happy about this outcome as well. elon musk and i talked about an hour ago and we talked abou

raymond is in pensacola, florida on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning.'m not sure i'm either pessimistic or optimistic because of the last bill that was passed. there was so much extra stuff in there rather than trying to help people like in north carolina, the people hurt by forest fires. and we've got the same people in congress who i believe right now , the democrats are trying to make sure they face is again in two years. that's what they are going to work on. that's all. host: you are mentioning the recent government funding bill. speaker johnson was speaking with reporters at the capital after that vote on the government funding bill on december 20, talking about president elect trump, elon musk and the position of speaker of the house. >> so i was in constant contact with president trump throughout this process, most recently about 45 minutes ago. he knew exactly what we were doing and why, and this is a good outcome for the country. i think he is certainly happy about this outcome as well. elon musk and i talked about an hour ago and we talked ab

you represented the station in pensacola. they have because you have to find out where was the bug and fix it. so i think some analysis, a retro look at what happened in 2024 can have some value. >> terry, any thoughts about what democrats, independents, republicans who want a different outcome two years from now need to do now? >> talk to people at home about the issues that they actually care about. bill clinton talked about quality of life, jobs, personal income growing up. we are missing it. obviously, that message did not resonate in the last presidential election. we got it to talk to people about how to make their lives better, quality of life, personal income up. that's what our party has been about, our whole history. we can't get off on side tangents and let other people define the message. stand up and fight for what you believe in. >> jim, when i ran, a lot of people told me you are way too conservative for me but i will vote for you anyway because i feel like you understand me, you understand my family. there is