01-13-25 YMS Strong winds are predicted this week as firefighters struggle to control the massive southern California fires. Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the latest.

Strong winds are predicted this week as firefighters struggle to control the massive southern California fires. Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the latest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning Show with Michael dil Chuno.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Roy o'neiler, your Morning Show correspondent nationally is joining us
and Rory. As you know, the hurricane Force Santa Ana
wins in dry conditions are going to wreak havoc on
these numbers and make them even worse today and tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Right, Yeah, they will. And a lot of progress was
made over the weekend. I don't know, I got sucked
in watching the video feeds for operas on the end,
especially on Saturday. Just incredible to see those tanker planes
and the helicopters sort of doing this choreographed dance over
parts of the Los Angeles County area. But all that

(00:38):
progress could get wiped away if these winds are bad
and force the helicopters and airplanes to remain grounded because
of dangerous conditions.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, and then you have the dry conditions and the
wind and the flying embers and a sixty four percent
chance of igniting new fires. It is a worst case
scenario playing out today day since the fire began. All right,
we also had to land the Blue Origin launch for
Jeff Bezos and his team. Where does that stand?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, we have not gotten a new launch date or
time just yet, you know, because it's a private company,
they don't have to tell us everything that's going on.
But we did learn that they had some technical problems
as they tried their launch this morning. Not surprising. It's
the first time they've ever launched this thing, and it's
three hundred and twenty feet tall, so it's a lot
to manage at Cape Canaveral, And this is a big

(01:31):
milestone for Blue Origin. They've been successful flying those little
rockets out of Texas, sending Captain Kirk up to space
and all, but this is the much more serious part
of their endeavor, trying to get heavy lift operations going
from Florida so that they can send more materials into
space and ultimately to the Moon and Mars.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
All Right, Rory has spent most of his life following
the space program. As have high, as have high, I
think we might I would assume we're going to agree
on this.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
John F.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Kennedy came into office thinking there was a missile gap
in the Soviets favor. I presume he was pleasantly surprised
to find out if it was in our favor. But
there was a race and Kennedy's explanation always was just
as air changed wars forever, just as sea changed wars forever,
space would change war forever, and so good had to

(02:24):
get to space and rule space before evil that it
would be a defining defense system. And then it kind
of got translated into this race beating the Soviets to
the moon and we started behind, and we caught up
quickly and we got there first. Are we trying to
create a competition between Bezos and Musk in the same

(02:45):
way just to kind of you know, supurt progress and
speed in which we achieve or is this a real competition.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well there's some of that, and you know SpaceX and
Blue Origin, the Bezos company, they compete for business from.
I think NASA is trying to get two companies so
they don't put all their eggs in one basket. We
keep learning the hard way that, for instance, the Space
Shuttle program, when we lost the Shuttle, we had no
access to the space station unless we went to Russia

(03:14):
in order to get a ride to the space station
we largely paid for. And in this case they want
to have healthy, other, healthy space, commercial space industry so
that they don't rely just on Elon Musk because that's
not good. Competition is designed to lower the cost of things,
and we hope that that's what having companies like Boeing

(03:35):
and SpaceX and Blue Origin and others all in the mix.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Meanwhile, Butch and Sunny still in space for you, o'
neil always gets the final story. Thanks for you reporting today.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del
Cherno