Readying for more fierce winds. I'm Carmen Roberts. Fox News. Another round of critical fire weather is expected to start this morning. And L.A. County Fire Captain Sheila Kelleher tells Fox News. Those winds are going to kick up. They're saying that maybe 45 mile an hour gusts. So that definitely is something to be concerned about.
A particularly dangerous situation warning is going into effect again for parts of L.A. and Ventura counties at 3 this morning. Some 88,000 people remain under evacuation orders and others are ready. Malcolm Thomas lives in Santa Clarita. I'm just trying to keep an eye out on it just to make sure, you know, it don't get any worse.
Do you guys have like bags packed and ready to go? Yeah, we have clothes packed and everything just in case. Thomas talking to Fox 11 LA. The fires have destroyed more than 12,000 buildings and killed at least 24 people. Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth faced off against senators during confirmation hearings yesterday, vowing to bring a warrior culture to the military. The Department of Defense under Donald Trump will achieve peace through strength.
and in pursuing these America first national security goals will remain patriotically apolitical and stridently constitutional. Republican Senator Joni Ernst, who had been on the fence, now says she will vote for Hegseth. Some Democrats, however, don't believe that he, a former National Guard soldier, has the experience needed to run the Pentagon and oversee more than two million service members. And tonight, President...
Biden will continue a tradition of farewell addresses. The president has spent his final week of the presidency trying to defend his administration's record on foreign policy and the economy and cement his legacy. But he will leave office with lagging approval ratings and Democrats out of power in Washington. Jared Halpern, Fox News. America's listening to Fox News.
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House Republicans got some help from a few Democrats to pass a bill to protect biological women and girls in sports. In a narrow vote in the House, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act passed with the help of two Democrats. It would ban males from competing in women and girls' sports.
The issue championed by former collegiate swimmer and OutKick host Riley Gaines, who on Capitol Hill called Democrat woke policies absurd. Whether it's feeling like you have to refer to Latino individuals as Latinx, believing that men can become women, believing that men can breastfeed, believing that tampons belong in boys' bathrooms, entirely and thoroughly absurd.
Absurd. Senate Republicans now aiming to take up the bill soon, and President-elect Trump, as he did on the campaign trail, has vowed to sign it. Jeff Manosso, Fox News. The FDA wants companies to put nutrition labels on the front of products. The current detailed nutrition labels would stay on the back of products. The new proposal is for a label on the front listing the amount of saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars,
and whether those amounts are considered low, medium, or high. Large food manufacturers would have three years to make the change with an extra year for smaller manufacturers.
First is a 120-day public comment period after which the new rule could be tweaked or finalized. The Consumer Brands Association Packaged Goods Industry Trade Group opposes the change, saying the FDA is considering schemes with arbitrary scales and symbols that could cause confusion among consumers. Fox's Chris Foster. Two lunar landers are on the way to the moon. Three, two, one, engine ignition.
And liftoff. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander and the Resilience lander from Japan's iSpace launched this morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket. It's all part of the latest rush to explore the moon's surface. I'm Carmen Roberts, and this is Fox News.