Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 15th January

On today's episode, the US National Weather Service is warning of powerful winds in the LA area, where several major fires are still largely uncontained, an unusually large number of homeowners will have big decisions to make this year, with 80 percent of mortgages coming up for renewal in the next 12 months, Ukraine has launched one of its largest attacks on Russia since the February 2022 invasion, A wildlife campaigner says the potential extinction of New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguins is partly due to "human interference", and six planets are lining up across the night sky this month in a so-called "parade of planets".