Jimmy Kimmel breaks down while addressing the tragic L.A. wildfires that have been sweeping through the city. During his Monday night monologue, Kimmel addressed his late night audience and broke up in near tears several times while showing how close the wildfire was to their set on the major Los Angeles street of Hollywood Boulevard.
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00:00I think I speak for all of us when I say it has been a sickening, shocking, awful experience,
00:06but has also been in a lot of ways a beautiful experience.
00:10Jimmy Kimmel breaks down while addressing the tragic L.A. wildfires that have been sweeping
00:15through the city. During his Monday night monologue, Kimmel addressed his late night audience
00:19and broke up in near tears several times while showing how close the wildfire was to their set
00:24on the major Los Angeles street of Hollywood Boulevard.
00:27Many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry. Some of our co-workers lost their homes.
00:34That's Hollywood. It's been terrible.
00:39He continued, and the truth is we don't even know if it's over. We had 100 mile per hour winds
00:44fueling this nightmare, and as of tonight, winds are back.
00:47Once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other. People
00:54who lost their own homes were volunteering in parking lots, helping others who lost theirs.
01:00Kimmel also took aim at President-elect Donald Trump and his response to the wildfires,
01:04which continue to blaze, and as of press time, have killed at least 24 people.
01:09The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren't white
01:13enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, it's disgusting, but it's not surprising.
01:19ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live resumed production on Monday. The talk show had halted production
01:24last week after the L.A. County fires first broke out on January 7th. More than a dozen
01:28L.A.-based shows had paused production due to the fires. For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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