01-24-25 YMS Rain is expected this weekend in the Southern California fire zone, and that could mean mudslides. Meantime, President Trump will be making his first trip since the inauguration as he visits both Asheville, North Carolina and Los Angeles. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the details.

Rain is expected this weekend in the Southern California fire zone, and that could mean mudslides. Meantime, President Trump will be making his first trip since the inauguration as he visits both Asheville, North Carolina and Los Angeles. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the details.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael dil Choonho.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And firefighters say they're getting the upper hand on the
Hughes fire in the mountains of North Los Angeles. Meanwhile,
here comes rain in the forecast. You think, well, that's
great help with the fires.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Mudslides and toxic chemicals can also flow during heavy rainfall.
That's why Roy O'Neil was following our top story this morning.
Good morning, Rory, Hey there, Happy Friday. Lots and lots
of fires and potentially lots and lots of unstable ground.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Exactly, it's a bad combo, but you know, you got
to pick your poison. I suppose. Still it looks like
the rain may not be totally drenching the area, so
maybe the mudslide risk is rather minimal, but still it exists.
As you said, though, there are lots more of these
fires picking up. They made a lot of progress stopping
that Hughes fire, but we've got two new ones down

(00:57):
around San Diego that are the newest concerned right now.
So they are welcoming some of this rain in the
forecast and at least the more humid air.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, we were talking about this earlier. This would
be a dangerous and grueling sprint. Let alone. This has
been going on weeks. This is now a marathite for
these firefighters. We'll all keep them in our thoughts in prayers. Meanwhile,
President Trump get ready to make his first trip of
his second term, and he's headed to these areas Asheville,
North Carolina after the hurricane and Los Angeles where the

(01:28):
fires are raging and the rain is coming.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, disaster response clearly front of mine for the President.
We heard him on Fox News this week with Hannity
describing out he thinks FEMA may have lost its way,
and he thinks maybe more of a hindrance than a
help in these times of crisis. So perhaps he's got
some big plans for that agency. Let's see what he
has to say today in Ashville.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It will be interesting, well, because he doesn't seem to
be doing anything that is just symbolic. You know, it's
not like he's just going there to show he cares,
going there to get up to speed. Everything the President's
been doing has been followed by an action of some sort.
So what might those actions be?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, I mean, now that's really the question.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
We said in the interview that he wants to have
the states have more independence in order to respond to
these things. You know, FEMA has really transformed over the
past fifteen twenty years into coming in and writing a
check to the local government is what they do. They
don't show up with dump trucks and bulldozers and boloney
sandwiches anymore. Instead, they just sort of help support the
local community and its response. And maybe that's not the

(02:32):
best model.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
All right, And Roy's gonna be back in the third hour,
some fifteen hundred troops being sent to the board. Roy'll
have the latest done that.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del
Cherno