as you know. they they talk about whether to stay, how to defend these sorts of things, a lot of gratitude and a lot of hope up there tonight that those winds don't shift for the worse. >> yeah, bill weir, thanks so much. appreciate all your coverage. i want to show you, um, if you want to, if there's want to contribute to, to to the efforts here to figure out a way to, to help people here, go to cnn. dot com slash impact. well, there's a list of organizations that are that are doing work on the ground here that cnn.com/impact, uh, i want to show you just a live picture also of the kenneth fire again, which we are following closely. as i said, it's gone from 50 acres. it's now at 1000 acres. so that's an update that i just got. it had been 800 the last i heard. it's now up to 1000 acres. and that is something they are going to be working on probably all night

long. the news continues here on cnn. >> it's friday, january 10th, right now on cnn this morning, the life that you had is just gone. wide scale destruction california communities scorched, residents trying to pick up the pieces, wildfires continuing to burn. >> plus, we're going to appeal anyway just psychologically because frankly, it's a disgrace. this is a long way from finished. >> a last effort falls short. the supreme court blocks donald trump's bid for a delay, clearing the path for sentencing in his hush money cover up conviction today, an i'm the senator for everyone in pennsylvania and my state picked donald trump as president. breaking the norm. democratic senator john fetterman accepts an invitation to meet with trump at the

president elect's club. all right. it is 5 a.m. here on the east coast. this is a live look at the capitol dome on this friday morning here in washington. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. we'll begin with the latest from southern california, where deadly wildfires continue to rage out of control for a fourth morning overnight. the fight against a new major fire intensified. the kenneth fire is now burning in western los angeles, along the border with ventura county. helicopters and firefighters are dropping precision strikes of water to try to douse the flames. but the fire has already grown to more than 900

>> we're going to have to be prepared because we're hearing some weather reports from national weather service that there might be some more red flight condition coming up next week. >> so that's this. this fire is far from over. >> some hope emerging this morning as residents surveying burned neighborhoods in altadena found a stray dog alive in the rubble. they carried him to safety, managing to save something, anything from the inferno. >> it's called caring for each other. and like everyone needs help right now sorry for crying, but it's really emotional seeing like, my friends lose their houses and people losing their animals. and so you try to help each other out. >> cnn's nick watt has more stories of survival and a look at what's next. >> no. well, there's the red plane swooping in to save

us. >> sadly, a little too late for this fleeing family. this morning we found what's left of their home. nothing. thousands of homes have been lost across the county. plus businesses and more than $50 billion worth of damage. but the winds finally eased. so now they can attack these flames from the air. all last night we heard the planes are reassuring sound in a fire. but winds will pick up again. blow through friday night and get stronger again next week. more than 6000 personnel now fighting the worst fires in the history of this great city. >> sewer, water, your power system and the transportation system have all been significantly damaged. >> we know the depth of the devastation. we can see it, the death toll. well, it's just too early to tell. >> at one point, we'll be able to do a more thorough search of

these impacted areas. some of them look like a bomb was dropped in them, where we will be able to bring in canines and other things to help us. um, hopefully not discover too many fatalities. that's our prayer. >> 43 acres burned in hollywood last night. hollywood chaos in such a tight urban environment in santa monica, a sunset to sunrise curfew kicked in last night as the palisades fire threatens. so far across l.a., 20 alleged looters arrested, accused of preying on houses left standing. >> shame on those who are preying on our residents during this time of crisis here in pacific palisades, where entire neighborhoods are just gone. >> arson investigators are today on the ground and the post mortem is already underway. did the l.a. mayor's cuts to the fire department budget hamper the effort? >> there were no reductions that were made that would have

impacted the situation, and that loss of water in the hydrants here in the palisades at the peak of the blaze. >> governor gavin newsom visited again today. >> why was there no water in the hydrants? governor, it's all literally is it going to be different for has to be different. >> but for neighborhoods like this and the people who once lived here now what? >> really difficult. officials fear that more wind and dry conditions will continue to complicate firefighting efforts into next week. cnn's anderson cooper spent much of the day on the front line with firefighters near malibu in topanga canyon. he gives us a look at the work they're doing and the challenges they face. >> reporter as of this afternoon, the palisades fire, which we are right now on the northern edge of, is the one that concerns fire crews. most obviously, they are battling all the fires that are going on. you can see a helicopter that's used to drop water flying over this area. we're in

topanga right now. and what is happening here is there are two smaller fires which are moving up this hill and have been over the last hour or so. the firefighters here have been watching this, just tracking its progress as they prepare over the ridge. there is a community. there's residential community. there's homes. that is, of course, what they are trying to defend. this is just one small part of the palisades fire, obviously, but what they are trying to do for the entire palisades fire is use bulldozers, in some cases using shovels, whatever they can to build a perimeter around the fire. so we've seen we've seen three drops from these helicopters of water just on this one spot in the last ten minutes. there's a number of helicopters with water circling, trying to find the best locations for them to actually put down some water.

but this is a persistent fire that's been moving up this mountain. it looked like the helicopters had put it out, but it keeps flaring up again. there's also spotter aircraft, spotter helicopters which go around trying to assess where it is. they should put put water down over on this ridge. a large crew of of firefighters. those are actually inmates who have volunteered to learn firefighting skills. they are working clearing the. you see, the road there on that's a road likely created by bulldozers earlier to kind of create a fire line. they are now widening that road, clearing out more underbrush, and then they will move to other locations. but this is a very active spot. this is the northern edge of the palisades fire. and there are certainly because the wind has died down today, they're able to get a lot more air assets in the sky and a lot more water. uh,

coming down. they've dropped a lot of water from helicopters over the last hour or so. it seems like the wind shifted and suddenly the fire just erupted. exactly. >> you know, afternoons they get the the the wind shifts up here. so that's exactly what's happened. and they had to vacate the line that we thought were going to put in. so back to a contingency line. come down around these houses and just try to cut this bowl off. >> you guys are doing incredible work. is this the worst you've seen? >> we're from northern california, so this is a little bit different down here. >> there's another fire now. there's a residential community right over here. but there is another fire. as you can see on the other side of it. so there's a lot of different areas that crews are trying to work on. they're trying to kind of build a defensive perimeter around the entire part of this northern edge of, of this fire. but it is it is a very dynamic situation. it is changing. the good news is the wind has died down. they're able to get a lot of these air assets. but,

you know, just watching this one little tiny part of the palisades fire seeing numerous water drops on it. and yet the fire comes back. so it is it's a very tough, tough battle right now. >> all right. tough indeed. of course, our thanks to anderson cooper, who has been on the ground reporting out all of this. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, a supreme court justice nominated by donald trump sides with liberal justices blocking the president elect's bid to halt his hush money conviction. sentencing. plus, with inauguration day right around the corner, a democratic senator signals some openness to the president elect and californians facing new realities as evacuated residents start to try to return to what once were their homes. >> just pure devastation. i've never seen anything like this before. this is the second time we've had to evacuate since i moved here ten years ago, but this just blows everything out of the water. it's apocalyptic.

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shouldn't have been on the case. so i'll do my little thing tomorrow. they can have fun with their political opponent two of the court's more conservative justices, chief justice john roberts and justice amy coney barrett, joined the three liberal justices, making this a54 decision. >> trump expected to appear virtually later today. joining us now to discuss is cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. joey, good morning to you. were you at all surprised about this, especially the fact that amy coney barrett, who was tapped by trump for her slot on the court, sided with the liberals and chief justice john roberts in this decision. >> yeah, casey, good morning to you. you know, from a legal perspective, i was not surprised. from a political perspective, i was what am i speaking about from a legal perspective? this decision is right on the merits. and that's where courts should be in terms of it impairing his ability to conduct his

transition. it's trump. i speak of. we see him there. it does very little. he's appearing for a brief appearance. the judge has already indicated casey that he's not getting jail time or anything else, and it allows mr. trump to proceed in his appeals. and so that's proper with respect to any errors made by the trial court judge that can be handled in the normal course of an appeal, as anyone could. so from a legal perspective, i thought the decision very brief is right on the law from a political perspective. we know that we're at an all time low in terms of what people believe about institutions. okay. amy coney barrett, she was appointed by trump. she'll go along with him. judge roberts. okay. he's another republican. he'll go along to here we go again, a court who's just political. so i think it was a big deal for the rule of law. it's a big deal for respective institutions. it's a big deal for the judiciary, the supreme court, to be independent and to do its job, which is to make rulings on the law devoid of politics. >> so, joey, take us through what we're going to see today.

this, of course, set to be virtual. and it seems like trump does have to appear. what are you expecting? >> yeah. so he has indicated that he will appear, you know, as an open question to me whether he would even participate in the proceedings. i think now that the supreme court has weighed in, it certainly gives it more of the impromptu of authority, right, that the court has in new york to conduct this proceeding. so what is this proceeding of which i speak? it's a sentencing. and normally casey, at is sentencing. there's real high drama. you have a prosecutor indicating what they think a sentence that would be appropriate. you have the defense indicating what they believe would be most appropriate. you have a judge reflecting upon both of those views, which are usually at odds, and then you have the pronouncement of a sentence here. it's somewhat anticlimactic. why? because the judge, john, excuse me, judge merchan, in his opinion, had already indicated right in saying that i'm not dismissing this case. we're proceeding to sentencing, but i'm not giving you jail. i'm

simply allowing you in sentencing you to an unconditional discharge. that means there's no penalty at all. i'm allowing you to be sentenced, and then trump can proceed in, appealing as he will. the underlying decision, the evidentiary issues pertaining to what the judge allowed in the case and didn't allow. so for purposes of today, to your question, it's probably the most anticlimactic sentencing we'll ever see where the judge says unconditional discharge. it's over. we're done. trump will then proceed to appeal. we'll see what appellate courts do moving forward. casey. >> all right. fair enough. still, i think worth remarking on the historic nature of what's set to play out today, even though it may feel anticlimactic. as you note. joey, let me ask you about something else that we learned yesterday. a federal appeals court ruled that jack smith's final interference report can be released. this is, of course, the election interference that the final set of findings that the last word that we're

likely to hear from him on this. what's next? do you expect a version of that report to be released to the public? >> so i do, right. although we know that there certainly could be more appeals as it relates to that department of justice guidance. casey. provide for a report to be released to the public concerning what jack smith, the special counsel, would have found. the nature of those findings, the evidence involved, what it means to the public, what it meant to the rule of law. and so, yes, i mean, that's the standard course, and it should be. now, there are two cases, as we know, there's election interference. number one, pertaining to trump. there's classified documents. number two pertaining to trump and two other defendants who worked with him, and so on. in terms of the election interference, it should be public. i think we'll see it, though there would be appeals in terms of the classified documents case, because there are other two defendants now involved. it could impair their rights. and so we know there'll be a delay in terms of garland. of course, he's the attorney general and special counsel, jack smith

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>> all right. it is 531 here on the east coast. this is a live look at saint louis, missouri. looking a bit wintry out there on this friday morning. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. we are tracking five wildfires ravaging an already devastated los angeles county for a fourth morning, including a new fire. the kenneth fire now closing in on homes in calabasas. it's burned already. 1000 acres north of santa monica. overnight, police announcing the arrest the arrest of a man suspected of arson in the nearby woodland hills area. although the lapd is not confirming at this time any connection to the wildfires at this hour, 400,000 californians are under evacuation orders or warnings. more than 10,000 structures burned to the ground. >> 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. i'm

just so sad for our devastated community. >> at least ten people have been killed since the flames erupted. fire officials expect that number to rise. some residents are now able to return to what's left of their homes, and they're stunned by what they're finding. >> this is how hot the fire was. this is my harley davidson. >> oh, i didn't even recognize that that was a motorcycle. >> and that right there where you see the exhaust pipe that used to be my yamaha. >> we're also learning more about an incident involving a firefighting plane like the one seen here colliding with an illegally operated drone. the crew was able to land safely, but the incident forced the temporary grounding of all aircraft battling that wildfire. cnn's maribel gonzalez has been on the ground for us throughout, and that's where we find her again this morning. maribel, bring us up to speed. what are you seeing at this point? and talk a little bit about what the damage to that plane may mean

for firefighting efforts on the ground yeah. >> good morning casey. well, we're back here in pacific palisades this time in the neighborhoods. we're getting a closer look at the extent of the damage here. to the residents who live here and call this home. and, casey, i just want to first explain to you where we are. if you can see behind us. this used to be a home. but now, as you can see, there's rubble, there's debris. it's been reduced in some parts to ashes right in front of me. i'm seeing a dining table. that one seems to be intact. it's just it's devastating to see. and the drive up here. you heard someone just moments ago describing this as a war zone. and that is such an accurate description. cars along the side of the road, sometimes multiple cars almost nearly blocking the road, just left abandoned and charred. all throughout this neighborhood. now, we talked about those firefighting efforts yesterday.

they were there were several planes that were able to make some air drops. and you know, that accident that we're talking about, that crash you just mentioned, that further complicates their efforts because, remember, they're still very limited resources. and this area needs the help. so that is just one less plane that can help contain this fire. >> all right. maribel gonzalez for us this morning. we will see you again in our next hour. thank you very much for that report. fierce winds are still making it next to impossible to contain these fires. let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar. allison. good morning. i know earlier in the week, we were talking about some hope that by friday, which is today, some of this might subside. what are firefighters going to face from the weather today? right. so there is some good news. we are going to start to see those winds begin to come back down. >> but it's going to be temporary because they are expected to come back up again on sunday. you look at scenes like this behind me. this is an after of what malibu looked like. so here's the pacific

ocean down here. this is the roadway right through here. now let's flip to what it used to look like prior to the fire. you can see homes lining right there along the coast. you've also got a couple of structures and buildings on the other side of the road. now back again to the after again. you can see almost every single one of those structures is now gone. and again, that's what we've been seeing, not just in malibu but in a lot of the surrounding counties. now, for today. we do still have some area in the critical fire threat, although it's a little bit farther south into california than we've seen the last few days. but near los angeles, especially the northern and western communities still under at least an elevated risk saturday. that elevated risk shrinks a lot because we really do see tremendous improvement in the winds on saturday. so let's take a look. so here's all the fires labeled these white things moving through. this is the wind direction. so you can see at least when we start off the day today it's going to be more of a northerly direction. but as we go through the day it's going to start to shift. sometimes coming out of the east, sometimes coming out of the west. that's a concern for firefighters because it can change at a moment's notice.

but the one thing to note to, more importantly, is these numbers going back down, at least until we get to sunday. >> all right. allison chinchar for us this morning. allison, thanks very much for that update. and our next guest understands firsthand what it's like to flee for your life from a wildfire. he was forced to evacuate his home in the pacific palisades, and he managed to document all of it somehow. chris reed joins us live from west hollywood. chris. good morning. first of all, we're glad you're safe. we hope your family is safe. um, i would love to hear from you. how your, your friends, your family are doing and what you may know about what's left of your home at this point. >> hey, casey. good morning. thank you for having me. >> um, so tell us a little bit about where you are, what it was like to get where you are and what you're facing. >> yeah. so i am safe. me, my

fiance and my dog stein are, uh, away from the fires. we were able to evacuate safe and, um. yeah, it's it's a crazy situation for everyone in l.a. and, um. yeah, as soon as we heard of the fires, i was able to leave my office and kind of venture out to kind of save the dog and see what's left in the house. >> tell me a little bit about about what that was like when you learned that you were under an evacuation order. what was your what was your first thought and what did you do in those immediate minutes and hours? >> i mean, yeah, it's crazy. i left the house probably around eight, eight, 15 that morning and by 1030 i was my boss was like, hey, is your house okay? and i said, i have what are you talking about? and then i logged on to citizen. i looked at the news and saw the palisades was up in flames. so

i left. and you know what took typically takes me 35, 40 minutes. took me an hour and a half, and i kind of parked on pch and sunset and walked up, which is a three, three, four mile, uh, mile walk. and i had assistance, you know, halfway up. but it was scary scenes, especially being in, uh. deadlocked traffic on the pacific coast highway. >> we may have lost, yeah. chris, um, this was, of course, you were trying to rescue your dog at this point. and, you know, i think we may be we may be losing chris a little bit here, but let me see. chris, can you talk about why you were willing to make that walk and how you ultimately then got out? >> i mean, you make the walk because you want to check on your family. you want to check on your dog, you want to check on your community. so there was never a doubt that just because i couldn't drive up there, i

wasn't going to make it there. i was going to find a will. i was going to find a way. >> all right. chris read for us this morning. chris, we're very grateful that you're safe. and i know you have a lot of rebuilding to do ahead of you. our hearts are with you. >> thank you. casey. >> all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, a bipartisan invitation. democratic senator john fetterman accepting an invite from president elect donald trump to meet at mar-a-lago. plus, the luck of the irish notre dame playing for a national title for the first time in 12 years. more ahead with cnn sports. and cnn news central today at 7:00 eastern. >> covid 19. i'm not waiting. if it's covid. paxlovid. >> paxlovid is an oral treatment for adults with mild to moderate covid 19 and a high risk factor for becoming severe. it does not prevent

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>> do not visit a purple store. >> i am not just the the senator for democrats in pennsylvania. i'm the senator for everyone in pennsylvania and my state picked donald trump as president. and if i have the opportunity to have that conversation, and i bet we're going to find things to work together for a better pennsylvania and a better nation. and that's why i'm engaging in this. >> pennsylvania senator john fetterman, defending his decision to become the first democratic senator to meet with president elect donald trump at mar-a-lago. fetterman, joking with reporters that he'll demand that trump make him, quote, the pope of greenland. his invitation comes as fetterman has abandoned the progressive label from his party and criticized some policies on the left. fetterman recently meeting with several of trump's cabinet picks and co-sponsoring the republican led laken riley act, which cracks down on undocumented migrants who've committed crimes. trump and fetterman,

though not necessarily always. let's see. let's just be straight about it. they have not always been on great terms. watch. >> john fetterman is the most dangerous democrat. i've never seen him wear a suit. a dirty, dirty, dirty sweat suit. it's really disgusting. you know, i'm a clean freak. i'm a clean freak. i don't like those dirty sweat suits. they're disgusting fetterman may dress like a teenager getting high in his parents basement, but he's a raging lunatic hell bent on springing hardened criminals out of jail. and by the way, he wants to get rid of your police. fetterman is a defund the police marxist. >> that, of course, was when john fetterman was running for his seat. so trump was campaigning against him there. joining us now, cnn political analyst, washington bureau chief for the boston globe, jackie kucinich. jackie, good morning. good morning. john fetterman becoming a really interesting figure in all of this. what does it say? >> so john fetterman has been

and what's a few words between, you know. politicians that said, you know, john fetterman has always been someone who has resistant to being put in a box politically. and in this case, he's long said that if someone wants to have an honest conversation and be an honest broker with him, he's willing to sit down and have the conversation. and in this case, he said he's the newly elected president. i'm going to sit down and meet with him and talk with him. he's not someone who makes promises either to, you know, that he's going to do one thing or the other. but as he said in that clip, he says he represents pennsylvania and he's going to do what he thinks his voters would want him to do. >> let's talk a little bit more about the immigration piece of it, because this is one of the places we're seeing this kind of shift in the wake of the election, most prominently displayed. here's a little bit more of what fetterman had to say about why democrats lost the election and what it means. let's look, if you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and

those things, i don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial, that they all need to go. >> i think if we can't, you know, there's 47 of us in the senate, and if we can't pull up with with seven votes, if we can't, at least seven out of 47, and if we can't, then that's the reason why we lost. that's one of them. that's one why we lost, in part, really tough words, especially in the context of the senate, where chuck schumer has worked to keep his caucus together. >> and axios put it this way, they said their own leaders privately say it's dangerous. 31 senate democrats voted thursday to advance the laken riley act. republicans are lining up votes on immigration issues that got democratic support in the last congress, but were blocked by schumer. politico reports schumer voted thursday to advance the laken riley act but wants amendments. is this going to pass? >> i think the amendment part is going to be key here. i mean, some of the democrats object to a provision, and they say in the bill that they say gives state ags too much power

over over the immigration system. and, you know, i saw in the house some democrats pointing to ken paxton from texas as an example of someone that they wouldn't want having more leeway there. listen, we'll have to see if they open up the amendment process. republicans don't want to do that. so will that turn some of these democrats and give them a reason not to vote for it? yeah, i think that that that could happen. but how many eventually support the bill? i don't think we know that yet. >> jackie, big picture. how long do you think this may last, this sense among democrats that they need to perhaps approach donald trump in a different way? i mean, clearly, the results of the election were more clear in donald, more clearly in donald trump's favor than many of them anticipated that it would be. and we're not hearing as many people wanting to go out and call it the resistance 2.0 or something along those lines. but that said, you know, trump could overreach relatively quickly. >> well, i was going to say that i think it depends on the

policy. we know that democrats or excuse me, the republicans are going to keep pushing democrats on immigration in particular, because that that is an issue where they felt like that they've had the advantage on maybe some of these others. if we're talking about, if anything on abortion, for example, comes on, i think you're going to see a lot more democrats push back and maybe not even vote to advance something. now, i don't know what's coming down the pike, but we'll also see. i think watching these confirmation hearings is going to be very illustrative of how much resistance you're going to see from democrats, because while republicans are trying to pick their battles, democrats, i think, are going to have to do that, too. and that's one of the things in the new york times interview that fetterman pointed to saying, we can't freak out about absolutely everything. we have to be very careful about what battles we pick. and i think you're going to see that, frankly, on both sides of the political aisle as we move forward with this new administration. >> jackie, what's your sense in the way that republicans want to advance donald trump's agenda? there's a little bit of a process difference, right? the senate wants to do it in two pieces. mike johnson in the

house says, we got to we got one shot at this. we got to do that. but do you think there there are going to be democrats that are going to consider supporting that that might, you know, give mike johnson more leeway or not. >> devil's in the details. i mean, it really i think it depends on what is in that bill and that and whether, you know, they're putting in things that democrats can defend and support at the end of the day. listen, mike johnson's biggest problem and biggest hurdle is going to be within his own caucus or conference. um, democrats are just sort of the ancillary players here. >> yeah. for sure. all right. jackie kucinich, thanks very much for being with us this morning. have a good. all right. time now for sports. notre dame rallies to beat penn state in a thrilling orange bowl and advances to the college football national championship game. andy scholes has this morning's cnn sports update. andy, what a game. >> oh, it certainly was. casey, good morning to you. you know, it started off slow, but it had a fantastic finish. and now notre dame is going to its first national championship game since 2013. >> they're trying to win

their first title since 1988. notre dame and penn state. >> they went into the fourth quarter tied at ten. >> then it was back and forth. nicholas singleton nice run here for the seven yard touchdown. that was his third of the game. made it 2417 penn state. notre dame though answers riley leonard to jaden greathouse. he's going to take it 54 yards to the house for the touchdown to tie it up. then under a minute to go penn state trying to get in field goal range. but drew allar picked off by christian gray. it was a great job by him to keep his hands under that ball. the irish would then get into field goal range and mitch jeter wins it for them. 2724 was your final. we knew this was going to be a heavyweight fight, and that's a really good team. >> we just faced that wasn't going to quit, but i told our guys, we've been here, we've been right here in this position before. >> and they believed and they got their job done. history is written by conquerors. we're holding the pen. >> we decided how we want to write our history. >> and, you know, i'm a firm

believer in whether you think you can or you can't do something. you're right. we believe that we can do it. and we went out there and did it. >> all right. so notre dame will now face the winner of tonight's semifinal between ohio state and texas in the cotton bowl. kickoff set for 730 eastern there in texas national championship game is going to be played in atlanta on january 20th. all right. elsewhere, as the fires continue to burn in los angeles, the nba postponing last night's game between the lakers and hornets that that game was supposed to be held in downtown l.a. it will be played at a later date. now, according to espn, lakers coach jj redick lost his rental home to the pacific palisades fire. warriors head coach steve kerr, meanwhile, said his 90 year old mother had to evacuate and sadly, they lost his childhood home. >> that's my hometown and, all my friends who are from there, pretty much. they've all lost, lost their homes there, their

family homes, childhood homes, our whole high school is gone. the town looks like it has just been completely wiped out. it's surreal and devastating. it's hard to even fathom how pacific palisades, um. rebuilds and how it becomes a thriving community again. it's just shocking. >> now. the nfl, meanwhile, announcing that monday's wild card playoff game between the vikings and rams will be moved from inglewood, california, to glendale, arizona, where the cardinals play due to the ongoing wildfires. there are no fires burning near sofi stadium, the home of the rams, but the league said it made the decision in the interest of public safety and casey. that game will still be played at its original time of 8:00 eastern monday night. >> all right, really tough to hear all of that from him as he really, you know, encapsulates how we've the idea that the high school you graduated from has gone. it's not just

individual homes. it is an entire community. andy, thanks very much i appreciate it. coming up next here on cnn this morning, a last ditch effort falls short. two conservative judge justices side with the liberals rejecting trump's push to delay today's sentencing in his hush new york hush money conviction case. plus, we will bring you the latest on the ground in southern california, as officials try desperately to contain the devastation. >> the imagery of this is next level. >> it's shocking. i mean, i was down to my knees when i got up to my parents house with just sheer, um, amazement at what i was, what i was looking at, which was basically just a chimney stack and a pile of ash. i mean, it's something out of a movie. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. >> i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe premieres january 25th

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