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| We're going to take you back up to Capitol Hill to the Cannon Rotunda. | ||
| We're joined by California Democrat Judy Chu. | ||
| She represents that Los Angeles area-based 28th District of California. | ||
| And Congressman, Congresswoman, just wanted to start first by asking about the district, how it's doing today, where the fires are in relation to your district right now. | ||
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Well, my district is doing better now. | |
| The fire is 95% contained. | ||
| However, the number of homes burned number in the thousands. | ||
| In fact, there are 9,500 structures that have been destroyed and burned, and 17 people are dead. | ||
| Finally, the evacuation orders have been lifted, so people are going back to their homes, but they are discovering that they are burned to the ground. | ||
| And even if they have a home standing, that it's full of smoke and ash. | ||
| So the period of recovery and rebuilding is starting, and it's going to be a very difficult one. | ||
| In the meanwhile, there's a new fire that has started, the Hughes fire, which is north of my area. | ||
| It is, I think, about 18% contained. | ||
| So they are making progress over there. | ||
| But people really have to obey the evacuation orders and make sure that they and their families are safe. | ||
| You mentioned the evacuation orders released from your office yesterday saying that you're demanding an independent investigation into the deadly evacuation order delays during the start of the Eaton fire. | ||
| Explain. | ||
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I'm very, very concerned because the evacuation orders did not reach western Altadena for many hours. | |
| And as a result, there were those that did not leave right away. | ||
| And actually, all 17 of the deaths that occurred were in that area. | ||
| So I want to know what happened, who's behind this, why were those evacuation orders delayed? | ||
| It's a tremendous tragedy, and we cannot have this happen again. | ||
| Delayed by how long? | ||
| What do you know about the delays? | ||
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It was several hours. | |
| Remember that most of the people evacuated within that first day. | ||
| And the fire started on a Tuesday night at 6.30 p.m. | ||
| Most people then were ordered to evacuate. | ||
| That Wednesday, they woke up to this fire that was coming towards our home. | ||
| And we're talking about several hours where they could have been evacuated and had their lives saved. | ||
| What does recovery look like in your district? | ||
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What do you, your constituents, need from Congress right now? | |
| Well, right now there is hazardous removal by Cal EPA. | ||
| They are making progress. | ||
| The next step will be debris removal. | ||
| It'll be a big job. | ||
| And then there will be the process of rebuilding, of getting insurance companies to be able to assess the damage and then provide funds for that. | ||
| But it will not be enough. | ||
| And the job is enormous. | ||
| There have been estimates as high as $250 billion as far as the damage to both Palisades and the Eaton area. | ||
| So we definitely need disaster aid. | ||
| We need disaster aid without conditions, which has been the case for every disaster aid package in our nation's history. | ||
| These wildfires don't have any political affiliation. | ||
| They don't have any political party. | ||
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And when America's, when Americans are in their most desperate time, when they are in great, great need of help, we need to be able to help them. | |
| And this will be a very, very important time for us to give that aid so that they can recover and that the economy can return to what it was before. | ||
| On disaster aid, President Trump was asked about disaster aid by Sean Hannity in that Fox News interview that took place up on Capitol Hill. | ||
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This is about 30 seconds from yesterday. | |
| I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down into there from the north to the south. | ||
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This is a political thing. | |
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| You know, they talk about the Delta smelt. | ||
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It's a little tiny fish like this. | |
| They say it's an endangered species. | ||
| Well, how is it endangered? | ||
| No wonder it's endangered. | ||
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It's not getting any water. | |
| That was Donald Trump in that interview with Sean Hannity. | ||
| Your response, Congresswoman? | ||
| Well, it is based on tremendous misinformation. |