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☆ Lisa Kudrow recently found a note Matthew Perry left for her in a ‘Friends’ prop
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Lisa Kudrow has revealed that she recently found a note that Matthew Perry left inside a “Friends” prop for her 20 years ago. “I had recently found the note that he had in it (the jar) for me,” Kudrow said. Perry died because of “acute effects of ketamine” and subsequent drowning, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy report. And a lot of ‘talking.’ Thank you for showing up at work when you weren’t well and then, being completely brilliant. Thank you for the best 10 years a person gets to have,” Kudrow’s Instagram post continued.

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☆ Los Angeles wildfires are still burning across the area — ripping through homes and lives: Latest updates
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Wildfires are rampaging across Los Angeles County this week. Wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles — and could become the costliest blazes in US history, according to a JPMorgan research note. The Los Angeles downtown skyline in the distance was surrounded by smoke and haze on Thursday morning. AP Photo/Damian DovarganesMeanwhile, 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting in areas affected by the fires, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at Thursday's briefing. ADHurst FireThe Hurst fire burned in the hills above the Sylmar area of Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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“Now they’re over a million, $2 million.”Mr. Jackson said Mr. Shaw’s father had taken meticulous care of the family’s home. “He always kept his house up,” Mr. Jackson, recalling how he and the elder Mr. Shaw bonded over home maintenance. Mr. Shaw, who Mr. Jackson said never married, drove a bloodmobile and later made contract deliveries. Mr. Nickerson came from a multigenerational California family, his son, Eric Nickerson, said. “The fire that came through this canyon wiped out the entire Altadena community that’s been standing for 50, 60 years,” said Mr. Jackson.

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“As the fires pop up, nobody knows where the next one will be,” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department has already requested mutual aid from Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Firefighters from as far away as Nevada, Oregon and Washington state were also racing to Los Angeles to help the local firefighters battling the blazes on the front lines. The fires are “stretching the capacity of our emergency services to their maximum limits,” said Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley. So were many of the other major arteries in the western end of Los Angeles closest to the Pacific Ocean.

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Los Angeles residents are turning to a free nonprofit-run app to help them navigate the catastrophic fires ravaging the area. Watch Duty, which launched in 2021 and is now in 22 states, provides live updates to users about nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts. Watch Duty is currently No. -Nick Russell, watch duty's vice president of operationsThe team at Watch Duty is typically comprised of more than 200 people who work throughout the day to monitor any potential fires. Among the many users are first responders, including the Los Angeles County sheriff, the Butte County sheriff and the Office of Emergency Management, according to Watch Duty.

Persons: Nick Russell, Russell, ”, ” Russell, “ Organizations: NBC News, Emergency Management, Duty, Tanker Locations: Angeles, Los, California, Angeles County, Butte County

Two other fires have erupted in Los Angeles County: The 500-acre strong Hurst fire north of San Fernando, and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which has grown to 1,000 acres in a matter of hours. • No containment expected: There is no possibility of containing the Los Angeles fires tonight, and firefighters are focusing on saving lives instead, said David Acuna, the CAL Fire spokesperson. • Firefighter warnings: Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. The Los Angeles Fire Department is also asking off-duty members to call in to help battle the blaze. • Schools close: Five schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will close on Wednesday, and classes are moving online.

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CNN —A series of life-threatening fires, the largest of which is in the Pacific Palisades, are destroying homes as they race across Los Angeles County and surrounding areas. CNN is tracking the fires in maps and charts. Here’s a look at the latest available map of the Palisades Fire, a map that will automatically update as data becomes available. More than 155,000 people in Los Angeles County were under mandatory evacuation orders for the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires at 11 a.m. The Palisades and Eaton fires are already among the five largest fires to hit Los Angeles County since at least 2013.

Persons: Anthony Marrone Organizations: CNN, CAL, Hurst, Fire Locations: Los Angeles County, California, Eaton, Palisades, LA, Angeles County

☆ Wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area and kill 5 as thousands flee homes
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

With thousands of firefighters already attacking the flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a plea for off-duty and out-of-state firefighters to help. The Palisades Fire burns near homes amid a powerful windstorm on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. An aircraft drops fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 7, 2025. Firefighters work at the site of a brush fire pushed by gusting Santa Ana winds on Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. "We are absolutely not out of danger yet," Los Angeles city Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley said.

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When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Mansions were reduced to ash in Pacific Palisades, a West Los Angeles celebrity enclave. Credit... Philip Cheung for The New York TimesImage The toll of the fires was only beginning to take shape on Wednesday. Credit... Isadora Kosofsky for The New York TimesImage Southern California is critically dry, and its landscape is parched. “There’s a kind of mantra that when the wind blows, Los Angeles burns,” said D.J.

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☆ ‘It Was Biblical’: Ash and Flame Upend Life in Southern California
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Shawn Hubler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It has long been a local article of faith: Southern California disasters are rarely as sweeping as they seem. Delaware and Rhode Island could fit, with room to spare, in Los Angeles County. A drive from Pacific Palisades to Pasadena takes nearly an hour, even without traffic. When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Not shown were the jacaranda-lined streets and placid suburbs where the rest of Southern California watched the mayhem on TV.

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☆ Biden cancels Italy trip in final days of his presidency to focus on federal response to LA wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Donald Judd | Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Italy this week as scheduled, the White House announced late Wednesday, canceling the trip in the final days of his presidency to monitor raging wildfires across the Los Angeles area. Six wind-driven fires blazing across Los Angeles County remained largely uncontained at the time of the White House announcement, with authorities issuing evacuation orders late Wednesday related to a brushfire in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon. Biden was scheduled to travel to Rome on Thursday, where the White House said earlier in the day that he’d meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Biden also had been set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in Rome for what was likely to be their final meeting of Biden’s presidency. In October, Biden postponed a scheduled trip to Germany and Angola as Hurricane Milton made landfall.

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Thousands of LA County homeowners face a volatile home insurance market. In recent months, State Farm — California's largest home insurer — dropped thousands of policyholders. Thousands of California homeowners at risk due to the Los Angeles County fires find themselves exposed in a volatile home insurance market. Nearly 70% of State Farm policyholders in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood were dropped by the company beginning in July 2024. This table shows how FAIR insurance coverage has changed in the above ZIP codes between 2023 and 2024.

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☆ NBA coaches Steve Kerr and JJ Redick say family members evacuated their homes amid Pacific Palisades wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( George Ramsay | Kevin Dotson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It has destroyed at least 1,000 structures, making it the most destructive ever in Los Angeles County, according to Cal Fire. Our hearts are with those affected by the Palisades wildfires and the first responders protecting our community. “I just want to acknowledge and send thoughts and prayers to everyone in the Palisades right now,” Redick said. “It’s where I live, my family and my wife’s family, my wife’s twin sister, they’ve evacuated. A state of emergency has been declared in Los Angeles with more than 1,400 firefighters deployed to fight the multiple fires happening across the county, according to Gov.

Persons: Steve Kerr Organizations: CNN, Golden State Warriors, Cal Fire Locations: California, Pacific Palisades, Palisades, Los Angeles County

Maps: Tracking the Los Angeles WildfiresMajor fires, driven by fierce winds, have scorched the Los Angeles area, destroying homes and businesses and prompting thousands to flee as officials issued evacuation orders for many residential areas. Evacuation areas Evacuation order Evacuation warning Source: Cal Fire By The New York TimesThe largest is the Palisades fire. Before LOS ANGELES COUNTY Altadena Tonia Ave. Cul-de-sac Wapello St. As winds push wildfire smoke across the Los Angeles area, air quality has become hazardous in some places. “This is going to be devastating, a devastating loss, for all of Los Angeles,” said Traci Park, a Los Angeles city councilwoman whose district includes Pacific Palisades, the site of the biggest fire.

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☆ Billy Crystal, Ricki Lake and more celebrities impacted by ongoing Los Angeles wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —As at least four wildfires rage around Los Angeles, numerous members of the Hollywood community have been impacted, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Anna Faris and Ricki Lake. In statement to CNN on Wednesday, Crystal said, “Words cannot describe the enormity of the devastation we are witnessing and experiencing. Lake added that she is grieving the “immeasurable” loss of her home, where she and her husband wed three years ago. Our favorite restaurants, leveled,” Moore wrote on her Instagram page Wednesday. It is the most destructive to ever occur in Los Angeles County, according to CalFire data.

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☆ Insurers dropped fire coverage for California homes months ago. Now, wildfires are claiming more houses in Los Angeles.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some homes affected by the Los Angeles wildfires might not have insurance. As wildfires destroy homes in Los Angeles, some homeowners might face rebuilding without insurance payouts. "California insurers are doing both." Ricardo Lara, California's insurance commissioner, announced the rule just days before the Los Angeles fires broke out. At a press conference on Wednesday, one reporter asked Lindsey Horvath, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, whether the Los Angeles fires would affect insurance companies' operations in California.

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☆ Aubrey Plaza speaks out on husband Jeff Baena's death
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Actor Aubrey Plaza spoke out Monday on the death of her husband, writer and director Jeff Baena. Plaza called the death “an unimaginable tragedy” in a statement on behalf of the Baena-Stern family. Jeff Baena and Aubrey Plaza on May 21, 2016 in Silverlake, Calif. David Crotty / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images fileBaena and Plaza, 40, married in 2021. The couple worked together on several films, including 2014’s “Life After Beth,” in which Plaza had a starring role. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or chat live at 988lifeline.org.

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☆ Photos: Wildfires spread in Los Angeles County
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Brett Roegiers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Firefighters are battling multiple wildfires in Los Angeles County as a devastating windstorm has created extremely dangerous fire weather conditions. Tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders. The largest fire, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, has destroyed 1,000 structures and is growing, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said on Wednesday. With traffic slowing evacuations and flames jumping the highway, some had considered sheltering on the beach. Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt.

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Nicki Minaj's former manager has accused the rap superstar of berating and hitting him multiple times while she was on tour in Detroit. Garrett's response provoked the defendant’s "rage" even more and she began yelling expletives at Garrett, the lawsuit said. Minaj called Garrett crazy and said he lost his mind and if her husband was there, “he would knock out" his teeth. You just f----- up your whole life and you will never be anyone, I’ll make sure of it,” the lawsuit said Minaj told Garrett. The suit alleges that Minaj “abused her position of authority” and “berated, threatened, used profanities, and violently struck” Garrett multiple times.

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☆ Aubrey Plaza addresses ‘unimaginable tragedy’ of losing her husband
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Globally, the International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. CNN —Aubrey Plaza has shared her first statement since the death of her husband, writer and director Jeff Baena. Please respect our privacy during this time,” Plaza said in a statement shared with People magazine. Plaza was scheduled to be a presenter at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards but did not attend. “Tonight my heart is with Aubrey Plaza and Jeff’s family,” Corbet said.

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☆ Jeff Baena’s cause of death released
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Lisa Respers France | Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Editor’s Note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. Globally, the International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. CNN —A cause of death for writer and director Jeff Baena, whose credits include “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” has been determined. Plaza and Baena had been a couple since 2011 and she talked to People in 2021 about how the Covid-19 pandemic had strengthened their relationship. Several stars who had worked with Baena publicly mourned him.

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☆ Los Angeles Braces for ‘Life-Threatening and Destructive’ Winds
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Judson Jones | More About Judson Jones | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After a short-lived dip in speed on Tuesday afternoon, the winds are expected to accelerate to dangerous levels from Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning. Gusty winds and dangerous conditions could linger into Thursday or even Friday. However, in a few areas, winds may reach stronger levels than during those earlier events. The longer-lasting strong winds will occur mostly across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Moderate to strong winds may even reach the Los Angeles County coast, especially in the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills and Sepulveda Pass, and extending into Palos Verdes and Catalina Island from Tuesday evening into Wednesday, according to forecasters in the Los Angeles National Weather Service Office.

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On Saturday hundreds of New Orleanians gathered at City of Love Church to seek solace and understanding — singing, shouting and praying. Experts warn that polarization in the United States and online is contributing to an increase in extremism. Major winter storm threatens the U.S.Tens of millions of people are under winter storm warnings, with heavy snow and bitter cold temperatures expected across the country. Indie filmmaker Jeff Baena dead at 47Jeff Baena in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26, 2020. The couple collaborated on several films, including “Life After Beth” in 2014, which Baena directed and Plaza starred in.

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Independent filmmaker Jeff Baena, best known for directing “Life After Beth” and co-writing “I Heart Huckabees,” died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Baena had been married to actor Aubrey Plaza since 2021. The couple collaborated on several films, including in 2014’s “Life After Beth,” in which Plaza had a starring role. Jeff Baena and Aubrey Plaza in 2016. David Crotty / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images fileThe director graduated from New York University’s film school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career, according to Deadline.

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☆ Jeff Baena, writer, director and husband of Aubrey Plaza, dead at 47
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Jeff Baena, a writer and director whose credits include “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” has died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Baena died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday. Baena was the husband of actor and comedian Aubrey Plaza. Jeff Baena and Aubrey Plaza in 2016. David Crotty/Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesCNN has reached out to representatives for Baena and Plaza for comment.

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