on a caribbean cruise on saturday. what over-the-counter meds should i bring in case of infection? >> well, first of all, have a great time on the cruise. that sounds fantastic. um, a few things, a couple things. with norovirus, there is no there is no antibiotic. this is a virus we're talking about. antibiotics are for bacteria. there's no singular medication. so the medications that you should take along are to treat symptoms. um, taking something for nausea, like dramamine. always a good idea for cruise ships, but specifically with norovirus, having things like pepto-bismol. ibuprofen because people develop chills and body aches and things like that. and also, as i mentioned, hydration, sometimes it can be tough to keep fluids down. so having oral rehydration salts or things like that can go a long way really quickly. there's been about 14 norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships so far in 2024 last year i guess. now, um, take a look at the numbers there. so be careful. take those medications

along and have fun. >> all right. excellent advice as always. great to see you, sanjay. thank you very much. brand new hour of cnn cnn news central starts right now. >> breaking news. things are getting worse, not better. the windstorms fanning the out-of-control wildfires in southern california. hundreds of firefighters on the front lines and tens of thousands are being forced to flee their homes as flames. sweep through several cities. >> it's literally apocalyptic. >> and i've lived in malibu my whole life, and i've seen tons of fires. i was i'm scared for my life. >> we are live on the ground as three dangerous wildfires continue to rage, 0% contained in los angeles county. plus, president-elect trump heads to washington today ready to meet with republicans on plans to advance his agenda, even as he

urges international leaders with his bluster on trying to expand american territory, not leaving out military intervention. i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> all right. the breaking news. exit your house. now, that is an urgent new warning, as officials tell tens of thousands of people to get out immediately with wildfires ripping through los angeles county. we want to make clear the situation at this hour is critical, with the explosive winds expected to make the fires even worse. the sun is about to rise there. we could get our first look at some of the devastation overnight. there's no real count yet of how many homes or businesses have been destroyed. winds are too fierce to fight them from the air. there's really almost nothing that can be done with the fire. 0% contained. this was the scene in pasadena just minutes ago. >> there is a church here fully engulfed in flames. >> it is a very large church.

>> according to the map here, as it expressions church, we have just seen this thing explode in flames in the last couple of minutes. l.a. county fire is up here helping out with pasadena fire as they try to get this under control, but the winds up here really just whipping through this area. >> and i have to tell you at times when that happens, we have seen embers the size of your hand. >> they have been huge embers blowing off of this church and flying up into the air. >> all right. i want to get right to cnn's stephanie elam. i see a lot of activity around you in pacific palisades. stephanie, if you can hear me, what's going on there? >> yeah, john, i'm going to step out so that we can show you this, because we watched the top of this complex up here burn down. we saw it. it really in the midst of a massive wind gust, really just blew up in flames and burned down. and then it seemed things got quiet. but now we've seen some

action here. where firefighters and it looks like law enforcement are blocking off the street because it looks like it's burning between these two buildings back there and still on top of the building. if you listen, you can hear some of the pops going off and that is the fire destroying these buildings, things that are inside the building that are burning, the wind gusts are still very strong. just took my breath away there for a second and we can see some more fire burning back in this canyon here. this is why tens of thousands of people are evacuated. also, why you still have many people, tens of thousands there too. without power. some of it because they don't want to spark another blaze here throughout the region, school has been canceled. today, all firefighters are being asked to come back to work, even if they were supposed to be off. this is an all hands on deck moment and things are tenuous right now. they are not working on containing these blazes. yeah, there's black smoke there. that means something is burning there and i can smell it. it's an acrid smell when it's not

just wood burning, but when it's actually a building burning. there's a more metallic scent to it. i can smell that now. so there is something burning back there that is of concern. and that is why we've seen these responders to get in line here. but the eaton fire out in palisades, we've seen those evacuation orders extend extended. what? you were just listening to that reporter there. this area is on the opposite side of, let's say, downtown l.a. just to give you an idea, i am standing right up against the pacific ocean here on the pch. so this shows you just how wide this wind event is. i was actually driving out to where president biden was going to give a speech out near joshua tree national park yesterday. so i was hundreds of miles away and coming back to the city. i could see the massive plume of smoke that was already blowing and cascading across l.a. county. this morning when i woke up, i could smell the wildfire where i live. that has never happened

before. the winds actually woke me up at one point. this is something that we haven't seen here, and it's really important to point out just how dry it is here in l.a. county. we haven't had any real measurable rain in months. in fact, we're back in drought, and this has been the driest start to the wet season in l.a. county ever. so you think about that. you think about how dry this wind is, how much vegetation it is up in the pacific palisades, where it's twisty, windy and very verdant. all of that now is just fuel for this fire. and that is why it's been so treacherous for people to get out, and also why they want people to stay away. and i can look down the pacific coast highway heading north, and i can see something burning. now something is starting to burn back here as well. so while we're in the midst of the smoke, i'm telling you, this is not over. it is still very precarious. and i can hear some of the firefighters yelling. so yeah, something is burning behind this building. we're going to keep our eyes on it for you, john. >> yeah, let's just take that full for a second so i can explain what happened there, because this all happened while

you've been on the air with us in the last few minutes. there's that big white building in the background. the roof had been burning on that. that had already happened. but now what's new is between that building and this building with the staircase, there's clearly some kind of a fire on the on the ground, maybe there you can see the glowing. and we saw a ton of smoke rising up from there. so this fire, stephanie is moving closer to you, going through these structures. yeah. >> and you just also need to keep in mind too, that the top of that building, there was a much taller structure. and since we've been here, it's burned down. so we've watched that burn down. and then i know i keep saying this about palm trees, but palm trees, i love them, but they're scary in wildfire because they move so much in these winds. if they get caught in one of those embers and start to go up in flames, they can then throw that fire. this is part of the reason why i've talked to firefighters over the years, and they say, don't put palm trees on your property. and this is the reason why you see how they're blowing in the wind there. that is concerning. i can also see there's an

equinox in this building here as well. so i don't know what's behind the building exactly, but i can tell by the way the firefighters are responding and law enforcement is blocking off the road. they are concerned they're going into action to shut this down. but we'll keep watching it. oh, and starting to blow up over on this side too a little bit. so we'll keep our eyes on it as we watch this. because sometimes it looks like things are done and they're not. they get smoky and then they build back up. the winds are not done here either. that's going to make this more treacherous. >> these fires on the move right around. stephanie elam, stephanie stay safe. we'll come back to you. kate. >> so stephanie is in pacific palisades. we're going to be getting to a guest shortly, also in pacific palisades. but before that, we're starting to get a sense of some of the injuries that people are suffering from the fires as people are trying to run and flee from the fire, civilian and firefighters alike. >> we have obviously had a significant amount of injuries and burns from patients trying to escape the

fire. that left too late, and we were able to obviously treat them and bring them to local area hospitals. but we urge everyone to exit immediately while it is still safe. we have a very large mandatory evacuation area and there's safe exit corridors to get out. >> talk about burn injuries, broken bones, head trauma, smoke inhalation injuries a lot. they are dealing with. joining us right now is joining us right now is brant pascoe a battalion chief with cal fire. thanks so much for jumping on the phone. talk to me. what does pacific palisades look like from your perspective this morning? >> yeah, right now i'm sitting in an area that looks really apocalyptic. it's a whole neighborhood. i don't even see a house standing. it's really. it's really hard to see right now. it's still windy. there's still a lot of fire all around us. so we're not out of out of this by

any means. >> i was told last hour containment efforts are still on pause because of the winds. we see the winds whenever we talk to one of our correspondents on the ground, as we just did with stephanie elam. what is the most important thing for your teams right now? is it getting the aircraft back up in the air right now? >> the most important thing is still life safety. >> if there's anyone in the way of this fire that may not have evacuated on time or needs help, that is our highest priority. and then property as well. so after that, yes, once we can get those aircraft up, if the winds subside a little bit this morning, we can get up, make a difference with our aircraft. but i don't think it's predicted to go that way. so again, life safety is number one priority for us. >> and with how fast the fires are moving and how erratic the winds are, are you finding that people are being caught off guard, that the fire is just suddenly upon them?

>> yeah. and that's why i like to echo that, that that message of leave early if you can, because a normal street that you leave and get out of town on is fine on a normal day. but when the whole neighborhood is trying to leave, we saw it turn into a parking lot yesterday and give a lot of people problems. so yes, leave early if you can. >> this is all handsrehow are ye crews doing? what are you hearing from them? >> yeah, talking to the the firefighters out here on the line, they're exhausted. you can see it in their eyes, but they're not leaving here until they have relief. so with no relief, they're going to keep fighting and they know they're in it for the long haul. >> we had a guest on earlier. she was speaking to my colleague sarah. she lives in pacific palisades. she's evacuated. she says she thinks half of the people she knows have lost their homes. given what you're seeing, do you think more people are going to be saying the same by the end of this? >> i believe so, yes. i had to

tell some people that i met at the hotel that were evacuees, and i went to check on their house for them. and yeah, there's nothing left of this neighborhood. um, i it's dark, so i can't tell exactly how many homes, but it's going to be a large number. >> i mean, is pacific palisades just wiped out? i mean, that's what i feel like. that's the sense is just so many businesses that are also destroyed as well. i mean, this is going to have how huge do you think the impact is going to be? >> you know, i can't say for sure yet without seeing the whole realm of this fire. and the wind is still blowing. so even if something is standing right now, there's no guarantees that it can be saved with with these 70 mile, 80 mile an hour winds out here. so we're doing everything we can to save anything we can. >> brant pascoe with cal fire, thank you so much for jumping on the phone and for what you guys are up against right now. i really appreciate it, sarah.

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devastating night. as these fires burn in at least three locations there, we saw some fire personnel in these pictures. as the camera pans around a little bit, you can see them there. there's not much they can do. the fires right now are 0% contained. the winds are too fierce to fight them from the air. for the most part. the firefighters we spoke to and they're there. they're at the ready. they tell us it's just too hot, too erratic for them to get close enough to try to put them out. so they're positioning where they can, preparing where they can. very dangerous. as those fires move near that car and the gas tank, perhaps in it as well. as we look at this, let's bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam. extraordinary images from altadena. derek, talk to us about where these fires are burning and what we can expect over the next few hours. >> john. extraordinary images, but also extraordinary sound to hear the crackling in the background and the firefighters

talking on their intercoms and staying away from the fires. stephanie elam was reporting on how the palm trees that are so synonymous with southern california become these flame throwers in an extreme fire event, just like we're experiencing right now. and you can see just that as the embers from these very dried out palm trees, the dried out vegetation continues to be whipped around by winds in excess of 80mph, sometimes reaching as high as 98. so check this out. this is the moment that the palisades fire one of three large uncontained fires burning out of control over western los angeles county erupted. this is tuesday afternoon local time. and look at the direction of the wind. you can see that more north to north easterly component. this is really critical. let me explain why. so we're kind of taking a broader perspective. this is the cal fire website. here's the santa monica pier right there. very famous beach. this is the area that's already burned. look at the topography, the mountains and the canyons. and as we zoom in a little closer, notice all of these

buildings, this densely populated residential area. well, this is the latest information that we can actually provide to you. but this map hasn't been updated since late last night because the aircraft responsible for actually mapping the burned area from this fire can no longer fly either. can the fixed wing rotor airplane that used to contain these fires, because the winds are too strong and they're too erratic. so what we do know is that the canyons here have funneled the winds. they have taken the embers which you saw in the video of the flame torched palm trees in the area, taking those embers and started additional spot fires. here's one. here's another. here are others. and of course, all of the buildings and residential and apartment areas that surround it are at jeopardy as we speak. so the wind direction is crucial right now. generally out of the north to northeasterly direction. but if it changes to more of a north northwesterly direction, that's known as a backing wind, meaning that it changes in a counterclockwise direction. i'm going to go back one graphic to show you

that this could fan into a more densely populated area of western los angeles county. so again, the latest information we can provide you is that, of course, buildings are burning out of control. we've seen the video, but an additional area that's densely populated here is at risk as well. >> you know, derek, if we just can we can put up the map again. of the three locations, these fires are burning in los angeles county so people can just see how spread out it is. i'm going to walk actually into the shadow here. just to point this out again, you see pacific palisades right here. this is where it's right near the coast. and that's where the wind from the the water is coming in and going out, but providing no relief up here in pasadena, unfortunately, where i have some friends, people are having to evacuate very quickly. it's been terrible there overnight. and then up there, the hearst fire near santa clarita and san fernando, again near population centers. wind shifts could make it even worse. derek van dam will check back in with you in a little bit, sarah. >> all right. thank you. john. the message from officials this morning, if you get the evacuation order, don't mess around. take it seriously. your

life will depend on it. take a listen to one evacuee that i spoke with just last hour about what she saw as she left. >> i think my home is okay, but i have a business in the village that i do not think made it. there are a lot of businesses owned by residences that are gone. it was so surreal. i felt like we were in that movie, the war of the worlds. um, it i didn't recognize the streets that i were on as our own. i would say half of the people i know, um, i have about 200 students. i think about half of the people i know have lost their homes. >> that was tricia constantino saying that she believes half the people she know has lost their homes. and we just heard kate talking to officials who said likely more homes will be burned. with us now is dave waterfall, a former cnn producer and current santa monica resident, where there is also fire burning that is somewhere between 5 and 8 miles from the pacific palisades

down. as most people know, near the beautiful pacific ocean. dave, what are you experiencing? and your cool capacity there at triumph motorcycles? >> hey, good morning sara. we, uh, we've had the misfortune of having the fire. >> um, come to our neighborhood, so we were forced to evacuate around 9 p.m. last night. >> um, and so my family and i, we evacuated to our dealership here in santa monica. >> um, that is a terrifying call to get. we've gotten it before. i used to, as you know, i used to live not far from you. um, and when you get that call, i mean, what is it that you grab? what do you do to get out? and when you left, what did you see around you? >> so i, we took a bunch of video, um, just so we could share and document it as well. but, um, my wife, we have a go bag, um, and she over the

christmas break, she actually filed everything. so we have all of our important documents. papers, uh, a couple of hard drives, our pets, our kids and our kids packed a backpack of essentially anything. um, i did sneak out of here on a motorcycle this morning, and go see my neighborhood, and it is blocked by the police. >> um, there's a lot of wind damage. >> i saw my house. >> we lost our gate and fence. >> um, there's trees down that have crushed cars. >> and on top of houses. >> and the fire is the fire lines eight blocks from our home. >> wow. just eight blocks. which means there will be a ton of smoke damage. usually that comes into these houses. luckily, it sounds like yours is still standing at this hour. when you hear from authorities that things are going to get worse, that in the next, you know, four hours or so the winds expected to to pick up

and really push this fire. what is your greatest concern at where you are? >> i mean, ultimately it's just life. >> people need to heed the evacuations. this fire came up so fast. we haven't had a burn since it's been eight years since we had a big fire. the skirball fire. and there's so much dry vegetation. um, we're surrounded by canyons. um, homes are kicked in with trees and on top of each other. and so, i mean, we have a cedar shake roof and any of those palm fronds that catch on fire. it's like a, you know, a bottle rocket that just. so it's those things where a home just. yep. >> dave. i mean, you make a really poignant point. the point is to survive this. that's just stuff. but it is certainly hard for when you work your whole life, especially in a place where things are so expensive to to buy something, to have a home and then to watch it just go

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day. and he's been doing it since january 7th. >> it was one of the first things he talked about in the beginning of his presidential campaign. i do want to ask you, do you feel betrayed by the american people who put donald trump back into office, or just donald trump himself? and some of the republicans around him who used the language like this was just a peaceful march. >> it it's a little bit of both. i mean, donald trump is who he who he says he is. he's he's not surprising anybody, especially after four years of his presidency. um, if a snake bites you, you get mad at the snake. no, that's what a snake does. a snake is supposed to bite you, but that's who donald trump is. i had more faith in the american people that they would see through what? and disqualify him for what happened on january 6th. uh, it's always been clear that i thought the institutions the senate failed to convict

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time. i just want to quote you because i thought this was was important. you have said i like to live by the phrase until there's nothing that can be done. there's always something that can be done. what will you do if trump pardons the very people who attacked you and your fellow officers? >> well, i won't remain quiet about it, you know, um, just sitting here in silence is what a lot of people are doing. um, i'd love to know what the fop thinks about this. the fop was allowed to endorse donald trump for his presidency, and that's fine. they can talk about policies all they want, but when it comes to putting people who attack police officers back out on the street, i would love to know their thoughts on it or if they condemn it. i was glad to see that, uh, my former chief chief manger put out a statement saying that he's against the pardons of former capitol police chief steven sund did the same also. but it's just always pushing back against it. um, that's what they do. they keep on pushing the narrative that nothing happens. it's their attempt to

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for president-elect donald trump was set to sit down with bret baier and martha maccallum, and the book says that his advisers were actually a little bit nervous about this, because those two anchors are known to be a bit more of a tough questioners to the president elect. >> but he wanted to do it. >> but then they hit the jackpot just about 30 minutes before they were set to go on stage. >> this book says that the team managed to get their hands on the questions. i'm going to read to you part of this excerpt. they say about 30 minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at fox. holy expletive. >> the team thought they were images of all the questions trump would be asked, and the planned follow ups down to the exact wording jackpot. >> this is like a student getting a peek at the test before the exam started. >> then they say that the team then had some time to workshop their answers about things like political retribution, and trump ended up having like was pretty cool about it in the town hall. >> now, we of course asked fox news about this, and they say that while we do not have any evidence of this occurring, and alex isenstadt has conveniently refused to release the images

for fact checking, we take these matters very seriously and plan to investigate should there prove to be a breach within the network. alex isenstadt told me he has multiple sources on this. he stands by his reporting, and when i went to the trump campaign to ask them for their comment, they didn't directly address this or really deny it. they say president trump was the most successful and transparent candidate in american history. >> the second nugget in all of this in this book is that president-elect donald trump seriously floated fox host maria bartiromo as a possible vice presidential pick, but he was ultimately talked out of it by his campaign team, them telling her that he didn't they didn't have enough time to vet her like the other candidates asked the trump campaign about this as well. >> and they essentially said that press vice president elect vance was the best choice all the time. this book comes out in march of this year. it's called revenge, and there's going to be a lot of scoopy nuggets in it. >> it's already have already have a lot of scoopy nuggets, scoopy nuggets, and you'll be getting a lot more great reporting on us. thank you very, very much. >> i do require any time you

have anything to ask me that both of you send your questions in advance. so i know so i can prepare for my answers. >> refused and that has nothing to do with journalistic ethics. no, but you are a little scoopy nugget. now we're going to we're going to move on. thank you for joining us. this is cnn news central newsroom. up next. >> yellow didn't pass the tissue test. buckle up. checkup. there's toothpaste white and there's crest 3-d whitestrips white. >> whitening like a $400 professional treatment. >> prepare for nonstop smile. >> crest tempur-pedic designed the ergo pro smart base to help you fall asleep more easily. it's gentle massage and relaxing sounds help calm your mind every night. save up to $500 now on select adjustable mattress sets. >> i have to find a babysitter. >> i have a lot of questions. >> when can they start? >> today. >> now how about saturday? >> are they background checks?

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