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Elan, Mosk and Vivek Ramaswamy have outlined their plans to slash the federal workforce with the help of a team of, quote, small government crusaders. What's in store for federal workers, and how are they planning for change? This January 1A's.gov series guides you through various government agencies and the people working for you. Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR. Shea Stevens Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shae Stevens. Tens of thousands of people remain under evacuation orders as fires burn in Los Angeles, some

from neighborhoods with narrow winding roads. Many communities around the nation don't have adequate evacuation routes, as NPR's Lauren Sommer reports. The Palisades fire grew explosively, driven by powerful winds. As residents in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood fled, they found roads that were jammed with cars. Some had to flee on foot. It's a situation that happened in other fires with more deadly consequences, like in Lahaina,

Maui and in Paradise, California. Many communities around the country are in the same situation with few roads in and out. Studies show that many are also behind on evacuation planning, lacking the resources. New technology is helping. Some communities are using computer simulations to plan better evacuations and analyze where the bottlenecks are. Lauren Sommer, NPR News. Officials in Los Angeles County say thousands of homes and businesses are believed to have been burned along the Pacific Coast Highway alone. NPR's Kirk Sigler has more. I'm standing here on Pacific Coast Highway. It's really this eerie smell among other

things. You can smell the sea over here, the waves crashing, and then it's just this sulfury, charred smell of burning rubble and vegetation. I'm even looking at a fire truck trying to save a house right in front of me here. Doesn't look like they're gonna do it, but embers have been still flying in and catching things on fire. I think that's partly why they don't have an updated destruction tally, because this still is just such a fluid situation. Up and down this highway, hotel over to my right is totally burned. I can see in the distance the Getty Villa, the famous museum. It appears to be intact, although the vegetation all the way up right around it is burned.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reporting. President Jimmy Carter has been laid to rest after being returned to his hometown of Plains, Georgia. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Carter was buried next to his wife Rosalynn at their family home. People line the streets waving American flags as the funeral procession of the nation's 39th president made a journey through downtown Plains. It's a somber moment, says Maude Raven Russell, whose 98-year-old father and Carter were childhood playmates.

So I have known him all of my life, and I'm 77 years old. So I have known him all of my life, and he has been a down-to-earth person. He's been president to all, but he's been been called to us and home, you know. The ceremonies here included a U.S. Navy Missing Man Formation flyover. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Plains, Georgia. You're listening to NPR News. The U.S. Senate has advanced legislation to allow federal authorities to detain unauthorized migrants accused of certain crimes.

Democrats joined Republicans in voting to allow debate on the measure, which is named after Lakin Riley, the Georgia nursing student who was killed by a migrant last year. Riley's assailant entered the U.S. illegally and had been allowed to stay pending his immigration case. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Washington Thursday for the funeral of former President Carter, as Dan Karpanchuk reports. He also met with U.S. business leaders as he made the case against the tariffs threatened by incoming President Donald Trump.

Trudeau says he believes Trump's talk about annexing Canada is aimed at distracting from talks on tariffs. Trump has threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods when he takes office. Trudeau says Trump is trying to take the focus off the many items such as oil and gas, electricity, steel and aluminum and lumber, which will be a lot more expensive for U.S. consumers if the President-elect moves forward on tariffs. Trudeau met with several executives, including the CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers

and the CEO of Business Roundtable. He says trade and investment between the two countries supports millions of jobs on both sides of the border and that free and integrated trade is vital to both countries, whereas tariffs would have a negative impact. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpanchuk in Toronto. Danielle Pletka Alec Baldwin is accusing officials in New Mexico of malicious prosecution. The actor filed a civil lawsuit months after a judge cleared him of involuntary manslaughter for his shooting death on a movie set during a

rehearsal in 2021. This is NPR News. The Indicator is a podcast where daily economic news is about what matters to you. Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation. News.