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Jacob Soboroff: It's About People Not Politics

Former NBC News correspondent, Jacob Soboroff, is back in Studio 1A talking about his latest book, "Firestorm," which looks at the Los Angeles wildfires a year later. In his book, he interviews people directly impacted by the fires, while also recounting what it was like covering this disaster in his childhood neighborhood.

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