MSNBC host Katy Tur and long-time friend Jacob Soboroff grew up in the Pacific Palisades and she grew emotional after she revealed that the fires destroyed her school and grocery store on her Wednesday show.
The fire began in a residential area around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, as strong Santa Ana winds fueled sparks. This contradicted an assertion from President-elect Donald Trump that the fire was caused by forests not being raked .
“The scale of the devastation and the disruption in the Palisades. It really is hard to overstate,” Tur said, as her voice faltered. “Even if you had something to come back to, and that is still a big if right now, there’s not anything to come back for. No surfaces, no supplies, no education, no people, no neighbors, no community.”…