00:00But the part I really wanted to convey on tonight's session is that this isn't over yet.
00:10The weather conditions upcoming look pretty bad, to be quite honest, from a fire weather perspective.
00:19In fact, actually worse even than I mentioned yesterday.
00:24There have been, of course, lots of rumors and fears circulating surrounding what might or might not put UCLA at risk.
00:33For example, in Westwood, that flagship university campus, I still don't think that there is a substantial threat to that campus.
00:43I still think it is highly unlikely that an evacuation would be ordered for campus.
00:48But again, can't rule it out, the fire is relatively close and there are pretty adverse weather conditions coming.
00:55I do not still think this is the kind of fire or the kind of adverse weather conditions that would actually produce a genuine threat to campus.
01:04But again, these fires have surprised us before and they may well surprise us again in some nasty and unpleasant ways.
01:13Given that we do have multiple additional extreme fire weather events coming up in the next 7-10 days, with potentially another high-end one later this week.
01:25In terms of loss of life on these fires, the death toll does continue to climb.
01:30It's confirmed to be between about 10 and 15 between the two fires now and will probably rise further according to reports.
01:38I still think it's a small miracle that it wasn't in the high dozens or even in the hundreds given what transpired.
01:44The death toll probably will rise beyond where it currently is, but I'm reasonably hopeful it won't rise to the triple digits.
01:52And as much as I wish I could give really good news about the weather, I do not have that news to convey.
02:00In fact, I have pretty bad news about the weather.
02:03The short term, we're having another Santa Ana event as I mentioned tonight into tomorrow.
02:08It isn't that strong, although it could still cause problems.
02:11We'll see another one though early in the week and then another one beyond that toward midweek that could actually, and I hesitate to say this,
02:23it could rival the strength of the original extreme wind event that drove these two urban conflagrations into populated areas.
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