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>> all right. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it's sunday, january 12th. i'm victor blackwell. >> hi, everyone. i'm amara walker. here's what we're working on for you this morning two doors down, the house is gone. >> one door up. the house is gone. the house above me is gone. >> homeowners in los angeles county returned to the rubble left by the fires that still are raging out of control this morning. firefighters are making progress against several wildfires that have burned an area about two and a half times bigger than manhattan. we are in the fire zone with the latest. >> this is the last full week of president joe biden's administration. we're live at the white house with a look at biden's to do list in the final days of his presidency. >> and a big week on capitol hill. president elect donald trump's picks for attorney general and secretary of defense will be the first two to sit for what are expected to be controversial confirmation

hearings. >> the space race between the two richest men in the world is heating up even more. we'll explain that a little later a red flag warning is back in effect through wednesday in parts of california, as firefighters prepare for the return of higher winds. they made some progress saturday. they battled the four major fires in the los angeles county area. two are close to full containment, but the palisades fire is still growing. that was only 11% contained. the mayor of malibu says that fire has now wiped out a third of the eastern edge of his city, and people say they're not sure what to do next. >> it's like your heart's been ripped out. we have everything. we have our lives and stomped on and thrown away. and you're just trying to find a piece to put it back together. >> two doors down, the house is gone. one door up. the house is gone. the house above me is gone. the house is across the street where we're burning all day. >> the los angeles police chief announced that the atf will

take the lead on a new investigative task force created to find out what sparked the palisades fire. at least 16 people have died in the palisades fire in eaton fire fires. meanwhile, police are cracking down on looters in mandatory evacuation areas. the los angeles police department says it arrested seven people in two days, including two looters who pretended to be firefighters. right now, firefighters hope a shift in the winds could push the fire back toward land that has already been burned. cnn's stephanie elam is near los angeles with a look at the firefighters preparations. >> i want to draw your attention to this ridge line up here behind us. up there where you see a vehicle parked up on top of that sandy colored area. they have been bulldozing, making that broader, making that wider. and the reason why they're doing that is because they want to have a defensible space, a place where they can battle against the flames. were

the fire to come this direction. and we have gotten information that the winds will blow this way. right now the fire is burning out in this canyon here in brentwood, california. but what they want to make sure is that it stays away from these homes that you see right here. um, all day saturday, we've seen firefighters staged there behind these houses that are up against this ridge. and obviously a lot of people like to live here. they've got this lovely, beautiful nature backdrop behind them. but this is also the downside of that is just how close they are to this fire burning here. the palisades fire, you can see as they have been doing all day, they've been fighting this fire from the sky. they've been dropping fire retardant. they've been dropping water to stop that forward movement. but as the winds change, the smoke starts to change. and so they have to change how they're fighting these blazes. but this is what they're continuing to do here to protect the houses

along this ridge here. because obviously, the first concern is to make sure that they keep people alive. and as i've been told, most of the people here did evacuate. the next thing that they're working on is keeping homes safe. and so they have extra firefighters coming from all around the country, in fact, from several states and as well as canada and mexico here to help battle these blazes. as we prepare for these higher winds over the next few days. back to you. >> all right, stephanie elam, thank you. well, firefighters got a break saturday, but winds are set to pick up again soon. cnn's derek van dam joining us now with a look at the forecast so we can talk about the winds, but also just how dry california has been. >> yeah. those winds are pushing around a tinderbox. right. ready to explode again. they've only had 3/100 of an inch since the start of their water year, which is october 1st. okay. they should have over 4.5in. so representative of that is this little cup of water. don't think volume,

think depth. that's the amount of water that los angeles has had. it should be overflowing this cup with how much water they should normally have. january is their second wettest month of the entire year, so it just hasn't fallen from the sky. so we're extremely dry. you return in the winds like we saw last week. and then what's going forward through this week. and we have critical fire weather from today right through wednesday. this is just representative of the next three days red flag warning that's only issued when the winds and the tinderbox conditions on the ground are at perfect harmony. and we have that high fire risk gusting 20 to 30 today, picking up in intensity through the course of monday, tuesday and especially into wednesday. this is important. i want you to see how the winds gradually back off today, but change directions more of an onshore component that could take embers back into areas that have already burned. something to consider. then the second and third round of santa ana winds pick up northeasterly

direction. that's offshore winds, and that direction of wind is so critical and so important for those firefighters as they battle numerous out of control wildfires over western l.a. county. where does it go from here? there's certainly no rain to extinguish. any of these flames that we currently have going. victor. amara. >> all right, derek, thanks for watching it for us. thanks so much. okay. all right. thousands of people have been, as you know, forced to leave their homes, only then to find out that those homes are later gone. and even with insurance, it will be a long process to try to rebuild. and that includes brant and tasha. callum. here's what they saw when they returned to their neighborhood. this. >> okay baby, it's okay. it's just our house. mr. charles. oh, he did all that? oh, no. he saved it. >> brant and tasha callum are with us now. thank you both for joining us this morning. you

know you're from altadena. both sides of your family members are from altadena. i just want to go back to that video and tasha get here. you know, you in the background crying there. i mean, what was it like to watch your home go up in flames like that? >> um, it like unreal. it was like, literally a nightmare. um, i was hoping that there would our house would still be standing. and just to pull up, to see our house just fully engulfed in flames is heartbreaking. you know, all the work we put in and just gone. >> yeah. i read that you this is your first home. you put a lot of work into making this house a home for your family. you were you were not at home when the fire started. tell us about the evacuation process and then the ability to get back to see what we all see. now. >> um, the night before tuesday night, um, we kind of were

stayed at home, kind of waiting to see what the instructions were going to be, i think around 930 or 10:00, we got word that we over a loudspeaker, um, that if you were in the area you needed to evacuate. so we kind of grabbed maybe like a pair of pajamas, one outfit. i still had the kids and house slippers and, um, we walked out not knowing that literally, that would be the last time we would see our house. um, and, you know, we drove down to his mom's house and we just kind of waited just to, just to see if we heard anything. we did have a neighbor that stayed behind. so we were keeping in contact with him. but it was scary, like initially seeing the flames on top of the mountain. and then for as we left the the flames were completely, um, had come all the way down the mountain by that time. >> how many children do you have and how old are they? and tell me how they've

been handling all this. >> we have two. we have a boy and a girl. um, troy. he's eight years old, and our daughter nyla is six. um, honestly, i don't think that they've grasped the true concept of what's happened. um, i, i don't think that they realize that, like, we're not going back home, so it's they're handling it better than, i guess that, you know, we are. but. we're working through it. >> one of them tried to stay positive, right. and mentioned that the chimney survived. >> yes. um, our daughter, she, um, we showed her a video, um, and the only thing that we saw left was our chimney. and she said, um, you know, well, these are chimneys still up, so santa can still drop off presents. um. >> brant, talk to me about the importance of of altadena to you, to your family and

rebuilding and going back home eventually yes. >> altadena is very important to myself and my family. my grandparents lived in altadena, my wife's grandparents lived in altadena. both of our parents live in altadena. we live in altadena and our children obviously live in altadena. so it's four generations of people living in altadena. this is home to us. we love it. and even though we suffered through this tragedy, we could not imagine leaving altadena. this is the only place we really know and love. um, we are rebuilding once the time is right. >> and for those of, you know, the people out there who don't know the history of altadena, this being the first middle class black community, um, and your plans to return and why it's rooted in this history and why it's so important for you and your family to come back? >> yes. um, the history of altadena is one of the a lot of

southern california was redlined. so this was the only place that african-americans could stay. um, so it's very important to us. there's lots of families, three generations, four generations in the home. um, so when we were able to afford to buy or purchase a home, which we purchased our home during covid, during the pandemic, we once we got our money together, we made up our mind to buy a home. it wasn't the prettiest home. it was a fixer upper. we put our all into it. we we turned it all the way over. it was very nice and beautiful and we loved it. it was home. we felt so comfortable in it. >> well, we are so sorry to hear that. just all that hard work you put into this home, um, is now gone along with your community. we will be thinking of you and we do wish you the best. brant and tasha. callum, thank you for your time thank you so much. >> we appreciate it. also, we do have a gofundme account. if we we want to thank the emergency responders. first and

foremost, thank you guys so much for all the help you're doing in our community and everywhere else in southern california. and we also have a gofundme account. uh, it's rebuild hope for tasha, callum and family. thank you very much. >> thank you guys. >> thank you. and for more information on how you can help california wildfire victims, you can go to cnn.com/vote. impact. >> still to come, president biden will kick off his final week in office with speeches to wrap up a decades long political career. what he's expected to highlight. that's next. >> plus, president-elect donald trump is announcing more new names for key roles as some of his cabinet picks gear up for senate confirmation hearings this week. what we could expect to hear from them. >> and a look at how survivors can begin to cope with the trauma of natural disasters as these wildfires burn through homes in southern california. >> i took my son. we ran to the car, and he was scared. he was crying, i was

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moving east toward brentwood and other neighborhoods. the number of those killed, now 16. but officials warn that number could go up as the full scope of the destruction becomes clear. the palisades, eton, hurst and kenneth fires have spread to more than 38,000 acres combined. president biden has a pair of speeches planned as he heads into the final full week in office. the speeches will cap off biden's 50 years in politics. he's likely to focus on what the white house sees as achievements, both at home and abroad. >> and we got a preview on friday as biden celebrated a positive jobs report. his administration is the only one in american history to see new jobs created every single month of his four year term. cnn's betsy kline, joining us now from the white house. hi, betsy. so walk us through the president's schedule in this last week of his presidency. >> good morning. amara. well, a very busy week ahead. his final week in office for president

biden, as he has a pair of major speeches that are designed to both shore up his legacy of his presidency and also cap off a political career spanning over half a century. starting with monday, when he delivers a major foreign policy speech at the state department, a white house official tells us that biden will focus on his administration's work to strengthen america in the world. he will also talk about those efforts to bolster u.s. alliances abroad, and we can expect him to take aim at president elect donald trump. one source telling us that he will detail how he is handling the next administration, quote, a stronger hand than he inherited. and this is a bookend speech. biden first gave remarks laying out his foreign policy vision back in 2021, shortly after taking office at the state department. then on wednesday, he will deliver a farewell address to the nation from the oval office, just the fifth time he's given an address from the oval office. and really an effort there to lay out some of his achievements. but what we still don't know about what he

will do this week is whether he will hold that time honored tradition of a formal press conference before leaving office. now, biden lags significantly behind his modern predecessors in terms of news conferences. and we last saw him address the press in a dedicated setting back in july, when he was facing questions about his candidacy. so it's been a long time since he held a press conference. we'll be watching that. we'll also be watching whether he uses that presidential power to deliver any last minute pardons and commutations, he said in an interview published earlier this week that he is leaving the door open to those preemptive pardons. so we'll be watching. whether he does that. and he's also doing that work of governing, as we've seen with this wildfire response, obviously going to be a very lengthy federal response across the federal government that he is handing off to trump in just eight days from now. but all of this comes just a couple of days after the president eulogized former president jimmy carter. and in those

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voters back in, you know, when he ran for the white house to begin with, was to undo the trump legacy. so now that voters have gone back to trump, it's almost a repudiation of biden. so he'll be making this argument that, you know, somehow his his four years in office are not a blip and that he can, you know, carry on. you know, he made nato such a big part of his or defending nato, such a big part of his administration, you know, defending ukraine. these are things that trump has questioned. so voters clearly, you know, essentially went in a different direction. so we'll have to see what biden says. but, you know, it's a very uncomfortable moment, i would think for him, especially as, you know, much of his legacy may be unraveled by the next administration. >> zach, the senate confirmation hearings will begin this week, and perhaps one of president-elect trump's most controversial picks, pete hegseth for defense

secretary. he'll be in the hot seat on tuesday. as you know, there have been many questions and concerns about his, you know, these allegations of excessive drinking, his treatment of women, extramarital affairs, what have you. how contentious do you expect the line of questioning to get? >> i think in particular with hegseth, it could get very contentious. and we need to keep an eye on some of these republican senators. you know, they have a 53 seat majority. they can afford to lose a couple of senators and still get president trump. president elect, trump's nominees through. but, you know, particularly with hegseth, he is so controversial, his lack of experience leading large organizations, the questions about his drinking, the you know, the questions about his ability to lead these organizations, it's going to be very difficult. i think, for him, democrats who are grasping for some, you know, sort of visibility at this time are

going to, you know, this is their opportunity, their one real opportunity to make their questions about these nominees, you know, land with the public. so i think that look for the democrats, what they say, but really look for what the republicans are doing. does he get any difficult questions from republicans? can president trump use his, you know, his stature? this is his moment of peak power, you know, in the country and with the republican party. can he use that to bring these people over the line? it seems like probably, yes. but we'll just have to see. >> and perhaps this moment of peak power for trump might be reflected in the way that some of his picks answer the questions in the hearing. because because eight years ago, what we saw were were many of trump's nominees defending their own views, even if it opposed trump's, you know, when it came to russia or the iran nuclear deal. but this time around, i'd imagine it's going to be quite different. i mean, do you expect that we're going to see trump's picks to

be fully in lockstep when it comes to trump's agenda and his positions? >> yeah, i view this as sort of the ultimate loyalty test in a lot of ways. how closely can they align themselves with what trump has said, with what trump wants? and, you know, that seems to be the real question going forward. it's not how how, you know, they can modulate their their loyalty to trump. it's wi hegseth for for also with people like rfk who has had such different views than trump on so many issues, but is now aligned with him. and, you know, looking to join his administration. >> zach, you recently wrote a piece on cnn.com about the confirmation process, how it works, and you noted that a nominee being rejected by a vote in the senate is extremely rare. i think it's only happened once before, but we've also seen presidents in the

past use recess appointments to push their nominees through. trump has been calling for the senate to allow for these recess appointments. could you just walk us through how that would work and how complicated or easy it is to get this done? >> it would be really complicated for that to happen. trump's called for that. but essentially the senate, after the obama administration, the senate basically stopped taking long enough recesses in order to make these recess appointments. so he would have to get buy in from senate republican leaders to essentially stop working for a number of days. you know, in order to make this happen. and that seems five days. >> is it ten days? >> that's that's right. that was as a result of a supreme court decision from the obama administration. so, you know, senators would essentially have to basically take a, you know, a break in order to do that. and we've heard less of that in recent weeks. after he

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flames and they didn't expand. but fire officials warned that the situation can worsen in the next few days, as they are expecting that the fires will pick up again, and that could create a problem for this group of firefighters that are on over the weekend are getting extra help from our neighbors north and south of the border. both canada and mexico have sent firefighters that are going to. start assisting on the fire control duties. sunday. governor gavin newsom was at the airport welcoming the mexican firefighters and other mexican personnel who came to assist in these fires. he was very thankful. he says any assistance helps, especially with the forecast. as i mentioned, they expect that the winds might pick up and that could create another problem. now, for many residents that haven't been able to return to their houses, to their neighborhoods, to see

what is left from their houses, of if their houses survived at all, they're very frustrated. they haven't been able to get past the checkpoints that are protecting the area. i spoke saturday with a lady who said that they had to evacuate. actually, as soon as they saw the first smoke because they had respiratory condition. they live in altadena, so they were told their house was gone. i was able to get their address and get there and via a cell phone. i showed her the live images of her burned down house. she couldn't believe what she was seeing. she said they had lived there for over six years. she couldn't even find her room. it was a two story home and all that was left were the stairs going up to nothing. and that is a situation that repeats over and over and over, and many here fear that the danger is still

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checked with my husband. i couldn't see him. there was so much smoke. i checked with him. do you have all of them? and he said, i think so. and we just left and he was walking around with his lantern in the house. >> chase and i were talking to him. we were on facetime and he said, he'll be fine. >> i'll be here when you guys come back. he was in his bed when i found him. >> it was so fast. a friend was able to go to the neighborhood once it had completely burned down, and send us a video, and that's when we found out for sure the idea of trying to figure out where we're going to be for the next month, where we're going to have this baby. >> we had so many friends and a massive support group there that i was really, really planning to lean on and losing them is like. it's almost harder than losing our home. >> i probably only have a dozen or so homes. in in my census track. um, it's like half the

town is gone. it's it's just too overwhelming. we're just living with the clothes on our back. and lucky to have friends that are bringing us in. >> i think everybody just needs to, to understand that they've done their best. and, you know, as long as they're with their family and they have their lives, um, you know, life is long and i think we have that to look forward to. >> um, you know, the trauma from these fires will affect hundreds of thousands of people in los angeles and likely beyond, when the fires are contained, they could be among the most costly and significant urban fires in american history. so how are the people there in los angeles and elsewhere, supposed to cope with the trauma they've faced? joining me now is licensed clinical social worker and executive director of resources for resilience. and dupree, rodgers and dupree. thank you for being with me. first let me start here with for the people who are aware that this trauma could have a physical, emotional, mental effect. what behaviors, what symptoms should they look

for? be on the lookout for in themselves, to know that they have to address the trauma. >> so folks have been through an overwhelmingly stressful event, and it is really normal to be feeling a whole range of emotions. and it's really normal to be having a whole range of behaviors. our nervous systems get thrown completely out of balance when these kinds of events happen. our brains put us for our own safety in the moment, put us into either fight or flight or freeze. and those states are helpful, kind of in the midst of the disaster. but what we don't want is to stay in those states, fight, flight, or freeze for long periods of time. over time, that can be where the trauma can get stuck, and we can have problems. so i

want people to understand if they're feeling really anxious. irritable, angry, numb. disconnected. shut down. those those are actually really normal reactions to a really not normal event. um, if over time, if, you know, several weeks from now, people are still feeling, um, like they have so much energy, it's stuck in their nervous system, they can't sleep, they can't settle, they can't calm down. they're kind of in this heightened state all the time. after several weeks, that would be where it's time to really think, okay, i might need to get some some more help or a shutdown state that gets stuck where i'm not really able to function, go out and about, take care of things right now, it makes sense to not be able to take care of things, right? we're not really in a place

for, um, decision making, planning, organizing, knowing how to fill out paperwork, things like that is is hard right now. it will get easier. >> and what should should people do? um, you know, for the people who are displaced, some of those are mental health professionals who would otherwise be able to help people who are calling for some assistance. you told my producer about something called rapid reset. what is that? >> yes. um, so we teach and anyone can do these, um, quick little what we call nervous system reset tools, things that we can do in the moment for about 20 30s that right now can help, help settle my stress response or sort of help my nervous system settle out of that fight, flight, freeze place, at least for the next little while. and they're simple things. i can show you a

couple, um, one of them is to, um. this is a really simple one, and i can demonstrate on the video you cross your. arms. um, kind of like this and place your hands at whatever height feels good and just tap side to side, either slowly or fast. whatever feels right. and just notice what happens in your body and in your thoughts, but in your body when you tap. and often i don't know if you can see it helps me sort of take a bigger breath. um, my voice might have dropped a little bit. i had some kind of anxiety in my chest. it sort of begins to settle. it's super simple, but it helps kind of, um, stimulate parts of our brain to get the message. all right, i'm okay right now. i'm okay right now. another one we can do. these are just super simple, quick

things, but they help communicate to the part of our brain that needs to get the message. yeah, you're safe enough right now. you weren't safe. you're safe enough now. so, like, taking a sip of water, noticing how it feels. >> and these are these are things that in the moment, you know, as i said, you may not be able to reach someone who is a reliable source for this type of, of coping mechanism, reassurance. and these are things that we can do alone to help ourselves cope through these moments. andrew rogers, thank you so much for the information and the tools and for being with us this morning. all right. tonight, a special hour on the deadly fires in los angeles and the people who are facing unthinkable tragedy. join anderson cooper for the whole story tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. >> all right. still to come, ukraine says they have captured two north koreans who have been fighting alongside russian troops. but the two soldiers are reportedly saying that's next.

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these last few days. >> what the video appears to show and cnn can't independently authenticated, nor indeed confirm the nationalities of the men. it shows what the video shows or not shows what ukraine says are those captured soldiers, but also the russian i.d. that was found on one of them. ukrainian secret services, saying that the men say they had been brought to russia on the understanding they were being trained there and found themselves in frontline combat instead. we don't know much about the circumstances of their capture, bar what president zelenskyy has said, that it was a difficult thing to achieve given the russian forces tendency to execute wounded soldiers in order that they can't end up in enemy hands. what the ukrainian secret services are saying, though, is that these two men are the first captured north korean soldiers. and of course, that is important since ukrainians are trying to figure out exactly how many north korean soldiers there are currently fighting in kursk.

remember also the scene of very fierce fighting? all the more since the latest push by ukrainian forces to try and make what progress they can there in their attempt to keep that front active, that russians can't resupply the eastern front, where the fighting, of course, continues as well. a capture that will be important for the ukrainians in trying to figure out not just the numbers of north korean soldiers currently fighting in kursk, but the nature of their training and readiness for battle. melissa bell, cnn, paris. >> all right, melissa, thank you. still to come next hour, we'll go live to california for the latest on the deadly wildfires. >> today, disaster in l.a. fema administrator deanne criswell on what's next. and a week until trump's inauguration. congress weighs in on his

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