01-08-25 YMS Millions of Americans are being walloped by brutal winter weather this week, with more on the way. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will take a look at the weather pattern, and how the rest of the month is shaping up.

Millions of Americans are being walloped by brutal winter weather this week, with more on the way. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will take a look at the weather pattern, and how the rest of the month is shaping up.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael dil Jono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The iHeart Podcast Awards are returning this March to honor
twenty twenty four's most innovative and influential voices in podcasting.
This year's Podcast of the Year nominees include Normal Gossip,
Three Giggly Squad, Call Her Daddy, Matt Rogers, and Bowen Yang.
Podcasts like Hysterical Telepathy Tapes and Who Killed JFK, Empire City,

(00:28):
The Untold Original Story of the NYPD, and The Goodwille
have also been nominated. Nowhere on the list is Your
Morning Show and Your show's podcast, It Too right, Rory
the Weekend Yep, Yes, well we gotta you know, we
gotta make that list next year. But we work too
hard to not be noticed. I'm not paying off the judges, right,

(00:51):
I don't win anything. I have to enter myself. That's
for sure. I will not do it.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
They don't want me.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's up by Southwest or wherever they're they're yeah, it's
help by selfs allright, let's talk about these fires, three
main ones, but it's raining embers. Who knows how it's
going to grow? Wins any favorability today compared to yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, yeah, they're just about going to have some sunlight soon.
And really they have this information blackout as well because
the winds are seventy five eighty five. I think I
saw a ninety eight mile per hour wind gust, So
that means there are no helicopters flying, no planes flying,
So it's tough to get a good idea about what's
actually happening on the ground in real time. So hopefully

(01:32):
that information blackout lifts as the winds are expected to
die down over the next few hours. We're going to
get an update from local officials in about two hours.
I know President Biden is still on the ground there.
He pushed back his departure to return to Washington. I
think they leave Pacific two o'clock this afternoon Pacific time.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we've had some areas where there's a lit water
pressure and with ninety mile in our winds, shoot a
hose into ninety miles, it doesn't go where you aim. Anyway,
you're talking about getting real time information, it really kind
of gets very old school quick, doesn't it. Old fashioned
phone pictures being sent in from different areas to know
what the conditions currently are. That makes this makes it

(02:14):
actually extra challenging to keep people safe well right, and.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
When people have to flee their homes now they have
anxiety not knowing how their home is right, so they're
trying to find every bit of data they can to
figure out if their home is still standing. This is
going to pile on to what's already a serious insurance
crisis in the state of California. This is some of
the most expensive real estate in the country, so it's
going to be an expensive fix and a lot of

(02:38):
insurance payouts, and a lot of those insurance companies have
already been leaving the state because of the high costs
of insuring people there.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's funny you bring that up. I said, there were
two compelling visuals from yesterday, and I have people there
that I work with, so it's a very real story
and we were following it closely. But you know that
one picture, I guess a car had stalled. They were
trying to push it out of the way, and then
the smoke kind of over here and they just left
their cars, and then the fire department had to use
their bulldozers to clear the road. And I mean they're

(03:06):
clearing what I know are one hundred and forty thousand
dollars Mercedes, and like the homes that are being affected
of such high values, so were the vehicles just being
bulldozed off the road. It was just a remarkable site.
And then that satellite shot of the smoke plume extending
out to the ocean, that breath taking.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Luckily the wind was blowing in that direction, by the way, yeah,
dumping it on top of the city. We're expecting the
winds to start to die down now, so hopefully things
will start improving in the next couple of hours and
hopefully they can get some air assets up to try
to tackle this.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
And in the meantime, the other extreme for the rest
of the American people brutal winter weather. I know, we've
got snow coming here to Middle Tennessee that should bring
things to a crashing hult. We tend to see the
areas that are used to getting what we would call winter,
but areas that aren't is used to getting things snow
and ice on roads. It becomes very problematic. Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Dallas, Birmingham, Dallas, Birmingham, Alabama. They're looking at Mississippi and
Georgia getting some snow afall and even central Florida temperatures
down into the teens, so good thing. Harry Potter, where's
that scarf? He's going to need it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Roy O'Neil always great reporting, Have a great day. We'll
talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Miss a little, miss a lot, and we'll miss you.
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.