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wildfires blamed for at least 11 deaths. we're looking now at new video taken early this morning. look at this. this is where the palisades fire is still raging, moving quickly east. only 8% contained. at last report we had a cal fire on just a few moments ago. this is one of at least six wildfires burning in southern california, barely contained, as i said. but some of those smaller fires, if you look at the screen, are closer to 100% containment in all, close to 36,000 acres have burned more than twice the size of manhattan. now, red flag warnings for high winds did expire last night. so firefighters say they hope to make more progress soon. >> then we're just dealing with normal red flag conditions, which is totally different than the monstrosity that we've been dealing with. we have all the units in place. we've got over 3000 firefighters on this fire.

we've got over 350 engines, 54 crew busses, helicopters, dozers. we've got the world out here working on this. >> the los angeles fire chief told cnn's jake tapper the city failed her department when it slashed the budget by $17 million. >> we have over 100 fire apparatus out of service, and having these apparatus in the proper amount of mechanics would have helped. and so it did absolutely negatively impact. i want to also be clear that i have, over the last three years, been been clear that the fire department needs help. we can no longer sustain where we are. we do not have enough firefighters. >> well, a source tells cnn. l.a. mayor karen bass has met with the fire chief. also, governor gavin newsom is calling for an independent investigation into what caused some hydrants to lose water pressure during the height of these relief efforts. at least 100,000 people are still under evacuation orders right now,

and for many, like katya myer, they had just minutes to pack up and escape. >> i went outside and my neighbors were everyone was sort of coming out and checking out the smoke and thinking, should we leave? do we stay? like what's happening? no one really knew what was happening. but then the evacuation alerts started coming. like, you may need to evacuate. and then it was like, okay, you need to evacuate. so all of a sudden i went into this fight or flight mode, and i just started grabbing clothes and throwing them into a suitcase it's a tragedy that will continue to grow. >> as fire officials say it is not safe enough to assess the true number of deaths in these fires. and new this morning, ucla is asking its students to be ready to evacuate at any time. they stress that there are no evacuation orders at the moment, but the fire has crept closer to the campus, so students should be ready to leave if they are ordered.

joining us now is ginger black and allie pringle, mother and son there. ginger lost her home in altadena. welcome to you both. and first off, i'm so sorry for what you and so many southern californians are going through right now. could you just tell me a little bit about how you've been holding up and where you are staying right now? >> it's been very hard for us. we're currently at my parents house, thankfully. you know, they've opened their doors to us, whereas we know that a lot of our friends really don't have anywhere to go. we feel for them. but yeah, we're very fortunate to be here. >> can you tell me about, you know, how you ended up first evacuating? i understand that you did have time to return to your home to retrieve a few more things before you ended up at your parents house. >> oh, absolutely. >> we actually, we had more time. um, right shortly after we saw the flames, he forced us

to actually leave, and i said, no, it's fine. we're going to be okay. we have time. he says, no, we need to go. um, so at that time, you know, we weren't prepared. i know where our documents are. so i grabbed that and just were. it's total chaos in our house. but at the time, we just didn't know where to start. so we just grabbed whatever we could, packed up the car, came to my parents house, and he suggested, let's go back. i said, no, it's going to be fine. so he forced me again and i'm like, okay, fine, let's go. we went up a second time and the flames at that time didn't look that bad, so we just grabbed a few things and now wednesday morning when my neighbor had called and she was crying and she actually saw our place go up in flames. >> ali, tell me how you knew that. you know, it was so urgent that you had to leave immediately. like your mom is saying. >> uh, i kind of i kind of

figured with how strong, strong the winds were that night uh, it was. i kind of knew it was going to happen, but at the same time, i was kind of leaning towards. i was overreacting, and i kind of wish i just stuck to my gut. but, uh, things went the the other way. unfortunately. >> ginger, if you can talk about, you know, your community there in altadena, you're saying that you were on the phone with your neighbors, but, i mean entire communities are gone. i mean, grocery stores, schools, businesses. can you describe, if you will, the sense of loss that you are all feeling right now? >> i think what people don't know about altadena is that it's a truly unique place where many residents have lived there for 20 plus years. as such, ourselves and some homes

have been passed down through generations and generations, and it's heartbreaking to see, you know, the challenges are coming in, is facing at this time with, you know, nowhere to go. some of our friends have lost, you know, their loved ones as well. so, yeah, it's it's devastating and heartbreaking for all. but it's great to see the, you know, the community come together. >> yeah i'm sure. um, so lastly, what's next for for you. do you return. do you rebuild? >> well, right now we're still kind of like numb of it all and taking things day by day. we've been discussing that. but as of right now, we're just, um, taking it day by day. that's it. that's all we can do. >> that's all you can do right now? i'm sure of that. well, ginger black, i know, and ali ringo chiu, i know it's a really tough time for both of you. and we're glad that you have your lives and you have each other. thank you so much.

>> thank you. >> all right, let's take you out to pacific palisades. now. cnn's maribel gonzalez is there. so what's the plan for? firefighters today? winds calming just a bit. >> yeah. good morning victor and emirates. that is a very good news for firefighters here. the winds have subsided. those previously posing a very very big challenge to them when trying to get to those hard to reach areas. but we know and as of yesterday we also heard planes doing their aerial drops. that is also the plan for today. the eaton fire, which is the second largest fire here in the county, now making a little bit of progress here in pacific palisades. the fire is at 8% containment. the hope is that the winds subsiding will give firefighters a leg up today to try to get to those areas that need the most help. >> all right. is there any

update on the effectiveness of the overnight flyovers? >> yeah, as i just mentioned, that the eaton fire, which is over in the altadena area, that one is now at around 3% containment, which is very good news, because we know that those that fire was threatening so many homes in that area. i should also mention that there are planes from canada and mexico also helping local firefighters here to try to combat those fires. >> all right, maribel gonzalez, for us there in pacific palisades, thank you so much. 3% containment is better than where it was just 24 hours ago or so, at 0%. making progress. and they're hoping for more today. thanks so much. so as maribel mentioned, the strong winds expected to pick back up, making firefighters work even more difficult. you can hear how strong those santa ana winds were earlier this week. the high winds really helped those fires explode.

listen to that. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is here. now. the winds are expected to not be that bad. but you talk about a narrow window that these firefighters have. >> yeah. and i cannot emphasize enough how short this window is. it began last night. they got a little bit of a break. it will carry through the morning hours, but by the time we get to the latter half of the day today, they're going to start right back up again. and really peaking again sunday. then another wave yet again on monday through wednesday. so again, there's there's some fine fine. a few limited hours really for a lot of these firefighters to be able to utilize the help that they're going to get from mother nature. now behind me again, you can see we've got both saturday and sunday where we're dealing with that elevated and critical fire threat, not just in l.a., but a large swath of southern california in general. you've got all of the fires here with their containment numbers and yes, some better than others. but the key thing to note is that each one of them has had at least some improvement in the last 24 hours. we talk about those winds. yes, through the overnight hours and early

today, they are still going to remain on the low side. this will allow those firefighters to hopefully make some some accomplishments in those containment numbers. as we go into the latter portion of the day, especially by tonight, those numbers start to go back up. by tomorrow. you're once again talking 30, 40, 50 mile per hour gusts in a few spots. then that will continue as we head into the upcoming week. the other thing to note, the winds going down is a good thing for the firefighters. it helps them make advancements in the containment. however, it doesn't always be. it's not always a good thing in terms of air quality, because then the air just becomes stagnant. there's no air to move it around. so you'll often find that the air quality can get quite poor in the short term during that time. so you've got all of these areas under air quality alerts because of how bad that smoke is expected to be in these areas, and that wind will start to shift in directions taking the smoke with it. but it also in turn will take those fires and shift directions, which can make it even more difficult for the firefighters as well. >> yes, the shifting that's

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really deeply into our lungs and get into our bloodstream and really affect every organ of our body. >> but when you're considering this type of situation, when it's not just vegetation burning, it's also all the materials in our homes and our cars and our businesses and our roads. all the electronics and plastics and paints and metals that's contributing not just to the typical wildfire smoke that we might see in a typical wildfire, but also a variety of metals and toxic gases like benzene and formaldehyde. so the first thing we want to be concerned about is respiratory effects. you might already be experiencing scratchy throat, a cough, possibly itchy eyes. now, not everyone who experiences those symptoms of exposure will then experience health effects associated with wildfire smoke. but some will. and we do see hospital admissions and emergency department visits rise when there are wildfire smoke. events like this. we want to be concerned about, you know,

asthma exacerbations and shortness of breath. people are at higher risk of cardiovascular effects. things like stroke and heart attacks. and so this is not something to be to take lightly. we want to be concerned about that exposure and try to reduce it as much as we can. >> i read in a story in which you were quoted that some research links wildfire smoke, and of course, you mentioned how this is more than just the vegetation, but it's linked to neurological effects like dementia and alzheimer's disease. how close is that correlation? >> well, researchers are still working on this, but we do know now that the particles that exist within this wildfire smoke, as well as in all the products of combustion that we typically have in diesel smoke and oil, smoke and gasoline, those do contribute to dementia and alzheimer's and other neurological effects. and i think we do want to be concerned about that. the mental health consequences of an event like this are not only

limited to the exposure to those particles, of course, but people who are displaced from their communities, who are experiencing loss of their their home, their community that can have really serious mental health consequences as well. yeah. >> as it relates to the smoke, i mean, covering floods and earthquakes, the zone of impact is kind of well defined. you can see it, but with smoke from these fires, it may not be as obvious. so how far out from the flames from the the immediate area are the risks? >> well, smoke certainly does not respect any administrative boundaries. any boundaries set from the fire itself. it can actually travel very long distances even across the country, possibly even beyond that as well. we're very fortunate now that we have satellites and other types of computing systems that can track where the smoke is going,

and so i do encourage everyone to pay attention to the air quality index, to the environmental protection agency's airnow.gov website. that will tell you where the smoke is. and there are even forecasts for where the smoke is going. so you can plan your activities accordingly to try to reduce your own exposure. >> and if you're planning activities that require you to go outdoors, what should what should we do? should you limit time, wear a mask? what works? >> you know, this is the case where the dose makes the poison. so any reduction in exposure you can get is good. so the first thing to do is to try to remove yourself from the smoke. if you can't do that, stay indoors. shelter in place. close your doors and windows and try to reduce the amount of outdoor air that's getting in. if you're indoors, you can run an air filtration system, preferably hepa filters. if not merv 13 or higher. but if you do need to go outside. and of course people do need to to do that. you can wear a mask, and we're all too familiar with the n95 masks during covid, the

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slick. victor and amara. and let me tell you, i lived in chicago for many, many years. amara, you lived in chicago as well. a snowstorm of several inches is nothing to the midwest, but in this part of the country is a major headache. and i wanted to show you what people are waking up to this morning. take a look at this street right here. it has been treated. it has been plowed, salted brine was put on it. it's in very good condition, but most people, when it comes, especially when it comes to residential streets, are going to be in a situation like the one behind me. and that what you see behind me is pretty much ice. so very treacherous conditions for drivers. this morning i was taking a look at some numbers from the georgia department of public safety. 1400 weather related calls on friday,

including 269 crashes, 203 people who were requiring assistance. so that gives you an idea of the they went through also at the airport, nearly 35,400 flights that were canceled on friday. that's why governor kemp says if you don't have to go anywhere, it's a better idea to just stay home. >> i think. comfy, cozy. oh, i thought he was going to toss back to us you know, try to find those lanes that we've been able to plow and potentially retreat later in the day and just slow down and be very careful out there. >> viktor orban in our last hour, i was reporting that there were nearly 90,000 customers without power across the state. that number has gone down about 10,000 already. so those crews are trying their best. but again, this kind of storm is something we don't see

here in the south quite, quite often. and it is just a major headache for many of them. now back to you. >> and but on the positive side, for a lot of people who did stay indoors or stayed home or perhaps took a walk to the park, i mean, they did. they were able to have some fun, you know, building their snowman and sledding down those hills. rafael romo, thank you so much. good to see you. >> right now, about 11 million people are still impacted by winter weather alerts. cnn's allison chinchar with us now. so what's happening next? where is this going? >> right. so it's going out into the atlantic ocean. it's going to take the snow with it. it's not done yet, but it's getting there. the key component here is those temperatures are going to stay cold. so for a lot of those areas that got snow it's not going anywhere any time soon. and that is going to be a concern for even some places where say it warms up a little bit this afternoon. you get some melting, but then it refreezes all back over again tonight. look at some of the numbers you have again from southern states, oklahoma, tennessee, portions of texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama

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same street. burned. >> his mother had already seen her home a few blocks away. >> go. >> i had my last little dinner here. we had. there was no power. and i still said, i'm just holding the fort. i'll be the last one to leave. my house is not burning and it's gone. it's gone. this was all i really wanted to get to and all i found was nothing. >> what is that? >> this this this was a a passport. so now i don't even have a passport. this was a passport book. and it's gone. yesterday i had it all. i had a roof. i had a lawn for my dogs. and now i made a little confined square, not knowing where i'm going to

go next. >> domitila hinojosa is lara's mother, a diabetic who cares for her disabled son. >> this morning when i wake up, i say, oh, i need to go back to my house. >> what happened was my home. >> i want to go back, but i can't. but i can't go back. i'm coming. come inside. >> this is what aftermath looks like. >> donated clothes and living in a relative's airbnb for just 12 months. dealing with the maze of home insurance. >> this is definitely going to take a lot longer than 12 months. >> and money. >> a lot of people outside of california think it was celebrities who lost homes, rich people. >> is that true? >> this is your everyday, hard working. i work in construction, gardening, housekeeping here every day, essential workers. with

nothing. we still have to cover our mortgage. i called my lender and i still have to continue paying this family of faith is left grasping for meaning. i hear the voice the god told me. i gave it to you. everything, and i lost in one second. you need to follow me. only follow me. i believe in god. and i i think one one day i'm going to have a house and i'm going to have everything. >> they only hope god is listening. now. >> if somebody's going to help us, are we helpless? what do we do? who do we call? i don't know. >> all three of these families did apply for fema assistance, and they heard a response from fema. it was the same for all

of them. they got this response that said that the request for housing assistance and personal property had, quote, not been approved. now, fema tells cnn that this isn't an atypical response. the first time around, a lot of victims don't fill out the forms properly. but what these three families are saying is, perhaps fema needs to come out and take a look at what they're trying to navigate and deal with all this trauma, all this loss that the bureaucracy needs to be simpler for these families. victor amara, just more than frustrating for these families. >> kyung lah thank you for that story. still to come, just over a week until inauguration day and republicans are planning for the incoming trump administration. their focus as they look to the future. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age people who may never even know what a basketball looks like

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idea when it comes to johnson's strategy to to jam border policy, these tax cuts, raising the debt ceiling all into one bill, when, first of all, we're talking about such a razor thin majority in the house, i think i think speaker johnson and president-elect trump would be wise to listen to senator thune, who has advocated, i think, for a two step approach. >> i think it's much harder to jam everything into one big bill, including a debt ceiling. if you're going to put border policy, energy policy, tax policy in a bill, i think it makes this process much harder. uh, thune has advocated for doing a border and energy. i think in the first bill, i think it would be easier to get a victory. i think that's easier politically. i think they're smart to try to move in that direction. and remember, too, there are many members of the house freedom caucus who will never, ever, never vote for a debt ceiling increase. so throwing that debt ceiling increase into the reconciliation package and hoping that it will pass on a partisan basis is a very risky strategy for republicans. so

i'm really not. i think this is a very compressed time frame, and i'm not sure they're going to be able to do all this as quickly as they think they can. >> yeah. let's talk about the compressed time frame. and also on the note that this is going to be quite difficult. you know, this week we heard from senator rand paul that he believes there are 38 members, at least in the house and senate, who don't want the debt limit to be part of the bill. so this could perhaps turn into a protracted fight. but regarding trump's agenda, he wants it passed as urgently as possible. and you talked about this complicated budgeting process known as reconciliation. to get this done quickly. speaker johnson, i believe, is aiming to get this massive bill passed by the end of april. does that timing sound feasible? >> well, i think that's really an aggressive time frame. is it possible that the house could pass a reconciliation package by easter? yeah, i think it's possible. i don't think it's probable at this point. when you think about all the things they have to do, trump has to

stand up and administration confirmation process. you have the debt ceiling that will ripen, perhaps even before that time frame of easter. and don't forget, they have to fund the government by march the 14th. i believe that's also thrown into this mix. and then you throw reconciliation on top of it. it is much harder than they realize, and especially if they put it all into one big dirty deal. that's why i think they're smart to listen to senator thune and try to just deal with the border piece first, and then deal with the tax piece later. and that will be hard enough on its own. >> and the big picture is republicans. congressional republicans have this tight window that the two years between january 20th and the 2026 midterms, it's a critical period, right, for for trump and the republicans to to get his agenda done. ron brownstein, he recently wrote about this, and he noted the past five times a president went into a midterm election with unified control of the government. voters ended up revoking it. so if you will talk about how this historical trend impacts the dynamic in

congress and the risk of extreme agendas that are associated with it. >> well, well, ron brownstein points out the political volatility of the particularly of this, this century that we're in now. uh, one there's always been a change of control in each election since the year 2000, except for two years, 2004 and 2012. he's absolutely right about this. so what parties do when they have this very short window? they know they're house republicans, for example, realize that their likelihood of keeping their majority is quite slim going into 2026. so they're going to try to jam as much as they can into this reconciliation package. as as they're trying to do it as fast as they can. but remember, they have a very slim majority. and you just pointed out that, you know, you have republicans who are saying they're not going to vote for a debt ceiling. you just quoted senator paul, you know, they're not going to want to do this. so i you know, i call me, call me a little bit skeptical that they're going to be able to do all these things. and also remember, too, there are differences among republicans

on some of these issues, particularly as it relates to the state and local tax deduction. there are some republicans in the northeast who want to reinstate it or extend the cap. there are others who don't want to deal with it. they're going to have to make a whole lot of compromises among themselves, because they're not going to get any help from the democrats on this bill, and especially if they put the debt ceiling in it. so, you know, stay tuned. but this is tough. and brownstein is right that so each side they know this window is so short. they're going to jam it in and and hope for the best quickly before we be defeated in the midterm. >> right. exactly. and before before we go, you know, regarding the fires that are raging in california, we've been covering it all morning and all week. we heard president biden say that, you know, the federal government would cover 100% of recovery for the next six months, but he's only got nine days left in office. how do you expect president elect trump to deal with this disaster? >> well, speaking of the compressed time frame, throw disasters into the into the mix because the congress just

passed the additional funding for the disaster relief fund at the end of last year. now, now, with these fires, i suspect they're going to need to replenish that once again. and so now this is another problem for donald trump to deal with again. and that's going to have to be dealt with immediately on top of everything else we just discussed. so it's tragic what's happening out there. but this is going to take a lot of this is going to take a lot of congressional effort and time, in addition to all the other things on the agenda. >> charlie dent, great to have you this morning. thanks again. >> the college football national championship matchup is set. ohio state will face notre dame. the buckeyes pulled out the win in an instant classic last night. we'll take a look ahead. >> super man the christopher reeve story. february 2nd on. >> you. don't stop being you just because you turn 65. but you do face more risk from flu and covid. last year alone, those viruses hospitalized

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>> college football's national championship game is set after an instant classic between ohio state and texas in the cotton bowl. >> andy scholes, joining us now andy. this game came down to big plays and the buckeyes just made a few more of them. >> oh yeah, and some very big ones at the end. >> victor and amara and you know so now we're going to have ohio state taking on notre dame. it's going to be january 20th in atlanta for the national championship. and it turned out to be a long live buckeyes fan that sent them to that national title game. texas, down seven, had first and goal from the one, but the ohio state defense an incredible stand. they stuffed the run twice, then forced it. incompletion. and it all came down to this fourth and goal play. senior jack sawyer, who grew up right outside columbus dreaming of winning a national title for ohio state. he came through. he forced that fumble off quinn ewers. those two were actually roommates freshman year at ohio state, when ewers was a member of the buckeyes. sawyer, 83 yards. the other way

to put the game away. ohio state sideline, as you can imagine, was just going nuts as they win 2814 booking their ticket to atlanta. a playoff victory. >> i kind of blacked out on the run over when i picked it up. >> but i mean, you know, coach put us in a great position to coach top ten man, top ten man. >> come on. >> i can't say enough about jack sawyer. he's a guy who loves being a buckeye. he loves his teammates. he's done everything we've asked him to do. >> he's a captain. >> he's everything. >> you know that we could possibly ask for in a captain. and to make a play like that, in that moment that we talked about before the game, do you want to leave a legacy behind? you become a legend. he just became a legend in ohio state. >> yeah, it certainly did. ohio state will look to win their sixth national title as they take on notre dame. january 20th in atlanta. buckeyes huge nine and a half point favorites for that game. in the meantime, the nfl playoffs are going to kick off later today. you got the wild card round starting with the chargers. that's the texans. that one's followed by an afc

north showdown between the ravens and the steelers. all right. lakers coach j.j. redick. meanwhile, he was among the thousands of people in the l.a. area who have lost everything to the devastating wildfires. and yesterday, he was pretty emotional as he talked about returning to his home in the pacific palisades neighborhood for the first time. >> i was not prepared. >> i was not prepared for what i saw. it is it's it's complete devastation and destruction. >> everything we we owned, that was of any importance to us almost 20 years together as a couple and ten years of parenting was in that house. and there are certain things that you can't replace that will never be replaced. of course, my wife and i are emotional. i'm not sure i've wept or wailed like that in several years. >> palisades community has really just been so good to us. >> and that's i think that's the part for us that we're really struggling with is just the loss of community. all the

churches, the schools, the library, like it's all gone. >> he's got to feel for everyone there. and the nba has postponed the lakers and clippers games that were scheduled for tonight, guys. the lakers also had their game on thursday postponed. the league saying they just don't want to take away any resources that can be used to help fight. what's going on there? >> yeah. makes sense. and the entire state just going through a tough time. andy, thank you so much. well, first of all is up next. victor, what do you have coming up? >> packed show. of course. we're starting with the latest on the fires in los angeles. and we're highlighting some of the communities and groups impacted and working to stop the fires that you likely have not seen coverage of yet, like the surprising number of incarcerated firefighters are helping to get these deadly blazes under control. plus, i'll speak to a high school football coach who lost his home, his mother and a baby barely made it out alive of their home, and his sister was killed