Apocalypse Now in Los Angeles

Amanpour

CNN

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Wildfires continue to rage out of control in Southern California. Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to flee and in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and more than one thousand structures have been destroyed in Altadena, forcing most of the town to evacuate. Reporter Kyung Lah joins the program with the details. Also on today's show: James Fallows, former chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter; Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University; Kai Bird, author of the Jimmy Carter bio "Outlier" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.1	hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur here's's what's coming up. Unimaginable destruction as fires burn across Los Angeles County. One of them is now the most destructive LA has ever seen and will have the latest. Then Jimmy Carter is laid to rest in a state funeral honoring the 39th and the longest living president.
0:56.0	Carter's former chief speechwriter James Fallows joins us, and I'll unpack the legacy of Carter's
1:01.7	Middle East policy in the Iran hostage crisis with Professor Abbas Milani, who was a political
1:07.0	prisoner in Iran himself. Also on the show, We ought to value a president who works hard and is decent and never lies to us.
1:17.6	Walter Isaacson speaks to biographer Kai Byrd about Carter's commitment to do what he believed was right, even when it was politically risky. The United States Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:54.9	Apocalyptic scenes in Los Angeles as wildfires continue raging out of control.
2:00.2	Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to flee
2:03.1	in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
2:05.5	The blaze is now the most destructive in L.A. County history.
2:09.3	And from the air, it looks like a war zone.
2:12.0	Here's California Governor Gavin Newsom.
2:15.4	I really am long-term optimistic, but the devastation to hear people wailing and crying,
2:21.1	concern about their pet, their family, they're just bewildered about what they're experiencing.
2:26.7	And again, not just experienced.
2:28.6	I was not talking past tense.
2:29.9	This is happening in real time.
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