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Is quite exciting — if you are from barbados — is that this time, it is by choice. and in sight of the senate is the highest—profile change so far. last year, to great fanfare, the statue of lord nelson was removed. it stood here for 200 years in the area that used to be called trafalgar square. do you think that anything material will change on december 1st? when everyone wakes up? i mean nothing will change for the average barbadian. we will still be who we are. in terms of material stuf...

I mean nothing will change for the average barbadian, we will still be who we are. in terms of material stuff, we will know that everything is here we own, everything that is there is ours, everything that we look forward to, we have put in place for ourselves. there is no more dependency, no more of this looking to someone else. just going to be us. there are some people who say well, republic means we should tear down all remnants of the british and start from scratch. what you think about tha...

But, at the same time, what i think is quite exciting, if you are from barbados, is that this time it is by choice. inside of the senate is the highest profile change so far. last year, to great fanfare, the statue of lord nelson was removed. it stood here for 200 years in the area that used to be called trafalgar square. do you think that anything of material will change on december one? i mean nothing will change for the average barbadian, we will still be who we are. in terms of material stuf...

Fanfare, the statue of lord nelson was removed. it stood here for 200 years in the area that used to be called trafalgar square. do you think that anything of material will change on december one? i mean nothing will change for the average barbadian, we will still be who we are. in terms of material stuff, we will know that everything is here we own, everything that is there is ours, everything that we look forward to, we have put in place for ourselves. there is no more dependency, no more of t...

Statue of lord nelson was removed. it stood here for 200 years in the area that used to be called trafalgar square. do you think that anything of material will change on december one? to material will change on december one? material will change on decemberone? ., ., ., december one? to mean nothing will change _ december one? to mean nothing will change for _ december one? to mean nothing will change for the _ december one? to mean nothing will change for the average - will change for the avera...

Get a voting rights bill act actually that bears his name. i have a special feeling about sister hamer. the last of 20 children, born to a poor mississippi couple. but fanny lou hamer may have been mighty short of material stuff. but she had an abundance of commitment to justice. and remember those days when in fact we saw -- we saw dogs biting at the heels of civil rights workers. we saw billy clubs going against the bodies of women and men.

>> we started panicking. we didnt know what to do. so we hadnt been told to evacuate, but we were going to evacuate. so we just started thinking, my husband said just take anything that, you know, you think you might need. everything can be replaced. lets just get out of here. >> reporter: nearly 200,000 people in southern california evacuated this week. some returning to a home. >> hi, honey, its me. our house is still there. yeah. everything looks good. >> reporter: others digging through what...

Lost. in los angeles bel air neighborhood, hillside mansions burned, more people running from flames. >> we started panicking. we didnt know what to do. so we hadnt been told to evacuate, but we were going to evacuate. so we just started thinking, my husband said just take anything that, you know, you think you might need. everything can be replaced. lets just get out of here. >> reporter: nearly 200,000 people in southern california evacuated this week. some returning to a home. >> hi, honey, i...

Rubble. the fire pushed through this community, burning house after house, just where were standing we can see more than half a dozen houses on this block alone. firefighters extremely concerned about the deteriorating conditions and trying to prevent more people from losing so much. >> a lifetime. couple of lifetimes. like i said, 84, 83, my mom and dad have been living here for 30 years, they built it themselves. there is not much. if there is a few things that will help them, you know, have s...

Fire whips through like this, there just is no warning. in a hurricane, youd have advance warning. you might get those mementos and we are seeing this throughout the ventura area. we spoke with one resident who described what it was like for his parents as they tried get out but couldnt get everything they wanted. lets listen. >> despite all of the loss, we are fortunate. we have -- we have family close by. we have other options and its material stuff other people have so much more tragedy in th...