01-09-25 YMS Continuing Coverage: Huge fires are still burning out of control in Southern California. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on the damage from the deadly fires, and when they are expected to be controlled. Rory O'Neill

Continuing Coverage: Huge fires are still burning out of control in Southern California. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the latest on the damage from the deadly fires, and when they are expected to be controlled.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Chono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Five fires in all continue to engulf the Los Angeles area.
I'm going to shut up and let the guy that
does it best to his job, our national correspondent Roy O'Neil.
Five fires, lessening wins, that'll help us fight it from
the air, give us the latest.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Done this right, and we are seeing more of that
airborne activity and will as the sun comes up, really
get into having this airborne attack on some of these flames.
The first priority has been to save human lives and
a lot of those evacuation orders have already been up,
the people have been moved out, and now the focus
can turn to saving some of the structures there. But

(00:41):
more than a thousand buildings have already been lost in
some of these individual fires, and it looks like it's
going to take another couple of days to really get
the upper hand on things.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I was just going to say. And the spread we
were fighting originally three now we call it five. And
there's been some talk about the it's spreading to the
hill in the Beverly Hills area. What's the latest done
all of that.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, we saw some of the activity turn to Hollywood
Hills and right about a mile from the Chinese Theater
and not far from the Hollywood Bowl that area. There
were some evacuation orders there last night. In some cases
people have been allowed to return. It seems that they
at least stopped the spread some of that particular fire.
Others have popped up that they've been able to contain,

(01:25):
like the subpulventa fire that got up to about seventy
five acres that was a big concern closer to downtown
around around this time yesterday, but it seems that when
they were able to knock back because it was kicking
up a lot of smoke right downtown. Today is going
to be a pivotal day in this fire fight. As
the winds continue to subside. They're still pretty gusty, still

(01:46):
in that thirty mile per hour range, but nothing like
the eighty five even one hundred mile per hour gus
we were getting yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
And while the battle continues to put it out, already
coming to the surface of the amount of people uninsured
or quite frankly, these insurance ripples might be and levels
might be latest on that.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Right and clearly even when it comes to either homeowner's
insurance or businesses that are insured. You know, we talk
a lot about the homeowners fling. There have been a
lot of businesses lost in this stores, restaurants, hair salons, doctors' offices.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
A lot of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Has simply gone up in flames. By the way, do
you see Billy Crystal's house was lost forty seven years there?
Forty seven years in a house in the Pacific palis Staates.
Imagine the memorabilia that was lost just in that one house.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, or even more portly, the memories, right, I mean
I was saying earlier in nineteen seventy nine, that would
make me a freshman in high school. Our Chateau States
home in Kenner, Louisiana. Do you know the memories my
grandmothers and my grandparents were there, you know, first this
first that was there. We move a lot, so I
don't have those attachments, but you know, that's all irreplaceable stuff.

(02:55):
And you wonder what the influence of these stars losing
so much will be on this kind of conversation. This
could be the biggest story of the year, in one
of the most biggest political shaping stories of the year.
Right now. It's an ongoing tragedy, and so we got
to keep our eye on the flames and get them
out first. The President, of course, was there for statue unveilings.

(03:18):
He gets trapped there. I know they canceled the King's
hockey game last night. They may have to move the
Rams playoff game, and at some point the President's got
to get to Washington, d C. Today to do the
eulogy for Jimmy Carter's National Service. It's right crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, he's back in DC. He went out there in
part it was dedicating a national monument and then also
for the birth of his great granddaughter. I think it's
his first great grandchold, which is the real reason he
was out there. And then yeah, now he's got to
deliver the eulogy today. He did cancel the trip to
Rome and the Vatican over the next three days to
stay in Washington.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Boy, one of your busier weeks of your career. So
great to have you as a resource. Roy O'Neil, thank you.
We'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Miss a little, miss a lot, and we'll miss you.
It's your morning show with Michael del Cherno