of that. the air is advantage of that. the air is very— advantage of that. the air is very tough today, particularly for those _ very tough today, particularly for those who are challenged medically. if you can stay home and work— medically. if you can stay home and work from there, i would recommend that. we will continue to support our partners in the fire service and — partners in the fire service and other law enforcement partners, but to the public who are watching this, a sincere thank— are watching this, a sincere thank you _ are watching this, a sincere thank you to all of you for your— thank you to all of you for your cooperation and your patience _ your cooperation and your patience as we all get through this together. thank you, madam chair. this morning, we woke up to a dark cloud over all of los angeles. but it is darkest for those who are most intimately impacted by these fires. it has been an immensely painful 2a hours for communities i represent, the palisades, the hearst and woodley fires are all in the

third district. our strength is in our togetherness. that will determine how we make it through. we need your partnership in this time of crisis. it is difficult to process the immensity of the destruction and loss and we extend our hearts and every resource we have two or all of our impacted residents. we know when we talk about the structures, they aren'tjust structures, they aren'tjust structures, notjust houses, they are homes. this is our home. these are places where we build community where we raise families, where we make memories that we will never forget, even if we can't go back to the structures. these are our homes. losing home is simply devastating. i know that we are all here to support you and stand with you in this time of need. aggressive winds...

again, we have temporarily lost the feed for that news conference that several different agencies telling. it has been restored. the talent and tenacity of our first responders is nothing short of extraordinary and i have said it before, these people on the front lines are you doing this because this is their calling. overnight wins grounded our vehicles and we have red flags conditions until end of day tomorrow. because of these fearless warriors on the front lines we are doing all we can to contain this fire. thank

you. malibu, santa monica, sylmar, granada hills, and surrounding communities. our number one message to everyone in the impacted areas is to follow all evacuation orders and warnings and to stay where you are safe as long as the evacuations remain in place. we continue to have sheltered capacity for you for you, for your pets and we have animal sheltering sites as well. these orders are notjust to keep you safe and to keep your community safe, they are to keep those on the front lines say. the longer that you waited to evacuate, the more you are putting people in danger who are putting their

lives on the line... well, more pre—care of that news conference. let's read what we have been watching. a variety of lead officials updating us, the important first update is that we can see it on the screen, two civilian fatalities have been reported in the eton fire, of those are four major fires that are taking place. the chief as saying there had been a high number of significant injuries to people who did not evacuate and that eton fire continues to grow with, as he described it, zero containment. in terms of the other officials, they reported no fatalities in the palisades fire. in terms of the area they are dealing with, it

is 5000 acres destroyed, a thousand structures also destroyed. one of the fire chiefs saying the fires were a widespread disaster and the la city fire chief saying fires are stretching emergency services capacity to their limits. the police chief who spoke their saying there were some heroic stories with officers getting people out just moments before buildings collapsed. the fire chief saying, we are absolutely not out of danger yet, 10% of schools also have closed. we heard that from the la police chief that fire conditions, they were unprecedented and also unpredictable with wind speeds. he said he had never seen anything like it of 75 mph. that is what they are dealing with. we will return for some of the questions in a moment or two. we willjust

come away from that because that feed is breaking up a little bit. i want to also show you some extraordinary pictures that have come into was which gives you another glimpse of what we are dealing here. this is video taken by a passenger on board a flight that had been re—routed to los angeles international airport yesterday. that gives you a glimpse with the orange glows of the fires. an enormous area of the fires. an enormous area of fires and as was quite clear in that a news conference, so far those four fires they are battling with, zero containment in any of those fire. that is really worrying for the officers on the ground. as you heard, evacuations order in place and they are urging people to actually heed that, listen to that and leave the danger areas. listen to that and leave the dangerareas. let's listen to that and leave the danger areas. let's return to reporting on the ground. the cbs correspondent sent this

update from malibu where firefighters are working there throughout the night to try to get things under control. we moved west a mile or two and it is significantly worse in this area. smoke is a lot thicker, a lot darker. you see so many embers, and integers shooting down this way and it is because of this, more structures on fire. we are talking big buildings, a lot of them burned to the ground. we are seeing, again, that wind started to pick up on and off. the flame colour is telling the story of how much this is burning. orange flames, we see blue flames which are very, very hot. obviously, we see firefighters on the defensive. you are going to see boots on the ground. they are doing the best they can to prevent the

fire from spreading to the nearby structure. we have hoses shooting water on top of the buildings, from the roof and also on the ground, on the side of that building. the building to the left is completely burned to the ground. just about the foundation is what is left. we have been seeing them working on this building for quite some time now. just some of those hours through the night when they were really battling the height of the blazes. let me show you when dawn came what it looked like. incredible pictures. the early moments of sunrise. you can see the orange glow. it is a huge amount, the acreage they are dealing with, just a palisades fire is 5000 acres destroyed so far. thousand structures. as they were just describing in so many of those

areas it is making swift progress with the wind speeds also whipping up, it is moving the fires so quickly. people are leaving their homes and everything at such a rash. jp morganjust everything at such a rash. jp morgan just putting out something that the preliminary estimates indicate that insurance losses from these wildfires could approach $10 billion. that is high but manageable. that gives you on the financial side of things, a glimpse of the magnitude of what they are dealing with. as i was saying from the news conference, two civilian fatalities in the eton fire and those officials are saying none of those fires are under control, or remotely under control. repeating again and again, the evacuation orders which have expanded to 32,500 people, they must be listened

to. that is the qr code, that will take you to the bbc live page, constant updates on reporters accounts, witness accounts and related details from the officials. we continue to monitor that news conference if more significance comes from it we will return. for the next few minutes, less turn to a few of the other important studies of the other important studies of the other important studies of the day. political leaders in europe have been reacting to donald trump's refusal to rule out using military force to seize greenland. the german chancellor olaf scholz expressed what he called "a certain incomprehension". mr trump made his remarks during questions from reporters at his estate in florida where he said greenland's status as a self governing territory of denmark is "open to question". the comments came as his son donald trumpjnr, was in greenland on what he called a

�*personal day trip�* to talk to people. the vast arctic territory is strategically sited here between the us and russia and has a wealth of oil, gas and other natural resources. the us secretary of state says it is not going to happen. fine it is not going to happen. one ofthe it is not going to happen. one of the basic _ it is not going to happen. iez of the basic propositions we brought to our work over the last four years is that we are stronger, we are more effective, we get better results when we are working closely with our allies not saying you are going to do things that will alienate them. having said that, the idea expressed about greenland is obviously not a good one. may be more important, it is one thatis be more important, it is one that is not going to happen. we shouldn't waste a lot of time

talking about it.— talking about it. interesting there from _ talking about it. interesting there from antony - talking about it. interesting there from antony blinken. j let's speak to associate professor of arctic security politics at the royal danish defence college, and co author of greenland in arctic security, machacobsen. why would the us want control of green and chris mcdonald i was talking about national security but tell me more. it is important to emphasise that the us already have military control of greenland. what donald trump wants an extension of that, that is a good question. that's why other reason the us has interesting greenland? one is greenland has a strategic location located in the middle of the arctic, between north america and russia. if tricia were to send missiles towards the north

america, towards washington, they would fly via the north pole over greenland and