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firefighters are racing to gain the upper hand on six wildfires, six now raging across the southern california l.a. area. the brand new archer fire erupting just a short time ago. so far, these fires have engulfed an area about the size of miami, wiping out entire neighborhoods and killing at least ten people. among the victims, arlene kelly, seen here in the middle. kelly's family says she chose not to evacuate her home in altadena as the eaton fire closed in and that one of the last things she told a family member was, quote, it's in god's hands. >> the eaton fire is now one of the most destructive in california's history, along with the palisades fire, which is burning to the west along the coast. both are less than 10% contained. and for those who survived, they are facing a new reality today. some have no home to return to. their personal belongings are now ashes, and lifetimes of memories have been lost to the flames.

>> just imagine if you go to the front door and behind it there is nothing. and you walk in and you have your car keys. but there's no place to put it, and then there's no place to lay your head, and you don't have a blanket, a towel. you know there's the life that you had is just gone. >> stephanie elam is live for us in altadena. steph, give us a sense of what you're seeing there. >> every time i talk to you, brianna and boris, i want to show you the impact of the devastation in a new way because there's just so much. and look behind me here. you see this house? the corner of it seems like it's been impacted some. these tall bushes here definitely charred. but then just look over here at the house next door gone. and the house next door gone. all of this just decimated on this part of the street. across the street, it's the same thing. it's just almost. it doesn't make sense how some

houses make it and others don't. you look down here, this house on the other side. gone. the other house past it. still there. and what is something that we're really going to have to deal with here as californians? is the change in how weather is the climate change impact is huge here. these communities that are up against the wildland interface are facing a new reality because it does get really dry here. we've had two wet winters that brought up a lot of scrub brush that grew quickly, but then it's been a very long time, months since we've had any discernible rain here. so all of that dried up by now. january is typically our second wettest month during the wet season, and we barely had any rain at all this month. so therefore all of this was parched dry. you combine it with those winds, which is not a climate change issue, but you take those winds with it and it is just the perfect storm for an awful situation. so there are definitely things that are going to have to be addressed.

how far do people build out into these communities that are up against the wildland area? how do people harden their homes to make them safer? what needs to be done in these communities? and in the case of palisades, for example, even their infrastructure, the sewer lines, the pipelines, all of that have been decimated too. so they're going to have to deal with that, some of that here as well. so a lot of this climate change issue is being forced upon people to deal with now, because we're seeing it play out here in a way that is astronomical. we have not seen anything like this in a densely populated part of the county. this is a new world for people who are looking at the fact that they do not have a home to come back to, and now deciding whether or not they want to rebuild or whether or not they're going to go. but for a lot of these people, this is where their money is. this is this was their nest egg. and you look at these situations, you look at how these houses look. and it's a dire situation right now. >> and as you're speaking about

the scale of the devastation, stephanie, we're looking at aerial footage of altadena and you see the destruction just block after block after block of what used to be homes turned into rubble. i do wonder, as you look at the homes behind you, that somehow were spared, do you have any indication of of how that happened? why it is that in that neighborhood, every other house seemed to have burned down, but some were spared no. >> and with these specific houses, i don't know what could have happened. and i see there may be some damage on the back of that house. i can see the side of this house is and i don't know, maybe the firefighters got here in time for that. there's definitely something to be said about hardening your house, which means getting rid of the scrub brush around your place, changing the air filters for your vent to make sure that those embers can't get into your house. these are all things that can help save your house. whether or not these people did that, i don't know. but there are things that can be done to make it a more

survivable situation for people. but what still is an issue, though, is that even if your house is still standing, the rest of your neighborhood is gone. all of your infrastructure is gone. so it's still not a livable situation, even if your house is there. if you think about how communities operate, it's still a very lonely proposition right now. >> yeah. stephanie elam, thank you so much for that. update from altadena. we want to get an update on firefighting efforts and the challenges that crews are up against. we're joined by cal fire battalion chief david acuna. chief, thank you so much for being with us after so many days of battling these flames, i imagine that exhaustion becomes a factor after so much grueling work. how are your crews holding up right now? do you have an adequate system of replacement firefighters? >> well, thank you for having me on, boris. well, we actually do. we have a lot of resources

that have arrived. more than 7500 firefighters. but in addition, we have 2500 firefighters that we've requested from outside of the state. you know, this mutual aid agreement we have within california extends around us. so when needed, we can reach out to oregon, nevada, arizona and ask for help from them. >> and what is the biggest challenge that your crews are facing right now? as as there's this window of opportunity, the winds have somewhat died down. but this is crunch time, right? because we know that next week there's a chance of a resurgence of those winds. >> well, it is a mixed bag, right. because although the winds are dying down from the direction that they were prevalent before, they are now reversing direction. and now the areas that were calm are now going to be the head of the fire. and so our crews are having to be diligent about working on the entire perimeter in order to make sure that when the winds reverse, that they don't have another head of the fire going

a different direction. >> and, chief, do you have any outlook on how much longer it might take to advance containment on these fires? i know the palisades fire at last check was less than 10% contained. do you have any estimate for us on on how long this whole process might take? >> it is still at 8% containment, as you mentioned, and i don't have an estimate. and the reason is with containment, we have to be able to say that we are certain that the fire will not escape beyond the containment lines when we have this massive amount of devastation and the reality of what burned was houses, which means primarily petroleum products, then that allowed a lot of devastation to occur. it's still there, right on the line. and if the wind shifts again or continues to shift, then that's going to be a hazard, which is why we're being very cautious with the amount of containment. >> chief, i know someone was arrested for

suspected arson near the kenneth fire. do you have any indication to this point as to the cause of some of these other fires that you're fighting? what may have sparked these flames to go up so quickly? >> well, we do know that 95% of all fires are caused by humans. and we also know that there was no lightning in the area. however, i can't say that they were intentional. sometimes it's an accidental activation. it could be a passing car. there are so many things that in these very dry, very windy conditions, anything can cause a small fire which very quickly grows to a large fire. >> and as we're looking at these images, it looks like the fire lines are approaching more homes. and you see firefighters there working to try to pause those flames, or at least slow them down as they get closer to what appear to be homes. i'm curious what your message is to folks in l.a. county who have not had to evacuate yet, but

with the risk being what it is, and with these winds shifting, as you noted, there is still potential danger. >> there absolutely is. in fact, the red flag warning that affected the area from santa barbara to san diego will be coming back early in the week. so people need to be vigilant and they need to be prepared. and if they navigate to ready for wildfire.org, we have a lot of resources on where to, how to locate where your local shelters would be for the people, for small pets, for large pets and livestock, as well as how to create an evacuation go bag and what steps they can take to be better prepared with evacuation plans. >> yeah, it's so important to to have those resources readily available in a situation like this. battalion chief david acuna, thank you so much for the time. >> thank you. >> so as you just heard there, firefighters are bracing for more gusty winds as they race to contain these major wildfires. >> meteorologist chad myers is

joining us live now from the cnn weather center. as we are looking there at some pretty amazing video of aerial firefighting going on there in in the i think that might be the palisades area, but i'm not for sure. it could be the it is the palisades area there. chad. >> it's it's higher than that. it's, it's it's farther north than that, kind of up toward the mountains. not really. calabasas, but. yes. and what you see here is this is the plane with the phos-chek in it, but it is following a lead plane. there's a plane that it's a much smaller plane, and it's following that and it will tell. the lead plane will tell this phos-chek retardant plane when to release the phos-chek phos-chek. it's red because there's red dye. because they want to know where it has already been dropped and not drop another load on top of what is already there. and they can make a long line of that red phos-chek. it's really just fertilizer, water and red dye and it completely smothers the ability for the flames to

continue. i don't know who came up with that, that formula, but it certainly works and it is a lifesaver. this plane will eventually, if we hang with it long enough, will eventually take it because it is doing circles, waiting to get to the right position. what nice things happening right now. although the wind is still about ten, is that when that is released it will drop where they want it. when the winds are 30 and 40. sometimes that gets so spread out, not concentrated enough to make that fire line. here's palisades fire, here's here's frontera. i think, you know you are up there. that would be the rec center and the baseball fields. look at these three homes right here that are still here. this is what this is what stephanie was talking about. how? just the randomness. here's malibu. we showed this a couple times, but how close these homes were? no chance. no chance to have a fire line around them. that that area that you don't want any trees. you're four feet, three feet from the next, the

next house. and here are our numbers here for containment. the bigger number, lydia, up here, 75%. because it's a small fire. you don't have miles and miles and miles around to get contained. but the bigger fires, eton and palisades, because there are those miles around now, the circle of the fire. probably ten miles. how do you get all that contained? and, you know, this means that, you know, the fire is not going any farther than that. winds are good right now. winds are good tonight. they're not great. i mean, you don't want ten, you don't want 12. but even by tonight you get down to six. and then coming up on sunday it all gets red again. and we're going to get winds 30 40mph. this will happen again tuesday and wednesday. and not a not a drop of rain between now and then. so what you see is what you get. the antecedent conditions are still going to be very dry. the problem is dry and still having millions of sparks in trees, in bark, in mulch that could fly again when that wind blows. >> all right. chad, it's really

unbelievable pictures that we have been looking at here with you. and so alarming to hear about the winds and the concerns ahead here. chad, we'll keep an eye on this. we know that. you certainly will. we see how close those flames are to those homes ahead this hour on cnn news central is wildfires are ravaging los angeles. there's a winter storm that's wreaking havoc in the south. there's new video showing the moment delta passengers were forced to evacuate on emergency slides after their snowy takeoff was aborted. we're learning some new details about what happened here. >> but first, a historic moment in court as president-elect donald trump is sentenced in his criminal hush money case, meaning that just days from now, he will become the first u.s. president to take office as a sentenced felon. these important stories and many more are all coming your way on cnn news central. >> i lay on my back frozen, thinking the darkest thoughts, and then everything

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unconditional discharge, which the new york state legislature has determined is a lawful and permissible sentence for the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree. therefore, at this time, i impose that sentence to cover all 34 counts. sir, i wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office. >> with us now to talk more about today's courtroom developments, we have elliot williams, a cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, and jeff zeleny, cnn's chief national affairs correspondent. sorry i stole your script. >> that's totally, totally stole it. obviously, this was essentially a formality, right? like, we we judge merchan telegraphed that no one was going to be sentenced to jail time, that there wasn't going to be really any surprises. i do wonder, though, jeff, politically, what does this mean for trump? he gets another shot to stand in court and argue that all of this was just a witch hunt.

>> look, in ten days, he will be sworn into office. he'll take the oath of office regardless of this. but this will forever be one of the boldfaced descriptors of the 47th president, the convicted felon. so yes, it does matter to him. i think you could sort of hear that in the defiance in his voice. but beyond that, it doesn't. i mean, he won the election in november. this was all, well, sort of adjudicated and aired before the public. and you could argue, actually, that he has this to thank for winning the republican nomination, essentially clearing the field. we're thinking back to a initially when this case happened. this is when he started consolidating the base back around him. there were deep questions about his viability right before this case was filed in manhattan. this made him allowed him to be a victim when he was running the retribution. et cetera. so he is a convicted felon. that will

be forever in his, um, his epitaph, i guess. but going forward, it doesn't matter, because the american people said they were more concerned about other things than this. >> and as we look at this sort of from a big from this, i think, wider view and how the legal and the political interact, i wonder how you see it, elliott, because he got in trouble legally. he capitalized on it politically. it paid off and it is now helping him legally and legally, politically and constitutionally, because of the fact that he is the or will be the president of the united states. >> that specifically factored into the decision the judge gave him. there were the judge's hands were tied at this point because of number one, the supreme court's immunity ruling several months ago. but but two, the fact that he's going to be president of the united states, there aren't a lot of options for putting a president in jail. and that's not a statement about whether trump should have

been charged with a crime or what's right or what's wrong. the simple fact is, the american constitution says there ought to be one. there is one president, a role that cannot be filled by anybody else, not even the vice president. and that impedes the ability to put that person in jail and maybe even give that person probation. so the judge really had no choice here. >> when jeff was describing sentenced felon being on trump's epitaph, you kind of shook your head. >> i, i well, well, there's a there's there's a legal and a political point there. i guess the the political point there is, you know, is that a bad thing for donald trump? it seemed like jeff was saying that seemed to animate many voters and many of trump's supporters. now he still has an opportunity to appeal this decision. i would think he would. and number one, that could provide the yeah, that could provide the vindication of taking the felon title away from him. but also, number two, clearing up these ambiguous questions about immunity and so on that have to make their way through the courts. and i think trump will appeal that. >> david schoen, his former

lawyer, thinks it will be ultimately thrown out. >> do you i don't know. there are so many different pitfalls and holes in this because number one, you have the question of is a former president immune for a matter like this? how does immunity apply to a state case? how does the application of the new york financial crimes statute actually apply here? so there's any number of ways that trump can attack it. so just playing the numbers. yes, possibly. but i just don't know. brianna. it's so complicated. >> i think one of the things to draw from what we heard from trump could be read as a preview of how he sees doj and the government as he heads into another four years, this time fully capable of assigning folks to positions. i mean, the judge that he appeared with is going to be the assistant attorney general that that will carry out his vision of a more involved executive attorney that he appeared with. >> look, he said it was an injustice of justice. i was treated very unfairly. his

demeanor was certainly more calm than it was when he was actually sitting in the courtroom during trial. but no question, this entire episode has sort of infused how he views the doj, even though this case has nothing to do with the department of justice. it's a new york case, but i think the the president elect was able to very successfully, politically speaking, consolidate all of these cases against him to make it look like there was indeed this effort to get him, as he would call it, a witch hunt. but i think without question, this is added to his skepticism of the doj. um, look, history will, um, report this as it happened chronologically, but will always wonder what if this case was not filed? would the january 6th case, the jack smith's case, the federal cases, would they have come sooner? would that have changed the outcome of the election? who knows? the reality is it didn't. he's the president will be sworn in in ten days. so what happened today really will be left to history. it doesn't matter. >> we can't know how his

experience with this case and the other cases are going to inform him going forward. but i think it's safe to say, having watched donald trump for so many years, it's going to inform him somehow. >> it agitates him, no doubt about it. it adds to the fact that he believes the justice system at all levels, from new york to georgia to the federal system, is out to get him. and that aids into his sort of, uh, you know, a persona as a victim. there is no doubt it adds fuel to his skepticism of the authority in the government. >> and now he'll be president with some tools at his discretion. >> yeah. and quickly, before we go, because jeff mentioned the work of jack smith, do you think we're going to see his report on trump's actions, both in the classified documents case, the january 6th case is is that reporting going to come to light? >> definitely. the january 6th case, um, perhaps not the classified documents. the classified documents is the january 6th case. the loss just back up really quickly. the law says that any special counsel puts together a report and submits it to the attorney

general. the attorney general can make it public. it in virtually all circumstances. these reports get made public. it looks like the january 6th. the january 6th one is going to come out. the classified documents. one's a little more complicated because it deals with people who have pending cases. right now, we may not see that congress will we may not. >> very interesting. elliot. jeff, thank you so much to both of you. really appreciate it. and next, the supreme court signals it's going to uphold a ban on tiktok, meaning the app could soon go dark in the u.s. can you imagine? i can hardly imagine the effect of this on people, but we're going to talk to a top content creator about the potential impact. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. i want to be remembered as just a basketball player. kobe premieres january 25th on cnn. >> hungryroot is here, and i

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generally, and the rights of everybody. we thought that they vigorously questioned both sides. >> now. fun fact the court is actually used to seeing francisco because he was the solicitor general under the first trump administration. he would argue the cases on behalf of the administration before the supreme court, then the justice department in its argument said that tiktok collects, quote, vast swaths of data about tens of millions of americans and that china, quote, could covertly manipulate the platform to advance its geopolitical interests and harm the united states. tiktok's attorney acknowledged the risks in court, but they would use that information over time to develop spies to turn people to blackmail people. >> people who, a generation from now will be working in the fbi or the cia or in the state department. is that not a realistic

assessment by congress and the president of the risks here? >> well, your honor, i'm not disputing the risks. >> our next guest is a content creator for tiktok, deja foxx, who has more than 140,000 followers and opposes the ban. deja, thanks for being with us. really appreciate it. and from the perspective of a content creator, first off, just tell us what tiktok has meant for you. building a following and even monetizing that. >> yeah, i mean, i want to be clear that i am not here to go to bat for some multi-billion dollar company, right? i am here to give voice to creators, particularly emerging creators who are doing this as a side hustle, right? the small businesses who are making ends meet because of their access to new audiences on this platform. and, you know, when we think about what this ban could mean for the larger creator economy, it might be easy to think about the top 1% of influencers who have inked big podcast deals

and book deals surrounded by agents, but really, the people who are going to feel the effects of this ban in their day to day life are the heartbeat of that creator economy. these emerging creators and these small businesses. and so i really want to come on today just to give that perspective and also share my perspective as someone who uses tiktok and other social media platforms not only as a career creator, but also as an advocate, you know, after the fall of roe versus wade, i shared a video to tiktok that reached 7 million people about my experience with civil disobedience, being arrested on capitol hill. and i think that really speaks to our ability to create connection, to change narrative, and to put new people, new voices at the forefront of the issues that we care most about. >> i wonder, for those of us not familiar, how do creators make money through tiktok? how is that economy that you're describing formed? >> so this can look like any number of things, right?

whether it's selling products on something like tiktok, shop or branded deals with with traditional brands who are looking to connect with your audience. it can also be through something called the creator fund, which monetizes your views. and so there really is a vast way of earning income on this platform. and i will say that for a lot of career creators, the conversation i've seen around this tiktok ban is so different than it was in 2020. if you'll remember, that original conversation around a tiktok ban when the platform was new, when other platforms like instagram and youtube had yet to build a vertical video product with that same explorer, or new algorithm that allows you to reach people beyond those that follow you. and so, because these other platforms have have built a product that is similar, i'm seeing the conversation from career creators really focused on pivoting, right? i don't see creators blindly falling in

love with this platform, but rather saying, this is my career, i love it, i'm proud of what i do, and i'm going to figure out a way to do it regardless of the platform i'm on. >> we saw in one of the videos you put on tiktok, you were at the dnc. you actually spoke at the dnc, and there was a big focus there on content creators, on influencers. we should note, though, as we were just covering the side arguing for this ban. it is the biden administration. you were at the dnc obviously, supporting kamala harris of the biden administration. it's president-elect trump who has kind of backed off his call to ban tiktok. what do you think about that? >> so when i got up and spoke at the dnc on the creator stage, i was the first content creator to ever speak at the event. i was surrounded by the nearly 200 content creators that were credentialed to cover it. and what i shared was the reality for young people, right? that young people are

struggling to afford groceries, that they're struggling with student debt, and, you know, they're watching tragedies unfolding internationally and domestically. and so when i look at this tiktok ban through the eyes of those young people, i see it falling flat, right? there's a moment of bipartisanship that that young people are witnessing and asking, why this? i think for young people, there feels like a real misalignment of priorities when when they're seeing tiktok in the news, um, and particularly around this ban. and i think it's really being red for a lot of young people, as frustration around an inability for lawmakers to get on the same page with young people about their real priorities. >> do you think that lawmakers would benefit from perhaps expanding and explaining why tiktok is a national security hazard? >> right. i think that that is the job in there that they are tasked with doing, i think, to sell young people a hypothetical around something

as vague as national security when they really are struggling in a day to day to afford their own groceries, right to pay down their student debt when they're watching on those very same platforms, places like california burning, i think there is a sense of urgency that young people have around the issues that they care most about, right? young women like me in states like arizona, where we faced real threats of abortion bans, and we're going on these platforms championing our issues, right, and making our voices heard, connecting with communities, encouraging people to take tangible action. and so it is absolutely in the hands of lawmakers to make this case to young people of why they should care. >> deja foxx, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. we know a lot of people are watching the court as they are going to be deciding this case. >> thanks for having me. >> and next we will head back to los angeles, specifically

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>> the lead with jake tapper next on cnn. >> this just in to cnn. a judge has just ruled to hold rudy giuliani in contempt of court over his continued 2020 election lies. this is now his second contempt charge after allegedly continuing to spread those lies about two georgia election workers following a $148 million defamation judgment against him. ruby freeman and shaye moss had asked the court to hold giuliani in contempt for violating a permanent injunction by repeating the false claims on episodes of his nightly live streams. after donald trump's election. before we go, let's take a look at the closing bell about to ring. it is down now. the dow a little over 700 points. the sell off following a strong december jobs report signaling to investors that the fed has little, if any, reason, to be more aggressive with interest rate cuts. and there you hear the bell. the lead with jake