implemented at the national institute of biomedical research in partnership with the university of california, los angeles, and the school of public health. of can shasta with funding from the us defense department. and it's always the same story. washington sciences help some for a country or recommending upgrades training center send. and it staff there to train the locals, even though long term. it hasn't been proven that it has any sort of difference for the people there inside. something accused of some serious mile practices and when it comes to data and safety lives, as in fact, we know that russia's nuclear defense forces just this december, we'll warning about this trends and the scheme that we're seeing and that was a brief and that was quite detailed and they showed a lot of evidence that show that these funded us funded by labs are increasing in africa in particular. and now we'll see it another example where we're seeing particular that we could see the dangers and potential leaks coming out of and nother by a lab which has american hands behind it. so it's very, very bizarre. yeah, but it is

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um, i co-direct the university of california's climate change and mental health initiative, the university of california, los angeles is right in the midst of these fires, and we are actively trying to mobilize a mental health workforce that's community led. that's not you know, sadly, there's not enough, um, trained psychiatrists on the ground at this time. um, and so, yes, there's a huge role that community first aid can play. and i do request that, um, folks, therapists, social workers who have such kind of expertise come out and help their community members on the field. and many are doing so amazing stuff. >> well, thank you so much for your work. thank you to those community members for their work as well. we appreciate it. and thank you for staying up for me. what is it? 2:37 a.m. over there. thank you. genuinely appreciate that. doctor jodi mishra in san diego. i'm sure we'll be speaking again very soon. >> thank you. >> thanks. ukraine says it can now back up its claim that north korean troops are fighting alongside russia. still ahead, kyiv says two north koreans have been captured and they're reportedly t

the university of california, los angeles, has asked its students to prepare for potential evacuation evacuation warnings for the palisades fire are getting closer to campus. the evacuation order friday night extended to parts of interstate 405, just a few minutes drive from the ucla campus, and the evacuation warnings ends just above the university's campus. the school has 46,000 undergraduate and graduate students. the san francisco spca is hoping to make room for animals impacted by the wildfires in la. they have more than 50 puppies in need of forever homes. so to help make the space for animals in need down south, they say they are waiving adoption fees for all puppies. hundreds of evacuees and volunteers descended on the santa anita park in arcadia today, where a grassroots donation center was set up a few miles south of the eaton fire zone. leanne suter, from our sister station in los angeles, reports on who's behind the effort. >> outpouring. outpouring times ten. i mean, thousands of people have been coming through hereple dropping off donations, even more coming in to try to

of greater los angeles. the authorities aren't convinced they've recovered the bodies of all those still missing, now presumed dead. i'm joined now by david ulin, sho sato professor of english, at the university of southern californiawritten extensively about los angeles, its history, environment and culture. thank you forjoining me. you know quite a bit of the modern history of los angeles — can you give us some of the significance of these neighbourhoods, the geography and the people who live there? i think, obviously, ithink, obviously, it's impacted residential neighbourhoods. it's impacted neighbourhoods. it's impacted neighbourhoods that are in hills. the loftie—eaton fire in pasedena crept up through a canyon. the palisades fire also going through other canyons. and those are the most susceptible areas of the los angeles basin to wildfire, because they're fairly rural, they're fairly compact. they're densely forested in certain ways. and when you have a kind of situation that we have now where we have a lot of rain last year which led to a lot of growth of vegetation, but there has been very little rain — almost none — this fall and winter, that vegetation dries and with the santa ana winds through the canyo

uh, earlier this week, that is where the likes of the university california los angeles is based. uh, you got neighborhoods like bella, which of course, of very famous 40000 students. you say like, they're all being told you have to be ready to leave. you might be able to say, or even half of this when it's getting stronger and stronger at the full cost of the site. the big problem is this. this is pretty miles. so it's wonderful with common lights on sundays. on mondays we had a hurricane force winds out here this week, and there was a fear that could be repeated and feel. so we're still in the thick of the situation, but that has already been some criticism of how the city has handled these fires. are there any more dissenting voices questioning whether authorities did enough to respond and whether they did it promptly enough? well, i mean, those questions started almost immediately when you have any kind of this last like this. that's the 1st question that is us. how could this have happened? this is not a city that is a strange of the fires. you get 5 here. every year has come

university of southern california. he has written extensively about los angeles, its history, environment and culture, and he told me moreeighbourhoods and people who have been affected by these fires. it's impacted residential neighbourhoods. it's impacted neighbourhoods that are in hills. the eaton fire in pasadena crept up through a canyon. the palisades fire also going through other canyons. and now continuing to move into other canyons. and those are the most susceptible areas of the los angeles basin to wildfire, because they're fairly rural, they're fairly compact. they're densely forested in certain ways. and when you have a kind of situation that we have now where we had a lot of rain last year, which led to a lot of growth of vegetation, but there has been very little rain — almost none — this fall and winter, that vegetation dries, and with the santa ana winds coming through the canyons, like the winds come through the canyons and shoot through and build speed and momentum — it's a circumstance that's just ripe for disaster. and these fires have been deadly and devastating for many families losing their homes,

university of california, berkeley. many thanks for joining us here on bbc news. could you perhaps start by giving us the picture of how insured people in los angeles would have been have had insurance, and what would their premiums have been? mast insurance, and what would their premiums have been? most people have insurance, _ premiums have been? most people have insurance, but _ premiums have been? most people have insurance, but as _ premiums have been? most people have insurance, but as has - premiums have been? most people have insurance, but as has been . have insurance, but as has been widely reported, private insurers some time ago, and with increasing ferocity, began to non—renew homeowners. we do have what is called the california fair plan, which is the insurer of last resort to which homeowners and businesses can go if they can't get private insurance, and that is where many have gone. to give you some idea of when i left office in 2018, they had about 400,000 policyholders, and are now at about 450,000. the exposure of the fair plan in the pacific palisades alone is $5.8 billion, and that is a problem, because the fair plan has between its and its re

is the director of equity research institute at the university of southern california and the of state of resistance, the press. he lives in los angeles. welcome with you. so please join me in giving a warm welcome to chris and. so i'd say my wife i often i made my doc open will edit this out okay. right. so i lot. gentlemen, welcome. it's a real honor to have join us this evening at the world affairs and commonwealth club. so to begin, this question is for of you your your partnership spans over 25 years. can you share how the two of you first met and what sparked beginning of your long term collaboration on research projects. and i'm curious to ask whose idea it was. write your first book. well, we met in the mid-nineties. i was in graduate school at uc berkeley city planning and working a research institute connected the labor movement in silicon valley. and we were doing research on a living wage that was being considered at that time the city of san jose. it was a precursor. many of the increased local efforts to increase living wage and wage. and we got in touch. manuel, who is a professor at uc cruz at that time for some help o

is the director of equity research institute at the university of southern california and the of state of resistance, the press. he lives in los angeles. welcome with you. so please join me in giving a warm welcome to chris and. so i'd say my wife i often i made my doc open will edit this out okay. right. so i lot. gentlemen, welcome. it's a real honor to have join us this evening at the world affairs and commonwealth club. so to begin, this question is for of you your your partnership spans over 25 years. can you share how the two of you first met and what sparked beginning of your long term collaboration on research projects. and i'm curious to ask whose idea it was. write your first book. well, we met in the mid-nineties. i was in graduate school at uc berkeley city planning and working a research institute connected the labor movement in silicon valley. and we were doing research on a living wage that was being considered at that time the city of san jose. it was a precursor. many of the increased local efforts to increase living wage and wage. and we got in touch. manuel, who is a professor at uc cruz at that time for some help o

of los angeles. let's talk about that. joining us now, university of californiaiego, assistant professor of economics, judge judson boomhower. his research focuses on environmental economics, climate risk and adaptation, which is what we want to start with. judson marshall plan and adaptation. what should that look like? >> well, we've learned quite a lot in the last ten, 15 years about how to rebuild and rebuild homes affected by disasters in a way that's more resilient. and i think it's really important when we're rebuilding from this disaster, this terrible disaster in la, that we put all those lessons to use and rebuild these communities in a way that they're more likely to at least have a fighting chance of having better outcomes the next time. this unfortunately, something like this happens again. >> so when you're looking at rebuilding better, more resiliently, can you build resiliently enough with wildfire threats like this, are there building methods that we can put in place to make our structures withstand this? >> well, we're never going to be able to

university of southern california and the smithsonian institution. especially the explorer george allan cohn pat -- george allan hancock who into the tar in los angeles. he was the most important explorer that would come to the galapagos during this time and files on these people including all the letters they had sent him. i got a sense of the oh i have this voice in this point of view in this point of view. i could see reports of their oppression. we got a bunch of different perspectives and you can make the narrative come together. >> any other questions? >> which of the three exiled groups did you find the most or entertaining or shocking to writed about and which one to d find amusing? and they'll surprise me at different times for different reasons. let me start with the whitmer family. margaretet whitner -- margaret widmar it heard about dorian frederick and o wanted to follow in their footsteps. she was five months pregnant and this woman gave birth all alone at midnight in the dark surrounded by wild animals and the galapagos island where nobody was around. it's that act of bravery was astounding to me and really touching. her strength was i

los angeles. well, wildfire researchers at san jose state are keeping a close eye. >> on the current fires burning in la county. the university's wildfire interdisciplinary research center has the goal of helping california. >> manage the growing crisis of wildfiresaand right now the center is forecasting the atmosphere weather and fires like the one that's burning in pacific palisades through models. they're taking a deeper look into the situation. not only in real time, but also in the days that are to come. researchers say most of the work, though, comes after the fires are done burning. >> analysis this this deeper understanding of how these fires grow, why they grow the way to do and that internal have, you know, eventually did ground effects to. know how to better fight these fires. we know patterns to look out for because we studied them with the simulations. >> well, researchers believe that california will have longer and worse fire seasons. they also will not be surprised if there were more urban fires in the future. >> meantime, fire crews in the east bay spent today working to reduce the fire risk in the bay area. crews with the moraga orinda fire district conducted prescribed burns behind sa

university of phoenix. jon: president trump headed to southern california yesterday to survey the extensive wildfire damage los angeleskend. but it could turn out to be too much of a good thing but heavy rain could trigger dangerous mudslides in those fire stricken areas. christina coleman is a live from the l.a. neighborhood in pacific palisades. cooksey potential for mudslides is a big concern right now but go ahead and take a look at what one did to this beautiful beachfront home. a mudslide happened hear from that water used to put out the fires. you can see it split this entire house in half it split into. take a look at this for this house is so close to the psc h you can see it thei there all ot burned and charred rubble running off, all the dry land and causing mudslides. take a look at this video this is from yesterday cruise position concrete barriers along the pacific coast highway to try to contain potential runoff from the rain. fema said a instead of sucking p all the precipitation, soil and fire ravaged areas can develop a top layer that repels water due to all the burned material. that could lead to da

los angeles, el segundo, california. and she was raised in the church of latter day saints, but when she came to the university of utah toording to ashley, mackenzie didn't exactly remain devout. i know she was registered here at a ward in salt lake city, but i heard that she was never active, and that makes sense to me because i think she wanted to find her own path. you saw her changing in recent times, didn't you? mm-hmm. in what ways? i think she was trying to almost gain confidence and security in herself. she'd always write herself, like, notes saying how she wanted to feel more confident because i think she realized she was really shy, and she wanted to be more outgoing and meet people. and she wanted to explore dating. and that might not be how everyone else thinks that dating should be. keith morrison (voiceover): what ashley is getting at is that mackenzie was active on dating sites, so much so that by saturday, june the 22nd, the sixth day after mackenzie's disappearance, detectives had received several phone calls from some of the men mackenzie met online, mainly to say they had nothing to do with her disappe