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what's up sunshine I'm kyi wire and I
hope you all are safe and well it is a
really tough day especially for all of
our viewers in Southern California the
wildfires there are some of the worst
we've seen so please know that we are
thinking of you and hope that all will
be okay it is Thursday January 9th let's
get to your news we do start with the
wildfires three devastating fires
springing up overnight raging across the
nation's most populous County scenes
there are just terrible homes and
businesses have been burned at rapid
rates the largest fire in Pacific
Palisades forced tens of thousands of
people to flee under evacuation orders
tens of thousands more have fled due to
two other fires raging in the county the
Hurst fire North of San Fernando and the
Eaton fire in Altadena the fires sprang
up so quickly Flames jumped over
highways many people had to abandon cars
on the roads near Malibu and Santa
Monica fire officials had to use a
bulldozer to move those vehicles to get
to the fires at a Pasadena Care Home
workers raced to evacuate elderly
residents with a blaze just one block
away the fires have burned thousands of
acres and firefighters still aren't able
to contain them crews are on the ground
and in the air working to put out the
flames but dry conditions and super
strong winds are supercharging the fires
wind gusts are hitting hurricane Force
at times with reports of telephone polls
being knocked over without containment
the Palisades fire has blazed at the
rate of about five football fields per
minute both the smoke and fire from The
Blaze are so intense they can be seen
from satellite images from space more
than 200,000 homes and buildings are
without power in the county and 19 of LA
County's 80 school districts have
announced closures or remote learning
the out-of control Flames sprang up on
residents so fast and our team on the
ground there wrapping up reporting
learned just how quickly the virus had
spread our Natasha Chen captured her
team's scary escape to safety oh my god
there were flames on both sides of the
highway there were Embers flying over
the the lanes of the highway so as we're
driving behind this emergency vehicle
I'm hearing an explosion on my right
there are uh houses on fire right up
against the road on the left and so at
this point I'm just holding my breath
and I can feel the heat from inside the
car just watching The Embers fly across
the windshield we get put on a lot of
kind of risky assignments and and in
this situation we have to make a
calculated risk for the best way to
leave and thankfully we got out of there
and we got a real look at just the level
of Destruction and really the fear that
a lot of those residents might be
feeling if they're looking at those
images on the news if they've evacuated
I I can't imagine they're they're
wondering if their house is is the next
one on fire if they have anything to go
home
to 10c trivia what European territory is
the largest island in the world that is
not a continent Sardinia Greenland
Iceland or reunion
your answer is Greenland an autonomous
territory of Denmark that's more than
three times the size of Texas the
largest island that is a continent is
Australia if you've been hearing a lot
about Greenland lately you are not the
only one last month president-elect
Donald Trump called for the US to buy
the Arctic Island he brought that up in
his first term as president as well now
his son Donald Trump Jr visited
Greenland this week raising questions
about what exactly his father's plans
might be for the island CNN's Fred plin
explains why president-elect Trump is
interested in buying the autonomous
territory whose capital city nuke is
closer to New York than it is to
Denmark's Capital Copenhagen and what
strategic importance it might bring the
US Donald Trump wants Greenland the
president-elect has called acquiring the
autonomous Arctic territory which is of
course part of the Kingdom of Denmark a
strategic necessity for the United
States now he sent his son Don Jr to
Greenland even though its leaders say
that that is just a private visit in a
social media post Donald Trump has said
I am hearing the people of Greenland are
Maga he has also vowed to both cherish
and protect Greenland in what he calls a
very vicious world now all this could
make strategic sense for the United
States Greenland is situated in a very
important place right between North
America and Europe the US also has some
pretty important military assets there
as well like the Thula airbase and a
missile defense radar but there is
something else the Chinese have been
increasing their footprint in Greenland
a lot of that through possible mineral
deals however the big problem that
Donald Trump faces is that neither
Greenland nor Denmark want Greenland to
become part of the United States Donald
Trump has floated the United States
buying Greenland in his first term in
office but even back then both Greenland
and Denmark have said that island is not
and will not be for sale in fact the
Kingdom of Denmark has now increased the
presence of Greenland on the coat of
arms of the country clearly indicating
that the Danes want to hold on to their
Arctic
territory now to major changes happening
at meta removing fact Checkers from its
platforms Facebook and Instagram and
replacing them with user contributed
Community notes similar to those
implemented on X the content review
changes are a major reversal in how meta
handles keeping false and misleading
claims off its platforms and will
significantly change the way that posts
videos and other content are moderated
online CNN's CLA Duffy breaks down the
changes for us and explains what factors
went into these
changes So Meta is rolling back some of
its content moderation practices in
particular it is getting rid of its
thirdparty fact Checkers which the
company started its Partnerships with in
the wake of concerns that foreign actors
were manipulating the platform using
them to spread disinformation and so
Discord among American voters around
elections but now the company is getting
rid of those fact Checkers and it will
instead rely on user generated context
labels that will be added to posts there
called Community notes this is something
that Elon Musk has done on X since he
took over two years ago and Joel Kaplan
who is one of meta's top Republican
Executives he recently took over as its
top policy executive he announced these
changes on Fox news this morning let's
listen to how he described the system so
somebody can write a note and then the
way it works is uh different uh
different people on the platform can
sort of vote on that note and if you get
people who usually disagree who all say
yeah that sounds right then that note
gets put on the on the post and people
see it X has been doing it for a while
uh we think it's working really well and
and we're going to adopt that system now
meta says that this is an effort to
address mistakes that its content
moderation systems have made that they
have been too restricted Ive and meta
said it has censored some voices and you
know this is Mark Zuckerberg says this
is an effort to increase free expression
but I think it also looks pretty clearly
like an effort to appeal to the
Republican voices including Trump who
have accused the company of censoring
conservative
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voices today's store getting a 10 out of
10 a one-month-old whose hippon brings
happiness because she just might be the
cutest thing we see all today a baby
hippo needed a name so her home Zoo took
a poll and more than
116,000 votes came in from 165 countries
from around the world here's what voters
chose the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia
announced the name of a baby pygmy hippo
girl that was born in
December the name was decided by a poll
with more than
116,000 fans worldwide casting a vote
and the winning name is Poppy the
flowery name received
52.8% of the vote and is a nod to her
mom's name Iris that little CF can
hypnotize with those eyes that's a cutie
patootie right there shout out to our
neighbors to the north today Alberta
Canada the Trojans of Westwood Community
High School in Fort McMurray rise up and
St Benedict's Episcopal School in Smyrna
Georgia Mr flemister and all the
Stingers you rock I see you Austin I'm
Coy wire happy Friday Eve everyone see
you right back here tomorrow for the
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