the hunter biden pardon be viewed historically? >> i fear that the hunter biden pardon will also. >> taint president biden's legacy in the future. >> the blanket nature of the pardon, the fact that it was a contradiction of a promise he had made during the campaign on his overall legacy, biden said, quote, i hope that history says that i had a plan on how to restore the economy and reestablish america's leadership in the world. at the moment, joe biden is remembered by most americans as not having completed the job that he started. i think over time, joe biden will be remembered for a great first two years. >> the president also seemed to half joke about his age at one point in the interview, saying the only advantage of being an old guy is that he's known every major world leader for a long time, wolf. >> brian todd reporting. brian, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts

right now this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, the deadly inferno. >> officials just confirming that five people are now dead as at least four major wildfires are burning out of control near los angeles. >> not a single one even close to being contained as we've been seeing flames go through home after home officials saying they expect the death toll to rise as crews start sifting through the ashes. >> and it is only getting worse right now. 157,000 people as we speak are now under evacuation orders. the winds are still at hurricane strength, and that is what is fueling the destructive fires. as they are leaping. the largest is the palisades, is now close to 16,000 acres, at one point burning through about five football fields a minute. and as you can see, these fires are burning dangerously close to many iconic landmarks. so

far that those have been spared. and when you look at downtown los angeles, but the reality, though, is what you see on your screen for thousands and just listen to that. you can hear that ripping through the air, the flames and the wind, that power in that particular case, that is a house near pacific palisades. >> some residents have been desperately trying to take matters into their own hands, facing down the flames as they're trying to hose down their homes. that's a losing battle, though, one after the other going burnt to the ground, just smoldering debris. >> now, as you can see here from one of our crews driving down the road, the images are apocalyptic. >> nothing is spared. and let's just show you some new satellite images that show how

>> this is just, this is what really the only house left. well, there's two left burning on this block in alto dina ever all the other houses on this block are gone. >> i'll just quickly pan around. they're just gone. we've been here for for hours now. three, four hours, maybe. just watching. you know, it's these winds, erin, that have just carried this fire. this was, you know, 2000 acre fire earlier. it's been a 10,000 acre fire the last i heard. and that's just this. this one fire that's that's hit altadena. the the eden fire. there's obviously the palisades fire as well. five dead now as the death toll. earlier in the day, it was two dead from the eaton fire. it's now a total of five who have died. i'm not sure if that's

just from this fire or from other fires as well. i haven't heard the breakdown on on the fatalities yet. um, we're starting to see some homeowners coming back on this block, but a lot of them can't get through. there's not much to come back to. they were able, in many cases, to get the most prized possessions out. but it is it's devastating. and the issue here, i mean, there is a water issue, there's no doubt about it. we've heard about it in the palisades. the fire team who was here hours ago, they were doing what they could, but the hydrants had no water. they turned them on. they ran out of water about two minutes before i got there and started talking to them. so they basically kind of created a defensive perimeters around these homes that were that hadn't burned yet, trying to take out any under, you know, cut out any hedges, any shrubbery that might ignite the house. but that was all they could do. and they, they, they just left. there's not enough firefighters. uh, you know, officials have been very clear about that. they've asked for a lot of resources coming from other states as well. it's been

dry here for, you know, eight months, less than an inch of rain over eight months and no rain in sight for the next two weeks, according to the latest forecast. i saw. um, it's it is surreal here. there's just there's just not much these firefighters can do in a situation like this. hopefully the winds will remain, uh, continue to to be dampened. we haven't seen really strong winds. i mean, there's still, there's, you know, a few the wind is blowing, but it's nothing like it was the hurricane force winds in some cases overnight in the early morning hours. and so there's just it's just stunning devastation. >> and so anderson, i know you had a chance just a few moments ago to speak to gavin newsom, the governor of california. what did he say when you asked him about some of the issues you're talking about, the shortage of firefighters and some of them working 48 hour shifts at this point. also, the water issues. >> yeah, he seemed as i mean, certainly as concerned and as, uh, you know, confused. i don't know if it's the right word by the water issue, he said, essentially, i don't

know what is going on with with this water issue. obviously, that's something that that officials here have to to look into and figure out. you know, it seems to be i mean, what officials are saying is that there is overall enough water. it's getting it into some of these hilly, mountainous areas or hills. and that the sort of the tanks that, that, that they use for gravity reasons to, to push that water up and the house just now, you know, the size of it falling down. we're also watching, i should say, there's a car prius in the driveway. so we're watching that. but it hasn't even started on fire yet. it usually starts with the wheels, with the wheels on fire, and then it'll spread. um, the water issues is obviously something that's got to got to be looked at and got to be figured out. but this is just an unprecedented and and it's you know, he talked about resources coming into the state. he said you know that that you know he's on the scene. i mean, he's been walking around talking with firefighters, assessing damage out with fire crews. um, you know, at this point there's not much more you can do right now.

>> all right. anderson, thank you very much. and i want to go to natasha chen now because she's also out front in altadena, another part of the city there. and, natasha, what is happening where you are also, we can see those fires everywhere. >> yeah. right behind us is a business that is on fire. we definitely heard some explosions and that front door wall area collapsed just a few moments ago. this is an example of what we are seeing all around us. this is a major business thoroughfare in altadena that is just off of residential neighborhoods, where we've driven through seeing flames and houses that are just completely burned out. a really tragic vision of a place that just yesterday was all fine. watching the coastal fire at the palisades and now this. is. all right, dude hey, y'all, let's get out of

here. stunning video shows the moment enormous flames engulf a home in pacific palisades. we tried, we tried. >> bro. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry bro. >> i'll get out of here. the air is completely filled with embers. as they race to safety. it's a similar scene all over l.a. county. as intense winds can be seen and heard. blowing hot embers through the sky. >> oh my god, it's jumping over right now for life threatening fires. >> the palisades, eton, hurst and woodley fires are forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. >> i called the fire department about an hour ago. >> obviously, they're very busy. >> i just called again to see if they were coming, and obviously it was very busy. i'm acting on it. i'm really very upset. >> inside the palisades fire continues to grow and has so far destroyed an estimated 1000 structures, making it one of the 20 most destructive wildfires in california's history. it is also the most destructive to ever occur in

l.a. county, according to data from cal fire. >> it's armageddon. i'm driving through a war zone right now and i don't even know what to say. i'm speechless. i'm shocked. >> the eaton fire also exploded in size and is believed to be responsible for at least two deaths. officials say they're seeing a significant number of injuries being reported due to people who did not evacuate. >> heed the advice of first responders when they ask you to evacuate. evacuate. this is not a drill. this is in real time. >> emergency officials say their biggest concern right now, the powerful winds. >> fires being fueled by a combination of strong santa ana winds and surrounding topography, which makes it extremely challenging for u.s. firefighters to really get a handle on it. >> they admit fire crews are struggling to keep up with the demand. >> together, these fires are stretching the capacity of emergency services to their maximum limits. >> so we are actively

monitoring what might be on fire next, what might be exploding. >> so we're being very nimble about moving quickly away from things that are getting too intense. but we know that there are some residents who are just trying to see what is left of their homes. most people have evacuated, thankfully, but erin, it's a very difficult scene to come back to. >> all right, natasha, thank you very much. we're going to see natasha later this hour when she talks about having to be nimble, when she had to flee as the fires were closing in. so, natasha, thank you very much. i want to go to robert garcia now. los angeles national forest fire chief. he is overseeing the fires, including where natasha is. was standing at that right now. so i very much appreciate your time, chief. so what is the situation on the ground as you see it? looking across multiple fires, multiple spots? >> yes. as you've been describing the scene, is that the damage and the devastation and the impact is widespread throughout the southern california area, quite frankly.

and the greater los angeles area, the u.s. forest service is only one of many partners that are engaged across the local, state and federal jurisdictions of responsibility, working seamlessly in a matter of mutual aid. but the level of devastation is quite significant, and the situation is still evolving. it's still fluid. >> so we were told at one point when you talk about how fluid it is that the eaton fire had grown five times bigger in just four hours, i mean, just that the the speed with which it was exploding was incredible. how fast is it growing now? >> yeah. so the latest numbers i have the fire is over 10,000 acres. uh, and, you know, during that early phase of the fire, when, when we were in that most significant of wind that was forecasted, we saw some explosive fire behavior, fire burning across the landscape and vegetation, as well as through commercial and residential areas at

explosive rates of spread, with spotting over a mile to two miles out in front of itself, starting new fires and and how much of it is contained at this point? >> also, in the context of what you're seeing with the winds right now. >> right. so we are working closely with our partners. the angeles national forest is adjacent to within the greater los angeles area. and the fire started out with partners from the pasadena fire department and the angeles national forest, and then immediately joined by los angeles county fire department. and we have been in unified command since then. our number one priority is life safety. and so we are a very low containment. most of the firefighting efforts have been to protect people. citizens of the local area and trying to evacuate and then trying to save structures. so our containment efforts have been really less of a focus as getting people out of harm's way. >> and so very low containment at this at this hour. i mean,

when chief garcia, as you look at this, you've been a firefighter for 30 years and you've seen horrible fires that have devastated towns, cities. have you seen it like this before? >> you know, i've had the fortune to public service across the country fighting fire. and southern california has very unique challenges. the santa ana winds, that surface that we saw yesterday were on historical levels. and the condition of our vegetation this year is on a historical level in terms of dryness. and so we were anticipating some very, very challenging times. we we did lots of preparation in terms of bringing additional resources in days before the wind, bringing additional aircraft. and this is all of our partners here in the greater los angeles area. and what we saw was was just pretty devastating in the overnight hours last night in terms of the explosiveness of this fire behavior, we know that there are you know, it's just incredibly strapped just on the number of firefighters. >> and you talk about how they're there right now have been just trying to have safety

of people. right. as opposed to containment, right. that you've been having to focus on one and not able to do the other. yet we understand from a firefighter group that there are some firefighters that have been working already 36 hours, 48 hour shifts. how long can you even sustain this? are you getting the reinforcements that you need to to even move to try to contain these fires? >> we are. and both both of those statements are absolutely true that we have men and women from our law enforcement agencies and from our fire agencies that have been working around the clock for for over 48 hours, some of some of them. and we are working really hard to bring in reinforcements to provide some, some short reprieve to give some of those firefighters some downtime to re re outfit their equipment, get a little bit of rest, get some food and they'll be back out in the fire lines. but unfortunately there are there are many of those firefighters that are going to be out there for a little bit longer. we are getting reinforcements. um, i am proud to say that here in

southern california and throughout california, the mutual aid system is as robust as you can imagine. um, we had fire on the national forest on the city of pasadena, within the protection area of los angeles county fire department and all those fire departments immediately responded together, entered unified command with our city law enforcement and our county law enforcement entities, and immediately went into a coordinated effort. and it's just it's just tremendous. but all the firefighters in the world to bring to bear, um, you know, we only have enough resources ultimately to sustain a certain number of incidents as we speak. i've been briefed that we are still responding to new fires. we have another fire that's just emerged in the last 30 to 40 minutes in the northern part of los angeles county that we're working on. um, that's called the lydia fire. and so the whole situation across southern california, not only these active fires, but the new ignitions that we've been needing to respond to is pretty dynamic. >> all right, chief garcia, thank you very much. and also talking about that lydia fire as he said that they just have

started to started to go fight in the past 30 to 40 minutes. let's go to nick watt because he is out >> i could tell it was going to be epic destruction. the wind was whipping, the embers were flying and it is. >> look, i mean, this once beautiful, picturesque, serene little sèchey downtown with a californian cafe culture vibe. it's just gone. and, you know, in the past couple of hours, if you pan back around here, aaron, you know, we've seen this hair salon go up. we've seen the back of this dry

cleaners, the next business. we've seen a church. we've seen an apartment building. it is incredible what this community has lost not only over a thousand homes, but also schools, offices, both of their huge grocery stores gone. it is going to take a long time to recover from this. and already people are asking questions. why? listen, we knew this was going to be bad. we knew that these winds were coming in. people were prepared. you know, i had my yellow jacket in my truck. we all knew this was coming, but nobody could know that it was going to be quite this bad. officials were preparing maybe for 1 or 2 fires. they've had four. and these fires are massive. the last fire i covered here in the palisades back in 2021 burned a thousand acres. and we all thought it was terrible. this is 16,000 acres. this is massive, massive, massive. we knew it was going to be bad, aaron. we didn't know it was going to be quite this bad. >> and nick, you speak as obviously you're covering this as a reporter, but you also live there and it's deeply personal. and that is what is so important. you know, you

bring to bear that context of what you saw the last time. i know, you know, you yourself are dealing with evacuation orders in santa monica, where the area where you live in your family had to evacuate. how are you even managing that? >> well, yeah. so while i was working last night, my family had to evacuate. they were on the edge of the mandatory evacuation zone, and my wife figured, let's get out. it's interesting the decisions you've got to make. what do you take with you? what can you fit in your car? what really matters. and of course, what really matters is just the people. so my wife and kids got out last night. we got back into the house. but now, as you say, we hear that, you know, they're expanding the evacuation orders again in santa monica, which is a good few miles over that way. so if it gets into santa monica, that will be a whole other ball game, a whole other just apocalyptic scene of awfulness. i mean, up here, this is an

urban wildfire. this is a city block, you know, and it's just not there anymore. i mean, that church. wow. that church is going up. yeah. i mean, listen, it's covering it. i've covered many fires. covering it in your own community, obviously. is feels more surreal because you're used to having lunch in the little italian restaurant here. that is no more. you know, this is where you live. and it certainly has given me a lot more empathy and understanding. i had some, but it's given me a lot more for the people who've lost homes in many of the fires i've covered in the past. and, you know, i've also been driving around checking on friends houses because of course, they can't get in. and i just went to one friend's house, gone. their entire neighborhood is gone. their lives, they've lived here for years. no more. whole neighborhood flattened, erin. >> completely upended. nick, thank you very much. we'll be coming back to nick. and our breaking news coverage continues. nick talks about, you know, you go to a restaurant, a place you've been going for years and years, a restaurant owner who just witnessed her family business

that has been there for 40 years in pacific palisades, now gone, burned to the ground. and we're going to reunite tonight with the pasadena man that we spoke to last night. you met him. when the fires are raging out of control there. he was trying to help neighbors save their homes, sort of vigilante firefighting. what is he seeing tonight? and we are also following breaking news out of washington this hour. president elect trump now meeting with lawmakers as more and more republicans are backing his calls to seize control of greenland, the panama canal and even canada. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> people who may never even know what a basketball looks like felt his presence. >> he wants the opportunity to make his own mistakes. he's going to end up making them. >> that's when the black mamba was born. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. >> i don't want him to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe. the making of a legend premieres january 25th on cnn.

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have exploded in size, growing nearly five times in about four hours. as we understand it right now. fire crews at this point are doing everything they can just to ensure safety of lives. we're talking to the fire chief, saying right now, containment has not been even something they've been able to focus on. so almost no containment of these fires raging, which are ripping across the los angeles area. the path of destruction in their wake. just devastating incineration homes, businesses, cars, entire towns just gone. one of the businesses that we're talking about here is vittorio ristorante. it is in pacific palisades. and we're going to show you what is left of it now. the owner shared this with us. you can see it's it's nothing sort of that. absolutely. just just burning. the restaurant has been there for 40 years, and it has been in vanessa pellegrini's family for all of that time. it is

their restaurant. and vanessa is with me now. and vanessa, obviously you are unable to probably even fully. just just function realizing what has happened. this loss that is facing your family. is there anything left of the restaurant at this point? >> we first of all, thank you for having me on. um, we have not been able to get back in there. so the video that you are showing is the video that we got at about 1030 this morning. um, and we have subsequently spoken to our landlord, um, who is positive and has told us he's going to rebuild. and i said, we're going to rebuild. and, you know, we're kind of just holding each other up as much as we can during this time. but no, we have not had a chance to go back in there. the roads are

closed. they're not allowing anybody in. so we we really don't know what what's left. >> it is incredible to hear you talk about already rebuilding that. that is the force that you have in you. it's just hard to comprehend the speed with which your life has just changed. i mean, you sent pictures from near the restaurant that were at 11 a.m. yesterday. there's smoke in the distance, but you can see the blue sky. everything is fine. and then here we are. it's gone. i mean, at what point, vanessa, did you even realize that your restaurant was in danger? >> you know, we really didn't know anything. um, at 2 a.m., we got a text message from a neighbor friend. customer, family member. basically, um, who told us that he had just left the area and he had just put out fires, saving his home, his neighbor's home,

directing traffic, and he passed by and said, it's just not looking good for you guys. and that was the last we heard until 1030. so we went about eight hours not knowing, receiving different reports. um, other friends and customers who were texting us, calling us, walking the streets, trying to get in to give us anything. um, and we're just unable to the smoke. um, just the pure carnage of it all was just too much. so we were without anything for, um, for a good eight, nine hours. >> i can't even imagine that time. and then you get the images of the vittorio engulfed in flames, and and, you know, this is 40 years. your your family, your mother immigrated to this country, that that that restaurant. i know it's just your parents life, work. it's your life's work now. um, one of our producers, we're showing

also the anniversary just had the 40th anniversary, and that celebration. um, one of one of my colleagues, our producer jonah, grew up in your area. he knows your restaurant so well, and he's gone there his whole life, to the point that he talks about the garlic knots. they're amazing. if you go on yelp that we see, i mean, countless reviews just, i mean, a part of the community, a part of people's definition of the place, um, is, is your restaurant? what are you going to do next? >> um, you know, it's so funny. my husband and my sister and i, we were just talking, and, you know, he said, well, you got to sweep everything up, get out there, clean it all up. um, get a food truck, bring all the chefs back. um, you know, get a pizza oven and start cooking on the street and bring, you know, at least bring a little bit of community back. i mean, we were your quintessential italian. cheers, everybody knew your

name. i mean, you walked in, you saw kids, you played soccer with, you saw people that you did business with, clubs. um, neighbors. it's. i mean, it really was just a community. it was just a community place that people came together, you know? and i know a lot of people see the palisades as a rich. celebrity. famous, you know, person driven type of location. but i'm going to tell you that the people who live there are people and they're hardworking, palisadians they own laundromats, they own liquor stores, they own restaurants. they, you know, they come together, they play bocce ball in the park. they are just like you and me and even the celebrities, which we have. they they celebrate their birthdays with us. you know, their anniversary, their celebrations of life. it is a

it is a home to so many people. and, um, i you know, i want to tell everybody who's ever watching who's ever in the palisades that we will be back. we're not going anywhere, and we're going to help the entire community rebuild. however, whenever, however that looks. >> well, vanessa, thank you so much for sharing this with us. and i know you were saying, you know, you'll you'll be out there in any way you can making food for people as people try to come back and rebuild from such incredible loss. thank you so much. thank you. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> david acuna is with me now. he's the public information officer for the california department of forestry and fire protection. chief acuna, i don't know if you heard vanessa talking there. the family owns a vittorio restaurant in pacific palisades. it's gone. um, how much? how much bigger do you think these fires are are going to get? we understand now.

there were four, but there are now five. if chief garcia was talking about the lydia fire are now burning in the l.a. area. >> well, you're absolutely correct. the threat is not gone as multiple, uh, chiefs have stated in the press conferences. we are not out of the woods yet. we are expected high winds through tonight into tomorrow, hopefully easing up on friday. but in the meantime, it's going to be up to the public to maintain their vigilance so that we prevent one less spark and make sure that we don't have any more fires pop up. >> so the l.a. county fire chief says there are not enough firefighters to battle all the blazes. i know chief garcia was telling me that you are getting a lot of assistance, but i guess this is a crucial bottom line question for people around the country to understand. i mean, how stretched are your teams right now? are you getting the resources you need to fight the fires? >> so this started out on monday when we started moving

personnel down from the north part of the state, which does have sufficient rain and snow, and so that there's very little fire threat there. so we moved them down to be prepared for this. and then when the fires kicked off, we sent them directly to the fire. however, we're getting to a point now where we're really getting drawn down. so, uh, we just discovered that the oregon department of forestry is going to be sending 70. that's seven zero firefighters down to help us with the fire fight. >> so are you even talking about winds going into tomorrow? uh, i know there's a fifth fire right now. are you able to tell us any more about that? how big that is? i mean, how quickly is all of this still exploding? >> well, so it has a lot to do. you know, all wildland fires move, uh, for three reasons. fuel, weather and topography. so the fuel influenced by climate change and the fact that we've had so many, so many seasons with a lot of

water and less, uh, fire. there's a lot of fuel on the ground. the weather, as we've already discussed significantly, is the fact that there's all these winds that are up to 60 or 100mph, and then topography, both in the altadena and the pacific palisades areas, as well as some of the others, they're all foothills, which means that they have undulating hills that move up and down. and these winds just start whipping through the canyons box canyons, down slopes. uh, that causes the very rapid fire growth. >> all right, well, chief acuna, i appreciate your time. and thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> all right. our breaking news coverage continues here. we're going to go back to the ground. bill weir has just arrived there and has some perspective. as you can see right there from pacific palisades, as we are learning now about that fifth fire. more about that fifth fire and dramatic scramble for safety. natasha chen. she was surrounded by flames. she'd been doing her job reporting and then was surrounded. it was

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santa ana winds. and right now, bill weir is out front. he is live from pacific palisades. and, bill, what are you seeing there? >> erin, i am absolutely gobsmacked by the devastation here in pacific palisades. i know this place well. i used to wait tables just down sunset at gladstone's. this was my commute and to drive through it today and see everything burned to ash down to the ground. two hours ago. this beauty salon that's now gone was intact. completely fine. and now it has spread to the art gallery next door here on villa de la paz. and we're just watching fire trucks sort of triage there going around. not they can't stop to help this when there are other lives at risk. we've heard from the officials. but just to see how this, this beautiful enclave, amazing history in the last 100 years or so. this was a ups store. we got a yogurt place in the palisades pizza just down the street, but they've lost two schools. they've lost two of

their big grocery stores here. and it reminds me so much of paradise, california, the deadliest, costliest fire in this history of this state. this one could surpass it, given the real estate values around here. but what strikes me, erin, is we now live in the era of of climate adaptation. i have to think about the big picture on this beat and what's happening with these overlapping wind events. super dry, tinder dry, month long droughts that create these kinds of storms. but this is nothing like paradise, california, which is a mountain hamlet up among the pine trees. here you have more palm trees and defensible space that you think about. is is no vegetation. there's no vegetation here. this ups store is the victim of embers that probably, you know, were flew for miles. so how to defend some of the prettiest, most beautiful, most cherished neighborhoods in the country. whoa. something's missing. now, uh, as as the art gallery goes up behind, we actually, anecdotally, just to give you

color, we were coming through a checkpoint, and a local resident was pleading with the with the police officer to please let him through because he has a garage full of ammunition that he doesn't want going off in the wildfires here. so many different layers of concern in this area, but so much history in this town now gone. and yet it's an enclave of of of the rich and famous in some places. but the soul of this town, the people who keep it running, the people who own these small businesses, your heart just absolutely breaks. there's an insurance crisis going on now here in california. they're telling insurers that if you want to insure anybody, you have to take on risky wildfire adjacent properties. but this is pacific palisades. it doesn't even fit those definitions, aaron. so we're going to be processing this one. and as you've been saying, this is one of five fires just in this area. yeah. >> no, it's such a beautiful town. when you when you drive through it i mean i found it unforgettable and my, my sister lived out there. you have been covering bill, as you say, so

many of these horrific events, right? in the context of what you're doing now, covering the changing climate. and in that you have been to the ends of the earth, you have been to the ends of the earth to see what is happening. now, here you are in a place where you at one point were waiting tables, a place that is near and dear to your own personal experience. so what stands out to you in that context where it touches you personally and yet you are looking at this from the macro perspective of our changing climate? >> yeah. well, i mean, this place is knows a lot about fire, right? you know, i went to school up the road at pepperdine, and they've been hunkering down since the 80s and trying to fortify that landscape with their own ponds and irrigation system, defensible spaces. and people here are aware they know about evacuations. they've seen the seasons. but i think, you know, this is not our parents fires anymore. this is now the, you know, 70 or 80 mile an hour. winds are not the product of climate change. those are natural, but it's unnatural for us is the overlap between

this dry season. it's supposed to be the rainy season. right now they've got 100th of an inch, i think since december. uh, so last winter, when there was so much rain, it created all this fresh vegetation. things were verdant for a while, but then a super hot summer, followed by drought, followed by these wind events. so like it reminds me of lahaina in maui going there that we lack the capacity of imagination of the worst that could happen. no one imagined all of the palisades burning down, and you don't want to imagine what happens if this wind shifts and pushes us into santa monica. uh, perish the thought. >> yeah, absolutely stunning what you are seeing. thank you very much, bill. and next, we're going to be seeing natasha chen's report. i mean, it was incredible. she was in the middle of the fires and staying to show everyone what was happening, then barely able to safely escape when she and her crew found themselves surrounded by raging fire and breaking news on capitol hill this hour, president elect

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with us now with this raw, behind the scenes look at exactly what happened with her team's escape. crazy times. >> can you hear me now? we finished our live shot right at the spot where people in pacific palisades had been coming down the hill to evacuate. i already knew there was going to be a problem getting out. i even remember saying on the air, i don't think we'll be able to get out the way we came in. this is cnn. we wrapped up the last live shot in the midst of really strong wind gusts, pulled out of the parking lot, me driving one car and our photojournalist tom larson and producer kat jager and a second crew vehicle right behind me. i saw a fire truck at our intersection. asked the firefighter, what's the best way out of here? knowing that there were roadblocks in both directions on pch, he sort of shook his head and said, try going south. so we drove south toward santa monica for almost a mile, and then i knew this was going to be an extremely dicey exit. thankfully, we spotted an emergency crew vehicle going the same way, so we followed very closely behind

that car. oh my god, flames surrounded us on the right and left of the highway, embers jumping into the lanes on the pavement, across our windshields. at one point we heard a loud boom on our right while a house on the left was fully engulfed just yards away from us. we could feel the heat from inside our cars, all the while not being able to see clearly in front of us because of the smoke. there were brief stretches there when i honestly did not know if this was going to end well. i just held my breath, followed the emergency vehicle and kept moving forward. there really was no other choice. it was keep going or get trapped in flames. it wasn't until i could see the famous santa monica pier ferris wheel in the distance, that i knew the air in front of us had cleared up and we were going to be okay. >> natasha i mean, just just unbelievable what you went through. and and i know in all of this, and, you know, when you're in these horrific situations, you know, you're working and yet you're also a

new mother. you've talked about that. you were trying to get home, right home to what matters most in your life. your little one year old. and you start hearing these explosions and you see those paths out closing in front of you. what were you even thinking? just get past this. >> it's hard to know, aaron, in those moments, what to do or even what to think. >> you know, when that explosion happened on one side of us, i braked for a moment, and then the emergency vehicle, i think, also paused. and it's that split second of okay, do we stay? do we go? and it's, you know, you have to make fast decisions because you don't have time to make a mistake. and wow, my my heart was beating really fast. and, um, not a lot of time to think or feel, just kind of get through the moment. and yeah, it hits differently now that there is a baby at home. definitely something i think you can relate to. um, you know, we take a lot of calculated risks in our jobs of what we do. and this time i was like, just,

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china ships all over the place. you have russian ships all over the place. we're not letting that happen. >> i think that the people of panama. i think that the people of greenland. i think that the people of canada, for that matter, should be honored that president trump wants to bring these territories under the american fold. >> also on the wish list, renaming the gulf of mexico and representative marjorie taylor greene says she's already drawn up legislation. >> we change post office names all the time up here. >> you better bet we are absolutely going to change the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. let's go. >> but canada's outgoing prime minister says trump's ideas don't have a snowball's chance in hell. a noted canadian columnist wrote, this country is under attack by our neighbors. they are not stable, not likely to remain democratic, and they are not under trump. our allies. >> hey, donald, have we got a deal for you? >> and the head of the green

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