Watters: Here’s the latest on what caused the fire

neighborhoods wiped off the map homes reduced to piles of Ash every day it gets more grim and the death toll keeps Rising 24 are now confirmed dead and many more still missing forecasters estimate the damage to be more than $250 billion this would be costlier than Katrina and the Palisades fires are still only just 133% contained wind gusts are predicted to kick up and firefighters are bracing for explosive fire growth this isn't over yet and the Looting isn't stopping at least 29 fire looters have been arrested including these four fiend caught in Santa Monica One

Thief breaking into homes in Pacific Palisades was dressed as a fireman when he was apprehended nothing is sacred Jewels precious heirlooms even someone's Emmy was stolen and remember the guy with the blowtorch last week who was lighting fire to Christmas trees and garbage cans turns out he was an illegal alien his name's on Bandits and arsonists are preing upon this devastated Community while it's still smoldering and residents are gripped by fear and rumors here's actress Whitney Cummings this is a real text that I just received from a friend of mine about the fires some of

the neighbors caught a guy setting more fires on the back of our Hill they chased him away they called 911 I think they caught the guy recently in Woodland Hills trying to put gasoline in sewers it's happening all over police haven't confirmed this but there's a sense of every man for himself in Southern California some more fortunate families are hiring private firefighters and actor David Spade's announcing bounties on arsonists in California and people are saying uh there's guys lighting fires out there make this worse they just caught somebody we're pretty sure it was lighting fires

walking off the blowtorch they let him go so if you can find someone lighting a fire and you catch somebody and you get the cops to bust them and throw them in jail give you 5,000 bucks so keep your eyes peeled and uh do what you can out there the social contract's been shattered the government isn't able to help the people at sworn to protect Biden wrote a blank check and left on his legacy tour no one knows where the VP is kl's home State's California she lives in La they say she could be the

next Governor it's like she disappeared police just caught two sketchy men casing comma house in Brentwood after someone called 911 here's the latest on what caused the fire nothing definitive yet but the Washington Post says the Palisades Blaze may have originally started from fireworks on New Year's Eve firefighters put it out and it may have reignited days later other Reports say down power lines might have sparked The Inferno and arson hasn't been ruled out the governor says he can't get a straight answer out of anybody I want to get the answers and wasn't getting be

can with they wasn't getting straight answers yeah I watched the press conference I met with some of those leaders we had my team start talking to local leaders saying what's going on our state you weren't getting straight answers from I was getting different answers when you start getting different answers then I'm not getting the the actual Story the governor doesn't have a strong grasp of what's happening and keeps passing the buck to the locals but he's out in front of the cameras every day we're dealing with a myriad of issues I'm I'm I was just

talking to Josh Green the governor uh of uh uh down in in Hawaii you had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in why is the governor shimmying around like that with a smile on his face what kind of presentation is that why does he look so gleeful when he's talking about land speculators it's getting so bizarre that NBC is having to call Gavin out for spewing misinformation I don't know what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt uh in reservoirs the reservoirs are complet completely full of

the state reservoirs here in Southern California that Miss and disinformation I don't think advantages or Aids any of us we do know though from reporting here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full and that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local Reservoir that was not a state system Reservoir which the president-elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta and somehow connecting the Delta smelt to this fire which is uh uh inexcusable because it's inaccurate also incomprehensible to anyone that

understands water policy in the state notice how Gavin doesn't get into the details empty reservoirs reservoirs not being built budget cuts lawsuits to save the smell all that's true Gavin destroyed dams and then bragged about it you know the clouth river once supported one of the largest runs of salmon on the western United States and for decades dams along the cloth River blocks salmon from migrating damaging our ecosystems and hurting native communities who rely on these fish by removing the dams we're helping to restore salmon steel head and lamp pre populations restoring get this 400

miles of historic spawning habitat bringing life back to the river supporting commercial and recreational fishing jobs and honoring our commitments to tribal Nations California didn't have enough water and firemen to put out the fire they had a five-day warning about record wind gusts the mayor was in Africa gav Nome is trying to tell you that California was prepared and it's all because of climate change this is too big of a disaster to cover up here's a free press reporter who just got inside the bone dry Palisades Reservoir watch this this was supposed to be the

water to put out the Palisades fire this is the Santa ANZ Reservoir it's the water supply basically for the Palisades when they first started fighting the Palisades fire they ran out of water extremely quickly Wednesday 3:00 a.m. they were basically out and there's been a lot of talk on why this happened so how long has this Reservoir been empty for since February of last year there was no communication from the Department of Water and Power to lafd that there was a water supply issue the firefighters when they were started fighting the fires no one informed

them that the reservoir was empty what's worse misinformation or mismanagement but the ladies of the view say it's racist to report on what the governor's doing who I don't applaud is Someone Like Jesse waters on Fox News this is what he said he he blamed uh La fires on diversity he said that California's woke politics and Dei are the reasons for the fires because newsum has been tearing down dams because a Native Americans but he called them Indians wanted some of the river back so they could catch salmon and Gavin didn't just knock down one

dam for the Indians he knocked them all down he knocked down four of the dams I'm sorry this stolen land first of all okay California stolen land second of all that's part of what always happens these dams there's preservation of the dam so that was just complete not only misinformation but it was racist Dei didn't cause the fire but it distracted the state from preparing to fight it the LA water Chief Janice kones who makes 3/4 of a million bucks a year says her number one priority wasn't what you call it powered by equity and

I know that um it's been really important for the DWP to put an equity lens on everything yes yeah and that's uh the number one thing that attracted me to this role it's important to me that everything we do um it's with an equity lens and social justice and making sure that we write the wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastruct perspective and that we involve the community in that process and this this utility is serious about it is uh authentic about it uh and so um I'm just super excited to be

part of that movement it's about priorities the water Chief was focused on Dei the mayor of La Karen bass was in Africa even though she promised voters that she'd never travel internationally as mayor and here she is in Ghana while her city was getting scorched and instead of fireproofing their state California today held a special legislative session and Trump proofed it Newsome just approved $50 million to resist Trump 25 million is going to protect Biden migrants from being deported so the illegal alien caught with a blowtorch lighting a neighborhood on fire Juan Nome is going

to spend millions of dollars to stop us from deporting blowtorch Juan who you're not going to believe what his excuse was for having the blowtorch he said it was letting up a joint now nome's calling for a Marshall plan to rebuild La so the city will be ready for the Olympics with this rebuilding effort um needing to take place is La going to be ready for all of those global events my my humble position and it's it's and it's it's not just being naively optimistic that only reinforces the imperative moving quickly doing in the spirit

of collaboration and cooperation that's why we're already organizing a Marshall Plan we already have a team of looking and reimagining La 2.0 you just said you're organizing a marshal plan for the rebuilding of California what is Marsh tell us we just starting to lay out I mean we're still fighting these fires do you trust Gavin to rebuild La he never built a single Reservoir a a high speed rail they couldn't even build evacuation roads because bureaucrats sued to stop a pee plant from being stepped on a pea plant the only thing Gavin built was a

$2 million toilet these are the guys who think they can control the Earth's temperature but they can't even control a fire in their own backyard did you know before the 1800s California lost about 4 million Acres a year to fires but when Americans arrived they managed the land intelligently and by the end of the last century California only lost 250,000 Acres a year to fires but in the last four years California is back to losing millions and millions of Acres a year to wildfires their stupidity has literally set California back centuries the state that's fighting

global warming the hardest is creating the most emissions what do you think a week of this Wildfire smoke is doing to the atmosphere it's basic Common Sense fireproof the power lines clean up the underbrush let cattle and sheep graze there store more water and fix the fire department and the waters are liberalism is going up in smoke because it doesn't solve problems it just creates them by imposing radical ideology on everything the central promise of liberalism is if you give liberals enough money in power they'll create Utopia but voters have given liberals all of the

money and power in California a super majority and it's literally on fire so California has to fire these politicians and hire someone else Trump's heading to La after he's inaugurated and he won't be focused on ideology he's a developer he just wants to get things done will the LA City Council let him I'm ready for him uh we'll be excited to see him here um you know to be in in Pacific Palisades here in the city of Los Angeles the San Fernando Valley and Pasadena Altadena uh we uh hope that uh he comes soon before

the 20th uh and I know that the mayor and the governor are working on that and so we're very excited to see him here liberalism is destroying Paradise if Americans can just work together we can get results but we can't throw money at California without demanding they change their behavior we can't be tearing down civilization and then rebuilding it over and over and over again prime time is going to continue to pray for the victims and if you want to donate go to the Red Cross they need all the help they can get click here

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