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TikTok Says It Will Go Dark On Sunday Unless Biden Intervenes; Ceasefire Between Israel And Hamas Will Go Into Effect; Trump's Inauguration Moved Indoors Due To Brutally Cold Temperatures; Death Toll Reaches 27 As Search Crews Continue Efforts In Fire-Ravaged Areas In Los Angeles; New Report Cites Young Women Are Nearly Twice As Likely To Be Diagnosed With Cancer. Aired 6-7a ET

Aired January 18, 2025 - 06:00   ET

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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. You are up early and we are glad to have you with us. Welcome to CNN This Morning. It is Saturday, January 18th. I'm Victor Blackwell.

AMARA WALKER, CNN ANCHOR: Loving the energy, Victor. Good to be here with you. I'm Amara Walker. We've got a lot going on. Here's what we're working on for you.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's going away January 19th and I'm so about it.

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WALKER: Time is running out for TikTok. Barring a last minute Hail Mary, this time tomorrow, one of the most popular apps used by 170 million Americans could go dark. We're going to go in depth on it all straight ahead.

BLACKWELL: And a critical ceasefire and hostage release between Israel and Hamas is just more than 19 hours away from going into effect. Live report from Israel just ahead.

WALKER: And bone chilling temperatures are forcing Monday's presidential inauguration indoors for the first time in 40 years. We're going to go inside the last minute security scramble plus a.

BLACKWELL: Back to school day unlike any other in California. How the youngest survivors of the Palisades fire are trying to return to some semblance of normalcy after the deadly and devastating fire.

All right. TikTok says it will be forced to go dark sometime on Sunday. The company says it will turn off access to its extremely popular social media app that boasts more than 170 million American users. That is unless the Biden administration intervenes.

And the company made the announcement hours after the Supreme Court upheld the controversial ban. It requires TikTok's parent company to sell the company to another entity that is not controlled by a U.S. adversary by tomorrow or be banned in the US.

WALKER: Now President Biden has made it clear that he would leave the enforcement of the ban to incoming President-elect Trump, who will become president the day after the ban takes effect.

Now, Trump has suggested he would not enforce the ban and he would work out a deal to sell TikTok. In a video responding to the Supreme Court's decision, TikTok CEO Shou Chew said they will continue their efforts to keep the app accessible to Americans with the help of President-elect Trump.

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SHOU CHEW, CEO, TIKTOK: I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States. This is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship.

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WALKER: We are covering all of this with CNN's chief media analyst, Brian Stelter and CNN's Betsy Klein, who is standing outside the White House this morning.

BLACKWELL: So, Brian, let's start with you. This announcement of going dark from TikTok, leading up to that, there was this expectation that, you know, could still access it, but eventually be inoperable because there would be no updates. What happened and what is going to happen tomorrow?

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: That's right. This is now a cyberspace standoff between TikTok and the U.S. government at the very moment when the US government is transitioning from one set of leaders to another. That's why this is so crazy and so unusual.

But let's take a step back. This law was written and passed with strong bipartisan support, specifically to take effect before the next president took office. This was always supposed to be the Biden administration's law to implement.

However, right now, because so many TikTok users are so upset about this and TikTok's done a great job lobbying and campaigning, it seems that the Biden administration or Democrats in general don't want the blame. And so we're in this standoff moment.

Overnight I spoke with a Source close to TikTok that explained why they came out with this dramatic statement saying they might be forced to go dark. According to this source, the service providers that are basically the people in between you and the app, they are the ones that would be fined under this law. They are the ones that would pay billions of dollars in legal fines if they allowed TikTok to stay online once the law took effect.

We're talking about companies like Apple and Google, but also companies like Oracle and Comcast, in some cases companies that actually run the servers that store your videos that are on TikTok.

So it the service providers, the in betweens, that are afraid of this law taking effect and afraid of paying the fines. According to the source, quote, the service providers do not feel they've been given enough assurance that they will not be liable.

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And we're talking about literally this time tomorrow, those companies being afraid this law, because it'll take effect tomorrow, will be liable.

Now, the Biden administration has basically signaled that it's not going to enforce the law. But TikTok wants the Biden administration to go further and be really explicit with legal language that lets these companies off the hook.

So we're in this situation where one of the most powerful apps in the world controlled by a Chinese owned company wants the U.S. government to essentially say, well, actually literally say, we are not going to enforce our law. Of course, why was this law passed in the first place? A lot of Republicans and a lot of Democrats likened TikTok to a Chinese spy balloon.

They said this app was dangerous for America, hurting America, threatening users. But now we're on the brink here, where we know the President-elect Donald Trump wants this app to stay online. And it seems the Biden administration doesn't really want to get involved. So we'll see what happens in the next 24 hours.

WALKER: Just to clarify them, for those of us who have the app, does that mean tomorrow your app will be inoperable?

STELTER: If it becomes inoperable tomorrow, it'll only because TikTok chooses to turn off the lights.

WALKER: Got it.

STELTER: And that's what it's saying it will do. It's saying it will turn off the lights because these service providers are worried about the consequences.

WALKER: Yes.

STELTER: But I honestly view this as a negotiating tactic by TikTok. Right now, this company believes it has a lot of leverage because the incoming president is playing footsie. You know, the incoming President Trump has invited the TikTok CEO to the inauguration. So TikTok thinks it has a lot of leverage right now, a lot of power right now. And it's using that power to pressure the government to keep it online.

WALKER: All right.

STELTER: But it is possible that at least for 24 hours, the app will turn off tomorrow. WALKER: Appreciate you clarifying that, Brian Stelter, thanks so much.

Let's Go now to CNN's Betsy Klein, who is live outside the White House. So, Betsy, how's the Biden administration responding to TikTok's recent announcement?

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE PRODUCER: Well, Amara, the short answer is that they are passing this hot potato to the next administration. But the longer answer is a question of timing and presidential authority. Now, the timing is really interesting here because this all goes back to that law that President Biden signed himself back in April that required TikTok to be sold to American ownership by January 19th.

January 19th is a Sunday. It is a Sunday of a federal holiday. And it is also just hours before President Biden is set to leave office and hand the reins of the federal government over to Trump. So, some Democrats and other officials have been pressuring the White House to delay enforcement of this ban, but White House officials believe the president just does not have the authority to do so.

And shortly after the Supreme Court issued that ruling yesterday, we heard from White House press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She said in a statement, quote, today, TikTok should remain available to Americans, but simply under American ownership or other ownership that addresses the national security concerns identified by Congress in developing this law.

Given the sheer fact of timing, this administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next administration, which takes office on Monday.

Now, one White House source tells us that there won't be any fines on those service providers, the Apples, the Googles, but the really a question of whether they continue to keep that app active. And President Biden making clear to reporters he does not plan to enforce this. Take a look.

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UNDIENTIFIED MALE: What's your take on the TikTok decision today, sir?

JOE BIDEN, U.S. PRESIDENT: Well, decision anyway, so I think it will work.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you think someone will buy TikTok?

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KLEIN: Now, President Biden does have the authority to grant ByteDance a 90-day extension, but that requires proof that they are actively trying to sell this app. And ByteDance so far says they are not planning to do so. What we do know is that Trump's team is making some plans toward taking an executive action that could potentially offer TikTok a pause on this ban and effectively buy them a little bit more time. Now, as Brian noted, we should note that President-elect Trump has

been spending time in close contact with the CEO of TikTok and has invited him to his inauguration. So we'll be watching this quite closely in the coming hours and days from the White House. And of course, for those millions of users on TikTok, back to you.

WALKER: All right, Betsy Klein at the White House. Really appreciate it as always. Thanks so much. And joining me now is Paul Tran, the co- owner of Love and Pebble, which is a skin care company. And it's a huge spike in sales for the company after going viral on TikTok. Thank you so much for coming in so early this morning.

So I saw, Paul, that 90 percent of your sales have come through TikTok. So we've been seeing all this happen. And of course there's a lot of uncertainty of what happens after President-elect Trump takes office on Monday. But for now, as we've been seeing with Brian Salters reporting, looks like this app is going to go dark, at least for tomorrow.

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What's your reaction to all that you've been watching go down?

PAUL TRAN, CO-OWNER, LOVE AND PEBBLE: I mean, when I first heard about it, I was -- I spent most of yesterday being kind of shell shocked that it, you know, what reality am I living in right now, what America. Like you said, 90 percent of our business is on TikTok and it -- if it goes away, it would severely impact our business for the worse. So --

WALKER: How? Tell me how.

TRAN: I mean, imagine if 90 percent of your customers just left, you know, and a lot of people say, you know, oh, well, you know, you can find another app, another platform. It's not that easy. I wish it was that easy.

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: You know, just imagine if your business. Pretend we're in a brick and mortar and then all of a sudden you wake up one day on a Sunday, on the 19th, and it's gone. All that time we took to build it's not easy. It took years and a lot of money and a lot of, like, hard work that me and my wife built. So for it to just disappear, not from anything that we've done overnight, it's hard to understand.

WALKER: You said that you were shell shocked and you were asking, you know, what kind of America are we living in? What did you mean by that?

TRAN: I mean, you know, this is America where, you know, my parents came in as immigrants and had so much opportunity and so much in the American dream. And I keep talking about it to my kids, my daughter and my wife. You know, this is our American dream that we've built. You know --

WALKER: We'll turn off that alarm.

TRAN: Sorry.

WALKER: No worries.

TRAN: And you know, it's going to go away now.

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: And it's, you know, it's kind of surreal that it could just be taken away so easily overnight again.

WALKER: We don't know what will happen, you know, once Trump takes office and perhaps they'll try to delay the ban or try to help get this app sold, perhaps to an American buyer. I do want to show some numbers though, because TikTok, interesting enough, released an economic impact report that was in April of 2024, around the same time that President Biden signed this bipartisan bill banning TikTok.

And it claimed that over 7 million businesses in the United States rely on the platform. Nearly $15 billion have been generated for small to mid-sized businesses advertising on TikTok. That would obviously include yours and that it added about $24 billion to the economy in 2023. I mean, obviously this is going to have a huge impact on businesses that have been relying on TikTok.

Can you give me a sense of some numbers and just, you know, perhaps what it looked like before you got on TikTok, you know, how long your business had been going and, you know, what happened after you got on TikTok?

TRAN: Yes, I mean were on -- we started brand in 2018 and my wife started in 2021 and we just launched our first TikTok video and it went viral and were discovered by so many different like media outlets like Today Show, were a Shark Tank and all of this because of the exposure on that.

And then fast forward to 2023, went on TikTok shop and that exploded sales even more and it wasn't easy to do. And you know, a lot of the businesses that are doing well, it takes a lot of hard work that any business starts, you know, like that you have to do in any business.

So like I said, for it to go away, it would be devastating.

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: And it's not as easy as just launching another platform and saying, hey, let's start again.

WALKER: But I'm wondering because if this -- if TikTok were to be sold, I mean, China has indicated that it would not allow its algorithm to be sold. And so the question is, would TikTok be TikTok without its algorithm? And just like you said, if, you know, people are saying we'll just go on a different app but you're saying it's not the same. So would it be the same then even if TikTok without the algorithm, which is most likely if it does stay. TRAN: Exactly. And that's the unknown that --

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: -- you know, that's -- it's our business, you know, that we're risking here and it's our livelihood. And you know, I quit my full time job once we started doing well in our business and this is like I said, 90 percent of our sales come from this and it's devastating.

WALKER: Quickly, what's your alternative right now then? I mean obviously that's reality. Are you going to go on Instagram? I mean, what are you going to do?

TRAN: I mean we've tried Instagram.

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: We are trying Instagram. We're trying all the other platforms but like nothing's working.

WALKER: Yes.

TRAN: So, you know, the reality might be we might have to shut down our business if this happens.

WALKER: I'm sorry to hear that Paul and I do wish you the best and hope that you can find a way to pivot, you know, much more easily which probably is not the case. Paul Tran, thank you so much. Owner of Love and Pebble. Thank you.

TRAN: Thank you.

WALKER: Victor.

BLACKWELL: The Israeli government has approved Gaza and ceasefire and hostage release agreement with Hamas. We're live in Tel Aviv with details on how the deal is expected to unfold.

Plus, Donald Trump's second inauguration ceremony has been moved indoors. More on the frigid temperatures that are forcing that change.

And how Los Angeles communities are supporting each other as children return to schools and families try to get something close to normal.

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WALKER: We are just hours away from the start of phase one of the ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. A spokesperson for Qatar's foreign says the cease fire will start tomorrow morning at 1:30 Eastern and it is set to last six weeks.

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BLACKWELL: According to U.S. officials, the first three of 33 Israeli hostages will be released tomorrow. A source says 735 Palestinian prisoners will also be released in this phase. CNN's Jeremy Diamond joins us live from Tel Aviv. And Jeremy, sources say that foreign hostages will also be released. What do you know?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's right. This deal calls for the release of 33 Israeli hostages. Among those there are some dual nationals, including two U.S. citizens, according to a list that has been wide circulating in Israeli media.

But we also understand that it appears that separate from those 33 hostages, Hamas will also release some additional foreign hostages. We don't know exactly how many, but we know that there are eight Thai nationals, one Nepali and one Tanzanian national who are also being held by Hamas.

But last night we saw in the early hours of the morning, just after 1:00 a.m., the Israeli government finally approving this deal after several days of political wrangling.

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DIAMOND (voice-over): The ceasefire and hostage release deal one step closer to becoming a reality. After 24 hours of political wrangling and uncertainty, the Israeli government voting to approve the deal over the objections of far right ministers like Itamar Ben-Gvir.

ITAMAR BEN GVIR, ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER (through translator): I call on my friends in Likud and the Religious Zionist party. It is not too late. A government meeting is ahead of us. We can stop this deal. Join me. We can stop it.

DIAMOND (voice-over): This time, neither he nor Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also opposed the deal, were able to thwart it. The ceasefire now set to take effect on Sunday with scenes like this from 2023 of hostages being released from Gaza expected as early as Sunday afternoon.

On the first day, Hamas will release three female civilian hostages. Like other civilian hostages, each one will be freed in exchange for 30 Palestinian prison from Israeli jails. Five female soldiers held by Hamas are also set to be released during the six week ceasefire in exchange for 50 Palestinian prisoners each, including 30 who are serving life sentences.

After 15 months of war, a ceasefire could not come soon enough for the people of Gaza who stared down starvation and faced unending food insecurity. Beyond a reprieve from Israeli bombardment, the ceasefire is also expected to deliver a surge of aid. 600 trucks per day.

I pray to God that this will be the last day we need to use this kitchen and that we can eat comfortably in our homes, this man says. I don't want to ever come back to this soup kitchen, young Tallinn says. We've been killed for moving to where they told us to go. We've been killed for trying to get food. Who've been killed for trying to get water. She says she cannot wait for the ceasefire to begin. Until it does, Gaza remains a war zone. And there has been no let up

in the Israeli military's assault on Gaza. Since the ceasefire was announced, at least 116 people, including 30 children have been killed, according to Gaza's civil defense. How many more must die before the guns go silent?

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DIAMOND: And we do indeed expect that cease fire to now go into effect tomorrow following that Israeli government vote. The process that's playing out now is that the Supreme Court is hearing petitions from Israelis trying to oppose the release of some of those 735 Palestinian prisoners set to be released in exchange for those 33 Israeli hostages.

Among those 735 prisoners, we know that there are really a range of convictions. Many of them have been in administrative detention, meaning that they've been neither tried nor convicted of a crime as of yet. Some are convicted or being detained for less severe crimes like incitement or stone throwing. But there are also those who have been convicted of murder, convicted of killing Israelis, serving life sentences. Those are expected to be released not in the West Bank, but rather in Gaza or in third party countries.

BLACKWELL: Jeremy Diamond for us there in Tel Aviv. Jeremy, thank you. Joining me now is Daniel Levy. He's the president of the U.S./Middle East Project, a policy institute that focuses on the situation. Daniel, good morning to you.

And for the man in Jeremy's story who says that this is the last day that he's going to have to eat from one of these soup kitchens before we get to phase two. And what could fall apart there? What's your degree of confidence that phase one will hold because there are so many opportunities, inflection points where this could go awry?

DANIEL LEVY, PRESIDENT, U.S./MIDDLE EAST PROJECT: Victor, yes, there's hope and then there's confidence and the latter is going to be hard to sustain. This is going to be fragile.

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What we have seen in these last hours, even since an agreement and announcement, is the extent to which Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel is facing precisely the dilemma, the hard choice that he has wanted to avoid and he has successfully avoided. And it's all become very transparent. Now, the party that worked hardest to prevent that was the Israeli prime minister because he knows his coalition becomes so destabilized by this.

We've seen one party has left and said they will only return to government if the war resumes. Another party said they will leave the government if the attack against Gaza doesn't resume. They've been committed to depopulating Gaza, to resettling the north.

And inside the agreement, whether it's the details of the prisoner exchanges, the hostage releases, whether it's the details of the Israeli military's redeployment of the ability for Palestinians to move within Gaza, or looking back on that kid in the soup kitchen, the ability for humanitarian assistance to get in. And that should never have been prevented in the first place. Of course, all of those details mean we're on a very rocky road.

Netanyahu, I would suggest we should not consider as having crossed the Rubicon definitively. I think if he can upend this deal and get away with not being blamed, he will because. Because not only has his total victory been proven to be a total failure, but his politics stacks up so fragile in the wake of the deal.

BLACKWELL: And how does, I mean, this is just phase one, six weeks. How does he keep a coalition? How does he keep a government together if, as you mentioned, the national security minister leaving the government says he'll only come back once the attacks, the strikes resume. You've got the finance minister, who is nearly there. How do you keep a coalition together to go into phase two?

LEVY: I think the short answer may be, Victor, that you don't. And if indeed they stick to their gun, so to speak, and will not allow a phase two to happen, then either Netanyahu is going to have to react, shape his coalition, which he's super reluctant to do, because although he has a safety net from the opposition, their goal is not to keep him in power.

So we have a moment of rare transparency here. They are finally acknowledging that they do not want a deal. Some of them may say the best way to get hostages out is if we return to fighting, we will see very palpably that is not the case.

And one of the big unpredictable factors, Victor, are that, although I think we can say with some certainty that Netanyahu has not wanted this moment and will work hard to make it unravel. What we don't know is what will be the impact inside Israel when they see hostages coming out alive. Now, not all will come out alive. We know that.

But when they see that, how is that going to play out in society? And I think one of the reasons Netanyahu has not wanted to get to this moment is that is a dynamic he can't control. He also, by the way, feels he no longer has a U.S. president, and I can't put this in gentle terms, so I'll put it bluntly, that he cannot wrap around his finger, which was the case with the Biden administration.

So those are the dynamics we're entering into. But what an appalling loss of life, Victor. This deal was ready months and months ago. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombing. Subsequently, probably dozens of hostages have died. That shouldn't have been the case. We should never have gotten to this moment. Now we're here. The amount of hard attention to detail that this will require cannot be underestimated.

BLACKWELL: Daniel Levy, thank you so much for the insight.

WALKER: Well, plans for Donald Trump's second inauguration are changing quickly. Coming up, more on the cold. The frigid temperatures forcing the ceremony to being moved indoors for the first time since the Reagan administration.

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WALKER: For the first time in 40 years, the presidential inauguration will be held indoors. Dangerously cold temperatures across much of the U.S., including Washington led officials to cancel many of the outdoor events.

BLACKWELL: And President-elect Trump will be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda. This will be the first time a swearing in will be held inside since Reagan's second inauguration in '85. CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar joins us now. You know, when it's this cold, it's not just uncomfortable, it's dangerous.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, METEOROLOGIST: And I think that's kind of the key was, this wasn't just something that people could bundle up a little bit more for. This started to get to the point of safety concerns --

BLACKWELL: Yes --

CHINCHAR: Which is why they were planning to move it again. You look at some of these temperatures that we're talking about, 25 degrees is at the warmest it is going to feel in D.C. on Monday. And again, you're talking like with that wind-chill about 10 degrees. So, it is going to be bitter cold out there.

Not to mention you're going to have a wind with some of those components too. So, as we take a look, yes, as Victor mentioned, this will be the coldest since Reagan's second inauguration single digits at the time. So, again, this is going to be bitter cold. Now, where all that cold air is coming from, it's coming from behind this cold front.

So, once this front slides through, all of this extremely cold air is what's going to slide into place. Look at some of these temperatures, minus-17, that is the morning low Tuesday in Minneapolis, that's not the wind-chill.

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That's the actual temperature. So, you know that minus 17 is going to feel even colder. Eleven is how cold it's going to feel in D.C. on Tuesday morning. The high temperatures, they're not much better. Atlanta may not even hit the freezing mark on Monday. Again, and for some of these areas, it's going to linger for several more days.

Now, that same front where the cold air is behind it, ahead of time, it's going to bring some moisture on the southern side where the temperatures are still mild. You've got a lot of rain, but then a little bit farther north, places like Baltimore, D.C. and Philadelphia, you're going to get the snow showers as we head into the latter half of the day Sunday, and then wrapping up by very early Monday morning. So, the snow itself will be out for the inauguration, but those

temperatures are what's really going to stick around. Most of these areas likely looking at about an inch or two of snow, but you will have some areas that get hit in some of those heavier bands that could pick up 3 or even 4 inches of snow before this system finally exits the area.

WALKER: Yes --

BLACKWELL: All right, Allison, thank you.

WALKER: Thank you, Allison. Joining us now is national political reporter with "The Hill", Julia Manchester. Good morning, Julia, thanks so much for being with us. So, the inauguration being moved indoors, it's going to mean a few things, smaller crowds obviously, which as we know, Trump has always been fixated on crowd size. So, can't imagine he's happy about that. But also it's causing a massive security scramble.

JULIA MANCHESTER, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, THE HILL: It is, it is. And on the crowd side question, you know, I remember back in 2016, there was a debate over that crowd size. How many people actually watched Trump's inauguration? And those pictures that came out, so, at least the President-elect doesn't have to worry about that debate going forward.

But, you know, going back to the security scramble, look, this has really turned the city of Washington D.C. upside down. I mean, we've seen, obviously, a number of road closures. We've seen the city, the federal government, you know, spend tens of thousands of dollars to put up these risers, put up these barriers, really prepare for this once every four years events.

We haven't seen a full scale inauguration in many ways since 2016 due to COVID in 2020 and 2021. So, this has certainly turned a lot of things upside down. But remember, there are thousands of supporters of the --

WALKER: Yes --

MANCHESTER: President-elect, international media, for example, that have flown in, and now their plans are being scrambled. Domestic media, as we both know, have their plans -- have been scrambled as well. So, this I think has thrown everyone for a loop. But ultimately, this was decided for safety purposes --

WALKER: Yes, a lot of confusion and I'm sure frustration for those who were planning to make that trip or already did to D.C. for the inauguration. And also, Julia, that the -- to the dismay of, you know, people who were horrified by the deadly January 6th insurrection. As I understand it, there will be some January 6th rioters who were either charged or convicted in their role that day.

And the irony, right, that there's going to be Capitol police officers who will be there on inauguration day to protect the President-elect, no matter how they feel. MANCHESTER: Yes, certainly is ironic. And you know, it shows how that

day four years ago continues to loom over U.S. politics. And I think we will see it going forward. I mean, we have heard the President- elect talk about wanting to issue pardons for January 6th rioters. We've heard House Speaker Mike Johnson talk about wanting to investigate the January 6th Select Committee or sort of do a -- you know, look into that and the work it did.

So, you know, there's a lot of questions about how, you know, that day impacts politics going forward. I don't think it's the last, you know, we'll hear about that. But the optics on this day incredibly ironic. You know, it's unclear who is going to be allowed into the Capitol, who isn't going to be allowed in.

But, you know, incredibly ironic to see, you know, kind of the change in tone, in -- I don't want to say tone, but you know, sort of, you know, the change from those protesters, those rioters, you know, what they went through four years ago now being at inauguration --

WALKER: Yes --

MANCHESTER: For President-elect Trump.

WALKER: Yes, and, you know, Trump in his first few days of his administration is promising to make good on one of his biggest campaign promises. And that would be, you know, his immigration agenda. And you have -- reporting, first-off, that number one, there are several immigration executive orders that are to be released.

That's our reporting actually after he's sworn in. There's plans for a major immigration sweep in some -- you know, major cities around the country, particularly on undocumented immigrants who have been charged with crimes or who have criminal backgrounds. But your reporting is also that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is also planning on helping Trump carry out his agenda.

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MANCHESTER: Yes, it's amazing. We've seen a sea change in this relationship between Trump and DeSantis over the past year. In fact, now you see these two leaders coming together on this issue of immigration. I'm told that, you know, over the past 2 to 3 weeks, we've, you know, heard Trump and DeSantis meeting, their teams meeting. We know that the two played golf earlier this week to figure out how Florida, Trump's new home state and really the epicenter of Trump's transition team, and, you know, the home of the Winter White House at Mar-a-Lago.

How that will -- how Florida can be an example in some ways to other red states on this issue of immigration. So, we saw earlier this week, Ron DeSantis call for a special legislative session to tackle immigration and to figure out how the state government in Florida can help the federal government.

DeSantis proposing that there will be a state-level liaison appointed to work with the federal government. Trump, very much praising this move, but there's been some Republican legislative leaders in Florida --

WALKER: Yes --

MANCHESTER: Who were taken aback by DeSantis, essentially calling for this special session, you know, and then not being as looped in. So, there's been some tension there.

WALKER: Well, we're out of time, Julia, but really appreciate the conversation. Julia Manchester, thanks. Well, Donald Trump begins his second term on Monday. Watch history unfold live on CNN as the 45th President becomes the 47th. Our coverage of the inauguration of Donald Trump begins live from Monday at 8:00 a.m. Eastern on CNN.

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WALKER: This morning, more than 170,000 people are under evacuation orders in Los Angeles as firefighters race to contain the fires before another round of high winds arrives next week. Twenty seven people are dead, though officials say that number may rise as search crews reach affected neighborhoods.

BLACKWELL: But firefighters are making progress. The Palisades Fire is now 39 percent contained, which has allowed thousands of people to return to their homes or what's left of those homes. And the Eaton Fire is now 65 percent contained. Eight more people have been arrested for crimes committed during the wildfires, including felony arson and looting.

More than 400 students from Palisades Elementary displaced by the wildfires have returned to class, but this is at a new campus.

WALKER: CNN's Natasha Chen spoke with the kids and their parents about their experiences as they adjust to life after the fire destroyed their former school.

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STACY BERMAN, PARENT: Honestly, this morning is the best I've felt in a week. Like I'm with my people, I'm with my people. And so, yes, we all just fall in each other's arms and cry. And this is who I belong with. So yes, this is a good day.

NATASHA CHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A good day compared to January 7th when the flames from the Palisades Fire began.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my God.

CHEN: As some scramble to pack what they could from their homes, this close-knit community banded together to scoop up their children to escape.

LAURA SHOCKLEY, PARENT: I brought them with me to Brentwood, and they're all in the car crying, looking behind, and one of them came to me the other day and said, you know, you pinky swear to me that my house --

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SHOCKLEY: That my house won't burn down. And I feel so horrible because I thought I promised her that her house would be OK.

CHEN: But many of their homes are gone, just like their beloved school, Palisades Charter Elementary. This first graders family is moving into their third Airbnb in one week.

(on camera): How are you feeling today? What -- is this your first day here?

VIVALDI ALAVIAN, FIRST GRADER: I'm good. A little freaking out.

CHEN (voice-over): Amid the personal upheaval, this entire student body of more than 400 is now joining another existing school, Brentwood Science Magnet Elementary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can go into the hallway.

CHEN: It's a first day of school unlike any other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My friends lost their homes, and I can't go back to my school anymore.

CHEN: Can't go back to the campus where she grew up. The two Charter Elementaries that burned in the Palisades had educated children from all over Los Angeles, not just the immediate neighborhood. But every single member of this community is connected to someone whose homes turned to rubble.

JULIET HERMAN, PRINCIPAL, PALISADES CHARTER ELEMENTARY: I have two teachers who are unable to be here because of their displacement. I have substitute teachers in those classrooms, that's hard for kids. So, really, just being here for people, making sure everybody is feeling OK.

CHEN: The principal of Palisades Charter Elementary says many staff and students lived in homes passed down by their families who cannot afford to move back. The tight-knit community doesn't know if they'll ever be geographically close again. But going to school together in a new location is a start.

JACKIE SENIS, PARENT: I tell my child, these are your people. We're Palis strong and we'll get through this.

BERMAN: Everything is gone except for this. That's all we have.

CHEN: Natasha Chen, CNN, Los Angeles.

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BLACKWELL: Of course, we'll be thinking about all those families as they start to try to find some normalcy --

WALKER: Yes --

BLACKWELL: Over the next few weeks and months. There's a new report that says that young women are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer as young men. Why experts believe this is happening. That's next.

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WALKER: A new report by the American Cancer Society says women are now almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer compared to men.

BLACKWELL: CNN health reporter Jacqueline Howard has more on the types of cancer driving the increase, and why we're seeing the change.

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JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER: This new report is really shocking because historically, men have had a greater incidence of cancer compared with women. But what we're now seeing when you look at adults younger than 50, women in this age group now have an 82 percent higher incidence of cancer compared with their male counterparts.

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And this new report points to two specific cancer types driving this trend in women. Breast and thyroid cancers. They make up almost one half, 46 percent of all cancers diagnosed among women in this age group. So, what this tells us is that the face of the typical cancer patient here in the United States is changing. It's shifting younger, it's shifting more towards women.

The reason why there are several factors, experts say, that could be tied to higher rates of obesity, could be tied to our diets, could be tied to how we all live a sedentary lifestyle. We're not getting enough exercise, could be tied to environmental factors. So many factors could be at play here. That's still being studied.

But what we can all do to reduce our own cancer risk is, number one, know your own family history. Number two, talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors, when you should get screened, and how often. And then lastly, of course, maintain a healthy lifestyle. Eat a healthy diet, get regular exercise, don't smoke, reduce your alcohol intake. These are all things we can do to lower our cancer risk.

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WALKER: All right, Jacqueline Howard, thank you very much. And still to come, the ban on TikTok is fast approaching. Details on why the popular video app says it will go dark tomorrow. That's after a quick break.

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