homeowners in altadena today who were in their houses. they stayed in their houses, and they're staying in their houses now because they're concerned about looters, which they've seen in their neighborhood. and if they leave, they can't come back. and now they can't even get deliveries in. they can't get food items or resupplied or gas. what are you hearing from displaced residents about their biggest needs? >> it's a big challenge, you know, not far from where you stand. um, anderson, we had one of our agency partner sites burned to the ground. um, you know, we've had food bank staff and volunteers lose their homes not far from where you are. i'm at our city of industry distribution center, which is a several miles from where you are. but that's a big, big challenge because, you know, this is an ongoing fire disaster that fires disasters that are happening. and, you know, as you heard earlier, with the wind events and, you know, we're not it would be far better if the fires were

out. but it isn't because of the winds that we're dealing with. so huge challenges in trying to get food and essentials to people. again, many will go to the evacuation centers. but as you're pointing out, they're worried about getting back in. so certainly big challenges for the city. l.a. county and the other first responders involved. >> yeah. it's extraordinary. just some of the images we're watching just there's no color in so many of these. what is it like for you to see this in your in your community? i mean, did you ever anticipate something like this? >> no, this is devastating. i'm an l.a. native, and, you know, we've had fires here and some have covered large areas. but, you know, these are like pictures that you see in a war. i'll just put it out there. it's just really incredible. and i think for those of us who, you know, have been here, whether we're new to l.a. or we've been here a long time, i honestly feel like we're just wrapping our heads around this.

you know, i just came off a call with our organization focusing on, again, not just basic needs, but emotional and spiritual care and other aspects. and we're all just sort of girding up for what is going to be an incredible response. ongoing. yeah. >> well, michael, i appreciate all your all you're doing. michael flood um, really appreciate it. before we go, i just want to let you know my new. a new episode of my podcast on grief and loss. all there is has just dropped tonight. it's available wherever you get your podcasts. you can point your phone's camera at the qr code on the screen right now. this week's guest is historian doris kearns goodwin, who remembers her late husband dick, who died nearly seven years ago of cancer. you can also watch and listen to all episodes of the podcast. watch videos of the interview at cnn.com. forward slash all there is online are the. the interviews are also on youtube. you can also leave comments and share your experiences at cnn.com. forward slash all there is online. i hope it makes you feel a little less

lonely in your grief. and if you'd like to help those affected by the los angeles area wildfires, go to cnn.com/impact. the news continues right here on cnn. >> and outfront next live from altadena. california already devastated right now at the center of new warnings tonight for those winds, fears of new fires starting right here. this as i meet a firefighter who lost his own home, trying to desperately save others in the rubble of his home. today, though, a priceless discovery and the search for a cause. cnn spotting investigators combing several hiking trails where one of the fire started an investigation on the ground is out front tonight, and then a professional soccer player for l.a. her childhood home burned to the ground days before her wedding. so did she go ahead with it? she's my guest. let's go out front. and good evening. i'm erin burnett, live from

altadena, california tonight and out front tonight. we do have the breaking news. these new warnings. we are now in the middle of an extremely dangerous situation here in southern california. powerful wind gusts are now whipping across the area. the major fear right now is that the winds will fuel even more destructive fires by carrying embers to areas like this on the edge of altadena that have not been burned. and you see how green and lush and all of the dry vegetation also through this area, critically dry. it is in these hills behind me where the eaton fire started. they are concerned about new sparks for so much of this area to go up in flames and in these coming hours with wind gusts, that is the concern coming down the san gabriel mountains. and this is why, as you can see, we're in a part of town that is under an evacuation order. people, this is you know, you come through national guard blocked and all day here there's been fire crews coming through here nonstop. they've been, you know, really scrambling to gain the upper hand and build up this firewall

that they're trying to build up ahead of these winds that they anticipate through the night hours tonight. and as we drove around today, we saw this, you know, the pink fire retardant. we've been showing you drops of that coating homes cars yards. but up in the mountains today we literally saw a line almost a line of defense over in the mountains behind me. they've been putting to try to prevent where they fear that that fire could try to move down in those winds tonight. areas that, of course, have not seen flame and burn in about 50 years. let's just show you some of the pictures here. you can see the pink stretching, as i said, across the hill. and we also have incredible new video from an air crew. and there you see the remarkable precision of what they are trying to do to drop in this case, water drop on flames in the palisades fire. and meantime, on the ground, families are sifting through the ashes, trying to look for anything that might have survived the ashes and the fires. things that matter so much in any human life. i was

with a firefighter earlier today. he saw the fires, went out on call. 16 hours later, he finds out his own home burned to the ground while he had been out desperately trying to save others. and we're going to share you his incredible story in just a moment. while we were with him, though, we captured a remarkable scene. can you actually found his wedding ring covered in ash? >> what's that? >> let me see. >> what's it? that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. oh my god, oh my god. oh my god! >> yeah. >> oh my god. oh yeah. oh my god. >> oh my god. >> we're going to have more on this story in just a moment. but first though, bill weir, nick watt and veronica miracle are all here with me across southern california. in the midst of these warnings on all sides of these fires, i want to start with you, bill in malibu. what are you seeing and hearing there now?

>> well, erin, we started the day really on fire lookout. >> we drove around topanga. >> we went all the way, actually, to oxnard to see that that auto fire that broke out overnight, but it was quickly contained. it was quenched, and it was really quiet. even the wind gusts we were expecting to see didn't didn't produce. but it looks like they basically shifted this particularly dangerous situation to tomorrow, some 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. so they got a little more time to work on those fire lines to try to get these hotspots. we saw some smoldering up here in the hills above malibu. but let me look. you give you a before and after perspective of this home here on pacific coast highway. we're right by rambla pacifica. duke's famous restaurant is just just east of us here. but that's the before photo. and then this is the after. and this whole strip of homes here, these these pacific side homes, the beaches in l.a. are public up to the, i believe, just above the high tide line. but

this narrow strip between pacific coast highway and the ocean is some of the most coveted real estate anywhere in the country, frankly, and so much of it has been gutted. in addition to many of the hillside mansions that are much more opulent because they have more of a of a loft space up there. we saw search and rescue teams for the first time. i don't know when they started. they got they've done thousands of home checks up in altadena, but it sounded like from the press conference that they just started here and we saw some actually from mexico search and rescue teams. and they're going through doing the grim work of looking to confirm there were no remains in any of these houses. and aaron, oddly, about an hour ago, we got an alert like our phones blew up that malibu around las flores canyon needed to evacuate. but then they just announced half hour later at the press conference. there are no active evacuations, so they might be another bug in the alert system. yeah, yeah. >> which and of course, those

alerts caused such fear. all right. bill weir, thank you very much. in malibu. let's go to pacific palisades. where nick. what is. and nick, what are you learning? >> well, some pretty good news today. frankly, erin, there are no active flames around this massive fire. some hotspots around the edges that they're trying to mop up in anticipation of that wind picking up later. but that wind, which we thought was going to be powerful through last night into today, just never really materialized, never really picked up. you know, last night on the local news, one of the meteorologists was talking about the wind. and he said, basically, people in this area need to be most fearful. that was around where i live. so i've been driving around all last night and today with paintings and a few other things in the back of my truck, just in case. you know, the longer you cover this fire, the more you believe that the worst can actually happen. when you see that the worst has happened to so many people. mayor bass of l.a. meantime, talking about reconstruction already, it's time to look forward, she says. i was driving along sunset boulevard just through the

palisades, and you can see all the utility trucks are out there starting some sort of work. it's difficult to know where they can start in just this utter devastation in this nearly 40 square mile burn imprint. so fears again for tonight just a little bit as those winds might pick up after dark, you know, because what happens is when the land loses temperature, the ocean keeps temperature. and that can help get those winds moving again. so there is a little bit of fear for that. fingers crossed. by this time tomorrow i'll be feeling a lot happier. erin. >> all right, well, we hope so. of course we'll see. at that point, you're going to have pass through that that period of incredibly intense wind as the forecast is right now. all right. thank you very much, nick watt. let's go now to the pasadena fire chief, chad augustin. and he is here with me now. so you were here obviously, in this moment you don't have heavy winds, but that is the concern and the

fear. we're in that area that you're worried about what can happen here just in the mountains behind us. so. so tell me how fast it moves from just say, a ridge or coming through that little crevice in the mountains, how fast it could move down to these areas of altadena, which so far from from this point this way have not burned. >> right? first off, thank you for having me. and if we just go back to the start of this fire when we had 7080 mile an hour wind gusts, we had ember cast two plus miles ahead of the fire. so to put that into perspective, i can tell you how quickly with those ember casts, if we had a flare up, how fast these homes could be threatened. right? >> i mean, because, you know, this is this is close. >> it's very close. >> and the winds, they can just come. so all day i know i've seen a lot of activity. you know, you're worried here. you've had fire trucks coming and going. you've been dropping fire retardant along some of the ridges to try to block it. how? but of course then there's still the great unknown of exactly what and where. but how do you feel about the

preparations for this win that you anticipate really picking up overnight? >> yeah, i would say it's it's twofold. we're concerned and there's been so much loss and devastation. we want to prevent that. the positive thing is we have over 3200 firefighters assigned to this incident. and so we have tons of contingencies of of strike teams, of firefighters, uh, patrolling this area. we we're protecting critical infrastructure. >> so when they patrol and we see them here, we see copters up on these ridges, we see what are they looking for? >> two things. they're looking for hotspots. and they're looking for any embers that may be that may be casting that could cause a flare up, that could already be, could come over and just blow right over. >> even now, where it seems calm and it lands. >> that's. you're exactly right. >> all right. so then how do they how do they find those? i mean, the sense you look at this and the scale, the scale is so vast. >> it is for, for some of our aircraft, they can detect heat for some of our firefighters, they literally stopping and and as you've seen, they're stopping house to house to make sure there are no hotspots that

could ignite. and exactly. >> all right. well, i know this is going to be crucial talking to some of your crews today. you've got everybody on high alert through the night here. right. with this next three, 3:30 a.m., you expect that this potential surge in winds. >> that's correct. and we have a whole contingency of additional strike teams on the ready, if need be, to come in and protect this community. all right. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. >> good luck tonight with with everything that your crews are doing. appreciate it. all right. and that's, that's that's what they were doing, as you said walking, checking on the house to house along those ridges, looking for anything stray so they could catch it early. and the winds are anticipated to pick up significantly that particularly dangerous warning coming in those early hours through tomorrow. the fear of new fires igniting is dangerously real here. firefighter chen yu knows what that fear looks like because he saw the fire, and then he evacuated his wife and two boys from their home. he went out on a 16 hour shift to fight fires in his altadena

neighborhood. 16 hour shift. he didn't know until the end of it that his house was gone. i met up with chen this afternoon for his first day back at the firehouse. he's on on high alert tonight. over the night. everyone at that firehouse is. we visited his home where he found a miraculous discovery. as we were there what is it like coming back to work? um i just wanted normalcy. >> so that's why i came back to work. >> but it's never going to be the same for the kids. yeah, i mean, how are the kids managing? >> because they would have. i mean, i know your wife packed some stuff, but they're very unrooted right now. >> yeah, they're. i think they're doing as best as they can, you know, but they do have moments like when my wife puts them to bed. they've talked about, you know, like, i want to go home. i want to go back to school. yeah. you know, and

unfortunately, we live right next to the school. so that fire took the school to school is gone. yeah, totally. yeah. this is my route home. this is how i would get home in the morning. >> in the morning? because you usually work in overnight, right? >> yeah, we worked two days, 48 hour shifts. my bench made it with the concrete. >> so it's this house right here. chen. yep. right here. oh my gosh. >> basketball hoop. the boys asked about the basketball hoop if they made it. >> yeah man this is my garage. this is your garage? >> yeah. we had just like i said, we had just cleaned it up. yeah. this was the front door. little porch area. we're sitting right here. >> and then where did you see the flames? >> you can just see the orange glow over the trees. >> right over there. >> yeah.

>> now you're not going to take the boys back here, right? no, no. >> yeah. we, uh, initially thought maybe we. i don't think they need any of this. no. yeah. >> no, they i mean, they know, right? >> yeah. they. >> yeah. we evacuated so they know we told them that that's burned down. our house is burned down. the school is burned down. so they're trying to figure it out. >> how long had you lived here at chen? >> um, we were here probably like seven, eight years. yeah. >> do you come back to altadena? do you stay in altadena or. >> yeah. i mean, i grew up around here. i grew up in san gabriel valley. um, so we're not too far. and the plan of now is we want to be back. and i think that's the the feeling of most everyone on the street. yeah. oh, this is the baby grand that we had. you can see there's a piano. yes. this is where we had our baby grand. you can see the the metal. oh the strings with the you see the strings.

>> yep. >> oh my gosh. i mean, you see fire every day, right? you see destroyed destruction every day. but how is it different now that it's your own life? >> yeah, it's i don't know, it's just. undescribable. i mean, you know, when we go to a house fire, you kind of detach, you know, and you just sort of do what's best for the homeowner, and you put the fire out, and we kind of salvage what we can. we pull what we can from them, and hopefully some of their stuff make it. but this is just just gone. >> looking for his wedding ring. >> what's that? what's that? gold. what's that? what's that? let me see. what's it? that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. oh my god, oh my god, oh, my god yeah. oh my god. oh yeah. oh my god oh my

god jim what's your wife going to say. >> she didn't know. but you hadn't told her. >> no. you didn't tell her you lost it. now she's gonna know. >> now everybody knows. but we found it. >> yeah, we found it. you're all good. yeah. good. what? >> oh, my gosh, we found it. we found it. >> something special about that moment. and just the what they're going through. you can help the u. family by donating to their gofundme page. go to gofundme.com and search for. chen u c h i e n u to find their donation page. and we're going to take a very brief break. when we come up, come back on the other side. hikers capturing what may have been the start of the fire that leveled the palisades, even as

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>> at the breaking news, police have now arrested 14 people in connection with the pacific palisades fire. one of the two huge fires raging here comes as investigators are working overtime to figure out where and how the fires started here, where they're worried about more fires spreading down the san gabriel mountains. this particular area of fear. tonight, even behind us, there's been a lot of investigators down low looking to see possibly the genesis of the eaton fire as they try to figure this out. nick, what is out front? >> we know what sets the scene for these fires. dry brush, low humidity, high winds. but what about the spark? bottom line, we are usually to blame 95% of all fires are started by humans. >> but that's not all arson. it can be accidental. >> a cigarette butt, a campfire, fireworks, or a spark from a power line. it's the infrastructure of human life that's often to blame. after the eaton fire just devastated altadena, the electric company

already being sued for allegedly starting it by mistake. socal edison denies this. investigators still do not know. >> we did see the embers flying. it was almost like a snow flurries. >> 6:19 p.m. tuesday, the koo family doorbell cam captured fire at the base of a power line pylon in eaton canyon. >> it was burning bright and it was the the base of the tower on fire above the palisades. >> a puff of smoke on a satellite image taken 1037 tuesday morning. and this video shot by hikers high on a hillside of trails and bone dry chaparral. >> it was probably only about 50ft away from us. we started to hear the fire crackle, like right behind us, and the wind started to pick up really fast. >> arson investigators and sniffer dogs searching for any sign of accelerant here. should those trails have been closed when fire danger was so severe,

you might argue that it would prevent a spark. >> but when you've got this much dry vegetation and this much wind preventing all the sparks is is pretty hard. >> midnight last night, as winds whipped up the angeles national forest was closed to the public. that's more than 1000mi÷ of wilderness north of the city. late thursday, this man was arrested in azusa, accused of trying to set a tree on fire. he did not start a major blaze in california. >> seems to have a large number of crazies who get off on setting fires. >> in fact, just last year, we arrested over 150 arsonists who started wildfires, intentionally here in california. >> but power lines and equipment are the most common culprit, sparking some of the most devastating fires in the state. the woolsey camp and tubbs fires. live cables get hit by branches in the wind fault and spark. that's why more than 20,000 households

face power shut offs today, which are going to prevent our next fire from starting. but who or what exactly sparked these current fires? >> at this point, it is just too early to determine what that or who that might be, and we likely won't know for months. >> so right now i am in the general area of origin up there on the hill. investigators trying to figure out the specific. it will take a while. they go pebble by pebble, blade of grass by blade of grass to try and narrow down the exact point of ignition i mentioned there. they had dogs sniffing for accelerant, so arson on the table. those two power, uh, pylons up there also an issue. and also there was a fire here, aaron, on new year's day early in the morning. and so there's a possibility that some embers, something could have still been burning under the ground. that

was then reignited by that heavy wind. it's going to take a while. months, perhaps, before we know what happened up here. >> erin. >> all right. nick watt, thank you very much. we've just learned the death toll in these fires has increased to 25. it has been 24. the governor of california, gavin newsom, has indicated he expects that those numbers will go up substantially, but they are going house to house. they have cadaver dogs. they are trying to understand the magnitude of this damage, even as in these hours here with these winds, they are worried about embers and fire over these ridges, igniting more fire out front. now jose medina, he is the acting special agent in charge of the atf los angeles field division. he is leading an elite team that's been deployed to investigate what happened. the cause of that palisades fire that has changed. los angeles. and, josie, i want to start with the breaking news. 14 people now under arrest in connection with that palisades fire. i mean, 14 people is a

lot of people and three of them we understand for arson. so can you give us any context around these arrests, whether they're related to the cause of the palisades fire? >> well, thank you for the question, aaron. >> and first of all, our thoughts and prayers are to all the victims of this horrific tragedy. >> um, as you know, this is an ongoing investigation, and it's atf's top priority to give everybody answers. >> and to the citizens of the southern california the answers they need. >> and uh, through a thorough investigation, um, as it relates to those arrests, i cannot speak on those arrests. those are our state and local partners. um, but as of now, it is atf's top priority to provide the citizens with answers. >> can i ask you just. and i understand there's only so much you can say in the context of an investigation, but 14 people seems like a lot of people. is it a lot of people when if you're thinking about arrests

related to starting a fire just from your experience doing this? >> well, it depends on the type of charges they are arrested for. but that would be with our state and local partners. um, like i said, this is an active investigation, an ongoing investigation which atf and the national response team has responded to. and we have a lot of experience. investigators up in the canyons and up on that mountain investigating. >> and in the on the ground in the palisades where you are. i want to ask you about that video that nick just mentioned in his report. i don't i don't know if you heard it, but i know you're well aware of this. these are hikers in temescal canyon, and they captured what may have been may have been the start of the palisades fire. and the hiker who took the video said that by the time they got to the bottom of the canyon, he could hear the fire crackling right behind him, which just i mean, that that, as we know, is consistent with how these things spread. you know, they start, they spark, they spread. that's

these fears. how important is a video like that one from the hiker or others? these videos that we see to you when you actually are trying to figure out how it started. >> well, all evidence is important. >> that video is just some of the evidence we have received from our from the citizens, from the 911 calls and from our state and local partners who are investigating this fire with us as part of the national response team. we have media collection specialists that will take that evidence and analyze it. so any video, any, um. 911 calls and interviews by any of the 911 callers is very important to this ongoing investigation. >> and can at this point, are you able to rule out arson or not? >> we it is early in the investigation and it's atf's top priority to provide a thorough investigation. we are

ruling out nothing at this point. what we want to do is provide facts and answers to the citizens of pacific palisades. and that's what atf intends to do, no matter how long it takes. it's a slow process and we understand everybody's sense of urgency, but we will provide those answers. >> all right, jose medina, i appreciate your time. thank you very much, sir. and next, not far from where we're standing tonight along these ridges that they're so worried about in these coming hours, residents are scrambling to put out spot fires that are popping up because of the heat and the winds. and that is the real concern when you say, where does that next spark come from? plus a professional soccer player watches as her childhood home goes up in flames days before she is set to get married. so what did she do? she's next. >> to work. play. blink relief, work, play.

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let's just you see here national guard humvee. there's a lot more national guard. we understand about 600 national guard here now on the scene. their presence is palpable. you notice it. they're manning a lot of these checkpoints because this is an evacuation zone not allowed to come into altadena. this is. so they're here checking to make sure who comes in and doesn't come in, just take you around their humvee here because it just shows you the nature of this crisis. they've got fuel, they've got all their bags, they're all around here. as i said, they they check for everyone coming in and then they also you guys are going to sleep out here, right? yep. they sleep out here. they're going to sleep in their humvee. um, they'll take shifts. as they were explaining, because someone always has to be up. it gets cold out here at night, but there's not somewhere for them to go. and they're certainly not using hotels because they want to make sure hotels in this area are available for people who have been fleeing the crisis, who have been made refugees. but lana will come around with me a

little bit just to, um, these guys are working, so i don't want to bother them. but you can see when they say they're sleeping in shifts, there's not a lot of space in here. so this is what they're going through as they are in this ongoing crisis that has basically continued to be at a sprint pace. they're dealing with a marathon situation and leading into these winds tonight. but these are the national guard teams that you see posted everywhere. again, altadena evacuated, some of it burned, some of it not burned. this side really essentially not burned, which is why they're so worried about these sparks and winds in this particular area coming off the san gabriel mountains. they've been looking for hotspots throughout the day. so you see the mountains where they think maybe even close to here is where the original fire eaton fire may have started. they have been checking these mountains aggressively all day because of fear of fire spreading right into this area, and they've been going throughout looking for hotspots that could ignite an ember. and those embers picked up in these winds overnight that are anticipated with gusts up to 70 miles an hour near where i am in altadena, where they're looking

at those hotspots. my colleague veronica miracle has been watching them do that. and, veronica, what have you been seeing? >> well, erin, so much activity today. we are outside of the evacuation zone, but there are still many houses that have completely burned to the ground. we saw a firefighter here checking and assessing the damage earlier in the day, but just across the street we saw a spot fire actually flare up in one of the homes that has burned down, and we saw neighbors just jump into action. everyone is so on edge here. so the neighbors ran across the street with barrels of water bottle fire extinguishers, putting it out even before firefighters arrived. and all of these neighbors here, they've been gathered and they were able to see it because now all of these donation sites have popped up. so this house right here, still standing, even though two houses on this block have burned down. and the neighbor who lives here told me, he said that because his house was still standing, he knew he needed to do something. so on friday he called for donations.

and this is what it has turned into. it actually goes all the way around the block. in fact, they have received donations from as far away as indiana, and now they have so much clothing. they're actually asking people to stop, bring clothing, and they want now people who have been impacted by the fires to come and take everything that they need. so a lot of community support here, of course, but people still on edge because of this wind event. erin. >> all right. veronica, thank you very much. and also tonight, los angeles professional soccer player ali riley, a women's soccer superstar known around the world. like everyone who suffered during this horrible, traumatic crisis so far, was helpless. she watched helplessly as her childhood home burned to the ground. her parents still live there. they were able to get a few things into their car and run like everyone else. almost everything else lost, and it all happened three days before she was scheduled to get married in santa rosa valley, about 40 miles from the palisades fire. ali riley is

out front, now a member of the angel city fc los angeles women's professional soccer team. and ali, thank you so much. i'm so glad to have a chance to talk to you. i mean, you had to watch just a horrific thing. your family house burned down where you grew up. you posted a picture of your neighborhood and what had happened there. it looks, you know, there's there's almost nothing left there. your post was this was our home. how is this real? it can't be real. does it even feel real to you now that you've had a few days? >> no, it still doesn't. and thank you for having me. and thank you for keeping us so informed, because i think if i didn't watch the news, i probably wouldn't believe it. still, um, we obviously feel really lucky that we're all safe and healthy, and our neighbors and everyone, and we're regrouping and we're able to still celebrate my wedding, but it just feels like a nightmare. not not that i'm

able to sleep, but, um, it does. it feels like a nightmare. and it's just never ending. >> no, it's it's a it's a trauma now. and so you're you mentioned you had three days before your wedding when this happened. so sounds like you almost answered the question there, but did you go ahead with it? did you do it? >> we did so right when we got confirmation that everything was gone and that our whole block was gone, and it was my friend who biked into the neighborhood and sent me that confirmation. and so i was the one who had to pass that message on to our neighbors. that was a really hard message to send. um, but the message that i got back. wednesday, thursday was, at least we have your wedding. um, so i think we knew what we had to do. and the show and the love and the joy had to go on. and so, um, of

course, i wanted to make sure that my parents felt up to it, and they were just like, we need this. we're going to party so hard, and it's going to bring us so much joy, and we're so glad we did it, because, oh, my gosh, the support that we've received. and it gave us an opportunity as well to support our neighbors and our friends who had also lost everything. but we hadn't been able to see them since everyone evacuated. so we were there together. some people were in mismatched shoes and borrowed clothing. my dear friend said he was very happy that we we made him save his his one good suit because he thought about the wedding when he evacuated. so yeah, it was. i've never felt anything like that. >> that's the choice he made. he grabbed his suit. he grabbed. >> he grabbed his suit. i know he had a t-shirt underneath it, but he's never looked better. >> that's what i will

remember. so your soccer club is selling a shirt that says l.a. strong on it. the proceeds are going to the los angeles fire department as well as the red cross. have you been able to to speak to your teammates? were any of them also affected as dramatically and personally by the fires as you were? >> thank goodness. no. i had two teammates, two teammates who evacuated, who live in calabasas, who were able to return the same day. um, i have one friend who lives in encino with her family. they're still evacuated, and she she came to the wedding. she drove so she'd be ready to leave if she had to. there were a few families in that same position. um, but she was like, i'm not going to miss this. so, um. yeah, the club, the girls, the players have been so supportive. the staff, everyone has reached out offering, um, clothing, places to live, like anything we need. um, but i think for us, we're very privileged that my parents got out in time. they packed two

cars. um, we have home insurance, and so we really want to. we have all this love and this energy and support. so we want to focus our energy and our, our money on on people who need it more than we do. um, so yeah, we're going to be volunteering on saturday and i'm going to work with the club to see what we can do. i know they have some big events planned, but preseason starts on friday. so yeah, it's it's it's a pretty, um, a pretty overwhelming week. but, um, everyone has been all over the world, has been sending messages and just giving us so much love right now. >> well, your, your your your marriage, a trial by fire. uh, hopefully an omen for a long and wonderful and wonderful life together. ali, thank you so very much. >> thank you. next. >> incredible new images of those deadly flames that tore through this region, captured by a retired firefighter. they are quite stunning. and you're

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on this line in altadena, where so far there has, they've been spared. it comes as we're seeing these incredible new photos from retired firefighter todd sudmeier, who spent three decades fighting fires across southern california himself. he now documents these battles firsthand, and todd is out front. and todd, you know, we've all seen everyone, i think around the world has seen that a battle is the right way to describe what firefighters do with these fires. you've witnessed hundreds of fires. you've been in hundreds of fires. have you ever seen anything like this one? >> probably the strongest winds i've ever seen or experienced were here with this fire. >> um, as well as the los. you know, i've been on other large los fires up and down the state, but typically those have been in the hundreds of homes, not thousands. so this is by far the largest loss that i've personally ever witnessed. >> i mean, and we still don't even know the scale of it. and i know middle of the event. that's the thing. it's not over. i mean, so you had a video where you're a couple of feet behind firefighters and they're hosing down houses. these houses are totally

engulfed. what was that like? >> um, very chaotic. um, a lot of firebrands that were being carried by the wind that were, you know, pretty large the size of golf balls, tennis balls, softballs. that's the trunk of an ember. >> just. >> yeah. correct. that's on fire. that's burning. um, the wind, the wind gusts. and one of the things that probably, unless you're there and can experience it, you don't really think about is the stream, the water stream that they were spraying onto the unburned home to try to keep it from burning at the height or the apex of the of the wind gust is ineffective, and it pretty much goes straight up into the wind and comes right back in and soaking us as we're standing. >> because the winds are carrying it ineffectual. right? >> so probably not something you would think of as a firefighter squirting the hose, but that's an effect. what exactly happened? so yeah, very chaotic. a lot of moving parts and, uh, yeah, it's, uh, it's incredible to see and to feel and to hear. it's very loud. there's a roar. um, yeah. very.

>> it's incredible. and you have firefighters at this, you know, sort of there frantically running around the way they described it to me, they said, you know, there was nothing, you know, you know, if you think they're going to finger point and say, oh, if we'd had this or this, i haven't heard that from them. i've heard them say no matter what they had, they would have been overwhelmed. but it was the most incredible thing that they had ever seen. when did you realize how bad it was um, you know, when i first got to, uh, when i first got to the incident, um, and i was coming around on new york street and i could see the magnitude of what was currently burning, plus kind of the flaming front that was that was moving to the south. >> and i knew at that point this this is moving at a pace, and the flames are big enough that this is something more than, you know, this is something very unusual. this is something with a much larger magnitude. >> and. all right. and so, you know, when did at what point did you realize, you know, you've been there for hours and hours? i mean, was there a point where you felt like, how big where is this going? a moment of fear?

>> yeah. i mean, you think about that. and the reason that i think about it is because the things that the things that i document or the video that i grab or the photos i grab, i like to be out in front. i, i try to position myself to be in front of the flaming front so that i can catch the firefighters engaging the fire. that's the stuff that i like to get. that's the video that i shoot. so that's always on my mind. so where it's going and where it's going to be in 5 minutes or 15 minutes is always on my mind. >> thank you very much for sharing those with us. maybe just give us a moment of the incredible sacrifice that every one of those firefighters was willing to make in that moment. thank you so much. thank you. and next, trump's pick for defense secretary on capitol hill, pressed about his past. >> one of those we can't feed the kids chicken nuggets again kind of days, huh. relax. you've got hellofresh. you can whip up a delicious meal. the whole

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